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• Nothing has
done iii the House dttrtni either of
autocratic reigns of pzer Heed than
the passing in a few hours of the
^Appropriation Hills which ladeo to
'becotcjs laws at the last session of
Congress, without reference to any
sort of Qorumitlee and practically
without debate, Just slop and
think for a moment of the audacity,
of this proceeding. Here is a new
^flouse, "members more being than one who third did of not its
men
‘belong to the last house and who
know no more about the items iu
%OSe HppaprjiHtiona bjils than if
they had been prepared ic Africa.
These bills were brought forward
r
and House was ordered to pass
"them “sight about unseen’', swapping as tjj .8 boys
used to say con¬
cealed articles, although they car_
yied mgny qiillions pi the people’s
r and it was admitted by
tp°opy republicans who help¬
somfe of the
ed to force them through that they
contained items that were question¬
able as well a« those that were ex-
travagant. And this lemarkatle
assumption of authority on the
part of Czar Reed nad not even the
excuse at urgency and lack of time
to have the bills take the regular
Course of suoh meaures, There
'tyill be time to waste alter the 31st
of this month, after which date
the McK'.niey tariff bill, No 2, is to
j»e passed. . . '
The sole object was to keep the
bonds of the House tied for the
whole of the present session, by
pot appointing the .egnlar commit¬
tees, another unhqard of thing
originated by the gentleman from
‘Maine, wbo st 11 kindly allows the,
members of the House to draw
their salaries and dispose of the
uioi.ey without consulting him,
and who also allowed them to vote
themsolves'extra 93 ileag®.
Representative “Champ” Clark,
of Mo., rnad a a red-hot speech in
the House on the new method of
passing appropriation bills, saying
jn part: “The longer a man lives
the more he finds out. First’ and
last, I’ve said some unkind things
of the \J. S. Senate, and poked oon-
iderable fun at it. In the days of
894, I was so exasperated at its
conduct that, although I believe in
two legislative bodies, I was in fa¬
vor oj ’abolishing it. I thank God
ihst the Senate remains a delibera¬
tive body, {n this House we are
going through the most amazing,
most astounding performances
Vhich ever took place on this Con¬
tinent” Speaking directly to the
i’epqbilicans, Mr. Clark said In
the oampajgn of last year you
pharged 0 ,^ 00.000 voters of this
country with being anarchists. You
are the real anarchists'. What is
anarchy? It is running the affairs
pf a country without goyernnien',
You are doing just .what you
pharged us with wanting to do, but
let me tell you, a day of reckoning
will oome.”
Mr. McKinley and other repub¬
licans are much alarmed at the
signs of a tariff revolt in tne sen¬
ate. It is given out by prominent
Tepuhli'oan Senators, among -them
members p.f the Senate Finance
£Jommittee, the subject, which that has already the McKin¬ tak¬
en up
ley tariff bill, No. 2, will not do,
and that they are going to amend
it so it will not be recognizod. It
is of course, possible that these
publjcan Senators are only making
a bluff to give Mr. McKinley an
oppoHuhity to offer them induce-
npeiits in the shape of patronage to
support his tariff bill, but the
inarmer in which the Sehate amen¬
ded the two last tariff bills passe'i,
is calculated to make Mr. McK nley
believe it means somethiDg more
periods.
There is a rumor that Secretary
Kiriley Bliss has reaUned because Mr. Mc-
compelled him to accept
the resignation of Land Commis¬
sioner Lamereux, which was ten¬
dered before the close of tha Clever
land administration, and winch
B,liss refused to accept because
• accusations made in - coDnoetion
.villi’ the Chicago lake front land
he rumor is denied.
A' ’ :i‘ wh the output of tho ad-
:>j e piai't con'inues
•jv ot 1 ; v. the fact is ’not-
f- ft'ho m r
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nearly all that h » 8 been dished out
has gon» to the original McKinley
men. This too, in the face of Mr.
McKinley’s continued reiteration of
his intention to iecognize no fac¬
tions oMRs party in maaing ap^
pointments It is beginning to
dawn upon the minds of sobae ol
the republicans who were not for
McKinley before the St.Lonis con*
volition, that they are being (ricked.
Whenever one of them looms op
a prominent aspirant for a good po¬
sition, it. “happens” that he runs
against V.cKinleyls Very oonveni, nl
rule not to appoint men who can-
hot get the. indorsement of their
entire congressional delegation.
I't lpois very muc.fr s*’ though the
old ant;-Me’s. would' have 'to con¬
tent themselves vrijh the smaller
Federal offices in their states.
While King Hapna takes‘ of
“our friends”. • > .
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i Georgia the Garden Spot
While our sympathies go out to
the people of Arkanras, Tennessee )
Mississippi and Louisiana, because
of the devastation wrought by the
floods, we caunot but felicitate
Georgia upon the fact that she is
spared from calamitous visitations.
The State has an abundance o:
fructifying streams, but none is
so large that it ever becomes
seriously destructive. The lands in
the Mississippi valley which, are
now under wai.gr are ,oricher,
probably, than are to be fouud in
any other .part of the country, but
there production is limited piacti-
‘cklly to cotton, not because the
soil is hot_ adapted to genera!
cultivation, but because, invest-
mentsin permanent orchards and
gardens are rendered, mvstvfe. by the,
recurring overflows. Tho levees
are not strong enough to guarantee
continual immunity,,a#d hence no
mao plants orchards ivbich require
years for their developement or
gardens .which demand close
attention year in and year out. An
overflow - Which would destroy an
orchard of garden may not affect
the year's ‘ income of cotton
a
planter. Geo,rgia,s good fortune lie-
in the fapt that the conditions of
'hs seasons may be dependep upon
more absolutely than a’hywnere
else, for drought and, frost and
flood are rare." Hence it is that
Georgia may claim to be truly
a'garden spot, not only for, cotton,
but for all the fruits of the ea-th.
Barely does anything occur to
interfere with the farmer when the
calender marks the regular plant¬
ing time, and so with the periods
of growth and harvest. Cotton
in Georgia does not grow so ranklv
as it does in the alluvium of the
Mississippi delta, but it grows more
safely and is Ireer'frotn the ailments
that menace it in a region where
there is excessive moisture or
excessive arad protracted heat.
It is in Georgia where natnre
affords the farmer the best averages
and this must be statistically
demonstrated. The conditions are
such that the Georgia farmer, no
matter in what portion of tho state
he may live, ’can^iiore certainly
calculate upon results from a given
amount of labor and acreage them
is possible for any farmer in o
region subject to extr^ugas of
weather. It is for this reason that.
Georgia is so generally favored by
home seeliers who desire the great
est approximation to unvarying
conditions, other things being at
all- equal, In the sections of the
South subject to overflow, it is aqt
always possible for a planter to
make his permanent home'-upon
his plantation. This he may do iu
Georgia everywhere, and this
counts for a great deal. Ex.
—True brother, and Irwin county
is the center.
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IT PLAYED ONE TUNE.
LIMITED HEPERTOUY OF THE ST. JOE
CORNET BAND.
Vint It hmrjiotl and the Solemn
OccimIoii on .Which It Was Bonderod.
i*Mu8lc by the Hand'* at the Selioid Ex*
h^bition—Old Tlmero Look Back.
Two men wore at a table overlooking
Michigan avenue. They were unmistak¬
had ably from some place in tho west. They
the good old lime niauiiera which
See becoming scarce in every section.
They weft GO 1 ' or maybe ?0 yoars each..
" reading the
One of thorn was nwvs to
tho other one. -
-The ouowhowas reading stepped'and
said: “I’ll to doggoued if Stun Stone
-ain’t dead. It says here ti nt he died in
Topoky, Kan. You remember Sam
Stone. Ha wroto that, old song, ‘ Wsit
For tho Wagon and We’ll All Take a
Bide..’”;.
• “Ilain’t thought t of it 30 year, Cy,”
replied the old nil) opposite him,
“Let’s see, how did it go?—something
like this’,’—the old man puckered his
lips and tried to whistlo the air, but tho
sound from his month resembled
of a hungry wind through a keyhoio.
“Jim, you’re getting wind wasted.
Getting eld..-Follows like you and me
con’t whistle. Better hum it, Jim.”
And .Tim hummed it while Cy boat
time with his fingers on the table.
“I had forgpt, Cy, who it was that
.
wrote it. ”
“Yes, it" was Sam Stone. I’d ’bout
forgot "it myself ' till I it in that
boo
morning paper. ”
I ‘ ‘Sain Stone was 84 , so tho paper says.
He died in Topeky, where he’d lived
about 38 years. That was a great old
song in its day. ”
“That and ‘Pop Goes the Weasel. » M
“But ‘Wait, For the Wagon’ was tho
most- catching.' I remember it was tho
first piece that the St. Joe (Mo.) cornet
band learned to play. And just then
there was a man died in Sk Joo who
was a high roller in the Masonic lodge
in the town, and a mighty popular man
ha was. Of., courso be wns buried with
Masonic rites, and tho lodge committee
culled on the leader of the band to en¬
gage the band’s service. It was tho first
job the band had, and as it was in debt
for tho snare drum ami the big horn
hero was a chance to get even.
“So the leader got a retainer, aud
then ho told tho committee that tho
band couldn’t play only one piece, and
that was‘Vfaii For the Wagon.’ The
leader said it was not built on dead
march time, but by playin.U H low ami
muffling tho big drum he could make it
sound .solemn. So the baud turned out
at tho fDneral.ancj it played ‘Wait For
tho Wagon’ all the way out to Mount
Moriah cemetery. Some of the boys
about, town had Hilman, a bard time looking sad,
especially Boa the big butcher,
who was ono of the pallbearers. Ben
was the funny man of the town, any¬
how. ... j
“I remember Ben, Cy. ”
“I k a owed you did. As I was saying,
it was hard to keep straight faces, tho
band playing that I nno, going out to
the (*ram Coming bock there was 1 year¬
ly a row. The high muck a mock of the
lodge-told, the leader of the baud he had
better change the . music, and then the
leader said the band couldn’t play any-
thing’else, and that be,had told him so.
The procession marched down Frederick
uvpmvj coming back and it commenced
to rain, so that too lodge—it was the
Zeredathah chapter, as I remember—bad
to quicken their steps, and that put the
band out. ’ ’
• "Of course, Cy. You can’t march
double quick on slow music. But goon. ”
“.lYeli, the only thing for the band to
do yae to livon up tho thne, and that
was wlidt raised Old Ned. Tho nowspa-
pereafn’e out next week with a pieco in
it as long as your arm saying it was a
disgrace, and that if tho baud expected
the citizens to help pay its debts it had
better leam some music that would be
appropriate at funerals, as people were
fla^lo to die any tima Of course that
made tho band mad.”
’ “ Of course, Cy. But what did they
db?"
“Stopped their papers. Then when
Neely ’s academy gave the school exhi¬
bition "in tho Presbyterian chnrch on the
hill, tho band was engaged and pnt in
the gallery, which was in one end of
tho church. The band opened the exer¬
cises with ‘Wait For the Wagon. ’ Then
the pastor" of the church prayed, and
the band played ‘ Wait For the Wagon’
again. • The programme consisted of es¬
says—compositions they called them
then—declamations and some dialogues,
and scattered along through the pro¬
gramme was ‘music by tho band,’ and
every time it played ‘Wait For the
Wagon. ’ It got to be as good as a cir¬
cus. I remember the leader of tho band
died a good, many years ago, and the
piece in tho paper about him said fae
wrote‘Wait For the Wagon, ’ but the
paper was wrong. It was Sam Stone
who wrote it, him that has just died in
Topeky. ”
“It all comes back to me now, Cy.
But all I can remember is the tnne and
the first two linos;
“Wait, for the wagon*
And wo’ll all take a rido."
—Chicago Chronicla
Tbey Never Sleep.
There are several species of fish, rep¬
tiles and insects which never sleep.
Among fish it is now positively known,
that pike, salmon and goldfish never
sleep at all; also that there are eoveral
ethers of the fish family that never sleep
more than a few minutes during a
month. ' There are dozens of species of
flies which’ never indnlgo in slumber
and from 1 three to five species of serpents
which the naturalists have never yet
heed able to catch napping, -r .
Her Proverb.
Mrs. Gumrney—Do you 1 believe in
, proverb^? Mrs. Glanders—Certainly. I believe
that a bird ° n the hat, is worth two in
tihebush, for example.—Harper’s-Ba?ar.
BETTING ON THE RAIN.
The Queerest ©ambling: Game In the
World Is Played at Calcutta.
One of the most curious forms of
gambling in the world is “rain gam¬
bling,” which in the winter season of
the year is at its height in Calcutta.
The principal rain gambling den is in
Cotton street, Burra bazaar.
No one who has not visited the place
ran have any conception of the vast
crowds which at every hour of the day
and far into night pass iu And out.
The great majority are Mawaris, who
are born speculators, but there are us
well plenty of well to , do Europeans,
Eurasians, Je ws, Armenians and Greeks
and wtunep too. All. swafrn into the
small courtyard whero this strange
form of gambling is carried ou, through
a narrow, entrance barely 3 feet wide.
tho courtyard is about 300 feet square.
The far famed tank with a spout falling
Into the courtyard is the one spot where
all eyes are • fixed. The tank stands at
the .edge of a second floor roof. It is
about G feet long by 4 feet wide and 9 ,
inches deep, with tho spout opening, iu-
ward, .soipe 8 or 4 inches from the hot-
tom. From this it will to seen'that it
requires a pretty heavy downpour for
»t least ten minutes to cause tho spout'
to flow, intennittent drizzles, which
partly fill this tank, do uot count, as
the shower to fill it must pour down nn-
interruptedly, and thou the bets are
won or lost.
Chances are taken either for or sgaihst
the spout running. A gray haired,
wizened old man is the owner of the
den, ami there is another similar place
across the road, only smaller. On tho
yoof, over tho fifth floor, there is a
small, square watch tower - , in which
are stationed five or six men, whose
duty is to scan tho horizon closely and
report on tho formation of rainclouds.
Ou these reports the odds rise or fall.
A bet mado and won one day is al¬
ways paid the following morning,
Everything seems to to “ on the square, ’ ’
and indeed there is little chance for
cheating. The odds range as high as 1
to 75 on some days, even iu the rainy
season. Many have made a fortune in a
single day. One. person won over .£ 5 ,-
0.00 in the course of a few weeks. But
ho worked tho system on scientific meth-
ods.—New York Herald.
Senator and RoMSers.
The days when senators and represent¬
atives in congress were expected to
frank letters for private soldiers, re¬
counted by Mr. J. A. Watronsof Chicago ‘
in some army rominisconoee, wore dan-
gerous ones for congressional visits to
the military damps.
Mr. Watrous says that Senator Timo-
thy G. Howo of Wisconsin once visited
the headquarters of his friend. General
Rufus Kill#, and was at she lirdt oppoY-
tunnity besieged by tho soldiers with
packages of envelopes to be iraaked.
Semi tor Konvo wur oho ot inost^
good natured of men, and muncdiatdy
aat down in the tent of cue of the cap-
tains and began to frank envelopes by
tho hundred.
General King h:Kl maele special prep-
arations for a dinner in honor of his
gucfit. It was to eclipso all the camp
dinners, that bad been given for a long
time. Senator Howe had been franking
envolopes 'about half an boar when the
call come for dinner. He went on writ-
ing, and General King came to get him.
“Goon, King; I’ll be there directly,”
said the senator,
Dinner was served. The guests had
arrived. No one ale, but after awhile
the colored cook wag sent to tell tbo son-
ator that the meal was getting cold.
“Oh, tell them to go ahead,” said
tho senator^ still writing madly on sol-
diers’ envelopes. “I’ll be with them as
Ho finished tho ptk> pad rose to go,
but juft then two more soldiers came in
with fresh parcels, and ho seated
self again. After he had signed them
all bo joined tho impatient company at
a cold dinner.
“I’m Rorry,” ho said, “bat it made -
will send in those franked envelopes,
and it mado me happy to do it. ”
■She DaflfodlL
It is now many centuries since, ac¬
cording to Ovid, tlte young man Narcis¬
sus was changed into a daffodil because
of his pining away from seeing his love¬
ly shadow in the water. But it can
hardly be from sympathy with the un¬
fortunate youth that tho flower has con¬
tinued to to so popular during all theso
long ages. Certain it is that it has as
high a valuo today in the gardens of
persons of taste as in the flower plot of
the humblest cottager. No garden is
considered to to quite complete without
its little patch of daffodils.
Of late years florists have given at¬
tention to raising varieties from them,
and the record of their many forms is a
feature of the oataloguo of all seedsmen.
Double ones formerly carried off the
palm for popularity, but in recent times
the single variety is regarded as quite
as desirable.—Meehan’s Monthly.
Unavoidable.
“That wftvS a very queer poem on ‘The
Three Ages ©f Man’ yon published in
your paper this morning, ” said the man
, who happened in. ‘ ‘The general under¬
standing is that there are seven; ages ot
man.” ’'.....'"""
“It was written ‘The Seven .Ages of
Man,’ ” explained the worried Sunday
editor, “but I had to cut it down td
three on account of a lack of SB ace.
Chicago Tribune, ,
locrednloas Sam Jones.
; Did yon hoar of a funny Sam Jones
,
episode? At one of his meetings he Called
on all the men who could assert’they had;
never spoken an unkind word to their
, two!
wives to stand-! Up-got. “Now,”
he said, “nil the women who never
spoke an unkind word to their husbands
may rise.’” Up got six. “Sit down,”
Sam cried ‘Now, I want the audience
to pray for these liars 1”—Time a»d the
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EXCHANGE COLUMN.
The presently the hilly season.
if you boubt it reud tji’e':reports of
legislriive doings.; . • *
Printers are like women in one
respect, it. takes them a kvng limn
to’tuoke up|tboir'forms and they’
requite plenty of quoins for the
purpose. '
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You’.U stop advertising ] will" because
business is dull, vou ! The '
‘ "* "' ’
boatman doesn’t rest on |«,ia, cars,
who' the tide ia Afpilftst’.him, does-
he? Well then !— Ex- 'J ••
Ex— Secretar Dlney lA -of -,the.
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P ,B1 ^ ^ L „
run the., govern mttot.. Considering
the urgent necessity of capable
h »*»dH at the' holni their desitVis
perfectly natural.—EX. /
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Congressman .Hr-nfley-relive* . for-
Washington this qioriiitig. He is
tb e fj r8 t direct represehtive'Bruns- ‘
wick •. has had for ■ ii.ty and
years
the new member t,g,kes vrijth frirn
the good wishes of his people wKo
believe that he has not only the
disposition but the ability .to do
, hem J ; Uftice u , )on the floor of con-
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§t p88,
In placing a fine of $1,000 on
Messrs. Marcus, Hirs.ch and Vetter
of SRVannah on a charge of main
taining lot terries, Judge Falligan ,
did right.
Where crime is committed let
the penalty b« paid, and not com-
promise with violators of the law ,
L ax officials in office is not what,
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we want, out men, when placed in
positions of trust, will hnvi; the mor
al courage to track the law and
meet' out. justice to the rich as
well "'as tb the poor.
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Thipjtowr) qf :Latham lias two
saloons from which a revenue of
$1000 )a d{ , tiVetL Y et how tomai
that, gma«tir,,or-’ any Otber,’ seems,
in view ofthe murder trial of last,
we efc : The trouble with the
ftalorcns , there, *8 everywhere eiF.e,
is that' they build up a drinking
0 ( HS8 and actively foster idleness
vice And crime. Tv banish the -
saloons doss’ riot extirpate drink-
j n _ hut, it goes a long, wgv towards
. tempt,anon . the
removing , ,rorn
boys and young men.-Linboln (Ill)
ji t . r Jl ]rl.
The'following did not originate .in
this office ou tit is appropriate t
Newspaper toon ajn blamed for a
lot of ( . bin! , 8 thev cannot help; >
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such . partiality ,
as using in men-
tinning visitors, giving news about
some folks and leaving out others.
They simply . , print . . ., the
e f c * nerve
they can find, ^lri editor should
no ^ be eX pected to know the names
an< ^ residences of jour ui cms,
aunts and cousins, ■ even if he
should seeGbem off on the train
Tell him about it. It’s news that
makes a news paper, and every
oian.woman and child in the neighs
borbooAcoold be „.oei„e edi.o.e
f they would.’ -
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H EZT DOOE JO POiT OFFICE,
A lawyer who argued si
amending the Massachusetts libel
l»w wanted to know what right iJ
reporter had to come into his house
when hia daughter was having
company, and ask for the names
of her guests and a description ol
their dresses. Perhaps the reporter!
was inv'ted. We have known such
things to happen. The learned] hut!
brother may he a good lawyer
he seems to know Iosb of practical
newspaper work than a graduated
from,a school of journalism. AnJ
other lawyer opposed to thrl
amendment aggrieved suggested by the publication that a per] o]
Son
a story afai5uld.be loyally empower]
d to take ft'out in personal chas¬
tisement of the editor. A slight
acquaintance with newspaper wouldl men]
and ’me.hois and muscle
perhaps, lead him to withdraw hid
motion.—Ex
The use of the cigarette is be-l
coming i'JBt^ly more prevalent each ehortl year!
and it a question of a
time whss, the ‘practice will growl
to such proportions that it will
compel^our^legialative assemblies!
to make laws imposing penile* I
tiar v seiilei ee upon makers of tho]
damnable article. And asidefroml
hoys it ip a well established fact!
that among, the female population! of|
of our larger c tirs the use
cigarettes is growing at a rapirfl
rale.
This cigarette is t > dav doingl
more to dtvarl JJthe mind of tloj th*§
American people than all
whiskey manufactured, s imply
hecausse it dulls the senses nnil
lowers io the level of as. imb.nlil
ihe mind wjlhochild before it hat]
"an dpporlunity to develop. whil<|
tho use ot ii.toxicants is only!
resorted to by those of mature ageJ
It is only a question of a short]
time when the growing use of place] the]
e garette will take its proper
in the long category of evils whicbj
con front us to he dealt with in a
decisive way. Hasten the dav. Ex.
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And ailoh
GUARANTEED
BEST
GOODS south:
Of New York.
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When in Cordele call on me.
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oejns. Washington, of hundred D. C., for their trafifed. prise ot&m
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