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WEEKLY X'^TS AND ADVERTISER.
urae XLY.—No 55.
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•THE WAY TO WIN,
The Way For the-Demo
crats to Run In 1
TO VICLORY NEXT YEAR.
The Number of Vote* Increaeed In
the Electoral College—The States
We Can Connt On and the States
We Can't—Paste the Table In Sour
Scrap Kr,oh For Future Reference.
E. V.\ B. In Atlanta Constitution.
Itls about time now to consider the
next electoral college and what States
it is necessary for the Democrats to
fhftzrry to win.
It will be remembered in the last
election there were but 401 votes in
the electoral college. Since then six
new States have been admitted and the
membership of the House of Repre
sentatives has been increased under
the new apportionment to 350 mem
bers. There are 88 Senators. Thus
the next electoral college will be com
posed or 414 vote3. It Will take 223
to elect a president.
With the solid South the Democracy
must have both New York and In
diana. Also New Jersey, but that is a
* certain Democratic State. With these
,gj■ Xe States we can win, but we shall
not'not have a single vote spare.
* *
The new electoral college stands
this way:
ALBANY. GA., SATURDAY. NOVEMBEK 14,1891.
Price $1.00 Per Year
state. The delegation will get togeth
er before it goes to the convention.
With New York’s choice nominated
for president and Indiana’s choice for
vice president, it will be .out of the
question to defeat the democratic
ticket. *\
* # »
. The republicans will nominate Har
rison. And the chances are Merton
will be renominated for vice president.
Harrison has made many enemies in
his own state since he has been in the
white house, and a man like Gray on
the democratic ticket would have no
rouble in carry iog the Hoosier State
If the democratic party will cut loose
from rainbow-chasing leaders'and use
common sense in selecting a ticket vic
tory in 1892 will be an absolute cer
tainty.
Do not trust to much to your trust
fulness.
FIRE IN MACON.
FIRE DESTROYS $150,000 WORTH
OF PROPERTY.
Three Store* lu Trniugular Block G
Down Before llie Raging Flame*—
Looked Once Like the Entire Block
Wat Going—A Portion of the tea to
Covered.
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Alabama.! 11
Arkansas a
California
olorado 4
Connecticut 8
Delaware 8
Florida 4
Georgia IS
Idaho .8
Illinois
Indiana .—It
Iowa 43
Kansas 10
Kentucky 13
Louisiana S
Maine B
Mary and S
Massachusettcs It
Michigan
••■Minnesota
Montana 3
Nebraska —8
Nevada a
New Hampshire 4
New Jersey lo
New Yorkf SO
North Carolina H
North Dakota 8
Ohio 2*
Oregon 4
Pennsylvania 8n
KUodo Island 4
South Carolina 0
South Dakota 4
Tennessee 12
Texas 15
Vermont 4
Virginia ... ......1*
It WaseingtcH ... 4
0 West Virginia.... 0
Mississippi.... 0 Wisconsin.
Missouri ,17| Wyoming...
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•Total ...44
Now let us see the vote of the cer
tain Democratic States picked from
the above:
Missouri 1"
North Carolina......11
New Jersey 10
South Carolina.
How He Met Spivy Sims.
The way by which I come to know
that Spivy Sims, of Sand Mountain,
was.a critic and a realist wss short and
straight. He came up behind me at a
moment when I had on a four-ponnd
bass with a full hundred feet of line
out; the desperate fish was flying ou
of the water about three cubits every
. live seconds in spite of all that I could
do, and was gradually working its way
toward the bushy top of a tree that had
fallen into the stream. Every angler
will understand what a point of life
this was foo a dry, matter of fact, un-
romantic voice to hit my ear with:—
“Pull, feller, pull; pull ’im right in!
Yank ’im right out! Let go er that
air switch an grab yer line! Ain’t ye
got ary striffiaer common sense inter
yer little frizzly head ? Pull ’im to ye
an git ’im by the gills!”
Of course not dreaming that any hu
man being was within a league of me
that voice made me turn my head, and
what else could happen but a five foot
leap by the bass and a break away ?
You always lose the finest fish. I
made remarks then and there to Spivy
Sims—remarks not complimentary to
him—and he chukled compiaeehtly.
“Little fellei,” said he, “ef I take ye
by yer heels and wrap ye eroun thet
tree ther’ erbout seventeen tim es ye’l
know who lam.”
It was my turn now to smile and be
complacent and amiable, seeing how
tall and broad bony-he was. - VVe made
friends at once, even before we knew
each other’s names, and I went to have
dinner with him at his cabin.—Mau
rice Thompson in America.
Alabama 11
Arkansas 8
Delaware u
Florida ;.... 4
Georgia 13
Kentucky 13
Louisiana S
Maryland ...... 8
Mississippi f,
■xotal :.... -
In the above is included New
gey with its ten votes, for it is a
tain Democratic State.
Tennessee 12
Ttxis 15
Virginia .12
West Virginia «
...172
Jer-
cer-
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It takes 223 votes to elect. We are
certain of 172. If we add the voles of
New York and Indiana we have just
228, aud in the event we carried Con
necticut we would have her six votes
to spare. • ■ \ • ■
Iv the old college we could have
won with New York and Connecticut
added to the certain Demoerntic States
above, or we could have lost Connec-,
ticut and carried Indiana and won.:
Under this Republican apportionment
we must carry all the so-called doubt-
A Young Girl’s Room.
A young girl’s room may be as full
of costly articles as wealth can make
it, or iljmay be the result of taste and
ingenuity with but trifling expense,
but the one who looks in upon it can, if
choosing to take the pains to do so, tell
at once the character of the occupant
by the mere arrangement or disarrange
ment of the place. There is of course
the pretty artistic ensemble that at
first glance seems to be only confusion,
but which presently resolves itself into
a harmony of form and tint, any change
in which would be discord, which tells
something interesting concerning the
artist in the arranger.
Then there is the precise and prim
manner in which everything is at right
angles, every book is exactly in posi
tion on every other book; no lolderols
are allowed; nothing that indicates a
waste of time or a love of pleasure,and
i; everything that indicates methodical,
We must get both New ij utilitarian and exacting traits, with
little love of beanty, indicates a char
acter that will by and by possibly
make hfe a burden to every one in the
house.—Harpers Brazar.
v
ful States.
York and Indiana. Or we could sub
stitute Massachusettes for Indiana, !
or even Iowa, and Connecticut for the
Hoosier State, but there is nothing
that can be substituted for New York.
Should we lose New York and carry
Massachusetts, ona-half of Michigan,
Indiana and Iowa, with the above
solid-States, we would even then lose.
New York is a necessity. With New
York, Indiana and New Jersey we can
win, aud in these states the democrats
will perhaps content themselves to
fight. There should be no rainbow
chasing in the next campaign.
* *■ *
New York will name the candidate
for president and Indiana should name
the vice president.
We want men on the ticket who can
carry these states. They decide the
election.
The New York democracy got to
gether in the race for governor - the
other day and showed how democratic
the state really is when the factions are
at peace. They can get together again
next fall. If Cleveland and Hill can
not settle their differences then the
political leaders of the two factions can
agree upon another, whether he be a
New Yorker or hails from another
State. They can, and perhaps will,
agree upon a man who can carry New
York. The democratic politicaus tfciere ;
know who can carry New York, and j
t» win we must accept the man. they '
place before the convention supported .
Vy the undivided delegation drom tha | frult ‘
The Good Dog, the Bad Woman.
Tae gentleman fond of animals had
a pet dog, which his wife, who hat
dogs, detested, and banished when
ever it entered the drawing room.
One day as she was sitting there the
dog marched in and laid down before
the fire. The lady turned him out.
The dog, supposing that she was
afraiAof his dirtying the room, brought
a duster from the kitchen, deposited
It on the rug and lay down upon it
The brute of a woman ended by having
him kicked out.—Journal.
It is quite probable that a now tur
pentine farm will be opened up this
winter in the Quinlip neighborhood of
Berrien county.
Work has been commenced cutting
the right of way for Beckwith <fc Rog
ers’ railroad from Sparks to Bayboro.
The one important topic in railroad
circles just now is whether the union
depot at Macon will be rebuilt on its
present site or a new depot erected at
the foot of Pop’ar street.
Echeconuee creek has dried up in j
Bibb county, and McEImurray’s mill
has been shut down in consequence.
Macrn Fvening News,
Macon has had two disastrous fires
■within a week.
Last Thursday morning the union
depot was burned. This was caused
hv. an explosion. Last night three of
the largest stores on Traingulaf block
were burned. It is supposed that this
fire was caused by combustion. The
fire started shortly alter 0 o’clock. It
originated in the building occupied by
T. W. White & Co., and known as the
Macon China store. The fire had its
inception In the basement, and almost
before any one knew oi it the entire
first floor was blazing.
Exactly how the fire caug ht is not
known. It occurred but a short while
after Mr. White had closed his store
and gone oat. Among the things
stored in the cellar was a barrel ol oil.
Spontaneous combustion, it is thought
ignited that and it in turn ignited the
large let of inflammable material stor
ed In the cellar. Either this, or a rat
striking a match in the packing straw
in the cellar is thought to be the cause.
The firemen arrived promptly en
ough when the alarm was sounded.
But they had to fight under terrible
disadvantages aud against heavy odds.
The inflammable material in the cel
lar gave the fire a considerable start.
Even with that it was thought that
the fire.would be confined to the one
building.
In something lik$ ten minutes after
the fire had started it had eaten
through,!* the stora of W. B. Carhart
It was not loag.theu before the entire
building was a fire. On all of the
three floors the flames crackled. Then
in a short while more it was a wreck,
the roof and Inside walls having fallen
in.
At this time all interest centered in
whether or not the Doody buildiDg
would be burned.
Hope was entertained until dense
volumes of smoke filled the tin roof and
caused it to explode.’ •
All were then certain that the buil
ding would be consumed. In a few
minutes the blaze showed over the top
of the building and theory went up
that it was burniDg.
Seven streams were playing on the
fire. But despite all that the depart
ment could do the third floor of the
building was burned and the second
was badly damaged. The first floor
was also damaged some, hut by dint of
bard work it was savsd. v
The building occupied by White &
Co. and W. B. Caehart was entirely
consumed, as were the stocks of those
parties.
The los3 there was complete, save
what of it is covered by insnrance.
At one time it seemed as if all of
triangnlar block would tfcirn.
Burden, Smith & Ellis, next door to
Carhart, be*an to move their stock
when it seemed that the block was in
such great danger. The result show
ed that there was no
this.
CARRY ME EASY, BOYS.
A Falbetic Picture and A Slaty •(
True Heroitua—A A Word About
me Unfortunate*.
From The Augusta Chronicle.
The wires are always bringing sad
stories. The other night they told of a
little negro who fell from the cars and
had both legs crushed by the iron
wheels.
His pain was intense, but his pluck
was phenomenal. Even in his suffering
he smiled. But he was human, and as
they bore him away he uttered the hu
man plea: “Carry me easy, boys.”
He was'only a little negro, and his
fate was that which the gamin often
meets. The Engl'sh sparrows of hu
manity, they flit about here and there,
from street to street, and gain a preca
rious livelihood. Frequently a false
step slip3 them into eternity. But
there is something in the nerve and
resignation of this lonely little picanin-
ny which renders most touching that
last, sad appeal, “Carry me easy,
boys.”
It is a cry which springs from the
depths of every afflicted heart. The
iron wheels of misfortune cut off our
dearest hopes and leave the mangled
heart-strings to bleed in silent agony.
And the heart in its helplessness turns
its piteous eyes to those around, and
while gathering Its courage to endure
the desperate remedies which desperate
maladies require, we hear it break into
that* human cry, “Carry me easy,
boys.”
The world is full of unfortunates, so
“Carry me easy, hoys;” the syllables
of Sinai have, evoked and perpetu
ated the,- great law of charity;
the Prince of Peace and Lord
of Love has counselled kindness
to our kind. There is sorrow,
there is coldness enough in the world,
and the 'days of ihy years are few; big,
otry is fierce, factions are bold, and
the blue drifts are mottled. So,
“Carry me—whoever I may be carry
me easy, boys.”
Highest of all in Leavening Power.—Latest U. S. Gov’t Food Report.
Baking
Powder
ABSOLUTELY PURE
WOMAN IN HOME LIFE
TRAINING OF CHILDREN IS OF
TEN NEGLECTED UNTIL
TOO LATE. -
Something About the Serious Dities
of A Mother—Bedspreads and
Portieres. The Intnltion of
Women.
Let This Be a Warning
“That was a horrible tragedy. A
girl spurned the hand of a lover and he
stabbed her with an Icepick.”
“It wlis her own fault. The account
I read say^ ‘she treated him In an icy
manner.’ He merely struck at the
manner but had the misfortune to hit
he girl.”—New York Epoch.!
Crawfordville Herald: The meanest
man lives in this section. He sold his
son-in-law a half interest In a cow, and
when they came to an understanding
claimed that he only sold the front half
He made his son feed and water the
cow, and took all the milk himself, and
when the cow hooked him sued his son
for damages, claiming that the front
end was wholly to blame.
The American bark John Harvey
will be sold at Darien to-morrow, to
gether with her cargo of 500,000 feet o
lumber and everything connected with
the vessel. The case of the tugs
against the John Harvey for salvage
has been uommised, and the owners of
the boats will get 60 per cent, of the
proceeds of the sale ot the vessel and
cargo.
Big preparations are being made for
the Berrien county alliance rally at
Adel, Nov. 12. Hons. L. F. Living
ston, R. T. Nesbitt and W. S. Hum
phries have accepted invitations to
speak, and an effort Is being made to
sequre the attendance of Hon. John
Temple Graves.
The gin house of Mr. Hicks, In Bibb
county, burned ajfew nights .ago, to
gether with ten bales of cotton and
400 bushels of cotton seed. It is sup-
neccssYy ~for | posed the house was set on fire by a ne
gro woman.
George W. Greene & Co., next door 1 b. F. Parker, the man who was tried
to Doody’s also moved their stock. It f 0r criminal intimacy with his daugh-
was piled up in Miss M. J. Greene’s t er, in Worth county and convicted,
millinery store and on the sidewalk in was sentenced by Judge Bower to ten
front of these. Both of these stocks ■ years’ labor in the penitentiary,
were badly damaged by removal. Be- j p reema n’s cotton gin at Greenvile
sides, many things were stolen. j was burned Saturday with several
There were thousands of people eon- j t)a]es 0 f cotton, several thousand bush-
gregsted around the burning buildings
and it is a matter of impossibility to
tell anything about who stole the
goods. When a fire of this kind hap
pens now, women and children who
els of cotton seed and six gins. The
loss is $3,500, with $1,000 insurance.
Little GirDe Experlencs in a
Llalxthauae.l
, . Mr. and Mrs. Loren Trescott are
only go to look on congregate and, un- keepers 0 f the Gov. Lighthouse
intentionally, give thieves a spendid | Sand Beach,
Ground bone and wood ashes or pot
ash and phosphoric acid are good for
chance to do their work.
The officers of tlieFirstNationalBank
also had things moved out of that
building. The crowd was greatly in
terested in seeing men carry great
sacks of money while other men with
pistol? walked along to guard it.
There was much tear that the sparks
would fire other buildings. But a
close watch was kept and that was
averted. At Willingham’s warehouse
a large number of people were kept
bu?y keeping the lire from breaking
out’in the cotton stored there. The
efforts were successful.
is estimated at
at
Mich., and are blessed
with a daughter, four years old. Last
April she was taken down with Mea
sles followed with a dreadful Cough
and turning into a fever. Doctors at
home and at Detroit treated her, but
in vain, shfe grew worse rapidly, until
she was a mere “handful of bones.”
Then she tried Dr. King’s New Dis
covery and after the use of two and a
half bottles, was completely cured.
They say Dr. King’s New Discovery
is worth its weight in gold, yet you
may get a trial bottle free at . J. La
mar & Son’s drugstore. 6
Ifvou want to check the growth oi
. There is any amount of good counsel
given to wives and mothers upon the
making of a home. But did it ever
strike you how much depends upon
the aid and encouragement received
from other members of the household ?
The greatest difficulty the anxious
mother experiences ia to satisfy the in
dividual tastes which the members of
her family cultivate, with little regard
to the means which exist for their grati
fication.
The development of material things
has gone far beyond the ability to ac
quire them, ou the part of the majori
ty, and the parents who have made
sacrifices for children, hoping to win
affection and gratitude, often find
neither, but only a spirit of unrest and
of moody dissatisfaction, which is
cherished as a virtue, as an evidence of
finer taste, and dulls the sense of filial
duty and unity of interests.
No home can exist permantly or
pleasantly unless each one contributes
his or her quota to its growth and hap
piness. A man who takes himselt out
of his home, who spends as little as
possible upon it and all he can upon
himself, puts a double burden upon his
wife, and makes a path upon which at
least some of his children will walk, to
their own detriment and that of the
family. There are now large numbers
of lonely women, and men too, who
have brought up families, but have no
honored or recognized place in any
home, because their children have scat
tered or taken possession of the little
means they have acquired, and taken
no pains to provide the place beside
the hearthstone so necessary to the
comfort ot old age.
This may or may not be the fault of
one or both of the parents themselves,
The great effort of American parents,
and seemingly a very, praiseworthy
one, is to give their chidven advantages
greater than they themselyes possess
ed. The result of this is a life long
struggle, and too often the release from
all obligation on the part of the chil
dren, who are brought up with ideas
beyond their means, • and realize the
failures far more than the efforts of
their parents. Evidently the modern
spirit should have its limitations, and
the sacrifices not be all on one side, if a
just equilibrium is to be preserved.
A great element of interests in
home is doing something for it
"Where eyery one exercised his or her
ingenuity to add to its beauty or com
forts, there is a sense of personal own
ership and possession and enjoyment
that is never otherwise experienced
"We»have lest something in acquiring
modern specialties and specialists in
handicrafts, and getting rid of the habit
which men and boys had formerly of
being “handy” about the house. Hard
earnings are employed in sending boys
to college, who, when they come home
cannot drive a nail straight by which
to hang up a picture, and would con
sider themselves lowered by being
asked :o help put up a stove. In the
same way, girls teach school or try to
find some other way ot earning money,
who never cut a shirt or even an arti
cle of their own clothing, and could
i not make one correctly if life bung
* upon it.—Cor. Homemaker.
colors it is fifty-two inches. It is heavy
and durable. Where it i3 required for
draperies no cloth can be better than
this, as it adjusts itself in soft, grace-
ini lines’and it would be almost im
possible for the most awkward hand to
give the folds a “stiff” appearance.
For table mats it is “a treasure.” Make
the mats about inches larger than
the body of the mat is desired, and
ravel out this extra' width when the
working of the mat is' finished for
fringe.
A pretty way to add color to the
fringe is to darn from the edge of the
cloth before the mat is raveled ; darn
in about three inches at the widest
place and inches at the narrowest;
regulate the width of darning so that
the inside line shall be a series of points
or squares; this is easily done, as the
meshes regulate the stitches in the same
way canvas does. When the edge is
raveled the colored threads will be pret
ty with the white. If more color i3 de
sired, any pattern may be darned,
cross stitched the same as it can be on
canvas.
Tills cloth is well suited for bed
spreads. A pattern chosen should be
a large open one. A handsome spread
was worked on white with green ana
gold floss; it was made long enough to
come over the pillows, which should
be placed rather low. The sides of the
spread were finished with fringe. One
cau afford to put considerable work on
a spread of this kind, as no shams are
required, and there is almost “no end”
to the wear of the goods.—House-keep
er.
WOMAN’S INTUITION.
There is no doubt that a large per
centage of womankind are averse to
telling their ages. The reason why
they are is not so evident. But it is
not in the matter of telling ages along
that woman’s ways, like those of Provi-
idence, are inscrutable. Many other
things which they do, or refuse to do,
are commonly supposed to be the result
Of a lack of reason rather thanjits effect.
It is pretty universally considered that
woman is not a great success as a rea—
soner, and most oi her happiness in
spirations are usually ascribed to that
uncertain something commody known
as “intuition.”
It is quite likely, then, that the fact
that many women prefer to keep the
number of their years to themselves
may not be based on any reason, but
be simply the result of intuitive feel-
g? If thisbeso then it is futile to
seekfor what does not exist, and we
must simply say, “There is no rea
son.” I thiDk this is worth consider
ing. Women’s intuitions, moreover,
are so often right that one cannot help
admiring this excellent, if mysterious,
power, and their intuitions for it
cannot anything else—are equally cor
rect in the case under discussion.
The desire to ascertain another per
son’s age, except in certain special in
stances, is the outcome of nothing
better than idle curiosity, and it is
better than idle curiosity should
always be repressed. So that it must
be coucluded, I think, that woman
feels intuitively that nothing is to be
gained by revea'ing her age, and there
fore usually keeps it dark. It is true
that her intuitions in this direction
sometimes carry her too far, hut that
is only another case of “a little
too much of a good thing.”—Toronto
Globe.
l'he loss by the lire n esumateu ai j ^ ^^ u when in fuU j ea f or j u8t j j n white,
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A pretty material for bedsteads and
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