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SATURDAY, MARCH 18,
The Panama scandal gets worse and
irorse.
The Atlanta Constitution alludes to
the Journal ns “semi 0010101.” Ahem 1
Washington City in reaping a rioli
harvest from the army of office-seekers,
That Tammany cat is doing a great
deal of purring In New York just
now.
m
It doesn’t serin Hint Mr. Cloveliiml
Is making: himself bourse (Milling out
“next” to the office-seekers.
Tux Honorable Isaao Pursey Oriiy,
Envoy Kxtraordinnry and Minister
Plenlpoteimry to Mexlnot Good
Grayolousl Wlmt a title!
Albany has never had a bootn. Not
being n boom town, It Ims experienced
no backset. And that’s why t.lio town
oontlnues to grow, while others stai d
still.
Bkometahy IIokk Smith has already
been dubbed the “early bird” of the
new Cabinet. lie Is at his desk and
at work before 9 o’olook every morn
mg.
Many of the old-line Democrats arc
doing some tall kicking Just now be
cause Mr. Cleveland attends to the
“swearing out" of the many.
The latest move In the Kansas Degls
lature la the fusion of the HepuhllonnB
and Populists against the Democrats,
The publlo Is not surprised nt any
thing the Kansas politicians do.
Many of the offloe-seekerg who went
on to Washington to bo there at the
inauguration are having to return
before their fate la known, because
they haven’t enough money to keep
them at the Capital longer.
Now If the Demoorat|o party doesn’t
do something for thooountry It never
will. It has a Democratic President
and oontrol of both Houses of Con
gress for the first time in thirty-two
years. Let the band play I
The Senate Demooratlo caucus has
igreed upon the recommendations for
the Important chairmanships, and, ac
cording to the schedule made, Senator
Gordon will be given Coast Defenses,
and Senator Colquitt Postoflloes and
Poatroads,
The hotel kceperB of Washington
■City are beginning to serve notlees
that read something Ilka this: “Gen
tlemen, our rules are, pay *n advance,”
Fortunately, the snow and sleet that
fell on Inauguration day have melted,
and “the walking" out of Washington
has never beeu better at this season of
the year,
Nearly all the newspapers of South
west Georgia have had something kind
to say about the Georgia Chautauqua.
Tho people are gradually realizing
that, while tho home of this beneficent
institution Is at Albany, it, Is by no
means a looal enterprise, and Its in
fluence Is now being felt throughout
-the Southern part of tho State.
Sam Jones, nfter going to Atlanta
and selecting n site for Ills tabernacle,
decided not to hold his meeting in that
city. What Is the matter? Was the
devil too strong, or were ‘•Induce
ments” offered Mr. Jones to stay
away? He certainly promised lo make
things lively, ami iliere is considerable
disappointment over his failure lo ap
pear.
From
%:■
I aDBPBMIlta FIGURES.
I UaiqUE ADVBBT
East year was not one of wonderful
79,048 tons;
of cotton
her export trade outside
Inorensed $0,000,000; her
railway mileage Increased 1,058 miles,
the taxable valup of her property In
creased $00,849,807, tho cotton con
sumed by her own mills itloreoscd 79,-
104 bales, and there was added to her
banking cnpitnl $3,080,000. If the
large majority of her railways are in
receivers’hands, they are at least out
of tho hands of the speculators, and
arc being shaped to run un business
principles and in the Interest of Be-
uurity holders. These figures speak
eloquently for the energy, progress
and stability of the South, and should
outnmend themselves to the considera
tion of Intending investors.” %
With these facts before them the
people of the South should take on
new oourngo and buckle down to work
determined to make the progress of
1898 even more marked than that of
1893.
UltltEUESSABY OOETBUOTION OF
TMK ITBIBTS.
recent reports it; is learned
that there Is more cholera in Hamburg
and vicinity. Tile United States will
have to be very precautions if the
plague does not reach tills country
gills summer. When the World’s Fair
..isopened ot Chicago foreigners from
* every corner of the world will Hock
; lo are if, and (here is every probability
... that, the disease will roach our shores.
It an extra session of Congress is
; needed for anything it certainly is for
‘ 'the adjudication of this question.
Some of the Northern papers, notably
Mile New York Sun and the Commer-
\qinl Advertiser, are making some very
mean flings nt Secretary Hoke Smith,
In one of its latest digs at the new
|| --Secretary of the Interior, the Adver-
User suggests that ill making Mr.
Claude Bennett, the Washington cor-
j-espondent of Hie Atlanta Journal,
. Mr. Sinilh’s paper, his private score-
/■tnry, the Secretary of the Interior
■■sirnpiv emulated tile example of bis
wllief who gave Ids former seere-
; tary Hie navy portfolio. The Adver
tiser then goes on meanly to state that
“Mr. Smith yet Ims four cronies, two
,uncles and the foreman of Ids job office
(support with jobs in the interior
apartment.” But Mr. Smith will
ep in-the middle of Hie road and
Ice a hami in cleaning out Hint cor-
pt pension bureau Just the same.
It must be expeoted that the streets
of the city are to be digged and that
travel must be obBtruoted to some ex
tent while the sewerage pipes are be
ing laid; but there Is neither necessity
nor reasonable excuse for the loose
manner in wliioli the dltelies are be'
Ing refilled, leaving great ridges of
soft dirt over them to be paoked by
time aod rain. The carelessness and
disregard for publlo comfort, conven
ience and safety that has been allowed
In the construction of the waterworks
and sewerage systems is simply out
rageous. Some of the Btreets are al
most Impassable, and at the intersec
tion of two stroets, where the sewers
run out at four points, there is no pos
sibility for the traveler to esoape a
bog or a ridge.
As tins already been said, the publlo
expects to be Inconvenienced to a rea
sonable extent by the work that Is
neoessary to lay tho sewer pipes, but
tho utter disregard that is being
shown for the publlo In the premises
is getting to he annoying, and tho peo
ple are, Justly, beginning to complain.
We are well aware of the fact ilmt
the fresh dirt cannot bo pneked down
to a level and made hard ns fast ns the
ditches are filled, hut a vast improve
ment could he made oil the present
mode. A little extra packing mid lev
eling should he done nt the crossings,
and then, by turning a hose Into the
ditches ns they nre being lilted, tile
dirt could lie pecked much closer than
it is all along the line.
The IIkrai.ii lias been slow Jo make
tills complaint in helinlf of a suffering
publlo, hut forbearance Ims censed lo
he a virtue in the matter, and we feel
that we would he shirking a plain
duty as a public and local journal by
longer withholding a' protest against
the condition in which the streets of
the city are being left by those in the
employ and under the control of the
city government.
MATUIMONY NOE
XT—
MAS MANY DOCBEES,
SOVT1
or even ordinary prosperity. Times
were hard and there wa* a general
atagnatlon of matters in the world of
business, manufacturing and finance,
whioh, while it did not amount to
general depression of any serlons ex
tent, yet forbade the idea- of any
marked progress In any section of the
oou n try.
Here in the South the people consid
ered themselves particularly poor, and
the Idea that the South was growing
to any extent would have been re
ceived with derision.
Yet the South did grow in 1893,
and In all lines of industry there was
a marked advance.
One of the best nn l most reliable
trace jqurnals published in the United
States is the Manufacturer's Itecord.
In the last number ol tills publication
appeared an article by It. B. Sperry
under the caption, “How the South
Grew in 1892.”
It. develops some startling facts.
“I suppose,” writes Mr. Sperry, "no
body will ascribe abnormal prosperity
in any section or In any line of trade
for the year just passed. Certainly nr
one can say, for this period at least,
that the South has been boomed, yet
the statistics of her progress in the
face of adverse conditions nre eigmfl-
cant,
“Her output of, pig iron increased
245,880 tons, of coal 980,885 tons, of
lumber 280,814,678 fiet, of phosphateB
The Chicago Inter Ocean publishes
an advertisement from Dakota, headed,
"Wanted, a Cargo of Young Wives,”
and goes on to say that California
and British Columbia are suffering
from a deficit of the female element;
young girls are at a premium. Then
the Inter Ocean takes the flattering
unction to its soul that it has acted
very magnanimously in publishing
the advertisement, as there seems to
be fear, on Its part, that It will cause a
stampede of girls in that direction,
Horace Greely’s famous advice to
young men may he changed to the cry,
—“go West, young woman”
The only consolation the Inter Ocean
seems to have is, that "blessings
brighten ob they take their flight,”
and, In this wny, tho derellot bache
lors may bo brought to a realization of
what they are losing.
This nertainly shows a very different
state of affairs in that part of the
moral vineyard from that which ex
ists tn the Sunny South, and especially
around Albany. There Is no danger
of such an advertisement causing a
movement from this part of the coun
try. Our hright-eyed, soft-voiced
maidens are fully appreciated by the
young men, nnd these blessings,—
“God's best gift to mnn,’’—do not linve
to resort to flight to bring men to a
realization of their brighlnets.
The trouble here seems to be more
on the other hand. It is rather hard
to keep the supply up to the demand,
and It is a question to be considered
whether the girls South do not marry
too young.
The average Southern girl starts
in soolely ns a full-fledged young lady
when her Northern sisters are just
preparing to enter college for several
years. This Is to be deplored, for the
girls starting out In soolety so young
soon tire of it, and marry nnd take
upon themselves the cares of wife and
motherhood, when they should be en
joying the happiest time of life, and
which once passed never returns, their
girlhood’s cure-free days. But so it
has always been, and will be to the
end of time, and we do not blame the
baohelors. They ounnot resist them,
and no where In God’s country oan be
found sweeter, brighter maidens, cal
culated to do more damage to the
maBoullne heart, than those of our own
beloved Southland, where everything
from the girls down grows to greater
perfection than anytyhere else.
By way of a New York correspond
ent, it is learned that there is a man
who visits that city, on business, quite
often, by the name of Danielson. He
is an advertising agent, of Providence,
who is always being'taken for some
one else.
Mr. Danielson is a tall, old gentle
man, with a good presence, and sport
ed a pair of white side whlshers, close,
ly trimmed—but that was awhile ago.
After the hotel clerks anil waiters
took him for Chauneey Depew and
tumbled over each other in their eager
ness to wait on him, nnd nfter people
began to say: “That’s Depew,” as he
went nlong the streets, Mr. Danielson
let his siders grow long and wavy and
added a mustache. And there’s where
he got into warmer water still, for “lie
very next time he went to New York
some festive friend hailed him with
“Hollo! Chester A. Arthur.”
“Have to change ’em again,” said
Danielson; “a dead man’s no good in
the advertising business.” So he Imd
the long flowing ends of his siders
trimmed off round, and, when his mus
tache had grown out heavier, ventured
to New York again. The first ac
quaintance who met him greeted him
with affected surprise : “Kaiser IVil-
helftil Well, I’ll be—! How’s things
ill Heaven?”
And now the poor devil is afraid to
go close shnved for fear he’ll be taken
for Hoke Smith!
COME NOME.
Say!
You oflloe-seekers,
Up there at Washington,
Might as well
Come home I
If you’re needed
In his business
Mr. Cleveland will send for yon.
He has sworn,
You know,
To abide civil service.
You can Imagine
What that means.
So, come home!
Wear your shoe-leather out
On Goorgin soil,
Where you can sweat and “ouss”
In quietude.
If you’ve “been in”
Before
Y'ou must “stay out”
This time!
That’s plain enough.
If you can’t
Understand it just now
You will later on.
Yes. better come home;
Diving is cheaper here.
Then, besides,
You can find
Sympathy
By tho carload,
And you can rant until
You’re tired.
Come along, now,
When you are needed
You'll be sent for!
Animals Talk With I?uch Other.
A Bound or gesture made by nnnni-
mnl under any mental or emotional
impression mul coiling out a similar
ono in Another nnimnl is nn element
of,language, When tlio rabbit (Le-
pus cuniculus) quickly beats tho
ground, its follow rabbits know that
there is danger somewhere, and they
tako action accordingly. That is
rabbit language. YVlion tho hunter
imitates tho rabbit and thus conveys
the same ideas, he is “speaking” the
rabbit Inngiuigo for the time being.
Many animals uso signs, which of
course are mderstood through the
eyes. The uts converse by touch
ing nntennm and feet; many insects
rub the elytra. This is animal lan
guage in iti simplest form. It ex
presses but 1 e\v ideas. But there are
animals whHi are capablo of mod
ulating tlioi- “voices.”
Even the common rabbits, which
seem to be -“uto, are constantly mak
ing sounds, vhich a little observation
will soon discover to bo ever chang
ing in volume, modulation, etc. Much
of this method of communication
changes when the animal is brought
into clviUea*’on from the wild state.
The wild dog, for instance, barks
very little when in freedom. How
the household dog barks and is able
to express himself is well known.—
Copenhagen Family Journal.
How to Clean a Lam p chimney.
Every old bachelor knows how to
clean a lamp chimney. He nover
bothers with chamois leather or any -
thing of the kind, but juBt holds tho
gloss chimney in the steam from a
kettle until sufficient moisture has
collected, when ho wipes it out with
an old handkm-chief, or, better still,
an old kid glote. This is the easiest
way imaginable for making an old
chimney shine like a crystal, and i*
is far more effective than the ordi
nary methods sworn to by experts
who have graduated in the kitchen
and think a bachelor who lives by
himself does not know anything.—
St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
SHAMEFULLY ABUSED.
A Country Ud Who Felt That the City
Woe Against lllm to'a Man.
“Folks down b’low in the city seem
to think nobody knows anythin but
jest theirselves,” remarked young
Bije Fawcett, who had been on a two
weeks’ visit to Boston. “I s’pose I
may’ve gaped round some. I ain’t
sayin I didn’t. But it don't make no
diflf’rence. They hadn't any call to
to treat mo as if I was an eejot.”
“What did they do to you, Bije!”
asked one of the group to whom he
mado this statement
“There wa’n’t scussly anythin they
didn’t do!” replied Bije, waxing in
dignant. “They set on mo at ov'ry
corner, nn Insulted me, ’most I
'Twa'n’t pleasant. It kep’ mo riled
up most o’ tho time I was there.”
“I want to know 1” ejaculated sev
eral listonars in chorus.
“Yes, sir!” continued Bije, flush
ing a deeper red. “They'd set littlo
boys to spy on me nn come shovin
papers into my band, with ‘Wh..t
you want is a goo^air o’ shoes!’ on
’em iu big print, o/olso advisin with
me about my but, or my jiants, or
somethin.
“An they'd stick jumpin jacks
right into my face nil ask me to buy
’em, them sassy boys would! I see
’em let other folks go right by with
out molestin ’em n mito, but they
picked on me ev’ry time.
“But tho thing that madded me
tho wust was when I wa3 standin in
front of a new looldii shop on u kind
of a quiet street one day.
“I was castin round in my mind
what some queer lookin pipes was
for that wuu iu the winder, an whilst
I was flggerin on 'em a little whip-
per snapper of a fellor that was jest
clorkin there, I presume to say,
stepped up to the winder nn sot a big
placard right down in front o’ them
pipes, right b’foro my very face nn
eyes. An it said on it, ‘Iron Sinks.’
“Well, I was bet up in a minute,
nn I passed right into tho shop an up
to that grinnin young feller, an says
I: 'What d'you mean by stickin that
card right in front o’ mol Did you
calo’late I thought iron floated I’
“He tried to stammer out some
thin ’bout its boiu a sign an so on,
but ho was laughin all the time, I
could see.
“ ‘It’s a sign your manners ain't
what they’d ought to bo,’ says I,
‘pokin fun t.t a man jest o’cause you
can see he's from the country, an
pertondin to teach him things he’s
known senco he was 5 years old 1’
“I could see he was kind o’ morti
fied, so I come out without sayin all
I had in my mind to say. But the
next day I come home. I couldn’t
seem to enjoy boin in a place where
folks all thought I was so ignorant
an had got to be told about ev’ry
namable thing!”—Youth's Compan
ion.
He Sleepi by Scented Water.
Among tho numerous presents sent
to a shah of Persia by one of the Rus
sian emperors was a bedstead of ex
traordinary magnificence. It is said
to have been entirely made of crystal
and was accessible by steps of the
same material, all worked in imita
tion of large diamonds, incrusted in
fSe Smuggling Munlu Crops Out.
Mrs. Maploson, the prima donna,
has invented an apparatus for con
cealing the beautiful little tailless,
shaggy black Russian dog given her
by the Princess of Monaco. It is in
the shape of a Gladstone bag, with t
light, well perforated canvas cover.
This drops down from the handle
and reveals an inner case of net
work, stretched apart so as to afford
comfortable space for tho small an
imal to lie down or sit up, as he may
elect. In this he is smuggled into
hotels. Mrs. Mapleson calls it the
“evader," and had some idea of pat
enting the invention, but sympathy
with other dog owners induced her
to give it publicity.—Boston Budget.
Kings Are Not Very Well Known.
The king of Italy is generally re
garded as an able officer, with much
knowledge of foreign politics and
some firmness, but that description
does not constitute a character, and
of his remaining qualities, except
that ho is a good manager of finance
a solid frame. On each side were ; and lias in aim somewhere the Sa-
spouts mado to eject scented water,
which by its murmuring invited
sleep. —Chicago Hci aid.
The State Fair.
1-I»u Uui’i«te* to l.©i Oikrr Cities* iu
lh« Mini© Hut© it Kvery Olli©r
Y©tti\
voyard tendency to plot, nothing
seems to bo clearly discerned. Even
of the emperor of Germany, with his
fondness for being visible, for rush
ing about and for making speeches,
littlo is known, or rather much is
known, but the knowledge produces
■ , ,, . , . nothiug but perplexity.—London
Kinl courses on this subject are ! Spectator * °
f devoting more attention to it. I
»lt!lute oj I’Eount Fuji.
A denial of the reported snbaidetico of
Thi* n Tip.
From tin* Atlanta I’.vimhur Ilurald.
The Indianapolis Journal says:
‘•Will'll tin. lion. Hoik Smith Ii.'i- Loon in
Washington n feu months lie will ili-roviT mat
il is not itooil form tor n gi'iittomim of his posi
tion lo iveiiT nlnthing mmlc of iliitgoiml goods,
tout tlmt sipinviMooil shoes m e unite otu of ilme
in the North.''
Wo print rile nbovo ns n lip to other
gentlemen who may venture as far
North as Washington.
Dot the South not offend Hie North
ern taste in I he matter of dress. Del
everybody wear hob-tail coats ami
don't forget to say eye-1 her ami nye-
tlier.
Nigger should also be pronounced
Xeegerro.
"’ban comes from Washington that
President Cleveland has given it out
that lie will not. re-appoint anybody to
office that received appointment under
his former administration, if lie can
avoid it—or words to that effect.
spi-imd lo die llrmlil.
Atlanta, March 10.—Macon has de
cided to lei other cities in Georgia
have the State Fair every other year,
and the Atlanta Exposition Company
is Inking steps lo have the Fair held
in this cltv.
Interest In Ilygleno.
j Interest in the study of hygiene
j seems to be on the increase. Colleges
| which have heretofore given no
I special
‘ now devoting more attention to it.
'■ The University of Durham, England,
has established two new dc
‘ which it confers, B. Ky. and D. Hy.,
which stand fur bachelor mid doctor
j of hygiene respectively.
Sai’lJ tend Ills Cnmllo.
Snrti, a writer of music, could com- j t
pose only in a dark room
ill
Jgrees .Mount Fuji comes somewhat Into iu the
i 'fay to convince those who have seen for
j themselves so frequently the disngura-
tiou caused by the reported sinking. The
j fact, however, remains that the slirine-
| keeper at tho top of the sacred moun-
ouhl coin-1 tain has written denying that any sub-
in. lit by i sulem-e Ims taken place. Ho states
We
Will
Sacrifice
Our ‘
Pilgrim
And
Sunbeam
Can
Corn
For
The
Next
Two
Weeks
At
10 2-3
Cents
Per
Can.
Call
Before
All
Are
Gone.
Mock k Rawson
Reich k Geiger.
4
To Onr Friends andi
Customers:
states that i
You are cordially invited to caJK" 1
and examine our stock of New.
Spring Goods, now in store. We
have all the new novelties in Wash
Fabrics, and we are receiving new
shipmenrs each day. Look to your
interest and examine our stock be
fore you make your purchase of
Spring Wear. We will not enum
erate our Goods to-day, but as soon
as our stock is complete, we will
mention the many attractions we
have to offer.
a sm;, emidia. This peculiarity 1 practical investigation made during the
nseitm his work, for most of , summer proven the report to have been
Married in Atlanta,
it indicates that lie was a man of
gloomy imagination.—Harper’s - Ba
zar.
IVluj. .1. 1*. IlniiMou** Daughter <tiiinlv
Writ* Mr. I.ohs Whit©.
■ Tin
*1‘twin11" thu
Atlanta, March
White
ID—51 r. Ross
of Macon, and Mis* Fanny
Hanson, were quietly married, in this
cily, this morning nt the Episcopal
hits recently
moved here, and Miss Hanson came
here oil a visit. She is the daughter of
Maj. J. F. Hanson, of Macon.
Exouun, now, of that “flag inci
dent.” It. has Imd more attention al
ready than it deserved.
“iiiall Town F»riolictl.
• of <’b-udos P. Knight, a mi!-1
timsciri', who diet! iu Brooklyn in Sop-1
tern her. live in \Vbitaeyville.* Washing
ton .county, for the most, part, nnd the*
little community is greatly agitated over
this imc.fpvctoil grout acquisition to its I
wealth, i ho will is now being probated,
nnd the nfH’CT.Rrtry records have been
forwarded from V, ashiugtou county
to re-estabJi: ;i relationship, etc.—Bangor
(lie.) Coihmeivkl.
entirely groundless, hut immediately fol- !
lowing this statement he admits that a !
I of extent has been found !
j which was free from snow—between .Jo- 1
i jukake and Higashi Vasukawara—vol- j
I can it* action of some kind having taken !
j place there. This, Ik-hays, is m ill five (
, from snow and may nave been taken to j
j he a subsidence, tkougli sneh is not the i
ruse. —.Japanese Gazette.
<!
The boy# who have been banging
around Washington since the Fourth
of March say that one of the first ques
tions President Cleveland asks about a
man who is being urged for appoint
ment to office is, “Does he drink?”
^ 0,1 can &*-‘t good oak and hickory
wood at .^2 per cord. Telephone 24 or
M. Shackelford, East Al-
2 d-wtf
apply
bany.
to C.
The afternoon papers are coming to
the front all over the country. They
print the day’s news before it goes to
bed. Four-fifths of the important-
news events of the day are printed in
i the evening papers before they get
I into the morning papers.