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SATURDAY, OCT. 38, 1893.
niK Intest Southern outrage ooour-
t lu Indiana.
What In the world has become of
. Livingston, of Georgia?
:ioiit or wrong, party or no party,
lleveiand ia no compromise man.
First thing you know Tom Watson
■ going to break out in a new place.
with the
man that advertises
to “hoo-iloo" people Is a fake.
Tmk
entiro State says “Amen I” to
hnawlok’s prayer for a killing frost.
You never know how real clever
ne peoplo are until they compliment
\
In
lesB than a week you can go to
cago without having your leg
ed.
' is the noblest work Georgians ever
lid in providing for the relief of
Brunswick.
President Oi.kvki.anii opened the
World's Fair, hut the thing Is likely to
dose Itself.
Tiik Augusta Exposition bids fair to
Just suoh another State falras Gcor
a never had.
to
It'
•’s about, time for the country
the riot act to those Senators up
Washington.
Tiik. bright, orlglnnl and “cute" Ilust-
• of Koine is a veritable feast for any
newspaper reader.
Tiik man that Is honest nud does
deeds, never goes up an alley
in he starts home.
. Fiiost, Eaq,, seems to be n long
kys off, judging from the kind of
yenthor wo are having Just now,
will
take ninny long years for
swlok to recover from the blow
,t the yellow fever Is giving It.
Just
ns soon ns the Senate takes
ulte notion it is thought that the
[oe of eotton will tnke an upward
oot.
.NormNu hns been heard from Scott
hornton in some time, llo is probn.
> waiting for Allnnta to give him a
mice.
Tiik Legislature started, off with a
Now, let’s hope Hint business
1 be the watchword, with an early
Journment.
The country has become sick and
disgusted over the situation in the
Senate, and the people, under the stress
of a financial uncertainty and depres
sion which has well nigh reached the
limit of forbearance, would be willing
to concede almost anything to have
confidence restored.
Whether right or wrong, the abso
lute and unconditional repeal of the
Sherman silver purchasing law is the
price of confidence and a return of the
money of the country to the channels
of commerce and trade. This is a fact
which has stood tile severest tests of
all sorts of theories and tactics, and it
is Just as much a fact now as it was
when those who were unwilling to ad
mlt It set themselves to the task of
rubbing it out or turning it down in
some way when Congress was called
together in extraordinary session on
the 7th of August last.
And the free silver coinage Demo,
orals of Congress have lost ground by
tile course they have pursued. The
position they assumed in the outset in
fighting the repeal of n measure which
tlicir own pnrty platform linil de
nounced ns a miserable “makeshift”
and the speedy repeal of which was
emphatically demanded, was Inconsis
tent. The fnct that President Cleve
land was known to be opposed to the
free coinage of silver did not justify
tbu Democrats lu Congress In their op
position to the repenl of the Sherman
law. The Democratic platform was
just aa emphatic in its demand for the
repeal of the Hberman law as it was in
Its declarations lu favor of the con
tinued coinage of silver and maintain
ing the parity of that metal with gold
as money of the country, and Demo
crats have done wrong and wrought
great hnrm to the party nud incalcula
ble injury to the business of the coun
try by confounding the two and using
the one ns a stumbling block in the
wny of the other.
The whole country has become satis-
fled that the repeal of the Sherman
law is necessary to a restoration of con
fidence, nnd for that, reason a sigh of
relief will go up all over the land when
that measure lias been set nside.
Whether it is really to blame for all
our flnnnctnl troubles and the grent
depression which lias been so disas
trous to business enterprises or not,
there can be ho doubt of the fact that
the blame linn been most effectually
fixed upon it, nnd most people, whether
Republicans or Democrats, would
therefore gladly bail almost any sort
of compromise or concession that
would have the effect of getting rid
of*lt.
A I’BCt’I.MH 41UHTO.11.
.' Different suctions of the HI ate are
lIU hammering away on boom guber-
atorlal candidates. Rut they won’t
om, it seems.
; It cannot bo gratifying to all Amer
icans to know thnt the World’s Fair
proven n success, even under the
st ndverse circumstances.
the
And the House is now working on
tariff line. It is to be Imped thnt
much of the Democratic platform
ill bo carried out, at. least.
Macon’s mayoralty race grows live-
ir eaoh day. Mr. Henry Horne hns
dared ids candidacy irrespective of
others. He will very likely have
ong opposition.
Tins
"‘You
from the Elmira Gazette:
may think you’re smart,’ said
he tragedian ns the audience pelted
n with late lamented lien fruit, ‘but
[ think you’re making some pretty bad
Db. Fbtkhs, Hie African explorer,
| has been sizing up the Negro ns he
i him in the North, and his opin
ion is that civilization has done very
little for him. The Doctor should
: down South where the Negro is
doing something for himself.
Adjutant General Williams, of
the regular army, reports that the In
as a soldier is a failure. Then
) Savannah News goes on to say that
i a farmer he is a failure and, as a civ-
I person he is a failure; therefore
:it appears that the Indian must go.
Thibb is a time for all things, and if
i talking Senate whloh baa been in
i at Washington slnee the 7th of
August ever does rnn dry, then
i for heating the dram, firing
gun, hanging oat the flag and
nting the town red wilt be st hand.
[From Tuesday's Daily Herald.]
The Hkbald is just two years old to
day, and it celebrates its second birth-
day just as it has observed every other
day of its existence—by printing the
news and making the very best show
ing possible for Albany and her wor
thy institutions and business inter
prises.
The success of the Hkbald has been
regarded and frequently alluded to by
its contemporaries as somewhat phe
nomenal; yet its pathway has not
been one of ease and serenity, and
the steady growth and seeming pros
perity of the paper have been only the
rewnrd of a cheerful heart and san
guine will and the price of self denial
and unremitting toil. The same be
stowal of devotion nnd the same appli
cation of mind and energy thnt have
been given to the IIkrai.d during the
llrst two yearB of Its existence would
doubtless have brought, greater success,
especially If considered from n purely
flunucinl point of view, if applied to
almost any other legitimate business
enterprise.
But the Hkrald owes much'to the
people of Albany generally, and to n
few faithful friends in particular. The
business men of the city have extend*,
ed a liberal patronage to the paper, and
the editor nnd publisher has never
been without friends who were ever
ready to help him. To make the Her-
ai.d a credit to this city nnd people,
and to prove himself worthy of the
confidence of these friends constitute
tile full measure of tile ambition of an
humble newspaper man who is ns jeal
ous of bis paper’s good name as he is
of bis own.
The Parsecs will not burn or bury
their dead, because they consider a
dead body impure, nnd they will not
suffer themselvus to defile any of tbu
elements, says a writer in the Nine
teenth Century. They therefore ex
pose their corpses to vultures, a method
revolting, perhaps, to the imagination,
but one which commends itself to all
those who arc acquainted therewith.
And, after all, one sees nothing, but
the quiet, white robed procession
(white is mourning among the Par
sers) following the bier to the tower of
silence. At the entrance they look
their last on the dead, and the corpse
bearers—a caste of such—carry it
within the precincts nnd lay it down,
to be Anally disposed of by the Vlll
ttires which crowd the tower. And
why should the swoop of a flock of
white birds be more revolting than
what happens at the grave. Mean
while, and for three days after, the
priests say constant prayers for the
departed, for his soul is supposed
not to leave the world till the fourth
day after death. On the fourth day
there is the Utlianna ceremony, when
large sums of money are given away
in memory of the departed. The lit
urgy in use is a series of funeral ser
mons by Zoroaster. Of superstitions,
the Parsees have had more than they
retain. Connected with burial is the
popular conception as to the efficacy
of a dog’s gaze after death. Dogs are
sacred, and supposed to guide the souls
of the dead to heaven, and to ward off
evil spirits; hence it is customary to
lead a dog into the chamber of death,
that he may look at the corpse before
it is carried to the tower.
Marshal McMahon will pass like
other great men of ages gone—he will
be missed, but some one will be found
ready to take his place.
Thk Thomasville Tiines-Enterprise
says: “The life of Ex-Senator Joseph
E Brown is slowly ebbing away. He is
very feeble, and, in the course of nature,
cannot live muoh longer. Joe Brown
has been a wonderful factor in Georgia
politics."
Probably, ho measure pending be
fore the approaching session of the
Georgia Legislature has created so
much general comment as that which
pertains to a revision of the law as to
the payment of common school teach
ers.
It is a well known fact that the ex
isting law provides that all school
teachers shall be paid yearly—that is,
they only receive payment for the
year’s work once a .year.
This is a great wrong. Many of the
school teachers in this and other
counties cannot nfford to wait
so long for their wnges. Their
obligations have to be met with
in a shorter period of time,
and if they cannot receive their pay
from the authorities, they are, as
natural consequence, compelled to hy
pothecate their claims, nnd that, too,
at an outrageous discount. There is
no good reason why they should be
made to do this. The State can pay
them for services rendered by the quar
ter just as well as once a year.
Now, in the face of the fact that the
newspapers of the State have voiced a
bill providing for the payment of school
teachers by the quarter, why cannot
such a measure pass both bouses of the
Legislature without delay?
It certainly ought to lie done, and
the Hkkai.d believes that it will be.
It is never too late to help Brunswick
in her present condition. Remember
this.
Men who arc charitable, do not have
to advertise the fact in order thnt their
neighbors may find it out.
Tub number of failures each day nre
more than a dozen times balanced by
tile resumption of husinuss.
A man never leaves a good impres
sion on a crowd when he speaks lightly
of n lady thnt. just passed by.
Atlanta’s crop of grass will come on
Inter. Atlnntn expects grent things
from the hayseed Legislature.
Mixnrt,
An eminent Catholic, Prof,
lectures on the “Happiness of Hell.”
Rather a warm subject, no doubt.
It is said thnt the prohibitionists
nre going to tnke n band in the ap
proaching city political battle in At
lantn.
Thk piano medal awards at the
yet,
piano medal awards at
World's Fair haven't been settled
There should be more harmony there
on this line.
year of railroad
This lias been
wrecks, storms nnd floods, and still the
extra session of Congress is doing bus
iness at the old stand.
As a general thing when n North
ern man writes nbout the Southern
Negro nnd his traditions the said
Northern man shows bis utter ignor
ance of what’s what.
Ward McAllister's advice to
young men, desiring to get into
society, is not to talk too much. The
same advice could be given to McAl
lister with good effect, no doubt.
How things do change! Adminis
tration Democrats are now sighing for
one day—nay, even one boor—of Czar
Reed rule in the United States Senate.
A youno man in Michigan, with an
income of 31,000 a month, says he
doesn’t know how to spend his money.
He should go into the newspaper busi
ness without delay.
A new hor-
of that
Poor old Brunswsckl
ror confronts the people
stricken city. Now comes the cry for
clothing for the poor. The cold days
are approaching, nnd the people have
no winter clothes. Oh this score an
other nppeal lias been issued by the
ministers of that city for more help.
Truly, Brunswick’s condition is piti
ful.
Henry McIntosh, of the Albany Herald.
asks: “What shall we do it the Senate holds
oat until Thanksgiving Day?" Why, some one
will have to eat crow Instead of turkey. Under
the circumstances It would he well, perhaps, to
postpone the performance for a year.— 1 Thomas-
Tillo Timcs-Enterprise.
Well, some of us who had our mouths
set for turkey, expecting that it would
be served as soon as we got a Demo
cratic chief cook in the White House,
have been eating orow until we have
become used to it, and “kin eat crow,”
even though we may not “hanker arter
it,” on Thanksgiving Day.
The Hkbald is in position to-day to
say, “we told you so,” with reference to
the said “compromise” between the
silver Democrats and President Cleve
land!
On Monday afternoon this paper ex
pressed doubt nbout the compromise
going through, and said it was not
prepared to believe that President
Cleveland had made or would make
the concessions which were reported
to have come from him and were to
form suoh a prominent part of the al
leged compromise. And, so far as
our observation has extended, the
IIkrai.d was the only paper in the
country that discredited the compro
mise from the time it was first tele
graphed from Washington.
It was so unlike Grover Cleveland
to' make the concessions which he
was reported to have made in the now
exploded compromise that we just
couldn’t believe it.
The IIkrai.d printed tile news and
printed it as early ns any other paper
in (lie country did, but it took occasion
nt the same time to say it didn’t tnke
any stock in the compromise to which
Grover Cleveland was alleged to have
been n pnrty.
TEA TABLE CHAT.
THU WORLD'S I'M.■■TINS- STOCK,
General .To Johnston enme from
wliat Is the best fighting stock lu the
world, ami that is tile Scotch.—New
Yord Times.
The truth of this remark about light
ing stork will be denied by tile Cos-
sneks, the Montenegrins, the Malays,
the Seminoles, the Hungarians, the
Irish, tbu Turks, the Uaguayans, the
Moors, the Norsemen, the Soudanese,
nnd other races. There nre lots of
fighting stock in the world besides the
Scotch. There is an old Cossack in
tills town, nnd wliat tales be can tell 1
—New York Sun.
A society young woman has devised
a novel entertainment. It is to be
a “reception for people who can’t sleep
at night.” Among her friends, she
says, are a great many very delightful
people who are troubled with insom
nia, and who confess that they spend
many frightful hours walking the
floor, looking out the windows, read
ing, etc., trying to Induce the drowsy
god to visit them.
This original young woman, who la
a benefactress, intends, on at least two
nights in every week to be at home to
those female friends distressed from
midnight until morning.
The guests nre requested to appear
in any unique, respectable dishabille,,
bath robes not excluded; the lights
are to be dim, soothing music and stu
pid conversation will be the only di
version permitted. Hot chocolates and
light wafers will be served, couches
and easy chairs will be provided ii>
abundance, and the Insomnia viotime
are earnestly desired to fall asleep as
soon as possible. It is whispered that
prizes will be offered for the first
snore, but this detail is not officially
announced. The entertainment will
bo decidedly unique, and it remains to
be seen whether these insomnia par
ties will become popular.
NOW FOII STATE HANKM.
Only two days more of Columbian
Fair.
Atlanta will probably have a Demo
cratic postmaster after awhile.
Will
It Is hoped that yellow Jock
soon be smashed by Jack Frost.
WIIHN tile Senate does adjourn
Washington affairs will be dull sure
enough.
Senator Hill seems to be an im
portant factor in the Senate for ninny
reasons,
TnK industrial reports soon to be
issued for this month will give the
South a good showing.
Ur at Atlanta the Constitution, the
Journal and the Herald are all split up
on politics. But then they nre most
nlwnys this way.
From the AnRimta Clu-flufflo.
Now that the compromise of the sil
ver fight is at band, there is one other
act of financial legislation that Con
gress should pass before taking a re
cess, nnd that is the repenl of the ten
per cent, tax on State banks of issue.
Indeed tills legislation is regarded by
many ns the most important to our sec
tion of any financial measures which
have been discussed.
The Augusta Exchange took wise
nnd conservative action yesterday in
adopting resolutions to be sent to our
Representatives in Congress urging
action on this matter. All parties and
sections admit tile injustice of the ten
per cent, tax, even if they do not ap
prove of State banks, and the govern
ment should hasten to remove tills pro
lilbitory legislation from its statutes.
The incorporation of State banks of
Issue by the several States when the
tax is removed would be a matter for
them to net upon ns they deemed wise
and would not be compulsory on any
State. After all the experience that,
this country lias had in the matter of
banking to suppose that any State
could float a wild-cat currency, even if
it so desired is absurd, nnd ns there
were sound nnd successful State banks
before the national bank act it is rea
sonable to suppose tlint in providing
for State bank issues in future
those systems Hint were sound would
be followed rather than those without
wildcat banks that were failures.
With the success of the past amended
by the experience gained in recent
years there is no reason why a system
of State hanks cannot be incorporated
that will be in every wny as safe as the
national bank notes.
A “nox of snake medicine” was sent
to President Cleveland with the “com
pliments of President Bnrrnnquilln, of
Columbia, South America,” the other
day. If matters continue to go from
bad to worse up at Washington, the
South American President's present
may be put to a good use yet.
The
Waycross Herald makes this
kind of observation: “It strikes the
average reader ns rather strange, thnt
considering the vast amount of misery
nnd crime in this country it should be
deemed necessary to send missionaries
abroad to convert the heathens. Sure
ly this is the kind of charity that be
gins at home.”
The Guatemalan Congress, says the
Macon Telegraph, having refused to
act in accordance with the wishes of
the President, he has declared himself
dictator, kicked the Congress out of
town and ordered the country to elect
n new nnd more complaisant one. And
yet there nre people in this country
who say Mr. Cleveland is a dictator.
Evidently they do not know what a
dictator Is.
Editor Henry Wattenson lias this
characteristic paragraph descriptive of
the situation in the Senate: “Senator
Biff has out his old loaded cane to do
up old Senator nenrique. Senator
Buffer has put on his brass-knucks and
the rest have their sandbags down their
trouser legs to whack the old tins when
the moment comes. It is a fine specta
cle. A splendid culmination of intel
lectual combat. A resplendid climax
of Senatorial courtesy. A grand tab
leau at the start of the “greatest delib
erative body in the world”—as they
label themselves in their printed rec
ord. A sorry, vulgar and dishearten
ing speotaole at the finish to those who
revere the institutions of our country,”
Brunswick’s sufferers need clothes.
The Washington correspondent of
the Atlanta Constitution hns made the
discovery thnt John Sherman lias cap
tured the White House.
The Valdosta Times, always sensible,
says: “A candidate for governor
should be chosen and elected on State
issues. Why this drumming up of
candidates who are opposed to the
financial politics of the administration
at Washington? If those issues are to
be forced in the State campaign local!
ty will play a small part in the selec
tion.”
The Rev. Sam Jones hns taken
whack nt the United States Senate.
Sam says: “I rend with interest Mr.
Cleveland’s letter to Governor Northen,
It seems he lias ceased to argue and
begun to pray. It is time to dissolve
Parliament. I see some of the Sena
tors have gone homo drunk. Some
men can serve their country better
dead-drunk than when they are sober.
If I had a pack of hounds that run a
fox like the United States Senate cha
ses at legislation, I would lose interest
in the fox and go dog hunting,—and
go home dogless. I had rather have
no dogs than some kind of dogs. Why
don’t they do something? A hundred
hens cackling in the barn lot, and not
an egg laid. I would eat hens and do
without eggs for the balance of the
year. Let that august body do some
thing or resign, and let us send some
body to Washington who will act—who
will repeal or confirm. They can’t
dioker and piddle and vaporize much
longer without disaster to the country,
and we will make them smoke for their
conduot when they get home and want
endorsement by re-eleotion.”
Albany’s theatrical season has been
remarkably dull so far.
A writer, who hns made observa
tions of women walking on the streets,
says that nearly every woman wnlks
too fast for anything like grace to
enter into her movements. Tall
women, ns a rule, walk more slowly
than little ones. Then there is the
woman with the jerky walk, and the
woman with a mincing gait. And it
is altogether astonishing how few
women wnlk well. Yet put these
women in a ball room nnd their danc
ing would bo full of grace and spring.
It Is because they have been taught to
dance, while the ordinary means of lo
comotion, complex though it is, is left
to chance.
An easy, graceful wnlk Is not Impos
sible of acquirement, though like all
things that are worth having, it re
quires time and patience.
In walking well these are some very
imperative don’ts which are well to
remember:
Don’t look at your feet when walk
ing, but hold your head well up.
Don’t shuffle your feet. A little
thoughtfulness, and a little practice in
high stepping will break up this ugly
habit.
Don’t bend back nt the waist under
the impression that you are walking
erectly. It throws the stomach for
ward and is ns ungraceful as round
shoulders.
Finally don’t walk “pigeon toed,”
that is, with the toes turned in. Turn
the toes out, this keeps the knees
straight so that all the movement
comes from the hips. Keep the shoul
ders straight nnd never hurry, and
don’t mince your steps.
An ideal place to practice wnlkingis
in a long room before a large mirror.
It is unnecessary to say that heavy
skirts and tight corsets are quite in
compatible with freedom of motion.
Apropos of walking, it is always
bard to know what to do with the
bnnds. It has been said that no
woman under 25 knows how to carry
these offending members. The nat
ural wny to have them hanging at the
sides, or loosely clasped in front, is
not considered elegant. And to have
them glued to tile sides as far as the
waist line and then bent at the elbow
is simply horrid. Most women try to
obviate the difficulty by carrying
something in the hands. It does seem
strange that the most useful members
of the body should be so unpleasantly
in evidence, when not in use. But
keep them white, and the nails sans
reproach, and they will usually take
care of themselves.
A Pointer to AdrertUerst
Does advertising pay?
By those who have tried it in a ju
dicious-and—persistent manner the
above question wilrteaifswercd in the.,
affirmative.
Now, here’s something to think
nbout.
There is a grocery firm in Albany
that has been advertising, very ex
tensively, a specialty. From the day
they started this advertising they have
kept it up with a commendable perse
verance.
Yesterday afternoon this firm re
ceived three letters—one from Wil
liamsport, Pa, one from Lynchburg,
Va., and the other from New Orleans,
asking a supply of from one to two
hundred dozen eggs per week and all
the chickens they could furnish.
Now, that’s a knock-down argument
in favor of the Herald as an adver-
tisingmedium.
You cannot afford to overlook this
matter.
Advertising does pay 1
Nobody seems to be in a burry to
put fire under the pot of municipal
politics.
Slxli-«He Years a Poalamster.
Charlestown, W. Va, Oot. 26.—J. H.
Miller, undoubtedly the oldest post
master in the United States, died in
Gauley recently. He was 88 years old,
and was appointed in 1882 by Presi
dent Jackson. He has been postmas
ter at Gauley cootinaously since.