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)AY, NOV. 4, 1898.
Yes, Pauline, Congress is still in-
ilon.
Tns battle against tho cigarette will
ely end in smoke.
The prize tighter is having a mighty
cky road to travel in this country at
ent.
There was one postofllce appoint
ment for Georgia last Saturday. And
thus tlie record was broken.
Editor Sid Lewis, of the Hpartn
Tshmsellte, calls them “the lick-spittle
i of tlie administration.'
Ml
assassination of Motor Carter
son Is a blow to Chicago from
that elty will not soon recover.
Is the opinion of Burgeon Carter
Brunswick’s yellow fever will
d until there Is n good killing
Sa:
If the Georgia Legislature doesn’t
careful It will pllu up more work in
e days than It oan dispose of In fifty
Ir the Georgia Legislators have any
blowing to do, they should interview
Atlanta newspapers before oom-
nolng.
“The Senate than went Into cxccu-
- tlve session,’’ Oh, Pauline, dearest,
■ this kind of rot Is becoming almost tin
tbearable I
Don't worry yourself because other
people set the example. They'll laugh
•t you when they sea you sympathize
i|»vlth them,
The
batch of nominations from
Fashlngton doesn't cost tho papers
uoh' telegraph tall—especially on the
office line.
The press of the State Is advising
the farmers to roly, another year, on
hog and hominy. It behooves them to
1 this advioe.
S@*
Gazaway IIautiiidoe, in a recent
to the Savannnh Press, alludes
Alen as a “pay member of the
Imocratlo parly.”
Repeat.
is near at hand, hut the
Senators keep on Hpeaking. This
speaking business In the Situate Is the
i,thing to repeal first.
“There are plenty of men right here
: In Georgia who could settle the silver
' hHastiuti If they had the chance," says
.the Darien Gazette.
‘•“In Cleveland we trust" seems to lie
the motto of the Democrats who Insist
Upon Ignoring the silver plank of tho
Deinoeratlo platform.
The work of the Macon Evening
News to push Macon to the front is
: Very commendable. The News Is a
In-behalf of a patient and suffering
public the Herald wants to preach a
little lay sermon this morning to the
preachers—not to our local preaohers
especially, but to clergymen general
ly, or those of them at least who
preach funeral sermons.
Who in all this broad Christian land
of ours hasn’t had his feelings harrow
ed, and been made altogether misera
ble by the ranting bad taste displayed
by the officiating minister on some
funeral occasion?
In same of the churches no sermons
are preached over the dead, and the
same funeral service is held over the
bier of one man that is held over that
of another, but wherever tills custom
is varied by a discourse which is sup
posed to be inspired by the subject and
occasion, there is usually more blun
dering bad taste dicplayed than in all
the other public exercises of tile Chrif-
tfsn church put together.
In the first place, we wont, to say that
nine times out of ten, when a minister
feels thnt he is called on to deliver
regular sermon nt a funeral he Is mis
taken.
Unless the life of the decessed has
been a blameless and exemplary one;
unless tho subject presented Is one that
oan he held up to the world as a llfei
worthy of emulation—a consecrated
Christian life exemplifying tlie beauty
of Christian faith and character—the
less said tlie better. And in no case
should a funcrnl discourse be a lengthy
one—never longer than from fifteen to
twenty minutes. References that are
calculated to excite the emotions of
the bereaved ones and to grate upon
the sensibilities of their sympathetic
frionds should also be ayoided. In
other words, a funeral occasion is no
occasion for sermonizing, and when
ever n minister makes one of it he is
not only guilty of bad taste, but is
showing a want of proper considera
tion for tlie feelings of those who, by
ihero force of circumstances, arc com
pletely at his meroy.
When a man or woman of prom
inence In the church lias died—one
whose loss will bo felt by tlie church,
and whoso life lias heeii'sueli as to de
serve a tribute from tlie good sliopiierd
of the flock from which ho lias been
tnkon, a short eulogy and n few re
marks from a Christian standpoint for
the consolation of the bereaved family
may not be out of place; but when the
deceased was not even a member of
tlie church, and when there is so little
that can bo truthfully said without a
oruoi disregard for tho feelings of
those who are burdened wltli liuimin
grief, und are, perhaps, wearied by
days and nights of anxious wall ing by
the bedside of the dying, and are
brought to a trying ordeal before a
waiting congregation, anything like a
set sermon or funeral discourse Is out
of place,
The
I SATURDAY NOVEMBER 4. <«93-
—
on what r
The assassination of Mayor
Harrison, of Chicago, lsst Ssl
night, parallels the foul murder of
President James A, Garfield, In 1881,
by the red-handed assassin Guiteau,
the news of which paralyzed the whole
world for a time.
It will be remembered that when
President Garfield was assassinated
there were those who Bald Guiteau was
sane and others who disputed it. The
foremost scientists and physicians of
the world examined this man before
and after his execution, and they
brought forth decidedly conflicting
theories as to his mental equilibrium.
Some thought! that he committed the
deed for greed of fame, believing that
he would cheat the gallows. Others
said that he was crazy and was not re
sponsible for what he did.
Anyhow, Guiteau was convicted of
murder and executed, and, by way of
parenthesis, It Is well to mention the
historical fact that every one of the
Jurymen convicting Guiteau met a
tragical death. Five of them were
murdered, and the other seven went to
their reward in a tragical manner.
But, to come down to more recent
occurrences. • -
Mayor Harrison’s, assassin, Eu
gene Prendergnst, has already gone
on record as a ilrst-olass crank. He
murdered one of the most prominent
men in America, and it is believed
that ho did it while laboring under a
temporary, If not permanent, mental
aberration.
No doubt tho brainy scientists of to
day will make a test caso of Prender-
gast, as they did, years ago, of Guiteau,
They will diagnose his present mental
condition. Then, after his death (for
It is almost certain that he will be
hanged) they will take his body, for
tlie sake of science, and examine ills
brnin and report to the world what
ever phenomenon is discernable.
Some of the Republican postmasters
in tills section of the country may be
bounced next year. Yes, maybe.
Now wo hour of women whuo caps.—a uxusta
Evening Nows.
Thank goodness for that!
they’ll wear ’em to the theater.
Hope
The whltecap business in tills and
other States doesn’t seem to be much
of a success. Evidently it isn’t water
proof cap.
sgront factor in Macon.
Senator Tki.i.ku has actually, shod
ars twice in making free sliver
eeelies. And now his dot leagues are
calling him “grandma.”
The Savannah News nub-heads
article, “the President in the Saddle."
Fell, we should any so, and with little
prospects of his being booked.
The bill of Representative Johnson
to allow people to tote pistols under
bond will fall flat. That gentleman Is
evidently off his “kerzip."
The Senate having hud a sleeping
session, it is highly probable that when
they reach a conclusion the whole
thing will go into a trance.
If the repeal of tlie 10 por cent, tax
on Stnte bunk issues is not taken hold
of pretty soon the people of the coun
try nre going to know why.
There is not a more interesting, de-
rtiiient in the Constitution than that
“L. L. K,” in “Tabernacle Talk. -1
js poetical effusions nre gems.
In Alabama tlie officers caught n
nan in tlie net of posting a gin house,
And he said he was “only funning.”
He will be made an example of.
T ie New York Post lias turned its
atterics 011 Van Alen, the conceded
kmbassudor to Italy. The Post is I
ate. It should ImVe started sooner.
/Ex-Speaker Heed says the educa
tion of (lie Negro is a secondary 0011-
flderatton. He, very likely, thinks the
STegroe’s vote is tho first consideration.
! The State Fair at Augusta will open
foveruber lfitli and last until Deceiii-
er.lSth. Ill point of interest it will
almost equal to tlie big World’s
says
The Macon Evening News
late Fields is not a “spring chicken.”
No,judging front a recent poem and
r articles. But Kate Fields is all
t- She is one of America’s fore-
: women in belles-lettres, and is an
r to journalism.
silence that, is gulden Is not
known in the Senate.
There is a member of the Georgia
Legislature by the name of Allen.
Good Lord!
It Is nip and tuck between amend
ments and resolutions In the Senate,
with the chances In favor of “nip."
So 1.0.NU as tho Georgia Legislature
doesn’t draw its scalping knives on the
silver question tile country is safe.
Some of the newspapers continue to
rail him “Van Allen.” He lias been
persecuted enough without misspell
ing his name.
Kn. lUnitETT says “the Senators may
strike a snag any minute.” What
have they done with those snags at
ready encountered?
Hon. .Take Dart lias been given
consular snap to the West Indies. It
pays about $8,000 per year, and the
Brunswickian Is to be congratulated.
indors-
Tue action of tlie House in
log Speaker Crisp will he sanctioned
everywhere. In fact, Mr. Crisp is one
of the most conscientious men nt
Washington,
llox. IT. W. .1. Ham, the Georgia
Snolygoster, has been up to Washing
ton, and the Post, of that oity, quotes
him ns follows: “We are not with the
President on this repeal Cill down in
Georgia. The whole South is for free
silver. The President doesn’t hear
Tiik Georgia Legislature is going to
tackle the cigarette'again. This Is
nonsense. There is but one way to
down the cigarette and that Is by na
tional legislation.
USELESS LEGISLATION.
('IIARlrAltl.K A I, It ANY.
It strikes the Herald 'haL the re
cent law passed by the Lower House
of the Georgia Legislature, purport
ing to prohibit the sale of cigarettes
in this State, is a puny measure a
umptuary law—unbecoming a body
of sensible legislators.
It is almost an impossibility to stop
the sale of these pernicious “coffin
taoks,” as they have been so aptly
termed. .The Herald is dead against
the olgarette, but it is also dead
against sumptuary laws that tend to
interfere with personal rights or in
dividual liberty. The law now
in foroe to prohibit. the
sale of cigarettes to minors is
a dead issue. Its purpose was well in
tended, no doubt, hut the results have
been far from satisfactory. Any ini nor
can now buy cigarettes in any city or
town in the State.
The present proposed law is nothing
more than an unjust discrimination
against tobaccn dealers. If the sale ol
cigarettes is prohibited, those persons
who smoke the vile things, will buy
line cut smoking tobacco nnd cigarette
piper and make their cigarettes.
Thus the cigarette manufacturers will
be ousted only to the gain of others.
Even if the cigarette fiend did not
feel disposed to make his cigarettes,
lie could send to neighboring States
and have them sent him by the whole-
H sale. This has been tho experience of
those States that have enacted prolilli
to.-y law on this line.
Therefore, let the cigarette alone tn
Georgia. Don’t detract from the
rights of Individuals in this State to
the benefit of persons in other States.
The only way tb down the cigarette
is by national legislation, and it Is
doubtful, even then, if the desired re
sults could be reached.
It has been many a year since the
citizens of Albany have been called
upon to contribute to so many charit
able calls as within the past three
months.
It has been a call for this and that,
and then for something else—always
for Borne cause of great need.
And tlie people of this thriving little
city have not, refused yet. Whether
the call was for domestic or foreign
charity tlie> have given of their mite
from an unstinted purse, believing it
to he a duty encumbent upon a Chris,
tian and a charitable people.
Even yesterday, when a petition was
being circulated to help a poor and
unfortunate man, the citizens of A1
tinny contributed most liberally.
And they did this, too, when their
purses were almost depleted by reason
of previous contributions to n stricken
sister city.
But all of this is welt. He that
glvetll unto the needy shall lmve it re
turned to him tenfold. Therefore, let
no one, deserving of thy sympathy,
leave thee empty handed. Charity of
tlie unostentatious kind wilt beargrent
fruit, and blessed will be he who fol
lows out this injunction.
Tuk evening paper not only Alls the
bill, but receipts it.
One-manibm Is not in accord with
the principles of true Democracy.
Corbett says he won’t fight for $20,-
000. Then to think that the Senators
are doing it for $8,000 a year.
The Herald is indebted to Dr. T.
O. Powell, Superintendent, for n copy
of the annual report of the trustees of
tho Georgia Lunatic Asylum for the
fiscal year ending October 1,1808.
It is rumored that Corbett and
Mitchell will try to light in Florida-
sonic where near Jacksonville. It is
claimed that Florida laws on prize
fighting are very slack. But it’s two
to one llmt Georgia’s sister State won’t
allow it. .
A
Virginia Negro, who was 11
preacher, was executed ill thnt Stnte
yesterday. He preached his own
funeral sermon, and says lie will 00111c
back to life. He will probably confer
with Lieut. Totten.
If Senator Allen wants to make a
twenty-four-hour speech lie should he
allowed to do so. America might as
well hold the championship on this
line as any other.
Cot. Claihorx Snead, of Tlionias-
ton, 1ms deserted tlie Democratic party
nnd gone “where the wood-bine
twinetii” to join Tom Watson. Tlie
Colonel is growing gay in his old age.
One of the most intelligent men in
Southwest Georgia,—one who keeps
up with the polities of the country,
amt Is a Democrat in faith nnd prac
tice, mailed his check to renew tiis
subscription to tho Daily Herald,
yesterday, and, folded ins.de the cheek
was n hit of brown paper on which was
writen—
“When Walt street rejoices tlie masses mourn."
Every intelligent reader will “catch
on” to the significance of this brief
sentence, in view of recent develop
ments nt Washington,
According to the Chicago newspa
pers, it 1ms remained for a Boston
woman to got t he best of a Chicago
imoktnan. She lived in a house where
the hoarders were accustomed to hire
an omnibus to take them to tlie Fair
grounds. She negotiated with the
owner of tlie caboose for an evening
trip, beat “cabby” down $12 on tlie
price and collected full faro front each
The Louisville Courier-Journal
thinks thnt the individual in tile gal
lery who was arrested for nsking the
Senate, “Why don’t you do business, so
we enn do business?” could be elected
Senator from the United Stktes-at-
lnrge if Senators were chosen by pop
ular vote.
Lovers of the great American
breakfast beverage may not know that
tlie supply of coffee in this country has
been greatly curtailed by the troubles
at Rio Janero. Tlie amount- on hand
in New York is only 00,000 bags ns
against a usual quantity of 280,000 bags
at this time of year. There is said to
be plenty on (lie way, however.
HARD TIM KN FOR INEFRANCE
, eOMFANIKN.
The Chicago Evening Post of Tues
day contained the following: Fire
losses in the United States during the
first nine months of 1803 were $2(1,840,-
000 greater than in the corresponding
period of 1802, and not less than
dozen strong companies are preparing
to go out. of business between now and
tlie first of January, Low rates, heavy
losses nnd oneroun Stnte legislation are
driving enpitai into safer and more
profitable fields of employment. The
active companies have paid out over
$9,000,000 from their aggregate surplus
fund thus far this year, and the Jan
uary statement will show an enormous
shrinkage in tile securities held by the
companies. Sinee January 1 thirty-
five of the weaker companies have gone
to tlie wall.
Albany is alwayB to tho front.
Tub Legislator who cannot get in a
bill at Washington must be dull, in
deed.
Charley Mitchell has gained al
most as much fame as a talker as some
of the Senators.
The fact that the weather atClilpago
Is very cold just now may indicate, for
once, thnt New York 1ms been left.
If there were more quorums
and
less recesses in tile Senate something
would probably he done 111 a few days.
The Blarney stone may be a fake,
but there are lots of people who are
“green” enough to believe it genuine.
It is sRirt liuit I'ufliui' trims his own whiskers.
When?—Augusta Evening Nows.
When lie is not talking. That’s
easy. _.
that the
It is a fact, hey op d n doubt,
trouble at Washington is that all the
Senators want silver whether they say-
so or not..
from the common people as he ought
to. There are more of them than any lot tlie party, pocketing the extra $12.
oilier kind, and they lmve opinions on She "worked the scheme several t imes
tlie subject.”
1 with success, finally being discovered..
T-nk Salvation Army is entitled to
credit for nt least one good thing. It
has been the means of cutting down
the Yankee pension list a trifle. A
man named Starkweather, living in
Steuben county, New York, who when
a private in the army fired a Millet,
through his wrist in order to obtain a
discharge, him been drawings pension
for tlie past thirteen years. During a
spasm of contrition brought on by
the emotional appeals of tlie Salvation
ists, Starkweather confessed the fraud
practiced upon the Government, His
pension, which had been raised from
$8 per month to $17, will now be with
drawn ; and because of the manner of
the discovery of his fraud he will es
cape punishment- Usually a plea of
guilty does not avail where no further
reparation is made; but the precedent
set. in this case is not.a dangerous one.
There probably will never be another
such sinner brought to book by the
Salvation Army, but this one should be
passed to its-credit.
A German editor lias been sentenced
to four months imprisonment.for libel
ing a Duke. The Duke is lucky to get
off at that.
If the Senate kills the State bank
i sue in the Democratic pint,form they
may as well throw the other part of
the platform away.
Gov.Tillman lias not kicked up a
“muss” since he secured his whisky
trade-mark. He must lmve rend tho
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It is^hoth refreshing and encourag r
ingto find an editorial article under
the above heading in a Northern news
paper. Here is one from the Philadel
phia Record:
“Even United States Senators, high
and mighty as they are, and far re
moved from susceptibility to the bland
ishments which influence the judge
ment of other mortal men, are not en
tirely beyond the reaoh of an aroused
and determinate publio opinion. This
fact has been established by the action
of tlie Senators from the Southern
States with • reference to the silver
question. These Senators held the key
to the situation; but they have found
themselves unable to stand up against
the tide of remonstrance from their
own constituencies. The business men
of tlie Soutii and tlie Southern news
paper press have kept up such a din
in their cars that they could not with
stand the clamor. They lmve finally
yielded to the inevitable, and have
left the mining camp filibusterers to
their fate.
“The disposition of the Southern
Senators to oourt tlie favor of the
Populist demagogues, who threaten
the integrity of tlie Democratic party
in the South, was a proof of individual
weakness. The repudiation of such a
policy by representative men and
newspapers in the South is a proof of
sound publio judgment. The people
are always wiser than the politicians.
The manful way in wliioh the leaders
of opinion among our Southern breth
ren have come to the rescue of sound
finance is a most hopeful and encour
aging sign of the times.”
The prominent physicinns at Bruns-,
wick think the yellow fever there has
about run its course. Well, it ought
to have done so by tills time.
One gratifying thing about the ses
sion of tlie Georgia Legislature begun
on Inst Wednesday is the fact that
there is a limit to it under the new
law. It can only last fifty days.
The time is not far distant, says the
Savannah News, it would seem, when
a woman may aspire to, nnd win if she
has the ability, nny position she
chooses. In San Franoisco Miss Ray
Frank, n young student, is shortly to
be ordained as a rabbi of the Jev^h.
fa'th.
Georgia’s Senators will be divided
when tho unconditional repeal vote is
reached—that is, provided Senator
Gordon, who is now in Georgia, gets
back to Washington before the vote is
taken. Senator Colquitt will vote
agninst, unconditional repeal, and Sen
ator Gordon for it.
Otm devil, says the Hustler of Rome,
was awful busy singing “After the
Ball,” and tlie foreman was a hummin,
“Two Little Girls in Blue Lad,” when
we slipped in and opened our basso
profondo, on “Comrades.” That’s why
a policeman came up and demanded.
four health certificates.
Miss Abbott, of Macon, the “Geor
gia Magnetic Woman,” who recently
returned from Her European tour, is
now playing her Native State. She is
said to out-wonder the famous Lula
Hurst.
riot act to His constables.
When tlie unconditional repeal takes
place it will he difficult to tell which
Senator is which, though it will not be
necessary to tag Yoorhees.
Just
co it res fond ent writes,' “that
about the time lie thinks lie understands
tin* situation at. Washington, he
doesn't.’' ~~TItT slibuid jicml A <-
'""to paper he can get. This
•best solution we know of.
now would have been poor
Brunswick’s busiest, season but for the
terrible epidemic that is raging there.
Her condition is truly pitiful.
Gov. Youthen has evidently started
out to. make the school teachers toe
the mark. And lie is right, too. This
good man hardly ever makes a mis
take.
The farmer with a good plantation
and out of debt, with plenty hog and
hominy on hand, cares very little about
either compromise or unconditional re
peal.
rejoiced in
Brunswick is greatly
that a steamer, drawing twenty and
one-half feet of water, lias crossed her
bar. And it wasn’t even a “tight”
squeeze.
Tne scriptures say that before the
end of time all men shall be of one
mind. Lieut, Totten should view the
political situation of the country and
then write another book.
An exchange says that rubbing a
banana peel 011 tan slices knocks the
dirt clean out. A pedestrian feels the
dirt when the banana peel is accident
ally rubbed 011 the sole of the shoe.—
Augusta Evening News.
A
lx many of tlie Northern cities the
ladies liave^organized societies to boy
cott young men who never carry a girl
to a show. If tlie said girls would boy
cott tlie lints they would not have to
wage war on tlie boys. See?
It will not do for the farmers of tho
country to lose sight -of the fact that
they nre learning a lesson just now
that ought tb prevent their bothering
with cotton another year. As long as
they fool with cotton the staple will be
King only in that they become slaves.
Tiie Georgia Legislature could do
nothing better than to provide for the
quarterly payment of the school teach
ers This is the kind of legislation it
gilt to give attention first. Instead
of that, they are fooling away time on
the cigarette.
That prominent Brunswickian, Hon.' .
J. E. Dart, says iiis appointment as
consul to tlie IVest Indies was a great
surprise to him, as he was not an ap
plicant. An instance, lie says, of
where the office sought the man. Mr.
Dart will accept.