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SATURDAY. JUNK 18, 1901.
Oar trade with Spain la inoreadnf.
The Atlanta New* la the real thing.
Governor MoSweoney evidently haa a
pitchfork, too.
The atate needa more aheriffa Uke
SheriiT Merrill, of Oarroll oonnty.
I The Georgia watermelon' orop will
it only be email bat nntuuelly late.
.
Some people are talklng .to all aerlona*
about a third term for McKinley.
“In the gnat" la the general com*
■*n > with Sonthweat Georgia fahheta.
American jockeys and .Amerloan
bor.i>a are beatind the Engllah right
along. __ xi 1 ‘
The angar and tobaooo trusts are got-
ting all they want from the preaeot ad<
Sawmill Aaaoolatlon will
>e Hotel, Tlfton, at 8:80
p. m. on Jnne llth.
More attention to atook ralaing wonld
thl materiany la lnereaalng the wealth
fSoathweM Georgia. l«“
f, I ""iii ■Il'JI" ! II '*9*1
It ia now a pretty well oonoedod faot
t Penmflrania haa the moat oovrupt
nature in the ponntry.
t Angnata Herald give# thla whole-
eadvloet “If yon are going off fee
.a summer be sure to pay year deble,
> that your creditor* may have a v»>
•V ’cation alto." .. . ■
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The, hog, hominy and hay plan of
farming will win again -tMa year
vlorycrit la girena oltaoco, juataait gre notin tho treats will want tariff re-
it#
to be. in my opinion. In-
it of our determine
and I trnat that wi
aomethlaa.but the proapec
Itlrate II
i haa been preaohlng. on
ie for aevrral yean, as Ita regular
■ venden well know, and we are glad to
id' eooh a practical, substantial and
ptogretalve man aa we understand Dr.
Speooe to be, urging the importance and
nroeealty of giving more, attention to
Agriculture throughout all Southern
Georgia, wbtoh teems to have been de
signed by nature for an egrioultnral
'region.
There la perhaps no (action of conn-
try on the faoe of the earth where the
natural renditions of climate and eoil
are adapted to the anooeaef ul growth of
a greater variety of food products for
both man and beast, and then to noth
ing more evident and certain than that
there ia an Increasing demand for food
stuffs of every kind. Not only la the
demand for the prodnota of the farm
Increasing, bat the market if gradually
ooming oloeer to the farm.
A country's material prosperity is
neonaeriiy dependent upon what It pro-
jiooes, and a country that produces but
Uttle oannot reasonably expect to in-
crease Its wealth. Hen In Southern
Georgia a great variety of marketable
crops can bo produced, and the sooner
mote of our progressiva bnalnesa man
Invert part of their oapital in farm lands
and improved Implements Imd anooeaa
f nl buaineaa motboda an applied to dl
veratfled agrioultun, the aooner will thla
beoome a wealthy (action of oonntry.
For a quarter of a century part the
tendency ha* been to leave the farm.
Tito tide needa now to Be turned back,
and the young men of the oonntry
should be encouraged and Induced in
ivory way passible to engage In agri
culture. Then U wealth la the soil of
thlg aeotioa, sod It la within reaoh of
every man who will seek It In an Indus,
trloua, Intelligent way. As a people
d section our fortune la in the soil,
and,’ aa Dr. Spenoe has to well said,
Vwe must cultivate It or atay poor.*’
What tbe Hxhald regard a aa one of
the mod hopeful signs of the tlmaa
cropped out at the meeting « the Na
tional Association of. Manufacturers at
Detroit last week. This patooiationta
Composed principally of Eastern manu
facturer* and perhaps almoat eaclusively
of’ Republicans. One of the main ob-
jeota of the organisation haa been to
maintain the present protective tariff
1 eyrtem, bnt at the meeting , last week
tpeager after apeaker deolared that the
time had oome for erevision.of the
Dlngley tariff. They boldly deolared
lh»t they now favored tariff reform, and
tome of them went to far aa to aay that
they had no further use for protection
tor thelf manufactures. The indica
tions are that all the mnnof aclnrers w -o
ismm
own race that Would bee
If
POOR PORTO BICANS!
nuojnf tiiemnrtatiaglageanalgnmwita Wefeel aorryfor the Porto Rloana.
Sometow. our ayrepathy goes out to
them more directly and unqualifiedly
than toward the Inhabitants of either of
ids or countries whose re-
the United States have
been affootad by the tesnlta of the war
Spain, They welcomed our army
. It Invaded their oonntry, and
MUefi Issued a proclamation in
which the faueit and most friendly as
surance* were given. This won their
oonfi.lence and raised their hopes for
better things to oome and for the bet
terment of their condition as a people.
Then came President McKinley’s “plain
dnty" speech. Everything locked fair
and even bright for the Porto Ricans
until the Dlngleyltes and the tariff-pro-
tooted treats saw the opportunity and
concelVed the idea of making hewers of
wood and drawers of water of them.
That settled it with tbe Republican
party and the power* that be at Woih
ingtoo, and the Porto Rloana, Instead of
being made beneficiaries of tbe repobii-
oan Institutions of the great oonntry to
whloh they had been transferred as
•poll* of war, were made aobjeota of
taxation witbont representation. They
oannot now help themselves. They
oannot fit back to Spain and are not
allowed to beoome the beneficiaries of
oth»:*
did year, let the prioe of cotton he
Vraubsiji
In tile first year of the twentieth
nry we find one pet'or oult trying to
rose of hell no a inpemtition, while
who have sbbnmnlated much
envy seem to be trying to buy lmmu
tytremit. . gt wfc v -
;
Americans generally join In hoping
at. Sir Thomas Lipton will eaoonntor
i more misfortunes with his now chal-
lender. We all want to see a fair,
square rkoe for the cup this summer,
and may the beat boat win.
Tho last regiment of volunteers has
lett the Philippines for home, and now
the rPKular* are in supremo charge in
the Mauds. They oan hardly make a
hotter showing than have the volnn-
tiers during the past two years..
talon, far they are beginning to realise
ist tt
vial
that tho present tariff la more for the
benefit of a few strong and powerful
monopolies than for tho honest manu
facturers of the oonntry.
of a paper In
article
tiring* «Wt hie own
be considered mean and
renting fioin a white
The Herald haa not
paper, bnt tbe following Is given aa an
extract from It by tho Oolumbna En
quirer-Boo:
“The negro la the only one' of 'God's
creatures who is really ashamed of Mm-
skit; who really wants to be eomethtng
other than he Is; who wants to be
white; who wants to ohange the pecu
liar raotnl contour of his face; who
wants the kinks and ourls out of hi*
wool; who, when by some book or
crook, there ohanoee to be a ralfloient
quantity of Oanoasian blood to bleach
oot Mi oomplexlon, wants to draw the
line and get over into the white man’s
oamp; who, when energy, thrift or
obanoe puts a few extra dollars into his
pookrt, wants to be wMte; who, when
some poor old mother or father has
slaved and iaorifioed to send film to rel
iefs, wants to get away from the rare.
All these and a few more are peculiar
to our rare. With near 10,000,000 peo
ple In thla oonntry who are black, the
opportunity for fakirs to play upon tbe
weakness of the race Is great. With the
growing intelligence of onr people, one
oannot but be eurprised that there
should be so muoh serious demand for
nostruma calculated to do violeno* to
the handiwork of our Greater. What
the rare need* more than the rife nos
trums is soap and water , industriously
applied to the outlole, and energy, in-
telligeooe, honesty and frugality will
make the rare acceptable Onto all na
tion*."
tbe republican institutions of tbe
oonntry to whloh they now belong.
They are need to being subjects. Thty
were encouraged in a laudable ambition
to become oltlsens, bnt there now ap
pear* to be no prospect of that.
We.perhaps have In Albany ae many
farmer! of the 'blase known as “town
The firmness and bravery of 8heriff farmers" as oan be found In any town
Joseph Merrill, of Carroll county, this of equal size In'Gebrgia, and. like all
state, stampeded a mob and prevented a | the regular, tore enough farmers, they
lynching Friday, but not' without have planted ootton—lots of retton.
bloodshed. A negro hanied Wiilla ms' And now they are Wishing they hadn’t,
had been aentenoed to hpng at Qarroll-, The remarkable spring season, with ita
ton yesterday fob the mnrder of a white hailstorms’, floods and cold snaps, has
boy, the ion of Mr. Thomas Word, The Been hard on cotton, and the prospect
superior oourt had refused to grant the of the crop is anything but encouraging
negro a new trial, when the attorneys One of these town farmers was heard
for tho negro filed a bill'of exceptions cursing his luck and wishing he hadn’t
and carried the case to the supreme j planted an acre in cotton yesterday af-
Mart. This angered tome of the peo-Centres, when a friend and bystander
pie, and the result was that a iqot^ioon' who had heard him talk In the
gathered and attaoked the jail with the same strain before commenced to gay
Intention of lynohing the negro. The him and finally told him he wonld go
■herlff was game, however, and after and do-the same thing next spring that
the outer door of the jail had been bat- he had done »hW spring end hal been
tend down he and the posse that he doing for yeare-plant ootton. This
had with Mm fired on . the mob, killing riled the town farmer, and in the frenay
One man, Genirge Beunett, and wouujl- of hie wrath he offered to bat fifty dol
ing two other*, Thomas Smith and an Jo" to tan that he wouldn’t plant a hill
unknown man, presumably a farmer of ootton next year. The bet vras
whoao friend* took him away pa quickly • promptly taken, hut In let* than half a
aa possible! The fire of the sheriff and minute the old love for ootton reasserted
posse surprised the mob *qd put them, itself and the town farmer remmenced
hedging and qualifying his bet by (tip-
Mating that it was not to apply to ten
ants or renters. 1
Jndgiu r from tho perforinauoee of the
Constitution up to date, she is a boat
veil able to defend tho cup against Sir
homus Upton's new Shamrook, even
bongh tbs latter is superior in point of
to any sailing craft in the Old
be administration at Washington
forwarled a communication to Gov*
General Wood at Havana, in
s Cabans arc politely bnt firmly
o understand that they mart ac-
’ att amendment without qnal-
i there oau be any change
I Cuba.
Edward Kimble Is dead. He was
soaroely-known in the Sonth, bnt in tho
North and Bait the announcement of
Ms death mean* much. While he had
never boon ordained Mr. Kimble was
a forceful exhorter and pleader, and
during his life time raised, it is said, at
least $16,000,000 toward tho payment o(
ohnroh debts Un different parts of the
reentry. Through one of his sermons
oamo about tho conversion of Dwight
L. Moody, the great evangelist. His
death oqynrred on Wednesday at tho
home of his Bon, Dr. R. H. Kimblo, in
Chicago.
Chairman Dick, of the Ohio Republi
can committee, after a three hours' con
ference with Senator Hanna and John
R. Molloy, at Cleveland, on Tuesday,
gave oat the annonnoement that in the
Ohio state campaign next fall “Support
the Administration" is to be the battle
cry. Two years ago, it will be remem
bered, It was “Stand by the President.
There is money in beef cattle at
present prices, and they can be raised
and fattened here in Southwest Georgia
as obeaply as In any part of the conn-
tty. A full grown fat beef Is worth
more than a bale cf cotton in tbe market
today, and the rest of producing Mm is
certainly lets.
to flight. Further trouble was feared
and Goyernor Candler was notified.
The Governor at onoe telegraphed a
proclamation to the people of Oarrpli
oonnty, whloh was read frotq the steps
Of the oonrt hoase by }he mayor. The
governor also ordered two mUitarv com
panies from Atlanta to Carrollton, and
last'night the negro was-taken to At
lanta for safe keeping.
In view of tho criticisms that are be
ing madu Of the decision of the Uuited
States Supreme Oourt oh the insular
oases, it would be manifestly unfair not
to praise the ganntne patriotism and
honest judioial spirit shown by J retires
Harlan and Brewer, who, with Chief
Justloe Fuller and Jnstloe Peokhaur,
dissented from tbe opinion of the major
ity in the Downes case. “Whatever
may have been the influence of politics
or of environment npon other jndges,”
remarks the Boston Herald, “Justioee compete with ns,” replied Mr Oaruegie,
Mr. Carnegie tells the Britishers
through the medium of a newt paper in
terview that “the time is coming wh *n
the cohtinehial powera will combine to
■Wash up this little island Of Great Brit
ain and when that happens she will
have to tarn to the United Sates for
help." He expresses a firm belief that
the help sought will not be refused, and
predicts that “we will act just, as Great
Britain did in the Spanish-American
war." The interview is snoh os is cal
culated to give a good deal of satisfac
tion to the average British reader; bat
It t ipers off abruptly i:f this manner:
“Do yon think,” Mr. Carnegie was
asked, “that ^British enterprise can be
stimulated sufficiently to meet Ameri
can competition?" “Oh! They cun't
Harlan and Brewer were distinctly ju-
dioial in the oonrse they took. They
Interpreted the oonstitntion striotly aa
men Booking ita meaning in the light of
tho law, and rose into a region above
politics in so doing. They refused-to
yield their obligation to the law to con
siderations of exDedienoy, any more
than those of political bias. In oharging
the court with deterioration in the char
acter of those composing it, the redeem
ing feature in the oase of these jndges
should uot be forgotten. It was worthy
of the judiciary in its best days."
Wo heard a man who thinks he is a
farmer say the other day he wonld give
five hundred dollars if he hadn’t planted
any cotton ihis seasoa. Bnt he's got
the cotton planting disease and will lie
sick with it again next year.
with a smile. That last rema-.k is uot
oalonlated to add anything to the
Briton's peace of mind. American com
petition is a spectre that already haunt's
his dreams, and he knows fall woll tlial
Mr. Carnegie's smiling remark is baoked
np by stern fact.
The production of Romeo and Joliet
by Sarah Bernhardt and Maude Ad»m«
will be one of the greatest events in the
history of, the modern stage. Suoh a
combination Is rqrely effected.
The news from Sonth Africa is still
under British censorship. Iu spito of it
wo occasionally hear of a Boer victory.
There may be others that wo do not
hear of. Anyhow, there is something
mysterious about'the protraction of hos
tilities after snoh freqnent assurance
that the war is over. The best the British
officers seem to be able to do is to hold
the telegraph lines and edit the dis-
patches.
The dime novel has olaimea three
more viotiins. An Ohio ’boy, sixteen
yearn old, became insane from reading
this Mood-and-thnnder class of liters-
take, and after murdering his Bister and
brother, shot himself through 4he tem
ple.
WHO ARE VAGRANTS!
Members of the iporffrigfratornitytir
Savannah having beoome indignant
over the. term '.‘vagrant!’-ured-by-ib*
city attorney In alluding.to them a few
dayi ago, tbe SarannabSl*r4a£appeals^
the code of the state for'* WfinttUm of
the term, and print* tbe following:
1.1 Persons wandering .or strolling oontidi
about lit lllenesa who are able to #n l
and hare no property to support tifeifi. . .
>. Persons leading an idle, Immoral, 0
or profligate life who have no property
to support them, and who nre able to
and wjio do pot work.
8. All persons able to work bavini
no property to support them, and whi
have not some visible and known mean*
of a fair, honest, and respectable
hood. (, Thefourtepothamendment to theren-
abree wlnl stitntion. indeei
4. Persons having a fixed
have no visible property to support them,
and who ^ive by stealing or by trading,
iq bartering for or baying stolen prop
erty.
A. Professional gamblers living in
idleness.
The Hylmnis Telephone a.kt a question
wMehhns often occurred toothers. "Why the
oonntry weeklies should lie anrnku nights and
worry nbont Atlanta's new depot—Mavannsh
Press.
The answer is simple. The editors of
the oonntry weeklies read the Aclaata
papers. When Atlanta gets her new
depot, the said Atlanta papers will have
no old mod-shack at whioh to throw
cartoons and slugged editorials. Then
the country editors will not be daily
wted with reviews of the depot situa
tion in the oolomns of Atlanta's three
big daili.ee.
Golden B. Dunton, yard ronduotor of
the Southern railroad at Atlanta, who
was arrested immediately after the ter-
rlble disaster whioh resulted in the
death of three persons and the injory of
a number others on last Tuesday, Isrba-
tng vigorously prosecuted for murder.
It seems that he started the switoh en
gine whioh orashed into the passenger
train and was unable to stop it. His
defense is that the engine failed to re
spoud to the reverse movement of the
lever. , ■
The New Ymk Times has probably
hit aped the real difference between the
rentiuental and insular territory of tbe
Udited States under the rnllng of the
Supreme Oonrt. For example: New
Mexton and Arizona are Territories with
a oapital T. Porto Rtoo and tijie Philip
pines aye unorganized territory without
the capital T.
Tho latent definition of a Democrat neem* to
be a folio .v who in not a Republican — AugUMtn
Ohroniele.
Well, it mutters not what he olAlms
to be, if he votes the Democratic ticket
he is a better Democrat than the fellow
Who olaims to be t better Democrat
than the majority of his party and yet
fails to vote for the party nominees.
Neither the bicyole, the automobile
nor any other horseless wheeled vehiole
is likely to displace that noble anlinali
the horse. In New ifo»*k city the other
day eighty-seven carriage horses were
sold for an average of over |l,obo each.
is very much like the blossom
ing ot a flower. Its beauty nnd
perfection depends entirely
upon the care bestowed upon
its parent. Expectant mothers
should have the tenderest care.
They should be spared all worry
and anxiety. They should eat
plenty of good nourishing food
and take gentle exercises. This
will go a long way toward preserv
ing their health and-their beauty,
as well as that of the little one to
come. But to be absolutely sure
of a short and painless labor they
should use
Soother's
FHesieS
regularly during the months of gest*-
tion. This is n simple liniment, which
is to be applied externally. It give*
strength and vigor to the maRcles nnd
prevents all of tho discomforts of preg
nancy, which women used to think
were absolutely necessary. When
Mother’s Friend is used there is no
danger whatever.
Uet Mother's Friend »t the drug
store, 91 per bottle.
THE BRADFIELD REGULATOR CO.
ATLANTA, OA.
Writ* for onr frrt book," Bator* Baby la Born."
Intendin
'tosssi®
teed S? 1 ?, EY" 1110 * ner
I Itarium,
INTO SEN WATERS.
• ■ WBW'fWWIWBr tBITnew~wa«M;
and all sorts of exigencies are arillng.
Herewi* isLltexuUurat SHffa WyHay
the iSBning gf passports to
tile oath’ of
thing, seemingly
of Uttle significance until it has been
I, ‘ in an (is bearings’, may have- (
ipg on the settlement
the status of the annexed islands If
the question tbslj hereafter be brought
into oourt. In*smuoh as United State*
passports are issuable only to eitUaas. •
the npesqsapr doduotion from the Secre
tary’s rtuing wonld be that the Filipinos-
Slid dtber annexed Islanders are eitisens. -
stitntion, indeed, seems to leave no room
for doubt on the sobjeot.
The Chattanooga Times wauts to
knWwhy the Associated Press send*
out Mr. Biyan’s views on publio ques
tions. and the f Raleigh News and Ob
server makes answer: “For the reason,
buddy, that six million people want to
know what the great Nebraskan's view*
are. Isn't that reason enongh f"
Ilf; L i j.. r
Farmers who intend to contest for the
$100 premium for the best exhibit ot the
prodnota of. one farm at the hay day
oarmval and street fair in Noveml Br
and there should be a number of them—
should begin in time and save good.
•tieoimeBs of everytMng grown on the
farm. . r,...' /
“Killing Themselves Killing Grass.”
From the Moultrie Observer.
The above formed tbe basis for a
strong hay editorial in a recent issue of
the Albanr Hkbald.’ The Herald said
in substance that onr farmers are wear-
ingout themselves and* their stock kill
ing grass, trying to make ootton, white
thejt might'fish and let the grass grow;
prpvlded they made hay ot it at tho
proper.time, the profits therefrom would
exceed what they realize upon their
retton oropt;
There can be little donbt that the
profit frbih hiy rtlsiilg is greater than
thatgaluM from 'making ootton.’ Our
farmrtz who-har-tried it, will say as
muoh. ..The native grasses.come up and
*3*1 Ww-whtfw to.
about all that has to be done. There to
a cash market—unlimited—for hay.
There tt’ia good heme market-for ie bore
at Moultrie, and throughout the county.
If there was qo market at all, l»/would
belwofth whi^eto ralsenf n< ?| 1 b*jr fpr
on the farm. Many farmers' ate-
baylfigat thls time, feed for their stock, ‘
try! ng to' make a record breaking orop of
retton. A few aores in hay wonld not
r w|:u. dirret.ropely. YJp would love to
ses a bajr oampefafR started In. tWa
county, tor the county '• sake. ,
-ji
Dosing HI* Support.
From tho.Ix* Aosolcs Tim.-s. •• i
A Methodist'ml Ulster at Ohurobville, .
N. y„ has taken, an awful fall from
grace. Re climbed up *u apple tree,.. .
sa~od pff the limb he sat on t andrtnm-
bled sixteen feet. ■ .< ■ ■
' AecltmAted. /
From the Denvor Republican.
Thtk to the'semon when' the Wiflster
whobeeks recreation Is reminded of tho : /,Y '
faot .that hto Batanio opponent never
quits work on account of the heat. >.
FOR SALE
Owing to increase In
plant, we desire to sell
three Hdrlatonta! tubular
boilers, suitable for burn
ing V^obd or coMjjJirrieh-
sions as follffws : Two 60-
inch diameter, 1a ft. long,
with 84 three'inch tubes,
rated at 70-horse power
each. One 42-inch diam
eter, 12 feet long, with 40
three inch tubes, rated at
40-horse power. We also
desire to sell the following
slide-valve engines: One
made by Taylor Mfg. Co.,
rated at 125 horse-power;
one made by T. M. Tagle,
rated at 30-horse power.
All of the above in good
condition, and can bf» seen
at our factory, Albany, Ga.
VIRGINIA-CAROLINA
CHEMICAL CO
FOR SALE.
Bargains la Household and Kltcbco Furni
ture.
auer lor note our nonsenoia and kitchen ni
fc. p ^tJSW.t or u ,t°5SSIu&>
lreuorer.B“H.^£
w;g.
*cor-
xig*wh4tvfc'offer' 1
A. C. Pi.onskt.
Ga., May 23-
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