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SATURDAY. 8KPT. 7. 11)01.
Atlanta had a grcat|Lubor Day dem
onstration.
Thu end of the eteel atrlke appear, to
belli Bight.
Thl. la flue weather for aavlng hay,
Ur. Farmer.
The indication, point to high prioed
corn next spring.
Now the Labor Union haa tamed on
President HliatTer.
Today ia Proaident'a dayfat the Pan-
Amerloaii Kxpoattiou.
We are now having [ideal September
weather in theae;parts.
The Now York hoteln don't oare to
entertain Mra, Carrie Nation.
Tin) female, greatly ontnnmbor the
luulett in Greater New York.
Oar trado with Spain haa increased
■ince wo had that little scrap.
Now that we have found him out, the
nio.ilalto la the worst of all tlio peats.
Now a new Paris [professor ohargea
the mosqnlto with dlatribntlng leprosy.
It ia now ovldent“that the Amalga.
math1 labor strike ia|golng to be a fall.
ure.
Fool friends are already 'beginning to
-trouble tome of the gnberuatoiial can
didates.
Thera are ninety teachers from Geor
gia at the University of Ohloago's aum-
liter aohool.
Tlie farmers of »Tronp oonnty have
held a meeting and deolared for ten
cent, cotton.
The hay crop in Sonthwest Georgia
lias been made, mid the time for saving
it is at hand.
It haa been otlieially decided In Hono
lulu that all Chinese born in Hawaii are
A uicrtcnu citizens.
• riRK-EATlSG StOKLIS.
Gen. Dan E. 8iokle* 1. one of the Yan
kee soldier, and politician, who hare
continued to fan the dying ember, of
Motionali.m ever since the war. He ii
a conspicuous type of the Yankee sol-
dier who reenrreot. the miserable ghost
of the “War of SesMSiou" on every pos-
dble occasion and play, the game of
poUtlca for more pen lion money from
the government trearory. Nobody in
the Southern armies ever smelt any of
hia'powder or eaw his sword flash in bat
tle, but he is supposed to have been in
the Union army and li now aspiring to
the position of oommander-ln-ohief of
theG. A. R.
Sickles', ohief mission in life now ap
pears to be to get more pensions for the
Union soldiers, and in hit labors on this
line he has not found Pension Commis
sioner Evans the pliant tool that he
wonld like to have in that position
Commissioner Evans has incurred the
animosity of Siokles, the pension grab,
her, and the controversy between the
two hae been growing warm ever eince
the last presidential election, Siokles
claiming that the Repoblioan party ma
chine promised daring the campaign to
have Evans removed.
It will be a matter of some surprise to
Southern people to learn that this same
Gen. Blcklee was himself a rampant
secessionist in 1800. In the national
honse of representatives, on Dea. 10,
18110, he made a red-hot speech tn whloh
he favored aeoeasion as the “last alterna
tive of a froo etate when it lias toohoose
between liberty and injustice,” and the
friends of Pension Commissioner Evans
have resnrreoted this apeeoh and are
now nslng It in the Bioklee-Evans con
troversy.
A portion of the apeeoh Is as follows:
“I look upon secession as the last
alternative of a free state when it has to
ohoose between liberty and injnstioe.
In onr federal system the reoognleed
right of aeoeasion is a conservative safe
guard. It lathe highest constitutional
and moral guarantee against injuattoe
and therefore if it had been always and
universally acknowledged os a rightful
remedy it would have contributed more
than all else to perpatuate the nnion by
oompoUing the observance of all their
obligations on the part of all the states.
The opposite dogma winch is so ex
tensively believed in the north that no
matter what wrong a state may have to
endnre it may and onght to be com
pelled by toroo to remain lu the union
even as a conquered dependency, is a
most dangerous error lu onr system of
government and has contribnted largely
to the existing anarohy."
Promoters of the Third Party confer
ence, to be hold in Kansas Olty two
weeks honoe, having stated that William
J. Bryan was in sympathy with the
movement, lie was asked at Kansas
Oity yesterday concerning his attitude
in the matter.“Ho replied: “1 know
nothing aboat the Third Party
movement in Missouri, exoept what
I have seen in the pnpers.
If the third) party is intended to tn-
flaenoe|Mleaoari [politics, 1 do not Bee
that it is needed, (or the Democracy
has shown no inclination to abandon
Demooratio principles, and, while tho
party adheres to Demooratio principles,
as set forth in the Kansas Oity plat
form, newfparties arc not needed to an-
eompllsh reforms. Mr. (Cleveland's
administration drove tunny Democrats
into a third party movement, but I am
not williug|to believe thut the Cleveland
element oan again obtain control of the
Domocratio(party.' ’
Careless roadiug ia a common fault
with too many of the newspaper para
graphers of the day.
General McArthur doesn’t think tho
Filipinos will over oomo to the United
Stales. Glad to hear it!
Prince Chun lias performed ids act of
humiliation before his royal highness,
the Kaiser of Gennnnv.
It is now being predicted that corn
will he worth anywhere from $1.00 to
$1.60 per bushel next spring.
The corn crop of tho country is esti
mated to be flTfl.Ooo.ooo bushels short.
Corn will be corn next spring.
A prohibition oatupaign with Sam
.Tones and Sam Small both stamping the
state would bo equal to a plague.
The Augusta Hkrald complains that
the gubernatorial campaign is insipid.
Well, it hasn’t had time to mature.
Fruit that is pulled before it is ripe is
not only bound to be insipid, but is apt
to be unpalatable as well.
Before Hon. O. B. Stevens took oharge
of tho oflloe of Oommtssloneer of Agri-
onltnrc there was talk of nnolishing it.
We hear no anoh talk now. The depart
ment has grown in popular favor and
the farmers of the state feel more inter
est in it nnd nre deriving more bonefit
from It than [over before. Instead of
talking nbont abolishing the department
the pooplo arc now demanding an en
largement of its scope and the legislature
will be asked to establish an experiment
station in South Georgia. The people
ohoso well when they elected Mr.
Stevens Commissioner of Agriculture.
Boosuso Admiral Watson reoently ex
pressed himself (very emphatically with
reference to those in the naval service
who were trying to give color to the im
plied charge of oowardioe against Ad
miral Schley,(Admiral Sampson’s fam
ily ha- "nut" the family of Admiral
Watson and there is s feud on in the
naval social society in Washington.
And now it i s annonnoed that Sam
Small is coming back to Georgia to
stump the state in the gubernatorial 1
campaign. Mercy! (
A GOOD IDEA—BUT—.
The Savannah News, nnder the cap
tion, ''Village Doctors' Opportunities,"
hat a timely editorial, tn whloh it
makes tonne good suggestions. The
News says:
"Outside of the cities and larger
towns hospitals amt infirmaries are
unknown. If a person without family,
or a stranger, is taken eiok or meets
with an aooident in the oountry village,
he or she is apt to suffer and perhaps
die for want of prompt and proper at
tention from doctor and nurse, because
of the lack of facilities. Ia most oases
euoh unfortunate persons ure not
wanted by the residents in theit homes.
Oat of humanity they may be tolerated,
bat hey are nbt oared for. Indeed, It is
but natural that the residents should
object to the burden of taking in the
•ick or wounded, in whom they have
no Interest save that of humanity.
"In this age of progress it seems there
should be a remedy for this condition
of affairs; and the village practitioner
ia the man to start the reform move
ment. There is probably not a country
doctor with the elements of success in
him who would And it difllonlt to fit np
two or three rooms as an adjunct to his
oflloe, for hospital purposes The rooms
would need (only to be olean and prop
erly ventilated, and the furniture might
be very plain. When a trained nurse
was not available, one or more of those
good, motherly sonls that are to be
found in every neighborhood conld be
availed of as nurses. They are always
ready and willing in the oanse of suf
fering.
"Saoh a village hospital wonld be in
expensive, and a veritable boon and
henefaotlon in case of need. In the
erection and maintenance of such an
Institution the [village doctor wonld be
oombtning business and philanthropy.
He would (provide a haven of refuge
for the siok and injured, and at tho
same time enlarge his experience, In
fluence and bank account. The old
prejndioe against going to a hospital is
i fast dying ontjin the rami districts, and
I when the near-by residents learned that
the dootor hod fixed np a neat place
where patients would bo under his oye
and where|nursltig of the proper sort
was to bo had, they wonld avail them
selves of the advantages of the village
hospital when in need of the doctor's
oare.
"It ia not suggested that these should
be oharitable institutions, bat that pa
tients should pay for their accotiinioda-
tions and the[servioes of the physiolans
Many a country dootor who is now
struggling to mako a living, by tho adop
tion of this idea, whioh could be put in
operation for a small outlay, might soon
find his prootice (profitable. Such an
enterprising dootor wonld draw patients
within the oircle of a day's journey
around lus office, and would prove him
self a good Samaritan to the traveler
who ohanoedjupou ill-health or accident,
in tho community.”
The suggestion advanced In the fore
going is certainly a good one, and
the plan outlined by onr esteemed Sa
vannah contemporary for having village
dootors establish; small hospitals seems
outiroly practicable.* Bnt there is one
great dlftloulty in the way, and that is
that sach hospitals could not be made to
pay the expense ofjmntnlalning them.
The writer is just np from a ton duys'
confinement incident to a surgical oper
ation, and daring the frequent.visits
that ho had from two good physicians
he discussed this hospital question with
them. He suggested that a hospital or
a sanitarium with au operating room
and all modern conveniences for taking
oare of the sick and those who have to
Bubmit to snrgioal operations was vory
much noedud in Albany, and expressed
the opinion,that such an establishment
would not |ouly be a boon to huinanity
in this city and section, but thut It
would he profitable to the physicians in
oharge as well.
"We have been thinking about some
thing of the kind, and would like very
much to undertake it," replied one of
our dootors, after (hearing us through,
“but wo are afraid from what experi
ence wo have had that it wonld not
pay." He then went on to enumerate
one ease after another and his experi
ence witli them, going to show that per
sons who had oomo boro from neighbor
ing towns and villages to ha/e surgioal
operations performed were unwilling to
remain until convalescent and pay for
proper nursing nud attention. Ho also
said that the experiment of keeping a
oompoteut and experienced nurse here
had proved a failure—that even those
who were able to pay for such attention
were unwilling to do so, preferring to
impose such duties upon their families
and friends.
Every town the size of Albany onght
to have a hospital or first-class sanita
rium, and we believe that the time is
not far distant when snch establish
ments will be maintaiued in every town
or village of any size or importance, but
our dootors say the people are not ready
for them yet aud that such institutions
oan now. be maintained only in the
larger oities.
THE FIGHT 18 OS.
It it now very evident that we are to
have a olean-out well defined prohibi
tion fight tn Georgia next year. Indeed,
the prohibitionists are already lining op
for It, and the fight will be made in the
Demooratio primaries.
Hon Dupont Gnerry having been the
filHt gubernatorial candidate to make an
unqualified declaration in favor of state
prohibition, and to enterthe race subjeot
to the Demooratio primaries, It seems a
foregone conclusion that the prohibi
tionists will take him for their candi
date. Mr. Guerr; has already entered
upou an active canvass and has folly
verified the prediction made by the
Heralii when his candidaoy was first
announced—that he would prove an ag
gressive campaigner and hard fighter.
The Herald candidly confesses that
it dreads this prohibition campaign. It
is not the result, so far as the sale of
liquor is concerned, bat the strife and
bitterness that theoampalgn will engen
der, that we dread. It arouses two
olasses of fauatlos in the community
and arrays them against each other—the
one who believes that his business or his
individual liberty, as the case may be,
is betng interfered with, and the other
a sort of moral or religions Pharisee who
feels that he Is oalled'npon to reform the
world and believes that it can be dono
by legislation. Neither oan be reasoned
With, and between the two there is no
middle ground—no peace, no reHt for
the conservative citizen, whether he be
plons and temperate or not
The danger from Inoculation by the
mosquito is thns discussed by the Savaa
nah Press: "Experiments in the inocu
lation of deadly diseases through the
agency of mosqnltoes are certain to be
permanently discontinued by the an
nonucement from Havana that men who
have offered theniBclves as subjects have
died of yellow fever after being bitten
by mosquitoes infected with fever.
While these fatal results may not. be
conclusive as to the scattering of dis
ease germs by the pest, which Inis un
til recently dealt only with mularin,
it onunot fail to give to tho anuoying
insect n new terror. If yellow fever
and malaria can be transmitted to the
hninan system by this means who can
sot a limit to the deadly work ot which
the mosqnito may he oapable? At this
i rate wo may have to regard these mul
titudinous Insects,ns more dangerous
I than poisonous snakes. In any case the
I Havana experiments nre hound to give
fresh impetttH to the war of extermina
tion against the mosquito whioh hns
been going on in various parts of the
world, inspired hitherto mainly by a
desire to get rid of a nuisance."
WHAT AMERICANS DIE OF.
The mortality statistics compiled by
authority of the general government
have been commented on at length in
the pnblto prints, says the Memphis
Scimitar, the commentators in most
cases direoting their attention chiefly
to the marked reduction in the death
rate shown for the ten years ending
with 1801), as compared with the decade
ending with 1880.
The New York World, on the other
hand, has taken for its theme the com
parative mortality from the various all-
men's, The paper points out that ac
cording to the statistics refereed to, pneu
monia Is now the most fatal of Ameri
can diseases, 101 0 per 100,000 of all
deaths being attributed to it. Consump
tion Is a close second, with 100.6
in every 100,000 deaths oredlted to
it. Heart disease stands third on
the list of our deadly enemies, with
a record of 184 in every 100,000
deaths. After these three lead
ers the census reports name twelve other
prlnolpal causes of death, and in the
order of their Importance they are as
follows: Diarrheal diseases, kidney dis
ease, apoplexy, oanoer. old ago, bron
chitis, cholera infantum, debility, lm-
flamtr.atlou of the brain and meningitis,
diphtheria, typhoid, premature birth.
Fifty-fonr in every 100,000 deaths in
the entire country are due to old age.
The deaths from consumption have de
creased 641)0 per cent, since 1800, in
whioh year it was set down as the most
fatal of all the diseases that American
flesh is heir to.
A staff correspondent of a Boston
paper who was sent to Lake Suimpee,
N. H., to investigate the trim condition
of Admiral Sampson's huilth, wires
that he has improved physically, bat is
a mental wreck. It is stated in .Boston
that ho is suffering (torn aphasia, a com
plete recovery from which i? doubtful
when the patient is advauoed in years
The Boston correspondent says: "Often
when he attempts to talk he exhibits a
forgetfulness which is pitiable. Thus
the correspondent says that when he
was asked within au hour after his ar
rival at Sunapee how long he l ad been
at the hotel, ho looked vacautly around
and finally implied 'I do not know.'
His questioner, totally unaware o' the
Admiral’s affliction, repeated the in-
quiry several times until nt lust Mrs.
Sampson had to answer and then lead
her husband away.”
Albany wants to be friendly with tlie
mil roods centering here nnd tlie most
amicable relations have been maintained
with them for a number of years past
without complniut or recourse to tlie
Railroad Commission of the state, bnt
this pod business and tlie restrictions
which the roads now propose to fasten
upon the town and its business is a lit
tie more than onr business men feel
that they can staud.
Let other Georgia towns or oities that
are planning for carnivals and fairs tills
fall keep the dates of the Southwest
Georgia Hay Day Carnival and Street
Fair of Albany in mind. Our dates,
November 1W, 20 and 21, were fixed and
onr premium list published 111 advanoe
of any other carnival or fair to o-cur in
the state this year, and they will not be
changed.
The Worth Laoal antiounoes that Hon.
Dupont Gnerry, candidate for gnvornor,
will address the citizens of Worth in the
court honsj at Isabella at 1:30 o'clock
on Thursday, September 19th, immedi
ately after the called meeting of the
Worth County Temperance Association
which convenes at ID:80 o’clock.
TRADE WITH THE PHILIPPINES.
The contention that we wonld get
book from the Philippines, through an
immense and profitable trade with those
islands, all the money they have cost
ns. Is not being verified.
For some reason, the Filipinos, like
the Cubans, seem to prefer to bny from
somebody else or some other oountry
than the United States.
Of the total importations into the
Philippinee of goods valued at $18,000,000
for the seven months ended January 81
last, Europe furnished $0,000,000, or one-
half ; Asia more than $7,000,000, and
United States less than $1,600,000. The
currents of established trade oannot be
easily deflected; but it must be admitted
that if we were furnishing all the ex
ports to the Philippines, instead of the
beggarly fraotion shown by these fig
ures, the islands wonld still proven
very bad bargain as a commercial in
vestment. As it i.t, w.) seem to have
acquired a very costly and unprofitable
piece of real estate.
An effort is to be made to introduce
the Egyptian ootton Into tho Sonth.and,
it successful, if tho soil of the South
wifi produce the fibre that is prodnoed
in the Valley of the Nile, a new source
of wealth will be added to our seotion.
Egyptian ootton possesses a fibre
claimed to be superior in certain re
spects, specially for a certain class ot
fine goods, to oar Soothern produot, it
being of a length between Sea Island
and upland cotton, and of a textnre im
parting a silky gloss to goods. It sells
in the markets of the world readily from
4 to t) cents per ponnd more than South
ern middltug. Several of the larger
Southern mills now import and nse
Egyptian ootton exclusively.
According to Mr. O. M. Houser, of
Fort Volley, the peach growers of Hous
ton county made money this year. He
says that more than 800 oars went from
Houston oonnty, and that more money
was made on peaches this year than
ever before. The Hale Georgia Oroliard
Company netted. It is estimated, some
where about $75,000, the Albeaugh Fruit
Company $60,000, and J. D. Henrickson
$30,000. Mr. W. O. Wright, who is the
largest individual fruit grower there,
netted $15,000 or $20,000. While smaller
growers made good money,
And so the Democrats of Ohio, after
all, ure to oall on Wm. ,T. Bryan for
help in the pending campaign. It was
annonnoed by Chairman Duuglitery, of
the Democratic State Committee nt Co
Inmbus yesterday, that Mr. Bryan
wonld he invited to participate "In the
Ohio campaign this fall.
We have not seen the statement, but,
according to the Savannah Press, Gen
eral Fitzhngh Leo now makes the start
ling statement that the Spaniards had
no hand in tlie blowing up of the Maine.
If he had suicl as much in Washington
three years ago things might: have been
different.
The Daily Now3 chapel won the prize
offered by tlie Atlanta Typographical
Union for tlie best appearing body of
men from its membership taking part
in tlie Libor Dav parade. Tlie Nows is
up-to-date in every department.
Another negro was lynched in Ala
bama yesterday for the same old crime.
His victim was a lO-year old school girl,
Miss Wilson, who was on her way to
school at Chestnut Grove in Cotl'oe
county.
It is announced that tho docket of the
supreme court of Georgia for the Octo
ber term will be the lnrgest in the his
tory of tlie court. Although return day
ia some two weeks off yet, 432 cases have
been filed with tlie clerk since tlie ad
journment in July, the largest number
ever tiled at this time of the year.
A magazine writer is trying to re-
open the question of what we shall do
with onr ex-presidents. There is hut
ono exprcsideni now living, and If those
who cciue after do as well while in
oflloe as he did they will be able to live
on Easy street and take care of them
selves.
We don’t get the truth from .South
Africa. All the news that conies from
the British-Boer war is censored by the
war office in London before it is made
public. And yet the fact ;hnt the Boers
are still formidable cannot he concealed.
The gubernatorial candidate who ex
pects to win will have to come to the
Hay Day Carnival nnd Street Fair at
Albany in November and look pleasant
when the boy» aud girls throw confetti
in Ms face.
Venezuela seems re know what she is
mad with Colombia about, and has
Hawkins',file is suffering from nil
epidemic of scarlet fever, and tlie mayor curtly replied to tlie offer of the United
States to extend its kindly ofiices ns a
has issued a proclamation prohibiting
all public gatherings of any nature
whntover until the disease is stamped
out,.
There is seemingly something between
the Macon Telegraph aud the Atlanta
Constitution, but. it is hard to tell what
it is from the editorial sparring indulged
in by the two pnpers.
The constitutional convention of Ala
bama completed its labors yesterday aud
the new constitution was adopted in
convention by a vote of 132 to 12. Only
one Democrat voted against it. The
people of the state will now vote upon
Its ratification.
If the railroads can form and main
tain a pool at Albany or elsewhere in the
Btate, what nse have the people of the
state for a Railroad Commission'! This
is a question which the business men of
Albany are now going to present to the
Railroad Commission at an early date.
that no interference is
peacemaker
wanted.
Now General DeWet has issued a
proclamation, and in it he gives notice
that he will shoot all British troops
found in Orange River colony after
September 15.
The Augusta Chronicle remarks that
“if the cotton crop were as long as the
corn crop is short there wonld be no
living in the same continent with it.
The members of the Georgia Protec
tive Association have resolved to hold
their cotton for ten cents. We hope
they will get it.
If that Matanzas mule could testify,
he wonld make a star witness for Ad
miral Sampson before the Schley coart
of inquiry.
Wm. J. Bryan Is still the most popu
lar man in the country. No other man
has such a hold upon the common peo
ple.
The fact that free silver is dead as an
issue today cannot be nsed to justify
those who deserted the Democratic plat
form anti failed to vote the party ticket
in 1891).
The Atlanta Journal’s continued
sneers at Hon. Joe Hall, of Bibb, are
not in good taste aud are not relished by
some of the friends of that paper.
Oil continnes to gnsh aronnd Beau
mont. Forty-four gushers have been
completed, and the daily shipments
now reach eighty-five cars.
The Dothan (Ala.) Siftings says:
“Cotton will soon be as thick on our
streets as candidates for governor in
Georgia."
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