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8TBEET FAIRS AND CARNIVALS.
Two of oiur valued Moth exchange*,
the Savannah New. au4 the Dawson
New., came to hand Wednesday with
editorials on the tobjeot of sweet tain
and oarnivals. For two or three years
post street fain and oarnivals of one
sort or another have hod quite o ran,
and nearly all the more progressive
towns hove bod them.
Bnt it now seems that street Mn and
oarnivals of the kind we bare heed hav
ing hove hod their Amy. In some plaoes
the thing bos been overdone, and In
otben aggregations wtfeout merit have
humbugged the people. The result le
that very little, it uqy, enoonragemehf
will be given to the promoters of snob
enftaprlies in Georgia next year. Some
thing new and entirely different from
the street fairs and oarnivals that we
have been having will k£ve to be intro
duced to nttradl great orowdl. of people.
The Savannah News treats the eubjeot
os follows:
II
you see
it’s so.
it in the Herald
11 you advertise in the Herald
it goes.
St.TPi-.-.■ ' —
SATURDAY. DEO. 31, 1001 \
It la time for old Santa Clans to be
-•‘doing about."
The weather oven keeps the Weather
.Bnrean gueselug.
■*o
To be on the safe elde we lmd as well
bo prepared lot any sort of weather.
' The Charleston exposition rnnst be all
•right. Everybody speaks well of it.
The" Soliley vurdlot Is a draw, but the
country Is with the hero of Santiago.
Wo hope tliut Fitzgerald's Indian
Stunmor Oarnival has not been frozen
Out. ___
■ The Republican Idea of following the
fiug seems to bo to lmposo the protective
tariff.
Senator Foraker seems to bn playing
.. for a front seat on.the Roosevelt band
wagon. '
Senator Foraker, of Ohio, Is reported
rto have already declared for Roosevelt
in 1004. '
The Boston Herald regurde Hon. A.
■ O Bacon as tho ablest man in the
• United Slates Senate.
It Is only a question of time when
Santa Clans will abandon the reindeer
. sleigh tor the automobile.
The Angnsta Herald saggests that
•Representative tirpss should move to
.Atlanta now and run for mayor.
pwa
Some of tho newspapers In Ohio are
j 'trying mighty hard to get up a row
.tween Senators Hanna and Foraker.
The Bainbrldgo Searchlight promises
•its readers not to take any more patout
medicine advertisements of the broader"
Mud.
Arthur P. Gorman, of Marylaud,
seems to bo the favorite now for tho
Domoorntio presidential nomination lu
I SOI.
We haven’t seen a word in the news'
inpcrs frem the Fitzgerald Indian Sum
Carnival that was Bohedaled for
this week.
We are having soino real winter
Weather down here in Southwest Goor-
Vgin, but wo have escaped anything like
n blizzard.
The Augusta Ohrohicle says that the
dispensary thnt sells it by tho half pint
is closer than Ifirst cousin to tho every
day barroom.
m
T?ho Houston Post brags that they
mover shovel snow th*re, whereupon tho
Savauuah Press observes that Hades has
the same virtue-
Now some doubt is expressed about
Farmer .Tim Smith, of Oglethorpe,
snaking the race for tho governorship.
It will perhaps be just'as well for him
if he doesn’t. *
v The Augusta papers aro bctfi booming
;thra Sunday editions. Eaoh devotes
considerable space in its Saturday
kiltiou to telling wliat its Snnday
tdition is goiug to be, nud then on Mon
day each tells a lot about what its Sun
day edition was.
No "street fairs," "ngdways" or sim
ilar doubtful .exhibitions, we believe,
are at present "doing" the towns, and
incidentally "doing-*' the people, of
Georgia. It is therefore a good time to
say a word abnat saoln shows, since ad
verse oritloism will t|S work any injury
to the interests of Mi win persons through
whose misguided efforts the "street
fair" oonoerps hn've heretofore been
brought! Into the state and set op in bns-
lncss. In a vory great many Insftmoea
these oateh-penny shows hsvo been
operated in the nnme nr some oharlty;
bnt it Is mighty lttrio qint oharlty has
over got oat of them.
For a number of years, ont of defer-
onoa to local iqflueuooa brought to bear
In tli«lr behalf, Owe "strsot fall*"
bare boon permitted by a nnmber of
Georgia manlalpalltlos to oeoupy porks,
streets and othor public plaoes for the
purpose of giving their exhibitions,
without taxation or other oity foe.
And in by far the greatest nnmber of
Instances, the result of tho exhibitions
buH been lnjnry to legitimate business
nud the demoralization of certain classes
of the people. It ti probably safe to
say that no municipality in the state
has aVer received from uu exhibition of
tho olassjj-ferrod tb anythin? like ade
quate compensation tor the privileges
and exemptions conferred on tho show.
As a matter of fuot. tho largor retnrns
received from tlio shawB lxivo beon in
trouble to the local manngers and the
polioe.
As a rule, tho shows are fraudulent;
that is, they are not what they are rep
resented to be. The advertising matter
and the "spellers" lead prospective visi
tors to behove that the exhibition in tho
tout Is to ho something sparkling and
magnificent; bnt onoe inside, the show
is found to be sloppv ami worthless, and
in some instances vile. There are prob
ably erceptions t.u tho rule, bnt they nre
few and far between. Most of'them, la
eo far as merit is oouoorned, ought really
to pay peoplo to Ben thorn, instead of
charging an admission feo.
While these poor and fraudulent
shows havo boon given police promotion,
exemption from taxation, and the like,
at 'lie expense of the people, the really
legitimate shows, suoli as John Robin
son's, Buffalo Bill's, Gentry's and others
have been made to pay heavy privllego
taxes. There Is neither fuirness, justice
nor oommon sense In discriminating
against tho good shows and in favor of
thu bud. It is about time that the peo
ple of tho oitlos and towns of Georgia
made an end to the granting of free
privileges to fake sIiOwb. Instead of
being onoouraged to oome Into tho state,
they should be so heavily taxed that
they would keep ont.
Dawson rooently had its first street
fair, and we nudorstood rom the Daw-
sou News of last week that it was a sue-
oess, but our neighbor is now nailing for
"another kind of fair." It sayB:
While the thousaods who viewed the
attractions of Dawson’s street fair en
joyed It, tho oarHival does not belong to
that clues of shows whloh will do Daw-
sou and Terrell oounty t.he most good.
Somethin,' which would demonstrate to
advantage tho many anil varied products
of the oounty would be fai more bene-
dotal.
Why oonldu't the oity aud oounty
have something of this kind lu Dawson
next, fall? An exhibit of the ngrionl-
tural prod nets and live stock of Terrell
oounty would undoubtedly possess num
erous advantageous features, not the
least of which would bo the healthy
stimulus of interest among the agrionl
tural folk. A ■ few tented nttraotions
could be easily scoured, and there is no
question hut thnt these would pay hand
some net retnrns. Some snob name ns
the Terrell Oounty Agricultural and
Live Stock Ftiir would possess magnet
ism as ail attraction which is not felt in
outside compauies, whoso solo interest
in Dawson consists in the nuiubor of
Bilvor wheels they can got from tho peo
ple ; it would arouse looal pride and con*
sequent local enthusiasm, aud then the
cruise to success would bo wonderfully
easy sailing.
As an agricultural oounty Terrell has
nn enviable aud growing reputation.
Tho fanners at tho connty nre among
tho most intelligent end progressive in
the state, nod if they become interested
wo oan get up en exposition of magulfi.
oent quality nnd proportions.
Lot's think it over.
Albany has had considerable expori-
onco in the street fair aud carnival busi
ness, and we lmv© probably fared hotter
than either Savnuuah or Dawson. The
Hay Day Carnival, whloh originated
here, was an' annual feature for several
years, aud we never had tented Bhows
or "midway” nttraotions In oor streets
until last year. Those that we had lost
year and this year too were the beat at
tractions that could bo had, however,
and the popple who came here to see
them were not disappointed. And then
we had something else. The Hay Day
feature was preserved and premium
lists were issued for the pul-pose of in-
foresting the farmers and inducing them
to make exhibit! of their farm products
The Daweon News is on the right
line in wanting to get hpan agricultural
and live stook fair. Fain of this ohar-
aoter accomplish something on material
lines and are worth something to the
oountry and to the towns in whloh they
are held.
During the recent heated municipal
campaign in Macon, Major Bridge!
Smith told the peoplfi that If he was re-
elected and was given the support of the
oity oonnoll be coaid $$ve about $80,000
daring the year In running expenses.
Mr. 8mlth wee re-elected, and now,
true to his promise, he has oommenoed
to apply the pruning knife, rednoiag
salaries, consolidating offlees and drop
ping suoh men from the eervioe tn the
various departments as oan be dis'
pensed. Bnt now it is to bo observed
even at this distance that some of those
who were the most oli morons fbr re-
trenohment and reform are bowling
the loudest over the delivory of the
goods promised.
MUTUAL
LIFE INSURANCE
PANIES.
In future the mntnal life annuity in
snranoe companies doing business in.
Georgia will be required to deposit
$80,000 with the state treasurer as secur
ity to polioy holders.
A bill imposing this condition upon
mutual life insurance oompanleB doing
business in this state was passed by the
legislature, and the snbjeot is one of
•peolal Interest to many people in the
Charlas.Emory Smith of Philadelphia
has tendered to the president his resig
nation as postmaster-general, to take
effeot early next month, and Hecfry
G. Payne of Wisconsin, vice-chairman
of the Repabltoan national committee,
has aooepted the tender of the offloe,
to whloh he will be nomina
ted : Immediately after the holiday
reoess. Mr, Smith has agreed to
remain until January V>, if nee.
essary, but will rotnrn immediately
thereafter to Philadelphia to resume tho
editorship of tho Philadelphia Press
This change in the cabinet was
nouncod at yesterday’s session of the
oabinet. All of tho members 61 the cab
inet expressed their profound regret and
tho president paid a very impressive
tribnto to tho services and personality
of the retiring member of his official
family.
COM
EXPERIENCE IN CONGRESS.
We see that the. legislature of Iowa
is determined to re-eleot Senator
Ailieon. This will be Senator Allison’s
sixth term and the honor is unprece
dented. The people of Iowa are show
ing their wisdom in not making a
ohange, however, for .no other man
whom they ooald elect oonld possibly
aoeomplish as mnoh for them as this
veteran. Mr. Allison has never been
rated as a great man, and he is oertainly
' ■ " " ' ■" 1 -" — MW ■
WOULD BE A GREAT HELP.
Among the bills of general -interest
passed by the late legislators and whloh
Teoeived tho signature of ths governor
yesterday, os we learn frem the Atlanta
correspondence of . he Maodn Telegraph,
was the resolution by Messrs. Slaton,
Houston and Bgleston of Fnlton request
ing congress to refund to the Sontherii
states the ootton tax amounting to $66,-
000,000 and the property confiscation
fnnd of $30,000,000, for whloh there aie
not an orator, yet he has, by reason of no olaimnnts.
Until lost year the law required no
depsplt whatever from these mntnal life'
annuity oompaqfies, bnt at its first bps
sion the present legislature passed an
act r qulrlng a deposit of $6,000, and at
Its lose session the amount of the re
quired deposit was raised to $20,000.
It is said that this legislation affect
Ing mntnal life lnsnranoe companies
was had at the instanoe of the Stale
Mntnal and Annuity Association pf
Rome. At any rate, this company and
its friends favored the bill, and the re
mit is that the state has thrown a safe
guard around those of Its citizens who
take polloles In mntnal insurance com
panies.
The Atlanta Depot Commission pro
vided for in the bill known as the At
lanta Dapot BUI, passed at the late ses
sion of the legislature, has been ap
pointed. The commfsslon is oomposed
of two members of the senate and fonr
members of the honee, with the gov
ernor as ex-officio chairmen. The two
senators appointed by Hon. Olark
Howell, president of the senate, ate
Hon. J. Ferris Gann, of the First dis
trict, and Hon. John N. Holder, of the
Thirty-first distriot. The members of
the hense appointed by Speaker Little
nre Mossrs. G. V. Gross of Wiloox, B.
B. Bower, Jr., of Decatur, Thomas
Egleston, of Fnlton aid W. A. Knowles,
of Floyd.
Many are predicting that Hon. J. Pope
Judge John S. Gaudier, of the Stone
Mountain Cirouit, deolded yosterday
morning tliut tho HowelJ resolution,
adopted at the lust session of tho legis
lature, appropriating $836,880 of the
publio property fund for the payment of
tho interest on the bonded debt of the
state, was entirely constitutional, and
granted the mandamus absolute asked
for by Governor Oandler, wlitoh manda
mus orders State Treasurer Robert E.
Park to trnnsfor the sum mentioned
from the publio property fund to the in
terest fund. A bill of exceptions is be
ing drawn, and the ease will he appeal
ed to the. supreme oonrt. A decision
from tho state’s highest ,’tribnunl is ex
peotod by I ho tenth of January.
Brown will not resign the ofHoe of rail
road commissioner for the purpose of
making the raoe for the governorship.
Somoni e still predicting that Mr. brown
will not make the raoe for governor,
while there aro others who Bay thnt if he anxieties
does make it it will net bo nocessary for
him to resign the railroad commissioner-
ship. The one thing upon whloh all the
"knowing ones" nre agreed is that, if
Mr. Brown does resign from the rail
road commission, Governor Oandler will
appoint ex-Governor Northau to tho
plaoe.
Lasting shoes by machinery Is onm-
mon enough lu American faotories; but
efforts In England to introduce the pro.
oess havo resulted in riotous demonstra
tions by operatives. Munafuotnrers
who seek to nse tho new prooess have
been mobbed, sud the Northampton
alioomakors threat en to strike unloss tho
objeotlonablo labor-saving machines
shall be removed. It is largely this re-
lnotonoo of operatives to accent modern
conditions of production that plays the
mischief with British trafflo in the
world's markets. Long contlnnod per
sistence in such a coarse conld result
ouly iu expatriation for workmen and
ruin for mnsters,
Another false report of tho engage
ment of Captain Richmond P. Hobson,
the hero of the Merrimao, to be married,
has been circulated in tho newspapers,
only to bo denied bv tho lady whose
name was used. False reports of the
engagement of young Hobeon have been
published several times. These reports
coupling his unmo with that of some
lady acquaintance aro, of course, em
barrassing to tho yonug man, and tho
newspapers ought to quit publishing
them.
“The committee rooms at tho Capitol
aro labeled with the titles of the com
mittees, with one exception,” says the
Washington correspondent of The New
York Evening Po6t. "One of the new
rooms finished end furnished during the
summer bears the simple hut imposing
sign: 'Senator Quay.’ ■ That is all.
There is nothing to indicate whether
the King of Pennsylvania is tho chair
man of pensions, post offices or acons-
tics. And it really makes little differ
ence. The main thing is Quay, and
this is the plaoe to find him.
Tho Savannah Press says that "when
Congress gets through with the national
Burplcs it will look like the public prop
erty fund in Georgia or tho state road
rental.”
Hon. H. A. Jenkins, of Eaton ton, a no
tion of whose donth appeared among our
telegraphic dispatches yesterday, was
one of tho lending Inwyors of the state,
and had for many years been prominent
in Georgia political affairs. He served
with marked abl-lty as speaker of the
Georgia house of representatives prior
to the election of Speaker John D. Lit
tle. He was also, at one time, ohair-
man of the house genrral judiciary
committee, and was a man who will be
missed iu the state.
fils long experience become a recognized
leader and a power In the senate and In
nil the departments at Washington.
He has risen to the ohairmanshlp of the
committee on appropriations and wields
nn Influence no new man whom the
people of his state ooald eleot oonld hope
to acquire within less than twelve or
eighteen years.
Important plaoes on the great com
mittees are acquired only after long
servtoe in either branoh of the national
congress, and it is standing oommitteeB
that shape and oontrol legislation. A
new man in congress has to start at the
bottom and watt for preferment, and
the states that have kept the same men
in oongrese have wielded the most in-
fluefloe.
Of reoent years Georgia has been
pursuing a wise course with reference
to her representation in congress. Most
of our congressmen hsve been in Wash
ington long enough to learn the routine
and acquire some experience, aud the
result is that the state has more in
fluence at the national capital today
than it has ever had.
Whenever the people find that they
have a faithful representative, even
though he nitty not be an orator or a
great debater, the longer they keep him
in congress the more Influence he will
have.
Good for General Milos 1 He courage
ously defies the anti-Sohley gang in
Washington and publioly gives expres
sion to the following: “I am willing
to take tho judgment of Admiral Dewey
in the matter. He was a commander
of a fleet and us such has known the
and responsibilities whloh
rest on a man under theso circum
stances. He was instrumental In
the destruction of ono Spanish
fleet and knows and realizes the
feelings that encompass nn olfioer un
der such conditions. I think Dewey
has summed up the matter in n dear
and conoise manner, and I believe his
conclusions will be indorsed by the pa
triotic people of the United States,
havo no sympathy with the efforts which
have been made to destroy the honor of
an olfioer under suoh eircamstanoes.
If congress accedes to the request this
fund of $106,000,000 will bo refunded to
the Southern states for edueational pur
poses and Georgia’s share will be $14,-
000,000. It would put the educational
imtitottons of the state, inducing the
common school system, on a firm foun
dation, and therejis a prevalent impres
sion out that congress will be glad <p
dispose of this question in this way.
Some of tho newspapers, and even
some of the politicians, aro borrowing
trouble about tho disposition of the sur
plus in the treasury. We keep telling
them that they needn’t worry; that
Congress will not only make way with
the ^surplus bnt perhaps create a da-
flotency.
When Senator Aldnch went to Wash
ington, twenty years ogo, he was a com
paratively poor man with a large family.
Today he is reported to be several times
n millionaire. The foundation of his
fortnuo was laid in consolidating the
street railways of Providence, which he
still controls.
Admiral Sohley already stands vindi
cated in the eyes of the American peo
ple, nnd it- is probably safe to predict
that tho finding of the majority of the
court of inquiry will not be allowed to
stand. Tho naval clique is a powerful
institution, it would seem, hut tlio
American people aro more powerful.
With a surplus in the treasury, there
now appears to bo no reason why the
balance of tho Spanish Ivor tux should
not be removed. But war taxes, it
Booms, aro never entirely removed.
Tho Weather Bureau predicts snow
for tonight. All right, let It snow!
After the experience of the past four or
five days we ought to be prepared for
anything. .
The latest census bulletin gives the
number of males of voting age in the
United States in 1900 at 21,339,819. Of
this number 2,336,266 ore illiterate and
6,102,634 foreign born.
MOSTLY COLORED.
Most people will be surprised to-lenen
that more than three-fonrths of the
population of the British Empire sire
colored poople. Acoording to the Lon
don repre.-entative of the jNew York-
Tribune, oarefnlly compiled statisticshf
the population of the British Empire,
published by a trade papor, bring oot
the rather startling faot that out of a
population of nearly 400,000,000 about
48,880,000, or less than one-eighth, t are
of British birth or descent, nearly 4,000,-
000 are non-British white men and the
oolored race number 843,000,000.
Among the bifls passed by the late
legislature and that have received the
signature of the governor Is a bill to
give a lien to persons hauling loa* and
lumber With teams on the property bo
hauled.
An Iudiana man is said to be laugh
ing himself to death, and the Denver
Republican suggests that somebody
mnst have told'him about the Beveridge
presidential boom.
The city couuoll of Macon has started
in to ont down expenses. Reductions in
appropriations amounting toover$18,000
were made at the first meeting. Sal
aries were also out.
Christmas
Goods
Ibis announoed that Attorney Get*
oral Joseph M. Terrell will probably re
sign the attorney generalship of Georgia
on the 10th of Jaunary for the purposo
of entering actively into the guberna
torial raoo. It will require several
weeks to wind up the more important
$
business affairs in the attefuey general’s
office, bat by the tenth proximo, Mr,
Terrell thinks, ho will be prepared to
turn over the affairs of his office to
whomever may strp into his shoes.. The
governor has the power to appoint to fill
the vacancy for the unexpired term,
and there aro indications that there will
be a scramble for the place The people
of Georgia are expeoting Mr. Terrell to
put up an interesting fight.
Some months ago there was an epi
demio of suicides in Emporia, Kan., and
the mayor, believing that the pctblica-
tion of tho details of snch-tragedies in
the newspapers was in a measure ac
countable fer tho epidemic, requested
the local editors to refraiu from print
ing sensational suicide stories. The
editors agreed, aud the major’s policy
has been vindicated. There has not
been a suicide in the town since the
agreement was made.
Galore!
We have our store all arranged and
cordially invite our friends aud the the
trading public to inspect onr stock be
fore making yonr Christmas purchases.
Below we offer a few
Sensible Sug
gestions for
Se
lections:
Notice is lateen of the fact that Amer
ican newspapers are usually silent or
the course of events in South Africa.
Well, It is hard to approve or disapprove
of things which might easily acquire u
domestic flavor by a simple change of
name. Ohaffee and Kitchener are both
fighting under orders presumably dic
tated, by the people themselves.—Flori
da Times-Uuion and Citizen.
• American horses aud mules are taking
the lead. There was a time when the
United States imported horses regularly
and had practically no exporting record
iu that line. In the last fiscal year,
however, we exported 65,000 head, and
in the , ast five years have sold horses
j abroad to the value of $17,000,000.
BEDROOM SLIPPERS,
DRESS SHOES,
STYLISH HATS,
LATEST WALKING STICKS,
SERVICEABLE UMBRELLAS,
ALL LEATHER SUIT CASES,
“ “ HAND BAGS,
TRUNKS AND VALISES,
BATH ROBES, •
SMQKING JACKETS,
SILK HANDKERCHIEFS,
GLOVES, WOOL aud DRESS,
NOVELTY SUSPENDERS,
CRAVATS,
FANCY HOSE, •
WHITE and FANCY- VESTS,
WHITE and FANCY SHIRTS,
NIGHT SHIRTS,
PAJAMAS, GARTERS,
MUFFLERS, COLLARS,
and CUFFS.
G. 8. Davis & Co.
Plione 107. - 74 Broad St.
For LaGrippe and In
fluenza use CHENEY’S
EXPECTORANT.