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PUBLISHED THURSDAYS,
Entered at tbe postoa-.ee at Statesboro, Ga„ as
second-clan mall matter.
Statesboro, Georgia , Apiil 2j , 1 £ 99 .
One of the new battleships is to
be called tlie Georgia, and thus
the President takes another oppor
tunity to show his icgai .1 lor the
The Macon Telegiaph has been
making a valiant fight for a larger
corn crop. Liothei Pendleton
says there is no danger of getting
too much corn m its natural
Mate.
After a suspension of several
months, occasioned by the burn
ing out of the office last fall, the
Sylvania Telephone has been res
tirrected with the well known W.
M. Hobby as editor.
Some of ihe South Carolina
papers are complaining that the
President is showing partiality to
trii ™ Eiaies. >v .n, unu is
for Georgia is the best of the lot.
For the past several weeks the
papers have been having a great
deal to Bay about the rise in the
price of quinine. Well, it is time
for the drug to take an upward
tendency, for it has been “going
down” for many a day.
Germany is snarling at both the
tiuited States and England over
the troubles in Samon. There is
some consolation in the fact that
we are not by out selves this time.
We can let England do most of
the fighting if it comes to that.
Aguinaldo is “dead tgin” the
proposition to make English the
official language of the Philippines,
He says it must be Spanish. There
was a proposition from some of
the Americans last summer to
make Spanish the official language
of hades. Aguinaldo ought to be
satisfied with that.
That was a dastardly murder of
on innocent man when a negro
preacher was called out of his
church in Burke county last
Sunday night and murdered by a
couple of white ruffians. It seems
that the negro’s only offense con¬
sisted iu having testified against
the men in some trivial matter
before the grand jury.
The Macon Telegraph reports
that “a bill has been introduced
in the Missouri legislature to com¬
pel the hens of that state to attend
to business during business hours,
and appointing a committee eggs
traordinary to see that each
shall lay an egg a day.” It may
require an eggs-tray session of the
legislature to get the bill through,
may it not?
All that love you hear about the
men of the north having for the
negroes is very nice to read,about,
but it won’t do to bank on. The
riotous scenes enacted at Pana,
Ill., several month ago, occasioned
by the importation of colored
laborers of the south to take the
place of the striking miners, were
repeated on a smaller s ^ale this
week, The county sheriff says
that it is his purpose, with the
aid oi special deputies, to assist
the miners iu getting the colored
men out of Pana and to prevent
other colored men from going in
If the negro wants to believe
Illicitly m the Yankee#’ love,
had better not some in too close
contact w ith the Yankees’ personal
interests.
WHAT IS DEMOCRACY?
That “Jeffersonian dinner” af¬
fair in New York has involved two
leading democrats, Messrs. Bryan
and Belmont, into a brawl which
rapidly expands. The original
bone of contention (Mr. Bryan’s
i refusal to attend a dinner which
was to be sjtread and pnid for by
gold democrats) has been lost
8ight of , however, and we find these
gentlemen broadening out in their
letters to each other and discussing
politics at a great rate,
j Bryan proceeds to read Belmont
ftnd his gold lmg friendg clean cut
. c f ranks because they
measu| . es or pnucipleg which Je f
ferscn did not . On the other hand
I Belmont tries to justify his claim
! to being a democrat by showing
that Jefferson did certain things
ftud favored certaiu pri nciples just
ag ])e doeg<
Jn his day| j efferson wa9 a pret .
t y good pattern, and for aught we
know he would be a good leader if
he were alive at the present time;
■ but we cannot see how any man
j or set of men could have laid down
1 rules of public policy a hundred
y “ r ‘ Ug ° ~ ° f ‘hU day to
mea6ure to under penalty of
be ; 1)g n , ad out of a part y The
>
questions of that day have been
settled and new ones have arisen
in their places—new issues have to
be met, and old ones tave to be
dealt with after new methods for
reasons of expediency. If Jeffer
son would have opposed expansion
iri his day under the conditions
then prevailing, it does not follow
that in order to be a democrat now
one must oppose expansion under
very different conditions; or if
Jefferson favored or opposed the
free coinage of silver in his day, it
does not follow that those men are
not democrats who take an oppo
site view at the present date.
No, gentleman, you are wasting
breath in trying to show wherein
you and Jefferson agree. Fora
man to be a Democrat at this time
he has only to fall in line and sup¬
port party nominees when they are
put up, and assist in party fights
when the struggle is on. After the
struggle, one is no more bound to
swallow the declarations put forth
by the last convention of the party
than he is to persistently “whoop
up” his parties’ nominees after
they are defeated.
There is room for Bryan and
Belmont both in the party. They
may disagree in some measures, as
they probably do in some men;
but if each is willing to pledge
himself to yield to the majority,
he is a Democrat whether he agrees fe
or disagrees with the late Thomas
Jefferson iu all partbulars.
Our neighbors of Emanuel
county are very much exercised
just at present over their new road
law. It is the same that was
adopted by Bulloch county two or
or three years ago and which was
repealed by the first grand jury
that met after its adoption. The
law is all right, but we predict that.
Emanuel will do it just as Bulloch
did—repeal it at the first oppor¬
tunity, There is too much oppo¬
sition for it to stick.
The papers are telling of a
statesman who was an anti-expan*
sionist. It so happened that the
statesman’s young son seemed to
need reproof one day and the
parent produced the instrument
of government (a rod), whereupon
the son took occasion to ask him
for a reiteration of his political
views. “Yes,” taid the parent, “I
do oppose government without the
consent of the governed.” “So do
said the boy, “and I very muoh
to your present proposed
plan of procedure. » ]t is not re
lated whether the statesman rt lter
ed his political views or not,
TROUBLE IN CUBA ENDED.
It was stated a few weeks ago
that ominous clouds Mere rising
in the horizon of our Cuban affairs.
The Cuban assembly refused to
ratify the terms of settlement with
the Cuban soldiers which had been
agreed to by Gen. Gomez. 1 he gen¬
eral had agreed to accept $3,000,
000 as compensation for the ser
vices rendered the United States
by his soldiers in the uar with
Spain. That was a gracious plenty,
*'ut Die assembly had bigger ani
bitions than that they wanted
$45,000,000!
The assembly evidently reasoned
that as our government had paid
Spain $20,000,000 for an article
that will c >st many times that
much to possess, we were lavish
with our wealth, and wouldn’t
stand back on a measle/ little
$45,000,000 to g~t the Cubans off
our hands. But they reckoned
amiss. Your Uncle Samuel was
11 °t to be bluffed that way he
reasoned that the soldiers could be
whipped for less than that,
The promised trouble lay in the
fact that the assembly declared
emphatically that the *000,000
would not be accepted ; and U ncle
Sam said it should be that or
nothing. The assembly was in
possession of the muster rolls,
which were essential in a settle
ment with the soldiers. But for
this Gen. Brooks would have pro
ceeded to nay out the $3,000,000
to the soldiers, who were willing
enough to accept it. The assembly
seemed to have the situation cor
railed, and the question was, How
were we to get inside? But the
barrier has been broken down and
everything made easy by the dis
bandment of the assembly this
week, and the handing over the
necessary papers to Gen. Brook,
The settlement will now proceed
without a riffle,
Tlie last pathetic words of Gen.
Fernando Er.ey re deAudrade, pres
ident of the essembly, were:
“As the shadows of night fall
over the city, we finish our work.
So is Cuba’s luture clouded and
darL. I take leave of you with
sorrow, and my last words are:
May Cuba some day be free and
independent.”
Who can say, after all, that they
were not justified in opposing a
settlement, the ends of which no
mau can prophesy?
The papers are commending
young Carter Harrison, Chicago’s
recently elected mayor, for the
grace and dignity with which he
accepts his great victory. J He is a
man to . , be admired, , . . and
comes
from , section . where he
a can do
his party great good. It is not i
,
improbable that he may be heard I
from in the national election next
year. W e are for him
A proposition comes fn m the
people of St. Kitts (one of the
Westlndia Islands) which we like.
It is that the United States ex¬
change the Philippines with Eng¬
land for her possessions in the
West Indies—consisting of Jamai¬
ca, the Bahamas, the
Islands, the Leeward Islands and
Trinidad. We favor it. Anything
to get rid of the Philippines! i mu ppiues.
rr The n . Jasper Toanoi , ,, Herald ,, makes , this
obeer/ation: The state puts a tax
on your own head, without which
you could hardly get .long; also
on your horse, your cow, your J
your bed, your table, vour
8tove an< * overything else that you
nee(i « v ®ry day, and you don’t kick
mucli ab °ut. But let the state
talk about Pitting a*tax on the
do K y°u eould very easily do with
& * bfty 8teer
1 And vre all doit we7 fU f ° Uy ’
fellows any way, aren’t
Epwortli League.
Epworth League Devotional Depart¬
meets every Sunday morning at
ment Methodist church.
10 o’clock at tlie
Mrs. Guyton Fisher, 1st vice-presi¬
Subject for next Sunday: Tbe
dent. Missions
Eternal Morning and Modern
—Isa. 60:1—12.
All are invited to attend.
Baptist Union.
The Statesboro Baptist \oung Peo¬
ples’ Union meets every Sunday at
3 o’clock, p. m. The members are cor¬
dially invited and urged to be present.
Come and bring your lriends.
The subject for April 9th is: “Tli£
Eternal Morning and Modern Mission
Isaiah GO ;1—12. ‘eternal
What is the significance of
morning,” and how is this related to
“modern missions.”
R. J. H. DkLoach, Pres.
Tbe Business of a Theater.
A prosperous theater in the city of
New York may in a favorable season
do a business of more than $250,000
and keep employment 150 persons.
There are 37 theaters, including the va¬
riety houses, in active operation in the
boroughs of Manhattan and the Bronx,
while the borough of Brooklyn adds a
score or more. Everything which affects
business in general affects the theater
immediately. expenditures
A man will reduce his
for tickets to places of amusement long
before he thinks of cutting down his
supply of cigars, for the cigar belongs
to that class of luxuries which subtly
become necessaries, while the theater
habit, as any observant manager will
f ore an occupation requiring business
j sagacity in a greater degree than it
J ' HeI1<3er
Prond of Her Work.
He looked with forced admiration at
slippers—forced because he already
half a dozen pairs.
“Yon don’t mean to tell me that
are all your own work? What a
talented little wife I'm going tohavel’
And she , smiled, though the plain
truth was that she had bought the up
pers. paid a man to sole them and then
managed to sew the bows on crooked
after her mother had made them. Yet
she was very proud and really wonder¬
ed how she had managed to accomplish
eo much.—Detroit Journal.
Sausage Links.
“Yes," said the yellow dog. “I be¬
lieve after death we enter into another
sphere of action. I think l 'll be a golf
player. ’’
“How do you figure that out?"
queried the black and tan.
“Oh. I’ll be in the links. Philadel
|iia North American.
Insect Notes.
The slow flapping of a butterfly’s
wing produces no sound. When the
movements are rapid, a noise is produc¬
ed which increases with the number of
vibrations. Thus the house fly. which
produces the sound of F, vibrates its
wings 21,120 times a minute or 335
times a second, and the bee. which
makes a sound of A. as many as 26,400
times or 440 times a second. A tired
bee hums on E, and, therefore, accord¬
ing to theory, vibrates its wings only
830 times a second.
The Whale Care For Rheumatism.
It is said that in Australia there is
hotel where rheumatic patients congre
gate. Whenever a whale has been taken
the patients are rowed over to the
in which the animal is cut up.
whalers dig a narrow grave in the body.
and } u this the patient lies for
hours, as in a Turkish bath, the
P° sing blubber cf the whale
round his body and actin S as a
I>OTllt ! ce This blK >'™ “ 3 the
cure for rhe , ”*” at,8m
A Bill a Berry.
Crimsonlieak—Our government al¬
ways seems to do the light thing at the
right time.
Yeast—What has it done now?
“Why, it has issued the new series
of $1 hills just as the first southern
strawberries have reached our mar
keta. ”—Yonkers Statesman.
Accounted For the Fit.
H ? n> Geor 8 e R Peck so keenly ap
-
P r f, clate8 a good ^ oke that lie tells the
on himself :
“When, after a foreign trip I was
being welcomed by some of mv J friendw
in Topeka, I wore a suit clothes
owdBbya London tailor that wasun
^ mfortab ly tight in places. I expressed
wher eupon an Irishman of the party
exclaimed: * 3
‘“Mr. Peck, don’t forget you’re
bigger in Topayka a
man than you were
in London.' "—Chicago Journal
Untimely Nap.
••Midnight^ h ° tel catch fire r
♦‘Everybody get out safely?”
‘be night watchman. We
couldn „ t wake him up in time. "—Bos¬
ton Traveler.
sentry drank. "
the
Bnl Genet'tU Meade Did Sot Hap^
to See Him Do It.
At a little village old on the soldier Susqne}^.
na river I met an who r*
lated this incident of hi9 experi^
with General Meade in the civil * at
I have forgotten his name and the pi,^
where it occurred. It was u raw night
in October, the wind was rather strong,
and Meade had fixed a stove for in his tent!
The soldier was the sentry the g en .
eral. A puff of wind knocked down the
improvised stovepipe, and soon the tent
filled with smoke. The general came
ont and asked the sentry to help him to
rearrange it. The soldier replied that
be was under orders and could not leave
his post.
“Yes. yes,” said Meade, “that i 9
true, but I would like to have that
stovepipe fixed. Yon are right." And
the general went at the job himself.
“I kept pacing my beat.” said the
soldier, “and enjoyed Meade's efforts
to get the pipe back in its place. He
made a sorry mess of it. Finally h B
turned to me and said: ‘Sentry, yon
will have to help me. I will be respon¬
sible for you, and if there is any trou¬
ble about your leaving the beat 1 will
explain to the officer. ’
“In a few minutes we had the pipe
in position. Meade disappeared into the
tent without a word of thanks, but he
soon came out with a jug of applejack
and asked me to take a drink. Once
more I reminded him I was on duty.
‘'Yes. yes,' he answered, ‘1 know, but
you helped me to fix the stovepipe. ’
“He tnrnsd on his heel and re-enter¬
ed the tent, leaving the jug outside.
After a time he came out.
Ait Did you drink V’ he inquired. I
nodded.
AAA I knew you would, but I did not
see it.’ ’’—Pittsburg Dispatch.
A DEADLY CANE.
An Innocent Looking Instrument
Whicli Wonld Destroy Life.
“Anarchists of the physical force
school find it now and again irresistible
to brag of the powerful things they
have used or are going to use.” says a
writer in The Ludgate. "We will sup
pose that some aristocratic person has
been chosen as a victim. The exact pat
tern of his favorite walking stick would
be noted as occasion arose and a fac
simile of it prepared—that is to say. so
f ar a(J niere outward appearances were
concerned
j » The interior would rcall y be an in .
f e rnal machine. Inside the hollow of
the stick would be a metal flask con¬
taining a liquid which could emerge
only from a small orifice at the top of
the flask. The flask would be imbedded
within a substance which would ex¬
plode the instant that the liquid re¬
ferred to came into contact with it i
“When an o'pportnaity occit-red for
the stick to be substituted for its inno¬
cent counterpart, the handle would be
unscrewed to a slight extent, thus allow¬
ing a space for the liquid to flow out,
which it would do when the stick was
held in a horizontal position. Most men
occasionally carry their sticks in this
way. So. when the victim took his sup¬
posed usual stick from the corner in
which it had been placed upright, he
might walk about with it for a long
period without encountering actual
harm, but once let him hold it horizon¬
tally or twirl it in the air there would
be—well, you can imagine the result."
Steeple Clock Dial*.
Difficulty is experienced in accurate¬
ly reading the time of elevated clocks
on account of the distance between the
minute hand and the figures. Seen from
below, the apparent reading may be a
! nlinnte or * wo wrong when the hand is
j ”°‘ at 13 or 6 on account of this dis
" aiK ’ e ' The perspective throws the band
out P° 8 ^| on and gives it atwapparent
n I’ward position. On the first quarter
| ina ^ es 0 le reading slow, on the
as ‘ Q u ^rter fast. A proposed method of
■
£ orrectins is > to make the dock
‘ a ?® concave so that the tip of the hand
alni0 ®‘ Rraze tbe figures. Then the
t,uw c ““ he accurately read from below,
A Trick of Style.
A woman who declares she cannot
afford to buy bound books invested in a
Russia leather book cover the other
day- It has pockets at the ends into
which to slip the cover ce of the books
one is reading. It is ery handsome,
and it cost $ 5 .
When she wraps all this gorgeousness
around a 10 cent copy of “Lorna
Doone or a 25 cent edition of “Pen*
denuis, she is placid, happy and un¬
ashamed and doesn’t think she was ex
travagant. New York Commercial
Advertiser.
A k . P,n,rt wi
r -
^ 0 Frances—-Papa, „ my teacher
<. n !" k y totel1
n me something
lct,, f Hnga » Tomorrow ehe
w t imi»t««*JU* 6 C \ what th0
most aas waS
y founded the Hngonants;
w Dn t* tell your teacher
“I h I’m paving
if w* W ?f k ^ Make Impose her tell to have you
’
about it^Chteago*New^ h she likt a
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Afloat and Ashore.
Bill—H° w about that Sound steamer?
Jill—I guess she’g all right There’s
* r »° r ^ loro that 8 he’a afloat
mil n lhat’a good. 1 heard
there was