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Ufo ^ulbch Jerald. OFFICIAL ORGAN OF TJiFCOUNTY . Cnc dollar Ter Tear. 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 ^ ° W ’ 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