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.TOIT1V XI- HODGES, Proprietor.
DEVOTED TO HOME INTERESTS, PROCRESS AND CULTURE.
$1.50 A YEAR INADVAKCE.
VOL. XXYIIL
PEREY, HOUSTON COUNTY. GEORGIA, THURSDAY, MARCH 9, 1899.
NO. 10.
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COI3EBCT PI5ICBS.
A MEMORY’.
Written for the Hojce Jocrxai..
I I sit alone In the twitight,
! Shut in from the world of woe,
And memory lifts the curtain
On scenes of long, long ago.
Ah dear dead days of the past,
Now of all gladness bereft,
Bobed in the shroud of sorrow,
Kissed by the breath of death;
Come, O bright days of gladness
Out from thy tomb of blight,
Come in all thy fair beauty,
Bring comfort to me to-night.
Come close and let me feel
One dear friend loves me still;
Lift the gloom and darkness,
This honr with gladness filL
Ah! yes there’s the green meadow,
The brook dancing away,
The white cow-slips and daisies,
Blooming mid sweet scented hay.
A quail pipes from, the grasses,
His mate coos from the hill,
And out from the green thicket
Comes a bird’s gentle trill,
Now the brown eyes are lifted,
To catch the snn set’s sheen,
On her face all radieDt
The joy of heaven is seen.
Vows are solemnly plighted.
There in the sun set’s glow,
And angels look down in sorrow,
On the coming wreck and woe.
The girl is now a woman,
All alone in her grief,
In her soul lived one passion,
Its life was'sweet and brief.
Dear dead days of long ago,
You cannot lift the cloud,
That shadows my heart to night,
My soul with grief is bowed.
Stay there in yonr prison walls,
Keep the record from stain,
For sometime, O, dear dead days,
We’ll live it over again.
Sometime when the Jasper sea
Has rolled beneath my fpefc,
And angels have carried me
The Great Wise Judge to meet.
Some where on the mystie shore
My heart’ll catch love’s refrain,
Some where, O dear dead days,
We’ll live it over .again.
S. F. Tounsley.
“THE TENTED FIELD,”
or,
Reminiscences of the Late War”
From 1861 to 1865.
Written by an ex-Confederate Soldier.
CHAPTER XLIV.
Continuing, the same historian
says: Both sides during the strug
gle relied for means to support it
upon the issue of paper-money,
and upon loans secured by bonds.
An enormous debt was thus cre
ated by each, and the aggregate of
money thus expended on both sides,
including the loss of sacrifice and
property, (exclusive of the four
millions of slaves which was then
property.) could not have been less
than eight thousand millions of
dollars— a sum fully equal to
three-fourths of the assessed value
of the taxable property of all of
the states together when it com
menced.” The whole number of
states was then thirty-seven. Ac
cording to the same authority the
debt created by the war was equal
to nearly iwo hundred and eighty-
six doliars per capita for the whole
white population at its beginning
—equal to more than six times the
per capita money circulation at any
period since the war.
By the hypothecation plan and
process adopted by the federal gov
ernment soon after the war for the
ultimate redemption of the federal
part of the^war debt, three-fourths
of it has been paid, so some of our
statesmen tell us, but it will now
take more of the products of indus
trial labor to pay the remaining
unpaid fourth that it would have
once taken to pay the entire debt
So the process is still grinding the
people in the way of interest. And
now if the federal government
would assume the pensioning of
the residue of the ex-Confederate
soldiers, as has been recently sag
gested, aloDg upon the line and
principle suggested, it would then,
upon the same principle, and upon
the same line of argument, be tech
nically, if not lawfully bound to
assume the payment of the nnpaid
part of the Confederate debt which
was lawfully contracted for war
purposes during the de facto exis-
tance of the Confederacy.
Why not?
The federate held daring the war
that the seceded states which form
ed the Confederacy were not oat
of the Union, that the Union was
indissoluble* and therefore, the
states could not go out; and it was
I upon ibis line of argument that
| Senator Butler, of North Carolina,
undertook to proceed with his bill
to pension the ex confederates,
and so far as I am aware there was
no attempt made, daring the short
time the bill was in discussion, to
gainsay fhe principle involved.
But I would not be understood as
favoring a farther increase of pen
sions. I have simply alluded to
the subject on account of the
unique manaeri n which it was pre
sented in the senate where, so far
as I am advised, it met no serious
opposition, though seemingly, it
involved technicalities which, at
first view, did not clearly appear
on the surface. The opposition
came from the contemplated bene
ficiaries. I think after a lapse of
thirty three years, with the pension
appropriation s, reaching far into
the hundreds of millions, finding
a conspicious place in the general
appropriation bill of each consecu
tive congress, it would not require
much peisaation to induce the most
ardent federalist to see that the
pension bureau, as conducted at
Washington city, is among the
most gigantic frauds and swindles
of modern times. The pension
principle originated in philanthro
py and has been practiced through
the modern ages by all civilized
and enlightened peoples, and was
only intended for the benefit of
those who become so permanently
disabled in the service of their
ciuntry as to be physically unable
to otherwise earn a comfortable
support; it was not contemplated
in the beginning that it would ever
become a machine of manipulation
and speculation to give employ
ment, and even wealth, to hundreds
of thousands who never heard a
hostile gun fire. Fearful as was the
number permanently disabled iu
the late war, the pension rolls seem
to outnumber it more than two to
one.
To be Continued.
An Indian in Congress.
A gseat many persons are prob
ably unaware of the fact, but it is
nevertheless true, according to the
Washington correspondent of the
New York EveningPost, that there
is an Indian in Congress; and not
only that but he is likely to suc
ceed to the chairmanship of a ve r y
important committee. The resig
nation of Representative Sherman
of New York, according to the cor
respondent, will leave Representa
tive Charles Curtis of Kansas at
the head of the House committee
on Indian affairs; which will be a
very interesting landmark in the
history of Indian legislation, “for
Mr. Curtis is himself a K iw In
dian, drawing his annuities with
the rest of his tribe.” Mr. Curtis
has been a member of Congress
for several sessions, and is known
among his associates as a man of
fine learning, excellent capacity
and indomitable pluck. In politics
he is a Republican.—Savannah
News.
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Missouri has more chickens than
any other state in the Union. In
1890, when the last United States
census was tabeD, the chicken pop
ulation amounted to 23,000,000 and
there were more than 2,000,000
fowls of other varieties. The pro
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000,000 dozeD, valued at about
§5,000,000.
Husbands For All His Girls.
J‘The number of mala infants
bjrn yearly exceeds that of female
by one to four per cent., the pro-
pirtion varying slightly from year
to year,”Vrites Prof. D. R. McAo-
ally of. “The American Girl’s
Chances of Marriage,” in theMarch
Ladies Home Journal. “The mis
haps of boyhood, however, reduce
the number of boys to same ex
tent, but not so much as to make
the adult females outnumber the
males. For every American wo
man, therefore, there ought to be a
husband m posse if not in esse, and
the fact, that there is a large per
centage of unmarried adult women
in theconntry and a greater propor
tionate number iu some sections
thanin others, is attributable to
causeswhich have disturbed the
anceof population. In all new conn-
tries—and compared with Europe
the United States is a new country
—there is a larger proportion of
males than of females. The aggre
gate population of. the United
States, so far as the latest .official
figures show, is 62,622,250, of
which 32,097,880 are males and
30.554,370 are females. Thus the
preponderance of males over fe
males would seem to make it com
paratively easy for the American
girl to secure a husband, but in
certain sections this is evidently
not the case, else the proportion
of adult unmarried women would
not be so large. If men would re
main in the neighborhoods where
they were born the proportion of
men And women would be nearly
equal all over tha couutrybut m en
find work hard to get iu the older
and more populous communities,
and go to the newer States. The
young women are left behind, and
the young men, after settling in
their new homes, forget the com
panions of their youth, and con
tract alliances with their new
friends in the West, hence some
of the Eastern States show a
plus of females.”
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LaGrippe is again epidemic. Ev
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Government ordnance experts
are gathering up unexploded shells
around Santiago, and are sending
them to Washington for examina
tion by judges in order to deter
mine the reason why they did not
explode when they struck the
shore, so that similar mistakes
may be prevented in the future,
and the responsibility fixed.
Capt. Donahoo of the bark Anita
Berwind, who has just arrived at
Philadelphia from the scene of the
recent conflict, states that almost
everywhere shells, apparently as
sound as when they were fired
from the guns on the warships of
Sampson’s fleet, can be picked up
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Hall’s Family Piils are the best
The Philadelphia record sujs:
“We grow the cotton here; then
along comes the Englishman, the
Frenchman and the German to buy
it, carry it across the Atlantic, spin
it and weave it and bring it back to
sell it in the Americas under our
noses- Next thing we know the Ja
panese will be sending their finish
ed cottons to this country for sale.
This comes of the policy of feeding
at the nursing bottle of protection,
living in a little walled up heaven
of our own, and neglecting our op
portunities to participate in and
control our due share of the trade
of the world,”
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