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THE GEORGIA CRACKER, SATURDAY, AUGUST 24, 1901
‘Teddy, the terror,” sometime
vice-president and with the other
bee buzzing continually in his
sombrero, has been invited to visit
Birmingham and bring his teeth
with him.^
Every, county in the state has
made its tax retnrns, and the total
increase in valuations in cracker
property for the year that.hae just
slipped into the beyond is $16,-
964 000, which is a pretty substan
tial token of prosperity.
——*o—— ’
. Macon must be the bete noir of
hoboes, for one in Atlanta the
other day, who was hauled before
the police court, took fifteen days
in the stockade in preference * to
thirty days in the first-named city,
to which the court threatened to
expatriate him. ~
A French society has been or
ganized to fight seasickness The
Gascon pioneers in the war against
mal dp mer should begin on the
“channel passage.” If the “sol-
waved over any community but in
blessing.” McArthur, on the oth
er hand, who has been carrying
out the republican policy of “be
nevolent assimilation” among
Aguinaldo’s people, says today:
“War has wrecked the Philippines
and laid waste whole districts.
The people of these districts have
relapsed into barbarism.”
Admiral Schley’s case is beiug
much injured by his too officious
friends, and now our own Colonel
J. H. Estill, editor, politician and
candidate for governor has found
the road of .a gubernatorial aspi
rant thick-strewn with the thorns
o f indiscreet friendship, and
learned, alas! that the existence
of a candidate is not all “beer and
skittles. ” These fool partizans of
the colonel’s have been endeavor
ing to drag the masons into poli
tics.
m
diers” can keep their feet and re
tain the con ten ts of their stomachs
from Calais to Dover the victory
is theirs. >
A Massachusetts man wants to
reform drunkards by disfranchis
ing them. A man who would
drink the sort of liquor they sell
in Massachusetts —■ particulary
that favorite biverage ot the Bay
State people, Medford rum—could
not be reformed short of the elec
tric chair.
The Alabama wise, men who
have been hard at work for eome
time trying to patch up a new con
stitution for the people of that
state, had better drop the whole
business and cry “Here we rest! ”
for, if former Governor Johnston
is to be believed, the people will
never ratify tbe new fiaagna char-
fa.
The newspapers which have al
ready settled the findings of the
board of inquiry demanded at the
hands.of-the naval department by
Rear Admiral Schley, should re
member, before they deify the
“here of Santiago” and consign to
oblivion and obloquy everybody
else who assisted in the destruc
tion of Cervera’s fleet, including
the commander of the American
marine forces, that “where there
is a great deal of smoke there is
bound to be a little fire. ”
To a
man
his daily dose
igp?
"We occasionally read oi men and
'women “jinin’ hands, hearts*and
fortunes*’ after an acquaintance
'of twenty-four hours, but the after
history of these hastily matched
'couples is never told. We’ll wager
a big north Georgia red apple that
in nine cases out of ten the old
aphorism will hold good : “Marry
in haste; repent at leisure.”-
——o——— .
What a'people for ehange we
are.. Latter-day religionists have
relegated hell to the background
and cast discredit upon the stories
of Noah’s flood and Jonah’s whale.
Now tb«y’re going to revise the
bible again, probably for the pur
pose of expunging anything from
the text that may conflict with
twentieth century interpretation
of holy writ.
President McKinley, who has
managed the war in the Philip
pines from his office m Washing
ton, and General McArthur, who
has aided somewhat in putting
down the rebellion from a position
on the firing line, don’t seem to
agree as to the final results of war
on the bolo wielders. For, in
stance, McKinley declared two
years ago that “the people whom
Providence has brought within
our jurisdiction will soon recog
nize that our flag has not lost its
.gift of benediction ;* it has never
up a tree, who gets
of the previous
day’s history from the newspa
pers, it would seem that the “per
secution of the negro” zone has
shifted from the solid south to the
loyal west and the fanatical north.
Every day or two we read of negro
lynchings, whippings, expatria
tions, etc., and when we read the
date line the dispatch is always
from a state that can be counted
\
on for a safe republican majority
every time. Verily the times are
out of joint.
Atlantians are still jowering
over their disreputable old car-
shed. Every other man has a sug
gestion how best to abate the nui
sance. To the powers that be in
the gate city who really have the
authority to do things we would
suggest that when Ulysses S. Grant
was president, and the great finan
cial sharps had yowled about hew
specie payments ought to be, could
and should be resumed, be prac
tically declared: “The way to> re
sume specie payments is to re
sume!” And behold, the thing
was done.
The Georgia “fiddlers” are hold
ing a convention at Hogansville.
It began Thursday, and the last
screech from the crackers’ cat-guts
and horse-hairs will be ground out
to-night. Fiddlers of high and
low degree are in attendance, in
cluding a bow-manipulator with
one arm, who, although thus hand
icapped, believes he stands a fair
show of winning one of the five-*
dollars-in-gold prizes, which are to
be awarded to the best in the fol
lowing classifications: Oldest,
youngest, fattest, leanest, hand
somest, ugliest and bowleggedest.
And now the Missourians, or a
portion of them at least, have de
clared war against the nigger, and
as usual, where mob law prevails,
the innocent suffer with the guilty.
The story of these white men who
seem disposed to get rid of their
“biirdeu,” is sanguinary enough to
raise the hair on a bald man’s
head, if one may j adge from the
subjoined headlines, clipped from
an exchange not much giveji
yellow journalism: “Fifteen hours
of riot, arson and bloodshed
Burning negroes at the stake,
hanging them, shooting them, and
banishing them from a Missouri
town—Not one can stay—Peter
Hampton, an aged negro, cre
mated m his home—Negro resi
dences laid waste by fire—An in
furiated mob of three thousand
people beat the bushes for good or
bad negroes and kill them or run
them off—The man lynched last
night not the real culprit—The
awful vengeance wreaked on* the
black people because of the terri
ble crime of one of them in* cut
ting the throat of a young lady.
The battle of the would-be gov
ernors in the cracker state is now
on, and there is a terrible slaughter
verbally and ealigraph really.
Meantime the great people read 1
amusedly of the tourneys and go
right on making corn and cotton.
When the time comes to choose a
successor to the “One-eyed 1 Plow-
boy of Pigeon Roost” they’ll pick
out a good man, and it is more than
likely that the political lightning
will strike one of the level-headed’
unknowns, who has been attend
ing to his own legitimate business,
content in a practical demonstra
tion of the old adage: “Sufficient
unto the day is the evil thereof.
n
The governor makers, whom, it
strikes this writer, are a “lfcetlb
too previous,” will do well, before
they finally settle the nextr chief
magistracy of the cracker state by
bestowing it on geographical lines
already fixed, to read the follow
ing significant paragraph in a tet
ter furnished the Macon Telegraph
by Wallace P. Reed, which bears
the unmistakable ear-marks of the
one Georgia politician who lets the
others do the talking while he
pulls tbe strings. The reply came
when Mr. Reed suggested f that
there appeared to be no chance for
a north Georgia man in tbe great
gubernatorial scramble. Said the
evel-headed man above referred
to: “Bring out the right man and
you will change yowr opinion.
North Georgia may yet turnish
tha next governor. After the legis-
ature meets the situation may ;
change. New issues- may arise*
By next February or March th»
ight may be between strong mea>
who have hot yet bee© named.”
——©
Our estimation of the men teli
calibre and patriotism of Floridian>
aw-makers fell about two thous*.
and degrees when they enacted*the
infamous “Flagter divorce law,”
but the solone. have m a measure
redeemed themselves by the pass--
age of a game law, the provisions*
of which should be copied ver
batim ad literatum and placed on, jj
the statute books of every/ state in*
the uuionw In epitome this law
provides that “no person shall witAr-
in the state of Florida kjall or cateh.
or have in his possession living o®
dead, any wild bird ether than a
game bjrd, nor sheJI purcba*e y
offer or expose for sate any suc-h.
wild bird after it has, been killed
or caught. No part of the plumage-,
skin or bodv of an>y bird protected
by this section sbmlil be soldi or had
in possession io& sale.” It is for-
Sp«efa® ©f remnants, and short lengths emb •
of weaves and eolors- in novelty dress goods, m le a 9
Just the gooefe you. want for girls’ school dressesTnd 1 d-°* * ^
tea jackets* and this is past the time to bnv them ^
6. pieces, 29c. at 20 cents. 5 pieces 65c .
8 pieces* 5Gc. quality at 39 cents, a ^ "*l %%I
3 pieees 69c.
4 pieces. 5Qc- quality at 35 cents. 4 pieces 39 c .
quality at y
quality at 35 J
• 8 quality at 36 cents.
EMBROIDERY BARGAINS.
Big lot short lengths is* medium and fine qualities to gaat
less*- Bon’tr fail to see these, and also our lace he,r»aK- *
MATTING BARGAINS.
34 pieces—some whole pieces, and some in short length -
at oost.and less*
SHIRT BARGAINS.
Men’s finfe Madras-negligee shirts. New goods and prefe
SIiQflLvalue=fiai? 7®cents . . 50c. valueforS
Special prices-on Underwear, Bose. Suspenders* Collars.
Neckwear.
STATIONERY. s
Newest things* to bc-had m tear papers, in white, jink, .,Mi
den, .green, and*red sufc UGci,. 15c., 25c., and 50a.
and;you: willi find; the prices-mnaeb less than ya* have.-beem
Special valuesdh staolfe-aai fancy goods.
Postell’s- * ‘Elegant”' Flburv the best the wouM afiords,.
sively by us>
>Mr Maian. Street.
THIS IS THB BEST W
New- Sizes. Fitted Glass
PLfjffl
. . ALL NEW.
5 oc *> 25 c *
will miss it i£ you fad to keep I
©Aiir new arrivals.. Inspect our cisfkY
SEE OUR WINQO^
ianjpbettiS^
• an
ther enacted th£t “any person who
violates any of the provisions of
this act shall be guilty of a mis
demeanor and liable to a fine of
five dollars for each offense, and
an additional fine of five dollars
tor e$ich bird living or dead, or
part of birds, or nest and eggs
possessed in violation of this act,
or to imprisonment for ten d^y# x
or both, at the discretion of
court.”
Opening of ffen- Season.
A good production which commands
public attention and! confidence must
be a guarantee that it will be worth
hearing. Such conditions are to be
welcomed, for they mean a desire that
the public waufr the best and will have
it regardless; expense—s:*eh condi
tions safely obtain with the newer
travesty, “Vanity Fair,” now en route*
the interest, in which as a novel feature
in the season’s early offering at the
oj»era house grows day by day. It will
be seen on Friday night next at Hu ot s
opera house. Prices $1 for box; 75q<
reserved seats; 50c. gallery.
COBELL ITEMS.
Messrs. Walter N. Lott and Llias
Bell are putting up a gin at Cobell. A
fine 60-saw gin has been bought and
this
the faB
ertyiaHoseM**-
«n*r
GobeU. ^
wijl speak a
'invited. T ? T ;i! m
p. m. Exerces^
g, m. and close^^
SeatheofiermP^
book store-
on ir*^ jeture
photo V m2i>
fine room w° . tl
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