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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 ; „