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UNION-RECORDER.
Milledokvilue. Ga., Aug. 9, 1898.
Etitorial Glimpses and Clippings.
The rural districts contend that corn
bread makes tall men.
Madison gets the
conference next year.
Oxford district
WAR NEWS SUMMARY.
Greenesboro will yote on the
tion of water works August 9th.
qties-
Atlanta has abandoned the
lunches in the. saloons, by an
nance pessed by the city council.
free
ordi-
The middle-of-the-road populist con
vention called to meet in Cincinnati,
Sept. 15th, lu« been declared off.
Georgia’s fruit crop this year is im-
tr.ense. The Central railroad has han
dled over 2,000 carloads this sea
son.
Gladstone and Bismarck were the
two really great men of the century,
and the year 1898 has seen them both
pass away.
State School Commissioner Glenn is
a strong advocate of the idea of in
troducing manual training into the
public schools of Georgia.
“After a man gets into a hole it’s
surprising how many people there are
who could have told him what path he
might have taken to avoid it.”
The textile department of the Geor
gia school of technology is now an as
sured thing, as the city of Atlanta will
give to that institution $8,000.
Twenty-three Spanish war vessel
have been destroyed by our fleets since
the war begun, and nearly one hundred
prizes have been taken from the enemy.
Sumter county will vote on th e
whisky question August 17th. This i®
the first time in the history of that
county such a question has ever been
agitated.
The actions of the Cuban and Phil
ippine “patriots” should teach us a
lesson about mixing up in the quarrels
of insurrectionary bandits in future.—
Valdosta Times.
Everything seems to be coming
easy to Gen. Miles in Porto Rico.
When he gets near a town the enemy
runs away and the natives go' out to
welcome him and then give a big bar
becue .
most interesting questions of
are yet to come, when the
The
the wa
United States take the job of govern
ing Cuba, Porto Kico, Hawaii and the
Philippines. The real task of the
American soldiers is yet before them.
Walter Howard of Atlanta, who
went to Cuba as a war correspondent
of a New York paper, returned to this
country the other day with broken
health and a bill of expenses amount
ing to $33,000. He was in Cuba six
weeks.
The Alabama state election was
held Mouday, 1st inst., and the Democ
racy won an overwhelming victory
oyer tin- combined anti-Democratic op
position. The majority for Governor
Johnston and the entire state ticket is
about 60,000.
Sick headache, billiousness,constipa
tion and all liver and stomach troubles
can b.- quickly cured by using those
famous little, pills known as DeWitt’s
Little Early Risers. They are pleas
ant to take and never gripe. Culver
A Kidd.
A San Francisco dispatch says that
a contract has been let to lay a cable
from that city to Hawaii, the Ladrones,
the Philippines, and Hongkong. The
price to he paid is $10,000,000, and
the work must lie completed in six
months.
Lieut. Richard Pearson Hobson, the
brave young naval officer who sank
M-rmiac at the mom I, of S^nti.
ft*;, 1 ai hui. vi-ited his mother in Al
la- Tn -.dav aiul was given it rousing
reception. Everywhere lie appealed
he nas chetred by the crowds, and at
a *er».ption at the Governor’s Mansion
hi sleek iiHnds with over 3,000 peo-
1 he Georgia Railroad Commission
has just rendered an.important decision
on the question of the payment of rev
enue charges by express companies.
The commison rules that the express
company must pay for the revenue
stamps and not. the individual. Sen
ders of telegrams, however, must pay
for the stamps on their messages, and
not the telegraph company.
The editor of the Evans City, Pa.,
Globe, writes. One Minute Cough
Cure is rightly named. It cured my
children after all other remedies
failed.” It cures coughs, cold and all
throat and lung troubles. Culver &
Kidd.' ’
Spain has made proposals for peace
through the French Ambassador to this
country. M. Cambon, and they have
been considered at length by the Pres
ident and Cabinet. A reply lias been
handed to M. Cambon, and is now be
fore the Spanish Cabinet. The United
States demands the unconditional sur
render of all Spanish possessions in the
W estern Hemisphere, and leaves to a
joint commission the question of the
final disposal of the Philippines.
Spain now has this ultimatum under
consideration. Sagasta is taking time
to consider the terms, and it may be
another ruse to work up European sen
timent for interference.
In the Philippines the situation is
serious. Aguinaldo lias finally thrown
aside the mask and declared openly
that he will not abide any interlerence
on the part of the Americans with his
plans, which include the murder of
every Spaniard on the islands and the
looting of all the cities and towns.
Gen. Merritt, who has now about 12,-
00O troops at his disposal, will demand
the surrender of Manila at once; then
lie will be compelled to have a settle
ment with the insurgents. He has
asked the government for 50,000 troops
and it is believed his request will be
granted.
Gen. Miles landed in Porto Rico,
and took the important town of Ponce
without opposition. He was received
with joyful demonstrations by the in
habitants. His troops are now occu
pying tiie road to San Juan. The army
is in good health and spirits.
At Santiago the fever is prevailing
to an alarming extent. Gen. Shatter
has received orders to move his entire
army north at once. Embarkation in
six transports began Friday. There is
great rejoicing among the troops. Tbe
so-called Immune regiment at Macon
has been ordered to Santiago to take
the place of departing troops.
Camp Alger, near Washington, lias
developed into a pest house of typhoid
fever, and hundreds of cases have oc
curred there. • The troops are being
moved.
The Spanish transports which are to
carry Toral’s men home are expected
in Santiago on Friday or Saturday.
There has been a general advance of
Gen. Miles’ forces in Porto Rico. Tbe
troops are moving toward San Juan in
three columns.
The Spanish cabinet lias at last fin
ished its reply to President McKinley’s
last note and will send it through M.
Cambon. It is said that be accepts
our terms and proposes an armistice.
The presence of nearly half a thous
and cases of typhoid fever in the hos
pitals of Fort McPherson lias excited
some uneasiness among the citizens of
Atlanta and lias led the war depart
ment at Washington to issue orders for
the removal of the large body of sold
iers now stationed there. So far it is
the opinion of the surgeons that no case
of typhoid fever lias originated at Fort
McPherson and those eases that have
developed there have come from a dis
tance as the resell of conditions else
where.
Mid-Summer SALE!
Mrs. H.G. APPEL,
Assuming that Spain has decided to
accept our terms for the negotiations of
peace, it is expected that the peace
agreement will be formally completed
this week, and that hostilities will be
suspended at once. This will not be
followed at an early date by the dis
banding of the army, but on the con
trary the period before the signing of
the formal peace treaty and its ratifica
tion by the Senate will be devoted to
perfecting a compact and effective or
ganization of tbe army and cleaning,
repairin' and placing ali the vessels in
the navy.
“I think DeWitt’s Witch Haze
Salve is the finest preparation on tbe
market for piles? So writes John C.
Dunn, of Wheeling, W. Ya. Try it
anil you will think the same. It also
cures eczema and all skin diseases.
Culver iV Kidd.
1 VIMUNE REGIMENTS.
Embark at
ive Thousand Men to
Savannah.
Savannah, Ga., Aug.
5.—Five
thousand troops are on the way to
Savannah today to embark on trans-
ports for Santiago to relieve the troops
The troop ships Rio Grande,
then
Leona and Minnewaske left New York
yesterday and are expected to arrive
tomorrow. The troops, all immunes,
are the third Georgia regiment from
Macon, the third and fifth from Colum
bus, Miss. «
The Rev. W. B. Costley, of Stock-
bridge, Ga., while attending to his
pastoral duties at Ellenwood, that
state was attacked by cholera morbus.
He says: “By chance I happened to
get hold of a bottle of Chamberlain’s
Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy,
and I think it was the means of saving
my life. It relieved me at once.” For
sale by Culver & Kidd.
LADIES’ and GENTS’ FURNISHINGS.
CL
ANj
ID.
Mandle’s
Embroideries, this week at ACTUAL COST.
Fans, Jewel Belts, Parasols at cost.
French Organdies, former price 30c., now 22^c.
Linen Crash, former price 15 cents, now 12 cents.
Linen Crash, former price 20 cents, now 16 cents.
Lawns, former price 10 cents, now 8 cents.
Lawns 4 cents.
Gent’s Straw Hats at Cost.
New and Stylish Band Bows, former price 25 cents, now 10 and 15c.
Now is your chance to secure bargains.
Shoe Pari or,
Mrs. H. G. APPEL,
July 26, 1898.
3 8. Wayne St.
4 lm
Don’t Kcglcet Von Liver.
Liver troubles quickly result hi serious
complications, and the man who neglects his
liver has little regard for health. A bottle
of Browns’ Iron Bitters taken now and I lien
will keep the liver in perfect order. If the
disease has developed, Browns’ Iron Bitters
will cure it permanently. Strength and
vitality will always follow its use.
Browns’ Iron Bitten is sold by all dealers.
PEACE WILL SOON PREVAIL.
Madrid Cabinet Approves Basis
of its Reply.
Madrid, Aug. G.—Evening—Tbe
cabinet to-day approved the basis of
the reply to the peace conditions pro
posed by the United States.
Duke Almodovar de Rio, the minis
ter of foreign affairs, is charged with
revising the reply, which will be read
and approved at the cabinet council
to-morrow morning.
It is stated on good authority that
the Spanish reply will give no occasion
for a further response from the United
States.
London, Aug. 7.—The Madrid cor
respondent of the Sunday Times says:
“Spain’s answer will accept all the
American terms except that regarding
the Cuban debt. The government
will fight this point on the ground that
in all other cession of territory by one
nation to another, the ceded territory
lias carried with it its own debt, or the
proportion belonging to the nation by
which it was ceded.
“President McKinley will receive
the answer on Monday or at the latest,
on Tuesday.”
“Senor Sagasta, in conferring with
politicians and generals, follows the
example of Senor Castelar in 1873.
His objects are two-fold—to divide the
responsibility for the decision and to
avoid the convocation of the Cortes.
“The news from Porto Rico is re
ceived with groat disappointment. The
Spaniards are disgusted witli the wel
come the natives have given the Amer
icans, and the news that the volunteers
have thrown down their arms. The
general opinion is that it is not worth
while to risk lives and spend millions
for the sake of territories which are
worse than disloyal to t he mother
country.
“It is assumed that there will be no
internal troubles over the evacuation
of the West Indias. The war lias cost
$350,000,000.
ARE OFF TO SANTIAGO.
The Third Regiment Leaves Ma
con for the Front.
The Third regiment, U. S. V. broke
camp Saturday afternoon and left at 8
o’clock for Savannah over the Central
railroad in a train of three sections.
Everybody seemed to lie happy be
cause no orders had come from Wash
ington revoking the order for depart
ure. The men were tired of camp
life and wanted to get into active ser
vice.
During the day the resignations of
Capt. Colquitt and Capt. Maddox were
accepted and Lieut. W. A. Jones oi
Atlanta and Lieut, Sidney R. Wiley
of Macon were appointed to the re
spective companies.
Gold Found in the Philippine Islands.
DeWitt’s Little Early Risers,
The famous little Dill*.
On Mindanao, one of the Philippine
Islands, gold is found in the river beds,
but owing to the primitive conditions
prevailing there it is not known how
rich these deposits are. With the
advance of civilization this matter will
be fully investigated by shrewd pros
pectors. Great discoveries may be
made, but no discovery was ever great
er than Hostetler’s Stomach Bitters,
which civilization long ago investigat
ed and found to be all that is claimed
for it. In cases of loss of appetite,
indigestion, biliousness and constipa
tion it acts in a truly wonderful man
ner. The bowels are made to act
mildly, the desire for food is increased,
sour stomachs are sweetened, and a
healthy color is given to the face. A
trial i» recommended.
NO TRACES WAS I.EFT.
Arp Tells of the Disappointment of a
Veteran.
WHO CALLED TO SEE HIM.
The Old Man, After Attending the
Reunion, Thought He Would
Visit His Childhood Home.
From the Atlanta Constitution.
A veteran called to see me yesterday.
He was not so very old, but was gray
and bent and tired. He had been to the
great reunion and was on his way back
to Mississippi. “I stopped over a day to
see you,” he said, “and to revisit the
place wliete I was born, but I couldn’t
find it and am very tired, for I have
been tramping over the hills and val
leys above here nenrly all day.” The
old man fanned himself with his hat
and looked sad and disappointed. I
learned from him that he ‘ was born
somewhere between here and old Cass-
ville and liis mother boarded some of
the bands who were at work building
the state railroad and there was a
spring not far from their humble home.
“I thought,” said he, “that I could
find the spring and the branch and the
walnut tree and blackberry patch, but
I walked and walked and nothing look
ed natural. Seemed to me that every
thing lias changed and shrunk up. The
liills have washed down and the
branches nearly dried up and nobody
could tell me anything. You see, we
left here away back in the forties,
when I was a lad, and there is a new
set of people, but I thought I would
find somebody or something that I re
membered. I he old man looked away
off and sighed. Of course we were
sorry for him, and tried to cheer him
up. I asked him about the Hoopers
and Tripps, and Akin and Underwood
and Latimers and Arthur Haire, but
lie didn’t remember them. He was a
poor boy and mixed with poor biys
and they bad grown up and gone west,
too. How the old people do yearn for
the friends and the scenes of theiryouth!
After fifty years absence from his na
tive state, Judge Warner, our honored
chief justice, had this yearning to cotne
over him and lie, too, revisited his
boyhood’s home in Massachusetts. He
went with fond expectation and came
back sad and disappointed. “My rela
lives were all dead or gone away,” he
said. “I found but one man who re
membered me, amt lie was blind and in
the poorhouse The hills where 1 used
to pick blueberries bad been cleared
and were not so large or so high. The
little branches where I fished for min
nows had all been ditched and were
bridged where they crossed the high
ways. Everything was strange and I
took no comfort and have come baek
to good old Georgia, my adopted mo
ther, and here I will stay until I die
and I wish to he buried in her friendly
bosom.”
Lite seems to be but a circle, and we
would all go back to the starting point
if we could. The startled Imre when
pursued by the hounds speeds straight
forward for a time, but after a mile or
two begins to bend its course, and
keeps on curving until it comes panting
on the home stretch to its familiar
nesting place. And the Pioneers tell
us that when a hunter gets lost in the
forest on a cloudy day and tries to
make a bee line for home, he makes a
curve unconsciously and gets back to
his starting point. Shakespeare says
that old age is bat second childhood,
and so the older we grow the more
affection we have for children and their
innocent sports and pleasure. How
fondly our minds and memories live
over again the little plays of blind
man’s buff, milybright, hide and seek,
trimble-toe, club-fist, hide the switch,
craney crow and many others. How
we admire their happy laughs and
glowing faces as we draw near to them
now. No wonder tiiat George Francis
Irain in liis gloomy moods wandered
to the park and drew as many children
to him as lie could and played with them
on the lawn.
But time shrinks more than nature.
The-world is not so big nor the trees
31 West Hancock Street.
Thos H. Caraker, Mgr.
Only one more week of oar
Gretft Slaughter Sal
Prices are no longer an object with us. We are selling ever
in our Oxfords and Men’s and Ladies’ Tan Shoes, regard!.
Price, Call and see that we mean what we say.
so high as when we were children; but
a yeat is not half as long-not a tenth
part so long-as it used to be. The days
were never too long then, for they
were happy; but it seemed like a life
time lrom Christmas to Christmas.
Children are the sweetest part of this
great big world. Not long ago a cyni
cal friend, who has none said they were
an expensive luxury; so they are—ex
pensive not only in money and labor
and toil, but in anxious care; but they
repay it in love a thousand fold. They
are the life and eoralort of every good
family. What, would the world be
without them? Suppose they were all
grown up and there were no more to
come-no day schools nor Sunday
schools—no playhouses or toys or pic
ture books—no babies learning to talk
and *ay mamma or grandpa—no little
chaps to follow you about and love
you, and, the saddest of all, no more
mothers to fondle and caress and hug
them to their bosoms. What a cold
and dismal world this would be no
mothers, no fathers, no grandmas, no
nothing but grown-up people who never
played horse or sang a lullaby song.
My cynical friend says that children
make no return except in filial duty
and no recompense but affe«tion. Well
that is enough. Barents do not ask
any more. The love and obedience of
a good child is beyond price. The
disobedience and ingratitude of a
bad one is the most intense ot all mis
eries. There is not a greater contrast
upon earth than in tbe joy or the sor
row that children bring to parents.
From the time ot old Eli until now
this contrast has been going on. That
poor old man bad the curse of God
upon him because his children were
1 vile and ho restrained them not. I
tell you. young friends, who have
mated and married and are rearing
children, you had better read and pon
der the story of old Eli. The first
commandment says “I will visit the
sins of the fathers upon the children,”
but in this story the Lord visited the
sins of the children upon the parent.
Tiie old man was cursed and the
priesthood taken from liis house for
ever. What if ali the preachers who
have had had children were deposed in
these days? How many churches
would he closed against the married
clergy? Wouldn’t the young theologi-1
ans be in demand and have a monopoly
of the business until they, too, got
married and raised bad children?
There lias been much said and more
written about, bow to raise children;
but the old landsmarks are tbe best.
They must be restrained and, if exam
ple and commands will not do it, then
the rod must help. Line upon line,
precept upon precept—here a little and
there a little, which I suppose means
whip a little on this side and then a
little on the other side. I * heard a
sensible *tnd fond mother say yester
day: “I spanked Mary Lou twice
within a few minutes, and it didn’t do
her a bit of good. Then I spanked her
a third time and she has been the best
little child in the world ever since.”
But every parent knows as much
about this as I’do, and so I will refrain
from further advice. Every mother
knows how to raise other people’s chil
dren, and I know of one who says she
is tempted to move away' to get her
children away from the bad influence
of her neighbors’ children. The
neighbors smile at this, lor they know
that she has the worst in town amj they
are willing for her to go. Even my
wife used to think that the school
teacher ought to whip every boy but
hers. It is a touching and beautiful
fact that however bad a boy may be
and however abused and condemned
by the community and the laws of the
land, if he has a mother he has a
friend. BILL ABP.
Enterprising Americans at Sa
Bob Moore, of LaFayette, Ind.,says
that for constipation lie has found De
Witt’s Little Early Risers to be per-
feet. They never gripe. Try them
for stomach and liver troubles. Culver
& Kidd.
Already the enterprising An
Is present. 1 here is around t
ragged man with a smattering<
ish who has turned several ( ] 0 ;
buying up. swords and machete
Spaniards and the city pawns
self them again to American rel
ters. There is the man with t
ital to invest who awaits but a si
remunerative opportunity, and
is the man who buys up bar":
American horse flesh troin °s
wounded officers going home ai
ing to sell the animals at a profi
The first steamer from the
States brought many men to lo<
this new field for business o
nities, and there will be An
sharpness and enterprise pitted ;
the Cuban and Spanish. If St
prospers and money is easy,
will be a good field here for til
bier and his outfit it the Jaws <
low him to operate. Witli pro
and a good hotel, there is proi
Santiago ot a wide open town th
be a sure attraction to men of a
stamp.
The arrival nf c 0 many stran
Santiago during iue last two
h is taxed the towrPs accommoc
which were never ample, to the i
lhe lack ot anything like propei
and restaurants will continue t
detriment to tiie city until sor
with a knowledge ot wliat Am
want steps in and opens a hotel
I'|ie Anglo-American club o
tiago, an institution founded ovt
years ago by the English s|
residents of this place, has b<
salvation ot many Americans sii
occupation. The club affords a
number of cool, clean rooms to .
can officers and correspondents.
Many of Santiago’s America
tors will remember most gri
tiie. club’s cool garden and thi
paved shower bath. Since thrt
after the occupation the club ha
ed meals and, while what is
comes mostly in cans, the long
table set twice a day with china
and bottles of wine has been a
welcome sight to many an offic
has ridden in lrom the front
perienoe the novel sensation of a
lized meal.
Old friends meet, at this c<
centre and the fighting of the
second and third of July is tol
told again by men who were -
right or the left, or who came uj
Naval officers from the siiips hav
to the club dinner and then the
ther officers from the field heart
what the ships have done. Ma
the refugees trom Santiago an
eastern end of Cuba who slipper
to Jamaica during the troublou
are coming back. Opportunities
so are scarce, however, as steam
not frequent from Jamaica, but
the town is filling up and the c
people are coming in to buy
necessities. But their money
plentiful as yet. They depend
the crops of sugar and coffee ai
bacco, and until agricultural wc
resumed and the money that wa
back to Spain for safe-keeping
the war finds its way back to
under an assured confidence in
ture, money will not be as easy
"’as in the old days.
The Best Remedy For Flux
Mr. John Mathias, a well 1
stock dealer of Pulaski, Ky.,
“After suffering for over a week
flux, and my physician having
to relieve me, I was advised t<
Chamberlain’s Colic, Cholera
Diarrhoea Remedy, and have the
ure of stating tiiat the half ot on
tie cured me.” For sale by Cut
Kidd, druggists.
If you are oveiwoiked, exbj
by sickness, despondent, or debi
in any way, Dr. J. H. Mel
Strengthening Cordial and Bloc
rifier is the remedy for you. F<
by Cujver & Kidd.