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UNION-RECORDER.
Millkikikvti.i.k.Ga., Ar«. ‘23, 1898.
Editorial Ullmpses and Clippings.
The volunteers generally arc opposed
to being disbanded, so it is said.
The State Agricultural Society will
held its next annual meeting at Quit-
man.
The Second Georgia regiment has
been moved from Tampa to Huntsville,
Ala. _
Charles J. Bayne, of the Augusta
Herald, is making a great success as a
jecturer.
Georgia needs and should have ^ a
number of canning factories. Ihe
sooner the better.
Darien will send up quite a delega
tion to the Milledgeville college the
coming month.—Gazette.
By Christmas time America will be
producing its own sugar and coffee,and
will ha\'- fish trom every sea.
The German government pays the
North German Lloyd alone more
than $1,000,000 a year for carrying the
mails.
J. M. Wilkinson, of Valdosta, has
been nominated by the republicans to
run against Congressman Brantley in
the Eleventh district.
The man who stops before bars
Wherever he nany find ’em,
Is very apt, experience proves.
To end his days behind ’em.
Congressman Bartlett is a patriotic
American citizen, proud ot her already
vast possession:—but lie don’t want
the Earth.
All the work ot the Spanish-Aiteri-
cnn war was accomplished in loir
months, but it will take about font-
years to get away with the details of
peace.
Miss Bessie Christian of Macon was
married to Private J. T. Curran of
Kay’s Immune Regiment in Savannah,
prior to the departure of the soldiers
for Santiago.
The surrender of Munila, like the
battle of New Orleans, dropped in after
the peace preliminaries were signed,
and the two are worthy to be coupled
as specimens of American military
work.
Dewey could have taken Manila by
bombardment the day after he destroy
ed the Spanish fleet if troops had been
at hand lor garrison duty. He was
careful to see that nothing was lost by
delay.
Gov. Atkinson, Col. Bob Berner,
and Railroad Commissioner Atkinson
will stump the state for Colonel Cand-
dler and the state ticket. The party
is united from one end of the state to
the other.
The Rome Hustler Commercial says:
“As the days roll by Finn duBignon,
of the county of Chatham, glows more
and more popular among the sturdy
yeomanry anil wool-hat boys ot North
Georjia."
li is astonishing how much furni
ture the new tirm of Stewart & Walker
is selling. They are giving bargains
now. Call on them at once, and save
money by buying of them. They 'are
on comer, known as Fraley Ok
Walker. Fraley sold to Stewart Ok
Walker
The Cubans in Santiago province
have been advised by the American
commanders there to lay dawn ilieir
.Him- and conduct themselves as good
citizens or they will he treated as hos
tile.-. li the Cubans heed tins advice
they will greatly aid in the format ion
of a -.o .d gov eminent lor their i-land.
THE NEURO AS A SOLDIER,
JS THK KXPKR1MENT A FAILURE?
The experience with negro soldiers
in the war that has just closed leads
many careful observers to doubt wheth
er it is advisable to have them in the:
army,srither as regulars or volunteers,
There is no doubt that they fought
bravely at Santiago, and that they will
fight any and everywhere when pro
perly led. but there are many difficul
ties in the way ot making soldiers of
negroes, particularly it they are to
have negro officers. I hose in the tegu
lar army have white officers, and there
has not been so much trouble with
them, hut even they have been hard
to control while in camp. Only a day
or two ago the lawless conduct of the
negro troops at Tampa attracted the
attention of the whole country. In tact
the negro troops have shown a lawless
spirit wherever they have been in
camp near towns. Tl ey have no re
spect for the civil authorities. In sev
eral places they have attempted to res
cue not only members ot their own
command, but also negroes not con
nected with the army, who had been
arrested for offenses of one kind or
another.
It is probable that they would make
satisfactory soldiers if they could he
kept away from the towns, and were
officered by white men. The negroes,
however, objected to having negro
volunteers officered by white men,and,
owing to political reasons probably,the
volunteer negro regiments and com
panies have been allowed to choose of
ficers of their own color. Negro of
ficers are not well received in the
army. Neither the white officers nor
white privates will salute them. Ot
course that makes had feeling in tlie
army between the two races.
We suggested some time ago that the
negro troops should be sent to. Cuba to
do garrison duty. There is no doubt
that they can stand the Cuban climate
much better than white troops. It is
reported that only a few ot the negro
troops with Gen. Shatter’s army have
suffered from fever. That is good evi
dence that they can stand the Cuban
climate.
One fegiment of negro volunteers
has been sent to Santiago, The negro
regulars that are there ought to be
kept there. There are other negro vol
unteer regiments, and the war depart
ment would have acted wisely if it had
sent them there instead of the so-called
immune regiments. Euless the white
troops exercise the greatest -are they
will have about the same experience
witii the fever as those with Gen. Shat
ter are having.
It cannot be said, of course, that the
plan of having negroes as soldiers in
tin* army is a failure, but it seems from
the experience with them in tlie war
with Spain.tlmt it is not a success. I n-
dei white officers and away from the
towns the negroes, from all accounts,
make good soldiers, but near towns
they are lawless to a degree, anu with
negro officers they would he a source
of trouble in the army and out of it.
The above conservative statement
ot the ease from the Savannah News
moves us to make reply: The experi
ment in an absolute failure.
C. D. Mandle’s s E E i A A L0R ’
We do not give Trading Stamps, but we do give
,5 percent Discount For CASH
ll they <!
f ; red" t-
d it, tlo-y will be
Hon.Chas. L. Bartlett seems to take
a leal pleasure in serving his consiitu
ent-. Any request, large or small, from
any citizen, high or low, meets with
prompt and respectful consideration at
his hands, even it if involves a trip to
Washington between sessions. The
brainy representative from the Sixtl
it not only very popular, personally, but
he is recognized as an able debater in
the halls of congress and a fearless
Southern leader.
»
Howard Burr, a popular young man
of Macon, died in that city on Tues
day. He had been in ill health for a
number of years, and while his death
was not unexpected it was a shock to
the entire city. Mr. Burr was a little
over 80 years of age, and was for a
long time secretary of the Central City
Loan and Trust Company. He leaves
a wife and one child, two sisters, Mrs.
Charles Leonard and Miss Alice Burr;
one brother, George W. Burr; also his
mother, the widow ot the late George
W. Burr. Mr. Howard Burr married
the daughter of Judge Emory Speer.
Ami bliine your Shoes FREE.
This gives you the advantage of using your money instead of hav
ing to take some little article that is of NO REAL VALUE to you.
We are receiving ever}' day NEW W INTER-SHOES and are
still offering
A Big Discount on our Summer Slices and Oxfords.
Come and see that we mean what we say as to LOW PRICES and
5 per cent discount FOR CASH.
Thos. H. Caraker, Mgr.
l or I he War Department.
From the Richmond Dispatch,
It is certain that, for a year or two
to come, our country must maintain a
very considerable army. 1 he regulars
number about 45,000, and, for the
present, we. guess congress will be loath
to authorize i n increase; if so, the other
troops we need must be taken trom the
volunteers. Now, could not that be
done so as to release those soldiers who
have urgent reasons for wishing to
coinc home, and have their places
filled by those who desire to play sol,
dier for some time longer.' Let the
war department think on it.
THE SPANISH COMMISSIONS.
Lii-uiiiu, August 19 A dispatch to
i.hi- Duly News from Madrid says the
Spanish evacuation e immissioners will
in* as follow s :
K<> C’ubi—Generals Blanco, Cas
tellanos and L'*on, and Admiral Man-
terula.
For Porto Rico—Generals Macias
and Ortega, and Admiral Villaririe.
When the war began the Spanish
were fully convinced that this was a
nation of business men and without
military aptitude. Ten days after the
declaration of war Dewey hit that
Spanish theory and the amazement in
Sjjain has not yet subsided.
In spite of the fact that none of
Georgia’s volunteer regiments were
sent into active service, which is true
ot many others, they are nevertheless
entitled to their share of the credit in a
victorious campaign. They formed a
part of the country’s fighting ,force,
ready to respond for whatever service
they might be desired at a moment’s
notice, and they are heroes, though
they did not fight. Wherever they
have been in camp Georgia soldiers
have won praise by their exemplary
conduct, and naught can be said except
what is to their credit.—Savannah
News.
An Object Lesson.
The Journal of Education says: One
great object lesson the war is giving to
the boys and men of this country is the
truth of the tact which parents and
teachers have been telling them for
some time, viz., that cigar and cigar
ette smoking undermines the health to
such an extent that the user becomes
pbysicially unsound. It is said that
some of the examinations undergone by
the volunteer soldiers, lully 30 per
cent, have been rejected on account of
defective heart action caused by cigar
ette smoking. Most boys take up this
habit in order to appear manly and be
like men. If we can impress upon them
that instead of making them appear
manly they are actually being made
weaklings and thus made unfit to be
classed as sound men, they certainly
ought to take the lesson to heart
and avoid the use of this deadly
poison.
The government ot the United
States ligs prohibited the use of the
cigarette at West Point and Annapolis
on sanitary and moral grounds,and on
the same grounds it ought to he
kept out of every public school in the
land.
The Czar of Russia keeps himself in
good physical condition by taking a
brisk run ot three-fifths of a mile every
morning before t he imperial breakfast
is served. The Czar is quite fleet of
foot and enjoys excellent health.
The Cubans have adopted a rather
novel method of keeping their silver
coins at home. Nearly all of these
coins have holes in them, which do not
affect their value on the island, but
the coins will not circulate at par else
where.
Truth wears well. People have
learned that DeWitt’s Little’ Early
Risers are reliable little pills for regu
lating the bowels, curing constipation
and sick headache. They don’t gripe.
Culver t& Kidd.
Tests with the Krag-Jorgemon ride,
now used by our army, 3how that when
tired at one hundred yards, a bullet
will pass through six men standing in
close order and lodge in the seventh.
The ball will pierce twenty-four inches
of solid oak.
A HUSBAND
SAYS:
“ Before my
wife began vising
Mother’s Friend
she could hardly
get around. I do
not think she
could
get
along
without
it now. She
used it for
months and it is
a great help to
her. She does
her housework
without trouble. ”
Mothers Friend
is an external liniment for expectant
mothers to use. It gives them
strength to attend to their household
dvrties almost to the hour of confine
ment. It is the one and only prepara
tion that overcomes morning sickness
and nervousness. It is the only
remedy that relaxes and relieves the
9train. It is ^the only remedy that
makes labor short and delivery casv.
It is the only remedy that puts tli.*
breasts in condition so that swelling
or risirtg is impossible. Don't tab
medicines internally. They endanger
the lives of both mother and child.
Mother's Friend is sold by druggists for $!.
Send for our free illustrated book
The Bradfleld Regulator Co., Atlanta, Ga,
From Day to Hay.
Since the present United States am
bassador to England, Colonel John
Hay, is scheduled to succeed Secretary
of State William It. Day in the office
which the latter relinquishes to become
chairman of that peace commission,
public attention naturally centers once
more upon the interesting personality
ot the former.
Colonel Hay is now well advanced
in years, hut is still apparently in the
enjoyment of good health. His genius
is of the kind usually termed versatile
and he is as much at home in the realm
of letters as in the realm of poli
tics. Though not classed in the
front rank of poets, he is the author of
several productions in verse which are
prime favorites with the English speak
ing world in both hemispheres. His
literary culture rather than his diplo
matic ikill has rendered him exceed
ingly popular with our brethren across
the water, who regard him with much
ot the same interest which they former
ly bestowed upon James Russell
Lowell, another type of the literary
ambassador.
Born in the state of Indiana, Colonel
Hay first came into national promi
nence in 1801, when he accepted the
position of assistant secretary to Presi
dent Lincoln. This position carried
with it some degree of active service
in the capacity of aid-de-camp, which
secured for Colonel Hay his military
title. Immediately after the war he
was made the chief secretary ot the
legation at Paris, but resigning that
position in 1867. he became charge
d’affaires at Vienna and subsequently
the chief secretary of the legation at
Madrid. On returning to the United
States he became first assistant editor
and the editor-in-chief ot The New
York Tribune. Under the adminis
tration of President Hayes he ably tilled
the role of assistant secretary of state,
and in 1881 he represented the United
States at the international sanitary con
gress, being made the president of that
body- Though educated lor the prac
tice ot law, C’oloneL Hay has found lit
tle time to devote to that profession, so
thoroughly lias lie been immersed in
public affain. What little time la
lias found to devote to other matters lu
has given to his literary work, both in
prose and in verse, anil undoubtedly he
owes the hulk of his reputation to the
leisure exercises in which he has thus
indulged.
When President McKinley came
into office one of his tirst acts was to
appoint Colonel Hay ambassador to the
court of St. James. In that capacity
Colonel Hay has since distinguished
himself by his polished addresses on
public occasions, which have been dis
tinctly rich in literary flavor, besides
thoroughly American in tone. His
personal dignity lias also been such as
to commend him to those at home
well as to those abroad. For some
time past rumor has advertised the fact
that Colonel Hay would be called to
the office of secretary of state, but the
official announcement to this effect lias
been withheld until the present time,
Mr. Day was the most available man
for secretary of state at the time ot Mr.
Sherman’s resignation several months
ago, but now that Mr. Day is compelled
to relinquish that office, President Mc
Kinley is thus enabled to carry out the
desire with which he has long been
,credited, viz: the desire to call Colonel
Hay into the cabinet.
We do not doubt that Colonel Hay
will prove acceptable to the country at
large. He has had wide experience
in public affairs and has never lacked
for sufficient ability to sustain himself
in any position which he has occupied
heretofore. We do not know of any
republican better qualified for con
scientious and efficient discharge of the
duties of that portfolio.
When you call for DeWitt’s Witch
Hazel Salve, the great pile cure, don’t
accept anything else. Don’t be talked
into accepting a substitute for piles,
for sores, for burns. Culver & Kidd.
CLB.
We will
I u a 11011 rate
ON
September 1st
A system of
selling goods
AT
Retail
At the same
prices as are
uow being paid
AT
Wholesale.
It will be a revelation and
the result will be an immense
saving of dollars to the people.
In the meantime all of
our Summer Stock can be
bought at an Enormous Sac
rifice. We must have room
to put our mammouth stofck
now in transit.
Adolph Joseph, Agt.
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