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Milledgeville, Ga., August 80,$1898.
Number 9.
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couching
— ...Tp know
of nothing better to tear the
lining of your throat and
lungs. It is better than v.et
feet to cause bronchitis and
pneumonia. Only keep it
up long enough and you
will succeed in reducing your
weight, losing your appetite,
bringing on a slow fever and
making everything exactly
right for the germs of con
sumption.
Stop coughing and you
will get well.
Iyer’s
WASHINGTON LETTER.
oures coughs of every kind.
An ordinary cough disap
pears in a single night. The
racking coughs of bronchitis
are soon completely mas
tered. And, if not too far
along, the coughs of con
sumption are completely
cured.
Ask your druggist for one
of
Dr. Ayer’s
Cherry Pectoral
, Plaster.
It will aid the action of the
Cherry Pectoral.
If yon hnvo nny complaint \rh»t-
fver and desire the medical
advire you can possibly obtain,
write us freely. You will receive a
prompt reply that maybe of great
value to vou. Address. #
DU. J.'C'. AYER, Lowell, Mass. 1
itorial Glimpses and Clippings.
ommodore Philip will leave the
xas and take charge of the Mare Is-
d navy yard.
he annual interest upon Spain’s
lie debt is in the neighborhood of
0,000,000.
tariff schedule and postoffice reg
ions for Porto Rico have been ar-
jed and put in operation.
amaica has asked permission of the
tisli parliament to endeavor to ar-
for annexation to the United
ic Georgia state rate of taxation
ais year has been fixed at 0.21
an increase of £1 per thousand
the rate of last year.
ptember 28th, next, has been
.n as Georgia day at the Trans-
issippi Exposition at Omaha,
state will be represented by
y prominent citizens there that
f Hobson is really the sensible man
t he seems to be he must occasionally
ast, after getting into bed, exclaim
h Puck, “What foals these mortals
dispatch from Ponce, Porto Rico,
. 21, says: “Today, Sunday, the
ir saloons were closed and for the
time in the history of the island
s was a public Protestant religious
ice.”
ngland and Russia are contending
ommercial extension in China,and
e are threats of war if Russia uses
elfishly the power she lias already
ed, to the disadvantage of Eng-
jjf agreement with Gen. Merritt,the
went chief, Aguinaldo, has control
Ic country surrounding Manila,
■h none of the insurgents are ul-
■ to enter the city unless they be
lied.
people and government of Ma
le preparing for a magnificent
fration of the seventy-fifth anniver-
fof the existence of that city. 'I he
lion is designated as the Macon
jind Jubilee, and it will sparkle
'gem of the first water.”
From our Kt-gulnr Corrrgpouilrnl.
Washington, Aug. 24,1898.
“Let Admiral Dewey dictate our
policy towaids the Philippine islands.”
That is the sum and substance of the
advice that some of his most level
headed friends, who have observed the
the fact that Dewey has not made a
single mistake Ironi the day he de
stroyed the Spanish fleet to the day he
loreed the surrender of Manila, have
been giving Mr. McKinley, who ap
parently is still without a policy of his
own. It has been urged upon him that
Dewey during the nearly four months
he has been in Manila bay, has
thoroughly familiarized himself with
the condition on the islands, and would
be better able than any man who is not
there, to say what relations we ought
to maintain towards them. It has also
been pointed out to him that the public
confidence in Dewey’s judgment and
patriotism would cause his decision to
be received without question by the
people. All of these things Mr. Mc
Kinley has acknowledged, and he would
doubtless he glad to adopt and act upon
the advice were it not that some of his
political advisers have aroused his jeal
ously of Admiral Dewey ns a possible
rival in 1900, and told him that Dewey
must be kept in the background if he
wanted to keep him out of the White
House.
Not satisfied with reducing the sal
ary of a man who was at one time con
sidered competent to fill the position of
Chief Clerk, the Civil Service Com
mission has dismissed the man for
criticism of his superiors in office—an
awful crime, in the minds of his super
iors. The aforesaid criticism consis
ted of an answer mad# by the clerk—
E. I). Bailey, to public defamation of
himself by t lie Commission. The
Commission has never forgiven Bailey
lor having exposed some ot its humbug-
gery when a witness before a Senate
Committee, and has probably wasted
much time, highly paid for by the peo
ple’s money, in scheming how to hum
ble him, or push him out of office,with
out seeming to be actuated by any
other desire than the good of the ser
vice, only to make a fizzle of it at last.
Bailey may have deserved dismissal—
many think the whole civil service out
fit does—but he should have been given
a proper cause for his discharge and it
should lnne been so entered on the
record.
Gen. Blanco is showing a disposi
tion to take advantage ot the publish
ed disinclination of the administration
to tend an army of occupation to Cuba
before cool weather, to carry things
with a high hand at Havana, and to
prejudice the rabble against the U. S.
Blanco’s intention to make future trou
ble tor us is so plain that it is worrying
the administration no little, and de
mands that Blanco be peremptorily
called down are reaching Mr. McKin
ley from all sections of the coun
try.
That there is no limit to Spanish
gall was shown by the unofficial objec
tion made by the government of Spain
to the selection of. Senator Davis, of
Minn., Chairman of the Seriate Com
mittee on foreign relations to
be one of the American Peace Com
missioners, because his anti-Spanish
views were too strong and too well-
known. W ere such an objection held to
be valid, Mr. McKinley would have to
choose for Peace Commissioners such
men as Senator Wellington, ot Md.,
and Senator Hale of Me., about the
only two Senators who made their
friendliness towards Spain conspicious
during the debate which preceded the
war. It will be all up with Mr. Mc
Kinley if every one ot five Peace Com
missioners chosen by him, are not
known to be strongly anti-Spanish in
'their views. Already there has been
some criticism of the selection of Sec
retary Day, for that very reason, but it
lias remained within bounds because it
is known that Mr. Day will advance
the opinions of Mr. McKinley, and not
his own, when the Peace Commission
meets. Another exhibition of Spanish
gall, which was probably put out for p
teeler, was the attempt of Sagasta to
appear to take it for granted that the
Spanish Ambassador at Paris would Le
the presiding officer at the deliberations
of the Peace Commission. His talk
merely caused a smile in Washington.
As the victorious power, the U. S. has
the right, not only to name the presid
ing officer, if such be needed,but to in
sist that its Commissioners take pre
cedence in every way over those of
Spain, and Mr. McKinley is not likely
to waive those rights; he knows too
well how such waivers would be re
ceived in this country. Already there
is a growing impression that we have
been entirely too lenient in all our
dealings with the Spaniards, and
the people are apt to call a
speedy halt before the thing goes
much further.
“BLIND TOM” ASHE IS TO-DAY, I HAWAII CHEERS OLD GLORY.
A Texas Expander
Does his part towards making a
showing why there are or few real
statemen in this free and easy coun
try.
Samuel Aronson Cooper, of the Sec
ond congressional district of Texas, is
another one of them. Samuel Bronson
was Bailey’s right-hand man in the
Galveston convention and went down
with him in defeat in his war against
expansion. Samuel Bronson returned
home from Galveston after “pointing
with pride” and “viewing with alarm”
the various incidents in the world’s his
tory, and he was renominated for Con
gress on an expansion platform. Like
Bland, he is now for expansion be
cause his people" are. In other words,
he is willing to trade his convictions
for $410, mileage and perquisites, per
month.
In it Simply For the Money.
Mrs. Lease does not preach political
salvation free. She demands the cold
cash for her prescriptions for the eli
mination of poverty and the creation
of universal happiness. One hundred
and fifty dollars per hour is what she
charges for talkjng; hence the person
who asserts that talk is cheap does not
know about, her. Some time ago she
delivered three talks before a Chau
tauqua audience. The gate receipts
did not amount to enough to pay her
bill, and she is now suing for $450 for
the three evenings jaw wagging—
Savannah News.
Those who suffer from impaired di
gestion and weak stomach, and on ac
count of this have a peculiar dread of
chills ami fever, will be glad to learn
that a cure for chills and fever is now
manufactured and universally sold
which does not injure the stomach but
actually benefits it. It is ltamon’s
Pepsin Chill Tonic. Tasteless and
guaranteed. 50c.
His Passion for Music is Just as Strong
as it Ever Was.
“The name Thomas Wiggins means
nothing to the majority of readers,”
writes Jon J. a’ Becket, in the Sep
tember Ladies’ Home Journal. “But
Thomas Wiggins is ‘Blind Tom,’ a
name familiar to hundreds of thousands
in this country and abroad, who have
heard the piano played by this wonder
ful negio, The impression that he is
dead is a pretty general one. As a mat
ter of fact, Blind Tom has never been
ill a day in his life. On the banks of
the Schrewsbury River, in a domain of
over two hundred acres of woodland,
stands a picturesque two-and-a-half-
story wooden house with a broad ver
anda. Here Blind Tom is at home.
“His hands are not at all ‘piano
hands.’ In place of the slender, long
fingered hands which one so often sees
in great pianists,Tom’s hands are small
and plump, with the thumbs and taper
ing fingers quite short.
“The strongest impression I bore
away was that ot the sweet contented
life the poor blind negro is leading.
There was pathos in it. I had expected
to find a wonder at the piano, and I
did, for his untaught mastery of the in
strument is marvelous. From the time
when the Bethune family left the din
ner-table to see who could be playing
on the piano, and discovered the sight
less pickaninny of four years perched
on the stool, his little hands plucking
uncanny melody from the keyboard—
from that time until now he lias had an
unwavering devotion to the instrument
whose music is his life.”
You invite disappointment when you
experiment. DeWitt’s Little Early
Risers are pleasant, easy, thorough lit
tle pills. They cure constipation and
sick headache just a3 sure as you take
them. Gulver & Kidd.
In France a franchise is granted an
electric railway company for a certain
number of years, and upon the expira
tion of the franchise the entire railroad
with all power stations become the pro
perty of the state.
Summer Goods at
Your Own Price.
Never before was such an opportunity given to
the people of this section.
W have
Slaughtered Prices.
The people are going to buy goods at prices never
before heard of. Come to see us.
You can get What You Want At
Your Own Price.
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Raising of the Stars and Stripes an
Impressive Event.
Honolulu, Aug. 12 Precisely at
eight minutes to 12 o’clock to-day the I
Hawaiian flag descended from the flag- j
staffs on all the government buildings
and exactly at five minutes to the same
hour the Stars and Stripes flouted on |
the tropical breeze from every official ;
flagstaff.
The ceremony of to-dav was a most
impressive one. To hear the strains of
“Hawaii Ponoi” for the last time as a
national anthem; to hear the bugle blow
taps as the Hawaiian ensign sank from
its position, and to notice the emotion
of many who had been born under it
and had lived their lives under it, was
solemn.
The flag used for the occasion was
the largest size used in the navy, spe
cially made at Mare Island for the pur
pose.
As soon as President Dole and his
cabinet came from the executive build
ing to the platform the justices of the
Supreme Court followed, and then Ad
miral J. N. Miller and United States
Minister Harold Sewall came down
the stairs, followed by Capt. C. H.
Wadleigh, of the Philadelphia, and S.
M. Book of the Mohican, and their
staff officers, and Col. Barber ot the
First New York Regiment.
The ceremonies opened with prayer
by Rev. G. L. Peterson, pastor of the
First Methodist Church of this city.
United States Minister Sewall then
rose and, addressing President Dole,
who had risen, presented him with a
certified copy of the joint resolution of
Congress annexing thellawaiianlslnnds
to the United States. President Dole
answered, acknowledging the making
of a treaty of political union and formal
ly yielded to Minister Sewall, as the
representative of the United Slates, the
sovereignty and public property of the
Hawaiian Islands.
Mr. Sewall replied; “Mr President:
In the name of the United States, I
accept the transfer of the sovereignty
and property of the Hawaiian govern
ment. The admiral commanding the
United States naval forces in these
waters will proceed to perform the duty
entrusted to him.”
The Hawaiian band played “Hawaii
Ponoi,” the national anthem, Col.
Fisher gave the order to the National
Guard Battery, stationed on the execu
tive grounds in command of Lieut.
Ludwig, to fire the nationul salute of
twenty-one guns; which was also re
peated by the Philadelphia.
As the report of the last gun rever
berated in the hills, a bugle sounded
and the national ensign of Hawaii came
slowly down until it reached the
ground, never to go up again.
There was a short pause and then
the admiral nodded to Lieut. Winter
halter, who gave the order: “Colors,
roll off.” The flagship’s band struck
up the well known strains of “The
Star Spangled Banner” and us the
Stars and Stripes slowly ascended there
was breathless suspense. But ns it
reached the top cheers broke forth from
the crowds below, the salutes of twenty-
one guns were again fired by the Ha
waiian battery and the Philadelphia.
A few minutes after the hoisting of
the Hag others were raised on the two
side towers and military headquar
ters.
Minister Sewall then read a procla
mation, stating that President McKin
ley directs that the civil, judicial and
military powers of the government
shall continue to be exercised by the
officers of the republic of Hawaii. All
such officers will be required to take an
oath of allegiance to the United States
and renew their bonds to the United
States government.
“The powers of the minister of for
eign affairs will cease so far as they
relate to diplomatic intercourse be
tween Hawaii and foreign nations.
“The municipal legislation of Hawaii
and the existing customs regulations
will practically remain in force until
the Congress of the United States shall
otherwise determine.”
Following the reading of the procla
mation, Minister Sewall made an ad
dress congratulating the residents of
Hawaii upon the accomplishment of
annexation.
At the conclusion of the ceremonies
the National Guard was marched to
the parade grounds, where Minister
Cooper administered the oath of allegi
ance to Col. Fisher. The colonel then
administered it to his officers and the
captains to the men.
The regiment then escorted ibe naval
battalions to their boats and returned
to the drill shed to sign the roll.
Koy*l makes the food pure,
wholesome and delicious.
POWDER
Absolutely Pur*
sovai ftAKiNo rowom eo., niw voak.
USEFULNESS OF WOMEN’S CLUBS.
Conditions Under Which They are
Entitled to Commendation.
“That many of the women’s clubs in
America are doing valuable work itt
many directions admits of no doubt,”
writes Edward Bok in the September
Ludies’ Home Journal. “And so long
as a woman’s club keeps within it*
sphere—that of the social, mental end
educational improvement of the aex
and the children—and does not extend
and take up political questions and go
into a maelstrom of purely municipal
matters, the conduct of which is not
given women to rightly understand,
and. in which they can do no good, but,
on the contrary, effect much harm, it
serves a purpose high and mighty.
There is no question at all of the bene
fit which a woman derives from getting
out of the atmosphere of the routine of
domestic machinery, once a week or
once a fortnight, according as she is
able to spare the necessary time, and
coming into the different surroundings
of a number ot other women at th«
meeting of a sensible and well -conduct
ed literary, social or educational club.
Women’s clubs, like the clubs for men,
are useful institutions so long as they
are considered as a means towards an
end, and that end be social or mental
improvement. But when they are
taken iu the light of an end in them-
selves, then they become un evil which
should be corrected. For a woman to
make her club the all-absorbing element
in her life is wrong. But used as a
well-directed means toward her own
development, her own exhileration, to
the companionship of the sexes, apd
not their further separation, the
woman’s dub is commendable.”
Remitted the Fine.
The foreman of a jury which lately
sat in u New England court room lias
u ready wit, which served him well in
a recent encounter with one ot the
brilliant lights of the legal world,
says Youth's Companion.
The judge is a man of abrupt speech
and manner, but with u quick sense of
humor.
The foreman of the jury was late
one day; only a few moments, to be
sure, but it was one ot the judges most
irritable days, as lie afterwards owned.
“I overslept, your honor,” said the
foreman with due meekness, as be took
his seat.
“Fine him,” said the judge testily.
“May it please your honor,” said
the foreman quickly, “I did not dream
of that!”
“Remit the fine,” said the judge,
hiding his mouth with his hand for a
moment, hut his eyes betrayed him for
all that.
A Narrow Bccape.
Thankful words written by Mrs. A
E. Hart, of Groton, S. D. “Was tak
with a bad cold which settled on t
lungs; cougli set in and finally terrain
ed in Consumption. Four Doct
gave me up, saying I could live but
short time. I gave myself up to i
Savior, determined if I could not si
with my friends on earth, I would m
my absent ones above. My husba
was advised to get Dr. King’s N
Discovery for Consumption, Cou;
and Colds. I gave it a trial, took in
eight bottles. It has cured me, a
thunk God I am saved and now a w
and healthy woman.” Trial bott
free at Culver & Kidd’s drug sto
Regular size 50c and $1.00 Guarante
or price refunded.
It follows as naturally as daylij
follows dawn that the Nicaragua cai
must he owned and operated by t
United States in the interest
rapid transit between our posse
ions.