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Volume LXIX.
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Milledgeville, (ja., September 13, 1898.
Old She
Looks
Poor clothes cannot make
you look old. Even pale
cheeks won’t do it.
Your household ceres may
be heavy and disappoint
ments may be deep, but
they cannot make vou look
old.
One thing does it and
never fails, a.
young with
seventy year:
to look
the color of
in your hair.
Agers
permanently postpones the
tell-tale signs of age. Used
according to directions it
gradually brings back the
color of youth. At fifty your
hair may look as it did at
fifteen. It thickens the hair
also; stops it from falling
out; and cleanses the scalp
from dandruff. Shall we
send you our book on the
Hair and its Diseases?^
The Burnt Advlco Free.
If you do not obtain all the bene
fits you expected from the URe of
the Victor, write the doctor about it.
Probably there is some difllcultv
with your general system which
may be easily removed. Address, /
DR. J. C. AY El;, Lowell, Mass. .
Editorial Glimpses and Clippings
The regular army, as it will be con
sidered after the war, will consist of
75,000 men.
State elections wi4!
kansas, Vermont and
the present month.
be held in Ar-
Maine during
The populist of Baldwin county
should come back into the democratic
party this fall.
Republicans of the Fifth Congres
sional district have nominated Mr. A.
R. Bryan, of Fulton, for congress,
against Col. Livingston.
If the Third Georgia Regiment is
not mustered out it is said that Colo
nel John S. Candler will resign the
judgeship of the Stone Mountain cir
cuit.
The State Democratic campaign
committee is sending speaker into
every county in the State. A 100,000
majority will be the result in the Oc
tober election.
Rear Admiral Schley is not notice
ably tall, but his legs are wondrousty
Ion", and it is said that lie could run
like a deer in his younger days, hut
has long ago forgotten how.
Gladstone’s will lias been probated.
His personal estate was valued at
about $300,000. The will was writ
ten by his own hand and the second
clause referred to his burial.
The Roosevelt boom for governor of
New York is growing, and unless the
unexpected happens he will be nomi
nated by the republican convention
which meets at Saratoga Sept. 27.
Joseph P. McIntyre, the naval
chaplain attached to the Oregon, will
be tried by courtmartial. He is ac
cused with using savage language about
the conduct of Admiral Sampson, Cap
tain Evans and others.
A number of Indians near Winne-
pe*, Manitoba, report meeting an. Es
kimo, who told of the appearance
among them of a strange man who
descended from the clouds on the
shores of Hudson Bay. The opinion
ANALYSIS OP THE PHILIPPINES.
What the United States Cannot Afford
to do.
New York Press.
The only question, then, as to the
Philippines is what we want to take
and what we are entitled in honesty to
take. To take the whole or a prepon
derant part of the whole is simply to
take another “Indian question” multi
plied by 30. These 7,300,000 to
9,000,000 Mestizos, Negritos, Chinese
and Malays would become the “wards
of the Government.” We should have
to conquer them—a task for which
Admiral Dewey estimates a need ot
130.000 men,while Gen. Merritt wants
50.000 even to regulate affairs in the
outskirts of Manila; but after conquer
ing them we could neither expatriate
nor assimilate them. We should have
to treat them as we do our own red
skins, pay lor their land when we took
it and provide a vast system of agency
government whether we did or not.
Such a system costs now over $8,000,-
000 for little less than 230,000 In
dians. There are 30 times as many
Filipinos, of whom the vast majority
are less capable of civilization than our
aborigines, who have yielded less to
the influence of the Roman Catholic
church than any otlier barbarians on
earth.
Here is what science testifies as to
the quality of the race, the Malay, to
which most of these islanders belong:
“Slow and deliberate of speech, nei
ther elated by good or depresstd by bad
fortune, normally impassive and indo
lent, they are nevertheless capable of
the greatest excesses when their pas
sions are roused. Under the influence ot
religious excitement, losses at gamb
ling, jealousy or other domestic trouble,
they are often seized by the so-called
amok fever, when they will rush wildly
through the crowded streets, armed
with their sharp krisses, cutting down
all who cross their path with incredible
fury and without the least discrimina
tion. Amongst the practices and pro
pensities which connect them with the
Mongoloid inhabitants of Indo-China,
the most striking are pile'-building,
cock-fighting, a pronounced taste for
putrescent fish, with a corresponding
dislike of milk, head-hunting, large ear
ornaments, greatly distending the lobe.
* * The race, on the whole, is of a
sluggish intellect, inferior in natural
intelligence even to the surrounding
Papuan populations. * * Unaided by
foreign influences they never attain a
higher cu'ture than that of the ‘Sea
Gyp sies.’” (Gol. Yule, in Journal ot
the Anthropological Society for Feb.,
1880, reported in Encyclopaedia Brit-
annica.)
These are the new wards whose
guardianship, in the proportion ot 30
to 1 of our present guardianship, it is
proposed to assume. The cost would
nut stop at thirty times that ot the In-
I am now receiving Fresh Supplies to my Stock of
JEWELRY, WATCHES, SOLID SILVER, and PLATED W T ARE.
They are interesting to look at, and you will not regret
a trip to my store to see them.
HAVILAND CHINA, MEDALLION PICTURES,
BANQUET LAMPS
Are among the Latest Additions to my business. In each of
these Line9 I have an Elegant Assortment to which I invite the
special attention of my customers.
DIXON WILLIAMS.
Japanese coolies? Do we want to be
gin it without Europe’s excuse of teem
ing home acres? If we do, let us erase
all our protective Indian legislation
from the statute hooks and let the
“rustlers” and the “boomers” have
their way with the reservations. Let
us not pay $8,000,000 a year for the
privilege of proving our own cowardly
inconsistency.
So little is known of these islands
that the estimates of their number in
generally authoritative publications
vary from 300 to 2,000. It is known,
however, that though their area is as
large as that of the six New England
States, with New .Jersey, Delaware and
Maryland added, they have little more
than one-third of the arable area of
these States, of which most are noted
for their sterility. We borrow this in-
but Aparry, of which the harbor it
sater than that in which the Asiatic
squadron now lies. There might br
the foundation of an eastern empire for
which so many seem to yearn. But
the lesser island of Mindanao is larger
than Cuba, and Spain has had a Cuban
insurrection there for every year of its
occupation. Or, rather, it lias hnd a
continual invasion, for it never 1ms
been able to subdue the island’s people.
It would keep our hands quite full to
take that.
We have no notion that the Hispa-
no-American commission when it con
venes will even discuss the annexation
of the whole ot the Philippine Islands.
The reasoning which we have advanced
will appeal to its American members
with irresistable force. It is the reas-
oning of the facts in the ease,approach
Vanderlip of the Treasury Depart
ment, himself an apparent advocate of
annexation, according to the contents
of his paper in the current Century
Magazine. Why possess ourselves ot
this huge, uncultivable stretch of vol
canic reels, populated by potential pi
rates, and take with it the obligation
of governing the ungovernable? There
are nine larger islands in the group,
from which a selection can be made
sufficient not only tor a naval but a
commercial base. The island of Luzon
alone would be probably too much ot a
morsel for digestion, since its popula
tion numbers over 4,000,000 and its
interior is almost unknown, the Span
iards having settled on its sea slopes.
Its future port is said to be not Manila,
(communicated.)
Hereditary Traits and Tastes
formation from Assistant Secretary ed without the predisposition produced
by the repetition of catchwords and
without thought so much of what peo
pie think, or think they think, about a
situation as what the situation actually
is. We believe that Americans gen
erally will attack the larger questions
growing out of their changed relations
with the world in the same manner.
Their vast solutions in domestic affairs
have been so divested at the critical
period of each from superficial enthusi
asms that a similar attitude may he
predicted, we believe, in the vast solu
tions of foreign affairs approaching.
The cor.aumption of sugar ih
land is estimated at 80 pounds a
for each inhabitant.
Eng-
year
We Beg Ho Favors,
WE DESERVE THEM.
dian establishment, for all the materials
of government would have to be trans
ported across 0,000 miles ot ocean.
There is no other way known to our
methods of governing these people. It
is easy to talk of “civilizing” them, but
what are the data for such an accom
plishment? We tried all our methods
on the Nortli American Indian belore
settling upon the present expensive hut
apparently unavoidable means. Shall
we go hack into the “Century of Dis
honor” and efface these tribes as we
did at first those of our plains? The
administration that is caught at it by
the American people would have a
short shift. But what else can be done
exeept, as we have indicated, to follow
our recent and fearfully costly Indian
policy? What has Great Britian, the
expert subjugator, often stern, but nev
er wantonly cruel, done under like cir
cumstances? The Sierra Leond mas
sacre is the latest result cf her experi
ments with almost exactly the same
people. For the Negrito Filipino is
the West African buslimau. She
sought to recoup herself tor the outlay
of government by imposing a hut tax.
The result was a bloody uprising, which
would have sickened this whole coun
try—the white victims being American
missionaries—but for its pre-occupation
with the war. But that atlair was a
mere reproduction in miniature and in
part of wlmt lias been going on for
years in South Africa, where Cecil
Rhodes’ machine guns have worked
the plains of Matabeleland like verit
able reapers. Do we want to begin at
this sort of thing, not for the benefit ot
white settlers who seek to occupy the
soil, hut for the exploitation of this far
country by non-resident capitalists,
who may have all the good will in the
world to employ these savages, but
who would he obliged to wipe them
among the whites is that the man is j out with government assistance and
Andree, the arctic explorer. 'supply their places with Clime e or
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How few parents ever give a thought
to prenatal influences—a science of
physiology that all married people
ought to and should know. Cause
and effect are closeiy knit together
with mother and child. Nothing is
truer than that every human being
reflects his parental surroundings, and
nine times out of ten, is a child of
feeling, thought, disposition, temper
and tastes as the parents may elect.
Any one posted in the nice and secret
laws of physiology must know that the
physical and mental conditions of the
parents mould, create and stamp char
acter, taste and dispositions. In some
cases so positive that the normal or
abnormal condition of father or moth
er is seen in the child while an infant.
Nature works by laws and it is all
important that fathers and mothers
should be well acquainted with those
laws. Can the parent whose system
is poisoned with alcohol expect to be
the father of sober children. By that
I mean, children who will not take to
drink as naturally as a duck does to
water. We see that every day. Dipso
mania is inherited and young men take
to drink because there is taint in the
blood some where, either grand parents
or parents. It is an unpleasant truth,
but nature and her laws do not cater to
sentiment or feeling, nor rank,- birth
or education. We are what our fath.
ers and mothers made us. That truth
should be remembered.
It is easy enough to account for how
genius and talent, idiocy and imbecility
are many times born in families. The
Jews understood the secret when tiiey
said: “The fathers have eaten sour
grapes and the children’s teeth are set
on edge.” Or when they said: “As
is the mother, so is her daughter.”
The Jews were well posted in .the
laws of physiology, as their laws show.
They knew very well the efleet of food
upon the system, and mental laws be
sides. The sins of the fathers unto
the third and fourth generation, em
braced both mental, spiritual And
physical laws.
There is something rn temperaments,
and a combination of two tempera
ments .inherited from father and mother
will create a new temperament in the
child. Will power is a great tiling,
hut will power in an inherited dis
eased body does not amount to much.
A sound mind in a sound body is ail
important. Project the law of hered
ity in all of its ramifications as to
habits, vices, natural bent, etc., and
the parents stand out well reflected in
their children.
Your writer has not gone through
the world with his eyes shut as to what
he has seen in families, and what he
knows as positive facts. Nature is
ever true to her laws, no matter iiow
much we may pray to avert them, if
we violate them.
Young fathers and mothers should
take lessons in physiology before they
undertake the serious business of rais
ing a family of children. They should
first know themselves, and they will
have an insight into the mental and
physical condition of their children. |
Their habits will tell prenatally, and
their example afterwards. Let fathers
anu mothers remember: As the old
cockcrows, the young ones learn; and
as the mother speaks to or treats her
daughter, so will the daughter treat
her doll. Great is example, for pre
cepts are worthless when not impressed
by example.
When parents see peculiar traits in
a child, let them ask themselves, how
much of me is in that child? What
has been my example to that child?
What influence have Ion that child?
Those questions will put parents to
thinking, if they think at all.
. It. M. O.
The three regiments of Georgia vol
unteers are in the official list of those
that will be retained in service until
further orders. Just how long they
will remain in, no one now knows—
Now the first regiment is at Knoxville,
Tenn., the second at Huntsville, Ala.,
and the third at Griffin. Ga. It is
said the third has been ordered to
Jacksonville, Fla., to become a part of
Gen. Fitzhugh Lee’s division. It is
also said that Gen. Lee will command
the army of occupations he sent to
Havana. ■
The Democrats carried Arkansas *n
the state election held on the 3th inst.
The majority is between 20,000 and
30,000. .
Serving on His
Staff at Montauk.
Camp Wikoff, Montauk Point, L. I.
Sept. 7 Thomas H. Wheeler, son of
Gen. Joseph Wheeler, and Second
Lieutenant Newton I). Kirkpatrick,
First cavalry, were probably drowned
while bathing here this afternoon.
Young Wheeler was a naval cadet
in his second year. He Imd been act
ing on his father’s staff for some time
past. He was 17 years of age, was a
tine young fellow and had made a host
ot friends among the elder officers. To
gether with Lieutenant Kirkpatrick he-
wenttotho beach this afternoon to en
joy the surf bathing.
The surf ran high and the undertow
was very strong. Apparently no one
saw the young men daowned, and it
was not until about 0 o’clock that they
were missed. Their clothes were found
a short distance from Gen. Wheeler’*
tent, close to the water, and it is be
lieved that, the young officers were
swept away by the strong seas.
Tonight a detail ot sixty men from
the first cavalry is stationed along the
coast to watch for the bodies that may
he thrown upon the, shore.
Wh ile in command at Camp Wikofl
Gen. Wheeler’s headquarters were lo
cated on a high hill near the station a.
considerable distance back trom the wa-
ter. It was only today that his head
quarters were shitted down to the
beach. His tent and the tents of his
stall' officers are not more than twenty
yards from the water’s edge.
It was this change ot location that
gave young Wheeler and Kirkpatrick
an opnortunity to indulge themselves
in the surf. They had often spoken of
so doing and every one here is con
vinced that they were drowned today.
Of the accident Gen. Wheeler has
nothing to say. Ilis three (laughters,
two of whom have been acting as
nurses in the general hospital and the
other as nurse in the detention hospital
are with him grief-stricken.
Lieutenant Kirkpatiick was from
Virginia. He was appointed second
lieutenant June 12, 1896.
A Clever Trick.
It certainly lookslike it, but there i*
really no trick about it. Anybody can
try it who has Lame Back and Weak
Kidneys, alaria or nervous troubles.
We mean he can cure liimssll right
away by taking Electric Bitters. This
medicine tones up the whole system acts
as a stimulant to the Liver and Kidneys,
is a blood purifier and nerve tonic. It
cures Consumption, Headache, Faint
ing Spells, Sleeplessness and Melan
choly. It is pure vegetable, a mild laxa
tive, and restores the system to its
natural vigor. Try Electric Bitters
and be convinced that they are a
miracle worker. Every bottle guaran
teed. Only 30c a bottle at Culver &
Kidd’s Drug Store.
Th is country was much surprised at
the report of a great battle near Khar
toum, in Nubia, that appeared in the
daily papers on the 5th instant. The
fighting was between the Anglo-Egyp-
tian forces under English command,
and Mahdist Dervishes. The relative
strength of the opposing forces wa*
25,000 English and Egyptians and
about fou. times that many Dervishes.
The result was the capture of the town
of Omdurman on the Nik, with the
loss of about 8,000 Dervishes and 500
Anglo-Egyptian soldiers. The battle
was fought almost exactly where Gen,
“Chinese” Gordon was killed several
years a^o.