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THE DALTON ARGUS.
Entered st the Postoffice in Dalton, Ga., as
second-claso matter and issued every Saturday
by A. H. Shaver.
OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE COUNTY.
TELEPHONES, NCS. 1 and 23.
A.. 11. SHAVI2R,
EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.
SATURDAY, AUGUST 5. 1899.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox says she
wrote “Solitude.” We see no urgent
reason for her having made any such
humiliating confession.
The kissing bug is a native of the
Phillippine Islands. Hobson killed
its business over there, and it had to
come to America to make a living.
Ex-Gov. Atkinson declares that
there are conditions which may in
duce him to re-enter public life.
What “conditions”—a chance to get
office ?
“Fame, fame, O what is fame?”
Go ask Dennis O’Connell, of Mt.
Sterling, 111., who is reputed to be
able to eat more onions than any
other man in America.
Unless the negroes quit commit
ting rape in Georgia, they will be
exterminated. This is the certain
end and they should recognize the
fact before it is too late.—Rockdale
Banner.
“Will the dog be an issue in the
next campaign in Georgia?” asks
the Darien Gazette. Yes; in some
counties it will be simply a question
of choice between two canine dispo
sitions.
Politics in Mississippi have al
most reached the South Carolina
level. McLaurin was elected to the
United States senate from Missis
sippi last week because he “ate
greens with his knife.”
Russell Sage, the New York
multi-millionaire, has given SI.OO
towards the repair of the cemetery in
which his ancestors are buried. He
need have no fear of heart disease —
especially of enlargement.
In the south a mob is not able to
run a town more than a few hours at
a time. Note the Bainbridge case.
In the north the mob is often able to
run the town about as long as it
pleases. Note the Cleveland case. —
Savannah News.
That’s the difference in the two
sections. The “law and order” in the
south is genuine, while that at the
north, like the red paint on the Irish
man’s parrott, is only surface deep.
Joe Wheeler has evidently been
spoiled by too much flattery and
petting. He seems now in a fair
way to make a goose of himself. —
Waycross Herald.
Yes; Old Joe is a grand old man,
but he is getting too prone to fall on
the necks of the yankees and weep, to
suit me. We like the record Joe
made in the sixties far better than
the record he is making now.
Hon. Hoke Smith says of the
I’hillippine war: “Nine-tenths of the
people of our section are opposed to
continuing the war. The sentiment
all over the south, I believe, is over
whelmingly against trying to retain
the islands. The Filipinos are fight
ing for liberty in the same way we
did 100 years ago and the American
people are already sick and tired of
the slaughter going on there.” And
Hoke Smith is eminently correct.
The Georgia Weekly Press Asso
ciation decided at its last meeting to
turn that organization into a work
ing body hereafter. Good; let them
stick to that agreement and we will
see an improvement in Georgia
journalism. Heretofore the annual
meetings of the association have been
a failure, so far as being a benefit to -
or resulting in the advancement of ;
the weekly papers. Editors with no i
surplus cash cannot afford to attend ;
these meetings merely for the pleas
ure, because they cannot afford it. »
But they would make a sacrifice to (
attend if they were turned into (
business meetings.—South Georgia
Home.
THE DALTON ARGUS, SATURDAY, AUGUST 5, 1899.
THE LADIES’ CONVENTION.
The Annual Convention of the
Home Mission Society of the North
Georgia Conference will meet in Dal
ton, Sunday, August 27th, and ex
tends through to the next Wednes
day night, August 30th. The body
numbers from fifty to sixty delegates,
and is one of the most notable, most
pious, most distinguished gathering
of consecrated Christian women that
meets in the United States. It is a
great honor to Dalton to be allowed
the privilege of entertaining it, and
the good it will do in the community
can only be measured by the amount
of the grace of God that is poured
out upon it, the earnestness of the
prayers that are raised for its bless
ing, and the heartiness with which
the good people of Dalton welcome it
and entertain it. It can meet here
and revive and refresh every Chris
tian in the city, or it can meet here
and its history as to benefit and im
provement to our people will be told
in the reading of the minutes of its
business session. It all depends
upon the people of Dalton —if they
open their hearts to its gracious in
fluences, they will be blessed; if not,
they will stand still (?) —No; there is
no such thing as standing still in this
world; we either go forward, or go
backward.
It is needless for The Argus to
urge the hospitable people of Dalton
to open their doors to the delegates.
Were there five times as many in
number, all would receive a cordial,
warm reception and hospitable en
tertainment. The warm hospitality
of Dalton is too well known for that
to be doubted for a moment, and
what The Argus urges upon you is
not simply to open your doors, but to
open your hearts, and above all open
your souls to its blessed influence.
Its session will mark a gracious sea
son of revival in Dalton —if not of
public manifestion, certainly of in
dividual good and church improve
ment.
BRUNETIERE AND AMERICA.
In the Foreign Letter in the cur
rent number of Literature, a corre
spondent signing himself W. M. F.
quotes interestingly from M. Bru
netiere’s recent book, in which he
details his impressions of this coun
try, and in particular of American
audiences.
M. Brunetiere is a close observer,
and many little points which have
escaped other public speakers en
tirely have appeared to him es
pecially significant. Thus he men
tions a curious stir which went
through a Baltimore audience when
he quoted Carlyle’s eulogy of Shake
speare from M. Izoulet’s translation
of Heroes and Hero Worship. The
people, according to M. Brunetiere,
felt themselves “glorified in this
apothesis of Shakespeare.” A simi
lar feeling was noticed in Canada
when the critic read the “Cid,” “An
dromache,” and Pascal’s Pensees,
which, according to the writer,
awoke in the hearts of the French
Canadians the thought that, al
though British citizens, they were of
French origin. Whether or not there
is any foundation for M. Brunetiere’s
ideas, they make a most useful argu
ment in his appeal to the French
people, with which he concludes,
begging them to defend the glory and
the age of the classics.
“Shall we be less French than
they?” he says. “Shall we learn
from them what we owe to ourselves ?
And shall we not recognize that
whatever there is taken away from
the glory of these men and of their
age is, alas! not taken from them,
but from us—taken from the French
soul ?”
Forty cases of yellow fever are
reported at the Soldier’s Home, near
Hampton, Ya., just across the Hamp
ton Hoads from Norfolk. Os course,
we all expected yellow fever this
year, and can only pray for its visi
tation upon the country to be as light
as possible.
A most sensible man truly says:
“When the negroes fully realize that
their living and welfare in this coun
try depend entirely on their good
conduct, it will be much better for
them.”
SPECIAL NOTICE.
Since making the announcement
last week that, during Miss Cecil
Huff's absence on account of her
eyes, the Woman's Department of
The Argus would be discontined,
the editor has been fortunate enough
to find a young lady to occupy the
place (during Cecil’s retirement), in
the person of Miss Clara Freeman,
the bright daughter of Col. Sam R.
Freeman, of Atlanta, and a younger
sister of Mrs. W. H. Prater, of Dal
ton. Miss Freeman is in her seven
teenth year; yet, while young, she
has developed a wonderful literary
ability, having made some most cred
itable contributions both in prose
and poetry. Cecil kindly installed
her in the place the first of the week,
and the editor bespeaks for her the
generous consideration of the public
for her first efforts in a new, strange
position, and requests for her all the
help and encouragement it is possi
ble for you to give her in the pursuit
of her calling.
They used to call the editor of
The Argus a “goldbug”, but, thank
goodness! nobody ever called him a
“kissing bug.”
The telegraphic dispatches this
week tell us of a white woman
being assaulted by a negro brute
right in the shadow of the White
House in Washington, and also
tell of many recent assaults in
that city, and relate the story of
miscegenation rampant in the na
tion’s capital. This is what might
have been expected, and if these
brutes should attack the ladies of the
White House themselves, we might
be led to again believe in old
fashioned retributive justice; for all
these outrages really lie at the door
of such fellows as McKinley.
GOV. CANDLER’SHORSE SENSE.
Recently, Gov. Allen D. Candler
was asked by the Chicago Inter-
Ocean to answer these two questions
in regard to the race problem in the
south:
“What Is the cause of the conflicts
between the whites and blacks ?
“Is there a remedy, and if so, what
is it?”
Gov. Candler replied in a two-col
umn letter, Under date of July 26th,
and it is a characteristic letter
strong, to the point and free from
beating the devil around the bush.
He plainly says the cause of the race
conflict in the south lies at the door
of the yankee “fools and fanatics”
who placed the ballot in the negro’s
hands, and have been encouraging
him toantagnize his white neighbors
ever since; and he then declares that
the only chance for the negro and
the south to live on terms of peace is
to take the right of suffrage away
from him (partailly at least) and
thus remove all cause for designing
whites corrupting the blacks and
arraying them against their neigh
bors. On this line, the Governor
says:
“It has required many generations
of tuition to fit the Anglo-Saxon, the
strongest race in all the elements of
true manhood, for intelligent self
government, and many of this race
have not even yet learned success
fully all these lessons.
“How then can we reasonably ex
pect the weakest of all races, men
who have just emerged from a state of
bondage, whose ancestors only a few
generations ago were roaming naked
in the jungles of Africa, subsisting
on the spontaneous productions of
the earth and the uncooked flesh of
wild beasts, and who had never even
heard the name of God, to be capable
of self-government.
“The idea is preposterous, and the
greatest crime ever perpetrated, not
only against American ideas and in
stitutions and human liberty, but
against the southern negro was when,
without preparation he was clothed
with all the rights and privileges
and responsibilities of citizenship.
“As in the case of the Anglo-Saxon,
so in the case of the African, gener
ations of this moral training will be
required to fit him for these duties
and responsibilities. This process is
too slow to meet the emergency.
“We need a remedy immediate in
its effects and this remedy can only
be found in a qualified suffrage. The
ballot must only be entrusted to the
virtuous and intelligent. Now many
men vote who are intelligent, but
not virtuous and many more vote
who are virtuous, but not intelligent.
“The safety of the state and the
happiness of the people of both races
demand that the voter be both vir
tuous and intelligent. Restrict the
suffrage to those having both these
qualifications and one of the greatest
causes of irritation will be removed,
race prejudice at least in politics,
will be eliminated, and the happi
ness and the material and moral con
dition of the southern negro will be
greatly enhanced.
“Erect this safeguard, continue to
support free schools for the educa
tion of his children.
“Let the preacherand teacher con-
It is something be
sides bad air that
makes a woman faint
in a close theatre. A
well woman wouldn’t faint. The woman
who easily grows faint and dizzy —who
has palpitation of the heart—a “stuffy”
feeling hot flushes nervous troubles,
better look for the cause in her digestive
system or in the distinctly
feminine organism maybe J
in both.
Women who are not quite
well and don’t know just MJa
what is the matter, and W®
women who are really sick ObjffiS**
and don’t know exactly
what is the V
matter should
write at once to
Dr. R. V. Pierce, ''LoNi
at Buffalo, N.Y., A/ z?
stating their
symptoms in de- f
tail. They will
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Dr. Pierce with- J ZFjKh
out charge. " /y /rfflw
Dr. Pierce is, '’"7 /f’l'T
and for over | ’
thirty years has been, chief consulting
physician in the world-renowned Invalids’
Hotel and Surgical Institute, Buffalo, N. Y.
He has treated and cured more suffering
women than any other physician in the
world, and more of his “Favorite Prescrip
tion,” for the correction and cure of all dis
orders and diseases of the feminine organs,
except cancer, has been sold than of all
other similar medicines.
Write to Dr. Pierce. If his medicines are
what you need he will tell you so, if they are
not what you need he will honestly say so
and will tell you what to do. Dr. Pierce’s
position is a sufficient guarantee that his
advice will not be biased by the hope of
selling you a few bottles of medicine.
If you wish to study up your own case
Dr. Pierce will send you, free of all cost,
a paper-bound copy of his great 1000-page
book, the “Common Sense Medical Ad
viser,” of which over 750,000 were sold at
$1.50 a copy. All that Dr. Pierce asks is
that you send 21 one-cent stamps, to pay
the cost of mailing only. If you prefer the
book in fine French cloth send 31 stamps.
Addresr Dr. R. V. Pierce, Buffalo, N. YT
tinue to assiduously inculcate the
lessons of virtue and mortality, pre
cept upon precept, and line upon line,
continue, as is now the case in Geor
gia, and I believe in all the other
southern states, to accord to him
equal and exact justice in the courts
and in the legislature, and above all
let misguided fanatics at the north
and elsewhere who do not and can
not, unless they were on the ground,
know the real situation in the south,
cease their intermeddling and leave
the matter to the southern white man
and the southern negro for adjust
ment, and soon there will be no race
problem, rape will be reduced to a
minimum, lynch law will become a
thing of the past, tranquility will be
restored and the negro will be hap
pier, better protected and more pros
perous than he has ever been.”
Both Gov. Candler’s premises and
conclusions are logically and practi
cally correct. Fanaticism led the
north to run amuck in casting indig
nity upon the south, and it not only
committed a sin against the south,
but against civilization when it put
the ballot in the hands of a race
wholly unfitted to exercise the right
of franchise. The cause of the ne
gro’s evil deeds lies at the door of the
north; the protection from him lies
in the restriction of the ballot by the
states, and in the summary punish
ment of evil doers.
Such wholesome talk as Gov. Can
dler gives the Inter-Ocean will do
the north good, if it has sense enough
to profit by the Governor’s wisdom.
An exchange suggests that the
way to prevent the outrage of white
women by negroes is to kill the ne
groes before they commit the crime.
There can be no doubt that such a
disposition is fast growing, especially
in communities where outrages have
been committed.—Waycross Herald.
This acrostic has been suggested
by the New York Journal about the
five men most prominent in the pres
ent administration’s affairs:
SHAFTER.
HANNA.
ALGER.
MoKINLEY.
EAGAN.
Yes; it is truly a story of “shame”
to the whole country.
In the course of an interview a few
days ago, Ex-Gov. Boise, of lowa, is
quoted as having said: “Sixteen to
one is not and never was an essential
of democratic faith. It cannot be
made so now, because the democratic
party will never be united in its fa
vor.” If our memory serves us
rightly, Gov. Candler of this state
made a somewhat similar declara
tion in ins campaign for the governor
ship, supplementing it with the
statement, however, that bimetal
lism is democratic faith—which is
Ex-Gov. Boise’ position.—Savannah
Nows.
And there is much food for thought
in Horace Boise’s opinion. It shows
the general drift of democratic sen
timent all over the country, and is an
evidence that the democratic party
realizes the necessity of winning
next year.
One Minute Cough Cure quickly cures
obstinate summer coughs and colds. “I
consider it a most wonderful medicine,—
quick and safe ”—W. W. Merton, May
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northeast
EVENT.
The editor o7Kn RGCs b
ceivedan invitation toatl
guest of that city, the
at Elberton, Ga., which
August 21st through 4.,
The program™
racihg, bicycle contests h >|
tournaments, fire works’ dL
loon ascensions, military
brass band tournament, h*-1
and tennis games. An oUi’m r 11 1
Georgia barbecue and a bh
swappers’ convention are at a I
on the programme. The crown'
the “queen of the carnival”
place at 9 o’clock Monday Z , I
August 21. “Her Majesty”
the most beautiful young lad" U
northeast Georgia! a „|
voting contest is now i„
see who will win this distine
The destruction or the-Maine” X
be the most thrilling Md M( .’
event of the week, a huge hat/
ship, built especially for this „,j'
pose, s now in course of construe,L
and the grand fire works’ di.nl.;
will take place at night on the«»’
ing day after an address by ex-Gov
ernor Bob Taylor of Tennessee, all J
which will be free to visitors
Distinguished orators from all sec
tions of the country will be present
among them being General Joh nB ’ I
Gordon, Hon. Clark Howell,Hon } *
G. dußignon, Judge Emory Speer 1
Congressman W. M. Howard and I
Col. James M. Smith, of Georgia- I
Senator Ben Tillman, of South Cart/ I
lina, and his happy political family- I
Hon. Bob laylor, ex-Governor of I
Tennessee, and Rev. Sam P. Jones, 1
of the world at large. Mrs. W. IL
Pelton will also grace the carnival
with her presence, and will deliver
an address on the opening day.
It will be one of the biggest occa
sions ever known in Northeast Geor
gia, and the editor of The Argus
will certainly be on hand, if he finds
it possible to attend.
The New York Independent calls
Bob Ingersoll “a brilliant Fourth of
July Rocket.” Was there ever a
better description of a man ? Gener
ally, in mercy and in leniency of
judgment, we feel that Jesus made ‘
expiation for the sins of a fallen
world. Today his name is spoken with
reverence by people of every nation
ality, and his blessed gospel is puri
rifying and ennobling the lives of
millions, who can say “I know that
my Redeemer liveth.” There is a
hope that makes pain and misfortune
easier to bear, and is glorifying in
death. But, the pagan Ingersoll
died suddenly, hoping nothing of the
future. We almost look beyond and
see the fate that suddenly overtook
the soul that scoffed at its maker.
We know that his life left no im
portant impress upon the minds of
men, and he will soon be forgotten.
His vain theories were no solace to
dying humanity; they gave nocom
fort to the living.
The fact that H. Clay Evans is’
again talked of for the republican
nomination as Governor of Tennes
see shows better than an almanac
the hour of low tide in republican
politics in that state.
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