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VOLUME XIX.
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at any time. All kinds of fruits for cold
drinks.
MILLINERY.
It is now near the close of the season and we will give
close prices on millinery from now on. Our stock is
composed of neat, stylish goods, and must be closed out
before fall. We also have a nice line of embroideries,
ribbons, children’s headgear, etc.
CALL TO SEE MET.
Mrs. R. E. Lawton.
ARLINGTON, GA.
Summertime in BiilviH.
Lost, on Wednesday last, a
pocketbook containing one dollar
i:i silver, six postage stamps, and
two bathing suits.
The brass bell in the town hall
tower was warped by the heat on
Friday last, but though badly dis¬
figured it is still in the ring.
Two of eur town poets have had
their heads shaved close to where
their brains ofight to be.
We have given our pastor
month’s vacation, as he preached
too much hell for hot weather.
It is so hot in this settlement
we could broil beefsteak in the
sun—if we only had any steak to
broil.
Our coroner weighs 850 pounds,
and when he sits on a man there’s
no hope on earth for him.
For the convenience of their
patients our local physicians have
moved their offices near the town
cemetery.
Quite a party from here will
to the seaside next week and go
in washing.—Stanton.
Will fleet at Quitman.
The Georgia Weekly Press As-
c-i Guidon, at its annual session
Athens last week, selected Quit-
man as the next place of meeting,
The invitation was extended on
behalf of the town by Miss Edna
Cain, of the Quitman Free Press,
It goes without saying that the
editors will be most royally enter-
tained when they meet a year
hence in one of the best of south
Georgia’s towns.
ARLINGTON, GA., THURSDAY, JULY 18. 1901.
A Negro’s Filial Deed.
A young negro man entered a
Columbus grocery a day or two
ago and after making a few in¬
quiries proceeded to purchase a
large bill of groceries. He paid
his bill, $88.95, in gold and re¬
quested that the groceries be de¬
livered in Girard, a suburb of the
city. Instead of being taken to a
small store, as the groceryman
supposed would be the destination
of the goods, they were delivered
to a little shanty occupied by an
aged negro. The colored dray¬
man almost lost his breath when
he saw the young negro hand the
old iTwui $120 in gold as a gift in
addition to the groceries. The
The situation was soon explained.
The young man was George Thom¬
as, who had just returned from
soldiering in the Philippines, and
the old man was his father,'whom
he had not seen in five years. He
made it his first duty on reaching
Columbus to look up his father
and found him hard at work in
the Central Railroad sandpit in
Girard, earning his daily bread by
the sweat of his brow. The meet¬
ing was an affecting one and the
ion determined that fora time at
least his father should have a
taste of the comforts and luxuries
of life. Such intances of filial
affection among the colored peo-
pie are rare and the example is a
worthy one. Two other returned
negro soldiers got themselves in
trouble the same time by getting
drunk and getting up a sham bat¬
tle on their own account.
** views fr for j^resicient s
The following article, clipped
from Sunday’s Macon Telegraph
and written by Prof. J. L. Bar¬
nett, is in reply to an article pub¬
lished in The Courier week be¬
fore last and copied from the Al¬
bany Herald:
To the Editor of The Telegraph :
A few days ago we read an article
from the Albany Herald ridicul¬
ing the idea of a southern man
for president. The argument of
the Herald in support of this po
sition was self-contradictory. The
Herald says: “We are as south¬
ern as anybody in all that the
general acceptation of the term
implies, and would like to see a
southern man in the presidency,
but when it comes to politics we
have learned to look at things and
conditions as they are rather than
as we would like to have them.”
While it is true we must learn
to see things as they really are, it
does not necessarily follow that
we are to accept things just as
they are. We would then chal¬
lenge all right to 4 progress. We
are frank to say that the south
can furnish as true and patriotic
statesmen as any section of our
great country. We have as good
presidential material as the north,
east or west. We agree with the
Herald that “the south is today
the. citadel of the constitution and
the stronghold of the best type of
American citizenship, It is also
true that the south is the heart of
the democratic party.”
Now, it does seem that if the
above quotation be that no sec¬
tion of our country could claim
the right to engineer the demo¬
cratic party but the south. The
Herald says that the north and
west'coulcLnot be relied upon to
support a southern man, and con¬
sequently we could expect nothing
but defeat with a southern man
at the head of our ticket. We
might suggest that since the war
we have generously given our sup¬
port to the north, and with one
exception the ticket has gone
down in defeat. We southern
people have not been manly
enough to command the respect of
tho other sections of our country.
If we are going to “accept condi¬
tions just as they are,” at tho
same time we surrender all hope
for independent political thought
and action. Jn other words, we
surrender ourselves uncondition¬
ally to the rule of the northern
wing of the democratic party.
We quote again: “With a
southern democrat as the nominee
sectionalism would at once be re¬
vived at the north, and the same
old lies that have been told on us
for thirty-odd years in a spirit of
sectionalism for political purposes
would be told again and a great
majority at the north would be¬
lieve them because they want to
believe them.”
Ever since the war between the
states we have been grossly insult¬
ed time after time by northern
newspapers, northern statesmen
and northern officials, and even
today we are told by northern peo¬
ple that we are very much lacking
in industry, intelligence and bus¬
iness sense. They tell us we are
ignorant, lazy, slothful. Ti ■
point is nicely brought out in ad¬
dress delivered by Rev. C. H.
Parkhurst, I. . before his Mad¬
ison Square congregation, New
York City. But with a great deal
more force by a democratic paper
of Chicago lust November, This
clipping wuh taken from Wednes¬
day’s Telegraph:
“Without arrogance, without
malice, without departure from
the truth in the smallest degree,
it should be said and said plainly
that the people of the north are
better fitted by character, by in¬
telligence and industry than those
of any other section to rule this
government. They have ruled it
for forty years and nothing is
more impressively written in the
book of fate than the fact that
they are to rule it for many gen¬
erations to come.
“The people of tho north have
their faults, as every people must
have, but such as they are, with
the light given to them, they are
the people to whose judgment all
questions of politics must be re¬
ferred and to whose decision all
parties must bow.
“In the main these people are
honest, just and generous. They
are pre-eminently progressive, en¬
ergetic and ambitious. They are
sagacious and far-seeing. They
are self-reliant. They are proud.
They are filled with a mighty faith
in themselves in their country.
They are brave and high-spirited.
They may be grasping, they may
at times be avaricious, they may
on occasions forget and ignore the
rights of others, but they are well
grounded in all that is best in the
civilization of their time. They
are not afraid of any responsibil¬
ity which rightfully falls upon
them.” *
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Such quotations as the last, al¬
though it be from a democratic
organ, is enough to almost curdle
the blood in every true southern¬
er’s veins. We aro southern in
every sense of the term. We want
to see a southern man head the
democratic ticket, and if wo go
down in defeat let it be said that
it was a democratic defeat, and
not a demo-republican defeat ush¬
ered down by the populists.
We sincerely believe that such
action would develop the strength
of the party in every section It
would clear the party of a number
of republicans who stay in it for
office only. It would reconcile the
south and west into one solid dem¬
ocratic phalanx, wipe populism off
the earth and fit the democratic
party for clean and fair fighting
on purely democratic principles
from now till “dooms’ day.”
When there arc harsh things to
be said about the south we feel
that the north should say it and
not the south.
We do not believe that the Her¬
ald meant to turn the back of its
hand on its own section, but the
inference partakes of that nature.
J. L. Barnett,
Leary, Ga., July 12, 1901.
It is easier to keep well. than get
cured. DeWitt’s Little Eearly
Risers taken now and then, will al-
ways keep your bowels in perfect
order. They never gripe but pro-
mote an easy gentle action.
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NUMBER SO.
THB FUTURE OF CUBA.
Gen. Gomez Believes that the Island Will Be-
come a Part of the United States.
Gen. Gomez went back to Cuba
firm in the opinion that that is¬
land would one day be a part of
the United States. He expressed
that opinion at the Stokes’ dinner,
given in his honor. Reports re¬
ceived from Cuba indicate that
the opinion has not been well re¬
ceived there, Gen. Gomez has
been pretty freely criticised for
giving expression to it.
However, it is/iot an easy mat¬
ter to find out exactly what pub¬
lic sentiment in Cuba on this sub¬
ject is. It, is certain that there is
a very large element among the
best class of Cubans who would
be glad if the island were a part
of the United States now. It is
apprehensive that there will lie no
peace there and no great amount
of prosperity until the island be r
comes a part of the United States.
This element, however, is not
undertaking to control public
sentiment, knowing full well that
if it should attempt to do so it
would make itself unpopular with
those who have the support of the
great majority of the Chilians, and
who are determined, with the aid
of the uniformed masses, to get
control of the government that is
to be formed. Of course Gen.
Gomez is not in favor of annexing
Cuba to the United States at this
time. He believes that the Cubans
must first try self-government.
Evidently he does not believe they
will succeed. If he did he would
not give expression to the opinion
that the best thing for the island
would be to become a part of the
United States.
The Cubans are just beginning
to undertaml some of the difficul¬
ties in the way of establishing a
government. Their constitution¬
al convention the other day re¬
jected the proposition that the
central government should have
no control of the elections. The
proposition, however, was rejected
by only one majority. Ilad it
been adopted the probabilities are
there would have been such frauds
committed that there would not
have been acquiescence in the re¬
sults of elections. In other words,
the elections would have been fol¬
lowed by efforts to overthrow the
government. The great majority
of those who will have the right
to vote are illiterate, and will be
easily led by designing politicians.
The efforts which have been made
at elections, the municipal elec¬
tions, to win by fraudulent means,
show what may be expected in the
way of frauds at the general elec-,
tions. It is therefore the better
plan that, the central government
shall have some control of elec^
tions.
No doubt Gen. Gomez sees
that gelfgovernment is going to be
a failure in Cuba, and he is but
rendering the Cubans a service by
preparing them for becoming citi¬
zens of the United States. If
they get' accustomed to consider¬
ing their island a part of this
country it will not be very diffi¬
cult for them to give up the idea
of an independent republic when
it becomes necessary for them to
do so.—Savannah News.
The piles that annoy you so will
be quickly and permanently healed
if you use DeWitt’s Witch Hazel
Salves. Beware of worthless coun-
terfeits.
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