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REMEMBER THE TJVCE.
i APRIL 21, 22 and 23 tYPIIIL 21, 22» and 2y
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|| WiiFtL,’ iml, I Are absolutely without an equ il. Have no competition. We make no assertions which
j! I cannot substantiate. We invite you to our store to witness the perfect operation of these
H I wonderful stoves and ranges, we shall give an exhibition.
and Durability of Commencing Thursday afternoon and continuing Friday and Saturday. 22d and 23rd
' ENAMEL I and we earnest'y desire the presence of every housekeeper in the city. On Saturday 23d
1 0 «£2 I we wi " give away the beautiful nickle-plated range to the successful little gir |. under |j
' [ the iron, it will last is long as the X - , t
stove itaeif, and by cleaning occasionally with a damp £ years it age, whe makes and bakes the best Ddn of biscuits on the Back’s range at OU
’ ; J cloth, it will retain its purity forever. W u *
I' H nilftlfJQ STOVES | St ° re * contest is open to every little girl in the city. C entest for girls 230t05 p, m
I ' DUw* Wand RANCES- | Saturday, April 23d. We will also show you the prettiest Furniture ever put on exhibition
] i Sold everywhere in preference to all others. $ .
LD-SFARKS-STWART CO
COL. BILL ARP
Has Some Warm Remarks io
Remark.
HARBIp WAR SIGNALS
I
Also a Few Paragraphs on At
klnsonian Leaks.
Every train brings news now
—news of impending war—but
we are not excited like we were
then. We remember when there
was no telegraph wire to Rome
and the daily signal came with
the daily train from Kingston.
If Wiley Harbin, the old engi
neer, gave three long, loud,
cheering whistles on his ap
proach to town everybody waked
up for good news and exchanged |
greetings. ‘‘Lee has whipped
’em again,’’ was the watchword,
aud the people hurried to the
depot to meet the train and get
all the good of it.
Two whistles from the engine
was indifferent news and one
was bad and sad, but did not
come often, for old Bob Lee and
Stonewall whipped them as often
as they got at them and would
have been whipping them yet
if our boy children had grown
up a little faster. We almost
robbed the cradle and the grave
for soldiers and even then only
got one for three foes.
’ 1 shall always think they
ought to have toted fair with us
two to one inst ad of three—•
don’t you? I wouldn’t have a
pension that took three to one to
win—would you? When 1 was a
schoolboy I had a fight with an
other boy and two of my friends
clubbed in and sorter helped me
and I never felt so ashamed cf
anything in my life.
But old Georgia has never
discounted her gratitude to her
soldiers or their widows, She is
a long ways ahead of her sister
states. Last year she paid more
to them than all the other south
ern states combined paid to
theirs. Virginia paid to hers
$150,000, Alabama SIIO,OOO,
North Carolina $113,000, South
Carolina SIOO,OOO, Florida $65,-
000, Tennessee SO3 000, Missis
sippi $95,000, Arkansas $42,000,
Kentucky nothing and Texas
$38,000, while Georgia paid
over $600,000.
And while we can boast of
this, yet I am free to say and
dare to say, for I am not a can
didate for anything limited or
unlimited, that our pension laws
are not just and need reforming
—Georgia has overdone the
thing.
Pensions should be awarded
to the needy, and the needy
only. The grand juries of the
counties should distribute the
pension fund and make selection
of the poor soldiers and the poor
widows and be required to add
25 per cent to the fund appor
tioned by the state. Consi lering
the general depression, the state
is paying too much. It should
be reduced at least one half and
let the counties make up part
of the deficiency. Where is the
justice or the propriety of pay
ing a man SIOO a year who is
worth SIO,OOO or S2O 000| while
many poor invalid soldiers v. ho
fought just as hard and endured
just as much, but did not lose
an arm or a leg get nothing.
I see that both Atkinson and
Berner, in their declarations,
speak of the rewards that wer<
promised the soldiers. That is a
mistake—nothing was promised
nor was anything expected. They
fought for their country and $lO
a month and hard tack and bacon
or beef, and P that was all they
expected. The word pensions
was not in their dictionary.
1 know a widow whose hus
band was killed at Bull Run and
she does not need her pension
and at first declined to receivt
it, but changed her mind and
gives it all to widows who are
needy. The grand juries of the
counties know who should be
the bem ficiaries of the pension
fund and if they have to add 25
per cent to it they would be
careful to see that it was not
misapplied. It seems to me that
a leak of at least $ 100,000 might
be stopped in this way, but as 1
am not a candidate, maybe I
don’t know.
Then there is another leak
that needs stopping. The rail
road commission should be re
formed. When Campbell Wallace
and Col. Trammell and Sam
BArnett first took hold of it
there was lots of work to do and
it took nearly all their time.
But they built up a system with
out having a guide or precedent.
They established rules and reg
ulations and these have long
since been re-adjusted and are
now generally accepted and ap
proved by the railroads and the
pebple.
Now the commission has to
meet’only once or twice a month
add one competent man as chair-1
man is all that is needed. Col.
Trammell, from his long exper
ience, could run the whole busi
ness aud this would save $5,000
a year, besides the secretary’s
salary, which is another thous
and. If Col. Trammell or his
successor needed any occasional
help to decide new questions he
might call in the comptroller
general and the secretary of
state, who would willingly serve
for nothing part of one day in a
1 month.
School Commissioner Glenn
has that kind of help on his
board and it costs the’s ate not' -
i •
ing. Why can’t we do that and
jsave a leak of $19,000? Why
not? 1 tell you, my long-suffer
ing friends, the government ex
penses have got to be cut down
in some way; not just a little,
but a good deal.
“Sine qua nous’ are bigger
things now than sinecures. The
people are poor. The preachers
tell us that a hungry man can’t
get religion and if he should he
can’t enjoy it. If we don’t stop
the leaks the whole dam busi
ness will burst and wash away
and the mill can’t grind at all.
1 remember well when we had,
no pensions nor school fund,,
and the people got along pretty
well.
The young men married tin
young girls and left the widows
for the widowers. There was no
such word as trousseau in the
dictionary, but if there were
less clothes there was more love
and fewer divorces.
But we will talk about these
things later, when we get to the
legislature. I’m not going to
vote for any nifln who will not
promise to cut down the taxes,
aid we will talk about this pen
sion business when the veterans
meet in July. I was ruminating
about that day—the anniversary
of the greatest battle ever fought
and the greatest victory every
won by confederate soldiers.
• It was a sm&ll affair compared
with Gettysburg and Shiloh and
the Wilderness, but its impres
sion on the country alid the sol
diers was more profound than
any other. It was like a young
mother,s first child—none that
came afle: ever created sc great
a sensat on.
How vivid are the scenes, the
rapid night march from Win- .
Chester, the crossing the Shen- ,
andoah by torchlight, wading |
up to the armpits with guns and .
cartridges held up. I can see ,
Jimmy Smith, the drummer boy |
of the Eighth Georgia and little j
McKosker, bobbing up and <
. [down over the deep places with
. I water running into their mouths,
| while taller soldiers behind them
> held them steady.
1 hear the shouts of Stonewall
Jackson’s men as they came
’ through the woods and turned
s the tide to victory. I see the
1 willow glade and the little
> branch where Dr. Miller and
• his assistants worked all night
I' with their knives and probes
j and bandages, and every little
, while said, “next” like the bar
bers to their customers.
i I see the dead in the pine
j thicket and the wounded placed
. in the ambulances and hurried
| to the Lewis house for a hospit
al I see th, New Yoik Zouaves
. in the field near the eld stone
. house on tie pike. How thick
they laid upon the ground—how
fat they seemed next morning
as the burial squads rolled them
.nto the shallow trenches. They
had swollen in form and feature
during the night until their
corpses filled their loose clothes
almost to bursting.
But when we all meet on the
21st we will tali< over the misty
past and rejoice with those who
rejoice and weep with those who
weep. A sea of tears has already
* been shed, both north and south,
but still the chalices are not not
mpty nor the hearts of the vet
erans seared over by the iron
hand of time.—“ Bill Arp” in
Atlanta Constitution.
LETTERS OF ADMINISTRA
TION, •
IKORGIA FLo v I) C »UNTY.
To all whom in may concern
frank C. Wilkerson having in
>roper to inn for
jermaneut letters of administra
tion on the estate of William J.
A’iikerson late of sa d county de
ceased. This is to cite all at.d sin
4ular the creditors and next o!
kin of William .J. Wilkerson to b*-
and appear at my oflice within the
time allowed I y law and show
cause if any th y can why perma
nent administration should not
’be granted ta Frank C. Wi ker
-Bon on William J. Wilkerson’s
estate. Witness my hand and
official signature this 7th day of
March 1898. John I’. Davis
Ordinary.
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Whetheron pleasure bent, or 1
business, take on every trip a 1
bottle of Syrup of Figs, as it j'
acts most pleasantly and effect j
ually on the kidneys, liver and ~
bowels, preventing fevers, head- ,
aches, and other forms of sick- /
ness. For sale in 50 cent bottles (
by all leading druggists. Manu (
factored by the California Fig (
Syrup Company only, '(
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Come to us. We h ive them,
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a bottle of our I
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Uptown Druggists. I
B F. Montgomery ( )|
) ->e 227, BROAD ST. 8- I
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