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| t J?- 1 g '' * w? : .'' - -'-'II- n. Z ,..av for tho Cuban —-XJL ■■■i"- _■■ —■■■ Parisis delighted that Gam bon did it. Paris has a show on for the soon future. And Miles misses the lieuten ant general-ship, the only trans port he had set his heart on. This summer may not have broken the record for rain—but it certainly has liquidated it. Don Carlos is acting like a man who doesn’t know whethei he ought to hold his base or not. Alldays will be dog days in Chicago hereafter. The pound has been closed for lack of funds Joe Wheeler's opponents did not reach the protocol stage but made an uncouditieual surren der. • American settlers will soon redeem Cuba from the shiftless Cubans. Porto Rico is alright When it becomes an epidemic, the shedding of eye brows, the barefaced liar will become a numerous member. Manila city has 200,000 in habitahts while the island of Luzon, on which the city is built has some 3,000,000 people. Weyler has not yet invaded the United States and watered hie horses in the Potomac. Wey ler’s nags couldn’t cross the Et owah. But few dollars out of the 1150,000,000 Uncle Sam has spent for war have gone into the pockets of any one but Uncle Sam’s boys. Texas is coming to the front not only as a cotton and cattle state, but a spring chicken em pire. Her ceop for ’9B is 34,320,- 000 broilers. There’s many a slip ’twixt the protocol and the finale. As the dove Hies, it’s a long way from Hong Kong to Malila.—Phila delphia Record • It only took about ninety days for this young republic to lick the old monarchy of Spain, and we had freaks at the helm in the land campaigns, too, Prom the ‘‘honors” conferred upon the “brave survivors” of the La Bourgogne crew it would seem that I* rance has a specie of “honor’ ’ closely related to the 1 famous Spanish brand. < K .w J; • F ' It w i b alien in IVJ9, ami of a singing conipeti to be held in a differen t town every year. The young “War Lord” must have been associating with Jaxe Moore, John P. Davis and Walter Co ker, ol the county of Floyd, state of Georgia, U. S. A, The Chattanooga Times thinks that parcelling out the soidieus in many camp* all over the coun try is a bad move and will not be beneficial to the troops. —Au- gusta Chronicle. And the Tinies being printed in Chattanooga, and Chattanoo ga being the chief seaport town of the Chicaraauga camp, why, it’s natural for the Times to see it that way. It will be delightful to hear Judge Spencer R. Atkinson ad dress the “common people” of Georgia in the present campaign. Spence should rub up agaiast Handsome Bob, learn how to draw his rapid-fire and advance in squads and by rushes. A half breed named McKowen of New Orleans, is furnishing the Georgia pop with ammuni tion to fire at Allen D. Candler. The powder is bad however, and as the charges ar« blank, the damage is the same as Dewey suffered from Montej), This is a good hint from the Chicago Dispatch: Dress suits, silk stockings and dancing shoes should at once be forwarded to the boys who are invading Por to Rico. Their reception justi fies no more warlike weapons. Spain does not even retain a coaling station'in the world she discovered. But then, Spain knows she has no more use for a coaling station in American waters than a red pig has with a brunett mustache. The Porto Rico ’lasses don’t run from eur boys—and it’s not because they’re toothick to run, noris it because th y’re jugged up. The Porto Rican lassies likes the Americans because our eagles are so fly. Now for the Peace Poets? How the white doves will whirl and curl and swirl! How their wings and things and the breeze that lings will permeate all the ink that slings ! —Boston Tran script. Having disposed of his share of the fighting Spaniards in Cuba Col. Ted Roosevelt will march upon New York and en deavor to turn Platt’s and Alger’s flank. Those immense coal fields lately discovered in Alaska will enable the gold miners to thaw out and drink tbeir rye tea in stead of chewing it as formerly. ■the SOUTH'S OPPOIITUN- ■ ITY. ■ New markets must come to ■he southern states with the ac quisition of (’ub:i, Porto Rico Band ports in the far east. The Pnew markets for cotton alone I will be worth to this country incalculably more than the cost of the war and their values to the south enhanced by the con struction of the Nicaraguacannl and the sanitary removal of fever pests in adjacent islands which have now come into control. Free trade with Porto Rico and Cuba together offers a terri tory for the sale of cotton, baled or manufactured, which will make a-vast gain for the staple product of the south. Hawaii, and even the iittle island of Guam, where cotton fabrics are used most exclusively will be bases for distribution in those regions and will offer a constant, if limited demand. The new market in the Philip pines, however, says the St. Louis Republic, is destined to revolutionize cur export trade in cotton as well as to make a marked impression upon other dines of American trade. Manila, lying as it does at the gateway to the populous countries of the Orient, will become under American dominance the store house of'our products for .Asia to draw upon. Ch in a alone can swallow up the entire cotton crop of the Southern states at prices which must be better by reason of the elimination of the European middleman who has been trad ing in the Orient at the expense of the American planter and job ber for fifty years. While the agricultural and manufacturing interests of al} sections of this country must re alize upon the results of expand ing opportunities, no other sec tion is in position geographical ly to secure the vast benefits now offered to the Southern United States. The new era of growth will dawn with the <on— cl usion of peace and the estab lishment of free trade with the islands of the Caribs and the far East, The completion of the Nicaragua canal will make of every port f;om Galveston to Norfolk a mart for maritime commerce with our South. Cot ton will be King and the fruits, cereals and minerals of hisrealm will swell his retinue. The South is entitled to her coming greatness. She has suf fered and forgotten ; she has worked and waited. Her sons were at Manila, and at Santia go, because Old Glory was there, and every state in the North, East and West will rejoice with her in the day of her prosperity The decrease in imports ol merchandise for July, 1898, as compared with July, 1897’ was about $3,000,000. There was an increase in exports of mercuau dise of July, 1898. of over sl,- 000,000. For the last seven months there has been a de crease of $129,585,399 in im ports of merchandise, as com pared with the corresponding months of 1897, and an increase in exports of $131,736,099. These figures serve to show that protective tariff ratas can no longer be depended upon for purposes of revenue. With tie practical stoppage of imports revenue falls off, and the high tariff rates only serve to put more money in the pockets of favored parties. It is suggested that 150,000 soldiers may be at once disband ed. The only thing that makes this course improbable is that it would ne the sensible thing to do.—Augusta Chronicle. d $ BEST SANITARY PLUMBING 1 ■Gt I 1 ? wi- ■ 4 5 Gas, Water and Steam Fitter. f? ■’ "l T Water U ' W A g ’Gas Fixtures, neters Gas Stoves. «3i o ‘ IF i * 4 Pumps, Hydraulic rams, steam fix- Y £ tures, Sheet Lead, Lead Pipe, Elec ii $ trie fixtures. I' - < A _ i' > btl p $ i... las 0 I have employed Alex S. Pierce to fl jl $ take charge of my shop department. h 4 U Ge is one of the>J?estworkmen in the W M • South. Repair work attended to p, J ,’ 1 « promptly. ” L "’ . & • fe 1 N • JOHN C.CHILDS, I w • 223 Broad st. Opposite Thos. F ; M I MAKE 0N URGE * | (0 * i MdlMsoi) Kill) * i THEY ARE THE • I $7 KIND „ SAT OTHER’ PLACES. * £ ® 1 T ' ' 0 09 n Q' ißuffleriaitas&Sm !: ST 5= E VERYIHI NG IS | | «ILL1I?EI?¥ || if I 1 * 1 *■ -3S *i : * *i * * Wt * * | Hrs, A, (1 Garrard | J