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PHIL G. BYRD.
EDITOR A Nl> M A NAG I It
d.tlce Wia. Kl.wk. I'mrY Avenue
Who blew up the Olivette?
It is expected that Texas will
pioduce 3,500,000 bales of cotton
this year.
Atlanta’s Redwine, like that!
unKorked at the Newnan ’pos
sum supper, is out of sight.
Shafter se< ms to be the only
man in the A meric m army at
Santiago who suffered with gout.
A scamp .in Brookline, Mass.,
has been selling paintedsparrows
to the unsophisticated for canary
birds.
Leftwich, of the Atlanta bar,
is a lulu. Mr. Lo’twich will yet
find Jordan is a hard road to
travel.
All this section of Georgia
needs now is a few days of sun
shine and every di.y of it will be
a hay day.
Talking about making hay—
some grass widow has taken “all
the shine” out of die sun in this
neck of the woods.
——-
This war has served to show i
the vast realms of space that
may exist bet w een men. We
were thinking of Dewey and Al
ger.
Even though the fact is as
plain as the nose on your girl’s
face—just remember that “com
parisons are odious,” and be
wise—
Col. Henry’s suicide pu*s a
new face on the Dreyfus case,
and now, perhaps Dreyfus, Zola
& Co., may get justice—even in
France.
The 71st New Yoik had a sad
homecoming. Only about GO
men out of the 1100 who march
ed away came back in good
health.
M. T. Coalbin is departing
after having spent the summer
in the city—and the tinners will
soon be in their regular fall
stove-up business.
Ratlmr than let the brave
Georgians in the Third regiment
go away to c’o garrison duty in
the tropics, Mrs, Myrick offers
to head a subscription list with
<IOO, the fund to pay the offi
cers salary for one year, rind
thereby secure the release of the
privates.
MILLIONS GIVEN AWAY.
It is certainly gratifying to
the public to know of'one con
cern ir. the land who are not
afraid Io be generous to the
needy and suffering. The pro
prietors of Dr. King’s New Dis
covery for Consumption, Coughs
and Colds, have given away
over ten million trial bottles of
this great medicine; and hr.ve
the satisfaction of knowing it
has absolutely cured thousands
of hopeless cases. Asthma, Bron
chitis, Hoarseness and all dis—
eases of the Throat Chest and
Lungs are surely cured by it
(all on Curry Arrington, di ug
gist, and get a trial bottle free.
Regular size 50c and sl. Every
bottle gu.tr tut in lor money re
taunted.
7n
I U>e ttoyal >• the highest grade baking powder j
. ! known. Actual tests show it goes one- ;
third further thun any otter brood.
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POWOFH
Absolutely Pure
ROYAL BAKING POWDFR CO., NEW YORK.
The New York volunt< ers are
not enraptured with camp lif ',
and it appears that they’ are
| causing a great deal of trouble.
Os 370 men of a New York reg
ment at Camp Black only 80
remain in c.nnp, the pthers arn
technically deserters, "he fun
niest part of the business is, the
80 men remaining in camp are
guarded by 169 others detailed
from recruits.
The valor of the American
volunteer is pithily expressed on
the shaft that stands to the
memory of John Sevier, firs'
I governor of Tennessee, in the
court house yard in Km xville.
It reads: “Twenty seven battles
twenty seven victories.” —
Knoxville Journal and Tribune.
Since the czar of Russia has
undertaken to preach the gospel
of universal peace a.id to re
monstrate vyitb Europe for being
so continually pi< paring for
war, is it not i me for some one
to observe that the millennium
is close at hand?—Constitution.
Reports from over the state
show that the (b cent populists
are growing suspicious of the
scoundrelly lenders who are try
ing to swap their votes with rec
publicans, An honest populist
cannot vote a republican ticket.
—Brunswick Advertiser.
The First Ohio regiment, af
ter camping at Chickamauga,
Tampa and Jacksonville, has
lost but two men by death and
presetved full ranks and excel*
lent health. It has a sensible
colonel, observes the Augusta
Chronicle.
•
While we are annexing islands
why not fly the stars and stripes
over Ireland?—Americus Her
ald.
Not by a jug full ! Does the
Herald want to shut off the most
desirable class of emigrants that
.comes to these shores?
The soldiers already at Manila
are as anxious to come home,
in w that the war is over, as
some of the fools here are to go
to Manib’—or anywhere else to
draw a s ilarv for doing nothing
—A mericus Recorder.
The newspaper cuts of Mrs.
Botkin, of California, the al
leged candy poisoner who sent
tw'o innocent Delaware women
to death, show her to be a worn
an with a fairly sweet face,
If any one in the army merits
severe punishment send him
down to run for congress against
Gen. Joe Wheeler in the Eighth
Alabama district. Chicago
Times Herald.
The season for the sere and
- vellow leaf drawelh nigh—but
■ while J.- Pluvius keeps the
shower bath turned on there
• will be nai ry a sere.
When we are told that the
insurgents at Manila love and
almost worship Old ■ George
' Dewey, our res >e.:t for the fol
lowers of Ague >k, ! o t-’-es on
healthier proportions.
THE A. J ~Y RATION,
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St >rv< <1 to doath ! That is the
verdict o' the doctors wh > at
| ton 'o ’• y< u:i" TTlany, a youth
nf 'v ■ >li'. w b > w is brave enough
I > o> out (v i »h the l»oij;di Riders
• fii; I who lost hi life in ( •nse
■ Cpietice.
I S- irv <l, l’ civs'' hb wag not
Ig ; v n the p'<>. 11 r food. Was it
iir < . '.s'* 1 \? W o no' that life, as
w< r i as in oi vo' ! .' is, needlessly
- iei i lii < d hi cc isn of somebody’s
blliodei ?
If so, who is responsible?
AV ho is ml''. ?
Had this young soldier been
given prouer food and nourish
j-bmint while undergoing the
r ivagt of fever, his life would
save be* n ‘•pared, 'i bis country
is rich, and there is not a man
in it who would begrudge the
expenditure of whatever is ’ nec
essary to take proper care of the
'soldiers Wa> i» red tape, or was
jit ill co’npeteni■ y that took this
1 life and the others?
Now come the members of the
“President’s Ovn” regiment,
the Eighth () io, and charge
that they, top, have been starv
ed. Who is to ii'ame?
The impression is strong
among thos '■« ho hive under
gone lim soldioring in the trop
ics; and < ven those who were
compelled to < imp life in Flori
da, that the army ration is to a
great extent at fault. These
men claim that the food given
the soldiers was absolutely un
suited to the needs of the men
in such climate;- ; that the ra
tions - o 1., them, whil
it . ; .... ,c i o.uger, furnished
no tiou; i-1. -t, and in that
const quenco the men were in
no condition the hard
ships of the campaign about
Santiago.
Whether this theory is correct
or not we do not pretend to
know. We do know, however,
that this army ration is another
thing which should be investi
gated. If lives have been lost
which, with ordinary precaution
and proper provision could have
been saved, the country wants
to know' where the blame should
be placed —Constitution.
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CARDINAL DOCTRINS
The Albany Herald is solid
on the question of more hay and
agrees with Hon. Allen D
Candler that “free silver is not
a cardinal doctrine of the demo
cratic party.” By 1900 we be
lieve Brother Mclntosh will be
as straight on the financial
question as he now is on hay:
Uo'.umbus Enquirer-Sun.
No sensible silver man has
ever contended that “free silver
is a cardinal doctrine of the
Democratic party. ’ In fact, no
body but the goldbug organs
and other enemies of silver have
ever represented the friends of
s ; lver as claimin ; that policy to
be acirdinal party doctrine. The
rem irk •attributed to Col. Can
dler s one that any staunch free
• silver man might have made,
, and it would have passed unno
ticed and as simply a matter of
course but for the effort that ha«
been made to have it appear that
the party is taking a back track
on that question. The party is
juit as true to the policy of trute
silver coinage now as it Was in
189.5 and it will be the same in
18)1 Remember that—Albany
Herald.
And your Uncle Allen Dewey
Cand er is as fearless a free-sil
ver advocate now as he has
been since the financial ques
ton became a party issue—
howls from party papers that
have been recently whipped in
to line by the common people,to
the contrary. Allen D. Candler
is all right on all cardinal prin
ciples ol Democracy, aalaLoon
ihe fin mcial and other issues
that have arisen in recent party
history.
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is due n >t only to the originality and
simplicity of the combination, but also
to the care a '.d skill with which it is
manufaetu”ed by scientific processes
known to tae Califobnia Fig Syrup
do. only, a Iwe wish to impress upon
all the imp rtanco of purchasing the
true and original remedy. As the
genuine Syrup of Fig's is manufactured
by the California. Fig Syrup Co.
only, a knowledge of that fact will
assist one in avoiding the worthless
imitations manufactured by other par
ties. The high standing of the Cali
fornia Fig Syrup Co. with the medi
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of the excellence of its remedy. It is
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as it icts on the kidneys, liver and
bowels without irritating or weaken
ing them, ami it does not gripe nor
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the Company
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BAN FRANCISCO, Cal.
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THE MIGHT HAVE BEEN.
A few weeks ago, when the
nation’.s*heart wan thrilled by
the deeds of splendid valor
which made each day’s story
from Santiago a chapter of
praise for American soldiery,the
thoughts of millions turned with
pleasure to the day when the
brave boys should be welccmed
home from their battlefields.
Ir the minds of all there was
the same picture—a day when
ships should sail gallantly into
our harbors bearing the rested
and refreshed men ; a morning
when with eager but disciplined
haste the landings should be
made, companies growing into
regiments, regimenfs into bri
gades, brigades into divisions,
and divisions into an army
which from sunrise to sunset
should swing *along our thor
oughfares,where millions should
g reet them, cl eering.
There were to be bands, ban
quets, speeches ; grand reunions
between mothers, weeping with
pride and joy, and sons, victori
ous, bronzed, stalwart—a pa
geant, a day rejoicing.
Noone doubttd that this
would be so, for there was no
suspected reason why it should
not. Our boys had won their
laurels and those at home had
woven tlje wreaths.
But delay began—delay that
was senseless and inhuman. Our
men, alert, strong, their work
well ended,could not be brought
lionie.
They fell prey to fever, and
were without medical attendance
or proper foou. It is too lieart
sickening »ven to allude to what
followed, and the-eisno need.
But our men have come—come
in overcrowded ships, improp
erly clothed, improperly fed, in
sufficiently attended, some
gaunt, broken, woful, crawling
from fever camps—wan, help
less, all but hopeless.
Is there to be no accounting?
Are the mal-admiuistrators to
go unlashed?
It is for congress to answer
this question, for the people will
not be satisfied with an inquiry
set up and conducted by the
guilty. The criminals must be
run down and punished by the
people themselves, through
their direct representatives in
congress.—New York World.
If Alger could only put every
man in jad who has criticised
his criminal mismanagement of
this war—the women of Ameri
ca would be lonesome—for the
only real men of the nation
would be behind the bars.
The Italian wheat crop is offi
cially estimated at 128,060,000
bushels against bush
els last year’s crop, and average
of 1 19,000,000 bushels for the
1 ist 10 years. Official figures
show that this yeai’s Canadian
wheat crop will be the largest in
j the hi-tory of the dominion.
| Harvest operations are now in
j full swing in Manitoba, and the
wheat crop there will be about
15.000,000 bushels more than
last year, estimates this year
ranging from 40,000,000 to 50,-
000,00') bushels. The condition
of wheat in Canada were never
better, and the crops will grade
very high.
An old clipping from the Chi
cago News reads :
“Senor Sagasta, Madrid—
Dear bir : I have taken two of
your justly celebrated fleets and
I never felt better in all my life.
Yours truly. Uncle Sam.”
Since then, however, Uncle
Sam has had an attack of Al
ger’s fever camps and, though
he may emerge, his health and
patriotism has suffered an al
most overwhelming shock and
irreparable damages have re
sulted.
Senator Sim Blalock, affable
and charming as ever, is a Kim
ball house guest. It is said that
the Hon. Sim signed a peace
protocol with Senator Dodson
some time ago, whereby Mr.
Dodson is to occupy the presid
ing officer’s chair in the upper
house without opposition, and
Mr. Blalock is to be given a
coaling station in the committee
archipelago.—Constitution.
An official cablegram from
Shafter to the war department,
during the investment at Santi
ago, states that he, Shafter, was
suffering with gout, a id to such
an extent tha he could not
mount his horse. Comment is
unnecessary.
Mrs. Burton Harrison, in an
article on “How to behave like
the 400,” says “..erfuines jjre
the essence of vulgarity.” The e
is only one thing worse than
, using them—that is writing
t about them in such a fashion. —
. Washington Post.
The number of revenue
stamps sold during the month
’ of July was sufficient to allow
* two stamps a week for each
man, woman and 'hild in the
United States.
September 3d is to be a busy
day lor the Georgia democracy.
There is to be speaking in fivo
places and prominent democrats
' are scheduled to appear at every*
one of them.
i * ——r
(’apt. ghould, the Duncan of
Kansas, should be buried at
once. Such a foul mass of putre
faction should be planted deep—
for sanitary reasons, if no other.
. There is more Catarrh in this
section of the country than all
other diseases put together, and
’ until the last few years was sup
p dl > !<'■• ii eur<.'hie. For a gieal
mu; v vea-s d eters pronounced
' : t i locrfl direas. •tn I prescihed lo
> » mmedier, and by constantlj
fniiing io ur-' with loci! treat
ment, j.:oi.oiucd it incurable
i S i nc“ has proven catarrh to be a
coustituiional disease, ai d tbere
f. ;e r.-'q-iires constiiuticnal treat
uu-nt. Hail’s Ca'arrb Cure inanu
fdctii',Gd by F. J. Chrney & Cc.
T ledo, Onio, ie the only cotißtitu
tioual cure on the market. It is
taken internally m doses from 10
drops o a teaspoonful. It acts di
r< ctly on the blood and mucous
surfaces of the system. They offer
' 006 hundred dollars for auy case i
fails to cure, send for cireulart
aod tesiimouials. Address,
F. J Cheney Co.. Toledo, O,
Sold by Druggists, 75c
H IT Family Pilhare thi bnt,
7HE MEN IN THE RANKS.
I f is not cowardice or a
pHl' io.iMnfor men who
or war to 1!( ( . ro t „ b , H
i out of the serv.ee, I)nw that lhe
war is over.
I, T, 77«’»‘«'»'b.nM.l, wko
b»v.. Wt 8„,,| „ nd
..rv.th.irooo,,
iry. >b.yd„l n ..t | ot
g n iscii duty in Spanish islandi
The g Verimient, can easily
m<n enough to garrison all that
«p wil uke nmong those who have
nothu g else to do. or who will
make no sacrifice in doing poli ee
du y for sls per month. It will be
an outrage upon brave and honor*
able if those who want to pet
out of the service are not mustered
ou' simply because their officers
are looking for soft snaps.
MEN WHO FACEI) # THE GUNS
Admiral Cerve-a’s tribute to
American chivalry is no less cor
dial than was that of Pedro Lopez
private of infantry, in his fare,
well greeting to our army on be»
half of 11,01)0 of his fellowprison*
ets.
In his official report on the bat*
tie of the third of July the Spanish
admiral devotes a paragraph to a
eulogy of the American who
“clothed our nakedness, and stop
ped their cheers lest they increase
the sorrow of the conquered,”
Evidently, if the men who faced
our guns should haye a control
ling vo ce in the matter the rela
tions between Spain and the Uni
ted States would soon become more
cordial than they have ever beeu
in the historv of the two nations.
Thor'- seems to be no rest for
the wicked or the good either in
this womd. As soon as we have
routed the Spaniards, we are
called upon to route the Repub
licans and the Pops.—Waycross
Herald-.
Well, we reckon we knowhow
to make that unholy alliance
step Spanish !
On its city news staff the At
lanta Journal has a speculative
spirit—with proper attention
that reporter could command a
good figure on the yellowest
vein w in Gotham
EDITOR' \L COMMENTS.
A cl’iu'e sh uhl have been it
ser'ed in the |>r<»(< col depriving
Sag ista of any buck talk pi iviDges.
—St. Louie Globe Democrat.
Surg- ou General needs
a firetaid-to-the-wounded bondage
on his official reputation. —Phil-
adelphia Reco.d.
As Governor ot New York Rt" »e
--vel' would he full of surprises. He’s
a rough rider even when it comes
to riding hobbies. —Philadelphia
Times.
There are also good openings for
American provisions in Cuba. For
particu ars call upon or address
anv iusnrg°'it able to wield a knife
or fork. Chicago Chronicle.
Loyal Westerners are willing to
suffer to a reasonable degree lor the
sake of the corn crop, but lhe bur
den may become too heavy. Hasn’t
the corn had all the heat it really
needs this season? —Indian apo'ii
Journa'.
If Admiral Dewey wil! travel
ir-nu San Francisco to Washing*
ton by Full be will confer a faVur
upon S' veral n.illion people wb<»
are exceedingly anxious to paint a
wide crimson band across the con *
tinent. —Omaha World- Herald.
Some of the New Englanders
who invests! heavily in th*# great
scheme f»r extracting gold from
sea water siill believe that ths
precess will mak i them rich. The
gold brick dealer will cali on those
guileless persons immediately,
Mail and Express.
The Pullman twins are a preci
ous pair. One of them has now
married a giri whom the other had
jilted That comes about »s na ” r
io muking reparation for blighted
offec’ious as it is possible t«>
without carrying out the original
'contract. Alba ty T- legram.