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THE BLACKSHEAR TIMES E. Z. BYRD, Editor and Proprietor. VOL. XIV. NO. 41, LEARN PRACTICAL THINGS. REV. DR. TALM AGE’S SUNDAY DISCOURSE. **T!ie Law of Klmlncss” is the Title of the New York llerahPs Tenth Compete tire Sermon^Dr. Tn!ttttt£6 Preaches a Sermon to the Feminine Tollers. There Proverbs xxxi., 20. are two superficial and somewhat prevalent notions of Mhdtieaa which over look the truth o 1 a law of kindness and hinder fchtt fulfilment of that law. The IS that kindness is a happy accident 0! temperament. When Charles Lamb died. Henry Lamb, Crabb she Robinson wont to visit Mary and said to him: “Now, I eail this Very kihd Af you, not good natured, but very, very kind.” Her distinction Is just. Kindness is more than constitutional good naturedness. tt Implies discipline and culture. The second notion associates kindness ^•ith Christian etiquette and deportment, with something amiable and desirable, perhaps, tial. but rather ornamental than essen devout Consequently people many religious and are unkind in words and actions without, any feeling of sinfulness on that account. Put away the notion of kindness which regards it as merely an external grace of character or a useful lubricant wherewith to reduce the frictions of social intercourse and conceive it as an essential element of all goodness, divine or law human, and as comprehended under God’s of human life. Unkindness, like any other transgression of moral law. is wick edness. Nor is it enough to try and not be unkind, for unless one tries to bo kind ho not only fails of duty, but will bo un able to guard himself from actual unkind ness. Kindness has its root in kinship. It im plies relationship and affinity. Men nro children of a common Father, and there fore brethren. Therein lies tfie signifi cance of all that the Scriptures teach con cerning lasting tho essential, exceeding and ever loving kindness of God. There is kinship His image. between Him and men, created in Therein is grounded our hu man kinship and tho law of brotherly kind ness for all men, than which no law of human life has higher.authority or sacred cr sanctions. As no one can be as good as he should and may be, so no one can do good ns lie should and may without striving to fulfill this law of tho cultivation and manifesta tion of kindness. There is nothing else so powerful for good unless it i»o love, and love as St. Paul says, is kind. It disarms into prejudice and hatred, it converts distrust evil confidence, it overcomes all manner of with good. It brings out as nothing else can the latent and potential good tilings in people. Men have come to recog nize and act upon this principle In their treatment and training of animals. How much more effective will be the training of children and the treatment of nil human beings which is based upon kindly sympa thy! Tho safest assumption that can be made in all suHi matters is that kindness will meet all such response. Kindness has insight andean detect signs of promise in the unpromising, while under its genial influences and delicate ministra tions these signs become manifest and the things they promise begin to be fulfilled. What else* gives so great encouragement to the many who are struggling with advers ity or temptation, correcting and changing just those depressed feelings of loneliness and neglect wherein the power of evil finds its most favorable conditions? Wordsworth speaks of That portion of a good man’s life— llis little, nameless, unromombered nets of kindness and of love. How suggestive that is of what is possi ble in this way of kindness, which works with magic power to transmute apparent trifles into priceless treasures—as St. Zita’s cup of cold water given to a dusty and weary pilgrim proved to bo, as bo drank it, a cup of precious ■wine. Kind words often, as Dante says of Beatrice's words, “more smiled than spoken!” Kind actions, cost ing little, but bestowing much! How easily they able might bo multiplied to the immeasur cheer and comfort and enrichment of life! They make tho gloomy smile, tho angry from grow inook, tho suffering to cease bitter groaning; they light up hope, sweeten the faint thoughts, console sorrow, strengthen and turn from sin; and they reach and move those whom no other good influ ences affect and conquer such as have re sisted all other powers of grace. Bitter and all too frequent are our re grets and repentances, as we recall, per haps too late for aught but regret and re pentance, the unkind things said or done by us, or tho kind things wo might and should have said and done, but left unsaid and undone. In our cups of recollection overflowing with divine tender mercies and loving kindnesses there is do bitterer ingredient than this. Hut seldom, if ever, do we recall any error of ours on the part of kindness or find nny occasion for regret ting merciful allowances, favorable Inter pretations or whatever a spirit of kindness may have prompted. Wo hnvo never stood by a coffin or a grave and repented of any utmost or even unrequited kindness shown to the person at rest there. The Gospel of Christ is precious because it is a gospel of the “exceeding great kind ness of God toward us” in Christ, ami be cause it is all tho while aiming to touch and waken the chords of human sympathy in our hearts; and,In bringing us under tho law and into tho spirit of brotherly kind ness. to make us know and rejoice together in tHe loving kindness of our God, Of this gospel we can all be ministers, and the best and most useful portion of our lives Will be our “little.namoiess, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.” 01», then, since the time is short, “Bo swift to love, tnnke haste to be kind!” Edwin Bond Pajikeh, Pastor of the Second Church in Hartford, Conn. LEARN PRACTICAL THINCS. Dr. Talmage Preaches Directly For the Benefit of the Women, Text: “Every wise woman buildeth her house.”—Prov. xiv., 1. Woman a mere adjunct to man, an ap pendix to the masculine volume, an npnen d«ge, a sort of afterthought, something thrown in to make things even that is the heresy entertained and implied by some men. This is evident to them, because Adam was first created, and then Eve. They don't read tho whole ftorv, or they would find that the porpoise and the bear and the hawk were created before Adam, so that this argument, drawn from priority of creation, might prove that the sheep and the Woman dog were independent greater than man. So. was an creation, and was intended, if she choose, to live alone, to work alone, act alone, think alone, but never fight her battles alone. The Bible says it is not good for a woman to be alone; and the simple fact is that many women who are harnessed for life in the marriage relation would be a thousand-fold better ofT if they were alone. A woman standing outside the marriage oj GSjmoJd pm* w.onnn oaqi i ‘Ajp? pun qpiiM jo nojtifioop aui j(U A'jn^n.vaqi ‘tfniBq.qya o\Sir.i) papuaq-ppKI u ‘pou-iBui oj9M umM) otjj ‘uoqoff pun ssom ijjjAv p^uoaoo yfooj jo jtfij ;n mi pi ‘paai] pun 3p)og jo poofq .toj fin BujSfnof osuao pun sqtqnrf snoJOAjtuuo siq pjnoiA oq pam).* -ap XniAuvui ejmjnx Xq oq* ifuiTiii xajjw ‘.Cup euo ‘os axnv.* aqj oj oanpnA jejnb aqj Sauq ij|a\ y pun ‘joo-a.vop v jo orjy u; dn jqSlnojq sn.u pan ‘^wod «m||| y paw ‘aojjp*odsip pipru n j,, :pj«s pun it oy jnoqn 'faux# pas snopndnj sBii aanjjnA u jnqy #n|opon 'axop v nuifA *»2jn »f|} «hax jufiAt ®|*l uuojej oj unui n pdUJtnm «nq ‘biiajqi aaqjo aj asaes punos pooS* Xjpnq jo ‘nntuoAu on Xanpf •pdpuoaj anaio* n anqy jjo idjjdq panscoqjpejpuno nurses Ff aofnrfiw love and cherish till death do us part.” But one day the dove in her fright saw tho vulture busy at a carcass, and cried: “Stop that! Did yort carnivorous not promise me that you would (lUJtyour and filthy habits If I married you?” “Yes,” said the vulture, “but If yort don't like my w f, you can leave," and and another with one angry stre ce of the beak, fieree clutch, the vulture left the dove eyeless and wingless and lifeless, Many a woman who has had the hand of a young inebriate offered, but declined it, or wllo tvlts asked to chain her life to a man selfish, or will of bad temper, and refused the shackles, bless Dod throughout all eternity demonium. that she escaped that oarthly pan battle In addressing alone, those women who have to I congratulate you on your happy escape. Rejoice forever that you will not have to navigate the faults of the other sex, when you have faults enough of your own. Think of the bereavements you avoid, of the risks of unnssirailatod temper which you will not have to run, of tho cares you will never have to carry, and of the opportunity of outside useful ness from which married life would have partially debarred you, and that you am free to go and come as one who lias tile responsibilities of a household can seldom be. God has not given you a hard lot, as compared with your sisters. their When young women shall mako up minds at the start that mc.soullno companionship Is not a necessity Is in order to happiness, and that thore a strong probability that they will have will be to getting fight tho tile battle timber of life alone,"limy fortune, and their roady for their own saw and ax and plane sharpened for its construction, rlneo ‘‘Every wiso woman buildeth lusr house.” As no boy ought to be brought up with out learning somo business at which lie could earn a livelihood, so no girl ougtit to bo brought up without learning the science of self-support. The difficulty is that many a family goes sailing ou tho high tide of success, and the husband and father de pends ou his own health and acumen for the welfare of Ills household, but ono day begets his feet wet, and in three days pneumonia has closed ids life, and the daughters are turned out on a cold world to earn bread, and there is nothing practi cal that they can vlo. How is this evil to be cured? Start clear back la tile homestead and touch your daughters that life is nn earnest thing, and that there is a possibility, if not a strong probability, life that they will have to fight the batllo of alone. Let every father and mother say to tiieirdangbters: “Now. what would you Do for a livelihood it what l now own were swept away by financial disaster, or old age, or death should end my career?" Mytftdvieo to ait girts and nil unmarried women, whether in affluent homes or in homes where most stringent economies are grinding, is to learn to do somo kind ot work that the world must hnvo while the world stands. O, young women of America! as many of you will have to light your own battles alone, do not wait uutll you meet with disaster and your father is deiul.andnll the resources of your family have been scattered; but now, while in a good house and environed by all prosperities, learn how to do somo kind of work that the world must have ns long as tho world stands. Turn your attention which from tho em broidery of fine slippers, of there is a surplus, and mako a useful shoe. Ex pend the time in which you adorn a cigar case in learning how to mako a good, honest loaf ot bread. Turn ycur atten tion from tho making of flimsy nothings to the manufacturing of important some things. "But,” you ask, “wlint would my father am! mother say it they saw I was doing such unfashionable work?” Throw tho whole responsibility upon us, the pastors, who are constautiy hearing of young wo men in all these cities, who, unqualified by their previous luxurious surroundings for the awful struggle of life into whioh thoy have been suddenly hurled, seemodtohave nothing starvation left them but a choice between and damnation, They go along tile street at 7 o'clock in the wintry mornings, through the slush and storm, to the place where they slmil earn only half enough for subsistence, the daugh ters of onco prosperous merchants, law capitalists, yers, clergymen, artists, bankers and who brought up their chil dren under the infernal delusion that it was not high tone for a woman to learn a profitable calling. Young woman! lake this Bttftir lii your own bund, and let there bo an Insurrection in all prosperous families on the part of tho daughters of this day, 'demanding knowledge in occu pation and styles of business by which they may be their own defence and llioir own support brotherly If all fatherly and husbandly and hands full them. I have seen two sad sights, the ono a woman in all tiie glory of her young life, stricken by disease, and in a week lifeless in n home of which sho bail been the pride, As her hands were folded over the still heart and her eyes closed for tho last slumber, and she was taken out amid the lamentations of kindred and friends, I thought that was a sadness immeasurable. But 1 have seen something compared with which that scene was bright and songful. It was u young woman who had been all her days amid wealthy surroundings, by the visit of death and bankruptcy to the household turned out on a cold world without one lesson about how to get food or shelter, and into tho awful whirlpool of city life, where strong ships have gone down, and for twenty years not one word has been heard from her. Vessels went out on the Aiiantie Ocean looking for a shipwrecked • raft that was left alone and forsaken on the sea a few weeks before, with the idea of bringing it into port. But who shall ever bring into the harbor of peace and hope anil heaven that lost womanly im mortal, driven in wlint tempest, aflame in what conflagration, sinking into wlmt abyss? O God, help! O Christ, rescue! My sisters, give not your time to learning fancy work which the world may dispense with in liurd times, but connect your skill with the Jndispensables of life. Let me say to all women who have al ready entered upon tlm battle of life that the time is coming when women slmil not only get ns much salary and wages as men get, but for certain styles of employment women will have higher salary and more wages, for tho reason that for some styles of work they have more adaptation. But this justice will come to women not through nny sentiment of gallantry, not because woman therefore, is physically weaker than men, sideratiou and, ought to have more com shown her, but because through her liner natural taste and more grace of manneraDd quicker perception, and more delicate touch, and more educated adroit ness she will, In certain callings, be to her employer worth ten per cent, more, or twenty per cent, more than the other sex. Nhe will not get It by asking for It, but by earning it, and It shall be hers by lawful conquest. The subscription price of this pa per puts It within the reach of all and Iherc Is no reason why your name should not be on our books. WHITE IS CHAIRMAN. H« I» Elected By th*i Democratic Cou IfreMlonal Committee. A Washington dispatch says: The new democratic congressional commit tee Thursday elected as chairman Sen ator White, of California. Senator White was supported by the friends of Representative Bailey, who are favora ble to that gentleman’s candidacy in case the next house is democratic. The meeting was quite fully at tended, thirty-three members being present. DEVOTED 10 THE INTERESTS OF PIERCE COUNTY. BLACKSH EAR. GA. THURSDAY, JANUARY 27. 1898. A QUESTION OF VERACITY SPRUNG BETWEEN THEM. TELLER RESOLUTION CULLED OF. Silver Advocates in tlie Senate Win a Point Over Stubborn Opposition and Strong- Party Lines. A Washington special says: Speaker Heed, from the rostrum of the house, aud Mr. Bailey, leader of the demo crats, from his plaeo on the floor, glared at each other at the close of the Cuban debate Thursday and joined an issue of veracity. This sensational episode completely overshadowed the interest in the Cubau debate, which had continued uninteruptedly in the house for three days, during the con sideration of the diplomatic and con sular appropriation bill. Williams, Wednesday notico was given by Mr. democrat, of Mississippi, that at the conclusion of the debate Thursday a motion would he mado to recommit the hill with instructions. When the motion was made hy Mr. Bailey it was ruled out of order hy the speaker. Mr. Bailey thereupon startled the house by nflirming that ho had had a private understanding with the speaker by which a vote should he taken di rectly on the motion to recommit. This the speaker emphatically de nied and these two lenders of their re spective parties in tho house, with white faces and voices shaken hy emo tion, set their statements against each other’s while the galleries looked on in breathless amazement and (ho members were in an uproar. Mr. Smith, of Michigan, who said ho was ^present, corroborated tho speaker’s side of tho ease. The result of the speaker’s position was that an appeal was taken from his decision aud hy a strict party vote it was laid on the ta ble—168 to 114, the democrats and populists, as on the two previous days, voting against the solid republican strength. The debate during the day was not as interesting as on eithor of the two preceding days. The features were a characteristic speech hy Champ Clark, of Missouri, a strong appeal for con servatism from Mr. Johnson, Indiana, a presentation of (he results of his observations in Cuba during his re cent trip to tho island, from King, democrat, of Utah, and an hour speech by Mr. Dingley, of Maine, in explana tion of the causes of the reduction of the wages of the New England cotton industry. Mr. Williams, democrat, of Missis sippi a number of the foregn affairs committee, followed. He sneered at tho statement of Mr. Hitt that tho granting of belligerent rights to tho Cubans would afford them no advan tage. Ho described the harrowing condi tions there, characterized the scheme of autonomy as a delusion, and de clared if peace oamo on that basis Spain wauld saddle tho war debt on Cuba. There would he resistance and once more the fires of revelation would he kindled. Permanent peace would not come to the island until indepen dence was achieved. Teller ltcHolutioii In the Senate. Silver’s control of the senate was again demonstrated Thursday on a di rect vote which was an unequivocal test of the feeling of senators on tho question. When Senator Vest, in accordance with previous notice, called up the Stanley Matthews resolution and mov ed the consideration, the gold men made an effort to defeat this hy mov ing an executive session. The lines were clearly drawn. On the one side were the gold men, on the other those strongly for silver and some who are inclined that way. The result was the defeat of tho mo tion hy Mr. Lodge for executive ses sion by a vote of 27 yeas to 3fi nays. Then, on Mr. Vest’s direct motion that the resolutions favorably reported by tho finance committee be taken up for consideration, the vote was 41 yeas to 25 nays. This means that the silver resolu tions now have the right of way as the unfinished business of the senate. COLLEGE STUDENTS FIGHT. Bloody Riot rrecIpitaD d In Which Much Damage Wan Done. A class fight, which ended in n bloody riot, took place among the students of Franklin college, the Bap tist institution of Indiana, Tuesday. The seniors and sophomores on one hand and the juniors and freshmen on the other have been clashing for some time, and the crisis came when the jnnioT flag was seen floating over the college. The senior-sophomore crowd gained the roof of the building and tore down the banner, precipitating an exciting struggle. TWO KILLED IN WRECK. Train No. 37 of the Atlantic: Coast f.liie Collide# With a Local. Train No. 37, of the Atlantic Coast Line from New York to Florida, and No. 52, local from Charleston to Co lurnbia, S. C., collided about eight miles westof Charleston Friday morn ing at 7:17 o’clock. Two men were killed and a number of others injured. The dead are: Robert James, fireman of No. 37; Wes ley Bishop, fireman of No. 52; both colored. DISCUSSED CUBAN MATTER. Party Lines Are Closely Drawn In Con gressional Debate. A Washington special says; All day long Wednesday )he question of grant ing belligerent rights to the Cuban insurgents was argued in the house, but as on the previous day, the minori ty hurled itself against n stone wall. Tu tho only vote taken during tho lay - a motion designated to overrule the decision of the speaker and direct Iho committee on foreign affairs to report without further delay the Cuban resolution passed by Hie senate at tho last session—the republicans stood soli>I and voted to sustain the chair. The galleries were hanked to the doors and there was considerable ex citement throughout tho early part of the session, when the members of the minority were successively pressing all sorts of amendments bearing mi the Cuban question for the purpose of embarrassing tho majority. During the debate Chairman Hitt, of the foreign affairs committee, made an .impressive speech explaining at length tho situation which made action hy congress inadvisable. Ho spoke with impassioned words of the president's sympathy with the struggle for Cuban independence and the achievements of the presont administration. The release of American prisoners in Cuba, tho recall of Weylor, tho abandonment of tho policy of concen tration and the autonomy scheme ho attributed to the firm attitude of the president, and contrasted these results with the inaction of tho last adminis tration. Ho averred that belligerent rights could not aid the insurgents' cause and perhaps tho most dramatic portion of his speoeh came when ho declared that the insurgents only wished for belligerent rights in the hope and belief that this country would bo embroiled in a war with Spain, which would give them their freedom with our triumph. Ho assert ed that the president must assume the responsibility of any action which might eventuate in war and appealed to both sides of the chamber to patri otically crisis support tho executive if a shall come. M’MILUN LED IN CAUCUS. He Receives Thirty-Nine Votes While Taylor Knnl Last. A Nashville dispatch says: The dem ocratic caucus to nominate a candidate for United States senator met Wednes day night and took seven bullots with out result. There was no material ehnngo in the ballots, McMillin re ceiving within six votes of enough to nominate, and Senator Turley running second with thirty votes. The magio of Governor Taylor’s name failed to cause Hie stampede so confidently predicted hy his friends, and he received the same ninetoen votes on each of the seven ballots. Every possible effort has been made to change the supporters of McMillin, hut the men who voted for him are stickers, and are certain (o stand by him. They are assured of enough votes to nominate whenever the break comes, no matter whether Taylor or Turley is the first, to withdraw. The larger number of votes would come to McMillin from Taylor, but enough would ho received if Henutor Turley would get out of the way. M’COMAS’ FRIENDS DISAl’I’OINTED Second Senatorial Ballot roll Short of Tlielr Lx piTt.ut Ioiim. The Maryland senate and house met in joint session again Wednesday and after casting ono ballot for United States senator to succeed Arthur 1*. Gorman adjourned until Thursday. Tho ballot resulted as follows: MeComas 36, Shaw 11, Shryock 2, Milliken 2, Barber 6, Warner 1, Gor man 4(5, Findlay 2, I’arrati 6, Lowndes 1; total 118. Necessary to a choice 57. Absent 4. The outcome of Hie day’s balloting was a distinct disappointment to the followers of Judge MeComas, they having confidently expected a gain of at least eight moro votes than they got. FIFTY BODIES RECOVERED. Gas ,Lxplosion In It riHsian Mines Was I'Vitrfully littnl. A later dispatch from Charkoff,Rus sia, says that the bodies of fifty vic tims of the gas explosion in one of tho mines of the Donetzaer company in the Taganrog district have been extri cated. It is feared others wore killed. Three of the eighteen injured in the explosion have since succumbed. RULES FOR PENSION LAWYERS. CommiMMiofier Kvari* Will Hirnpllfy 8y« t«m Now In Vokih*. Commissioner Evans, of tho pension office, lias in preparation a new set of regulations governing the practice of attorneys before and the adjudication of claims in the office. The effort will * ,R made to simplify to some extent Hie methods now in vogue of adjudicating claims but without in any manner les seeing the requirements imposed up on pensioners to show cause why their claims should be allowed and to re Hove the emtmrassrnerit which results from different constructions of the laws by successive administrations of the pension office. NO RELIEF MIR CHURCH. If onset of Hepre.nent.Htl van DisruMuH Ap pual From Hook J'lihlUiiliijf Ho use. A Washington special says: There was a parliamentary struggle in the house Friday over the bill for the re lief of the book publishing company of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, which was before the house last Friday. By shrewd rnanenveriDg, its opponents succeeded in preventing aQ for the time being. PRESIDENT MAY BE FORCED TO ACT IN CUBAN MATTER. CURRENCfREFORM MAY 60 UNDER Deport That PrenLlent McKinley t« Pre paring Special McBRttgc railing For ('ash to TritiiNport Troop#. A Washington special of Friday says: Cuban news is still flying fast aud furious about the capital. Ono story was put in circulation that tho president was preparing a special mes sage in which ho would ask for $1,000,000 for the transportation of troops. This and other reports wore followed by denials, and there seems no way of getting at Iho truth of any of them. Ono thing is certain, however, aud that is that the administration is greatly alarmed at the situation in the house of representatives. It was this phase of the situation that had the cabinet in session Friday. The Cuban matter took up all the time of tho president and his members. As grave as the situation is on account of the attitude of the Spanish, it is us serious in the eyes of the administra tion as the attitude of the republicans in the house. Currency Reform May Pull. The death knell of all efforts at cur rency reform was sounded in tho son ata at Friday’s session. A premonition of it was given Thurs day in tho decisive vote by which the Stanley Matthews resolutions wero given tho right of way over everything olse; Friday the fate of all the various efforts to puss such reform laws as will “commit this country moro thorough ly to tho gold standard” was settled. The opponents of those resolutions had made a careful study of the situa tion and when Senator Vest, asked that a time bo sot for a final vote on (be resolutions, tho republican leaders evinced a desire that they bo given their dose at the soonest moment pos sible. This was a surprise to tho sil ver men, who had expected to bo told that Hio resolutions would not be al lowed to go through the senate with out the hardest kind of a light. An agreement was reached that there shall be a vote next Thursday, lii the meantime there will be several speeches. Senators Turpin and Stew art have already given notice of their intentions in this respect and some of the republicans will set forth their views. Those western republicans who have been talking silver aro to bo smoked out. They will vote for the resolutions, and its passage by so de cided a vote will bo formal notice to tho house that there is no need of that body wasting its time in the considera tion of the Gage bill, the commission Dili or any of those other measures ad vanced in the name of reform and pushed for tho purpose so frankly stated by the secretary of the treasniy —to commit the country more thor oughly to the gold standard. A Denial Prom Mr. Quay. At the opening of the senate’s ses sion Friday Mr.Quay,of I’eiinsylvania, said that he bad noticed in tho morn ing newspapers that he lmd voted for the consideration of the Teller resolu tion because the senator from Missou ri (Mr. Vest) had asked him to do so. This, Mr. Quay said, was not true in any sense, as lie had not conferred with the Missouri senator about it. lie bad voted as he had, said lie, because be thought the present consideration of the resolution would benefit the country and the republican party. BIG IMPORTS OF LUMBER. Dim to Demand for Tourings to I'diKnjgo In AI n h It mi i'radn. A Kan Francisco dispatch says: During the past 48 hours 17 vessels, currying in the aggregate more than four million feet of lumber,have passed in through the golden gate. This ar rival of so many lumber laden vessels is due wholly to the unprecedented demand for tonage to engage in the Alaskan trade. The arrival of the fleet relieves to a gieat extent, a situation in the lumber market created by the same demand that will cause a scarcity of lumber carriers. DOLE WILL BE HONORED. McKinley Will Hen That Hawaiian tl dcut In WHI Fr.terfnlncd, A Washington special says: Presi dent Dole, of the Hawaiian Islands, will be given a royal welcome when be arrives at tho capital. President Mc Kinley has decided that ho shall he considered as the nation’s guest, and no means will he spared to entertain him in a lavish manner. The official tour of the Hawaiian president will begin at Chicago. The president will send government offi cials to meet him en route, and all honor will be shown him as the guest of the nation. SYSTEM MAY CHANGE HANDS. Cumberland Telephone Company Will Rrohahly Have New Owner*. A Nashville dispatch says: Jt is stated in well informed circles that negotiations between the Cumberland Telephone and Telegraph company and the Great Southern system, which operates in New Orleans and vicinity, are pending which, if successful, will make the former company entire own er of the latter, the price being near #1,500,000, to be paid in stock of the Cumberland company. SUBSCRIPTION, One Dollar a Year. ESTABLISHED 1880. AKTIIUR E. COCHRAN, Linvyer, Waycross, 4Ja. Telephone l!!; P. O. Box 173; office over postoflh'o. I'rnotioes regularly in Appling, Pierce, Clinoh, Coffee,Ware, Glynn, Camden, Wayne and Charlton counties, composing .Brunswick cir cuit. Nov 20-’97. BARBER .. SHOP. JOHN Al.DKIIMJK, Proprietor. m. ACKSn E A It, « EOllU I A. Hair Cut ting, Shaving, Dyeing, Sham pooing, etc., done at the following prices: Cutting hair, 15 cents. Sl\u\ ing, 10 cents. Shampoo, 20 cents. Blacking, 25 cents. Deo 9-’!)7. The Oefense of a Castle, (450. Sir John Falstaff had hy his will do vised his castle, called Calstor, to John Paston. As a fortification it was an excellent defense against foreign in vaders, and ns a residence It was wor thy of royalty Itself. In fact, the Duke of Olosler, afterwards Richard III., at olio time contemplated making it his abode. While Paston was trying to establish his title In the courts, the Duke of Norfolk purchased a pretend ed claim for It, and sought !» gain pos session by force. The Postons did not propose to yield, though the Duke was then probably the most powerful noble in England, and John Paston was hi l liveried servant. Four professional sol diers were sent up from London to aid in the defense. They aro described as “provyd men, coming In worr and well schoto both go lines and crossbows, and devyso bolworkys, and keep wacche and wanlc. They ho saddle and we advysod, saving one of them, whyche Is bnllyr (bald), hut ylt ho Is no brawl er. Ye shall fynd them gentlymanly comfortable follows, and that they dare abydo hy (her taklyng.” Young John Postan, aided hy these four and hy a handful of personal friends and followers, hold the castle for several weeks against a siege con ducted hy (ho Duke’s nriny of 3,000 men. By the terms of tho final sur render the besieged wore allowed their lives and goods, horses and harness, and a respite for fifteen days, In which to go where they pleased. The report ed that they wero forced to surrender hy "lak of vllayl, gonopowdyr, menyi herts and surolo of rescue.” Edward IV. had refrained from Interfering In this extraordinary contest, because tho troubles with Warwick wore gathering thickly about him, and tho Mowbraya wero too necessary to ho safely offend ed......Sewance Review. A Curious Calculation. Snyder, the calculating Imrhcr, has been figuring again. It seems that, he snl/l lie lmd an afternoon off on Thursday, and in journeying to Ken sington in a trolley car to see IiIh best girl was compelled to change his posi tion on the seal three or four times to make room for other passengers. "It’s a nuisance, this sliding up and ilown In street, cars," said Hytuler, lust night. ‘‘Did you ever stop In think how much energy is wasted In that way? Every time you move to make room for some body else you edge along perhaps six Inches. Every time you travel In the ears you have to move three or four times. Call it three (hat makes eigh teen inches. Hotnnlhlng like 250,000, ooo people rode in the trolleys last year. If only half of them, or 125,000,000 were seated, the slide up and down amounts to tin extent of 2,250,000,000 inches, of about 35,511 miles. New, If all this energy had been expended hy one man he could, In the course of a year, have Hlid around the earth, with over 10,000 miles to spare. Dees the razor hurt.” Philadelphia Record. If yon have anything to noil let tho public kit on if, Thin paper is a good advertising medium. PLANT SYSTEM. Passenger Schedules. HEM) DOWN. JIHAD UI*. 117 29 J I IMF. < ' A It l» iW H|i’l. Fla. |only. Sunil.) Tally 21 Tally.Tally.| 2.9 | 88 (i Kffi ct. Jan. 18, ’l»H Dully, .12 [ I hilly, 78 | 21 Tally 22 I i Via. j j I hilly. H|iJ. 12 a«0|. iMMulLv. ,N«w York... Ar 2 0:i|.| « Can......... 6 48|> 2M|i mask 25fil " •• .. •• ji sui« nm . nog . r, Hip 2 Win 2 " . Baltimore. . " 9 0!m 1 O.'lii ......I 53 [> <1 20|> .... 1 IJOn " ...Washington.... " 7 4 In I! :S0| • ....... 1 2 45p IOOOji 905n 7 :«0(» " .. ..Ulnliirionil....." I (ilia 7 16|< ....... s 56a «80.i II i:ifi --C I Hit ", .charleston .. “ 6 0H(. fi fila ... iltfp 9 0i.il' 2 00), 5 16;, 2 10a X :i6ii “ .....Hnvnnnah. ..." 12 12 45|*i 45), . I 20a H ilia II 00p 7 22|> J(j 24a fi 4'Jp (J 50 j> ,’J 47h niiilf.v .......Jumip........Ar.lJ Arill Gin 21/i 11 11 ,io..l 42pl eg7.. <)27/i <» 0 gm,.! 23r»i 5 r, 57p r.7». *1100/1 I |3|, 7 J7|,| I !Hh JO 12/i Ar Lv| J0 29/1 JO 0J|,l 5 :)2/»! H :j5|»/*8 J6p Lv * 11 1 :Wj»' 20,t 5 00| 10 H 05|,| top...... 4 fiOnj I 10 nop] 50n|Ar.... ..JJriiriuwl'-k WayrroMK... I.v | 10 lllu 10 :i5|,| 5 16a 0 20|, 5 02(1 ..... 1 *• .. “ 8 iOit 8 00j> 2 1 Oh I.... !d 35j*I “......Albany......“ s .... (...... I 30aI lOpj I ilOpl ... . I 8 40a.... “ . . . . </'ollJfiibllH ... “ ... .10 26[)'U .....:...... . .. 4 15/t ,.. ... 4 35p “ .....,Ma<*oii......“ . II 20a...... 7 45a .. I 7 85|il “ ... .Atlanta, .... “ l 7 50|,| 7 50al..„._. J 7 55(i 10 I5p| | 7 00.t / 00|, Ar.. .Jacksonville.... I.v; 0 20» H 00p 4 J0p| 3 15p 2 ...... 8 40a 6 I0(, " HI.. Ailgiistl/lo.. “ ; 7 00/1 «3Spl .... ......I 2 05j. 0 12 05 ji II .‘15p “ . (laln«!Hvllln .. “ 0 15a 4 20|»l .... f 1 05(i1 55 p A HOjii “ .. Ocala......“ j 1 00a 2 25|. .... 8 , /; 7 55(1 05(/| “ ... Tntnpa .....“ Hotal ' 7 37p| 25p!l0 10 55a i 8 10a 8 0 J5|i 8 “ Tampa Hay “ 7 40a . ., H 00a 1 T',5 ...... j 12 15a[ . 1 20 (i Ar. ... VaPloHta. ..Lv 8 i:$H! St 21 r» 2 ......! 1 25m . 2 86p “ . . ThoinanviUe, 2 05a i C* f-f ......j HlOpj 8 20a . 0 7 nop; m] “ .. ..Now Montgomery, OrUoitiH, : : I .... I 7 7 45p Q | .... ......J . i 40 “ .... | 55a -Q ...... b S ...... 7 00p! ... 0 50a “ ... ....Cincinnati.. .Nfwh villa .. : i ! .... « 15 a| —. '1 j .... 4 j5 ...... 7 05a . .. 4 05(» “ : .... 'll OOpf 4 .... *No». 07 and 08 <lo not «top at HlackMhc/ir. Thumn train* arathn Now York and Florida Kpooial. A olid voxtihulod train <;onijio8od oxdUHlvoly of Pullman's flimst nloopin^ Rar lor ObMorvatlon and Dining < 'urs. Steam heated and oloetfio H^IiUmI. Runs solid botwoon New York and Jacksonville, ft divides at that point, (/art going to T/trnpn and part to Hi. Aiitftintine. Th«tfw trains do not loavoolthor New York, Ht. Aukfuatlne or Jacksonville on Hundayn. No. daily ex/Sfj/t Sunday arrlvea from Savannah and leaves for Waycross at 25 4;.06f». in. All trains buffet except Nos, 23, 32, 35, 37, 38 and 78 make all local stops. follows: Nos. 35 and 32 Full man sleeping cafH and parlor earn arc operated an West Way between New York and Jacksonville. New York and Fort Tampa via (.‘oast. ere < and Cincinnati via Montgomery, Way*'ran# and Nashville via Atlanta. Parlor car Way cross and Hrurwwlck. Nos. 23 and 78 between New York and Jacksonville, Way- and cross and Jacksonville, Waycross and St. PetorsburK via Jacksonville, l’alatka, Ocala Trilby. Farlor car Jacksonville and Fort Tampa via Sanford. No. 37 connects at Way cr< ,ss with sleeper for Cincinnati via Montgomery; Port Tampa via YVh'st Coast and parlor ear to IJninswlck. No. ill connects at Waycross with sleepers to St. Louis via Mont gomery, to St. Fouls via Albany, Columbus, Hlrmingham and Holly Springs; to Nash ville via Atlanta, and to Port Tampa via Jacksonville and Sanford. Steamshl h*ave Port Tam pa for Key West and Havana at 11.00 p. m. Mondays and Thursdays. For l.\ Mobile 10:00 p. m. Saturdays. For further Information apply to‘agent. b. W. WHENN, H. C. McFADDEN, Passenger Traffic Manager. Assistant General Passenger Agent. fierce Comity directory. Conntyr Odlcers. Orditurt—J as. I. Summerull. Clerk Sup. Court—J olin Thomas. Siiebipp—T homas A. Davis. Tax Coi.LP.cTor.—Thos. S. liauler son. Tax Deceiver —>Tas. O. Waters, County Treasurer —li. D. Brantley. Surveyor —Wm. II. Bowen. Coroner —Dr. A. L. It. Avant. Jailor W. W. Darling. Ordinary’s Court, first Monday in each month. County Court. Bold. O. Mitchell, Jr., Judge. Hiduey W. Sturgis, Solicitor. Regular Session, aeoond Friday in each month. Quarterly Sessions, third Monday in March, June, September and Dccoiuber. PROFESSIONAL CARDS. WM. M. T00MEK, Attorney anl Counselor at Law, WAYCROSS, OA. OlHeos: First National Bank Building. soptl2-9Gly * |JR. A. T,. R. AVANT, 1’iiyhician & Suuoron, Patterson, On. Calls promptly answered day or night, from my residence, mar 3-96 ||R, ” J. I/. SMITH, Physician & Suroeon, H I 9(1 Valdosta, Ob. ANDREW B. ESTES, E. l. walker. ESTES & WALKER, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, BLAOKSnEAIt, Gkoroia. may 1 96 R. (I. MITCH ELL, Jr., Attorney at Law, 12 93 ly. Blaokshear, Qa. s. W. STURGIS, A no hnky-at-Law. Will practice in both Stato and Fed erul Courts. Blackshaar, Ga. mar 16-fit, J. E. GO EL'HE, PUYHIOIAN AN1> SuRqEO.T, may 1-fi6. lllaekshear, G». w. P. Piii WILLIAMS, hician A no Surgeon, Rlackshcar, Oft. Persons wanting my services at uiglil will find mo at my residence. may 1-9(5 ly 1| It. J. C. I) 2 lllaekshear, Ga. MJPOffrrs his professional services to the public. Will go to Jesup first Monday in each month. A. BROWN, W. N. BROWN. BROWN & brown: w:\tists, BLACKHllEAR, GA. Hay-Offer their professional seryioo to the citizens of Pic-roe and adjoining counties. May l-’fiO. J J. W. STRICKLAND. Manager. RATES: $2.00 PER DAY. Waycross, (Jcorgfa. Convenient to depot. JJot and cold baths. Table first class. Electric lights throughout tho building.