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VOL. V.
5AM JONES
ON HAN.
Declares Hard Times are
Due to Lack of Good
Morals.
Rev. Sam P. Jones preached the
following sermon to a large con¬
gregation in Rome on Sunday the
25th, taking his text from First
Kings, 2d chapter and 2d verse,
which reads as follows:
“I go the way of all the earth ;
be thou strong therefore, and shew
thyself a man,”
He said in part:
“This wa3 a pathetic scene, old
David on his dying couch deliver¬
ing his farewell advice to his son
Solomon. Children often forget
the injunctions of parents while
they are in the prime of strong
mid robust health, but you can
never efface from memory the last
words of a parent to a child:
“Be a man!
“This is what we need today—
manhood.
AVE NEED MEN.
“We have abundant crops, ex¬
cellent soil, plenty of machinery,
numberless schools, thousands of
inventions, but we need men. We
are retrograding. Give me manly
men and womanly women and I
will show you a land blosoming as
a garden. The trouble is not Avith
the tariff, the silver or gold ques¬
tion, but Ave are needing today
those who will show themselves to
be men. People nowadays want
everything free. They say the
country is going to the bad unless
congress gives them some relief.
There are today tens of thousands
of hale, hearty men drawing from
the treasury at Washington $150,
000,000 annually in pensions.
People who are lying down on the
government. There is in this
country hordes of people Avho
Avant everything free; free schools
and free books; free tickets on the
cars; free lunches and free hotels
and free silver. You find in the
churches any number of members
who lie down on the premises of
tlio Lord.
AVA N'T EVERYTHING FREE.
“They are simply trusting in
free grace and never help the cause
of Christ by active Avork. These
people are not worthy tin name of
Christians. The political candid¬
ates of the two great parties, Mr.
McKinley and Mr. Bryan, he knew
personally and had labored with
them in religious work.
“These men discussed the mone¬
tary question from one end of the
country to the other. They told
the people relief would come if he
was elected. Bryan said the peo¬
ple needed more money and Mc¬
Kinley said we needed a sound
currency. But they knew that all
the geld aud silver in this country
today is spent annually for whisky.
You could throw the gold and sil¬
ver of the United States in the At¬
lantic ocean tomorrow and then
take whiskey out of the land and
you would have unprecedented
prosperity in 12 months. (Great
applause.)
“Neither McKinley nor Bryan
had the manhood to tell the peo¬
ple the truth of their ills, and
every little old red-striped poli
itician in Georgia cries and hawks
about hard times and tells the peo¬
ple they ought to have free silver.
These dirty ring politicians in our
state would do anything for an of
tfice. We need men in our pulpits,
\m i*i our offices, men in our
lurches, men in our proffessions
<i.men everywhere.
00. * MORE GOOD WOMEN.
ion we want more good wo
era, hese low-neck ball women
the rf bicycle iemales
dir* rt-skirted
§ | waltzing the times the is country. to be preai- The
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I LEPage 138 »Devoted to the Interest of Johnson County and Middle Georgia.
WRIGHTSVILLE, GA, TUESDAY, AUGUST 3, 1897.
dent, secretary or treasurin' in
some woman’s club. These hens
who fly on f. fence and cackle. Bo
women and not dolls. Very few
young girls have ambition to be
anything. When we “awake from
the follies of the times and both
men and women determine to be
strong for God and righteousness
then our land will blossom with
plenty and truth yill triumph.”
> AS OTHERS SEE US.
Eugfcllti Officers Have a High Regard
for Lee and Jackson.
Dr. Hunter McGuire, of Rich¬
mond, Va., who was surgeon-in
chief of Gen. Stonewall Jackson’s
corpse, lias just returned from Eu¬
rope, where he spent a portion of
the summer. In an interview in
the Richmond Times, Dr. McGuire
is quoted as saying:
“I was thrown a good deal with
a number of officials of the Brit¬
ish army while I was in England
and was very courteously and
kindly received. I saw a portion
of the maneuvers going on at Al¬
dershot by invitation of Major
General Lord Methuen; saw the
sham battle at or near Brookwood;
had an invitation from Lord Wol
seley, commander-in-chief of the
army, to see the review at Fame
borough, but was prevented by a
terrific downpour of rain from
meeting him. In his letter of in¬
vitation he says: ‘I would like to
have a talk with you about the
greatest man by far whom I ever
knew, General Lee.’
“The estimate of Lee and Jack
son by English officers was very
gratifying. At a little party of
English officers that I attended at
one of the clubs in London a very
prominent soldier said that Amer¬
ica had produced hut three great
generals—first was Washington,
the second Lee and the third Jack
son.
“I lA’as surprised that he re¬
garded Washington as an exceed¬
ingly able strategist with a knowl¬
edge of tactics for which, in my
ignorance, I had never given him
credit. One of these officers, a
teacher in the Staff college at Cam
berley, a gentleman who teaches
strategy and tactics to students
who have been officers in the army
for some years, said ‘that he spent
four or five months of his lectures
every year upon the campaign of
Stonewall Jackson in the Valley
in 1862; that he had studied the
campaign of Jackson and Lee
arouud Richmond, Jackson’s tour
around Pope, his inviroument of
Harper’s Ferry, his flank move¬
ment against Hooker, and he had
never found him to blunder,’ One
of them said with a great deal of
enthusiasm. ‘The 1st of March,
1862, found Lee in front of Mc¬
Clellan, with 71,000 men, Jackson
in the Valley Avith from 14,000 to
16,000 men; McClellan had 105,
000, McDowel at Fredericksburg
had 40,000, Banks, Fremont,
Shields and Milroy in the Valley
had 60,000. In two months the
60,000 in front of Jackson had
been whipped in detail and Avere
gathered around Washington to
protect the capitol. The 40,000
under McDoivell had not advanc¬
ed a step, and the 105,000 under
McClellan were at Harrison’s
Landing, under the protection of
gunboats. That he did not be¬
lieve there had ever been on earth
an army of the same size with the
same force and power or com¬
manded by men of greater genius
and skill than Lee and Jackson.’ ”
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advertise themselves.
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GA.
HELQLLIEéAIiBBEEEfiEL-efll I
I If You
Were He!
Yes, if you were
the creditor and
saw the merch
ant sitting' idly
in his shop ac
cum’lating‘ more
d u s t , cobwebs
and out-of-style
goods than cash,
you. would prob
ably feel like ask
ing, Why don’t
‘
you
Wake Up
and use the ad
vertising col’uns
of THE RECORD.
and exchange
your stock for
1e g a l tender?
What say you?
WANT and
Hundreds of Farmers
Workingmen are
Starving.
James Creelman, the
newspaper correspondent, who
made a Avorld-wide reputation
himself by reporting facts as
existed, and standing out
for tho truth regardless of
quences Avritos as follows
ing the terrible state of
which exists in Ohio, the home
the apostle of protection,
the people Avere coerced and
bugged into Meeting president
fall:
“Cries of industrial and
cial distress go up trom every
county in Ohio. Tlio whole com¬
monwealth is prostrate. In spite
of tho absolute certainty that the
tariff bill will beome a law within
a few Aveeks tho times are growing
worse instead of better.
“It is impossible to exaggerate the
distress in this state. Farms have
actually shrunken to half their
value, and the figures actually show
that ever since Me Kinley’s elec¬
tion, values have shrunk not less
than 10 per cent. Tho depression
is so terrible that loan institutions
are holding thousands of overdue
mortgages, Avhich they do not dare
to foreclose, because prices have
sunk so low that farming land fre¬
quently fails to briug the price of
tho mortgage at auction.
“Wages are boing_cut down in all
directions, factories are running
only part of the time and usually
with reduced forces. Thousands
idle Avorkmen join with the
farmers in the cry for pros¬
perity which was postponed. Ea t -
knows it. Nobody denies
“I was at Canton and Avalked
about the very spot where
dreds of thousands of workingmen
heard Mr. McKinley proclaim
from the wooden stage erected in
front of his house that flip defeat
of Bryan Avould reopen the closed
factories, raise wages give every¬
body Avork, restore the days of
plenty and security to farmers and
give the merchants a chance to
live. I talked with many repre
senative citizens and they ail told
tho same story—hardtimes, suf¬
fering and bankruptcy. Mayor
Rice of Canton said :
“There never has been anything
like this in Ohio before. There
are hundreds of families in Canton
today who are sufiering for the
want of food and clothing. Things
are getting Avorso “In three
months this year I have spent out
of my private purse for food and
coal and clothing to give away
more than my year’s salary as
mayor.
“Tho factories are cutting down
wages and reducing their forces.
Many of them are not operating
more than throe days a week; most
of them are running without profit.
Farm land that has been Avorth
$100 an acre cannot bo sold for
$30 an acre. It is almost
sible to borrow money on real es¬
tate, because tho prices siuk aud
sink.
“ The farmers and Avorkingmen
are deserting tho republican party
by the Avholesalo. The republicans
cannot hide tho evidences of dis¬
tress here. They are to bo seen
everywhere. I know scores of men
who are insolvent and Avho contin¬
ue in business simply because their
creditors do not dare to act. And,
in spite of this terrible condition
of things, the republican party
contents itself with tho payment
of its private political debts in the
form of a tariff bill.
NO. 28
“Why I had a half naked girl
come to me to ask_ sor relief for
her pennileis father and a family
of five children, with the explana¬
tion that her father voted for Mr.
McKinley and thought that on
that account I would not fell like
helping him. Of course I helped
him. We must help to releive dis¬
tress in such a time as this regard¬
less of politics. But I cannot see
how Senator Hanna aud his friends
can fool the people of Ohio at the
polls this year.”
A* WONDERFUL BOAT.
Before many months have elapsed si
submarine boat will probably be com¬
pleted which will embody several fea¬
tures that are distinctly new. Tt is
the invention of II. E. Dantzbecher,
a naval architect and designer of
yachts, who lives in Philadelphia, and
who has contributed his share to the
reputation this country has of late
years won for skill in shipbuilding.
Put compactly, what Mr.Dantzbech
er purposes to give to the world is a
submarine yacht which will go to al¬
most any depth of the ocean and in
which ten persons will be able to live
comfortably for twelve hours without
coming to the top fora fresh supply of
air. Kisingthus to get breath twice’
every twenty-four hours, the yacht wilt 1
be able to travel eighteen days at full
speed, or a distance of 4,500 or 5,000
miles if only 06 per cent of Ire? power
is used.
Means of egress and ingress are pro¬
vided, so that such of the passengers
as feel disposed to step out for a stroll
on the bottom of the ocean can do so.
But of course, they would have to dress
for the occasion. The ordinary diver’s
costume would be sufficient.
Futhermore, there is ail ample pro¬
vision of powerful electric search¬
lights, which can be turned in auy di¬
rection from the conning tower in the
top of the craft or from a point in- its
bottom. These lights are to be so in¬
tense that even in comparatively turb¬
waters objects will be made out with
tolerable distinctness. In waters as
as those of the Atlantic and in
vicinity of the Bermudas the re¬
recsses of the ocean’s depths
be ransacked with the rays.
A Chicago druggist has been con¬
demned by jury to pay $1,500 damages
for the mistake of a prescription clerk,
who used carbolic acid in a lotion for
inflamed eyelids, and destroyed the
sight of one of the eyes of a little child.
Another druggist of the same city fares
worse, a verdict for $8,000 being given
against him, because one of his clerks
sold corrossive sublimate for calomel.
Australia has no orphan asylums
Every child Avho is not supported by
its parents becomes a ward of the state
and is paid a perisiou for his support
in a private family. This pension is
paid regularly to his care-takers till
he is 14 years old.
After the doctors had given up a
New Jersey man who was dying of hic¬
coughs he was cured by eating a dish
of ice cream, which he craved as a last
boon before bidding a final adieu to the
world.
A policeman was asked by a corner
whether he had taken any steps by
Avay of attempt to resuscitate a man on
whom an inquest was being held.
“ Yes,” said the constable, “I searched
his pockets.” —Household AVords.
A nourishing drink as well as one
that allays the thirst for men who work
hard in field or shop,is to make a thin
gruel of oatmeal seasoned with salt
and nutmeg to taste, and one well bea¬
ten egg stirred in while Avarm to each
gallon.
“AVho are those students with books
under their arms?” “They are taking
up the law.” “Aud what’s the old man
in a gown back of that bench doing?”
“Ob, he’s laying it down.”
“Why have Dr. Saw and Burkett, the
undertaker, fallen out?” “The doctor
says Burkett got to following him
around so closely that he almost ruined
his practice.”
After removing all impurities from
mirrors with a wet cloth, kerosene oil
applied will give a beautiful polish.
A teaspoonful of shaved alum with
twice as much sugar will give quick re¬
lief in cases of croup. Half the quan¬
tity once or twic repeated every half
hour if necessary may be used,