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The Brunswick Times.
Brunswick Publishing Company
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lELEPHONK NO 31.
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“WE PRINT THE NEWS.”
Tub Rothschilds have refused Spain
a loan. The Spaniards can evidently
stand alone, it the bankers can’t.
A Florida man fell dead the other
day while baiting a fish hook. lie
probably had the wrong kind of bait.
Minister Bayard has been ten
dered a banquet in England. lie can
always depend on getting a roast at
home.
It is somewhat strange that while
Atlanta is ahead of any city in the
south, so many of her Napoleonic
linanciers should always be getting
behind in their accounts.
Scott Jackson, the Kentucky gen
tleman who slew Pearl Bryan in a
moment of emotional irresponsibility,
offers to furnish a confession of one
thousand words for SIO,OOO. This
would be literally a pearl of great
price.
A DANGEROUS DEVICE.
The sacrifice of principle to expedi
ency is always demoralizing, and we
fear that the south is making a mis
take in urging the imposition ot a
duty on Egyptian cotton. Such a sur
render means the tacit acceptance of
the protective principle as a fixed fac
tor in our economic systfem; and we
are forced to the conclusion that our
people would do better to hold the fort
of their fathers, instead of adjusting
their affairs to the false standard of
McKinleyisin.
That the results of such a change of
base in the south would be disastrous
and far-reaching has, we think, been
conclusively shown by Mr. Edward
Atkinson in the current issue of the
Manufacturers’ Kecord. The first ef
fect of a heavy tariff' on Egyptian
cotton, would be to embarrass the
“tine mills and hosiery mills of the
north,” which are already heavily
handicapped by the necessity of im
porting foreign machinery for their
finer fabrics. This machinery pays a
duty, and a tax on Egyptian cotton
would, by forcing such manufactur
ers to turnjheir attention to heavier
fabrics, tend to restrict the home mar
ket for sea island cotton. Further
more, such a change of base would, as
Mr. Atkinson points out, at once bring
those northern mills into direct com
petition with the southern manufac
turers of course fabrics, and thus do
more to retard the development of our
section than any such tariff tax as
that proposed could ever undo.
The true policy of the sea island
cotton planters will be found in the
direction of less area in cultivation and
more care in handling. Onr cotton is
butchered from start to finish ; an im
provement in this direction would in
time force Egyptian cotton out of the
country and give odr planters the
place in the open markets of the world
merited by the natural sujerionty of
their product.
But this can never be done by leg
islation. The protective principle is
a two-edged sword, and though our
sea island cotton planters may suc
ceed in slaying the Egyptians, they
will in the long run find themselves
horsde combat as well.
"LAWS OF TRADE”
The Marietta Journal, in discussing
the financial question, says;
The concentration of money in the
centers of trade is what plays the mis
chief and there is no way to help it.
The equal distribution of money can
not be done unless it is given away.
The laws of trade are what distributes
money. You cannot draw money
from (be centers of trade unless you
sell tbem something.
The Journal is mistaken. It is tru
that the distribution of money is con
trolled by the laws of trade, but the
conclusions at which our contempor
ary so hastily arrives show that those
laws are as yet very imperfectly un
derstood.
That money can be drawn from the
centers of trade by those who have
nothing to sell is conclusively shown
by the experience of Canada, of Eng
land, Scotland and France. Under
the system prevailing abroad, any
community that requires banking fa
cilities, finds itself supplied, not by
the establishment, as in our own
country, of a local bank whose meagre
capital is offset by its imposing array
ot salaried officials, but by the opening
of a branch of some great central in
stitution with a capital running up
into the millions. In the smaller
towns such branoh banks may be kept
open for only a few days in tbe week;
thei- expenses are merely nominal
and, while a few thousand dollars may
suffice for their operations, those
operations are—as in the case of a
famous English firm of bankers—
based upon gross deposits of $130,000,-
000. These banks, moreover, discount
commercial paper, without requiring,
as with us, the hypothecation of secur
ities. A foreign farmer in good
standing has little trouble in negotia
ting his paper, and solvent borrowers
are not embarrassed by a dangerous
discrepancy between the rates of tn
terest in the country and those pre
vailing in the great financial centers.
Had the Journal confined its re
marks to the banking system long
since established in this country, no
exception could have been taken to its
conclusions. It is, however, mistaken
in confounding the “laws of trade”
with tbe laws of temporizing politi
cians. The first are immutable: the
second may be modified, and it is only
a question of time when the country
will be forced to adopt tbe foreign
system of banking or return to the old
expedient of state banks.
SUNDAY THOUGHTS.
“Asa sheep before his shearer is dumb.”
Lord, I am dumb; whate’er is sent
For some wise purpose it is meant.
We cannot tell; we do not know;
All is a tangle here below.
But up above the jar and fret,
The disappointment and regret.
Thou hast the pattern in Thy hand.
And all is done at Thy command.
Lord, 1 am dumb; Thy way Is best;
My way was full of wild unrest,
W liate’re I sought lied from my graej;
What gained was ashes in my clasp.
But since I've said “Thy will be done,”
All things are mine,all things are won.
For having gained Thy promised peace.
Eternity but gives increase.
Lord, I am dumb.
E. H. W.
***
[From Canon Farrar’s Year Book.]
Not know the future? Nay, we know
it. II we be Christians we know it.
Not, indeed, this little future of joys
that break as the bubble breaks or of
brief afflictions which are but for a
moment. Nor that little future of dis
eased egotism and contracted selfish
ness which is not life; but that great
future of the single in purpose and the
pure in heart, that great future which
blooms to infinitude beyond the marge
of death—that, if we be children of
God, we know. For we are pressing
to the mark of our high calling, and
that mark we cannot miss, and there
it shines forever before us—a crown
of life, a crown of glory, a crown that
fadeth not away. The true Christian
need know- no fear. Be true to your
selves, be true to God, be true to tbe
“kindred points of heaven and home,”
and then even on the steep hill of dif
ficulty, in the valley of the shadow,
amid the crash of a universe smitten
into indistinguishable ruin. “Thou
shalt keep him in perfect peace whose
mind is stayed on Thee.”
Behold, Ho that kcepeth Israel
Shall neither slumber nor sleep.
The Lord is lliy keeper;
The Lord is tliy shade upon thy l ight hand.
The sun shall not smite thee by day,
Nor tlie moon bv night.
The Lord shall keep they from all evil;
lie shall keep thy soul.
Psalms cxxi, 4,5, ti, 7.
***
[From Bishop Phillips Brooks’ Year Book.]
“Will He plead against me with His great
power? No; but He would out strength into
me.”—Job xxin, 6.
For years you have lived, it may be,
a secluded life—protected on all sides.
“Lead me not into temptation,”—so
you have prayed every morning, and
every day has brought the answer to
your prayer. But some day all that
breaks and goes to pieces. A great
temptation,comes and is not resisted;
then you cry out for the old mercy and
it is not given. And then, behold what
THE TIMES: BRUNSWICK, GA., MARCH 7, 1897.
comes. Anew mercy. You go into
temptation. Your old security per
ishes, but by and by out of its death
comes anew strength. Not to be
saved from dying, but .to die and then
to live again in anew security, a
strong and trusty character, educated
by trial, purified by fire—that is what
comes as the issue of the whole. Not
a victory for you, preserving you from
danger, but a victory in you, strength
ening you by danger —that is the ex
perience from which you go forth,
strong with a strength which nothing
can subdue.
Oil, may we follow undisuaved
Where’ere our God shall call;
And may His spirit’s present aid
Uphold us lest we fall;
Till 111 the end of days we stand
As victors in a deathless land.
John llenry Newman.
PEOPLE WE KNOW.
There is nothing the matter with
Creelman, of the New York Journal.
The famous correspondent has made a
tour of all the great capitals ot Eu
rope, interviewing the ruling mon
arch of each country. His last achieve
ment is an interview with the king o f
Greece, and the Journal prints Creel
man’s portrait by the side of the king’s,
giviug the newspaper man as muoh
space and as much laurel wreath as
the crowned head. Talk about fame!
*
**
Fitzsimmons is in rare spirits.
“Have you heard that my wife was
coming out?” he asks' of everyone
who calls. “How can I lose now,
with tier beside me? She’s worth an
army of trainers. Let Corbett go
ahead and practice all the new blows
he hke9; this fight will be mine.
“Do you know that 1 had promised
my wife that I would retire after
meeting Corbett ?”
A dozen reporters were on the alert
immediately.
“Yes, gentlemen,” said Fitz with a
sigh, “this winds up Bobby, win or
lose. I’ve decided to settle down, and
although I feel able to keep up the
pace for five years yet, I think my
wife and baby are entitled to first con
sideration, and my time will be all
their’s after March 17, so far as prize
fighting is concerned. I don’t intend
to give up the show business, you
know, but this is my last time up for
battle,”
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* *
Aoiong the thumbnail sketches of
Georgia congressmen in the New
York Herald are the following :
Howard, William M., brother-in-law
of the late Henry W. Grady; is a
youngf man, smooth face, small of
stature; brilliant lawyer; is solicitor
general of one of the Georgia circuits ;
is a consummate politician and a dem
ocrat.
Fleming, W. 11., politician and law
yer; author of election law of the
state; no trouble about democratic
majorities under it; has held office
frequently; was speaker of lower
branch of legislature; is a democrat.
Clay, Alexander, Stephens, of Geor
gia, commonly known as “Steve,”
strong silver democrat; remarkable
for his pompadour hair, beats his
hands together as he talks and goes
to church
Griggs, James M., renowned
throughout Georgia as a good story
teller; sociable, a good lawyer and was
on the bench when elected to con
gress; thorough politician ; served in
legislature several terms; is a demo
crat.
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PERHAPS THIS MAY HELP YOU.
“My food does me no good,” you
say. Then it does you harm. There
is no halting place between these ex
tremes. Digested food alone gives
health and strength. Undigested
food sours, or ferments, in the stom
ach and becomes a poison to the whole
body. It causes headaches, heart pal
pitation, liver and kidney trouble, dis
tress after eating, pains in the chest
and sides, and the tired, languid,
heavy feeling we hear so much about.
When the digestion goes wrong every
function of the body goes wrong. Yes,
and the mind, too. Men fail in busi
ness and die poor for no other reason
than this—they are weakened, dulled
and stupefied by dyspepsia. The lives
of a host of women are blighted in the
same way. Y T ou may bfe one of this
miserable multitude. The writer of
these lines was one of your number a
short time ago. I tried dozens of
things to get cured ; just as you have
done, no doubt. The thing which at
last succeeded with me may succeed
with you. It is a discovery of those
wise and good people—the Shakers, of
Mount Lebanon, N. Y.—called tbs
Shaker Digestive Cordial, It is not a
purgative, which at best gives only
transient relief. It is in itself a di
gested food and also a corrector of the
digestive function. You can eat and
digest your food while taking this cor
dial. It helps you at once and soon
makes the stomach vigorous and
healthy. It is not like any other so
called dyspepsia cures. It is prepared
by the Shakers principally from herbs
cultivated by them. They do not ask
us to spend a dollar for a bottle while
we are in the dark as to its virtues.
They take that risk themselves. Al
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bottle for ten cents, so that you can
see whether it is what they say—and
adapted to your case. And isn’t the
mere chance of a cure worth that much?
Hood’s Sarsaparilla is known to b
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bottlesof Hood's Sarsaparilla,and through
the blessing of God, it has cured me.
I worked as hard as ever the past sum
mer, and I am thankful to say I am
well. Hood’s Pills when taken with
Hood’s Sarsaparilla help very much.”
Mrs. M. M. Messenger, Freehold, Penn.
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SOLD OUT.
"Old Sport” Campnmi anil tlie Man With
the Big Bill. t
“Old Sport’’ Camparia, the veteran
rx-podestriau who sills chewing gum
around the theaters, “culled down” a
young man the other evening. “Sport”
was standing in front of the Grand
Opera House, Chicago, with his tray of
gum in front of him, when two well
dressed men, who seemed to be particu
larly good natured, stopped and saluted
him.
“Cheer up, boys,” said “Old Sport,”
wiping his mouth with a hand which is
“shy” at least 2Jj£ fingers.
• “I’ll buy some gum if you can change
a bill,” said one of the men.
“All right, mister; I’ll change it.”
He began to feel for his “roll, ” and
then the other man said: “ ‘Sport,’ if
you can change a bill I’ve got here, I’ll
buy your whole stock. ”
“Get out your bill, ” said “Sport. ”
And he kept on feeling for his “roll. ”
The man brought out a purse and
showed a SIOO bill. Then “Sport”
brought out his “roll” and counted off
S9O in $lO bills. He counted up his
gum—l4o packages at 5 cents a package;
$7 in all. Then he gave the joker $93
and took the SIOO hill, passed over the
tray of gum and said: “There you are,
mister. God bless you! ‘Old Sport’
won’t ever forget you. ”
The customer was “stuck,” but he
refused to weaken. He took the' gum
and started for the nearest saloon to get
rid of it, while “Old Sport” started
homeward with his cap pulled down
over one eye, for he was happy and
“sold out.”—Chicago Record.
TO RAISE A HOODOO.
Two Texas Girls Present Captain Glass
with a Rabbit’s Foot.
Admiral Bunce and the officers of the
north Atlantic squadron have reason to
believe that the hoodoo will be re
moved from the unfortunate battleship
Texas. They base their belief upon a re
port made by Captain Henry Glass of a
presentation made to the ship just be
fore it sailed from the Brooklyn navy
yard for Galveston.
It seems that two young women from
Austin, the Texan capital, were stop
ping in New York. They were proud of
their state and felt deeply the disgrace
which the hoodooed battleship was
bringing upou it. One of them conceived
a brilliant idea. The other approved of
it. So these two young women went to
a Union square silversmith, where they
had a rabbit’s foot handsomely mounted
in solid silver. The single word ‘ ‘ Texas”
was engraved upon the metal.
This rabbit’s foot was put into a box
and sent over to the Brooklyn navy
yard, where it was delivered to Captain
Glass. Inclosed was a card, which read
like this:
* To Captain Glass
of the United States battleship Texas, with
the, best wishes of two Texas girls who aro
stopping in New York. Hoping that tho
hoodoo may be removed from OUR ship.
The Texas sailed away the next day,
and Captain Glass has not been able to
learn the names of tho two girls who
are so proud of the name of their native
state.
A REMARKABLE FEAT.
Train Dashes Through Two Miles of Sub
merged Tracks.
The Pittsburg and Lake Erie Railroad
company accomplished a feat the other
evening thought by railroaders to be im
possible. The Cleveland “flier,” train
No. 20, which leaves Cleveland at 3:50,
city time, is due in Pittsburg at 7:25.
From Pittsburg to a point two miles
from the city the tracks were entirely
under water. At McKee’s Rocks two of
the heaviest engines coupled together
relieved the engine which brought the
train from Youngstown.
The railroad men about McKee’s
Rocks yards were notified that an at
tempt would be made to take the flier
into Pittsburg on time, and many board
ed the train to see it done. With all the
steam the boilers could carry the two
engines dashed into the water, the fires
being extinguished before they had gone
100 yards. With the momentum and the
quantity of steam in the boilers the en
gines forged through, making a great
surf, as the water was up to the plat
form of the coaches in places, and the
train reached its destination only three
minutes late.—Cleveland Plain Dealer.
* I?ravo!
A colonial euclier party was given
yesterday afternoon by Mrs. J. P. Hoff
man of Ashland avenue. In the parlor
was a Jerusalem cherry tree loaded with
ripe fruit. At the base was a golden
hatchet. The portieres were of the na
tional colors. The score cards were
miniature golden hatchets tied with red,
white and blue ribbon.—St. Paul Pio
neer Press. *
CURRENT EVENTS.
A store in a Georgia village has a sign
reading, “Ax handles, ink, pens and
cheese. ’’
The state of Connecticut has 179,085
school children onrolled, a gain of 4,854
in one year.
A steel “chest protector” against bul
lets and knife thrusts in the form of a
vest has been patented by a Texan.
•
One enthusiastic legislator of Okla
homa wants stringent laws enacted
against pointed shoes and the brilliant
plaid neckwear now in vogue.
The closest contest in any of the states
at the recent election is believed to have
been that for the state treasurership in
South Dakota, where the Republican
candidate won by a majority of 2 votes
in a total of more than 90,000.
The Montgomery (Ala.) Advertiser is
of the opinion that if the people of the
state would give in their property at its
real value a tax of 2% mills would raise
more revenue than is now obtained from,
a s}£ mill tax.
A DEPEW STORY.
Anecdote of tho Gonial Doctor and a Po
litical Opponent.
Some good stories are told not infre
quently in the room of the committee
on interstate and foreign commerce of
the house, and Clerk Tedford of that
committee, who is an old lowa newspa
per man of many years’ experience, is
one of the best of the story tellers that
gather there. His memory runs back to
political campaigns of many years ago,
and one of his stories recently told was
in regard to Cliauncey M. Depew oppos
ing John A. Dix for the governorship of
New York. Depew was not always tho
stalwart Republican lhat he is now,
and, although that was before the namo
of Mugwump was invented, that politi
cal term precisely describes Mr. De.pew
at that time.
One of the arguments which Depew
used against Dix was that he had been
an office seeker all his life.
“Why,” Depew would say, “when
the pilgrim fathers landed on Plymouth
rock, John A. Dix was there, and when
they first began to talk of organizing a
community John A. Dix got up and said
if they didn’t make him justice of the
peace he and his followers would go out
into' the woods and establish a rival
community. ”
This was a little too much for ono of
Depew’s hearers, who arose in the back
part of the hall. Depew waited for him,
and he said:
“Why, Mr. Dopew, that can’t be so,
for John A. Dix isn’t old enough to have
been at Plymouth with the pilgrim fa
thers. ’ ’
Depew drew himself up to his full
height, thrust his hand impressively in
the bosom of his vest and said in the
most solemn tones he could command:
“Ladies and gentlemen, all during
this campaign I have been making this
statement concerning Mr. Dix in every
city, town and village in the state of
New York in which I have spoken, and
this is the first time, ladies and gentle
men, that it has ever been called into
question. ” —Washington Post.
HOW CLEVELAND HUNTS.
Colonel Rives Tells Gath He Is Very
Manly as a Sportsman.
I wanted to hear what Colonel Rives
had to say of President Cleveland, with
whom or by whom he goes gunning
down the Potomac. He is very close,
however, on an official confidentiality.
The subject had been several times tap
ped, but would not run.
On the last occasion the colonel got
as far as to say:
“Mr. Cleveland is a very nice man.
He used to be very free and natural in
his comments, except when an unknown
party came in; then he would close up
like a terrapin. Lately he has become
very circumspect, having few opinions
to express. I never quote anything ho
says. If I did, I could relate many droll
remarks. He possesses a character of his
own, which is apt to disappoint many
of his followers, who expect him to go
too far. He will leave the procession
when he does not want to go any far
ther. This is where partisans become
offended. They are not willing to let a
president think by himself and want
him to think as they do. Mr. Cleveland
as a sportsman is manly. If you want
to leave him a duck as they are flying
and do not shoot at it in your turn, he
will refuse to shoot it. At the same time
he is not up to our methods on the Po
tomac. Ho is so stout that he cannot
stand up a long time to shoot. He shoots
pretty well and is very active for a man
of his flesh, but we shoot in turn with
out a word between us, as the ducks
come—Mr. Waller, the proprietor down
there at Aquia creek, and me, he know
ing his ducks, I mine—crack, crack,
alternately. We always taken them on
the wing from the blinds we have built.
Mr. Cleveland stays out on his boat; we
stay ashore.—Gath in Cincinnati Com
mercial Tribune.
The Secret of Speaker Heed’s Power.
It was in one of the cloakrooms of
the house. The busiest of the statesmen
were doing nothing—that is, nothing
that was useful. The tyranny of Reed
was under discussion. Little else is dis
cussed these days.
“Wliat is the secret of Reed’s pow
er?” asked one.
“Lack of power in the others, ” was
one answer.
“He seems to attract those others all
the same, though they cuss him while
they obey.”
“It is a law of nature that small bod
ies drifting within the influence of
large ones are drawn to them by the in
explicable power of gravitation, though
the large bodies may he composed of
what we call unintelligent matter. ”
“Then the secret of Reed’s attraction
is”—
‘ ‘The insensate magnetism of avoir
dupois. ” —Pittsburg Dispatch.
Learning; From the United States.
The Freuch government, tailing a leaf
from the lesson of the World’s fair at
Chicago, has decided to apportion a
share of the architectural work upon
the buildings to he ereflted for (he Par,#
exposition of 1900 among all the archi
tects who received premiums in tho pre
liminary competitions. It is hoped i:;
this way to preserve a unity in the e.i
tire group of buildings, which wa 1
ing at Chicago, for the reason that ■ li
the subsidiary structures were :' i
miscellaneous designers who dirt i-ct ;
tempt, or were not able, to folk . j
the ideas embodied in the designs of U; •
more pretentious buildings.
The Unspeakable Squirms.
Now Hamid,
“The damnid,”
As Watson would dub him,
He’s quailing
And wailing
For fear Greece will drub him.
Shu’s wiry
And fiery;
Her knife will not jab dull
Unless Eur
ope’s pressure
Gives hope to old Abdul.
—New York Press.