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"WE PRINT THE NEWS."
CITY OFFICIAL ORGAN.
The following resolution was passed
nnanimousiy at Thursday night’s
meeting of council:
“Be it, and it is hereby
resclYed, by the mayor
and a? der men of the City of
Brunswick, in council as
sembled, that, from on and
after the first Wednesday
in April, 1897, The Bruns
wick Times, a newspaper
having a general circula
tion in said city, be and the
same is hereby declared
and made, until further ac
tion to the ccntrary,the of
ficial organ of the mayor
and council of the city of'
Brunswick.”
AN ABORTIVE ATTEMPT.
The aotion of the Elberton branch
of the Interstate Building’ and Loan
Association in condemning the course
pursued by Controller General Wright
in his capacity as director in the
Southern Mutual, is not likely to com
mend itself to the public. The reso
lution adopted by the Elberton branch
is too clearly inspired by political
animosity to have the desired effect;
and Colonel Wright has too long en
joyed the confidence of the people of
Georgia to be tarred with any such
doubtful stick.
Could it be ehown that the ofiioial
course of the controller-general had
been in any way influenced by his
personal connection with Atlanta’s
defunct buildingand loan association,
those who have assumed the functions
of a public censor would have a clearer
case. As it is, nothing is so clear as
the animus of the attack, unless it be
that men of standing and reputation,
are to a certain extent at the mercy ol
such desperate and dishonest officials
as those who wrecked the Southern
Mutual Building and Loau Associa
tion.
It is easy to talk of precautions—it
is easy to lock the stable door after the
horse has been stolen, but, when all is
said, the business world, with all its
precautions, is at the mercy of any
smooth swindler who has the skill to
inspire confidence and the baseness to
abuse it. Colonel Wright has done
nothing of which he need be a hameil;
and those who wish to seperate the
office of insurance commissioner from
that of the controller-general will
have to hunt anew hold, and invent a
more promising pretext fur saddling
anew office upon a pe< pie already
sufficiently tax-ridden.
A RATIONAL VIEW-
The Jacksonville Citizen is one of
tbe best papers in the south, and we
are glad to see that in commenting on
tbe attitude of certain of the southern
members of congress upon the tariff
question, it lias taken much the same
view of the matter as that t utertalned
by The Times. In its issue of tbe
20tb, in referring to the Augusta Her
ald’s belief that “the principles of
protection are rapidly making head
way in the south,” the Citizen says ;
We confess that we cannot see this
matter with the eyes of ourcontempo
rary. The south baa in tbe past ut
tered its protest against the doctrines
of protection—lt voted against Mc-
Kinley, but the natiou wished to try
it again, and we cannot leverse the
court tilt au appeal is tried,fouryears
hence.
For two years protection is the pol
icy of the uation, not of the Republi
can party, so far as those congressmen
are concerned. Doubtless they till
believe in tbe principle for which Lee
fought, out should they appeal from
the Appomattox decision? That of
last November was just as conclusive
for the present—both principles are
now merely matters of theoretical be
lief, the only difference being that one
decision was final and the other may
be reversed at another bearing before
the same court.
The Wa3hington Star thinks the de
cision of the supreme court prohibit
ing the association of transportation
companies for the purpose of control
ling rates, one of the most important
h&nded down in recent years, and
concludes that the railroads must
either secure the repeal of the law of
1890 or so manage their affairs as to
evade the prohibitions of the statute,
There can be little doubt as ttf which
horn of the dilemma will be taken by
those associated corporations of the
country, whose contempt tor law and
public opinion is one of their most
notable characteristics. If they don’t
find some way of evading the statute,
it will be because they And it cheaper
to bring about its repeal.
A NEW PHILANTHROPIST.
At the meeting of the city council on
Thursday night, a communication was
received from H. A. Wrench & Sons,
proprietors of the Evening Advertiser,
in w hich Ibey offer togive publicity to
the marshal’s sales at a reduced rate.
The object of this cut-rate proposition
is announced to be the saving of money
to the taxpayers in advertising costs.
The Advertiser’s discovery that the
taxpayers are in need of relief in this
matter is very sudden —so sudden as to
cause a shock of surprise to those who
have observed the course of its propri
etors in the past.
There is a wise old saying (hat as
cribes to consistency the attributes of
a jewel. It. applies as fitly to the pro
saic advertising-ledger of a newspaper
as to higher and nobler things.
The Times takes this opportunity of
going back a brief space into munici
pal history, that the public may prop
erly consider tins unexpected burst of
benevolence on tbe part of the Adver
tiser.
In the year 1893 the Times-Adver
tiser, of which Mr. H. A. Wrench was
manager and H. A. Wrench & Sons the
sole beneficiaries,was—as some taxpay
ers of that year are still painfully
aware- the official organ of the city of
Brunswick. It was necessary, owing
to the prevalence of yellow fever on
the day of the sale, to readvertise the
unreturned property sales, thus doub
ling the costs to those who were unfor
tunate enough to have their property
levied on. Yet neither The Times nor
the public has beard of one single in
stance where these kmd-hearteiljpub
lishers relinquished one cent of their
two-fold fee. The pound of fiesh was
demanded and received.
And this was at a time when our peo
ple labored under the worst afflictions
that were ever wreaked upon a com
munity, their very food and raiment
coming as gifts from outside charity.
Where then was the warm and pul
sing sympathy that now gathers so
closely to its tender heart the suffer
ings of this oppressed, cost-burdened
people?
Go further. In the next year, there
was also financial stringency, the tax
payers hampered by the results of
the epidemic and burdened with the
necessity of making sewerage connec
tions. From the sanctum of the offi
cial organ there stiil came no offer of
charity, and the delinquent taxpayer
hoped for relief in vain.
Hut now, what sudden reversal of
teeling! What mighty motive has
prompted the publishers of the Adver
tiser to soften the iron heart and with
draw the grasping hand?
Perhaps the public can answer. Per
haps the recent change of the city
printing from the Advertiser to Thk
Times is partly responsible for this
discovery of anew benefactor to tax
paying humankind. It may be an an
alogous case to that of the small boy,
who, having lost a large hunk of cake,
wails piteously for a crumb.
But The Times cannot refrain from
suggesting tbattlie Advertiser, having
now in course of publication a solid
page of tax advertisements, could re
tain some little credit for consistency
by enlarging its offer of cut-rates so
as to include those cost-burdened
property owners who are now being
entered on Its books for the maximum
fees allowed by the law.
The Advertiser’s great scheme of
charity, however, is very conveniently
prearranged to date only from the
THE TIMES: BRUNSWICK, GA., MARCH 28, 1896.
time that the paper ceases to collect
its fees. For a most excellent example
of benevolence with a string to it,
The T imes recommends the proposi
tion now in the hands of the council’s
committee on taxes and revenues.
The action taken yesterday by the
board of education in reference to the
proposition to close fhe city schools is
satisfactory, as far as it goes; and the
public will now await with interest
the response of the council and the
commissioners to the board’s request
for the financial assistance required.
In another outburst of belated gen
erosity yesterday afternoon, the Even
ing Advertiser remarks:
‘•The only way Tor to
do effective work is to set an example.
Let the taxes be reduced. And above
all let the cost be cut down where it is
possible.”
Very well. Let the Advertiser set
the example. As The Times urged
yesterday morning, the taxpayers
whose property is now being adver
t.is-d in that paper would not object to
a cut-down of costs.
SUNDAY THOUGHTS
[from Canon Farrar’s Year Book J
Thou shalt not kill.—ExoduS xx-viii.
Christ warned us that the sixth
commandment touches many a mighty
respeotable person, who hardly thinks
that a murderer is of the same flesh
and blood as himself. “I say unto
you that whosoever is angry with his
brother is in danger of tbe judge
ment.” Into what an abyss of crime
has base anger hurried many a mis
erable man! How often has a life
been poisoned by one angry letter,
and the wedded calm and golden peace
of homes shattered by one hasty word !
Rut there may be murderers in other
ways—to put stumbling blocks in the
way of innocence; to tempt tbe weak
into the paths of vice; to destroy the
souls for whom Christ died—these are
the deadliest sins which man can com
mit. Again, all selfish, all oppressive
trade, is .murder, in Hod’s sight—all
who, loving gold more than God, have
any share in thus destroying the lives
and souls of their brethren, shall stand
at the last day as murderers before tbe
awful eyes of Him who sees the things
that are and sees them as they are.
There is even a sort of murder in calm
Indifference and callousness to misery.
Ah, my brethren, is not this command
ment “exceeding broad?” But in keep
ing of it there is great reward. We
cannot obey even this one flaw in its
fullnes without gaining Christ’s peace
in our hearts. May Almighty God
give us grace to read our lives by the
light of it!
[From Bishop Phillips Brooks’ Year Book.]
For a few weeks let the obtrusive
worldlmesa which blocks the door of
our hearts stand back; and let the way
be clear that He who longs to enter in
and help us may come and meet no ob
stacle. This is our Lenten task. “If
any man will hear My voice and open
unto Me, I will come in and sup with
him,” says Jesus. To still the clatter
and tumult a little, so that we may
hear His voice, and to open the door
by prayer, that is the privilege and
duty of these Lenten weeks.
'Tis true we cannot reach Cm i-t’s fortieth day;
Yet to go part of that religious way
Is better than to rest;
We cannot reach our Saviour's purity;
Yet arc wo bid, “Be holy, e’en as He.”
In both let's do our best.
Who goelh in the wav that Christ hath gone ,
1s much more sure to meet with storm than one
That travelleth by-ways.
Perhaps my God, though He be far before,
May turn and take me by the hand, and more,
May stiengthen my decays.
Yet, Lord, instruct us to improve our fast
By starving sin and taking such repast
As may our faults Control;
That every man may revel at.his door,
Not in his parlour; banqueting the poor,
Aud among those his soul.
Georoe Herbert.
A Summer Cruise.
The American steamship Ohio will
sail from New York June 26, 1597, for
a summer cruise, touching at Iceland,
North Cape, Norway, Sweden and
Russia. Opportunity will be allowed
for exteusive side-trips, including a
visit to the great exposition at Stock
holm. Capt. O. Jahanneson is local
agent for the line, aud will be pleased
to furnish rates and other information
to applicants.
Brace un. Throw off that tired
feeling. There is life and health and
strengih in the crimson tint of John
son’s tonic . The only recognized spe
eifle for la grippe. Cures and pre
vents grip. Completes unfinished
cures. Try it. tf
Insist on your grocer furnishing
you with Ferguson’s breakfast bacon
aud hams.
fl VARIETY 1 SUNDAY.
To Church in Lar.t.
She goes to church in Lem;
1 watch her as she goes;
Her brow is like the lily bent
Above the reddened rose:
ller hair is like the silken skein
That rings the ripened corn ;
Her eves are like the liquid plain
That mirrors back the morn.
She goes to church at morn.;
And prayers she never knows,
Go with her as the thorn
Goes with the tender rose;
And as she passe-, petals,
Bure as the roses shed,
Blow where the sunlight settles
Its halo round her head.
—S, B. R.
*
The “Yellow K and” is getting into
the “sere and yellow leaf.” The col
ored supplement editor should bring
forth a newindi vidua!.
**•
There is a rumor among the Georgia
newspaper men that Frank Stanton
has purchased a farm ati-d wiil rferoove
his muse from the print shop to the
broad acres. The woodland thrush
has ever a sweeter note than the caged
songster, even though the latter be
one of the rarest of its kind,
*
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Not- Ready to Retire.
“Take back the ring thou givcst!’
Thus as the ni .lit shades fell.
The wayward village urchin
Addressed the curfew bell.
***
B unswick is having a double dose
of hypnotism. In addition to I'arra
way, the two shows “Black Trilby”
and “Trilby,” in each of w hich tbe
hypnotic feauture is prominent, are
adding to the public interest m the
subjugation of one person’s will by
another’s.
A Lb 1.
Feast her at Easter,
Starve her in Lent;
Buy her a bonnet
And she is content.
To Uncle Dana: Kindly ob-erve
that in his inaugural address Mr. Mc-
Kinley didn’t, say a word about Cuba ;
that he hasn’t said a word since; that,
he hasn’t sent a warship to Havana;
that no dtmands have been made for
the liberation of American prisoners;
that the American couvicted tbe other
day of a violation of the neutrality
laws has not been pardoned; that
Spain has not been defied; that Mr.
McKinley manifests no interest what
ever of interfering in tbe Cuban war,
and that, in shor , the Cuban question
has been absolutely ignored so far un
der this administration. Is this tbe
kind of vigorous, foreign policy you
desire? Memphis Commercial-Ap
peal.
OUR RURAL REPORTER.
Ni'w Man on the Staff, and Result of
His First Day’s Work.
tjff~X smart Alex on an Atlanta pa
per says ‘‘railroad pools roust go.”
Glad of it. Now I reckon we’ll get rid
of that pooi hear the union depot.
|£llF“The Riflemen will carry water
proof boots on their next trip out of
the city.
j£S?“Our fellow townsmen, Messrs.
Lehman and Lissner, haven’t got that
great horse race arranged yet. Guess
one of them is scared and the other is
glad of it.
IffgTThey do say that the hypnotist
worked on a Brunswick banker and
got him so kerfiiim.nnxf and that lie gave
a mao a dollar. That hypnotist is cer
tainly a wonderful fellow.
SjßF" That hypnotized boy might have
slept 48 hours without waking
up, but we know some men in Bruns
wick who couldn’t stay that long w ith
out cussing the city government,
wr The Advertiser’s sudden spurt
of benevolence has made the Ring's
Daughters ashamed of themselves.
“Nol Exactly Right.”
Thousands of people are in this con
dition. They are not s'ck and yet
they are by no means well. A single
bottle of Hood’s Sarsaparilla wou'd do
them a world of good. It would tone
the stomach, create an appetite, pu
rify and enrich the blood and give
wonderful vigor and vitality. Now is
tbe time to take it.
Hood’s Pills cure nausea, sick head
ache, indigestion, bil!iusoess. Alt
druggists. 25c.
PEOPLE OF THE DAY.
For the next four years one of the
most conspicuous leaders of official soci
ety in Washington will be Mrs. Sher
man, wife of the secretary of state. She
is no stranger to the duties which will
devolve upon her, for this is net her first
experience as a member of the cabinet
circle, and she has been in Washington
society for moro than 40 years. When
the Shermans first went to Washington,
MRS. SHERMAN.
they lived in a modest little brick house
on K street, but now they have a fine
now mansion of marble in the same lo
cality. Their new residence is admi
rably adapted to social uses, for Mrs.
Sherman has always insisted on a care
ful observance of all the conventions of
capital society and is noted as a good
entertainer. She is a tall, stately wom
an and combines dignified reserve of
manner with cordial affability in a
pleasing way.
A New Senator.
Henry W. Corbett, who has been ap
pointed senator from Oregon pending
the election of a successor to John H.
Mitchell by the state legislature, is one
of the pioneers of the northwest. Ho
was horn in Westboro, Mass., in 1827
and was a young man of 24 when he
was sent by a New York mercantile
house to dispose of a shipload of goods
in Portland, Or. He made several thou
sand dollars as his share of this success-
SENATOR CORBETT.
ful venture, and with this capital settled
in Portland. There he has been ever
since. He has built up a big business
and made a large fortune. He is now
retired, but is vice president of a bank
and director in several important busi
ness concerns which he helped establish
years ago. Throughout Oregon Mr. Cor
bett is well known for his public spirit
and his philanthropic deeds. Early in
his career Mr. Corbett took an active
part in the politics of his state. He was
a delegate to the national convention
which nominated Lincoln, and in 1867
he was sent to the United States senate,
serving one term.
An Exiled Queen.
Another pathetic figure has been added
to tho world’s collection of exiled queens
by the expulsion of Queen Rauavalona
from the island of Madagascar by the
victorious French. If the dusky ex-queen
had behaved herself and used her influ
ence over tho Hovas in the interests of
a peaceful submission she would have
been allowed to stay in her native coun-
QTJEEN RANAVALONA.
try, but she is a proud, willful and spir
ited woman, and it was impossible for
her to submit tamely to the humilia
tions which the French resident general
heaped upon her daily. So she gave her
consent to the revival of plots against
the conquerors and not even the execu
tion of her uncle for treason could ex
tinguish her hope of a successful revolt.
She is now too far away from the
Eovas to inflame their Dery patriotism,
for the French have sent her to the is
land of Reunion, a little spot of volcanic
origin out in the Indian ocean, over 400
miles east of Madagascar. There this
unfortunate and romantic young queen
will be kept a prisoner of state and may
never again see the shores of her native
island, where for 13 years she was a
ruler.
FCR STARTING THE FIRE.
The Use to Which the Fisherman Pots ilia J
' Dijoardcd Nets.
In the majority of households an old j
newspaper is the material most com- f
mouly used to start a fire, and the ad- j
justment of this material is a matter of j
considerable art. There should be enough
of it to make a flame sufficient to ignite
the wood laid upon it, and it should be
put in with just the right degree of
looseness so that the air wiil circulate
through it and make it burn freely and
to the best advantage. But there are
houses in which paper is never used for
this purpose—the homes of fishermen.
Here, year in and year out, day after
day, the fire is started with a chunk of
discarded tarred netting, and there is
nothing like it.
When a not gets tender, so that it is
likely to burst when a body of kelp or
seaweed floats against it in a tide way,
or to break with a big catch of fish, it
is condemned. It may be whole and
l>ok all right, but it doesn’t pay to take
any risks with it. Some fishermen using
a considerable number of nets may have
half a ton of such netting iii a year.
They use it to start fires, and give away
some of it. Formerly they sold it for
junk, and they do so now occasionally,
though not so much as they did. It
brings a cent a pound.
This netting has been tarred again
and again with fine, thin tar and it is
thoroughly saturated. The net may bo
6 feet deep. A length of it is rolled up,
and the roll is then flattened down. The
flattened roll may be 6 inches wide, and
it is cut off with an ax into chunks of
perhaps a foot iu length, just enough to
lie nicely on the grate of a kitchen
range. It is thoroughly dried before it
is used. It all ignites quickly, and
burns fiercely and uniformly, with a
bluish flame and rather a pleasant odor.
A properly laid fire with a section of
old tarred netting to start it never goes
out. Whoever attends to the kitchen
fire iu the fisherman’s house prepares it,
if possible, the night before and pulls a
strand from the tarred netting out
through the bars of the grate iu front.
To start the fire in the morning all that
is necessary is to touch a lighted match
to the end of that tarred rope yarn.
Some of this tarred netting has been
sold to start the fire in locomotives.
Such a tiling is not unheard of as tlie
use of cotton waste and oil for this pur
pose, but a sheet of old tarred netting
laid over the grate bars beats the cotton
waste out of sight. Still, locomotives
have multiplied and tarred netting cuts
no figure as a means of starting the fire
in them. It is perhaps now used for
that purpose, if at all, only on roads
running through or near fishing dis
tricts. And, as said, it is now rareiy
sold. The fisherman uses.it to start his
own fire, and the man who has more
than he wants gives to his neighbor.—
New York Sun.
*Vhe Dbwery.
A petition signed by a number of
property owners and storekeepers on
the Bowery has been sent to the New
York board of aldermen, asking to have
the name of the Bowery changed. The
petition states that ever since the song,
“The Bowery, the Bowery,” became
popular people from all over the coun
try know of it as a wicked place and
avoid it.
Visitors do not know it as a business
thoroughfare, only as a place to he
avoided, and they do avoid it. It is pro
posed to remedy this condition of affairs
by changing the name.
Whore J&il Life Is Easy.
The jail iu Barnstable, Mass., is an
tasy going place. E. C. Knapp, accord
ing to a local paper, who is supposed
to be serving a five years’ sentence for
stealing national bank funds, was re
cently seen in the streets in prison
garb giving the wife of the jailer, Mrs.
G. H. Cash, bicycle lessons. The con
vict is said to occupy a place of con
geuial companionship in the jailer’s
family. Another convict, named Lewis
Rogers, was recently allowed to take a
cow to Yarmouth and back while the
sun was bright and the air invigorating
for a pleasant walk. *
Nervous
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After that, my heart and nervous system
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Hood’s Sarsaparilla help very much.”
Mrs. M. M. Messenger, Freehold, Penn.
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