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SARGE PL A. Talk Upon the WJ tics Tr* Atlanta Cc I doubt if there is any use to try to write of anything except war or poli tics with the expectation of it being read. As for wau, the excitement is im mense, and people are ready to receive it. It is not to be wondered at to see the people of the South excited and anxious over a prospect of war, for the immensity of the last war certainly justifies uneasiness. I have found consolation in the thought that there will never be such a war again. Never will any people fight and endure as was done in the war between the States, and never can the South be called to suffer as it suffered then. If all the world would array itself against these United States, I do not believe they could run over us as the South was run over. There . is no danger of another such war. In con nection with this thought I was think ing of England, and of how little concern she gives her war's. England would have long ago cleaned Spain from off the Cuban island, and thought nothing of it. The United States is greater than England; then, why should we make such a todo? Eng land is nearly always in a war, and thrives upon it ; why should not we? I have come to think, after giving the subject much thought, that the future statesmanship of America should be to keep us in a foreign war. This would keep us united at home, and "united we stand." There is a few old fogies who object to everything. These go into figures to prove that we should have no war. I was with one yesterday, and he had 396 pages of j legal cap paper covered with figures. He makes the expenses of a war ter rible. According to these figures, the work upon breastworks and forts would terrace every hill in the United States, ditch every bottom and reclaim every worn-out 'spot. The other expenses would buy a home for every homeless mau, build'them a house, give them a year's provisions and supply them with stock and farming implements. If we were to pay attention to these figuring fellows, we never would have ] any fan shooting at each other ; there j would be no heroes ; the Christian "reformers," who would work a poor j man for nothing that they nay enter their families and magnify themselves by "loud" and "grecians" act3r would have to attend to their own business, for prosperity would be in tie land to such an extent that no poor devil could be squeezed that some "reform er" might spread.^ And it might be be that Prince Albert would never be king of England in case Queen Victo ria were td die soon, and the leaven of republicanism might so enter the kingdoms of the world as to "leaven the whole." I am sorry for these old fogy figures, they are out of date and fools for not knowing that they will be laughed at. Brown is one of these figuring fel lows. I wish you could hear him talk. He is away down in the newground of sorrow over the prospects and his voice sounds like he talked from under a wagon body. Says he : "I was so badly fooled in our last war ?hat I tremble now. When that war was being got up I was sure that I could whip the three best yankees that could be brought before me. I never thought a yankee could ride a horse, nor shoot, nor scant around, and so I talked accordingly. "I wore a cockade, howled for seces sion, swore that our boys would clean them up in sixty days and thought sure that I could drink all the blood that would be spilt, and so I talked according. "After sixty days, and ninety days, and a hundred days had passed I de cided that I had been a little bit mis taken in the time it would take to clean them up, and, after some pray erful consideration I decided that three of the rascals might weary me a little and it was best for me to fall one, making it two that I could whip, and I would have swore to this and talked according. "After the war had run along about two years I called a council of my family and it was unanimously decid ed that I had better fall another, mak ing it one for me to whip-man to Mian this was, and I would have swore that I could do that ?nd talked according. "After so long a time they sot up the conscript law and it looked as if I would have a chance ol* trying my hand whether it was convenient for nie to do So or not, and so we held anot her family counsel and the old woman and the girls decided that if I could call back some thirty years T might be in condition to tackle them, but we could not call the years back and so I talked according. ''When at last old Sherman did come I could not find any time to fight. I was kept more than busy trying to keep what little we had out of the way, but one side or thc other got everything and left us mighty nigh in a starving condition, and so I talk ed according. UNKETT. ar" With, a little Poli own In. institution. "At last we became reduced in the substance of this world, till thr^e old hens, an old sheep and one old gander was all the wealth we had upon earth. My whole mind became bent upon saving these, and after, much study I decided that it would take a mighty smart yankee to get them, and so I talked accordingly. "I proceeded to dig me a pit down io the woods back of my lot, covered it with rails first, then some dirt, and then the whole thing was covered well with pine straw. I got the hens, the sheep and the gander stored away in this pit, and smiled to myself over the way I had old Sherman euchred, and talked accordingly. "While I was sauntering around the house with my hands in my pockets and whistling and smiling to myself from ear to ear upon my shrewdness, the old gander had worked his head between the rails of the pit, out through the dirt and straw and stood there bawling as loud as she could just as a regiment of yankees were passing by. and so they went down and cleaned up the whole thing, and then I talked according." I am .not much on politics, but there is so much of it that I am provoked into saying something about it. Branan has been sliding into every nook and corner. Felder has been strutting through the Court House square time and again with a chip on his hat, old Livingston is coming from Washington in a short time and then, 1 think, in the language of a prominent divine, we may exclaim that "hell's broke loose in Georgia." The like of candidates was never seen before. There are twenty-seven candidates for the office of Sheriff, and all the other offices will be as numer ously competed for. If they keep on there will be no one to vote but candi dates. It looks as if they were going to give the "old set" a tight squeeze this time. They blame them for everything that has happened since the war and even accuse the old Sheriff with the Wowing up of the Maine. If we have war they will be blamed, and if we don't have any they will be blamed, till I'll be blamed if Jordan's not a hard road to travel. SARGE PLUNKETT. A Dog Orchestra. There is often as much pain as pleasure in reading about the clever tricks performed by dogs ; for although their training may have been carried on with the utmost kindness, one shrinks from the thought of the energy and concentration required in bending them to deeds quite foreign to their natural habits of life. Mr. Louis Layater, says the Strand Magazine, has a dog orchestra which plays in public, to the delight of select audiences. The work of training these poor little beasties was one requiring .endless tact and patience. Jack, the trombone player, had to be taught to stand on his hind legs for* half an hour at a time, then to balance himself, holding the trombone in position, and finally to work the instrument properly, and to act in time with his colleagues. It took him three months to learn to keep his bal ance. No wonder he is a mournful dog! The first violin is a quiet, sober dog of evident refinement and culture : but the big drummer, who was among the first ?embers of the orchestra, hada way of nipping his neighbors when no one was looking, and thus causing frightful and unaccountable yells. As soon as anyone glanced his way, after he had made these disturbances Prince would thump his drum anxi ously, as if he had no thoughjt but that of getting on with thc business in hand. . Mr. Lava ter was years in bringing his orchestra together, and in rehears ing, before he ventured to appear in public. The debut took place in a theatre near Amsterdam, and thc trainer declares that he can never for get it. The dogs came out reluctantly, dazed by the glare of the footlights. When they were all in place, they sat there looking at one another helplessly, as if to say, "What on earth arc we doing here?" They did many things at wrong mo ments. Prince fell over his big drum. The others got up and tore aimlessly about the stage, scared by the trailing ul* their instruments be hind them, ami t<> crown all,-lack, the trombone man. fell into the human orchestra. But thc Dutch audience did not com plain. They were receiving more than they bargained for, and were hysteri cal with merriment. - . - - A good book anda good woman are excellent things fur those who know just how to appreciate their value. There arc men. however, who judge both from the beauty of thc covering. Our Nary in a Nutshell. Our present effective fighting force consists of four battleships of the first ciass, one}battleship of the second class, two armored cruisers, 18 cruisers, 15 gunboats, six double turreted moni tors, one ram, one dynamite boat, one dispatch boat, one transport and eight torpedo boats. The Iowa weighs nearly 12,000 tons, and as 20 tons is the average load of a freight car and 12 cars is a good load for a locomotive eugine, it would take 50 locomotives to haul the great steel structure. The powder used is brown and in chunks the size of a caramel. A charge for the biggest guns weighs 500 pounds and is hoisted to the breech by a der rick, the powder being sewed up in burlap bags. Armor plates are tested by firing steel projectiles weighing from 100 to 1,500 pounds at them from guns charg ed with 500 pounds of powder and at a distance of about a city block. Our battleships have a speed of from 15 to 17 knots an hour. Cruisers make 1!) to 24 knots, while the moni tors can travel only five to seven knots. The biggest guns in the navy are 4(J feet long, big enough for a man to crawl into; 4 feet in diameter at their largest part and weigh 135,500 pounds or thereabouts. There are six rear admirals in active service. The offices of vice admiral and admiral are unfilled, so there is no head of the navy excepting Secretary Long. Barnacles form on the hull of a ship, impeding its speed. A six months' cruise will decrease the speed of a ship 15 per cent., and must go into dry dock. Sixty-one merchant vessels belong to the auxiliary navy. These ships are subsidized and by contract must be gi cen to the United States on de mand. Some of the guns in the navy can , fire a shot 20 miles, farther than a man can see, for the guns are aimed and sighted by machinery. The amount expended by the navy department in 1897 was $34,561,540. This is a larger sum than has been ex pended in any year since 1866. In a battle the woodwork and all ar ticles of wood are either stowed below or thrown overboard lest the men be injured by splinters. <The origin of the navy department may be said to date from October 13, 1775, when Congress authorized the equipment of two cruisers. The fastest vessels in t7,ie navy' are the torpedo boats Porter and Dupont, each of which can travel 27.5 knots an hour. Battleships cost from $2,500,000 to $3,750,000, and'cruisers from $600,000 to $3,000,000. A good torpedo boat costs over. $100,000. Battlehips are for the heavy work; cruisers ar e commerce destroyers; mon itors are useful only for coast defense. The Indiana could lie outside Sandy Hook and throw 1,200-pound shots into New York at the rate of four a minute. Those artists who show smoke in their pictures of naval battles are wholly wrong. Smokeless powder is used. All of thc cruisers arc named in honor of*cities, and the battleships, except the Kearsage, in honor of States. The "grog"' ration was abolished in 1893, and since then the crew has been forbidden to drink while on duty. Marines are the police on board ship. Originally they were employed to prevent mutiny among the sailors. Thc guns of a battleship can carry from !.? to 12 miles, hurling a shot weighing half a ton. Only (i0 per cent, of the enlisted men arc Americans, and a smaller per centage yet are native born. Projectiles thrown by naval guns are shaped much as the bullets shot b}T the ordinary rifle. A big battleship has on board an electric plant capable of lighting a town of 5,Ubi) inhabitants. Tho boilers of the Iowa have a heat ing surface of eight acres and hold 30 tous of water. (ireat Britain has 294 torpedoes and torpedo-boat destroyers. Uncle Sam has only eight. Five hundred and twenty-six men and 40 ollicers are required to man the cruiser New York. Battleships are covered with armor of nickle steel from 5 to ?7 inches thick. Wc have four armored battleships the Indiana, l?wa. Massachusetts and Texas. A submarine torpedo boat to be known as the ['lunger is now under construction. At present the total enlisted force ol' thc naval malitia is ."b^UT ollicers and men. Behind thc heavy armor there is a padding ol' either corn pith or cocoa husk. lt costs >'.">0u every Lime one ol' thc big guns on board a ship is (ired. Thc Brooklyn and thc Now York are our armored cruisers. Sailors are paid from !?!bf?l) to ^12.5(1 per month and board. An act of Congress itt 18!I2 abolished flogging in thc navy. The American navy has practically all been built since 1883. A captain in the navy ranks with colonel in the army. The oldest iron vessel is the Michi gan, built in 1844. Five battleships are now under con struction. We have the only ram-the Katah din. The ships are painted white.-Chi cago Times-IL raid. Eloquence at Bay. It was a preacher who had that "fa tal fluency" for whom an acquaintance laid a trap. He had a way of promis ing to preach, and on beginning would say something like "I have been too busy to prepare a sermon, but if some one will kindly give me a text, I'll preach from it. One determined to cure him. Ile therefore asked him to preach. The invitation was accepted. The time came and the visitor' began his usual introduction: "Brethren. I have been so pushed for time to-day as to have been quite unable to pre pare a sermon. But if some of you will give me a text, I'll preach from it. Perhaps my brother here." turn ing to the plotter near him, "will sug gest a text.*' "Ves, brother." came the ready re sponse; "your text is the laotpartof the ninth verse of thc first chapter of Ezra, and its words are 'nine-and twenty knives.' " There was a pause, an ominous pause, as thc preacher found his text. He read it out: "Nine-and-twenty knives," and he began at once. "Notice the number of these knives -just exactly nine-and-twenty: not thirty, nor eight-and-twenty. There were no more and no less thad nine and-twenty knives." A pause-a long pause. Then, slowly and em phatically. "Nine-and-twenty knives." A longer pause. Then, meditatively, "Nine-and-twenty knives." Again he rested. "'Nine-and-twenty knives." A dead stop. "Nine-and-twenty knives-and if there were nine hun dred and twenty knives I could not say another word." -^mmf mt Moral Geography. ? The largest river is Time. The deepest ocean is Death. The highest mountain is Success. Few reach the top, save those who watch sharply for the passing of the spirit of the mountain,, Opportunity, who carries upward all those that seize hold upon him. The most highly civilized country is To-day. The region where no man hath ever set foot is To-morrow. The region where no living thing hath habitation is called Yesterday. The greatest desert is called Life, and it hath many oases. These are called Hope and Ambition and Love and Charity and Home: and of them all, the last is the most beautiful. Besides these, there arc many ochers, smaller in extent, whence the traveller obtaineth refreshment during the weary journey through life.-OmV iau Observer. mm ? mm A Bank Cashier's (ate. SAVANNAH, Ga., March :31.-A special from Brunswick. Ga., to the Morning News says: Cashier Louis Fleming, of the Brunswick Savings and Trust Company, was drowned to day. Indications .point to suicide, but several theories are advanced. Bank officials announce to-uight that his cash and book accounts arc straight except for an error in addition of $100 on his discount book. Bank ihiXaminer Speer reached Brunswick to-day. He checked up Mr. Fleming's cash and it proved cor rect. He then checked his books and found thc small error of ?100. Flem ing's attention was called to-the error. Ile put on his hat and said he would be back shortly. Two hours after wards his body was found floating in thc river. A run commenced on thc bank. All demands were promptly met and the bank remained open fifteen minutes after banking hours to pay depositors. IL is believed to-day when Exami ner Speer spoke ol' the small error that Mr. Fleming became temporarily un balanced, lie had been working un usually hard, day and night, for months, and his high-strung sensitive nature is believed to have given way. Ile is believed to have misunderstood thc examiner and taken thc remark as a reflection on his honor. mm . m* CASTOR IA For Infants and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bought Signature of (^^^?fi^C^Uc - During 1S07 thc furnaces of Alabama have sent 2110.0111) tons of iron to Europe. A little boy asked for a bottle of "gel np in tho morning as last, as you cati." The druggist reeogni/.ed a household name for "hewitt's Little Karly l?isers," and -rave him a bottle of those famous little pilks for constipation, sick headache, liver and stomach troubles. iSvans Phar macy. - Plant a seed of love and reap good deeds, unselfishness, devotion, Christlikeness. Thousands of sullcrers from grippe bave been restored lo health by <>-.{> Min ute Cough Cure, lt quickly eu ros cough?, colds, bronchitis, pneumonia, grippe, asthma, ami ??ll throat and lung disensos. Kv.ms Pharmacy. - A very small kindness has been known to bridge a very wide gulf. Lar^e package of the world's bes? cleanser for ii nickel. Still greater economy in 4-pound package. All grocers. Made only by THE N. K. FAIRBANK COMPANY, Chicago. St. Louis, New York. Boston. Philadelphia. THE FARMERS LOAN AND TRUST CO. Is Now Keady for Business. \ ?EFmSJS?* B,nk. Money to Lend at Reasonable Rates. Interest Paid on Deposits. The Farmers Loan and Trust Co. will act as Executor, Administrator or Trustee of Estates and Guardian for Minors. NINE rich men in South Carolina out of every ten commenced life poor They l>2nane rich by spending less ?han they made. No one gets "rich who does not spend lesi than ho makes. Any one will get rich who continually spends less than he wakes. Every young man can and sho ill save something each month or each year. The maa 'rho will n .t save a portion of a small salary or small earning? will not save a portion of a large salary or largo earnings." The boy who saves something every month * ill be promoted before ?be boy who spends H11 he makes. TruA maoho xi is required in order to deny ones aalf and save. It ia weakness and folly to spend all regardlejs of the ' rainy day." Industry, economy aad integrity cause prosperity-?not luck or gaort fortun?. For reasonable interest and absolute security deposit your savings in tin Farmen Loan a id Trust Co. ?Office at the Farmers and Merchants Bank. OIRFCTO?U. B. S. HILL, President GEO. AV. EVANS, Vie? Pr?sident. ELLISON A. SMYTH, HENRY P. McGEE, S J, WATSON, ./NO. C. WATKINS, Il M BURKISS, WM. LAUGHLIN, E. V SLOAN, J. R. VANDIVER. Cashier, J. BOYCE BURRI**. Assistant radder. J. E. "WAKEFIELD. Jr., Book Keeper. THE BEST ?*S* WE HAVE SECURED A LOT OF Gremime Seed-Tick Coffee, Which is famous for its cup qualities, and will sell you Seven Pounds for One Dollar. We have just received a lot of SILVER TEA, A nice present with every package. We guarantee the Tea in every o artic ular, and if it don't suit you it comes from AUSTIN'S-bring it back and get your money. Here are some of the Presents : Dish Pans, feapots, Cups and Saucers, Plates, Carving Knives, and mauy others too numerous to men tion. Call and see them. ^ JNO. A, AUSTIN & GO., The Best Tea and Coffee Store. O. D. ANDERSON & BRO. WANTED CASH. Got to have it. Koli 'em out-Short Prolits. Seed Oats, Corn, Timothy Hay, Bran, Molasses, in Car Lots. Can fill any size order-compare prices. CAR HALF PAL FLOUE. Bought 50c. under market. Sell same way. Lower gradea $3 90 per barrel. We Want Your Business, Large or Small. H&r. 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Sample Piano and Orgains can be - When a man gets up in the seen at mv residence South Main St.. morning, he grumbles if breakfast is perS0ual attention given to eorres not ready: but if he goes fishing, he p0n(]encet can wait all day for a bite. ^ M L WILLIS - There are more wrecks in the Baltic sea than in any other place in thc world. The average is one wreck _ _ a day throughout the year. The farmer, the mechanic and the bicy- SOUTHERN RAILWAY, cle rider are liable to unexpected cuts and ??(felt bruises. Dewitt's Witch Hazel Salve is {''ff the beat thiujr to keep on band. It heals ^^fctv"**""" quickly, and is a welt known cuie for -4.LfI\ piles. "Evans Pharmacy. " - It IS a mistake tO SUppOSC that " ??ld????! Schedule Ir? Effect stone houses are the most durable. A _ _ebrnap >j______ well constructed brick house will out- STATIONS. _ VLT hist one built ol' granite. i^vChnrfesrT.n.? " ?L?LI'? , . EvTColumbin. ll (JU H ni - >onic people can t come to an un- pruHpoi iiv. 12 n p m . .ii i i .' Vewnerrv . 12 ?*? p ni dcrstanding with themselves, because .. xinetv-six'....!.....1 i 25 p m -well, if the truth must be told-be-1 : li ? S cause they haven't any. j Ar. Abbeville.~ . 2ss p m . ,. ?rTBftltoii.....' .i io p in 1 lin t v-live vea rs make a ireneratiop. ~-4 ,.- ". Tbat is' bow" loin: Adolph Fisher, of Ar^And.M-son_,. ... rS~ Zanesville, O., suffered from piles. He! ArJ^reennlle._J\sr? WHS cured by using three boxes of De- j Ar. Atlanta : --.? - '! i?.RJ" Witt's Witch Hazel Salve. Evans Phar- j ~ STATIONS. j UiaC-V' ! ?y. Greenville.]o T ? ? - Kentucky Legislature, bill No. " . o 56 a ni J , i " Willmniston ._..Il ? a_n. 251, by Mr. Collins, of h loyd County : ! JjvT^mterson. " " ?.... 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