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The Brunswick Times.
Brunswick Publishing Company
Publishers:
OFFICE—Iu Oglethorpe Block, F Street.
lEtEPHONB MO 31.
TiiK Brunswtck Times has the largest and
most select circulation of any newspaper pub
lished in Georgia south of Savannah.
Tub Brunswick Times will be delivered by
mail or by carrier at ssper year or 60 cents per
month, payable strictly in advance. It is for
sale on trains leaving Brunswick and at all
news stands.
Correspondence on live and clean subjects is
solicited. Address all communications to Tue
Morning Times, Brunswick, Ga,
“WE PRINT TUE NEWS.”
CITY OFFICIAL ORGAN.
The following resolution was passed
nnanitnously at Thursday night’s
meeting of council:
“Be it, and it is hereby
resolYed, by the mayor
and aldermen 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;
haying a general circula
tion in said city, be and the
same is hereby declared
and made, until further acr
tion t.o the contrary, the of
ficial organ of the city of
Brunswick.”
According to the Birniinghkni
.News, the editor who induces one En
terprise to locate in his town has djooeii
vastly more good than the hund 'edsl
who kill space by continually abu iiugl
public officials. This will prove iny-]
tiling but acceptable doctrine to omel
of our local contemporaries. I
Thk Rev. Madison Peters, of New!
York, is evidently a man of iroadl
views. He believes all church ?rop-l
erty should be taxed and he i a notl
afraid to say so. One of the c osestl
of all close corporations is th it of
Trinity church in New York and
the value of its untaxed property
mounts high into the millions. iThe
assessed value of church in
the metropolis is $57,000,000, but as
two churches are known to hold tlmt
much the total is thought to be near*
ly $200,000,000, The exemption of this
great property adds about one-tenth
to the taxes laid upon other property,
hut public opinion has yet to be edu
cated up to the point reached by Dr.
Peters.
HIGHLY INSTRUCTIVE.
The attitude of such trusts as do
the sovereign state of Georgia the
honor to operate within its borders
is highly instructive just now; and,
as noted in our news columns yester
day morning, those interested in these
dangerous combinations anticipate
little trouble in evading and smashing
the Calvin anti-trust law.
It is quite within the bounds of pos
sibility that this law will be pro
nounced unconstitutional by the su
preme court of this state. In that
event, it must bo remembered that at
the time our organic law was framed
no such dangers as these presented by
the trusts, were anticipated. Our an
cestors were quick to protect the pub
lic against such dangers as came
within the limits of their experience;
and should our own generation prove
equally alert, it is only a question of
time when the trusts will llnd their
operations fully covered by a consti
tutional amendment.
THE COTTON TAKIFF.
The story of the struggle that Mr.
Brantley and his friends in con
gress are making against al
most hopeless odds in behalf
of the sea island cotton growers, has
been told in our news columns. It
was not an encouragingstory and the
issue raised by the amendment offered
by Mr. McT.aurin, of South Carolina,
in the ways and means committee,
found the southern members divided
as to the best course to pursue under
new conditions.
The McLaurin amendment provides
for a duty of V/x cents a pound upon
all raw cotton imported. The origi-
nal proposition was to ask for a duty
of 5 cents per pound, and the conces
sion indicates the character of the op
position encountered at the very out
set. This amendment received the
support of all the southern members
of the committee, with the exception
of McMillan of Tennessee, and Wheeler
of Alabama, but finally went down
under a republican vote that was prac
tically solid.
Mr. Brantley and his friends will
bring tbe amendment before tbe house,
but with what success remains to be
seen. It is thought that the senate
affords the most promising held for
the propagation of this new variety
of protection, and the adoption of tbe
amendment by tbe upper branch of
oongress may eventually lead to its
acceptance by tbe lower.
DE\TH BED REPENTANCE.
In its issue of Friday our evening
contemporary deals at great length
with what it neatly describes as “the
change of the city printing from the
Advertiser to Thk Times;” and favors
its readers with a labored description
of tbe manner in which tbe fatal blow
was received.
It is not always easy to discover
the precise meaning of our con
temporary’s innuendoes, but from
a careful perusal ot its utter
ances upon this important topic, we
are led to infer that the action of
tbe city council is wliat the Advertiser
has long been looking for as the one
thing needful to fill its cup of self
esteem to overflowing. Nothing suc
ceeds like success, and if our little
contemporary has got what it wants,
we shall be the last to begrudge it any
such doubtful good fortune.
That servitudes ignoble—that in
dependence is admirable—that muni
cipalities are fallible and open to
criticism—these are all self-evident,
truths; and that the Evening Adver
tiser has but now discovered them,
says for the paper much more than its
editor can ever say.
THE COTTON CROP
In the Evening Constitution of Fri
day, Col. William L. Peek, a veteran
planter, pays his respects to the cot
ton-growers convention, which he de
scribes as a disappointment and a
gathering which meant well, but the
fruit of whose labors was stale.
In discussing the questions in
volved, Col. Peek quotes from the last
census to the effect that 66 per cent, of
our people were tenants in 1860, and
declares that the number of farmers
who have lost their farms and their
independence has been materially in
creased in the last live years. These
tenant farmers are, as a rule, com
pelled to plant cotton for rations, fer
tilizers and taxes, which are well-de
scribed as an eating sore upon the
public purse that has been aggravated
by every law-making power for the
last 30 years.
In view of these facts, Col. Peek
very wisely concludes that the acre
age of cotton is not at all likely to be
reduced, in spite of the valuable ad
vice so liberally bestowed upon the
farmers of Georgia by a few fancy
agriculturists who have money and
eloquence to burn.
From the tone of Col. Peek’s valu
able paper, we are led to infer that he
would agree with The Timks in be
lieving that “live harder, work harder,
buy less and sell more,” is queer ad
vice to shove at a prosperous agricul
tural community; and we would es
pecially commend to the notice of
some of our exalted contemporaries
the Colonel’s wholesome advice to that
slave of the plough handles, the lion.
J. Pope Brown.
“N. B. —If President Pope Brown,
of the State Agricultural Society, will
change his traveling from the cities
and railroads and visit his country
constituents, eat and sleep with them,
he will make a different speech next
August.”
TH£ TIMES. BRUNSWICK, GA, MARCH 21, 1897.
SUNDAY THOUGHTS
Behold I Show You a Mystery.
Oil, mystery of living! M hat hath been
Ever ana ever more again must be.
The grasses come to cover the bare earth
Each spring, the leaves to deck the naked tree;
A
And song birds warble where, awhile ago,
Their cup-like nests were brimming o’er with
enow.
And we! how short the time since we were
young,
Filled with the hopes and joys our children feel.
And now we struggle on with songs unsung,
And sadly to ourselves the truth reveal
Thut they, too, after we haye passed away.
Must come to faltering steps and locks of gray.
Oh, mystery of living! how we yearn
To know the deep things hidden from our sight.
Whether in other forms we shall return,
Or in some nobler sphere behold the light?
Weary of waiting for our destiny
We beat against thy bars—Eternity.
March 14, 18S)7. —Esteli.e H. Wilson.
***
[From Canon Farrar’s Year Book/]
He that is unjust in the least is uu
just also in much. —Luke, xvi, 10.
Wbat a world of warning in those
words! The little foxes that spoil
the vines—the little canker that slays
the oak—the little leak which ever
gains upon tbe vessel till it sinks—
the little fissure in the mountain side,
out of which the lava pours—“the
little rift within the lute, that slowly
widening, makes the music mute”—
what are all these in their ruinous in
fluence but a fit emblem of the sinful
ness of little sins? How they illus
trate that old proverb that the mother
of mischief is no bigger than a midge's
wing. Yes, my brethren, small injus
tices are but the wet and slippery step
ping-stones down into deeper waters.
He who is unjust in a penny now may
be so in thousands of pounds hereafter.
He who is not perfectly honest in tri
fles now, may, if unchecked, develop
'in later life a character of radical un
trustworthiness fundamentally un
isound.
It was only a seed that fell,
A downy and tiny seed;
And few that saw it could tell
| What an evil and pestilent weed
[ Wonld spring from that little sphere,
j With power to spread at the root
I Till it choked out all blossoms of cheer
l And cutoff all promise of fruit,
[From Bishop Phillips Brooks’ Year liook.j
f Whatsoever le born of God overeorn
leth the world, and this is the victory
that overcometh the world, even our
faith. Who is he that overcometh the
world but be that believeth that Jesus
is the son of God?—l John, v, 4-5.
Make, then, this incarnation the one
pervading power of a man’s life. Let
his first feeling about this world al
ways be, “God has been here, and so
God is here still,” and have you not
made him strong to walk unpolluted
and unscorched through the furnace
of the world’s most fiery temptations
and corruptions? It is the low sys
tem, the constitution that is broken
down and depressed in tone, that takes
the contagion. * * * And a deep,
living sense ot God is the true vitality
of a human soul which quenches the
poisonous fires of corruption, as pow
erless to be hurt by it as the cold,
calm sea is to be set on fire by ftie
coals that you may cast into its bosom.
Think of the day after Jesus had
called John aDd Peter and Nathaniel
to be His servants. They had begun
to hear His words of eternal life.
They had become dimly conscious of
so much above and beyond. Do you
think it was as hard for them to pass
unspotted by the places of temptation
in Chosazin and Capernaum? They
had tasted the powers of the world to
come. And the true way, the only
true way, to make any man who is a
slave to this world, catching its cor
ruption, free and pure, is to make him
see another world, the supernatural
world, the world of spiritual life above
him and below him, and stretching
out before him into eternity, made
visible by Christ’s incarnation.
THE WHOLE STOCK
Of Jewelry, Watches, Diamonds and
Silverware Goes Cheap.
Mr. A. Rothschild, having purchased
the full stock of E. J. Allen, on New
castle street, has moved the stock to
314 Bay street, where he has the “low
priced” jewelry stock of the city.
Every description of jewelry, clocks,
watches, rings, diamonds and silver
ware will be sold positively below
manufacturer’s cost.
This is one of the most remarkable
opportunities ever offered to tbeßruns
wick pubiic.
Don’t forget Dip number, 314 Bay
street.
II VARIETY FOR SUNDAY.
LOST AND FOUND.
I dreamed a song—one lonely night—
But lost it with tlie morning light—
A tender strain, intoned with grace,
Descriptive of an angel’s face.
For months 1 sought the vanished rhyme,
Aud cursed the tardiness of Time,
Until, from out the passing throng,
One day, you stepped—l found the song.
E. I>. L.
**
Cuba and Greece are respectively
advised to try that lightning it ft iu
the pit of the stomach.
Germany has decided upon a policy
of retrenchment and economy. The
Fatherland can never achieve per
manent prosperity until it discovers
some means of utilizing tbe froth on
beer.
**
The Greek army Is said to be ad
vancing—advancing tbe price of ban
anas, probably.
*
* *
The fact that a waterspout has been
reported in Indiana, with “a rapidly
oscillating motion to the southward,”
has given rise to great uneasiness in
the blue grass section of Kentucky.
*
* *
The people of America to Fiizhugh
Lee in Cuba —“Hold her down—it fits
you.”
***
Some Tariff Thoughts.
From the Home Tribune.
Children who cry at a duty of 35 per
cent on dolls’ heads may dry their
tears and be comforted. Balm of Gil
ead is on the free list.
“Apatite” is on the free list; but, for
tunately for the already glutted home
market, it isn’t tbe appetite for office.
Personal effects of citizens of the
United States dying in foreign coun
tries are graciously allowed to come in
free; and since death and taxes are
the only two sure things, it is natural
enough that the latter should tip its
hat to the former.
Chairmau Dingley has kindly put
“spunk” on the free list; but as there
isu’t any spunk worth mentioning out
side of this country, the concession is
merely another instance of padding
the list.
There is oue item in the new tariff
bill for which every husband in the
land will be under obligations to Mr.
Dingley—tax of one cent per square
yard on pillow shams.
“Waste” not specially provided for
in the new tariff bill must pay a duty
of 10 per cent., ad valorem. If this
could only be applied to congressional
waste, what a handsome income it
would yield to the federal treasury!
POINTED PERSONALS.
Interesting Notes Abaut People You
Don’t Want to Know.
Phil I. Buster, of Florida, arrived in
port yesterday on a private tear.
Little Miss Affie Davit had a case in
Justice Hitch’s court yesterday. She
charged a well-known business man
with swearing at her.
Miss Anna Conda is a popular guest
at the Oglethorpe. She is said to be
engaged to Beau Constrictor.
The disreptuable Miss Demeanor is
frequently beard from in Judge Sam
Atkinson’s city court.
Miss lo died of potassium last night.
The fatal drug is supposed to have
been put in her way by Miss Tayke.
Col. Demon Straight, of Kentucky,
is spending a few days at the Ogle
thorpe holding up the bar.
Miss Millie Nerry will return to the
city shortly before Easter, greatly to
the delight of her many female friends,
who are contemplating new styles in
headwear.
The People Are Convinced
When they read the testimonials of
cures by Hood’s Sarsaparilla. They
are written by boDest men aud wo
men, and are plain, straightforward
statements of facts. 'The people have
confidence in Hood’s Sarsaparilla be
cause they know it actually and per
manently cures, even when other med
icines fail.
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with Hood’s Sarsaparilla. Easy and
yet efficient.
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STORIES OF THE DAY.
Intercutting Notes of Mutters That Are
Talked of In Enrope.
Alfred Beit, the millionaire partner
of Cecil Rhodes, has purchased the Lon
don Saturday Review from Frank Har
ris. This paper has been conspicuous for
its animosity toward Mr. Rhodes and
his enterprises, and inasmuch as it has
inherited from times gone by a consid
erable amount of prestige and influence
the friends of Mr. Rhodes have found
it prudent to purchase it, with the ob
ject of silencing its attacks. The Lon
don Sun now belongs to another new
fledged millionaire, having been sold
by T. P. O’Connor, M. P., and his as
sociates to Mr. Hooley.
There is not a word of truth in the
statement cabled across the Atlantic a
week ago to the effect that a portion of
the famous Alpine monastery of St.
Bernard had been destroyed by an ava
lanche. A big avalanche certainly has
taken place in the pass, but the monas
tery is quite safe and has sustained no
injury whatsoever.
The German government is sending
out invitations to an international con
gress on leprosy, at which Dr. Koch, the
eminent bacteriologist, will preside.
Sweden, Denmark, Norway and Russia
have already intimated their intention
of being officially represented. The
whole subject of leprosy and its attend
ant evils will come under consideration
of the meeting, the aim of which will
be to induce the powers of the world to
act collectively, if not in the hope of
stamping out the disease, at any rate of
keeping it within prescribed limits.
The Spanish government has official
ly called the attention of the French au
thorities to the Oar list agitation along
the northern frontier of the kingdom.
Arms and ammunition of all kinds are
being ordered in France and Belgium
by Carlist agents and dispatched to the
Pyrenees. Don Oarlos, who is at Venice,
does not contradict the news and speaks
of it as a prelude to his own abdication
in favor of his son, Don Jaime.
According to an official announce
ment just made by the minister of the
interior at Berlin, the quartermaster
who was in charge of the helm of the
English steamship Crathie at the time
when she ran down the Atlantic liner
Elbe off the east coast of England is
now in the United States, and, with a
view of “relieving his conscience,” has
recently made a full confession of cer
tain important facts that he withheld
at the time of the inquiry into the sink
ing of the Elbe, that entailed the loss
of several hundred lives. From his con
fession it appears that both the helms
man himself and the man on the look
out on board the Crathie had left their
posts and gone into the cabin to drink
their coffee, so that their vessel was en
tirely without control and without any
one on deck at the :. of the collision.
Nervous
People find just the help they so much
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My health run down, and I had the grip.
After that, my heart and nervous system
were badly affected, so that I could not do
my own work. Our physician gave me
some help, but did not cure. I decided
to try Hood’s Sarsaparilla. Soon I could
do all my own housework. I have taken
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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.”
Mks. M. M. Messenger, Freehold, Penn.
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JOHN GETHIN.
John Gethin sat by his own ingle
nook. Ho was a comfortable, bachelor,
reckoned the richest young-farmer on
tho countryside between the vale of
Neath and the vale of Swansea. John
G-othin sat smoking his .long clay pipe
and watching tho smoke curl thin aud
blue from tho bowl till it faded awayiu
the general haze of the farmhouse.
Ho told himself stories to the curl of
the smoko—saw his cows increase, and
his pigs bring forth litters, and his hay
grow tall, and his corn yield incredible
bushels per acre in tho coming twelve
month—material dreams of a prosperous
farmer. He stroked his smooth cheek,
for ho was a plump and well fed young
man, and counted his chickens before
the eggs wero laid and puffed away calm
ly to his thoughts’ accompaniment. Ho
even dobated with himself whether ho
might not marry this year. He was tired
of looking about him and “leading a
man’s life. ” Mayhap lie might settle
down and bestow himself on one of tho
15 girls who were ready to accept him
as a prize in the market. Gwen Owen
was a pretty enough lass and u first rate
milker. Myfanwy Griffith could "make
capital dough cakes. Dorenn Williams,
too, had such a hand for cheeses as—
His reverie was disturbed by a quick
knock at the door. John Gethin, half
uncertain whether he dozed or not, raised
his head and cried, “Gome in!” in his
own Welsh language.
A woman entered and stood for a mo
ment looking at him. John Gethin turn
ed and faced her without rising from his
oak chair. Politeness to women was not
John Getliin’s forte. He had come into
contact with them chiefly under the
form of milkmaids—creatures to scold
aud to chaff alternately. And John
Gothin’s chaff was not always tho most
courtly.
But this woman surprised him. She
had a strange, quiet, solemn, mysterious
beauty. Her face was scarcely stern, but
it was firm and final. ‘* I have come for
you,” she said slowly, without other in
troduction. Against his will, as it soem
ed, John Gethin rose up and bowed
awkwardly to her.
“Lot us go out together,” the woman
went on. John Gethin, ever ready for
an adventure of the sort, answered bold
ly, ‘‘By all means!” and unhung his
hat from tho bullock’s horns in tho pas
sage.
The woman stopped out into tho star
lit night. John Gethin folio ,ved her.
“Where do you go?” he asked.
She pointod with one hand. “This
way, ’ ’ she answered, and made no fur
ther parley.
John Gethin walked on in marveling
silence by her side. Somehow, though
sho had called for him and invited him
unasked, she was not the sort of woman
to be treated offhand tp the cavalier
chaff he bestowed upon the milkmaids.
They strode abreast in silence.
They mounted the hills toward the
wild, heathy tract whose moorland
ridge divides the valleys. It lies black
in winter time with withered heather,
a vast, gloomy expanse, gloomier still
just then beneath tho frosty starlight.
At the Barrow the woman paused and
pushed aside a great stone. “Enter in
with me,” she said and walked through
it like a door. John Gethin, now trem
bling in his fat knees, strode after her.
Within was a room, very largo and
spacious. Round the walls burned can
dles—many, many candles. At first
John Gethin was only aware of innu
merable lights, as at a Masonic suppei
at the Harp at Swansea. But aftoi
awhile, as his eye grew more used tc
the strange, weird effluence, he began
to perceive that the candles, thougl
ranged in rows, were of quite different
lengths—some tall and just begun, oth
ers short and much consumed, and a few
burned down to a mere stump or smolder
ing in their sockets.
“What are these candles?” he asked,
aghast, just dimly awaro of some deepei
meaning.
The woman answered: “These are
tho candles of the lives of men. As oaci
burns long or short, so are the days 01
its owner. While it lasts ho lives, and
when it fails he ceases. ”
John Gethin fared on with faltering
steps through the cavern. His face was
ashen. Then he began to observe thar
each candle bore a name, or, rather, or
the long ones, which were only just
lighted, a man’s whole name might be
read, while on others a few letters alone
remained, and on some just a final P or
a Y or an F was now visible.
Ho stood at last before a flickering
taper that began to expire. Tho letter IS
alone showed dimly on the melting war
of its surface.
‘ ‘What w'ord W'as this?’ ’ he asked, with
livid lips. The woman made no reply,
but pointed with her finger. As he stood
and watched smoke curled up from the
wick as from his own tobacco and
wreathed itself slowly into dim blue
letters. The first that came was aJ,
then an O and an H and an N followed
it. After that in slow order, G, E, TANARUS,
H, I. While he looked and hold his
breath the N melted from the wax and
framed itself in smoke. At the selfsame
moment the candle went out, sputtering.
Though a thousand other candles had
lighted the cavern, as it sank in its
socket gloom closed in around him.
Then John Gothin know the woman’s
name and cried aloud once—a wild cry
in tho darkness.—Loudon Illustrated
News.
Famine Food.
The Rev. Dr. A. Nottrott, a mission
ary in India, now iu Baltimore, says:
“The distress caused by the famine
leads to many atrocities and inhuman
acts which only hunger and the distorted
mental conditions due to such affliction
can inspire. It is to the failure of the
rico crops that the present distress ie
due. The natives depend wholly upon
their rice for subsistence, and as the
crops last year proved a total failure,
due to the sudden suspension of the
rainy season, supplies were totally cul
off. To increase the quantity of theii
food, earth, fodder and the barks ol
trees are mixed with the rice.”