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The record-union., 1897-08-21
Sunday Law in Georgia.

ATLANTA (Ga), Aug. 2O.-w. S.
Brand, Superintendent OF the Georgia
Railroad, has been indicted by the
Grand Jury of Dekalb County for vio-
lation of the law against running
freight trains on Sunday.
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Dress FlanneIs.

A new line of all-wool Flannels in
small checks, plaids and handsome
stripes. Desirable for gowns,
wrappers, house sacques, chill
dren's wear, shirts, etc. Price SIZE
ward.
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TO Your Interest
Ito Remember.

We sell for cash only and quote
lower prices than can any business
run on the part cash and part cred
it plan.
1t would seem the part of wis
dom for those who have cash to
spend to buy where they will get
the full benefit of cash buying, and
not where they will have to help
pay for the long-standing accounts
and bad debts of others.
Why should one customer be
made to pay cash and another one
be favored with credit, anyhow?
The cash system is the only just
and equitable one.
The record-union., 1897-08-21
IWomen's Springfield
Lace Shoes, So so.

These Shoes for women are
made of fine black kid, with cloth
tops, coin toes, diamond shaped
kid tips. Good soles. Sizes p
to 7. So 50.
This is also a good Shoe for
misses that wear women's sizes.
The record-union., 1897-08-21
Anarchists Coming to Amerina.

LONDON, Aug. 20.-In anarchistic
circles here it is stated number of
exiled anarchists who recently arrived
in England started, this morning for
America
The record-union., 1897-08-21
New Plush Capes.

We are in receipt of several new
lines of Plush Capes. These goods
are on display in Our Cloak De-
partment. We speak of them now
for the benefit of those who are
going to the seaside and require
just such garments.
Plush Capes will be popular this
fall and these are all in attractive
new styles. Prices So, 81 50 and
$II so.
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Silk Underskirts.

Handsome Taheta Silk Under
skirts in black and colors at spe-
cial price of S..
Grass Cloth Underskirts with
deep f1ounce.
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The Very Best Trousers
and at Moderate Prices.

AS far as fit, quality and style go
no man In Sacramento will want any
thing better than the Paragon"
Trousers if he only knows about
them. The manufacturers of these
goods put their entire energies into
making fine trousers, and don't know
how to make anything else. They
stand at the head of the business
New fall patterns in Paragon Trou-
sers, gray cashmere, almost invisible
checked or plaid, 50.
Mode -colored Cashmere Trousers,
with faint stripes. Something new
for dress wear. Sc 90.
Imported Worsted Trousers IN neat
striped gray effects. Made in the
best manner possible. 81 so.
If you don't know the Paragon
Trousers already it will positively re-
pay you to make their acquaintance
when in need of anything in that line.
The record-union., 1897-08-21
White Silk ParasOls.

White Silk Parasols with pink
edge rufles, 81 so. Some better
ones, with hemstitched ruffles,
So 20.
The record-union., 1897-08-21
|Children's
Straw Hats.

In the Mems Hat Department
we have made another cut in
Straw Hats. This time it is the
Boys and Girls Straw Sailor
Hats, in blue and white and brown
and white combinations, with SATIN
ribbon bands. Price until now, SOC.
Reduced price, 25c.
Boys Yacht-shaped Stiff -brim
Straw Hats, in assorted colors.
Reduced to 25c.
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G13EE{l!l1I} 1llaE &sSSlD
Millinery.

Millinery.
We have just received lot OF
new Sailor and Walking Hats in
brown, navy blue and black. Also
in new shades OF green and jockey
club blue. Just the thing for trav-
cling and bicycling. Prices, 75c
to ST Is.
Straw Fedora Hats for travel
ing, 75c.
New Tam O'Shanter Caps for
children, 35c and soc.
The record-union., 1897-08-21
Oriental LaCes.

White Oriental Lace in a nice
open-Work pattern, worth III a
regular way soc per yard. Our
price, I8c.
The record-union., 1897-08-21
Duck Skirts.

Navy Blue Duck Skirts with
neat colored figured figures.
81 rs.
The record-union., 1897-08-21

Just received, Misses Fine Kid
Gloves from Grenob1e, France.
Pique style Capped seams) with
two snap buttons at the wrist and
two tone stitched backs. Browns,
reds, mode, tan, navy blue, green,
etc. Splendid quality, ST rs pair.
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ADMIRATION AND W4R.
Brief Hut Not Uninteresting Discourse by the
Old Soldier.

"You know can't get over the fact" said
tho old soldier, that there's a heap more heroes
In the world than there was. all due TO tho civil
war. And you can't toll where you're going to
meet 'em. The man you buy IA lead pencil OF In
the stationery store may have served, and SO
may the man you buy your clothes OF in the
clothing store. Just as likely as not the man
that brings your milk in the morning, coming
along early through the quiet streets, may have
been at Gettysburg; and the man that twists the
OF the cable car you ride down Broad.
way in may have marched over narrow corduroy
roads, through lofty forests. with u gun over his
shoulder and u knapsack on his back.
You soc, you can't tell. The man in the
pulpit may have been in II, and SO may the man
that sweeps the streets. You can't tell about II;
me 1ellers don't stand around and holler about
u; but they'r heroes just the same; the salt OF
better Tor en-, u heap. They are self.rCliant
and clf-rcspecting citizens, who helm to keen tho
country sweet. And their children arc proud Of
thoni. HOW proud! And they grow up all the
stronger, ana better citizens for this inheritance.
sun, l believe in arbitration-on principle;
ana ! feel bound TO say that | believe in ii in
Practise, too. War is a frightful waste OF human
ire anu OF material. i can't now, and | never
coIin' SEQ tilc sense or destroying things; ana I
ghlnR the most tremendously foolish thing going
ID taxing people out Of house and home 10 keep
up great standing armies that are finally TO 10
And still l can't keep thinking that a war
Ike ours, ABOUT u real principle. is not without
lts cohlPensationa. II sort of clears the atmos-
phere. distributes backbone around among sur-
human rac0s"
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VIZ.

We arc told that. soon after daylight on tho
2lst, Nelson, who, according TO his custom, was
already up and dressed, had gone on dock. He
wore. us usual. his Admiral's frock coat, ON the
left breast OF which were fixed the stars of four
different orders. 1t was noticed that no did not
wear his sword at Trafalgar. although It lay
ready for him on the cabin table; 1t is supposed
he forgot to call for it, as this is the only In.
stance in which no was known not TO curry IL
when engaged. At about o o'clock he sum
moned Capt. Blackwood ON board the Victory to
give him final and precise instructions for tho
conduct OF tho frigates during and after the bat
tie. Blackwood found him In good but very
calm spirits, preoccupied with the movement of
tho allies and the probable results of his own plan
of attack. He frequently asked, What would
you consider a victory T. Blackwood answered.;
"Considcrins the handsome way In which the
battle is offered by the enemy, their apparent
determination for a fair trial Of strength and the
proximity of the land. i think. II fourteen ships
are captured, 1t will BIO a glorious result" Nell
sons constant reply was that he would not DO
satisfied with anything short of twenty. He ad-
mitted, however, That tho nearness of the land
might make 1t difficult to preserve the prizes,
and he was emphatic In directing that If tho
shattered enemies had any chance Of return
ing to CadiA, the trigates were TO b
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task. Tho words Il have done my duty scaled
the closed book of Nelson's story with a truth
broader and deeper than ho himself could sus.
poet. His duty was done. and Its fruit perfected,
Other men have died In the hour of victory,
but for no other has victory so singular
and so signal graccd the fulnlmcnt and end.
ing Of a great life's work. 'Einis coronat
opus has OF no man been more truo than
Of Nelson. There were, indeed, consequences
momentous and stupcndous yet to flow from
the decisive supremacy OF Great Britain's sea
power, the establishment Of which, beyond all
question or competition. was Nelson's great
achievement; but his part was done when Ira
falgar was fought. The coincidence of his death
with the moment of completed success has i'm.
pressed upon that superb battle n stamp Of lnnl-
ity, an Immortality OF fame which even its own
grandeur scarcely could have assured. He need
ed, and he left, no successor. To use again Sa
vincent's words, There is but one Nelson"
Let us rccur now, for a moment, to the begin
ming OF tho first chapter of the first volume,
which Is as worthy OF being reproduced as the
admirable paragraph just quoted. 1T Is" thus
the narrative opens, =" the appointed lot of some
OF history's chosen fow to como upon the scene
at the moment when n great tendency is near.
ing its crisis and elimination. Specially gifted
with qualities needed to realize the fulnesu
OF Its possibilities, they 80 identify themselves
WIN IL Dy Unclr ueeuS Unab tney tnenCerOrth
personify to the world the movement which
brought them forth, and Of which their own
achievements are at once the climax and the most
dazzling illustration. Fewer still, but happieat
Of all, viewed from the standpoint Of fame. are
those whose departure is rs we'll timed as theiy
appearance, who do not survive tho instant Of
perfected success, who do not linger on, subjected
to tho searching tests of common life, but pass
from our ken in a blaze Of glory which thence
forth forever encircles their name. In that
evening light break away and vanish the ON
inous clouds wherewith human f~railtics or ty.
rant passions had threatened to darken their
renown; and their sun goes down with a lustre
which tho lapse of time is powerless TO dim.
Such" Capt. Mahan points out, was the priv
ilege of the stainless Wolfe; such, beyond all
others, was that of Nelson. Rarely has a man
been moro favored in the hour of his appear
ance; never ono SO fortunate in the moment e
his death" NJ. w. II.
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VIII.

The concluding paragraph of this noble bIoR.
raphy runs as follows: There. at trafalgar,
surrounded by the companions of his triumph
and by the trophies OF his prowess, we leave our
hero with his glory. Sharer of our mortal weak.
nesses' he has bequeathed TO us a type of single
minded sen-devotion that can never perish. As
MS funeral anthem proclaimed. while n nation
mourned, his body Is buried in peace. I'm, his
name lveth foreyermore. Wars NAV cease hut
the need for heroism shall not depart from the
earth while man remains man and evil
exists to DO redressod. Wherever danger has
to be faced, or duty TO be done at cost
to self, men will draw inspiration from the
name and deeds of Nelson. Happy" continues
the author. happy he who lives to nnish an hiS
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keeping not merely with particular traits, but
with the ruling tenor Of his life. It seems that
Horntio Nelson and his elder brother were going
to school ono winter day upon their ponies. Find
ing the snow 20 deep as TO delay them seriously,
they went back, and tho elder reported that
they could not go on. The father replied: IF
that be so, I have, OF course, nothing to soy; but
I wish you to try again, and I leave 1t to your
honor not to turn back unless necessary" On
the second attempt, the elder boy was moro than
once for returning, but Horatio stuck 1t out, ro-
peating continually: Remember. II was left TO
our honor" and tho difficult journey was ac-
complished. The author reminds us that the
children, in this instance, seem to have felt that
there was danger In going on. Tho other re-
corded occurrence shows In the lad that indif-
ference to personal benefit, as distinguished
from tho sense Of conspicuous achievement,
which was ever q prominent characteristic of the
man. Tho master Of tho school had q fine
pear tree, whose fruit the boys coveted, but
upon which none dared hazard an attempt. At
last Nelson, who did not share their desires, I'M
dertook the risk, climbed tho tree by night, and
carried Off tho pears, but refused to eat any Of
them, saying that he had taken them only be-
cause the others were afraid. Capt. Mahan's
comment on these incidents is that, though they
may seem trivial, they are so really because
they belong to the day OF small things. To
those accustomed to watch children they
will not appear unworthy OF note. Takcn to-
gether. they illustrate as forcibly as do his
greatest deeds the two forms assumed at various
times by the one incentive which always most
powerfully determined Nelson's actions through
life, the motive to which an appeal was never
made in vain. No material considerations,
neither danger on the one hand nor gain on the
other, ever affected him as did that idealizcd
conception which presented itself, now as duty,
now as honor, according as 1t bore, for the mo-
ment, upon his relations to the State or to his
own personality. "In my minds eye said he
to his friend. Capt. Hardy, who bent over him
as his spirit was parting amid the tumult Of
his last victory, 81 ever saw q radiant orb sus-
pended which beckoned me onward to renown."
Nelson did not often verge upon the poetical in
words. but to the poetry Of lofty aspiration his
being always throbbed responsive.
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VI.

Tho last chapter of the second volume is do
voted to the naval operations which took place
on Oct. 1921. 1908. and eliminated In the
transcsndent victory Of Trafalgar. Here NO
The Roanoke times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1897-1977, 1897-07-20
when men with every facility for learn
ing the truth get SC excited 'on the sub.
THE. SAMOAN PROBLEM.

While the administration is looking
Islands also demand attention. I'm
der an agreement with England and Ger
many the United States some years ago
entered into an agreement with those
governments for q joint protectorate over
the islands. This, among other things,
involved the establishment of consulate
there which calls for an expenditure of
about $4,000 by the American govern
ment, which is out of ali proportion to
benefits accruing, and unless some ar
rangement can be made by which the
trade of the islands with the United
States can be increased this will prove to
be nothing but clear waste of money.
President Mckinley has made careful
Investigation into the subject of the Joint
control and has come--to the conclusion,
so it is said, that the present arrange
ments are anything but satisfactory to
the few Americans in the islands of Sa-
moa or to the ratives themselves. He re-
Gently appointed Mr.. Church Howe, of
~'ScAoohoS w 1hC COhoutuIC dG - pa anu
he will no doubt be directed to report
fully on the condition of affairs on the
islands and it is probable that the United
States ministers in England and Germany
will be directed to enter into negotiations
for change il the existing affairs. The
entire value of the imports into Al ia dur
ing the year 1896 was .only 1904, 900, of
which the United States contributed less
than $4,000 worth, while the exports
from the islands, consisting mainly of
copra, which is preparation of cocoanut,
were only S2B3,047. The entire revenue
to the Samoan government for 1896 was
but very small fraction over SEQ, OOOand
of this sum fully s per cent. went to-
wards the maintenance of the foreign
officials foisted upon tie Samoans under
the Berlin agreement. From the above,
it is easy to see that the United States
government ought to abandon the protec-
torate and annex the islands or leave the
British and German governments in I'M
disputed possession.
The Roanoke times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1897-1977, 1897-07-20

Minister Woodford has been instructed
by the government to press the Ruiz
claim for $4,000 as soon as he arrives in
Madrid, and the prospects are that Spain
will again become..very much irritated at
the persistence of Yankees This will
make no difference, however, with the ad.
ministration. Justice must be done to
the family of the man who was unjustly
imprisoned and probably murdered by
the Spanish authorities, or the United
States will enforce it's demands with can.
non and muskets. The reported alliance
of Spain and Japan will not have any
effect on the course of the administration
in this matter.
The Roanoke times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1897-1977, 1897-07-20

Notwithstanding the anger of the Brit
ish at the time of Secretary Sherman's
note on the seal question the English au-
thorities have consented to conference on
the question which will be held in Wash.
ington next fall. Secretary Sherman in
accordance with diplomatic usage might
have said all he did in less offensive
manner; but what has been done cannot
be remedied, and after all it is not prob.
able that anything serious will result
from Mr.. Sherman's note. John Bull
has way of blaming American politics
for all lapses of international courtesy on
our part and no doubt he is partly cor.
rect in so doing. The lions tail has been
twisted several times in this country for
political effect only.
The Roanoke times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1897-1977, 1897-07-20

The House ard Senate conferees are re-
ported to have agreed on tariff schedule
and as this was the main bone of conten.
ton, the early passage Of the bill is pre-
dicted. The American people, without
regard to party, are anxious to have the
tariff question settled and give the Re.
publicans every opportunity to bring on
their promised prosperity. There are
many, however, who do not believe pros
perity and tariff bill are by any means
synonymous. On the contrary they have
serious doubts ABOUT the efficacy of any
porrosed Republican legislation as pro.
moter of better times.
The Roanoke times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1897-1977, 1897-07-20
PENSIONS

Philadelphia Record: There are thou
sands of men, some very rich, who have
never lost days income by reason of
anything thai happened 10 them in the
service and yet they are drawing pen
sions to day. No man ought to have u
soldiers pension who does not need it.
Consider the magnitude of this pension
burden! Of the 2.77S, 304 names entered
on the military rolls of our civil war 349,.
o44 died in the service and 1919, 1O5 desert
ed. Of the remaining Z, 300, 255 one third
have died since the war. Of the surviv-
ors % per cent. are enrolled as pension.
ers. AS time goes on the balance, through
infirmities of age. will be added to the
list. Sixteen years hence one third of all
the surviving veterans will still be alive,
as actuares tables have II, although
they will average seventy-one years of
age. AZ this rate it will take $4,000
Ooo,o to pay our remaining pension COLI
tracts. Could the Grand Army do bet
ter thing than to see that future pension
ers shall be deserving
The Roanoke times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1897-1977, 1897-07-20

The Alaskan gold fever has struck New
York and the excitement there is nearly
as great as III 1S4), when the rush to Cal.
fornia began. In Seattle, State of Wash
ingtop, the reports of gold discoveries in
the Yukon country have caused great en-
element, and Il general rush of people to
the land where the yellow metal is scoop
ed up ut the rate of 81 shoyel-full is Sin
progress. Men congregate in groups on
the street in excited discussion and there
is feverish desire among all classes to
get North. The exitement has extended
to the members of the police force and
the street car men, who ere serving no.
tices ON their Employers of their intention
to quit work and go to the gold fields,
and even the merchants are fearful that
their help will leave them. There must
he something substantial in the reports
The Roanoke times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1897-1977, 1897-07-20

1t now appears that the dilatory policy
of Turkey in accepting the basis of peace
proposed by the powers was due to secret
encouragement given the sultan by the
Emperor of Germany. The latter, how
ever, when he found he was violating his
government from the great powers of
Europe, quickly receded from the stand
he had taken and Joined in with the rest
in the pressure brought to bear on the
porte, with the prospect of ending the
deadlock which ne bad caused.
The Roanoke times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1897-1977, 1897-07-20

Eradstreet aud Dun s. Co. did not
agree as to the conditions of trade last
week, the former taking rather gloomy
view of the situation, while ths latter
still saw many signs of steady improve
ment in business conditions. 1t is hoped
the views CT Dun & Co. may prove cor
rect and that the country is really on the
eve of improved business conditions.
The people are very tired of waiting for
the promised Republican prosperity.
The Roanoke times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1897-1977, 1897-07-20
MIR. BRYAN ON THE TRUSTS.

~. LIZ AN YIN LIZ -.
Mr. Bryan at his meetings in Califor-
mia. where he has addressed nearly the
whole population of the State, while Civ
ing precedence to the financial question
has not neglected other subjects of i'm
portance. His attacks upon the trusts
have been extremely forcible, because he
has eschewed futile denunciation and re-
stricted his arraignment to the facts,
which are more eloquent than the most
torrid rhetoric. He has been careful to
point out that the eXtortion practised by
these combinations that have monopolzed
the country's natural resources and Gao
tured its transportation system is not the
wcrsJ feature of their blighting domi-
nance over industry and trade. The
greatest evil represented by the trusts is,
as Mr.. Bryan says, that they are changing
the laws which used to govern business
success. Who can dispute the truth OF
these statements:
''In the olden days If man starting in
business had sufficient capital, had sui1i-
cient industry and had sufficient integ.
rity, you might expect him to make Il
success of business. Not necessarily so
to-day. A man may have sufficient cap
ital; a man may be Industrious; he may
he honest; he may have business expert
ence: yet in II moment he may find his
capital dissipated, he may find himself II
bankrupt. Why: Because the trust will
come to him and hold out before him two
propositions-eith ask him to become
member of the trust, conspirator
against his fellows, or threaten him with
bankruptcy on the other hand If he pre-
fers his Independence, he is given death.
IL he escapes death,it means simple ser
vitude TO the trust to which he attaches
himself
But Mr.. Bryan has not confined him.
self to describing evils and defining perils.
lie is man OF remedies:
1t is the province.of wise men to fore
see. 1t is the sign of Intelligent men to
prepare for danger before it comes imme-
diately upon them, and think the Amer
lean people ought to be awakened to-day
to the danger that the trust presents;
that they ought to arise in their might,
and through State legislation, as we'll as
national, drive the trust out of existence
ana give 1T n warning, never again to set
foot on American soil. 1t can be done by
the enforcement of the laws that now
exist. If new laws are necessary, they
must be devised; and if the supreme court
hnus that our constitution prevents the
determination OF the trust, then the time
has come when we must so change the
constitution as to permit the people to
live themselves, even if by living they
must kill the trusts"
That the struggle which is on between
the trusts and the people for the posses.
sion OF the county and its government
will end in the triumph of the people no
American who believes in the en- pacity of
men for government can doubt. The
Democratic tide which has swept away
theories and hereditary nobility is not to
be stayed and turned back on this CONT
nent by dixie of money bags. Tile men
and not the dollars of this republic will
rule it,
The Roanoke times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1897-1977, 1897-07-20

Professor Andree, the Swedish explorer,
has started on his balloon expedition to
the North Pole. Many men have been
placed in lunatic asy lums for advocating
more reasonable schemes than this: but
in these days every folly that hices itself
under the wings of science is sure of
much undeserved recognition.