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C. W. HANCOCK,
COZTOB AITD PEOPBIETOH-.
AMEKICUS, GEORGIA.
Saturday Horning. May
Official Organ of City of Americus.
Official Organ of Sumter County
Official Organ of Schley County.
Official Organ of Lee County.
Official Organ of Webster County.
TUe Georgia Press Association.
The fifteenth annual meeting of the
association will be held in the city oi
Athens on Wednesday, May 9th.
The membership of the association
consists of such newspapers in this
State that have been elected members.
Each newspaper so elected is entitled
to one representative, who must bo reg
ularly engage 1 in conducting the paper
he represents.
Representatives who desire to attend
this meeting will notify the President
of the Association without delay, and
he will endeavor to furnish them with
railroad tickets. J . H. Estill,
President.
The Legislature will assemble in At
lanta on Wednesday next to declare
the rote for Governor and attend the
inauguration.
One of the most extensive business
men of New York, who is neither a
politician nor a speculator, says: “I
never knew the country in a more pros
perous condition, or business with a
more promising outlook.”
A few months ago the Southern
Pacific Railway syndicate offered the
heirs of Charles Morgan eight million
dollars for their steamship line. The
purchase has been just made for five
hundred thousand dollars leBS than the
original offer.
The New York Iferahl wonders “if
a system of accounts can he devised by
an expert by which honesty will be in
sured in places of trust. The expert
and the rogue have thus far had a
close fight of it, but the expert has suc
ceeded only in proving his man’s guilt,
not forestalling him in his operations.”
Gen. William M. Browne, a well
known journalist, and professor of Ag
riculture in the State University, died
of pheumonia at Athens, Ga., on Sat
urday last. He, was a native of Ireland,
but had been 3.,citizen of Georgia for
many years. He was editor of the
Macon Journal and Messenger in 1869
at the time of its consolidation with
the 1 elegraph.
Republican organs are hard at work
figuring on the electoral vote of 1884.
They cannot come to any reassuring re
gult, however. The trouble is that they
ean’t exactly claim Pennsylvania, Ohio,
Wisconsin, Indiana, Michigan and a
few other States as certain, while the
Democrats aro reasonably certain of all
the States they carried in 1880, with
New York thrown in.
Rome, Georgia, voted for the second
time Tuesday on the question of “Free
Schools.” The following is the result
of the election: For public schools,
349, against public schools, 52. As
this election was a question where the
people are to be taxed, the number of
votes necessary to establish the system
it two-thirds of all the votes cast.
Hence from the above it will be seen
that there is not only the necessary
constitutional two-thirds vote in favor
of public schools, but an overplus of
245 votes.
Six Algcriau engineers, who were
consulted by M. deLesseps on the north
of Africa inland soa scheme, have re
ported that the cutting could be made
within five years at a cost of $30,000,-
000; that an average width of about
eighty feet would be sufficient, as the
current would widen the canal; that
navigation would be easy owing to the
straightness of the canal; that a vast
region, lacking only moisture to be
come productive, would be brought
under cultivation; and that the rev
enues would certainly afford a liberal
retnrn on the capital invested.
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A motion has been filed in the Unit
ed States Supreme Court for a rehear
ing in the Virginia bond case, decided
adversely to the bondholders sometime
ago. The Supreme Court decided in
effect that the act of the Readjnster
Legislature, destroying the receivabil
ity of coupons on the Virginia bonds
in payment of taxes, was Constitu
tional. Justices Field and Harlan, in
learned dissenting opinions, held that
the act was unconstitutional, and that
the decision of the majority practically
sanctioned repudiation in violation of
the traditions and precedents of the
court. The court is expected to grant
the motion for a rehearing, but it is
not expected to change its position on
the main issue. William M. Evartsis
understood to be at the head of a list of
eminent counsel retained by the Vir
ginia bondholders.
The Law of Divorce Not of Gotl—
That of Marriage Univer
sal ami Eternal.
Pro bona publico. Yes, that’s the
word, Ido not write for a part but the
whole. I write in the interest of mo
rality of the Christian religion and of
the Protestant church. I write in the
interest of the unborn millions who un
der the present laws of divorce are sure
to be deprived of the united counsel and
protection of the parent and lost to so
ciety.
The law of Moses authorizing a man
to put away his wife for uncleanness
was a rule of action for the Jews only
and designed by him to be local in its
operation, ephemeral in duration, and
to become void, when the Jews became
extinct as a nation.
Having premised so much the self
imposed task of harmonizing the doc
trine of Christ, upon the subject of di
vorce, with that of Moses is fairly be
fore me. It is a Bible fact that Moses
did enunciate two separate, and
well defined laws, that of marriage de
signed to be universal in its operation,
eternal in duration and irrevocable in
its nature, as found in Gentsis, and in
terpreted by Christ in his sermon on
the mount. This law forbids that any
man should put asunder those whom
God had joined together. This was
given as an edict coming from God.
The second law is of a later date and
authorizes man to arbitrarily, without
the form of a trial, to put away his
wife should he find in her any üb
cleanness. In the sth chapter of Num
bers Moses clearly defiues uncleanness
to mean the desertion of the husband,
and defiling the marriage bed. And
here a curious chapter in the history
of a Christian people opens to our view.
Asa Christian nation we have rejected
the well defined law of God forbidding
the separation of tuan and wife, and
adopted and incorporated in the statutes
of church, and state the law coming
from Moses in the 25th chapter of Deu
teronomy and interpreted by him as lo
cal and ephemeral. The law of God
is ignored, and the lax interpretation of
the law of Moses, given by the rab
binic teacher (Hillel) made the rule of
life.
Down to the death of David and
Solomon we hear nothing of this lax
interpretation of the law of divorce.
Each of those wise men cared for their
multiplicity of wives and sought to
take no man’s wife, wbiie their hus
band yet lived, or to divorce their own
without a cause, for they knew m that
such an act would be adultery accord
ing to a true interpretation of the law
and subject them to death according to
the law, as found in the 12th chapter,
22 verse, of Deuteronomy. It was af
ter the days of Solomon that the rab
binic phylosopher (Hillel) sprung the
question whether man had the right,
under the law,to put away his wife with
out a charge of adultery. Hillel defin
ed the word uncleanness in the law so
as to give man the light, should the
wife be guilty of any act that would be
obnoxious to him. Shammai the lead
er of the opposite school held that the
word uncleanness meant adultery or
unchastity. John the Baptist boldly
defended the interpretation of Shammai
against Herod’s claim to put away his
wife without a cause and marry Hero
dias, the wife of Philip. At this point
in the discussion we are met by the
celebrated Akiba who, being more bold,
aggressire, and sensual than his teach
er, Hillel claimed that the word un
cleanness should be so interpreted as to
mean disgust, or revulsion of feelings
upon the part of the husband, or, as
Akiba expressed it, should he find a
woman tliat he liked more, he had the
lawful right to put away his wife with
out moral delinquency upon her part.
The spirit of the celebrated Akiba yet
lives and breathes in the morals, the
laws, and customs, of a Christian age.
“Though dead he yet speaketh.”
Such was the moral status of the two
rabinic schools of phylosophy at the
period of the advent of' Christ. Hillel
and Akiba claimed for the husband
the arbitrary right to put away his
wife without a cause. Shemmai and
John the Baptist boldly and defiantly
declaring that addletry or gross unchas
tity waß the true interpretation of the
word uncleanness as found in the law
of divorce. With these facts before us
we see clearly the object of the jews in
propounding the question “Is it lawful
for a man to put away his wife for
every cause'?” Mark the harmony of
the answer of Christ with the interpre
tation put upon the law by Shammia
and John the Baptist. “Moses suffered
you to put away your wives because
of the hardness of your hearts, but it
was not so iroru the begining, have you
not read that he that made them at the
begining made them male and female,
and said for this cause shall a man
cleave unto his wife and they twain
shall be one. What therefore God
hath joined together let no man put
asunder, and I say whosoever shall
put away his wile except it be for
fornication, commitcth aduletry. This
language is not only in harmony with
the teachings of Moses in the local given
and ephemoral law o< divorce as a
rule of action for the jews; but it is in
harmony with the law as given by
Moses in Genesis, the interpretation of
which by Christ makes the marital
vow imevocable and eternal. They
twain in marriage ceremony becomes
one a unit and a unit inseparable,
what therefore God hath joined togeth
er no Christian should put asunder.
This interpretation is in harmony
with the claims of the offspring upon
rfig nnited connsel, and protection of
the parents, and in harmony with the
higher law of our nature as religious
beings, and the laws of a Christian
nation should be a perfect transcript of
the law* of God as declared by Christ,
and Hot a copy of the laws Moses in
stituted as a local and ephemeral rule
of action for the house of Israel. The
law of divorce as written by Moses, for
the jews may justly be classed with the
laws of circumcision, of purificaton, of
offerings and sacrifices of the killing of
witches and of adulteress all of which
were ephemeral and local and became
void with the passing away of the Jew
ish polity.
This view of the law • of Moses is
forcibly illustrated in the sermon of
Christ upon the mount shewing the
local and.ephemeral character of the
laws in question, mark The peculiar
phraseology. “It has been said,” “ye
have head,” ifcc., as used in that ser
mon in relation to the local and ephem
eral laws and in every instance the law
referred to is either revoked or changed
and it is a remarkable fact that the
law of divorce and adultery are among
them. God has vested power in no
man or court to separate man and wife,
not even for adultery. A separation is left
optional with the partiesrwith the assur
ance that they cannot marry again with
out committing adultery and no adul
terer can enter the kingdom of heaven.
They twain in the marriage ceremony
becomes one and inseparable through
life aud God alone is vested with pow
er through the organic law to dissolve
the tie and release the parties by death
Irom the high responsibilities assumed
in the marital vow.
If higher evidence is demanded to
show that the laws of divorce aud adul
tery under the Jewish polity were local
and ephemeral it may be found in the
actoin of Christ when the guilty woman
was brought to him and a reason de
manded why she should not be stoned
according to the law of Moses. “Let
him that is without guilt cast the first
stone,” was the significant reply. They
all left leaving the guilty woman with
Christ. Mark now the language of
Christ, showing that the law had
passed away and become void as the ac
cusers themselves admit by refusing to
execute it.
Woman where are those thine ac
cusers ? Are there none to condemn
thee ? None Lord. Neither do I con
demn thee, go and sin no more. Christ
refused to condemn her under the law
while he had no right to condemn un
der the benign dispensation of
the Gospel. T(je law with its penalty
had passed away and henceforth the
adulterers would be judged and pun
ished under the new dispensation. By
the light of the teaching of Christ the
fact loomi up before us that woman is
no more to be torn by the officials of
the law from the sacred embrance of
her husband according to the Mosaic
law of divorce, nor is man to hurl the
stone of death at the wife of his bosom
and thus socially ostracise her and her
children afid release himself Irom the
responsibilities voluntarily assumed by
the marital vow.
The magnitude cf the evil flowing
from adoption of the Mosaic law of
divorce considered in my next, and the
serpent uncoiled. Kent.
The Press.
How the Members op tiie Fourth Es
tate wile re Entertained in
Athens.
Banner-Watchman.
The Georgia Press Association will
convene in Athens on the 9th of May,
and our citizens are preparing to re
ceive them with open arms.' Commit
tees are now at work arranging for
their entertainment, and we can prom
ise the boys in advance a splendid time.
The city council has generously given
ub $250, and this sum being largely
augmented by private subscriptions,
enough money has been raised for a
handsome entertainment. The idea of
a banquet was at one time considered
but abandoned on the ground that we
thought something better could be done.
Banquets are too common, and not
generally enjoyed. Instead of that it
has been decided to have one continu
al feast during the visit to Tallulah.
A refreshment car will be attached to
the train and it filled with the best the
market affords.
Besides everything nice to eat we
will have lemonade, ice cream and oth
er beverages for the ladies, and cham
pagne, cigars, etc., for the gentlemen.
It will be one continuous picnic, and
we predict that it will be much more
enjoyable than a supper. A committee
of twenty will be appointed to receive
the visitors and see that they want for
nothing, neither on the way to the fails
or during their stay in the city. A
night will be spent at Tallulah, and
ample time given all to view the beau
ties of this grand spot and note the
improvements lately mad.e The
young ladies of the Lucy Cobb will
give one of their delightful entertain
ments; the ice company will ask a vis
it and “set ’em up” to frozen beer;
drives will be had over the city and the
model farms around Athens inspected;
the museum, labratory and other de
partments of the State University vis
ited, and, in fact, Athens will throw
open all her doors to welcome the
knights of the quill.
After exhausting our local enter
tainments, we learn that an excursion to
Washington City will be tendered the
press, and as many as can do so, given
an opportunity to visit the National
’Capital. We want to see a full turn
out of the hoys. Athens expects them
and will be sadly disappointed if there
is not at least a hundred papers
represented. We want to show them the
liveliest lirtle metropolis in the South,
the finest country the sun ever shone
upon, the grandest institutions of learn
ing on this continent and the Niagara
of the South. Athens expects this vis
it from the press to materially advance
her interests by proclaiming our ad
vantages to the world, ami she will
throw wide her gates and receive them
with a hearty Southern welcome.
A few doses of Shriner’s Indian
Vermifuge, given in time, may save
you many dollars in money and the
life of your child.
No, Colonel, No!
From the New York Times.
An Atlanta dispatch published in a
recent issue of the Times has called
forth the following letter:
Office of the Atlanta Post-Appeal, )
Atlanta, Ga., April 25th, 1883. (
I at $8 per Annum. Lditoi.
Editor Times, New York, N. Y.:
Dear sir: In the issue of the Times of
April 22d there appears a telegram from
Atlanta headed, “Editors Calling Hard
Names.” In this article I am very
much wronged, and I desire the neces
sary amende. Please read the article
and you will observe wherein this is
true. As to my marital relations,
were your correspondent correct, it is a
matter that he had 110 right to mention
and you no right to publish.
As to “Emory Speer” writing that
or any other article for me your cor
respondent has stated falsely, and
could but have known it when lie made
the statement. Until the amende hon
orable is made you can rest assured
that “peace does not reign among the
unassigned colonels of Georgia.”
You will please do me the favor to
write me by return mail the name of
the sender of the telegram in question.
Very respectfully. M. E. Thornton.
No, colonel, we cannot grant the favor
you ask. You doubtless wish to find
out who our correspondent is in order
that you may go and kill him. That
would be annoying to our correspon
dent and embarrassing to us. The au
thor of the dispatch complained of has
been a useful correspondent, and we be
lieve hkn to be a good man. At any
rate, we do not want him killed. Good
correspondents are so scarce that we
cannot afford to waste one on a testy
coionel.
On the other hand, we should not
feel entirely easy about you, colonel, if
we complied with your request. Have
you considered that if our man should
prove to be one-quarter of a second
spryer with his weapon than you your
promising little paper would have to
hunt up anew editor? Permit us to
say, colonel, that the Post-Appeal can
not afford to lose you. It is publish
ed, we observe at the low price of $8 a
year. It appears, moreover, “every
morning.” That is a good sign. You
have taken an important step in ad
vance of your southern contemporaries,
few of which are issued on Monday
morning. This shows that yon are a
man of progressive ideas. You have a
great future. So has your paper. Don’t
waste your time and talent in gunning
after our correspondent. Give up the
pleasure of the chase and apply your
self with zeal and unremitting industry
to the worthier task of editing and
publishing your paper and bragging
about its circulation. It would be a
dark day for the Post-Appeal, Colonel
Thornton, when the weeping citizens of
Atlanta followed your remains to the
grave.
We must, therefore, decline to pro
voke a breach of the peace, with all its
melancholy possibilities, by furnishing
you the name of our Atlanta correspon
dent.
While we are on the subject we want
to beg you to refrain from pestering
Colonel Lamar, of the Macon Tele
graph. It makes our blood run cold
to see the careless way in which you
Atlanta editors fool around that masci
ble old gentleman. Can’t you see that
he is only waiting for a goodcnauce to
put a bullet through your diaphram?
One thing more. VVeowe Mr. Emory
Speer an apology for the intimation in
that dispatch that he was the author
ol the article published in the Post-
Appeal of April 14. We have com
pared the article in question with some
of M-. Speer’s speeches on the floor of
the house of representatives, and we
detect not the least similarity of style.
For instance the Post-Appeal writer
says this of the estimable Colonel La
mar: “The miserable beast being out
side the pale of the code of honorable
gentlemen renders it necessary that it
should be answered in this manner. *
* * The scavenger of partisanism, a
vulturous ghoul (?) of private inoffen
sive, helpless character, using the tac
tics of the hyena in raking up venom
as a weapon of warfare and a political
diet, a damage to any cause he cham
pions by his violent insolence and ma
lignity.” Now Mr. Speer does not
reason in that way. He could not have
written the article. It was probably
Colonol Marcellus E. Thornton’s own
work.
Owing to the success of Malione’s
Republican tactics in Virginia, render
ing worthless the bonds of the State,
the funds of the Lee Monumental As
sociation, which had been invested in
those securities, have been reduced so
low that the movement for the erection
of the Lee equestrian statue at Rich
mond, will have to he practically com
menced anew. General Early is out
in a card proposing to be one of fifty
persons to subscribe each SI,OOO for
the statue. The veteran wants to see
it built during his lifetime, and urges
prompt action.
The Rev. Dr. Talmage had prepared
himself Sunday morning to preach a
sermon on spring, from the text “The
time of the singing of birds has come,”
but when he was to deliver it in the
Brooklyn Tabernacle, snow was beating
against the church windows. The doc
tor, however, was equal to the occasion,
and prefaced his sermon by saying,
“as the artist draws a curtain over the
studio that he may better present his,
picture, so the dark clouds of this
stormy morning will help us better to
work out the scene of the text.”
By the use of Buckingham’s Dye,
the whiskers may be easily made a
permanent, natural brown or black, as
desired.
SCROFULA
anil all scrofulous diseases, Sores, Erysipe
las, Eczema, Blotches, Ringworm, Tu
mors, Carbuncles, Boils, aud Eruptions
of the Skin, are the direct result of an
impure state of llio Mood.
To euro these diseases the Mood must ho
purified, and restored ttP a healthy and na
tural condition. Ayer’s Sarsaparilla has
for over forty years been recognized by emi
nent medical authorities as the most pow
erful blood puriilcr in existence. It frees
the system from all foul lmmors, enriches
and strengthens the blood, removes all traces
of mercurial treatment, and proves itself a
complete master of all scrofulous diseases.
A Recent Cure of Scrofulous Sores.
“Some months ago I was troubled with
scrofulous sores (ulcers) on my legs. The
limbs were badly swollen ami inflamed, and
the sores discharged large quantities of
offensive matter. Every remedy 1 tried
failed, until 1 used Ayer’s Sarsaparilla,
of which 1 ha vo now taken three bottles,
with the result that the sores are healed,
and my general health greatly improved.
.1 feel very grateful for the good your
medicine has done me.
Yours respectfully, Mrs. Ann O’Brian.”
148 Sullivan St., Is'ew York, June 24,1882.
All persons interested are invited
to call on Mrs. O’itrian; also upon the
Rev. Z. I*. "Wilils of 78 East 54tli Street,
New York City, who will take pleasure
in testifying to the wonderful otticacy of
Ayer’s Sarsaparilla, not only in the cure
of this lady, hut in his own ease and
many others within ids knowledge.
The well-known writer on the Boston Herald,
B. W. Ball, of Jlochester, X.H., writes, Juno
7, 1882:
“ Having suffered severely for sorno years
with Eczema, and having failed to find relief
from other remedies. I have made use, during
the past three months, of Ayer’s Sarsapa
rilla, which has effected a complete cure.
I consider it a magnificent remedy for all
blood diseases.”
Ayer’s Sarsaparilla
stimulates and regulates the action of the
digestive and assimilative organs, renews
and strengthens the vital forces, and speedily
cures Rheumatism, Neuralgia, Rheuma
tic Gout, Catarrh, General Debility, and
all diseases arising from an impoverished or
corrupted condition of the Mood, and a weak
ened vitality.
it is incomparably the cheapest blood medi
cine, on account of its concentrated strength,
and great power over disease.
PREPARED BY
Dr. J.C. Ayer&Co., Lowell, Mass.
Sold by all Druggists; price §l, six bottles
for §O.
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LOST I
On or about Saturday, April 21st, a small
memorandum book containing one ten dol
lar bill and about four hundred dollars in
notes. My name was stamped across tlm
flap of the book in gilt letters. A liberal
reward will be paid for the delivery of the
book and notes to me. J. J. Hanesley.
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Application—Letters of Dismission.
GEORGIA—Lee County:
To All Whom it May Concern.
Whereas, P. A. Jackson, administrator
on the estate of W. H. Green, late of Lee
county deceased, having filed his petition in
my office applying for dismission from said
estate.
These are therefore to cite and admonish
all parties interested, whether kindred or
creditors, to show cause on or before the
August term of said court, to be held on tiie
third Monday in August next, why the said
letters should not be granted to the said pe
titioner as prayed for.
Witness my band and official signature,
this the 3d day of May, 1883.
mayo-td G. (J. Edwards, Ord’y.
Lee Sheriff Sale for June.
Will be sold before the Court house door
in the town of Leesburg, Lee county, Ga.,
between the legal hours of sale, on the first
Tuesday in June, 1883, the following prop
erty to-wit:
One half lot of land No. 218, all of lot No.
221 in the 13th District of Lee county, Ga.,
three hundred acres more or less, as tiie
property of Mrs. E. G. Simmons to satisfy
li fa in my handaState and county vs Mrs.E.
G. Simmons for taxes of 1882. Levy made
and returned to me by John W. Forres
ter, L. C.
Also at the same time and place will be sold
one half of Jot No. 59, in the 14th District
of Leo county, Ga., ten and a half acres
more or less, as the property of W. R. Bar
ker, agent for wife, to satisfy fi fa in my
hands for State and county vs W. R. Barker
agent for wife, for taxes of 1882. Levy
made and returned to me by John W. For
rester, L. C. JAMES SALTER,
mayl-tds Sheriff.
City Marshal Sales for June.
Will be sold before tiie City Council Cham
ber door, in the city of Americus, on the
first Tuesday in June next, the following
property, to-wit:
One house and lot in the city of Americus
Ga., levied on as the property of Dock Mc-
Coy, to satisfy two city tax fi fas in favor
of the Mayor and City Council vs. Dock
McCoy, for his city tax for the years 1881
and 1882, the fi fa for 1881 levied on and
sold for the use and benefit of Charles Cat
ledge, it being transferred to him. Lot
bounded as follows: East by Tom Edwards
north by Eveline James, soutli by Forsyth
street, west by lot of Henry Jones. Con
tains K acre, more or less. May 2d, 1883.
A. P. LINGO,
mayl-lw City Marshal.
For Sale.
Farm of 350 acre 9, in Lee county, Ga., 18
miles south of Americus, 4 miles southeast
of Smithvilie, known as the Morris place.
120 acres cleared, balance well timbered.
Lies on Muckaloochee (Wells’ Mill) Creek.
Is well watered. Some sandy,some mulatto
land, good clay subsoil. Pine, oak and
hickory. Improvements a 2 room house,
stack chimney and tiie houso shedded.
Buildings all in good order. Ordinary
orchard, good grape vines, Scuppernong and
English. The land good for oats and corn.
Is about three miles from Adams’ Station.
Healthy, good neighborhood. Churches and
schools at Smithvilie and Adams’ Station:
Price $5 per acre. Apply to
W. J. DIBBLE,
may4-tf Real Estate Agent
A DOMESTIC SCENE
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BETWEEN
Mr. and Mrs. John Smith.
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Mrs. Smith —Now, John Smith, what on earth ! Didu’t I tell you to go to
JOHN R. SHAW’S and get these goods, and here you have gone some
where else and spent OUR hard-earned dollars, and haven’t got much more than
half their value. Why didn't you do as I told you ?
Smith— Why—er—why—my dear, yon see I thought he had his store torn
up so, that he was paying no attention to getting in new goods, and
Mrs. S.—John Smith, you know that is not so, for I know I told yon
yesterday that I had seen Mrs. Jones, who had been to John R. Shaw’s and got
E\ ERA THING she wanted, and she told me his store was oVCrflowiDg
with NEW Goods of* the latest designs, and you know as well as I do, that a
man of Shaw’s business capacity and push, would be found in the lead ot “the
Procession,” with the best and prettiest styles in everything. You know also'
that I told you he had turned his attention exclusively to DRY GOODS
(Fancy and Staple), NOTIONS, CLOTHING, BOOTS,
SHOES, HATS, CAPS, UMBRELLAS, PARASOLS, and
all articles kept in a first-class Dry Goods Store, and if you had
gone there you could have got just what I sent you for, and at much less than
what you have paid for these things you have brought home. No, lam well
aware how it all happened. You let some slick-tongue chap get hold ol you
and pour about a pint of “ Corn Juice ” down that old dry throat of yours, and
then you were ready to believe anything he said. I reckon he made you believe
this stuff here to he “all wool and a yard wide,” when its only seven-eighths, and
half cotton at that, and no style about it.
Smith— Well, my dear, don’t be so hard on me this time. I acknowledge
the Corn, and I promise you that I will not go counter to your advice again, for
I am now convinced that I have missed some good bargains by not listening
to you.
Mrs. S. —Now, you begin to talk sense, and I wish you had heeded my"
words when yon started out to buy—but I won’t scold you any more. Only
now he sure you listen to the old woman next time, for I tell you she has made
some of the best trades at John R. Shaw’s she ever made in her life.
[Smith retires, fully convinced that HIS Mrs. Smith is a woman ot decided
energy and superior judgment , j
And now, kind friends, we trust you will follow the good advice given by
Mrs. Smith to her better half, and call and bo convinced that we can give you
BETTER BARGAINS
than you can obtain elsewhere.
COME ONE, COME ALL,
THE OLD, THE YOUNG, THE SHORT, THE TALL,
THE RICH, THE POOR, WE PLEASE THEM ALL;
LET NOT THESE WORDS UNHEEDED FALL,
BUT HEED “THE WRITING ON THE WALL”;
COUNTLESS BARGAINS AWAIT YOUR CALL,
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JOHN R. SHAW’S,
Forsyth Street, ,interims, Ga*,
“AND DON’T YOU FORGET IT.”