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THE OGLETHORPE ECHO
Volume XXI.==Number 6.
DAVISON & LOWE
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The overloaded and hard pressed Eastern Manufacturers and Commission Men continue to ship us Goods with instructions to sell—and. vo.are .doing it. - Our October
sales were larger than we ever had and we expect to double them in November. We can save you 25c. on every dollar invested in Dry Goods. Our Dress Goods and
Cloak Display is the greatest ever seen in Athens. If you need a Dress or Cloak for yourself or children, now is the time to buy.
Infants’ Wraps.
50 Cream, White, Cashmere and
Bedford Cord handsomely embroid
ered. They go this week at manu¬
facturers first cost.
38 Eiderdown Cloaks, trimmed
with Algora Fur, 1.46, good 2.50
value.
75 Eiderdown Cloaks in white,
red and fancy colors, with Algoria
Fur, 2.75, 2.50, 4.50 and 5.00.
These prices are 50 per cent under
the market.
83 very handsome Cloaks, made
of Ladies’ Cloth and Silk Mixed
Clieviotts, big sleeves and rutiled
collar, 3.50, 4.50 and 5.50. They
are worth double tlid price.
100 Misses Long Cloaks, big col¬
lars and sleeves, nicely trimmed—
from 4 to 12 years—1.50 to 7.5C.
The cheapest lot of tine wraps ever
brought to Athens.
50 Misses Tan Cloth Blazers, em¬
broidered in Silk and Gilt, 2.49.
Actually worth 4.50.
100 Misses Jackets and Reefers,
2.50 and 3.50, worth double.
75 Misses Jackets, medium and
heavy weights, than not one they in the this lot
worth less 3.50, go
week at 1.98.
100 Child’s and Misses All Wool
Reefers, 98c., 1.25 and 1.49. These
DAVISOIT £z LO"W * EInTS,
U/ise ai}d Otfyeru/ise.
For the Echo .]
“Darling, I have a confession to
you.”
She sprang to her feet and, radiant
in her fresh young beauty, looked
down upon him with a mute, appall¬
ing gaze. His eyes that were always
so straightforward and manly fell un¬
der her look, and seemed filled with
the dull glaze of dispair. There was
about him that undescribable air of
one who has fought his last battle with
fate and now owns himself defeated;
of one who, about to close the avenues
of hope, looks for the last time upon
the visions of Faradise. With a mighty
effort, he spoke again.
*
“My love for you has been the mo¬
tor of my existence. My life, such as
it is, has been for you. Whatever suc¬
cess I may have achieved has been
accomplished Many from day dream your have influence I
alone. a in¬
dulged in and many an air castle built,
in which you were ever the central fig- j
ure. How then can I tell you the sto
ry of my infamy, which will forever
banish me from your presence, flow
can I reveal to you the shame and dis
grace which have fallen upon me. I
niDht for a while conceal from you the
revolting truth, we might live tor ,ear,
and no MUpiCMn might ever cross ,OUr
mind. Hut the stings of conscience
would follow me day and night, and I
would suffer the pangs of the lost, in
that I had blighted your innocent life,
I cannot drag you down to the plane of
my degradation. should be pointed I cannot the bear that of at
you that should finger
scorn, or you share the
abuse and contumely that will be
ed on me. And yet what is life with
out you!” With a groan he buried his
face dispairingly in his hands.
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llut he had underestimated her love
and the depths of woman’s feelings.
“I see,” she cried, “that you have nev
er really known me. Did you suppose
that I was a mere painted butterfly
basking in the sunshine and disappear
ia<r when the first cloud dims the
ble'and brightness let of day. sympathy Tell me alleviate your trou
care" my your
grief. I nothing for your fortune,
rank or fame You are as dear to me
stripped of all, as though the blood of
thousands of generations of kings flow
ed through your veins, and the wealth
LEXINGTON, GA., FRIDAY MORNING, NOVEflBER 17, 1893.
garments are made of Wool Serge
and Clieviotts, and are being sold
for less than you can buy the ma¬
terial. Every school girl should
have one.
Silk Caps
FOR INFANTS AND CHILDREN
150 White Silk Caps, new de¬
signs, from 65c. to 3.50 each.
39 Infants Carriage Robes, liond
somely this embroidered, at a bargain
week.
Shawls.
100 Wool Breakfast Shawls 35c.,
regular 50c. kind.
75 extra large Wool Shawls 1.98
and 2.50, worth double.
38 very handsome large Camel’s
Aair Blanket Shawls to close this
week at a bargain.
Skirts.
50 Ladies’ Knit Skirts, choice for
49c,, reduced from 1.00.
83 Ladies’ Canton Skirts 49c.,
worth 75c.
39 very line Silk Skirts to close
this week at a bargain.'
Capes.
Full line new style Capes of Cloth
and Flush at low prices this week.
of Cnesus lay at your feet. My heav¬
en is upon your breast and your arms
the limits of my ambition. Have you
become a pauper, I can share your
crust and be happy in a hovel if only
you are there. Have you in madness
forged another’s name blood, or dipped will leave your
hands in human I
home, leave friends, leave all, aud fly
with you far beyond the ken of law.
Have you, forgetful of the knightly
qualities that should characterize the
true man, left some poor woman weep¬
ing from your deceit, I can still lay
aside the dignity which becomes my
sex and ding to you in the face of
scorn and gibs of outraged society. Teli
me your secret, for there is nothing so
low, so degrading, so dishonorable,
that it can tear me from your side.”
As she stood with flashing eyes and
heaving bosom, and her heroic
words still lingers regretfully, he raised
his head and hoarsely murmured, “I
am a member of the Maxeys Base Ball
Club.”
Her face frozen with horror she fell
back with averted hands, and only the
click of the dosing gate broke the
death-like silence.
Tiie Dreamer.
'nearness CannM Be Ca7ed
b y local applications, as they cannot reach
the diseased portion of the ear. There is only
one stitulional way to cure Deafness, and that is by con
remedies. Deafness is caused by
an inflamed condition of the mucous lining ot
gearing, and when it iSentirely eloeed
Deafness is the result, and unless the inflam
Illation can betaken out and this tube restored
to its normal condition, hearing will he des
troyed forever; nine cases out often are caused
d*|tfonf The' mucou^surfacc bUt iuflaBled
co n "^ |° g i u riTe^D;,] la r« for any
case of Deafness (caused by catarrh) that can
not be cured by Hall’s Catarrh Cure. Send
for circulars, free,
F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, O.
Sold by Druggists , /5c.
All Free.
Those who hare used Dr. King’s New Bis
cover y know its value, ami those who have
J 1 ®*'. andlet a
j b ,t t |„'f ree Chicago,"and Send your name sample" to U. K Buck
i en & Co., get a box of
Dr. King’s New Life Pills free, as well as a
copy of Guide to Health and Household In
rt/uetor, free. All of wlrich is.guaranteed to
f j° vou an<l c0 * t yo ° aot,Hn g at Lmle’s
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winowPEPm ^
Indi “ sti0Ili and StOD h dU orf^ use
brown’s irom bitteks.
a n dealers keep it. Si per bottle. Germinehai
traje-mark aud crossed red line* cm wrapper,
Woolen Underwear.
For Ladies, Misses, Children and
Infants from the cheapest to the
Finest.
200 Ladies Heavy Ribbed Vests
25c., regular 40c. kind.
350 Ladies Extra Heavy Ribbed
Vests 49c., worth 75c.
300 Wool Suits from 1.85 to 5.00
per Suit.
200 Shirts and Drawers for girls
and boys, in White and Gray, war¬
ranted not to shiink.
286 weight Gray Shirts and and Drawers, girls, school ex¬
tra for boys
wear. We have full control of this
make for this section. They arc
the best and cheapest goods on the
market. Now is the time to lay in
a winter supply before the stock is
broken.
FOR INFANTS—100 Medium
and fine Shirts, made of Lamb’s
Wool and Cotton and Wool mixed.
Muslin Underwear.
500 pieces such as Drawers. Che¬
mise, Skirts and Gowns, entire lot
at First Cost to Close out.
White Quilts.
200 White Guilts on sale tliis
week from the ehupest to the finest
Marsailes.
PORK VERSUS COTTON.
Which is the Best Money Crop for
Southern Farmers to Raise.
It is usually the case when you are
reasoning with a Southern farmer and
trying to show that cotton, at preseut
• does not . that ,,,,, he ,, replies . by
prices, ,,,, pay, „
asking the question, “What else can I
raise that will give me ready money in
the fall?” When it requires practical
ly all that he gets for his cotton to pro
duce it, it is certainly a poor money
crop. several
We have, in articles, urged
the advisibility of a change in our sys
tem of almost total dependence upon
cotton, aud a resort to a system of com
bined stock-raising and cotton farming,
whereby a larger yield of cotton may
be prodneed upon a smaller area, by
usiDg larger quantities of stock, ot manure and much made
from the keeping at
less cost per pound. profit
To say that there is no in
stock-raising in this country; that we
cannot compete so far as the suplpying
of our home demand is concerned,
with the rich virgin corn lands of the
West, is a mere assertion and is not
true. As well, and perhaps with more
truth, might we say, that with the
present rate of production in per raising acre,
that we cannot compete, the
of cotton, with the rich lands of the
Mississippi bottoms and the fertile
prairies of Texas.
The United States census shows that
the average yield of cotton in this State
ls about 150 pounds of lint per acre;
that is, three acres are required to pro
duce one bale of cotton. At present
prices, this gives a gross income, inclu
ding the sale of the seed, of $12.70 per
acre. After deducting feed of the
horse, lab^r, tools and fertilizers, this
must necessaily leave very little, if any
ready money. Twenty five acres of
land, we believe, is considered a one
horse crop of cotton. To each horse
will be required at least two good hands
t 0 properly cultivate this number of
j^gg. A simple calculation will show
that there wili be but litlie ieft for lhe
farmer after all expenses are paid.
The eight bales of cotton, now rc
quiring twenty-five acres for its pro
Auction, should be grown upon eight
acre8 tobe profitable. It is of no use
tQ gay it cannot be done. It has been
done, and it can be done agaio, if you
will bring your lauds up to a proper
state of fertility by the mixed System
of stock-raising and cotton.
We assert, without fear of successful
contradiction, that there is more profit
Ladies Wraps.
50 Ladies All Wool Blazers, choice
this week, 2.49, former price 3.50
and 5.00.
style, 50 good extrr length, quality nicely Jerseys, trimmed new
with braids, manufactured to sell
for 5.00, choice for 2.49. Just the
thing for house woar^-ask to see
them.
4.3 Ladies Jackets 1.35, good 2.50
value.
matched 100 Heavy Reefers 2.59, can’t be
for less than 4.00.
08 Long Jackets made of All
Wool English Twill, Coat back
3.50. for Nothing in Athens to match
them less than 6.00.
28 Fur Trimmed Jackets 2.50,
worth 5.00.
75 very handsome Jackets, good
length, English coat back, made of tine All
Wool Clieviotts, trimmed
with real fur 4.98. Will mutch any
8.50 Cloak in Athens.
58 elegant All Wool Imported
Black Clieviotts, long Jrckets, big
sleeves, Umbrella Skirt 6.50, would
he cheap at $10.
50 very handsome Tailor made
Jackets of Black Diagonals, Serges
, and Clieviotts, full skills and sleeves
brought out especially for mourning.
250 fine Jackets, light and dark
today in raising Let pork than there is in
cotton. us suppose, for instance,
that any of our fanners should devote
tweuty-Uye hogs, acres—a and should one horse crop—
to raising and set ten acres
; n clover and grass, the remaining
fifteen acres in corn and soja beans,
W® know from personal experience
that one acre of land set in clover—and
lhat none of the best _will maintain
)5 ve hogs in full growth,|without any
other feed, from the 1st of April to the
1st of September. So that the ten acres
of clover will support fifty pigs for six
months of their life, and the fifteen
acres of corn and peas will fatten them.
We believe that the labor of one man
and one horse will grow and fatten fifty
hogs per year upon this plan, that
should average 200 pounds each, and
worth at present prices $800; a sum of
money equal to twenty-six bales of cot
ton at present prices, as against eight
bales of cotton as at present grown
upon twenty-five acres,
Here is a wide margin for any over
estimation I may have made. The
brood sows to raise this number of pigs,
as we also know from experience, may
be wintered upon turnips, beets and
potatoes, and kept in better condition
than on grain. In fact, their keep will
cost very little, as they are good seaven
gers and will eat much that otherwise
would go to waste on the farm,
We hope our farmers will think se
riously about this stock question, with
a view to making it a part of their
farming operations, and not dismiss the
profitable, whole thing from their |minds their as un
without giving it coa¬
sideration which any proposition that
proposes to bring about an deserves, improvement
in the present system,
You cannot point to a single country
or section, either in the present or past
history of the world—and this is cover
ins; a good deal of space and time—
where the farmers have been perroa
nently prosperous when engaged in the
growing of a special crop. The one
crop idea has, sooner or later, resulted
in disaster, either from over-produc
tion, followed by low prices, or from a
gradual impoverishment of the soil
which necessarily foiiows, when no ro
tation of crops or stock raising is prac
ticed.
In proof of this fact, we may cite
you to the present codition of our
Southern cotton farmers, the tobacco
regions of North Carolina and Vir
ginia, and to the wheat growers of the
great Northwest, where, from over¬
production the price of than wheat has fal
len lower this season ever before
iD the history of this country.—/forc¬
land Black, in Yorkville Enquirer.
Subscription $1.00 a Year.
colors, extra long Umbrella Skirts,
big sleeves and collars, from 4.50 to
22.50, best value ever offered in
Athens.
Dress Goods.
Our Dress Goods Sales are the
largest we ever had. Every the hard day
brings us great values from
pressed manufacturers and commis¬
sion men with instructions to sell at
sacrifice.
50 pieces more on Bargain Coun¬
ter at half value for this week’s
sale.
1,000 yards Stylish Trimmings,
choice of lot to trim every dress
free of charge.
25 pieces Ladies Cloth li yards
wide, all shades, 99c., reduced from
1.35.
Wrappers.
100 Ladies’ Wrappers made of
best Indigo Piints and best Outing
Cloth. They go this week for less
than you can buy the material.
Lambrequins.
85 Very Pretty Lambrequins nicely
made of Kelt and Plush Em¬
broidered, on sale at a very low price
this week.
An Engineer's Story.
One of the most popular engineers
on the Gorgia Southern and Florida rail¬
road stood at the iron gateway of the
carshed last night calmly twisting the
ends of bis waving ranzillas and lis¬
tening to a stock of yarns and harrow¬
ing exploits from the crowd. Ills
time came at last. “Well gentlemen,”
he said, “I am not much account as a
professional story teller, but I will tell
you of an incident in my career I when,
I ly will lost candidly nerve. admit,Jwben Why I can complete¬ feel cold
my when 1 allow myself
shivers yet to re¬
call that few moments of deadly peril.”
Here the group of listeners became
intensely interested and urged the
engineer to drive ahead, and they an¬
ticipated with usual pleasure wreck. a thrilling The
account of an averted
railroad man continued:
“Well some years ago I had a jolly
good fireman and he was always more
anxious about my welfare than about
his own. One week I had an ulcerated
tooth which seemed likely to the jump out
of my head at every jar of engine.
After three or four days of untold ago¬
ny I contemplated suicide and even
had gone so far as to consult my tire
man as to the most pleasant method
of self-destruction. On that day in
some manner he got hold of a bright
idea. This only hapj) ened to “Hill him
about once a month le says:
I will holler get that tooth out before you
can for me to stop.” ahead I was des¬
perate and sang out, ‘go with
your scheme.’ He went ahead and so
did my head, almost. He stopped the
engine, made me get down in front of
the tooth cowcatcher, then he securely and tied
my to the crossbars tqld me
to stand steady. Then he jumped backed back
into the cab like a cat and the
engine with a jump. Before I knew
where I was at my nerve failed me. 1
opened my mouth to yell at him to
stop. This is wbat happened. My
tooth flew out of the socket taking
with it incidently about a pound
struck the glass over the headlight 0 f
tbe engine with such force to as chip ‘j
out a good sized piece of glass,
chased that fireman a full mile into the
woods with a monkey wrench, and took
my engine down to the end of the line
alone. After we patched up a peace
my fireman excused himself on the
1 rmth^ve blimableT.
mouth he should
extract the tooth.”— Macon Evening
News.
Specials.
2.000 yards Fine Sea Islands 5c.,
8c. Wool quality. Jeans 19c. worth 25c.
Extra Jeans 25c. worth 40.
Very Fine 35c. worth 50c.
2,500 yards Heavy Canton Flan¬
nel 7o., 10c. kind.
2,000 yards 10-4 Shooting 15c.,
25c. kind.
100 pieces Wool Flannels Cream
and Rod from the cheapest to the
finest Silk Warp. splendid lot of Soft
We have a
Wool Flannels for Infants.
Blankets.
We have the best stock of White
and Colored 10, II and 12 quarter
Wool Blankets in the market.
50 Fairs fine colored Wool Blank¬
ets 2.50 worth 4.00.
83 Pairs 10 4 all wool 5.00 Cream
Blankets a leader this week at 3.85.
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Eiderdown Quilts. .
We have now in stock the best lino
of fine Eiderdown Quilts ever shown
in Athens.
25 Very fine French Satteen cover
and Eiderdown tilled Quilts 5 00
quality, a leader this week at 3.85.
WHAT IS SEIGNORAGE.
A Bit of Information that Very Few
People Have Learned.
Strictly speaking, seigniorage is the
change made by any national govern¬
ment for coining bullion on private ac¬
count. It usually takes the form of a
certain percentage, fixed by law and
deducted from the metal brought to the
mint.
In other words, when an individual
brings to a government mint a quantity
of one of the precious metals to be
coined on his private account, he will
receive a weight of coins eqnal to the
weight of pure metal brought, less the
percentage deducted as compensation
to the government for its services arid
incidental expences of coinage, and
plus the weight of alloy.
At the present time the United
States government makes no charge
for coining gold, and does not receive
silver, copper or nickle for coinage on
private account; hot Therefore the term
seigniorage is striiAly applicable to
any transaction that takes place in con¬
nection with Federal mints.
However, as used in current discus¬
sions of the silver question, the term
is taken to mean the nominal profit
made by the govenment on its .pur¬
chases of silver and Uie coinage of the
same. To illustrate: The present
market price of silver is almost exactly
70 cents an ounce, while its ’‘coinages
that value” is precisely $1.29 of an silver nance; bought so
on every ounce
and coined there is an apparent profit
of 59 cents. For reasons that have
been more than once carefully explain¬
ed, this profit is rather apparent than
real, seeing that the “coinage value”
is rather technical than actual.
When it is proposed to coin the
seigniorage silver now in the Treasury
the meaning of the proposition is that
all the silver bullion purchased under
the act of July, 1890, commonly called
the Sherman act, not already coined
and over and above the amount that
would be needed to furnish standard
stiver dollars to match, each dollar rep
t ™T by notes 18HUed un ’
| der dard the dollars. i law, shall be coined . into stan- ,
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Seed Rye and Barley at G, W
Brooks’,
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»»d J'enty bv applying of good to seed D. wheat II. Arnold, can be
1 Crawford.