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TP ■ TO „ JL-s? OGLETHORPE ECHO.
Volume XXH.^Number 26.
ASTER IS COMING!
4i DON'T ••• GET 4- LEFT!
Rome, they say, was not built in a day. No more, by your
leave, is a new dress. It takes that long, sometimes,
to select it. With all the time that yet inter¬
venes between now and Easter, some
one will be caught napping.
WILL IT BE YOU ?
41 BE WISE THIS WEEKLY
And attend Davison & Lowe’s Easter sale of Dress Goods, Silks and Small Novelties
for Easter Gifs. Special low prices will be made on all Easter Dresses
for the next week. Don’t be one to get left on selection.
Grand Millinery and Dry Goods Opening
APRIL 3, 4, 5, AND 6.
Everybody Cordially Invited to Attend.
This Week’s Specials.
5o for good Percales, worth 10c.
20 yards good Bleaching, yard
wide, for 1.00.
5c for good Ginghams, worth 10c.
20 yards good Check Muslin for
1 . 00 .
35c for Dress Patterns, best Indi¬
go Prints.
20 yards good White Lawn for
LOO.
5c for Outing Cloth, worth 10c.
20 yards host Cotton Checks for
‘
1 . 00 .
20 pairs Children’s Fast Black
Hose for LOO.
20 pairs Ladies’ Fast Black Hose
for 1.00.
20 pairs Men’s Seamless Socks for
1 . 00 .
20 cakes Letucc Cream Soap,
highly scented, lor 1.00.
30 halls best Sowing Thread for
25c.
20 Gent’s fine Cambric Ilandker
chiefs for 1.00, worth double.
22 yards good Sea Island 1.00.
10c for Ladies fine Sheer Linen
Handkerchiefs, worth 25c.
81,c for Cheviot Shirting, worth
124c.
84c for Drill Shirting, worth 15c.
Davison & Lowe are the author¬
ized agents for—
Thompson’s Glove-Fitting Cor¬
sets, 50c to 2.50 each.
Ferris’ Good Sense Corset Waist
for ladies and children from 25c to
2.50 each.
Jouvin and Maggioni Kid Gloves.
Kayser Pat. Finger Tip Silk
Gloves.
Royal Stainless Hose in Cotton,
Lisle and Silk for infants, children,
ladies and men, from 10c to 3.50 a
pair.
I
Olst^ton. Street,
LEXINGTON, GA., FRIDAY MORNING, APRIL 5, 1895.
Dress Goods and Silks.
100 patterns fine wool Suitings in
pin, checks, stripes, and two-tone
effects, this week 1.50, regular price
2.50.
1.95 for Dress Patterns, line all
wool Scotch Mixtures two-lone ef
fects, regular price 3.00.
25 pjeces Fancy Weave Dress
Goods this week 19c. Sells every¬
where for 25c.
45c per yard for Silk Finish
Shower Proof Serge, 1 i yards wide
for 1.95 for Dress Pattern, worth
double.
50c for Storm Sergo, worth 05c.
50c for wool Ducbcs, worth 1.00.
65c for Silk finish Burber, worth
1.25.
59c for Diagonal, worth 1.00.
29c for all wool Serge, worth 40c.
29c for all wool ID" ietta, worth
45c.
50c for Silk finish Serge, 40 inch¬
es wide, worth 75c.
75c for finish brought Imported Serges,
same grade 1.25 last sea¬
son.
48c for iTnported Cheviots, worth
75c.
White Goods.
Check Muslins, Dimities, Lawns,
Jackonets, Cambrics, Mulls and Or¬
gandies.
5c for Check Muslin, worth 10c.
10c for white Lawns, worth 25c.
It will pay you to investigate this
sale.
Imported Robes.
100 Pattern Suits, no two alike,
on sale this week. Spcial prices for
Luster buyers.
Imported Challies, Crepons and
Grinadines in Silk snd Wool MixL
urea, Mohair and Wool Mixtures.
Silks.
ICO special patterns for waist, no
two alike.
Evening 75c for Shades, 40 inch worth Craped Silks,
double the
price.
Wash Silks in Stripes, Checks
and corded effects, suitable for la¬
dies waist.
Waist and Children’s Dresses 25c
to 1.25 per yard.
Black Silks
lu China, Iudia, Japanese Duchess,
Poudesoire, Bengaline, Faile, Gross
Grain, Satin, Armures, Brocade
Satins and Silks. Newest things
for skirts.
We will place on sale Monday—
1,000 yards China Silks, choice Solid of
blacks and figures. 35e
lot, worth double.
Embroideries.
vSpecial sale for this week.
1,000 yards fine Edgings, 10c,
worth 25e.
.1,000 yards fine Edgings, 15c,
worth 30c.
1,000 yards fine Edgings, 25c,
worth 50c.
Yon can’t afford to miss this sale.
House Furnishing Goods.
Our stock is the best in Athens.
New Mattings, Oil Cloths, Leno
liums, Lace Curtains, Portieres,
Shades, Poles, Scrims and Draper
ies.
New Embroidered Swiss and Net
Curtains.
j j NEW EOT Napier and Cocoa
Mattings for Halls, bath rooms and
j offices.
LEE’S LAST YEARS.
He Was Never Seen to Smile
After the War Ended.
Some Reminisences of Him by One of
His Students al the Washington
and Lee University.
An audience composed principally of
Grand Army men gathered to hear the
great lecture ef the eloquent 8. 1L Me
Cormick on “The Charity of an Epoch;
or, A Reunited Couutry,” at the Scott¬
ish Rite Hall last evening. Mr. Mc¬
Cormick is a graduate of the Washing¬
ton and Lee University at Lexington,
Ya., of which General Robert E. Lee
was president, House aud in a conversation at
the Burnett he gave many
reminisences of the great military
chieftain of the Lost Cause.
as was as a
itary man, I regard his course after the
war as a still greater test of his true
nobility of character. lie never knew
but the cue flag, the stars and stripes,
after the war. There was uo bitter¬
ness in his heart. From the moment
of his surrender to General Grant at
Appomattox he was as loyal a man as
breathed. He was one of those who
was opposed declared heart and soul to seces¬
sion, and that secession meant
anarchy. Rut at the same time he was
of the belief that a man’s first duty
was to the State. Lincoln’s conviction
was that a man’s first duty was to the
ference flag. That was the constitutional dif¬
upon which the war was
fought. Lee would not go with the
South at first, although a Southerner,
because he was opposed, as I said, to
secession, but when it was put to him
on the ground of his duty to his State,
as a sou of Virginia, he yielded and
only then after an awful all night
“It was only a short time after Ap¬
pomattox that General Lee was offered
the presidency of Washington Univer¬
sity, dowed which Washington. had been founded and en¬
by The college
had oeen reopened, and it needed a
president. About the time that he ac¬
cepted, he wrote a letter to President
Johnson for a pardon and in that letter
he gave utterance to some of the most
patriotic expressions I have ever seen
penned or heard spoken by man, in it
he said he had fought for what he be¬
lieved was right, and from a different
construction of the constitution, but he
had been wrong, and that he now de¬
sired to be restored to full citizenship
that he might do his full duty as a loy¬
al citizen. I carry a copy of this letter
of General Lee’s to President Johnson,
as sometimes it is disputed, aud I like
to have authority right at hand. I re¬
gard this act of General Lee’s as the
greatest of his life; greater than any
achievement in war, and it reveals the
heroic element in his character. It
has been said that General Lee ready
died of grief, heartbrokon, and I can
well surmise that it was true. I was a
student there for four years. I was
well acquainted with him and was al¬
ways a welcome guest at his home,
lu all that time I never heard one
word from his lips about the war, its
causes or its results. lie would never
permit, without rebuke, any expres¬
sion, in his presence, reflecting upon
the North. I had a narrow escape
from expulsion from the university
once on that yery score. It was a
meeting of one of the college societies.
The president had seen the draft of my
argument and had approved of it.
But, unknown to him, after his inspec
ion, I slipped in at the conclusion
seme lively Southern sentiments which
fairly electritied the audieuce. I got
every bouquet in the house from the
ladies on the strength of it—all but
two, aud they were received by au op¬
ponent who had preceded me in the
debate. General Lee sat there silent,
through it all. 1 was called before
him later, and I afterwards understood
that the General had had serious in¬
tentions of expelling me. In his eyes
I had committed a serious offense.
General Lee never left Lexington
after he assumed the presidency of the
college. lie had distinguished visitors
from North and South, and from Eu¬
rope, and they stiff come to visit his
tomb. Hundreds of invitations came
to him to attend army reunions and the
like, but he always courteously declined
them. But every evening he would
mount his horse and take an hour’s
ride. I have often met him at these
times. lie would always give the mil¬
itary salute. Sometimes he would rein
his horse and talk. Ilis demeanor was
always dignified and serious; indeed,
sad. I never saw him emile. One
could feel the very personality of Lee
prevading the atmosphere and Lee around University. old
Washington
Every student was on his honor. Not
one of them would lie. You have
some idea of what college boys are and
what many of them will do. They
will stop at nothing in their pranks.
Yet students at that university have
convicted themselves of pranks that
caused tbeir expulsion because they
could not lie when brought face to face
with General Lee. He was absolutely
a pure man, it ever one lived. He
neither drank, chewed nor smoked,
nor eyer used vulgar language. He
was a clean man.” Washington Fife was
his idol. lie patterned his after
that ,if 01 trie fho {j]netrir.ua Illustrious patriot. notrint Tn Jn hia “ 18
very bearing and personality ue re*
minded one of Washington, i ou
know how closely he was allied with
the family of Washington. The name
of Washington University was changed
by Washington the Virginia Legislature l. to that of
and Lee Diversity.
General Lee’s wife, Mary Custis,
sleeps by his side in the tomb under
Subscription $1.00 a Year.
the chapel platform al the university.
Diiectly lies, and opposite the crypt where Lee
on the same floor, is hi* pri¬
vate oilice, with everything just as he
left it, his chair, his pen, everything
just as he had the it in life. Above the
i crypt rises monument, and upon it
the reclining figure of the general in
military trappings, executed in the
finest of marble by Valentine, (histis
Lee, his son, is now president of the
university. I remember once that 1
was going home. 1 had secured a
number of his photograps and 1 want¬
ed his autograph, and went to him.
lie signed the half dozen pictures 1
had, aud asked me if that was the best
I had. I told him they were all I
could obtain. lie then gave me a pho¬
tograph which, he said, was the best
he, ever had taken. It was at a period
a short lime before the close of the
war. I have it yet, and it is as good
as the day 1 received it. I keep it
away from the glare of light, lu the
chapel of Washington aud Lee Univer¬
sity hangs the best picture of Lee eyer
executed. It has a history. It was
secured by ex-Congressmau J. Ran¬
dolph Tucker who is now professor of
law at the university. Mr. Tucker
was in New York one time, when he
espied a picture of Lee made during
the Mexicau war. His hair was black,
his moustache was black, and he was
dressed in the Federal uniform. Mr.
Tucker bought it, had the hair and
moustache painted white, a beard was
painted on, and the blue uniform was
changed to gray by the artist’s brush.
The transformation of the young otli
cer of the Mexican war to the great
chieftain was complete.
“You can easily imagine how we all
loved General Lee. I never saw him
after graduating, aud the first time I
saw his tomb was when l stood on that
platform to give my lecture.”— Cincin¬
nati Timcs-Stav.
OLD TIME ECONOMY.
Such as Brought That Prosperity We
Talk so Much About.
Mrs. James Wilson, of Swainesboro,
has set an example of old timed econo¬
my, which if it can be introduced, will
rob fiye-ceut cotton of another of its
terrors.
There is no questioning of the logic
of that the person who is inile
dependent of others must be within
the realm of perfect happiness.
If the influence of self-reliance can
be cemented iulo the minds of Georgia
fanners, and the methods of absolute
independence introduced into their sys¬
tem of management, Georgia will have
passed the problematic stage.
Mrs. Wilson is reported to have
made thirty yards of handsome dress
cotton checks within the last few
mouths, from her own loom. The
cloth, in addition to being nicer than
machine-woven goads, will also doubly
wear it. This cloth is said not to have
cost one cent a yard above Mrs. Wil¬
son’s labor.
The thirty yards of cloth is a small
item, but if each of the "200,000 farm
homes in Georgia should have passed
the same industrious way, it would
count up $600,000 saved te the expense
account. The women who do their
own weaving, however, may be count¬
ed to have introduced other little econ¬
omies that as a whole would double
this amout over aud again.
The instrumentality of Georgia drain
and poverty has been through the pur¬
chase of shoddy clothing and the false
theory that it is cheaper to buy than to
produce—a growing tendency to always
lessen and the importance of individual ex¬
ertion increase the idea of depend¬
ence upon others.
We know the fraffity to which do¬
mestic economy has been reduced aud
the horrors which a suggestion of the
old spinning wheel and loom will strike
on the ear of modern maidens; but no
sphere of labor to which woman has
been introduced as a fallacy of self-de¬
pendence oilers one-half the comfort
of mind aud body as the happy homes
which these economies would have
multiplied.
The old spinning wheels and looms
of our mothers are crowned with happy
romance and ideal homes of indepen¬
dence.
It is not these alone that cover the
field of domestic economy, and take us
back to the old life where the commu¬
nity tannery, shoe shop, blacksmith,
wagonmaker and other home enter¬
prises flourished and made village
wealth and iuterchauge of labor the
basis of fortunes accumulated. It was
the general system of buying nothing
from the stores that could be produced
in the neighborhood. A departure
from it has thrown our boys into tramp¬
ing agents of trumpery "and seekers
after town jobs not to be had, and our
girls into struggling in slavery to pay
board bills away from home.
Mrs. Wilson gives us a text from
which a book might be appropriately
written that would do better work than
a dozen cotton conventions a week.—
Brim wrick Times-A drertiser.
Deafness Cniniot be Cured.
*>>' loca j application* deafneZ^Jd a* they cannot reach the
constitutional remedies. Iteafness is caused
t>y an imftamed condition of the mucous lin
ingof the Kustacbain Tube. When this tube
is inflamed you have a rumbling sound or ini
hearingand when it is entirely closed.
deafness i» the result, a ud uD!t»8 the loflama
Oon can be take out and this tube restored to
jt# normal condition hearing will be destroy
e d forever; nine cases out often are caused by
catarrh, which is nothing but an inflamed
condition of the mucous surfaces.
wffl give One Hundred Dollars for any
for c j rcu i ar s ; free,
— : F. J. CHENEY 4 00., Toledo, O.
Sola by Druggist, 75c.
MISSIONARY COLUMN.
KDITKP BY THE W. M. S.
While our hearts and hands are
reaching out with intense desire to
send the light to the distant heathen,
we must not be forgetful that a dark
shadow rests on our own country,
t an anyone read the following pen
picture of our so-called Christian land
and not be aroused to the necessity of
home workers as well as sending work¬
ers to the foreign field?
*
There are millions of foreigners in
the United States today, multitudes of
whom are as degraded as any heathen,
and stiff they pour in upon us. Of ev¬
ery ten of our own population three
are foreigners, or children of foreign¬
ers. In one state, not in the far West,
there are over two hundred neighbor¬
hoods entirely destitute of religious
services by any denomination. In sev¬
eral states more than half the people
can neither read nor write, in
some towns there are not forty people
who ever professed Christ, multitudes
of children who never hear the name
of God except in oaths, and who do
not know what a Suuday-school is like,
and mothers who say that for twenty
years without they have buried their dead
a prayer at the grave, wonder¬
ing if there are any real Christians any¬
where. In some 1 ,:>00 communities
between the Mississippi and the l’acif
ic not «ne word of the gospel has ever
been spoken. While $1,000,000 has
been spent for missions, $900,000,000
have been spent for iutoxicatiug liquar
and millions more for tobacco, opium,
etc. To what do these facts point?
Can it be, “millions for mammon, cop¬
pers for Christ?”—Owe Home Field.
* *
The average missionary of the Homo
Board has his time fully occupied.
We take the following from official re¬
ports: “Ho preaches to live congrega¬
tions and averages two sermons per
week every year. He attends forty
prayer believers, meetings, and baptizes seventeen
receives fifteen by letter.
He organizes one Sunday-school and
every third year ho organizes two, into
which lie gathers the first year forty
pupils and teachers. He makes 1(50 re¬
ligious visits, constitutes and one church
every two years builds a house of
$900. worship lie every three years which cost
gives away six Bibles and
Testaments aud 3,000 tracks. lie costs
the denomination $3,000 per annum.
The home missionaries are brave to
endure hardships out on the Texas
frontier aud in the Indian Teritory.
They often suffer for the comforts of
life—bread and clothing. Letters of
dress come from these homeless
preachers pleading for help, ’Tis
true the calls upon the church are
many; but we must remember that we
faff to do our duty unless we aid all wo
can in the work of our Lord. Wauld
that every one could read “Her Fa¬
ther’s House, a tract published by Wo¬
overdrawn, man’s Missionary Lnion. It is not
but ministers testify that
this sweet, sad story is only too true.
Bishop Wilde, while visiting the
Methodist Episcopal missions in Co¬
rea a few weeks since, had an audi¬
ence with the King at the special re¬
quest of the sovereign himself. This
is the first time a bishop has ever stood
in the presence of the ruler of “the
hermit nation.” In the course of the
conversation the King said: “There
arc many Americans in Corea. We
arc glad they are here. Thank tiic
American people, and we shall be glad
to receive mare teachers.”— Christian
Advocate.
Dr. Price’s Cream Baking Powder
Awarded Gold Medal Midwinter Fair, San Francisco.
The amount of revenue added toThe
State’s income by the enforcement of
the depository law, which requires all
banks to pay 2 per cent, on the State’s
deposits, will amount to something like
$15,000 a year. Had the law been car¬
ried out since its enactment the saving
of the State would have been probably
three times as much each year previ¬
ous to 1894, when the quarterly pay¬
ment of teachers drew heavily on the
funds in the depositories. The only
banks that refused to accede to the
terms were the Georgia Railroad Bank
of Augusta and the bank of Covington.
The former sent in its resignation and
it was promptly accepted by the gov¬
ernor. He also drew out of that bank
$86,000, which it held of the State’s
money, and turned into the treasury.
If Governor Atkinson should do
and nothing else for the State this year—
his work of reform has only begun
—this single work would entitle him
to the unqualified endorsement of the
people, whose interests he has served.
Two I.tve* ShvuI.
Mrs. Phoebe Thomas, of Junction City, Iff
was told by her doctors she had Consumption
and that there was no hop* for her, hut two
bottles of Dr. King’s New Discovery com¬
pletely iife. cured her and she says it i-aveu her
Mr. Thos. F.gzers, 139 Florida St. San
Francisco, suffered from a dreadful cold, ap
everything preaching Consumption, tried without result
else then liought one bottle of I)r.
King’s New Discovery aifd in two weeks was
cured. He is naturally thankful. It is such
results, of which these are samples, that prove
the wonderful alhcaey of this medicine in
Coughs tie's and Colds. Free trial bottle at Li t
Regular DrugStore and W. J. Cooper & O’s.
size 50c. and $1.00.
For lumber, moulding, shingles,
laths and lime in any quantity write
to, or call on T. II. Barrett, Athens,
Ga. Small orders filled as prompt¬
ly as large oues.