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THE OGLETHORPE ECHO
Volume XXII.--Number 30.
A WEEK OF BIG BARGAINS
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DAVISON & LOWE’S
The Big Shipment frem the Jaffrey Assignment
■*HHS HRRIIZED^
And we commence this week the greatest sale that Athens has ever had. Every¬
thing must be sold before our new building is completed. Come this
week if you want new and desirable goods at marvel¬
ously low prices. They are going fast.
Here are Some of the Many Bargains we Offer:
Mark Down Sale
OF WOOL DRESS GOODS.
5.00 Pattern Suits reduced to 3.50.
0.50 Pattern Suits reduced to 4.00.
7.50 Pattern Suita reduced to 4.50.
8.50 Pattern Suits reduced to 5.00.
10.00 Pattern Suits reduced to 7.50.
12.50 Pattern Suits reduced to 8.50.
15.00 Pattern Suits reduced to 9.50.
Now is you chance to secure a stylish dress at a dis¬
count of 33| per cent.
124c for Silk Stripe Challies, worth 20 cents.
18c for Wool Challies, worth 25 cents.
12ic for Wool Crepons, all shades, worth 20 cents.
20c for Wool Crepons, all shades, worth 35 cents.
25c for Scotch Cheviotts, worth 40c.
DEEP CUT in price of every line of Colored Wool
Dress Goods, including street and evening shades. Ta
mise, Battist, Nuns Veilings, Albatros, Henriettas,
Serges and Crepons. No sales to be missed on Wool
Dress Goods at Davison & Lowe’s.
SILKS.—New lot just received for shirt waists.
Trimming and Evening Silks, Black and Colored Satin
Dnches, Pon de Soire, Bengaline Fails and Morai for
skirts and dresses. Come this week if you want silks.
Cotton Goods Sale.
Best Indigo Prints, 35 cents Dress Pattern.
5c for good Outing Cloths, worth 8c.
8|c for Duck Cloth, plain and figured, worth 124c.
84c for solid Linen Chamfrays, worth 15c.
44c for fine Figured Lawns, worth Oc.
84c for fine Zephyr Ginghams, worth 124c.
500 yards Choice Ginghams 5c.
44c for fine Sea Island.
BIG SALE of Printed Lawns, |Dimity, Organdies,
Swiss and Mulls.
Gome this week while the stock is full. Everything
bright and new.
White Goods Sale,
1,000 yards fine White Lawn 10 cents value.
1,000 yards fine White Lawn 15c, value 25c.
1,000 yards fine Check Muslin 8Je, value 124c.
1,000 yards fiue Check Muslin 10c, value 15e.
1,000 yards fine Check Muslin 124c, value 20c.
Full line White Organdies, Plain and Figured Swiss
Costume, Cloths and Jackonets.
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LEXINGTON, GA., FRIDAY MORNING, MAY 3, 1895.
Wash Goods.
Fercals, Ducks, Cheviotts figured, Pique, French and
Scotch Zephyr Ginghams. This stock has just been re¬
plenished 100 dozen and Towels is now from brim the full Jaffrey of choice sale, things. arrived
and will be sale this week. This just
on will he the best and
cheapest lot of Towels ever offered in Athens. Don’t fail
to attend this sale if you want Towels. The prices range
from 5c to 50c each.
Umbrella Sale.
1,000 New Umbrellas and Parasols for Ladies and
children on sale this week. Good fast black Umbrellas,
from 50c to 4.50 each.
Childrens plain and fancy Parasols from 25e to 1.50.
Now is the time to buy Umbrellas.
BIG SALE—This week of Hosiery for Ladies Chil¬
dren and men 5c, to 75c pair, Cotton Lisle and Silk.
SALE OF—Ladies and Childrens Undervests from
04c to 50c each.
25 dozen Ladies Pure Silk Vest 50c, good 1.00 quali
ty
Sale of Silk Mitts and Gloves, Embroideries and
Laces all at reduced price.
Big Sale This Week
Of Mattings, Lace Curtains, Chenile Portieics and Ta¬
ble Covers, Smyrna Rugs, and Window Shades.
This stock must be sold before our new building is
completed. Prices will he lowest ever known.
Come this week if you need House Furnishing Goods.
50 pieces New and Pretty Table Linens will go in
this sale.
Millinery.
Everything new and pretty. We make it a rule to put
style to every hat trimmed in this department, whether
cheap, medium or fine.
300 Sailors 25c, regular 40e grade.
350 Sailors 35c, regular 50c grade.
250 Childrens Lawn Caps and Bonnets to close out.
We Handle Thompson’s Glove-Fitting Corsets. 50 I
cents to 2.50 each.
MANHOOD SLUMBERING.
One-Ninth of the Population of Georgia
Domineering the Balance.
The whiskey traffic in our country,
and elsewhere occupies an anomalous
position. We have instances where
civilized people have endured evils be¬
cause they did not have the power or
know how to throw them off; but here
is a curse, known to be sucb, known to
be nothing else; known to be violative
of every principle of political, social or
moral economy; bringing no good to
anyone, but ruin to the thousands, and
all completely in the hands of the peo¬
ple to do with it as they please, and
yet allowed to go on from year to year
working its ravages and death in every¬
way. Where will you tind the parallel
of this toleration? And why is the ex¬
ception allowed in the case?
Look at the situation in Georgia.
Ninety-two couuties of the State have
no legalized sale of liquor. In the re¬
maining counties the sale is confined
to lifty-two towns with an aggregate
population of 580,55S. A good per
cent, of that population is known to
oppose the liquor tratlic. So we may
safely say that of ninety-live or ninety
eight per cent, the territory of the
State is under prohibitory laws and
nearly ninety per cent, of the popula¬
tion either has prohibition or is in fa¬
vor of it. The whiskey reign is there¬
fore 200,000 perpetuated in the State by about
people out of a population of
1,837,353; more than eight-ninths of
the people submitting to a great enemy
of civilization and religion, foisted on
them by a small minority of selfish
men, who neither fear God nor regard
man.
There is nothing like this tame sub¬
mission, and the cause can only be
found in weakness. It is a weakness
of morals, of integrity, of character;
weakness which indicates that back¬
bone and stamina are gone and our
people left an easy prey to any plucky
foe,;howeversmall and odious; weakness
which causes them to sell out to the
enemy whenever the newspapers or
political parties that have become the
tools of the whisky rings may demand;
weakness brought on by the love ol
money and the love of ease, and which
converts our people into stolid sub
missionicts or into worthless waifs to
drift with every current that promises
a little gain. This is the reason why
we are under the whisky rule today.
A few years ago South Carolina pass¬
ed a liquor law—not the best by any
means, but better than was had by
many other States. As it was a law,
it had the right to a fair administration
and to the allegiance of every man
many individuals combined at once to
make the law odious, to stimulate in
surrection against it and to make its
administration impracticable. They
succeeded, so far a least, as to cause a
great deal of trouble, and even blood
shed And whv? Because be^nfluenced the neonle
were so weak as to v« by
lbo rTSo i, wh“r,kvVv™ r l h
sr lh rf ky „cE „ 1 , ■ .:
Pi ™. in gulling the people „i.h
succeeded
the cry of “Dispensary,” though they crj
did not disclose the fac that that
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SimSklS'SCp* in count’,Li
ses, at one place each
the murne wi,pe P oC, SM! S
,8 and
the erv of “Dispensary! P The famous
dispensary! !” the There was South hardlv Car- a
semblance in bill to the
olina law, but there was a shallow, and
they grasped and that -‘Dispensary!” shadow and began The to
waveit cry
poor, feeble pcpulace ind began to tremble
and turn pale, the great legislature
beeame weak-kneed and sought its
hiding places; and so the law that
might have declared the manhood of
the Stale, was hid away on the .table or
"a short time ago the psper. ol Al
lanta were asked to publish some arti
clesjfrom leading men, appealing to the
people in behalf of an anti-saloon bill.
One daily published parts of an arliele
by Dr. Candler, but with such omis
sions and interpolations, such head
lines and comments, as to rob the arU
cle of its strength. The design seemed
to be only to hut the measure and under
the old dispensary ban, guard. to put
their whisky friends on This
was the only notice of the articles that
we haye seen in any daily paper. have
Of course these daily papers
the right to publish what they please men-j
and how they please. We only
tion the fact to show bow they stand I
on this question which so vitally affects 1
the destiny of our State, and on which ;
the great majority J / of the people have ■
their minds i made ~ 1 up, though it « a j
feeble mind.
Now the question is, bow long will j
this mind be a feeble one? How long i
will the manhood of our State slumbei? ]
IIow long shall the ruin of our bovs for-!
and a ti.4 the luo wreck of happiness and
under the of ;
tune go on eye an en
lightened but emasculated people?
Let the manhood of our State, if we
have any, rise up and answer.
W. F. Glenn, D. D.,
Editor of ChrisliaD Ad.ooto.
Buck leu's Arnica Naive.
Tor Best Salve in the world for Cuts
Bruises, Sores, Ulcers, Salt Rheum, Feyer
Sores, Tetter, Chapped Hands, Chilblains,
and all Skin Eruptions required. and Itisguarar- positively
cures Files, or perfect no pay satisfaction,
teed to give or money rt
funded. Price 25 cents per box. For sa e by
M. G. Little, Crawford.
Subscription $1.00 a Year.
Our Wasteful Ways.
One of the greatest troubles with all
people who inhabit countries where
nature is most lavish in her benefi¬
cence, is their wastefulness aud im¬
providence. It is true we are growing
out of it, 'nit the old traits of character
cling around us still, along with our
open handed hospitality and easy way
of taking things.
It has not been many years since
how to get rid of the accumulation of
cotton seed around the gin houses on
the big plantations was a vexatious
problem. They were thought delete¬
rious to stock so that the hogs and cat¬
tle were shut away from them, aud
thousands of tons were hauled off and
thrown into gullies to keep the laud
from washing.
Now the crop of cotton seed rivals
the fiber in economic value and has
become in various forms a staple arti¬
cle of food for man and beast, even
the hulls being fed to stock.
And now-, season after season, the
surplus crops of many fruits and vege¬
tables, wild and domestic, are being
permitted to rot on the ground when
they might bo utilized for our material
benefit.
The enormous waste of timber in
our magnificent forests has been abso¬
lutely criminal, and in a smaller way
there are still millions of feet of valua¬
ble lumber destroyed annually for
which posterity will charge us iu the
near future.
Among tho farmers the waste of
land and labor still goes on, year after
year, the nooks and corners of the field
growing up in sassafras bushes aud
briars that a little pains would bring
up to a field, degree of fertility equal to any
iu the aud one-tenth the labor
lost in working around them would
suffice to improve such patches, add to
the product of the field and remove
the eye sores that are so paiufully ob¬
vious.
Until we get out of those pernicious
habits wo can never hope to reach that
degree of prosperity which we should
rightfully enjoy. In the utilitarian
days it is true that we took heed to our
ways of living. Nature has done much
for our sunny Southland, and it only
remains for us to develop and direct
all our resources to become the most
independent, happy and prosperous
people on the face of the earth ,—IUrh
land 1‘upc.r.
It Is So.
“It is a funny thing but it is true,”
remarked a gentleman to whom I was
talking the other day, “that our pco
P* . e w > ... 1 P at , .™ n, f a 8tran , B®£ ‘l ul . « ker .
'ance lends enchantment > etc They
wlU ,uy S ood « 'ffi'^r, and ask fewer
T-iestmns, of a drummer who hails
l™m Kalamazoo or Virginia or some
where else hat. from one whose first
na ' ne earnud whe n boys together
and whoBC horae 18 10 lh , . ' 8 clly ' And
you just let some strapped son of Jsh
si'i oriSoSg L i
° ” r b “ «T "“’(“r ° ,y ,•,?, LS i "? ™ d »o,'“ ,T ly fr* “u l
? ULkcr alter a . nsiiing worm, it a
borne man asked hem to patronize a
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‘dluUlis nil wrong. The n.oSe ’ll
«*<«. sbouM P* = and
KiS u°r4"tE .T“a°„d o,
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a duty they owe to themselves and to
their csmmumty toiookabout and see
* f they ca “ .* e ‘_ " hat ^ ,^ ant a ]
ho ™- h ' : “ and
pubbe a ap rit hat s displayed m a dis
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cerns there is a question of f f self-.uter
f 8t : 11 wdl accrue l ?. y0 “ r
«pend tena . good all ;the direct money y you or spend ^ecUy right at to
hon ? e ; ' l c ° me 8 ba L k to ? 0U T
,n ‘ Se t ,„onfy h A t “ItoSiud a n v r . ,
pu
y °o“ l d
whack at it a f‘ lin - s< ? J say ? lK k , t0
your home folks and home industries, ( .
and yf ! u Sf 1 a hold of a llUle mo n8y
, k(:e lt , , u ?, . h “ P 088 */, . e
P a8 m
right in the settlement. (
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If T , a doctor makes a mistake . . he ... hides
>‘5 . lf a merchant makes a mistake he
"ever tells it; if a lawyer makes a mis
take he crawles out of it, but if an ed
ltor makes a mistake he puts it on a
arge sheet of paper for the world to
look at, and in every community there
are cranks who think they are models
wisdom because they occasionally
discover the m. M u ralla Journa l.
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S. II. Cfiflortl, kew Ca*sel, Wis„ wm troub- . ,
!<*<J with Neuralgia and lUieuinatiKrn, li ih
y toma( .|, waH disordered, his Liver was af
fected to an alarming degree, appetite fell
away, and lie was terribly reduced in flesh
and stength. Three bottes of Electric Bitters
cared him.
Edward Shepherd Harrisburg, III., had a
ronmngsore , nK ^ Used three on b'ajegofe.glfit bottles of Electric yeai Hitters
an ^en boxes of liucklen’s Arnica Salve,
and bia leg is sonnd and well. John Speaker,
Catawba, O., had fiv« large Fever sores on
his leg, doctors said he was incurable. One
bottle Electric Bitters and one box Buck leu’s
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A . good . ... thing for . citizens ... of .
- a
town to remember, is that the men
it make the town and it is not the
town thal make8 the raau . y ome im .
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a f? ln ® 11 mey only uvea som nere
e si they could <’o great thing!. Try lt
where you ar e.—Aiujmta L'liromck,
A DANGEROUS PRACTICE.
Against Which Dr. George Little
Warns Farmers.
Crawford, April 25.
Mu. Editor: —While the subject is
fresh in mind I want to call the atten¬
tion of farmers to a very dangerous
work to which most of them subject
their children during early months of
the year. It is the so called “knock¬
ing of cotton stalks,” beating them
down with sticks.
There is no year when the time for
this work arrives that 1 do not see the
sight of an eye in one or more persons,
generally children, entirely destroyed
points by the cutting of the ball by the sharp
on the end of the bolls. The
accident happens most frequently
when more than one are engaged in
the same work, taking rows close to¬
gether.
There are. always a lot of bolls which
arc left on the stalks that do not open.
These are heavy, aud when bit
with a stick wil be driven quite a dis¬
tance with considerable force. Let
the point of this dried and hard missle
strike the eye ball and it will cut like a
knife aud penetrate to quite a depth.
The wound at first is generally consid¬
ered of little importance, but in a few
days or weeks the unfortunate finds
that he has not regained the sight of
the wouuded eye and then seeks an
occulist, but too late. A traumatic
cataract has formed or extensive iritis
has forever destroyed the sight of that
eye.
This accident is of more frequent oc¬
currence than one would suppose hence
the necessity for calling attention to it.
I have seen the sight of one eye in
three different persons residing in our
couuty spring and destroyed in this way this
probably there were as
many more, which did not come under
my when care. The remedy or protection
the work is engaged in would bo
the wearing of goggles such as stone
cutters wear to protect the eyes from
(lying particles of rock and steel. Un¬
der no circumstance, however, should
children engage in this work without
some protection to the eyes.
Very respectfully,
GK.oiiuK Little.
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Dr. Price’s Cream Baking Powder
Awarded Gold Medal Midwinter Fair, San Francisco.
Sam Jones on Masonry.
“IJefore I was ever a Christain l
learned one thing and I want you to
hear this. I was away from home and
was robbed on a train. I had all tho
money me and my friend both had.
He didn’t have any and they got mine;
and we got off at a station. This was
when I was a sinner, and that was
twenty-five or twenty-si-c years ago.
lie was a steward in the Methodist
church, and 1 was just a plain, com¬
mon, When simple sinner; that is all I was.
we got off at the station we
stayed around ‘8am, there a moment or two.
lie says, I wonder if there n# a
Mason in this town.’
“I said, ‘A Mason?’ He said,‘Yes.’
‘Well,’ I said, ‘what do ‘i you want with
a Mason?’ lie says: can get some
money if I can find a Masort.’
“1 said, “ain’t you a Methodist?’
“lie said, ‘Yes.’ I said, ‘why don’t
you go to the Methodist?’ ‘Oh
shucks,’ he said, ‘I go to the Masons,
and he struck out, and after a very few
minutes came back, and I said: ‘IIow
did you come out?’ ‘AH right,’ said
he, ‘I got it.’ ‘Who did you get it
from?’ ‘From a Mason,’ he Baid.
‘Sam, if you want to go to Heaven,
you join the Methodists, but if you
want to hold down here, join the Ma¬
sons.’ So when I started in I just
joined both and Mason tonight and I I am a getting Meth¬
odist and a am
along well for both worlds.”
Fresh lemons at Roy Callaway’s.
CATARRH OK THE KIDNEYS.
Sometime^ Called Bright’s Disease
Dr. Hartman’s Latest Lecture.
In the course of a recent lecture at
the Surgical Hotel, I)r. Hartman said:
“Catarrh of the Kidneys is a vety
common disease, growing more and
more common each year. The symp¬
toms high-colored are pain in the back; scanty,
urine, containing albumen
aud various sediments; nausea, and
sometimes vomiting; pufliness of the
face and feel; dropsy of the legs;
shortness of breath and general weak¬
ness; pallor and dryness of the skin;
chilly feelings, alternating with fever
and sleeplessness.
“A tablespoouful of Pe-ru-na should
be taken before each meal, between
meals, and at bedtime, and enough
Man-a-lin at night to produce one nat¬
ural action of the bowels each day.
When the disease is of long-standing
heated I'e-ru na should be applied to
the back in additon to the above treat¬
ment, and the diet consist principally
of milk and dry toast. Avoid liquors
and tobacco.”
MEDICAL KOOKS FREE.
The J'e-ru-na Drug Manufacturing
^°- of ,,f Columbus, Ohio, are „„„ offering
free » P 08 H>aid, two medical books, one
on catarrh and catarrhal diseases, the
other on spring medicines and spring
diseases. These books contain the
For free book on cancer address Dr.
Ilartman, Columbus, Ohio.
For ™r lnmKnr lim ber, mnnl.lintr moulding, Shingle, ohinn-W
, atfl * and 1,m ® ,n an J quantity write
to, or call Oil T. II. Barrett, Athens,
Ga. Rm-ill bmall orders oider» filled tilled as as prompt- nrnninf.
ly as large ones.