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lly the Eagle Enblishing- Company. VOLUME XXXVIII. ANDOE A CO’S, The Stronghold «I Styles The features of our business are correct styles and good values, and this is pro ven by the crowds which throng our store from day to day. DON’T MISS OUR SPECIAL EASTER SALES. NEW SHOES All shapes and sizes. Our new Hats for men and boys are beauties. EASTER CLOTHING Eor n en, boys and children—the styles and prices are both right. OUR GREAT Wash Goods Department a pronounced success. NEW IMPORTED Dress Patterns and all the latest Trimmings to match. IMMENSE LINES Os Laces, Embroideries and Ribbons. Come and see them. We can show them better than we can describe them. R. E. ANDOE & CO., 14 IVlain St. Telephone S>. * uiriisoi a HIT, I Jtt hi Marble Dealers. !; Monumental Work of all Kinds for < !; the Trade * j We want to estimate ) f IIUDQVIT I D fi 1 ( z all your work. J UAlflEiO I ILLt, Un. ) Jb Thomas & Clark, ~' Manufacturers of and Dealers in Wtfp/f HARNESS, SADDLES > WHIPS, ROBES, \jV '■ -A ,J(X Blankets and Turf Goods. Fine hand made Harness a specialty. Repairing neatly and quickly done. Thomas & Olarlc. Next door below Post-office, - - - GAINESVILLE, GA. S. C. DINKINS & CO. <h-$ This is the Place to Get +4-4- Blacksmith Tools, Cuttaway and Tornado Harrows, Turn Plows, COMPOST DISTRIBUTORS. BIG LITNE OF Farming Implements and HARDWARE. S.C. DINKINS & CO. Gralryeeville, Ga. THE GAINESVILLE EAGLE. J. 6. H YNDS MFG. CO. Whalers and Retailers! ————— —T—- • We invite the Trading Public to Inspect Our ENORMOUS STOCK of Spring Merchandise which has just Arrived I We are Able to Show Some Special Bargains : * ) * 2,000 yards white Dimity Remnants, 1 to 10 yards lengths, value 12 1-2 c, 15c and 18c, 1 "ySLI’d 1 ,000 yards white Lace Striped Dimity. Value 25c, S"peoieLl Setle 15c yeircl 1,000 yards white Lace Striped Lawn. Value 15c. JLt lOc ysird 1,000 yards figured Lawn, latest styles and full line patterns, 10c quality, JLt 71-2 c VSircL 2,500 yards figured Organdies, more than 100 different pat terns, elegant line colors, value 12 l-2cto 15c, JLt lOc 2,000 yards Percale Remnants, 2 to 10 yards, the 10c grade, -A_t 50 2,000 yards Shirting Prints, seconds, remnants,... _A.t 2 l-2o We are having large sales daily of our 4-4 Bleaching Rem nants. best goods made, ....At l-2c 3,000 yards 36-inch Merrimack Percales, perfect goods and beautiful patterns, over 50 styles. Sold every where for 12 1-2 and 15c, _A.t lOc 10-4 Sheeting, worth 15c, lOc Our line of Laces and Embroideries are said to be the Newest, Hand somest and Cheapest ever shown in this City I If you are not a customer of ours already you should be. We offer bargains daily, bought through our Wholesale Department, which are not obtainable by any retail merchant in North Georgia. J. G. Ilynds Co’s Wholesale and Retail Stores, GAINESVILLE, GEORGIA. A. K. HAWKES RECEIVED GOLD MEDAL Highest Award Diploma as Honor for Superior Lens Grinding and Excellency in he Manufacture of Spectacles and Eve Glasses, •old in 11.000 Cities and Towns in the U. S. Most ’opular Glasses in the U. 8. s ESTABLISHED 1870. It lIIT Ifi U Thfse Famous Glasses IIAU I lUll Ake Never Peddled. Mr. Hawkes has ended his visit here, but has appointed M. C. BROWN & CO. as agents to tit and sell his celebrated Glasses. LIME! Cement, Plaster Paris. LARGE SUPPLY always on hand. Can fill orders at short notice. WILL OFFER Special induce ments to those preparing to build. Lime house and office No. 16 Grove St. C. L. DEAL. PN. C. White & Son, HOTOGRJIPMEHS! CSaiaeaville, Ga. AU work executed in the highest style of the art, at reasonable prices. Make a specialty of copying and enlarging. Gallery Northeast Side Bauare. Established, in 1860. GAINESVILLE, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, MARCH 31, 1898. I fiour that! \makes the whitest | ,bread and cake, and! fi nest pastry, is milled J from the choicest winter wheat ; [ MJ | that grows. It is IGLEHEART’S]! SWANS DOWN Flour. It is the]' 11 King of Patents. Try it. Cheapest, be-;; I f'l cause it produces the best food and the most.! ! Ask your grocer for it, and notice the brand] • yr when you buy ! \f IGLEHEART BROS., EVANSVILLE, IND. '' '••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••I! : ! —— I -. ■■ —— . FRICK COMFIIT, Eclipse Engines, Boilers, Saw Mills, Cotton Gins, Cotton Presses, 1 Grain Separators, Chisel Tooth and Solid Saw, Saw Teeth, Inspirators, Injectors, Engine Repairs, A Full Line Brass Goods. Send for Catalogue and Prices. avery & mcmillan, Southern Agents, I Nos. 51 and 53 So. Forsyth St., ATLANTA, GA. 'I writing advertisers, mention this paper. FINNIGIN AND FLANNIGAN. Story of Former’s Report to the Latter. Irish Face as Well as Name. The announcement in yesterday’s Constitution that Section Boss Fin nigin had been promoted to be assis tant master of roadway, together with the handsome, life-like picture of the widely-known railroad man, caused many inquiries to be made by telephone, mail, telegraph and in per son for more information about the section boss. There is hardly a railroad man from Tybee to the Golden Gate who does not know of Mr. Finnigin, for his fame reaches from ocean to ocean. Outside of the fraternity of the rail, it seems that there are numbers of people who do not recall having heard of him. It is an old story, which somebody has put in verse, and recently it has been going the rounds quite extensively among rail way men. The Baltimore and Ohio’s blue book for February contains the verses which are given below. FINNIGAN AND FLANNIGAN. Superintendent wuz Flannigan; Boss of the siction wuz Finnigin. Whiniver the kyars got offn the thrack An’ muddled up things t’ th' devil and back, Finnigin writ it to Flannigan, After the wrick wuz all on agin. That is, this Finnigin Repoorted to Flannigan. When Finnigin furst writ to Flannigan, He writ tin pages—did Finnigin; An’ he told jist how the smash occoored— Full minny a tajus, blundering ward Old Finnigin writ to Flannigan, After the kyars had gone on agin. That wuz how Finnigin Repoorted to Flannigan. Now, Flannigan knowed more than Finnigin, Had more edjucation—had Flannigan; An’ it wore Tn clane an’ complately out To tell what Finnigin writ about In his writin' to Mistei Flannigan; So he writed back to Finnigin: “Don’t do sich a sin agin, Make ’em brief, Finnigin.” Whin Finnigin got this from Flannigan He blushed rosy rid—did Finnigin; An’ he said: “I gamble a wholemoonth’s pay-ay That it will be minny an’ minny a da-ay Befoore Sup’rintindint—that’s Flannigan— Gits a whack at this very same sin agin. From Finnigin to Flannigan Repoorts won’t be long agin.” Wa-an day on the siction of Finnigin, On the road sup’rintinded by Flannigan, A rail gave way on a bit of a curve, An’ some kyars went off as they made the swerve; “There’s nobody hurted,” sez Finnigin; “But repoorts must be made to Flannigan.” An’ he winked at McGorrigan, As married a Finnigin. He wuz shantyin’thin—wuz Finnigin, As minny a railroader’s bin agin; An’ the shmoky ol’ lamp wuz burnin’ bright In Finnigin’s shanty all that night— An’ he writed this here: “Mister Flannigan: Off agin, on agin, Gone agin—Finnigin.” Welcome Home. Peddler—Wouldn’t you like some mottoes for your house, mum? It’s very cheering to a husband to see a nice motto on the wall when he comes home. Mrs. Dagg—You might sell me one if you’v got one that says, “Better late than never.” It cannot be said that the Gould family is going to the dogs, but it is a fact that the dogs, some of the finest in the world, are going to the Gould family. Frank Gould, who has not yet come much into public notice because of his youth, the other day bought three prize dogs which he saw at a bench show, paying $20,000 for them. It is said of a cyclone out West that it “turned a well wrong end up, a cellar upside down, moved township lines, blew all the staves out of a whisky bar rel and left nothing but the bung-hole, changed the day of the week, blew the hair off the head of a bald headed man, blew mortgages off a farm, blew all the cracks out of the fences and took all the wind out of a Populist politician.” Frank Chase of Waterville, Me., some years ago invented a machine simplifying the manufacture of shoes. A New Eng land company purchased his invention for SIOO,OOO cash and gave him $2,500 per year for life, provided he would do no more inventing. In a recent interview he bitterly regrets having made that contract. Colorado, having given up the hope that her silver is to be remone tized, has turned her attentions to the production of gold with such vigor that her output of the yellow metal in 1897 was $20,000,000, be ing double that of 1894 and five times that of 1890. County Surveyor Jack Hooper and son gave us a call Saturday. Mr. Hooper says he was recently over in Habirsham county and found that county solid for Thompson for Con gressman, and be finds that Thomp son will carry a majority in his part of this county. —Young Harris News. The careful observer has noted that Mr. William Jennings Bryan’s voice is not for war. He realizes,” says the Charleston News and Courier, “that war means more bonds and that it would be rather difficult business to fight on a free silver basis.” Constipation Causes fully half the sickfP'ss in the world. It retains the digested food too long in the bowels and produces biliousness, torpid liver, indi- Hood’s gestion, bad taste, coated _ tongue, sick headache, in- _ I I somnia. etc. Hood’s Pills 111 cure constipation and all its " ■■ ■ results, easily and thoroughly. 25c. All druggists. Prepared by C. I. Hood & Co., Lowell, Mass. The oul) Pills to take with Hood’s Sarsaparilla .OO JPer Annum in Advance. Some Tricks of the Types. ‘ “What is this ’?” exclaimed a com s>os:tor who was expecting to be pro moted to a proofreadership shortly. “ ‘Sermons in stones, books in the running brooks!’ Impossible! He means, of course, ‘Sermons in books and stones in the running brooks.’ ” And a new reading of Shakespeare appeared the next morning. A sporting compositor thought “Cricket on the Hearth,” must be a slip of the pen. He made it “Crick et on the Heath.” A writer on angling had the joy of seeing his sentence, “The young salmon are beginning to run,” print ed “The young salmon are beginning to swim,” another thoughtful com positor having been at work. Happier was the transformation of the sentence, “Bring me my toga,” into “Bring me my togs.” There is a less subtle vein of humor in the story of the editor who wrote during an election, “The bat tle is now opened.” The compositor spelled “battle” with an “o,” and the other side said, of course, that they bad suspected it from the first. It was by a similar nvistake that the late Baker Pasha, who might fairly be described as a “battle-scarreJ veteran,” was called a “battle-scared veteran,” the libel being by no means purged when the newspaper called the gallant officer a “bottle-scarred veteran.” Owing to an error in printing the announcement, “A sailor, going, to sea, his wife desires the prayers of the congregation,” became “A sailor going to see his wife, deserves the prayers of the congregation.” The statement, “Messrs. ’s preserves cannot be beaten,” was rather vitiated as an advertisement by the omission of “b” in the last word. Innocently gay was the newspaper report which said that the London express had knocked down a cow and cut it into “calves.” When President Lincoln Acted As a Doorkeeper. Mr. James Elter is one of the oldest doorkeepers in the war department and has been stationed at the seven teenth street entrance to the Winder building for many years, occupying the chair in which President Lincoln sat while he acted as doorkeeper in place of Mr. Elter, says a Washington letter to The Chicago Inter-Ocean. Speaking of the incident, Mr. Elter said: “One day a tall, lank gentleman came to the entrance and asked me if the secretary was in, and 1 told him no, that it was too early for him. He then asked at what hour he would be likely to find him, and I told him. With a pleasant ‘Thank you’ (some thing we don’t always get) be walked away. At the hour I told him that the secretary would be in, he again walked up the steps and asked me if I would not go to the secretary’s room and tell him that be wished to see him. I told him I could not leave my post. “‘Oh, that is all right. lam Mr. Lincoln, and I will keep door while you deliverer my message. Tell him that I want to see him here in the lower hall.’ “With this the president unpinned my badge, stuck it in his own coat, and took my chair. I hastened to the secretary’s room, and soon the two were together near me, but in quiet and earnest talk. I never did know why Mr. Lincoln did not want to go to the secretary’s room but I know that I prize this chair. I call it Abe Lincoln. No doubt that wlb the only time a president ever acted as doorkeeper.” Any Future Life for Animals. We answer: John Wesley, the founder of Methodism, thought there was. So did Those eminent Chris tian bishops, Jeremy Taylor and Bishop Butler. Colerigde advocated it in England, Lamartine in France and Agissiz in America. Agassiz, the greatest scientist we ever had on this continent, and a man of profound religious convictions, was a firm be liever in some future life for the lower animal. A professor of Har vard University has compiled a list of ■ 1 I Gold is now being imported at the rate of a million a day; banks are beg ging their customers to take it instead of paper currency, which they seem to prefer, and the Treasury of the United States, which has more than $170,000,000 of gold in its vaults, is discouraging an increase of that character of its currency holdings. A man of iron nerve like Grover Cleveland in the whitehouse would address himself to the Cuban situ ation and act promptly. Mr. Cleve land did not assume to interfere while in the whitehouse, but he did not hesitate to say that the time might come when American invention would be necessary Think about your health. Do not allow scrofula taints to develop in your blood. Take Hood’s Sarsapa rilla now and keep yoqrself WELL. NUMBER 13 DICKENS GAVE HIM ADVICE. A Young English Commercial Traveler". Foolishness Rebuked. A commercial traveler of England has unearthed a reminiscence of Charles Dickens which is of interest. Speaking to some acquaintances, he said: “I will tell you a little story which I have never told to any one outside my own family. About 45 years ago I was going my first round, and at Gloucester station I had to wait two hours. I was traveling in jewelry and had with me a number of very valuable specimens. A lot of pas sengers were waiting, and most of us went into the refreshment room, where a very pretty young lady was serving out sandwiches and coftee. I was very young—under 20 —and in order to pass away the time I chat ted with the young lady as a young man did in the old days and as, 1 suppose, any young man would do today and will for all time. Pres ently I opened my case and drew out a lady’s very handsome watch, the back of which was studded with diamonds. It was worth about S3OO. ‘How would you like mo to make you a present of this?’ said I to the young lady. ‘Very much, indeed,’ said she and took it and ran off with it, laughing. This drew general at tention to mu and my goods, and 1 were soon surrounded. “It did not occur to me at the time how foolish I was to act like this in public, yet I was not sorry when the train came up and the expensive watch was handed back to me. I went out on the platform, and a gen tleman came up to me. "Are you going to Birmingham?’ said he. ‘Yes,’ I replied. ‘So am I,’ said he. ‘Will yon come into my carriage?’ Then it Hashed upon me that the man had seen my goods and design ed to rob me. ‘Certainly not,’ 1 re plied and jumped into a third class carriage. But the stranger followed me. ‘You are smart enough in some respects, ’ he remarked, ‘and you did quite right to refuse my invitation. But don’t be afraid. There are plenty of bad characters about, and it is best you should not travel alone tonight, and I want to tell you, as you are a young man and I am your elder, how very dangerous your con duct has been. ’ Then the stranger talked so kindly and wisely that 1 could not possibly be offended. What be said has been a lesson to me all my life. At parting he held out hit hand. “‘I should like to know your name,’ said I, ‘for you have acted an a true friend.’ ‘There is my card,’ said he and went. I never saw him again.” The old gentleman opened his pocketbook and unwrapped a card with the utmost care from the paper in which it was preserved. “That was the name of the stran ger,” said he. The card simply ran, “Charles Dickens. ” —Chicago News. Authors and the Public. Tho relation of great authors tc the public may Le compared to the war of the sexes, a quiet, watchful antagonism between two parties mutually indispensable to each oth or, at one time veiling itself in en dearments, at another breaking out into oi>en defiance. The public, like the delicate Greek Narcissus,is eleep ily enamored of itself, and the name of its only other perfect lover is echo. His candor (the poet’s) frightens them. They avert their eyes from it, or they treat it as a licensed whim, or, with a sudden gleam of insight and apprehension of what this means for them and theirs, they scream aloud for fear. But if great and original literary artists—here grouped together under the title of poets —will not enter into transac tions with their audience there is nc lack of authors who will. These are not necessarily charlatans. They may have by nature a ready sympa thy with the grossness of the public taste, and thus take pleacure in studying to gratify it, but a man loses not a little of himself iu crowds, and some degradation there must Be where the one adapts him self to the many.—“ Style,” by Wal ter Raleigh. A Georgia editor is candid enough io make this statement: “We would not accept a bribe, and yet we are free to say we cannot support $ candidates without some sort of re muneration, as we have a large family to support, and space is worth money. But please don’t offer us anything to our face ; but, if you feel grateful for our assistance, just con trive to lose ten or twenty dollars in our office, where we can stumble over it accidentally, and thank heaven for it in the silence of our sanctum. By this means we can overcome our scruples, and keep our conscience as clear as maple syrup.” one hundred and eighty-five European authors who have written on the subject. Many years ago a man left by will to Mr. Bergh’s New York Society about a hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Relatives contest ed the will on the ground that he was insane because he believed in a future life for animals. The judge, in sus taining the will, said he found that more than half the human race be lieved the same thing. Walter B Hill, of Macon whom the populists nominated for chief justice of the supreme court, declines to accept. “The nomination,” said Mr. Hill, “was made without my con sent and against my wish. I, there fore, have the perfect right to de cline it.”