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By the Eagle I’nblisliiiig- Company.
VOLUME XXXVIII.
ANDOE & CO’S,
The Stronghold of Styles
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The features of our business are correct
styles and good values, and this is pro- I
ven by the crowds which throng our
store from day to day.
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DON’T MISS OUR SPECIAL EASTER
SALES.
NEW SHOES
All shapes and sizes. Our new Hats for men and boys
are beauties.
EASTER CLOTHING
For 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 Main St.
Telep lion e S).
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Thomas & Clark,
Manufacturers of and Dealers in
rWIfTW HARNESS, SADDLES, WHIPS, ROBES,
«wz A mI, Blankets and Turf Goods.
Fine hand made Harness a specialty. Repairing neatly and quickly
done.
Thomas & Claris..
Next door below Post-office, - - - GAINESVILLE, GA.
S. C. DINKINS & CO.
s4s This is the Place to Get ***
Blacksmith Tools,
Cuttaway and Tornado Harrows,
Turn Plows,
COMPOST DISTRIBUTORS.
Farming Implements
and
HARDWARE.
S.C. DINKINS & CO.
Gainesville,
THE GAINESVILLE EAGLE.
J. G, HYNDS MFC. CO.
Wtahrs and Retailers I
We invite the Trading Public to Inspect Our
ENORMOUS STOCK
of Spring Merchandise which has just Arrived!
We are Able to Show Some Special Bargains :
2,000 yards white Dimity Remnants, 1 to 10 yards lengths,
value 12 l-2c, 15c and 18c, -A-t 100 yeLTCI
1 »000 yards white Lace Striped Dimity. Value 25c,
Special Sale 15c yard
1,000 yards white Lace Striped Lawn. Value 15c.
-At lOc yard
1,000 yards figured Lawn, latest styles and full line patterns,
Inequality, jAt 71-2 c vard
2,500 yards figured Organdies, more than 100 different pat
terns, elegant line colors, value 12 l-2cto 15c, -A-t. 100
2,000 yards Percale Remnants, 2 to 10 yards, the 10c grade,
* Jkt So
2,000 yards Shirting Prints, seconds, remnants,. ...AJt 2 l-2c
We are having large sales daily of our 4-4 Bleaching Rem
nants, best goods made, 6 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, JLt lOc
10-4 Sheeting, worth 15c, _A_t, IOC
Our line of Laces and Embroideries are said to be the Newest, Hand
somest and Cheapest ever shown in this City!
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. 0. Hymls Co’s Wholesale and Retail Stores,
GAINESVILLE, GEORGIA.
A. K. HAWKES
RECEIVED
GOLD MEDAL
I JaSSO I
Highest Award Bploma as Honor
•'or Superior Lens Grinding and Excellency in
he Manufacture of S>.eet;icl«s ami Eye Glasses,
jold in 11.000 Cities and Towns in the V. S. Most
Popular Glasses in the U. S.
, ESTABLISHED 1870.
ftIIIYEAC! These F chocs Glasses
ijAU lIU H A;:,; Ne'-es 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,
HOTOGRNPHERS!
Gaineeville, (Ha.
All work executed In the highest style
of the art, at reasonable prices. Make
£ specialty of copying and enlarging. Sallery
Northeast Side Bunare.
Established in 1 860.
GAINESVILLE, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, APRIL 21, 1898.
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W from the finest winter
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/ pastry. Ask for it and ac
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-Ztbie Iv-TFU, IGLEHEART BROS.,
Ulis Dijnu. Evansville. Ind.
FNU CDMPAIT,
Eclipse Engines, Boilers,
Saw Mills, Cotton Gins,
Cotton Presses,
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 Managers,
Nos. 51 and 53 So. Forsyth St., ATLANTA, GA.
writing advertUare, Mention thu paper.
CAUSES OF POVERTY. <
Hard Condition of Humanity That Is Es
tablished by Nature.
‘‘The Causes of Poverty” is the
subject of a paper by the late Fran
cis A. Walker in The Century. Gen
eral Walker says:
In the first place, I should with
out hesitation say that easily chief
among the causes of poverty is the
hard condition of the human lot as
by nature established. The prime
reason why bread must be so dear
and flesh and blood so cheap is that
the ratio of exchange between the
two has been fixed in the constitu
tion of the earth, much to the disad
vantage of the latter. When it is
written that God cursed the ground
and hade it be unfruitful, bringing
forth briers and thorns, that man
should only eat his bread with a
dripping brow, the Scripture does
not exceed the truth of the unceas
ing and ever painful struggle for ex
istence.
Taking it by and large, it is a
hard, cold and cruel world, in which
little is to be got except by toil and
anguish, and of that little not all can
be kept by any degree of care and
pains. There are indeed regions
where the earth spontaneously
brings forth fruit enough for a small
population and where a moderate
effort will largely increase that prod;
uct, while the climate is so benign
that life is easily protected from ex
posure, but these are not the regions
where man ever has, or seemingly
ever can, become a noble being, and
even here, in the midst of tropical
plenty, the serpent stings, the tiger
prowls at night around the village,
the earthquake and the tornado
work their frightful mischief, chol
era and malaria kill their millions,
while every few years gaunt famine
etalks over the land, leaving it cum
bered with corpses.
Throughout all the regions inhab
ited by our own race life is a terri
bly close and grinding struggle.
From four to seven months the earth
lies locked up in frost, and its
wretched inhabitants cower over the
scanty fire and try to outlast the
winter. When summer opens, it is
to a harsh soil that the peasant re
sorts to win the means, scanty at
the best, of barely preserving life.
Sterility is the rule among the soils
of earth, mountain and plain alike.
The exceptions are a comparatively
few fertile valleys in which are con
centrated the productive essences of
nature. The literature of primitive
peoples is ever telling the story of
this unceasing wrestle with the hard
conditions of existence, and the same
dreary tale is repeated down to our
own day. Aleman,, the Greek, calls
spring “the season of short fare,”
and less than 40 years ago the Irish
peasant spoke of “the starving sea
son” which immediately preceded
the harvest of the year. If, then,
you complain of poverty, make your
complaint manfully and squarely
against the Maker of the earth, for
poverty is largely his work. The
socialist is simply dishonest when
he charges human misery upon so
ciety. Society has done vastly more
to relieve misery than to create it.
It is an easy matter, according to
a writer in The Telephone, not only
to talk through six hats, but through
their owners if they will join hands
for the passage of the telephonic
current. The idea of being talked
through without any knowledge of
the conversation is more curious
than agreeable.
The best slingers of the Roman
.army were from the Balearic isles.
Boys were trained to early profi
.ciency by having their dinners sus
pended from a tree and being re
quired to cut the string with a sling
etone ere they .could dine.
THE HIGHNESS OF TAXES.
: Here’s an item from the Marietta
Journal that there is just a whole
heap of truth in •
What has increased the tax-rate
in Georgia ? Public schools and
pensions to Confederate soldiers and
their widows. If these appropriations
were eliminated then the tax rate
would be lower than any other state.
And yet every candidate and every
political party will say they will
lower taxation if they have a chance,
and at the same time say they will
favor the continuation of pensions
and public schools. There is a heap
of talk on this line that don’t amount
to much.”
“If there is to be war,” says a
North Carolinian, “they tell me that
the government will call out the
regular army first; then the militia is
to be called, and after this the Bap
tists, because they can fight on water
and Methodists can’t. I have went
right straight and joined the Metho
dists !”
Since 1883 congress has authorized
the construction of 77 war vessels, at
a cost of $134,439,707, of these all
but sixteen have been completed and
all will be finished by 1899. These
war-vessels, however, are not all
adapted to bard fighting.
Much in Little
Is especially true of Hood’s Pills, for no medi
cine ever contained so great curative power in
so small space. They are a whole medicine
Hood’s
chest, always ready, al- ■ ■ ■
ways efficient, always sat- ■ I I
isfactory; prevent a cold | | g
or fever, cure all liver ills,
sick herdache, jaundice, constipation, etc. 25c.
Theonl” Pills to take with Hood’s Sarsaparilla.
si .OO Per Annum in Advance.
FREED FROM JAIL BY DICE.
Prisoner Won Jailer’* 9400, Then Played
With 9900 and Liberty as Stakes.
“Getting out of jail with a good
file seems easy enough,” said an ex
sheriff the other day, “but I don't
think I ever heard of but one case
where a prisoner made his escape
with a handful of dice. It happen
ed years ago in my county after I
bad arrested a crack gambler from
the west for shooting a farmer.
The farmer was not killed, and the
westerner was shut up in jail until
court convened. The chances were
that he would be sent to the peni
tentiary for half a dozen years at
least. He went under the name cf
Mike Hunkier. That, however, was
an alias.
“While I was going over the
building one morning a stranger
came up and asked to see Hunkier.
He said that Hunkier was an ac
quaintance of his and he wanted to
talk with him about securing the
services of a lawyer to defend him.
I let the man in, but told Robinson,
the jailer, to watch him.
“The following morning while 1
was at breakfast a boy rushed in
and told me that Hunkier had es
caped. When I made an investiga
tion, I discovered that Robinson had
also disappeared. Later in the day
I found a note from Robinson ad
dressed to me. He asked me to for
give him, said it was an affair of
honor and could not be helped. The
escape was investigated by the
grand jury and after a long wrangle
I was completely exonerated, as a
trusted employee bad played me
false.
“The years rolled on and the es
cape had ceased to cause any com
ment. Some time afterward I got a
telegram from Tennessee saying
that Robinson was dead and that he
had made a request that I be noti
fied. Five days later I received a
letter written by Robinson previous
to his death in which he told me
the whole story of the escape.
“It seems the man who went to
see Hunkier as his friend was a not
ed crook. He carried the prisoner
a set of poker dice and a roll of bills
amounting to about SSOO. That
night, while Robinson was patroling
the jail, Hunkier, who got to talk
ing with him, asked if he did not
want to shoot a few hands. The
cubes were brought out, and Robin
son said he was the luckiest man
with them in town. The jailer got
SSO out of his wallet to start on, and
despite his luck he lost. He went
back for another wad, and in due
time that drifted over to Hunkier.
Robinson had S4OO in all, and he
promptly brought it out. In an
hour’s time the last of his three
savings was gone. Noticing
his dejection, Hunkier after awhile
said:
“ ‘Robinson, I will make this
proposition. I will give you a
chance to win your money back and
mine, too, on one throw. I’ll put
up S9OO, and if you win, you get all.
If I win, you let me escape tonight.’
“Robinson thought over the mat
ter for 15 minutes, and finally
agreed to play one poker hand to
the fill. Robinson won the toss,
and had to play first. He pitched
out the dice and then looked down
on two pairs, queens and jacks. He
kept the queens and then took the
three other cubes for the second
throw. He got another pair of
jacks and an ace. He cursed his
luck, but threw again to the queens.
He turned another queen and a pair
of aces.
“Hunkier took the dice to beat
the full. He rattled them long and
carefully, and when they hit the
jail floor he smiled as he saw three
tens. Another ten would set him
free, with S9OO in his pockets. On
the second throw he made a pair of
jacks, but they did not free him.
Robinson held his breath on the
third toss, and to his sorrow he saw
the lucky ten turn. He told Hunk
ier he was free, but that he had
made himself an outcast. At 1
o’clock the next morning the two
slipped away, Robinson refusing t 6
accept a dollar from Hunkier.”—
Charleston Letter in New York Sun.
Hoity Toity.
Selden in his ‘‘Table Talk” writes:
‘‘ln Queen Elizabeth’s time gravity
and state were kept up. In King
James’ time things were pretty well.
But in King Charles’ time there has
been nothing but French-more and
the cushion dance, omnium gather
um, tolly polly, hoite cometoite. ”
This phrase in modern French is
haut com me toit.
The late Dr. Brewer, in his ‘‘Dic
tionary of Phrase and Fable," says:
‘‘The most probable derivation 1
know is this: What we call ‘seesaw’
used to be called ‘hoity toity,’ hoity
being connected with hoit (to leap
up), our ‘high,’ ‘height,’ and toity
being ‘t’other hoit’—i. e., first one
side hoits, then the other side.”—
Notes and Queries.
Two of a Kind.
‘‘l told my employer I had only 10
cents to my name.”
‘‘What did he say?”
‘‘He tried to borrow it of me."—
Chicago Record.
Why He Ranf.
Forain is telling a story to Chase
after dinner, and in the course of it
remarks:
‘‘Then I rang violently for my
servant.”
‘‘What,” somebody interrupts,
‘‘have you got a servant?”
"No," said Forain, "but I’ve got
a bell!”—Figaro.
MOOD’S Sarsaparilla is the One
■■ Time Blood Purifier, Great Nerve
Tonic, Stomach Regulator. To thou
sand! its great merit Is KNOWN,
NUMBER IG.
THE TOY BUYER ABROAD.
Some of the Interesting Feature* of Hl*
Work In Europe.
The professional buyer going to
Europe to purchase goods travels on
the best boats—and often on the
same boat, which he finds familiar
and comfortable. It may be that he
knows the hotels abroad, in the
countries that he visits, better than
he does those of his own land, and
he may come to have a better ac
quaintance with whole districts in
foreign countries than he does with
like districts of his own, for the sim
ple reason that he visits them regu
larly and frequently. Where he goes
depends on what he is buying.
Whether it is silks or laces or linens
or woolens or leather goods or what
not, he goes to the country where
the things are made to buy them,
whether it is in Russia or in Austria*
or France or Ireland. This takes him
to the greatest cities and to smaller
ones, and sometimes into remote
country districts off the lines of rail
roads, where he buys of individual
producers. This would be true, for
example, of the toy buyer.
The buyer for a New York whole
sale toyhouse goes to Germany,
Austria, France and England, and,
it may be, to other European coun
tries, buying in each the productions
peculiar to them. In Germany he
buys, among other things, certain
kinds of chinaware and dolls and
toys. He buys some things there in
cities, but he buys things as well in
the country, in the houses of the
people who make them. Household
industries exist in Germany in a
way that is practically unknown in
this country. Whole families engage
in some work, perhaps the decorat
ing of toy china or in making dolls
and so on, and whole communities
may be thus engaged.
The toy buyer goes off into these
places and buys at first hand, and,
going to the individual, he gets
things just as he wants them. He
knows what he wants, and he gets
things made that way. A touch, a
single little grace, may make the
difference between a profit and a
loss, between a thing that will sell
and one that won't. On a doll, for
instance, even a cheap doll, the ti
niest bit of lace properly disposed or
the arrangement of the dress or the
colors used or some slight change in
the face of the doll, may make the
difference between a doll that is dull
and wooden and inanimate and one
that is alive and attractive and sala
ble. It may be that the buyer sits
down in the dollmaker’s home and
explains these things and gets the
dolls made as he wants them.
One district in Germany that the
toy buyer visits is in its character
istics much like the Catskill region
in this state. The buyer makes his
headquarters in a town, from which
he drives off up the valleys and
about the mountains to the homes
of the people. He goes there year
after year, and he knows the coun
try well; its landmarks are familiar,
and he knows the people. As he
drives along the roads he meets boys
who live in the neighborhood and
take off their hats to him as they sa
lute him and address him by name.
They know him, and they know
what brings him to the mountains;
his coming may mean an order for
their own families. In recent years
railroadshave been built up through
; some of these valleys, and it will
probably not be very many years
1 before most of them will be accessi
ble in that manner.
From Germany the toy buyer goes
to Austria. It may be that even in
Vienna he buys the products of
household industries in the dwell
ings in which they are made. Here
' he may have to climb to the top story
of a house to find a family workshop.
In France, in Paris, he buys some
things at the home of the makers,
but an increasing proportion he buys
1 in the warehouses where they are
collected. Pretty much everything
that he gets in London he buys in
wholesale establishments. —• New
York Sun.
Comforting.
Mrs. Cullen—An is this yer new
baby, Mrs. Doolan? Well, well!
Mrs. Doolan—They say, here in
the coort thot he luks loike me. Do
yez t’ink so, ma’am?
Mrs. Cullen—Well, to tell the
troot, he does look a dale like ye,
but whin he gets phwiekera all over
his face it’ll change the rezimblance
so that it’ll not be noticed at all, at
all, so Oi wouldn't moind if Oi was
ye, Mrs. Doolan. Detroit Free
Proca
There Would Be a Vacancy.
“Genius is never appreciated in
the lifetime of the man who pos
sesses it, ” said the poet disconsolate
ly. ‘‘Milton, Shakespeare and all
the other men who have made our
literature what it is how much
were they esteemed when alive:”
‘‘Cheer up, my boy !” said his easy
going friend, who had no soul for
sentiment. ‘‘You’ll be appreciated
some day.”
‘‘Tablets have been put on the
houses where they spent most of
their lives, but that is of no moment
to them. I wonder whether even
that will be done for me? I suppose
not. 1 shall leave no vacant place.”
‘‘Yes, you will. 1 can see the in
scription in my mind's eye now.”
And what do you think will be
inscribed upon it ?” asked the poet,
brightening up a little.
‘‘•Rooms to Let,’” replied his
friend.
And the poet pined away.—Pear
son’s Weekly.
What Won Him.
"Tell me, George, was it my
beauty or goodness that won your
love?”
‘‘Well, to be honest, it was that
currant jelly you sent mother.'’—
Chicago Record.