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By the Eagle I’nblisliiiig- Company. VOLUME XXXVIII. ANDOE & CO’S, The Stronghold of Styles _________________________ 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. I 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). ™ MII . BIIIIIT ’ ' ! Jfauifc Marble Dealers, s ; < fyA tH Monumental Work of all Kinds for < I jF~-4| the Trade. < < _ We want to estimate 1 P ITWPQUTT TD PI < 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. IfiIEHEAW Bj?WANS W KBSS? FI.OUR • The king of all patent flours. W from the finest winter J "’heat. I'or bread and / pastry. Ask for it and ac z cept no flour that has not -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.