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VOL. 111. -a 1 . j Si MMONS -C 5 ^ i \ vV y jA 1*, • 1 ; The Old Friend And the best friend, that nevei fails you, is Simmons Liver Regu¬ lator, (the Red Z)—that’s what you hear at the mention of this excellent Liver medicine, and that people anything should not else will be persuaded do. It is the King of Liver Medi¬ cines; is better than pills, and takes the place of Quinine and Calomel. It acts directly on the Liver, Kidneys life and the Bowels and gives new This is to the medicine whole sys¬ tem, you want. Bold by all Druggists in Liquid, dry made or in Powder to be taken or into a tea. SB*-EVERY PACKAGE'S* Baa the Z Stamp & In red on wrappow 4 . H. ZKIL.1IV CO., Philadelphia, D. M. SNELSOX, DENTIST. Office o\*er Matheson Merchandise Co’s, store on Doyle Street. Toccoa, Georgia. Qeo. P. Erwin, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Clarkesville, Ga. Will practice in the Courts of the X. E. Circuit and elsewhere by special arrangement. Special attention to Collections and Commercial law. Wanted 500 of Cords bark. • tan Toccoa Leather Co., Toccoa, Ga. THE TIMES Official Paper of the City of Toccoa and Coun¬ ty af Habersham. To Exempt from Taxation. A movement has been started by our citizens to circulate a petition for signers memorializing the next legislature to pass and also asking our representative to frame and in¬ troduce in that body a bill cxemp ing all factories that may be "here¬ after started in Habersham county for a period of ten years from the the time the act bfecomes a law. We think every farmer,merchant, mechanic, and in fact every citizen of this county will be glad to sign the petition, as the exemption of county taxes would be a great in ducement for factories to locate gr ’ It would enhance the among us. taxable property probably many hundreds of thousands of dollars after the ten years had elapsed, in crease the value of property in all portions of the county without in creasing the rate of taxation, be aide swelling the school fund with poll taxes and helping the county funds with the taxes collected from individuals ; giving employment to hundreds of our citizens and fuan ishing a market for all the products of the farm of northeast Geogia. Ot course none but bona fide manufactories, pure and simple,will come under the exemption act. Now let us all put our shoulders to the wheel and with a united ef¬ fort on the part of all the citizens of Habersham county, we will cer¬ tainly start our grand old county the road to prosperity, such she as never before known.' Will yon give us your aid? Then sign the petition. CwBpolttfy Voting. A bill is pending in the Massa ialature to make voting . Th*measure provide* that within I after an election (he n^bf M*ter of vote* shall compile all names not 5 F .- -. ...... - . . ______ TIMES TOCCOA, HABERSHAT1 COUNTY, QA., JTARCH 39, 1895. to collect a fine of $5 each from all who did not cast their votes, unless it can be shown before the trial jus¬ tice that the failure to vote was due to inabillity to go to the polls. This penalty and the trouble of I appearing before a justice of the peace at the instance of the assessor is enough to counteract a good deal of the disinclination to vote. While such a law, 4 f enforced, might help to keep bad men out of office, it would not prevent their being nominated by both parties. There would often be the same necessity to choose between two evils that now exists. Failure to vote is an indication of a bad condition of things that this law will not touch. It will not oblige men to take such an in¬ terest in public affairs as to keep bad men from being nominated. The greatest mischief is done by nominating convention, the result of primaries controlled by the worst element in either party. One Man And a Dog, Miller, the long distant walker, and “Guess” his dog, the former making a trip from New York to Jacksonville for the Police Gazette, reached the city last night. Miller is to make the trip without him. any money except what is given Miller’s clothes are in very cOndi tion and he will probably remain here until he can get enough money to buy a pair of shoes and trousers. He is two days ahead of time and can remain here several days if he wishes.—Atlanta Journal. Last Week we had a notice in The Times of two tramps stopping at the Crawford House all night and the next morning leaving without paying their board. It seems that when they got to Atlanta the next day—pretty fast walking—they separated and only one goes to the Journal office and "puts up the above tale. It is a great pity they were not arrested and put to breaking up stone in the Atlanta stockade. If they keep up this style of beat¬ ing and begging there is no use of them ever having a cent. If the Constitution and Journal will look over the Times when such people come from Up tins way, they will not be so easily gulled, as the para¬ graph'at the head of this article shows the Journal was. Would it not be a blessed thing if our people who are patronizing northern insurance companies in the north, and crying “hard times” and “no money in the country,” would not give that insurance to companies located in the south, and keep that money at home? The south sends millions of dol¬ lars north, and very little of it ever returns. We have gooS, strong, reliable companies organized in the south and doing business, and if the southern people would give their insurance to these companies instead of sending it north, or to England, they all would stand as the Southern Mutual, of Athens, Ga.,the formost insurance company in the world. Higher Prices. Price & McCormick, bankers and cotton factors, New York, say in a letter to The Times this week : “To us it look as if the reaction from the low level of prices re¬ cently made for Cotton has not as yet begun to exhaust itself, and the advance in the staple is com¬ mencing to effect the other specu¬ lative markets. The result is a more optimistic feeling generally. An advance in one market reacts upon another and so seems likely to the re¬ sult in higher prices all along line. We have had nearly three years of depression; a complete recovery and cannot be expected in a month, in our opinion it has only ju6t com¬ menced.” Mr. J. B. Simmons cams near being seriously hurt at at the fire Saturday night. He fell from the top of one of the tall buildings, but caught to a ladder that was leaning against the building, and thus a & l “X'Ti tend a stockholders meeting of burned factors. , By the # • & Wayside Never was a truer sentence framed than the following, written by Dr. Holmes: “Whenever the wandering demon of drunkenness finds a ship adrift, he steps on board, takes the helm, and steers straight for thlfrhaelstrom.” To ap¬ preciate the force of the figure, we have but to recall the destructive¬ ness to ships of the famous whirl¬ pool called the Maelstrom near the shores of Norway. The liquor problem is one which has never been solved, though it has been debated for many years, and with good reason, by Ameri¬ cans, who are the greatest liquor drinking people in the world. The W. C. T. U. is doing a noble work, as are also numerous temperance lecturers and ministers of the gos¬ pel, by means of moral suasion, which strikes at the root of the evil; but South Carolina was the first State in the Union to take the question into its own hands. Even Tillman’s enemies acknowledge that the ’ dispensary law would be a success if it were conscientiously enforced; but Norway and Swee den, which were the most.drunken countries in Europe, have, by adopting the Gothenberg or Nor¬ wegian system of license, become three times as sober as the United States. For the benefit of those who are interested in the subject, and do not read “Our Times,” I will quote from the February number of that excellent school paper a description of it. “The system is based on the principle that the State shall make the liquor busi¬ ness an absolute monopoly, and put it into the control of responsi¬ ble men, whose motive is to reduce instead of increase the quantity of strong drink consumed. In Ber¬ gen there are in the neighborhood of a dozen places where liquor is sold by the glass or bottle. Each ig a plain room, perfectly clean, without even a chair in the room, except a stool behind the counter for the official in charge. He is a respectable man, probably a mem¬ ber of the church. On the walls are printed the rules of the com¬ pany, which all must obey. If a man asks for aqua vista he lays down his coin—and pure, un drugged spirit is poured out for him. He isTiot allowed to remain in the room, and if he wants an¬ other glass he is told to come back in three hours. The glass is so small that he might take a glass every three hours in the day and not get drunk. A working¬ man cannot take a drink on his way to work, for the saloons are not open till eight, nor at noon, for the salobns close from 12 to 12 :3c o’clock. The hour for clos¬ ing in winter is half-past seven, and in -summer eight o’clock. The day before a holiday they close at noon, and they are closed before the workingmen are paid off. The man behind the counter gets a fairly good salary, but not a cent from the business. He is pro¬ moted for making ad small sales as possible. In 1896 the per capita consumption was 8.8 quarts; in 1892, under this system, it had been reduced to 3.3 quarts.” *** Mr. George Du Maurier, before he discoverod that he could write, offered the plot of Trilby to his friend, Henry James, who had great difficulty in finding plots, of which Mr. Du Maurier was full. But James would not 'accept so valuable a present, and advised Mr. Du Maurier to write Trilby himself. The advice was taken, but Mr. Du Maurier appreciated bis talents as a novelist so little that ^ fluted a royalty which the of Tnlby, and ti irs *ohk f: a lump mm. ’Tis said that ioo tons of paper have been used in America alone in printing the book, and that Mr. Du Maurier would have received *30,600 from it already if he had accepted the royalty. The craze which the book has created is called Trilby-mania. There is every possibility of Trilby appearing on the stage, as Mr. Palmer has arranged a dra¬ matic version of it, and is said to be casting about for actors and ac¬ tresses to fit the characters. Mr. Du Maurier is reported to have laughed when asked about the dramatization of his famous book, and to have said. “It’s all right— so long as I don’t have to hear it.” Though he has lo6t entirely the use of one of his eyes, he is work¬ ing on a new book, ‘‘The Ma¬ rions,” which is to be very long artd very carefully written, but we need not expect in it such a success as Trilby has made, for Lew Wal¬ lace has written but one “Ben Hurr,” Frank Stockton has pro¬ duced but one book which attracted the world’s particular notice— “The Lady or the Tiger,” and Mrs. Stowe is known by her “Un¬ cle Tom’s Cabin” only. *** There is no one thing more ele¬ vating from an educational stand¬ point than a well selected circulat¬ ing library. Many people who would, perhaps, never acquire a taste for reading, because they do not possess books, and are unable to buy them, even at the present cheap prices, are thereby enabled to read the best authors, the lead¬ ing newspapers and magazines for a small membership fee. Professor Abbott founded the public school library, and secured about twenty or thirty well se lected volumes, suited to the pu¬ pils, and the good already accom¬ plished is incalculable. Prof. Perry wishes all those who are interested in the school and its welfare to go to the entertainment which the pupils will give at the school building this afternoon. No admission fee will be charged, but contributions to the Dictionary and Library fund will be' gladly re¬ ceived by him in behdlf of the school. The boys and girls now in school will in a few years occupy the pro¬ minent places in the churches, the society and the government of Toc coa. Let us give them all the advan¬ tages possible while their char¬ acters are being formed. Omai. The Discovery Saved His Life. Mr. G. Caillouette, Druggist, Beaversville, Ill., says : “To Dr. King’s New Discovery I owe my life. Was taken with La Grippe and tried all the physicians avail and for miles about, but of no was given up and told I could not live. Having Dr. King’s New Discovery in my store I sent for a bottle and began its use and from, the first dose began to get better, and after using three bottles was up and about again. It is worth its weight in gold. We won’t keep store or house without it.” Get a free trial at W. H. & J. Da¬ vis’ Drug Store.'* An Exceptional Offer. Beginning with this week’s issue we make an dffer to both new and old subscribers; which we feel sure will meet with favor. We propose to give free to new subscripers and to those already readers who renew for on* year, a handsomely bound volume of sixty-four selected pho¬ tographic views of the World’s Columbian Exposition. Each of these views is 8x10 inches in size and is accompanied by an interesting and accurate description. If purcha¬ sed as original photographs these engravings would coat at least $1 each. In order to secure this beau ti¬ ful and instructive collection it is only necessary to subscribe for one year; to renew for that period or to send in a new yearly subscriber with the proper remittance, and the work will be sent prepaid, Sample may be seen at this office. TOCCOA’S LOSS The Furniture Factory Burned to the Ground—Heavy Loss. Saturday evening fire destroyed the Toccoa Furniture and Lumber Company’s plant, including the factory, finishing house, office, oil house, boiler rooms and steam dry¬ ing kiln,together with 140,000 feet of lumber. About 6:30 Lee Mills, an em¬ ployee of the company discovered a bucket of burning paint and oil under a stairway in the paint room on the second floor of the main building. The fire could have been smothered out with a coat; but, very naturally, Mills threw a pail of water on the burning paint which slopped it on the floor. Almost instantly the fire flashed over the entire floor, which was heavly coated with the drippings of oils and paints. In a few r minutes the whole building was a mass of flames, wdiich quickly communi¬ cated to the other buildings and in a few hours the entire plant was burned to the ground. How the bucket of paint came to be on fire and in the place dis¬ covered is a mystery. Mr. Simmons passed through the buildings with the night watchman about an hour previous to the fire and was only 300 yards distant from the factory on his way home when the fire broke out. Three adjoining buildings be¬ longing to the company,6i,ocx> feet of lumber, the office furniture, sam¬ ples and company’s books were saved. The loss is $35,000 and the insu¬ rance $19,000. The plant cost $ao, 000. The furniture and lumber on hand was worth $15,000. The stock-holders will lose oirer half the stock invested. The heaviest loser is J. B. Simmons, who owns half the stock. The stock holders' have decided to rebuild at once. They meet in Atlanta to day to complete final arrangements. It is proposed to raise the amount on hand to $20, 000 by assessing the stockholders. Plans have already been drawn for new buildings which will be com¬ pleted in 60 days. The Toccoa Furniture and Lum¬ ber Company was organized in 1890 with a capital stock of $15, 000, which was afterward increased to $20,000. The stockholders are Messrs. J. B. Simmons, W. C. Ed¬ wards and S. V. Davenport, of Toccoa, and W. R. Ware of At¬ lanta! Since its organization the company has done a big business, amountirtg to $65,000 yearly. It has paid annual dividends of 20%, until last year, when it paid 15%, notwithstanding the financial de¬ pression. This fine * showing is largely due to the fine business management of J. B. Simmons, president of the company. The factory is Toccoa’s leading manufacturing enterprise. Besides employing an average of 75 hands, the great amount of lumber used has furnished employment to dozens of saw mill men all about the surrounding country. It has brought a number of our best fami¬ lies to this place; and it has added $15,000 a year to the merchants trade. The loss of such an establish ment would be a disaster* to the town. The City Council has shown the proper public spirit and enterprise in agreeing to exempt the com¬ pany from taxation for ten years as an inducement r rebuild. The affairs^ e company are in good shape am le creditor* will suffer no embarcal lent. The com pany will so oti :#ver from its lot*, and its employees and the town continue to reap large bene* fits from it. A smalt sized army of insurance adjustors were in town this weak settling the furniture factory’s fn the recent fire.* , r-'-s NO. 35 Social M »' t .v # Personal Mr. T. A. Capps spent some days at Clayton faftkt, above Clarkesville, thb first of the week. Be sure to call on the dentai specialists at the Simpson Houqe and have your teeth examined free of charge. The Red Men are earnestly' re-j quested to attend the next meeting of the lodge, April 2. Mrs. J. A. Glenn is visiting friends in Gainesvilld. She will, probably visit Atlunta also before she returns home. Mr. T. C. Vickery returned Sun¬ day night from New York, where, he had been on a two weeks biisi ness trip. mi # Mrs. C. E. Gray, of Westmin¬ ster and Mrs. Hicks off Walhalla, are visiting at the home of Dr. Mc Junkift. Homer Gossett is 01ft of the em¬ ploy of the Southern at this point. He has gone to his wife's home at Fairburn. W. R .-Ware of Atlanta, one of. the stockholders in the fumitone factory,spent Sunday in town. Dr. Frank Davis has decided not tb locate in Toccoa — it’s tod healthy. Monday is April fool’s day i when all the fools will fool the oth¬ er fool. b * Mrs. H. J, Tribble ot Elberton spent Wednesday night with the family of Rev. Fennell. Mrs. Frank Woltz of Atlanta is the guest of Mrs. G. W. Edwards. Mr. Clarence Masoki of Weat*. minster was among friends here Sunday. Rev. M. H. Dillard Tuesday was cmlle^ to Atlanta by telegram on .. account of the death of hit father in-law. Mrs. Dillard suffered the loss of her mother about two weeks ago. The entire community deep-^ ly sympathize with the sorely af¬ flicted family. It is with pleasure that wa an¬ nounce the intention of Miss Mat tie Harris to remain in Toccoa un¬ til next fall. Miss Harris is one of the handsomest young ladies in town and a beautiful disposition makes her unusually attractive .-*» - well. A social was gitAn at the resi-' dence of Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Dea-. ton Friday night to the young" folks. They report it h very pleiisant affair. Miss Nora West, a charming" young lady of Clarkesville, it a guest of Mrs. J. B. Jones, her m* ter. Mrs. A. A , Safford of Demoted is spending a few days with tl editor’s family. - We are glad to announce the turn of the Newton family to Toe coa. % A number of the leddiag ladies in town are orgsni string band. Rev. H. C. Few will be instructor. Miss Repp McAllister will pley the mmndol Misses Marjorie McLaury and R lie Ramsay the guitar, Ida Hayes the violincello. Tin other members have ndt as yet bees selected. r: Mayor Bean of ClarkesviUcyStati agent for the Penn Mutual Insurance Company, was in ' i, Tuesday in the interest of his cosi P MW* jm W. C. Edward* was shaktu hands with his many friends i Toccoa this week. Mr. ia now located mi Macon and fug ning a large retail grocery tmsiatii in that city, W. M. K dence repair some im