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SOUTHERN RECORD SUCCESSOR TO (SI; Established 1890 1872 ) v
VOL. XXV.
an uncertain Disease.
There is no disease more uncertain in its
nature than dyspepsia. Physicians say that
the symptoms of no two cases agree. It is
therefore most difficult to make a correct
diagnosis. No matter how severe, or under
diseases of the Ktnmaeh, blood am! nerves,
ilrowns’ Iron Bitters is sold by all dealers.
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Citizen mid Christmn i )a t r i°t.
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of Historical Matter, and a large number of
Beautiful Full-Page Illustration. It is a
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can give all or any part of their time to the
canvass are bound to make immense sums
of money handling it.
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showing the different styles of binding,
sample pages, and all material neccessary
to work with, will be sent on receipt of 50
cents. The magnifieient gallery of por-
traits, alone, in the prospectus is worth
double the money. We lurnish it at far
less than actual cost of manufacture, and
we would advise you to order quickly, and
get exclusive control of the best territory.
Address
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llth and Main 8 ts., Richmond, Va.
@0 ^ou
We have what we
think is an excellent
Box of Writing Paper,
nicely ruled, with two
quires of beautiful Sat¬
in finish writing paper
and twenty-four large
Baronial envelopes and
a blotter in each box.
This stationery usually
retails for 40 cents the
box, but as we bought
100 boxes we can af¬
ford to sell it at 25 cts
the box.
Our name is stamped
on each box, which is
a guarantee of its worth
Ask to see the Record’s
Favorite Box Paper.
Record,
TOGGOA, GA.
has demonstrated ted thousand
times that it is almost infallible
FOR WOMAN’S
PECULIAR
WEAKNESSES .
irrejmlarlties and derangements.
It haa become the leading remedy
for thP '‘.ass *~* troubles. It exerts
ing a wonderfully and .‘.ealing, strengthen¬
the soothing influence upon
menstrual organs. It cures
“whites” and falling of the womb.
It stops flooding ana relieves sup-
spiRq
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pressed For Change and painful menstruation.
of Lite it is the best
medicine made. It is beneficial
bring during children pregnancy, aud helps to
for into homes barren
years. It invigorates, stimu¬
lates, strengthens the whole sys¬
tem. This great remedy is offered
to all afflicted women. Whr wiU
any woman suffer another minute
with certain relief within reach?
Wine of Cardui only costs $1.00 per
bottle at your drug store.
for odrics, In ea*rs rojtifHnc tpoeial tUrre-
Hcmj, address, giving symptoms, the -Ladies’
Advisory Department," The Chattemooga Med¬
icine Oo,, Chattanooga, Tcnn.
getr. I. Vi. SMITH. Camden, S, C., eaye:
“Mr wife used Wine of Cardui at home
for falling of the womb and it entirely
cured her.”
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Makers __ of Low _ Prices w~a •
And come to tae front this week with a half page advertisement, the space of which we have contracted for one in which
to tell, from week to week of the many and varied bargains handling and give of year,
high prices in Toccoa. we are some more 4 our famous knockout blows to
It pays us to advertise and it pays you read our advertisements. SHOES: Shoes have received a stab to
^] ie ] iear f ? because we find that we have entirely too many winter shoes and avc must make room for our spring stock. We
ff j them at prices that others wondering “how are
0 er n g are we can afford it”—that’s our business. Here are a few samples of the cut
on shoes: Ladies’ $2.00 shoes 1.45; Men’s 5.00 calf lined shoes for 4.05; men’s 5*00 Cordovan shoes for 4.25; misses and boys shoes
\ off. If you need shoes you can’t afford to miss this great bargain sale of shoes. CLOTHING: Suits, overcoats, trousers and
boys suits. We have controlled the clothing trade for quite a while, for the reason that we have the goods and our prices are al¬
ways lower than others; we must get rid of some of them before our new line arrives; we are offering some special values in Ovcr-
coat8 anc | odd trousers, also lot of bovs suits. Tailoring; : We can make you a suit or pair of trousers to order at I less than
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formerly, as house has instructed the cut; we guarantee fit. Samples at our store. Dress Goods, SPECIAL : If you want soine-
thing nice, good and cheap visit our 25c counter. 50 pieces of short lengths, 4 to T yards, well worth 40c a yard; your choice at
25c ti yard; these are yard wide and all wool. 40 to 52 inches wide Serge, all colors, from 33 1-3 to 50c; some of them worth 75
to 90c; call and see them. niscellaneous Bargains : Eiderdowns, Flannels, Covert cloth, D. F. Flannels and draperies to go
at cost. 44 Fruit of the Loom bleaching, special this week at 7c; lot table linen, napkins and doilies on bargain counter. Ladies’,
gent’s and children’s underwear to go at a sacrifice. Large line of ribbons at half their value. $1.00 grade imported velvets,
cut to 75c; Silks, 35 to 85c; lot of remnants to close at cost. 3 spools best cotton 10c. Our Gents furnishing department is full
and complete; the latest in shirts, collars, hats and ties; they were not bought in Atlanta; that’s the reason they are bargains, We
want your trade and expect to get it if bargains will do it. We lead the world in groceries. 150 test oil, red or white, 15e. galon.
When you come to town drop in and see us and get our prices, it is a pleasure to show you and price our goods. We lead, others
try to follow.
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Makers of Low
'HOWARD THOMPSON
FOR CONGRESS.
Solicitor General of the N. E.
Circuit Will Make the
Race Against Tate.
HE ASKS FOR JOINT DEBATE.
Mr. Thompson’s Announcement
to the people of the 9th Con¬
gressional District—Pro¬
fessional and Person¬
al Record.
Gainesville, Jan. 10.—Hon.
Howard Thompson, solicitor gen¬
eral of this circuit, has announced
his candidacy for congress to suc¬
ceed Hon. Carter Tate, of Pickens
county, the present incumbent.
The race promises to be an exceed¬
ingly lively one, especially in view
of the fact that Mr. Thompson has
challenged Congressman Tate to a
series of joint debates.
Last week the following letter
w r as forwarded to Mr. Tate by Mr.
Thompson :
Gainesville, Jan. 8, 1S9S.
Hon. F. C. Tate, Washington,
D. C.—My Dear Sir : I have this
day formally announced my can¬
didacy for the Democratic nomina¬
tion for congress in this district.
I shall proceed at once to make
an active canvass of the district and
will address the people in behalf of
my candidacy.
I respectfully request that you
join me in a series of debates, at
such times and places as may be
mutually agreed upon by respective
friends, selected for that purpose.
I herewith enclose you a copy
of my announcement. Your early
response will greatly oblige. Yery
respectfully.
Howard Thompson.
Mr. Thompson’s formal announce-
ment to the people of the Ninth
congressional ;onfrres«;i6nal district district is is as as follows follows •
.
Io the Democrats of the Ninth
Congressional District:
At the soclicitation of friends
throughout the district, and to
irratifv gratis an an honorable honorable ambition ambition 1 I
announce myselt a candidate ior
your nomination to the fifty-sixth
congress of the United States.
Having been honored bv you as
one of f your delegates to the late
national convention which assem-
bled at Chicago and which promul-
gated your principles and nominal-
ed your candidate, Hon. W. J.
“/ Know Not What the Truth May Be, / Tell the Tale as ’Twas Told to Me."
TOCCOA, GEORGIA, JANUARY 2I, I898.
WE iKE STILL Hi THE F16HT!
Bryan, and having taken part in
the deliberations of that body, I
deem it useless to further express
my views in this announcement.
T-me has demonstrated the wisdom
of that platform, and I stand now,
as I did then, on every plank there¬
of ; and should I receive the nomina¬
tion and the same should be ratified
at the ballot box, I will do all in
my power to enact into law the de¬
claration of principles therein en¬
unciated ; believing that the only
hope for general prosperity and
the happiness of our people lies in
the triumph of the Democracy, and
the successful promulgation of its
principles into such enactments as
that the masses may be able to earn,
with proper industry, an honorable
competency for themselves and
families. Good government can
never come to our homes and our
firesides through any other course.
Hoping that my candidacy may
meet with such consideration at
yonr hands as that of a co-worke
in your ranks deserves. I remain,
with much respect, your obedient
servant,
Howard Thompson.
Gainesville, Ga., Jan. 8, 1898.
mr. Thompson’s record.
Hon. Howard Thompson is at
present solicitor-general of the
Northeastern circuit, which posi-
tion he has held for the past eleven
years. He has made a strong
prosecuting officer and is popular
in his circuit, which contains eight
counties in the congressional dis-
trict which he aspires to represent,
Previous to Mr. Thompson’s
election as solicitor-general he was
solicitor ... ot » the , of . Hall ,, I,
city court
county. He has been a delegate to
nearly every state convention for
the past fifteen years, and one of the
delegates delegates to to the the last last national national 1
con- con
vention which nominated William
J. Bryan for president.
He is about 40 years old and is
one of the best-known of the young-
er group of men prominent in polit-
ca , i affairs , n the state. , j
Mr. Thompson will commence at
once an active canvass of the dis-
trict, and his friends are sanguine
Q f succes-
—_
Notice
The firm of W right & Edge has j
^ day dissolved by mutual con- j
sent. All persons indebted to the
firm hrm will a.11 nlM-P plea„e settle with »,th J T H. W
hdge at once. Jan, tolh 1S96
Some beautiful Bibles at The
Record Stationery Store, very
cheap.
SPAIN IS WRATHY.
That Government's Representa¬
tive At Washington is Un¬
relenting in Criticisms.
Washington, Jan. 17.—The
North Atlantic squadron is moving
today towards the gulf waters.
The ships New York, Indiana,
Massachusetts and Iowa left Old
Point at 10 o’clock yesterday morn¬
ing and at noon passed out the cape,
south bound.
The fleet is proceeding directly
at ten knots speed to Dry Tortugas,
their headquarters for the gulf
evolutions.
The Texas will join the flag ship
off the South Carolina coast.
The torpedo boat Foote was
forced to take the inside route ow¬
ing to the heavy weather off Hat-
teras. The ships are equipped for
a long voyage and their magazines
are well stocked.
It was said at the navy depart¬
ment this morning that the orders
to the North Atlantic squadron to
proceed to southern waters had
nothing whatever to do with the
Cuban question and the recent trou¬
bles there.
“The squadron goes south every
year at this time, and the orders
which • . 1 are now , being . obeyed , j were
issued over six weeks ago,” said an
official in the navy department to
me today, “but had the squadron
not been sent south, undoubtedly
one cruiser would have been sent
into southern waters, just as we
send a cruiser or battleship into any
vicinity where there is trouble.”
“But you can state positively,”
he adds, “that the movements of
the squadron , have . nothing , . what- ,
ever to do with the Cuban policy
of this administration.”
I learn that Senor DeLome made
„ a vigorous vigorous nrotest protest gainst against the the sauad- squad
ron going south, but his protest
was unheeded, as it w as said at the
white house that the movement of
battleships had nothing to do with
the Cuban situation.
Senor c DeLome t-. T says that , . if the
administration \Vas as neutral as
professes to be, it w’ould not permit
the squadron to proceed so near
Cuba \Twr
Publicly 1 u he maintained , an attitude
of frigid diplomatic protest but pri-
vate i y he has expressed the liveliest
concern and the most intolerant
dlsa PP rov al , * While DeLome is ~
cnlfty and for[nal in official lnter .
course, there is no diplomat in
Washington more frank in his con-
ferees. Today, discussing the
ation DeLome said :
i i While the squadron goes to the
neighborhood of Havana ostensibly
for drill and no formal question of
the gbod faith of that order can be
made, yet its presence almost at the
gates of Havana has a tendency to
encourage the rebels. At this mo¬
ment Spain is passing through the
critical stage of the rebellion. Peace
has been proclaimed, amnesty gran¬
ted the rebels and a new form ot
government gracious to the rebels,
but obnoxious to some of the most
loyal Spaniards is in its initiatory
operation. Any events is liable to
be misconstrued at this juncture.
The drilling of this great fleet
within the gun sound of Havana as
it were, may enthuse the violent
rebels with unfounded hopes, We
had no reason to expect such a
movement on the part of the United
States.”
A Letter
We are indebted to a gentleman
who has frequently visited Toccoa,
for the following copy ot a letter
written recently by a business man
to another; and which we believe
contains some good working doc-
tnnes as well ,. as some suggestions ..
worth thinking over :
Dear Sir -.—Yours of the 23rd.
ult Uit * has nab J iust Ubl causyht me me here ncic after anei a
temporary absence
^ am engaged lere upon some
negotiations, as I previously indica-
ted to you which may not permit of j
my being of service to you in the
way you desire, but there is one ;
fundamental feature in my mind | n
relation to ail business matters m
which I may hereafter be engaged
and which I believe you are entitled
to know, that is: I have reached
t jj e conc l us i on , after many years of
reflection, during which I did my
best to resist that conclusion, that
unregulated competition is self de-
structive. That conclusion led me
£ naturall to con sider as
to ow compe titi on could be regu-
} a t e d, and I saw the various meth-
ods by which it was sought to “reg-
ulate” this very generally admitted
evil in the commercial world. These
usually took one or other
q{ . ^ genera i shapes (1) by an
agreement as to prices, territory,
output, etc., or (2) by a deter-
mined, conscienceless, and often
brutal (even when bloodless) con-
test until one or both of the oppo- ^
g ^ ^ f ht to a st d
st ni and peace was restored by com-
bination or absorption and produc-
tion and marketing was resumed as
before until a new conflict was pre-
cinitated I saw bv these successive “
at'aJl- a5 not
re ^ u Jat e d It w'as simply
inated. And every successful en-
deavor to transact business on to n '<
large scale meant the termina U. o 3
of competition, not its regulation
nor its preservation in any true
sense. I saw the maxim, “competi¬
tion is the life of trade” even if
true, (which it isn’t) meant the
death of the trader. I saw the
Courts of one State trying to pre¬
serve competition by declaring the
pooling of business or earnings ille¬
gal, while the courts of another
were at the same time deciding that
a combination to prevent unworthy
competition and to preserve t i rea-
sonable”profits was all right and
entitled to legal protection. I saw
that the capable, brainy and coura¬
geous men all over the country
were “regulating” competition by
the simple process of lifting them¬
selves above all law that the statutes
or legislation can furnish, and crea-
ting in its stead praticable working
co-operation in all its features save
one, i. e., the division of profits.
And I have reached the conclusion
that co-operation in some simple,
practical form is not only the true
solution of existing business and
financial troubles, but the true prin¬
ciple upon which all permanent
civilization, progress and social or-
der must eventually rest.
I am not statesman enough to lay
ou j. a com pj e t e government under
which we all should live, nor am I
trying to do this. Many of my
friends are convinced that it would
be very beautiful if we all try to
^ each of us not only
doing h j s ]evel best f or himself, but,
at the same time, doing his share of
the world’s work with cheerfulness
£or. ^utTWr-away __ look comes
t heir eyes as they dismiss the
; dea because (1) it is impractical,
(2)—-it may Come some time, but
not \ n thl .^ el ? er much* ^° n ’ a
do Relieve that of the “cuss-
edn g SS ” wou ld be eliminated when
( x ) t he fear of want was done away
with, as it would be in a properly
organized community where a
worked; and (2) when the neces-
sity for “doing up” your fellow
man at every turn was remov-
ed; simply because you couldn’t do
it in such an organization, whether
it was large or small. And as to
whether it can or will come to pass
in this generation or not, I believe
it not only can, but it will, just as
soon as the successful, vigorous bus-
iness men, the organizers of the
if you will c to &ee that
their most enduring possessions w
come from their being instrumental
in carrying their trust methods
one very short step further, i. e., so
far as the division of profits goes to
let all the workers as well as them-
selves into the trusts. But even if
all this should not come in our gen-
eration, I do not have to think very
long or very deeply to see my duty
clearly ; that is to say : recognizing
that throat-cutting and cannibalism
(which competition is, pure and
simple) is a bad line of business for
gentlemen to be engaged in, I can,
at least in my dealings, avoid the
cutting of my neighbor’s throat and
at the same time carefully secure
SUBSCRIPTION, $1.00 A YEAR
NO, 10.
Makers of Low Prices
Makers of Low Prices
the placing of myself in a position
where he will not be tempted to
cut mine. And I can do this quite
as much for his benefit as for my
own. Thus I benefit him, myself,
and society at large. And when
enough of us get to thinking the
same way, we will put it into prac¬
tice.
But the general economic reor¬
ganization will come from the suc¬
cessful men, not from 'the failures
The latter, pGor devils, are the
ones who “holler” now. And
it isn’t to be wondered at. But the
re-adjustment will come not from
the men of rancor, envy, hate “ r
greed in their hearts, nor from those
whose faculties have become be¬
numbed or all but paralyzed from
the hoplessness of present act, or
the shock of irretrievable disaster
after a life time of alluring endeav¬
or for individual gain. It will come
from the wise, capable ones taking
counsel together and putting hu¬
man heart back into commercial
intercourse (from which it should
not have been withdrawn) and
showing us the way out by a shoul¬
der to shoulder effort. They are
really showing us now, though
many, even of themselves are igno¬
rant of it and most of them would
resent (quite rightly too) the idea
that there was any consideration
for humanity in it. They are show¬
ing the way, nevertheless, and the
day will come when the largest-
hearted and strongest hearted ones
among them will get tired of the
selfishness and sham of it all; and
while retaining all of the economy
and effectiveness of co-operation
will do this, too, without necessarily
diminishing a single one of their
own present comforts while they
will direct the common effort and
its enormously increased results for
the common good. Then indeed
will we see that “out of the eater
shall come forth meat, and out of
the strong shall come forth sweet-
ne ^' I 5
Now the application of all this . to
the matter in hand is plainly to be
seen. I didn’t intend to go into
the subject at such length but as I
am awaiting the momentarily ex**
pected arrival of some gentlemen
with whom I had an appointment;
and as much of what we would
have to talk about is along these very
lines, my thoughts have been nat-
urally drifting in that.direction. It
,snt business, out it states my
position.
If there is anything ... in this as a
working program which interests
yourself and associates, I shall be
glad to pursue the matter further
with you. I am not broke nor
sour. N ou can ascertain my rating
in the commercial agencies. I have
been a business man (and boy) for
over thirty-five years. lean furnish
abundant references as to character
and capability in Chicago, New
\ ork and elsewhere,
If it doesn't interest you there is
no harm done I hope, and I remain,
nevertheless,
Very truly yours,
R