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TU0MAJ3VILLE, GEORGIA, THURSDAY MOENHSO. NOVEMBER 21
How to be a Model Hostess.
understood and explained when adopt*
pifte, or some other sort of stick,about
three feet long, take the cow where
they wish her to feed, and drive the
sharp end of that stick in the ground
and the cow can'never get tangled in
the world, because the rope is'on' the
ground). They bring and carry them
every day, if they wish. And I tell
you, such fine looking cows can’t be
found in all this country.
Save your timber and time, and
money, and keep better stock. And
don’t keep cows to turn out every
morning and send them to your neigh
bor’s corn field after milk and butter
for you to eat. '
I will speak at Jerusalem church
next Friday morning at 10 o’clock,
and at any other place, upon invita
tion, in favor of no fence. If I can
get my way paid by the colored no
fence men I will go through south
Thomas and show the people the ad
vantages of no fence.
Yours truly,
J. W. Carter.
Thomasville, Nov.19, 1889.
THE “NO-FENCE” QUESTION
From tlie Ladies’ Homo Journal.
A hostess has so very charming si
position, if site is amiable, one wonders
she should ever peril it by being disk'
greeable. She is,in her 1 hour of hostess-
ship, perhaps at the acme of a wom
an’s ambition. It is her place to seel
that a number of persons are well frd
and happy. She is the person oi all
others to whom every gentle, sweet
emotion, to whom every grateful feel-
turus. A hostess at a, pretty country?
house is very much to be envied, and
she can, without much effoft, make
everybody happy. A hostess in the
city can becomejan enormous "social
power, if she has tact and a certain
intelligence. She becomes the en-
ed by the State in their separate con
ventions, where it had breathed into
if the breath of life/
Though great changes have occur
red in the Union since its compact
was formed, the principles then de
clared are unaffected, because they
rest on the immutable foundation—
Truth. On those principles this ap
peal is made.
Fashions In Diamonds.
Paris Letter in the Jewelers’ Weekly.
Diamonds—fine diambnds especially
—are as fashionable as ever. Jewels
composed of clustered diamonds of
different sizes are losing ground in
general estimation. They are now
considered as ineffective at a distance,
pretty as they may nppear on close
inspection. The new idea is to set
the stones in rows so they constitute
geometric, or at least con ventfonRl,
designs, which exhibit the diamonds
to the best advantage, show off from
afar as well ns near. The reader
need not be told that far more care
and careful manipulation is necessary
to create a jewel of this description;
The stones must be matched in size
and color, as the slighest variation is
immediately noticeable, whereas id
the custered arrangements diamonds
of all sorts and shapes may be crowd-
ded together With more of less artistic
effect. Few designs are more diffi
cult to execute than the Greek pat
tern, for instance. This style of
design is—and will doubtless remain
for some firae—one of the most fash
ionable. There is also the diamond
chain, made of oval links and a great
variety of scroll forms and leaves ar
ranged in conventional fashion, and
Rehaissance arabesques,, in whioh
yellow diamonds and pearis are used
-t .tanks:
THE LEADINGl
DISCUSSED BY A WELL POSTED
COLORED MAN.
The Rev. Jf. W. Carter In the Breioh-He
Gives His Race, and Ail Others,
Some Good Advice on the
No-Fence Question.
vied of women and the admired of
men. That she should ever use thii
power to make herself disagreeable is
most amazing. If we had not seen if
done, we could hardly* believe it pos4
ble. ,
A hostess should never reprove! het
servants in the presence of her guests,
All that worries her must be carefully
concealed from them. It is her place
to oil the wheels of domestic machine
ery, so that nothing will jar. It is
quite impossible in America that such
a set of trained servants could be ob
tained who should make the domestic
wheels move without jarring. But the
hostess must not appear to notice ii
It she is disturbed or flustered or mis
erable, who can enjoy anything!
This necessity for calmness on the
Ex-President Davis on The Tariff.
Mr. Davis has written a long and
exhaustive article-for Bedford’s Mag
azine, on the tariff. It abounds and
bristles..with arguments, against tax
ing the manyfor the benefit of the
few. The question of tariff refrom is
growing and it will continue to grow.
Still^another in
voice of choice dress
goods just received.
Our Ladies’ Broad
cloth in all the
leading colors is
certainly worthy of
your attention. We
are 50c. pei^pESr
under New York
retail prices on
them.
In Carpets and
Rugs we down ev
ery in this market,
and we invite a
comparison of pric
es with other and
larger markets.
In Ladies, Hisses
and Children’s
Wraps weare head
quarters, as we are
in everything else
pertaining JtoJ our
what amount of stock any one * man
.shall have. You will be allowed to
have just as much stock as you can
feed—and that is all any man should
wish. They tell you that you won’t
be allowed to put your stock in pas
tures; that, if you do, you will have
to pay extra rent for it; and, if you
agree upon a certain amount of rent,
it will only refer to the number of
stock pat In; bud, If your stock' In
creases any, the law gives the increase
to tho land bolder. There isn’t a
single word of truth or common sense
in such doctrine, and those who teach
it know it. They have a little timber
left on their places, and no care for
those who have no timber, nor _ one
thought for the future of their coun
try. Away with such talk and lets
come down to reason. Can we farm
cheaper and economize our timber by
fencing our stock than by fencing our
farms? or.as cheap? How much tira-
bjT and time will it'take to fence one
square mile of farms? In a square
mile there are 21,120 ft; it takes 2
rails to the foot, which is 42,240 rails;
at 85 per thousand would cost $215;
on each side of this mile there are
1,320 cords of wood, worth in any
market $1 per cord; this plus’cost of
making rails is 85,493. It will take
a 2-horse wagon 640 days to put tho
rails at their places around said mile,
at 62 per day is $1,280; this plus
85,493 is 86,773, to say nothing more
about said mile of fence, which leaves
out a great deal, consisting of cost of
preparing fence, laying line, putting
up rails and completing fence for
farming, as every farmer well knows.
We have the small sum of six thous
and seven hundred and seventy-three
dollars worth of time and material
gone foreveri the three years use of
said fence is absorbed in building and
keeping it up, so at the end of three
years we have no fence nor money,
and worse, no timber to make rails
out of. With one-fourth, qf the
above expanses we caq put q pasture
qn said square mile that will-keep all
the stock of those who farpa on said
mile, and have 6 hqnffsorap sum left
to feed the stock, educate our chil
dren and feed cut preachers,
I wiU now tell you how the people
do in counties where I have been this
year, where they have no fence. In
the first place they don’t keep any
more stock than they can plentifully
feed. A great many qf them, when
they go to their farm In the morning,
they carry their milk cows with them-
(They havo a leather bracelet with a
ring in it, made to go around tho foot
of tho cow—one of thefront feet—and
they tie q small ropa in the ring and
tie the other end of the rope to a little
old fashioned novel, called "Cecil,’’ in
which the hero writes to his sister
"Learn to be perfectly unmoved at
your own table, even if your cook
sends up stewed puppy.” And an old
poet eulogizes a calm hostess who is—^-
•‘Mstrera of herself, though China fall,!’
There is no such utter mistake as ti
lose one’s temper, one’s nerve, one’s
composure in company. Society may
be a false condition of things, but,
whatever its faults, it demands oi k
woman the very high virtues of . stiff
command, gentleness and composure,
politeness, coolness and serenity. Good
manners are said to be the shadows df
virtues/
But they are vir.ues. To be polite
is a virtue of the very highest.
The Oldest Living Man.
The oldest man in the world is
probably living in a poor honso at
McDonough, Ga.
Councilman J. J. Meador has just
returned from MoDonougb, and ho
stated to a Journal reporter this
morning that he visited the McDon
ough poor house, and while thert
saw Hiram Lestqr, who is thought to
be the oldest man In the world.
Hiram Lester was born in North
Carolina in Decetqher, 1769. This
makes him one hundred and twenty
years old.
Colonel Sloan, of McDonongh, who
is over eighty years of age, says when
he was a boy, Lester was an old man.
Lester’s teeth are perfectly sound,
and his eyesight and hearing are
good. His skin is wrinkled, and as
hard as parchment. He eats add
sleeps well, and says he has given up
all idea of ever dying.
He remembers all about the revo
lutionary war, and knew George
position that taxes in every form
should only be imposed for revenue,
striking features of the tariff law of
1883 is that luxuries are found od
the free list, and that articles indis
pensable to the poorest inhabitant,
are taxed, such as woollen clothes,
flannels, blankets, cotton goods, and
salt absolutely required by man and
beast and fowl and birds of the air.
Can this be other than class legislation
—bounties! to one,’ burdens to the
other—sign boards pointing to the
condition in which
When out shop
ping, ladies will do
well to drop in at
LOHNSTEIN’S
and inspect the va
rious lilies of new
goods, just being
opened. They are
very handsome and
at very attractive
prices.
We are very busy
and havn’t time to
say much about
them in this issue,
but will be sure to
please you if you
will give us a call.
Respectfully,
to set off the beauty of purp.'frhTte
brilliants. ’
Stan and crescents are no longer
in the ascendant, bandeaux and small
tiaras taking their places as ornaments
for the hair. The best combs and
pins are set with plain rows of dia
monds. Earrings are ousted entirely
by solitaires worn on the lobe of the
ear. Jewelled necklets and collars
may bo worn with high bodices in the
evening, but neokloces are considered
rather out of date; rivieres, instead
of encircling the throat, are used to
decorate the drapery of the bodice.
The jeweled epaulet Is* the novelty
that carries all before it, as a hand
some gem may be placed on one
shoulder ouly. I have seen one or
two superb ornaments for the bodice,
(insisting of two bands of diamond
scrolls, meeting at the waist and curv
ing outward to the shoulders.
“wealth accumu
lates and men decay ?
The - loss of Roman liberty and
Roman virtue has been dated from
the time when the people accepted
distribution from the public granaries.
It matters little that the bounties
be indirect: the corrupting tendency
is the same, if the source and mode
of supply be traceable. Our fore
fathers regarded the diffusion of
wealth as essential to the preserva
tion of republican government, Rnd
they therefore abolished primogeni
ture; but new means and devices
have made it so possible to accumu
late colossal fortunes in the life of a
single individual that a few men of
yesterday are said now to possess the
greater part of the wealth of this
With legislation favorable
A Letter From Cleveland,
Louisville, Ky-, Nov. i8.—Last
week John H, Page, secretary of the
Bandana Club of the twelfth ward of
this city, forwarded ex-President Cleve
land a letter concerning action taken
by the club regarding him, and this
morning the following acknowledge
ment was received t
New York, Nov. to, 1889.
lo John Hi Page, Eig., Secretary, etc.
My Dear Sir—I am very much
flattered by the note which I have just
received ffom you conveying the re
port of the Bandana Democratic Club
oi Louisville, and I accept with thanks
the honor conferred by my election
as an honorary member of that organ
ization. The best compensation for
the discharge of public duty is the
approval of good people. If I hare
gained that, and in addition I hare
succeeded in giving the principles of
democrat? increased life and activity,
I am content, I hope that I shall not
appear unappreciative, if I remind
you that the work now in hand con
sists in atilt further presenting to the
people the wisdom and beneficence oi
the party’s prtnepies rather than ad
vancement of claims by an individual
l am glad, however, to see that the
jSjinb?.
to monopolies and trusts, and with
the facilities afforded by railroads and
telegraphs for the aggregation of re
mote interests, and the spreading far
and fhst the golden net wbioh a few
billionaires may furnish to invest their
tools with governmental powers, does
not history warn the people of im
pending danger to the liberties which
they hold in trust as an inheritance
for their posterity 8
If all motive for taxation, other
than to furnish revenue, he discarded,
the discontent which the tariff legis-
latioa lias created would be avoided.
By fair distribution the burden of a
constitutional tariff should be too light
to be oppressive on any, and if hon
estly imposed and administered! it
would leave to every man, beyond his
just contribution to the support of the
132 BROAD ST.
Federal Government, thq reward bis
toll had won,
The existence of a surplus in the
Treasury of tho United States proves
that the people have been improperly
taxed, and is in itself reason why
they should order a half, and demand
that Federal legislation dunild be
made conformable to the letter and
spirit of the Constitution . oa it was
dub has such warm appreciation of
ttw* (rallen? finli? modfl fUttn Kn
the gallant fight made in Ohio, by
our governor-elect, and of hia services
to the cause of democracy. Yours
very truly, GROVXR CLEVELAND.