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THE ATHENS BANNER; FRIDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 4, 1898
MAJ.CARLTQN WRITES
ABOUT REW YORK CITY.
There Is More Distressful Life There
Than in Any City in the World,
“CAT ALLEY” IN ATHENS
Cut-Price Sale of Dress Goods and Silks
Was Never Worse and Politics is Fearfully Cor
rupt-Cheap ricn, Tools and Dupes are in
the Front—Brilliancy of Broadway ,
the New Yorkers Pride.
Dress Goods
Bargains.
(ranter No. 1.
25 pieces wool Mixtures,
10c, 15c and 18c. Goods that
New York, Oct. 28.—Editor Banner:
This is a great city, or what would he a
more appropriate term, a most remarka
ble city. I have been here now, putting
all the time together since my arrival
from Porto Rico, something over a
month. Having been a frequent visitor
to the great city of New York, and hav
ing been so fortunate as to be the guest
of prominent metropolitan gentlemen, I
had seen much of the bright or most
favorable side of the city. Having been
at this time an inspector general I con- se ]]g everywhere at 2-5c
eluded I would see New York in its
other phases. To this work I have de
voted most of my time, and I now write
as one who has seen and knows whereof
he speaks.
The brilliancy of Broadway is the
New Yorkers pride. In this there is
much to justify their city pride. Of all
the streets in the world Broadway is
perhaps the most attractive. It is daz
zling and up-to-date beyond description
Bat this brilliancy and gorgeous splen
dor has its counterpart. It is but at last
the resplendent mirror through which
is reflected a far more distressful condi
tion of humanity than the average per
would imagine. In the great
son
THIS WEEK.
100 Boys’ fine Overcoats $2.50, worth $5.00. 75 Boys’ fine Overcoats $3.50, worth $7.50.
TO FIT BOYS 3 TO 5 YEARS OLD
Counter No. 2.
Cotton Goods.
5c for Percales, worth 8c.
7c for yard-wide Cheviots,
worth 10c.
Special Value.
8c for yard-wide Satteens,
worth 12|c.
Fancies,
7c for Fleeced
worth 10c.
30 pieces wool Fancies 25c.
Goods that sells everywhere
at 4''e.
Counter No. 3.
23 pieces wool Fancies 35c.
Former price 50c and 60c.
Black Goods.
10c for Silk
worth 15c.
mixed Plaids,
5c for
worth 7c.
food
Ginghams,
7c for Scotch
worth 10c.
Ginghams,
23 pieces Ladies Cloths,
Covert Cloths,Canvas Cloths,
Melton Cloths and Cheviots,
1J yards wide, all wool and
new fall colors. They are
worth 85c, $1.00 and $1.25.
Choice of lot this week 75c,
or $3.75 for suit pattern.
They are specially good for
tailor suits.
One lot Fancy Wool Che
viots, 14 yards wide, all wool,
49c a yard.
One lot Scotch Hop Sack
ings, new colors. 50c ; actual
value 85c.
Underwear.
lined
4£c for Outings, worth 6e.
7c for Outings, worth 10c.
5c for yard-wide Bleaching,
good quality.
■wealthy and gay city of New York, the
American metropolis, I venture, with
,.-ut fear of successful denial, the asser
tion that there is more of low and dis
tressful life than in any Owher city or
•place on earth, except it be the great
city of London. Today I concluded
to take in x three streets east
We are showing all the
new things, in medium and
heavy weight for Mourning
Dresses, Street Dresses and
Tailor Made Suits. We have
them from the 10c wool che
viot to fine Silk and Mohair
Mixtures at $3.50 per yard.
Davison & Lowe’s is the
place to buy Black Goods.
10c for extra width and
weight Canton Flannel,worth
and west of Broadway. I was
induced to do this, because there is a
great political contest going on here for
the governorship and I considered it a
good time to make my observations. In
this I was not mistaken. I met all
classes, of every ilk and kindney. Po
litically speaking, “Cat Alley” in Ath
ens was never worse and politics never
before so fully evinced, the sad andulti
mately ruinous degeneracy of American
politics. Statesmanship and statescraft
are unquestionably things of the past.
Cheap men, tools and dupes of corpora
tion power are to the front, and with
the free use of corporation money' they
carry the populace by actual purchase.
Great God, what an alarming realization
in our American body politic and what
danger the same does threaten to onr
free republican institutions. I am more
and more persuaded, after entertaining
the same idea for twenty years, that
this republic of ours has grown so popu
lous and so extended in area that it must
necessarily 'Break down of its own
Thirty
m Grau
Haw 5c flitch
How is this?
Perhaps sleepless nights
caused it, or grief, or sick
ness, or perhaps it was care.
No matter what the cause,
you cannot wish to look old
at thirty.
Gray hair is starved hair.
The hair bulbs have been
deprived of proper food or
proper nerve force.
12JC.
44c for best Cheeks.
4c for yard-wide Sea Island.
3|c for Good Shirting.
4c for yard-wide Sheeting.
4c for best Calicoes
Ladies Vest fleeced
15c, 25c, 35c and 50c.
Boys and Girls Shirt and
Drawers, 25c, 35c, 50c and
75c each.
NOTIONS.
Special.
SPECIAL.
100 extra h» avy fleeced
Shirts Drawers for Boys, all
ages, 25c each. Can’t be
match for less than 40c,
Large line of Infants and
Children’s Cotton and Wool
Shirts, all weights.
Ladies’ Wool Under Suits,
all weights and prices.
All the latest Novelties
now in stock.
Enameled and Steel Belt
Buckles.
Hair Ornaments, Ribbons,
Collars, Cuffs, Neckwear,
Purses, Gloves, Shirt Waist
Buttons and Fancy Pins.
New lot Trimming, Buck
les and Slides in cut, steel
and jet.
Very Special.
1,000 yards short
fine Bleaching, full
wide, worth 8Jc. Our
6fc.
ends
yard-
price
CLOAKS.
Calico Remnants 24c yard.
25c for Ladies Shirt
Waist.
35c for Men’s heavy Shirts,
worth 50 c.
2Jc for Remnants S-irt
Linings.
Children’s and Misses’
Jackets, $2.50 to $8.50.
Ladies’ Jackets, $2.50 to
$25.00
Caps from 50c to $25 00
each.
Baby Caps.
New lot choice things m
White Silk Caps for infants
and children.
Hosiery.
75 fine imported Silk and
Wool Dress Patterns, worth
$8.50 to $12.50. Choice of
lot $5.00 each.
One lot $3.50, worth$6.50.
One lot $2 75, worth $5.00!
Don't fail to see these ;they
are the best values ever of
fered in Athens.
Silk Specials.
1,000 yards Odd and Ends,
solids and fancies, suitable
for trimming, linings and
waist. Goods worth from
75c to $1.25. Choice of lot
65c a yard.
Ladies’ Skirts—
75c to $10.00 each.
Ladies’ Suits—
$5.00 to $15.0) each.
For men, ladies and chil
dren.
Special good values this
week in Handkerchiefs for
men, ladies and children—
24c up. Good values offered
this week.
Selling good values in
Mattings, Rugs and Cur
tains.
Millinery Sale.
We will offer some special
values this week in Ladies’
Trimmed Hats.
Call at once ; make your
selection ; they are going to
be sold this week.
DAVISON &. LOWE
sary expansiou to mv notes, upon
America’s past, present and future
politics, especially as effecting the well
being of our so called free American
citizenship, I will then Mr. Editor fur
nish other communications for your
columns and the thoughtful readers
thereof. More anon, H. II. C.
Ayer’s
Vigor
increases the circulation in
the scalp, gives more power
to the nerves, supplies miss
ing elements to the h&ir
bulbs.
Used according to direc
tions, gray hair begins to
show color in a few days.
Soon it has all the softness
and richness of youth and
the color of early life returns.
Would you like our book
on the Hair? We will gladly
send it to you.
If you do not obtain all the
benefits you expected from
the Vigor, write the doctor
about it. He may be able to
suggest something of value
to you. Address, Dr. J. C.
j Ayer Co., Lowell, Mass. ^
weight. Now, to have this idea strength
ened by the degeneracy in political
methods of today, coupled with the un
mistakable purpose of the American
money kings to control all government
at whatever cost it may be to them, I
am satisfied that a dissolution of the
present American republic is only a
question of time. Supportive of this
view is now the changed pol
icy of the American government
which lias completely abrogated
the loug established Monroe doctrine
and lias now become a nation of aggres
sive and acquisition policy. To the end
herewith suggested, it would be wise for
our people to address themselves.
But Mr. Editor, I have somewhat di
gressed from my first purpose in this
communication. I started out to write
more particularly of the immense hu
man distress in this great city of the
north.
Under the present financial system in
onr country, land I mean that which
makes America the only “single fold
standard country iu the world,”) there
has been and is still being a great con
gestion of money in the northern and
eastern money marts. The financial in
fluences, aided by the governments
national bank system, (and which was
a war measure) has caused an influx or
congestion of money to these great
mouey centers, which have not only
created commercial and financial dis
tress all over the country,' but has
virtually centralized our governmental,
or at least financial power, into the
hands of the eastern and northern
money kings. This distress is not only
felt in the broad expanse of our country
and its trade relations, but comes down
now to individual distress. Just go two
streets or two blocks from the dazzling
dash of gold and splendor on Broadway
and Wall street, and yon will find a
most appalling object and squalid con
dition of poverty, woe and want.
Children, yea, whole families, peniless
ignorant, breadless and in many in
stances, almost clotheless.
Great saint of tnp merciful, how much
wiser aud more humane it would be for
the philanthropic and red cross patriots
of New York and the north, to devote
their attentions to the sufferings at
home, rather than expend their mis
directed and ill advised philanthoropy
towards Uncle Sam’s solliers, who are
doubtless fairing better in the field than
they did at home. I am spending my
idle time in New York, in an inspection
of that condition, that unequal con
dition in American life, which under
our present economic condition, makes
this country anything else than, “the
the home of the
A Sure Sign of Croup.
Hoarseness in a child that is subject
to croup is a sure indication of the ap
proach of the disease. If Chamberlain's
Cough Remedy is given as soon as the
child becomes hoarse, or even after the
cronpy cough has appeared, it will pre
vent the attack. Many mothers who
who have croupy children always keep
this remedy at hand and find that it
saves them much trouble and worry. It
can always be depended upon and is
pleasant to take. For sale by H. R.
Palmer & Sons.
BURNEY BANGED HIM HARD SHE FOUND THE BISCUIT.
ONCE TOO OFTEN
The Festive
Belle Worked
dame.
Her Little
Lula Shakspeare, a negress, was be
fore Judge Cobb recently charged with
larceny from the house. On more than
this occasion during her career of crime
she has been put behind prison bars on
a similar charge, but owing to the cir
cumstances snmranding her offenses
she has not been convicted. On this oc
casion, however, the evidence against
her was so conclusive that she decided
it would be good policy to plead guilty,
and bis honor fined her $3C and cost or
six months in the chaingang.
Pitts’
William Winkfield is no Longer in Business on
Jackson Street;
William Winkfield, who has for some
time conducted a cheap restaurant, with
a questionable reputation, on Jackson
street opposite The Banner office, re
ceived a sound flogging at the hands of
Mr. Burney McCurdy the market man
Saturday night Winkfield, so McCurday
claims stole a bunch of fish from him
and when confronted with the theft got
angry and attempted to call McCurdy
down in an offensive lond and boisterous
manner. He made a mistake as he
evidently found out. Burny lit on to
him in jnst a pair of seconds and ap
plied his fist vigrously to Winkfield’s
face.
After the fight was over Winkfield
went across the street to his den and
returned with the stolen fish, which he
surrendered to Mr. McCurdy.
Yesterdy morning Winkfield closed up
his place and retired temporarily at leaf t
from business ou Jackson street.
Carminative aids digestion,
regulates the bowels, cures Cholera In-
His Name Was on the Hardtack and He Won a
Bride Thereby.
A Maine soldier and a Virginia belle
are to be married as a result of the for
mer having dropped an army hardtack
with his name and address on it from a
train, the bisenit having been found by
the young woman—Ex.
Stranger things than this have hap
pened right here in Athens, bat to re
peat them would be telling. There is
no accounting for a woman’s taste
however and hardtacks go sometimes,
particularly when a young woman hap
pens to be hungry for something to love.
DELEGATES ARRIVE
TODAY AT
Representatives of Leading Southern
Institutions Come to Athens.
THE ANNUAL CONVENTION
Of the Association of Colleges and Schools
Convenes Today, and Will Remain in Ses
sion Three Days—ITany Distinguished
Educators Coming.
DeWitt’s Witch Hazel Salve
Cures Piles. Scalds. Burns.
COL. T- R. R. COBB IS DYING
His Father Receives a Telegram (Announcing
That the End is Near.
It has been fully demonstrated that
Ely’s Cream Balm-is a specific for Nasal
Catarrh and cold in the head. This dis
tinction has been acheived only as the
result of continued successful use. A
morbid condition of the membrane in
the nasal passages can be cured by this
purifying and healing treatment. Sold
by druggists or it will be mailed for 60
cents by Ely Brothers, 56 Warren Street,
New York. It spreads over the mem
brane, is absorbed and relief is im
mediate. ~
fantum, Cholera Morbus, Dysentery, I THE MARTA TERESA SAILS’
and all diseases of the stomach and _ , . „ . rm „ . ,
The Spanish Cruiser, Raised by Hobson, Off for
bowels. It is good for both children and
adnlts. Sold by all druggists.
One Minute Cough Cure, cures.
That la ahst It was made for.
JUSTICE JOHN R. TUCK.
This Gentleman Defeated Mr. Daniel Mahoney
For Justice of the Peace.
Au exciting election for justice of the
peace was held in Winterville Saturday.
The office was made vacant by the death
of Justice J. F. O’Kelly and the candi
dates were Col. John R. Ruck and Mr.
Daniel Mahoney. A large vote was
polled and Mr. Tuck was sncessfnl by
fifteen votes.
Hampton Roads.
New York, Oct. 31.—A dispatch to
The Herald from Caimanera says:
The former Spanish cruiser the Maria
Teresa, which was sunk during the bat
tle with Cervera’s fleet and raised nnder
the direction of Naval Constructor Hob
son, sailed for Hampton Roads last
Judge Howell Cobb received a tele
gram yesterday from Mrs. Thomas R. R.
Cobb announcing that Col. Thomas R.
R. Cobb was failing very" rapidly and
that his death was a question of only a
few days.
Judge Cobh left for Atlanta last night
and will either go to Colorado Springs
himself or send his son Mr. William
MdKinley Cobb, whom he expects ti
meet in Atlanta.
night.
She is being towed by the Vulcan and
Merritt and is being convoyed to Cape
Maysi by the Cincinnati and the
Leonidas.
SHOOTING BEGINS-
Rubber Danila.
“Rubber bands have supplanted twine
to a great extent in the lust few years,”
observed a salesman in a drug store as
he slipped a baud around a 5 cent pack
age of sodium bicarbonate. “Up to ten
years ago rubber bonds were seldom
seen outside of a courthouse or a law
yer’s office, and their use was confined
almost exclusively to the filing of court
documents and papers. Now you find
them everywhere. Bands are used on
all small packages in drug stores, and
they have become an important factor
in the grocery business. They answer
the same purposes as twine, and are ad
justed muoh easier.
“It may not be generally known that
a rubber baud is the best tooth cleaner
known. It can be forced between the
teeth, no matter how close together,
and it removes accnmulations that can
not be reached with a toothbrush. Yes,
the rubber band has come to stay. I
don’t know to what extent it has hurt
the twine industry, but it must be con
siderable.”—Philadelphia Record.
land of the free and
*
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i«^&2Sr*C0LD"»HEAD
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ists or by mail.
LY BROTHERS,SOWarrenStreet,Xcw.Yo
Game Law as to Quail and Turkeys Expires
Tuesday.
Some donbt has been expressed as to
the law relating to hunting. An official
has giveu an opinion for the benefit of
sportsmen, who may be at some misun
derstanding as to their rights. It is
stated by an act approved Dec. 22, 1896,
it is made “unlawful for any person to
shoot, trap, kill or destroy in any man
ner any wild turkey, pheasant, part
ridge or quail, between the fifteenth
'day of March and the first day of No
vember.” This act has not been re
pealed, and the hunters will abroad in
today.
Meuulnar of Protocol.
Like many other English words de
rived from other languages, “protocol”
has long since lost its original meaning.
It is derived from the Greek “protos,”
meaning first, and “kollan,” meaning
glue, and meant originally a sheet glued
in front of a manuscript, bearing the
writer’s name and other particulars.
From this the meaning evolved into
that of a rough draft of a document and
was so used by. the Romans, who called
it “protocolium.” The definition of the
word as used in modern diplomacy is
given as a rough draft of any document
or a document preliminary to some
transaction. It likewise is defined as “a
diplomatic document or minute of pro
ceeding signed by friendly powers in
order to secure certain diplomatic ends
by peaceful means.”
Prom Tuesday’s Banner.
The Annual Convention of the Asso
ciation of Colleges and Preparatory
Schools of the Southern States convenes
in Athens today, and the leading insti
tutions of the south send their repre
sentatives to consider all subjects per
taining to the promotion of the mutnal
interests existing between their respec
tive institutions.
The association assembles regularly
the first week of November, ehch year,
to consider the qualification of candi
dates for - admission to colleges, the
methods of admission, the character of
the preparatory schools, the coarse of
i stndy to be persaed in the colleges and
schools, including their order, number,
etc., as well as such other subjects as
tend to the promotion of interests com
mon to celleges and preparatory schools.
Through the work of its individual
members aud the association at large,
great influence has been brought to bear
upon the mntnal dependence of the
colleges and preparatory schools, upon
one another, and through its influence
the relations of these two branches of
education have been closely knit, which
natnrally leads to better, more thorough
and efficieht accomplishment of the im
portant work allotted to tlieir Tftfferent
branches.
Vice-Chancellor, B. L. Wiggins, Uni
versity of the South, Sewanee, is Presi
dent of the Association; Chancellor J.
H. Kirkland, of Vanderbilt is Secretary.
Vice-Chancellor Wiggins will be the
guest of Mr. Bocock while in the city.
Among the attending delegates will
be President Edman, of John’s Hopkins
University, who will he the guest of Dr.
McPherson.; former Postmaster-General
William L. Wilson, of Cleveland’s
Second Cabinet, now President of Wash
ington and Lee University, who will be
with Mr. A. L. Hull; Dr. Chas. W.
Dabney, formerly of the department of
Agriculture, now President of the Uni
versity of Tennessee, who will be at Dr.
White’s; Professors Bain and Woolaw,
of South Carolina College; Chancellor
, of the University of Mississippi;
President Powers, of the University of
Alabama; Prof. W. M. Slaton and Snpt.
W. F. Slaton, of Atlanta; Prof. Saun
ders, Headmaster of the Danville Mili
tary Institute, and many others repre
senting colleges and schools from
Virginia to Texas.
The programme has been arranged as
follows •
Initial meeting. Address of welcome
by Chancellor Boggs and responses by
Chancellors Kirkland, Fulton and
Powers. Tuesday evening, Nov. 1st, in
the Library Building of the University.
Wednesday morning in Science Hall.
Papers and Discussion Report of Com
mittee on School Curriculum, by Prof.
Saunders, Danville, Ky.
Wednesday-afternoon iu Science Hall
Papers and Discussion.
Wednesday evening. Address by
President Edman in College Chapel, to
which the public are most cordially in
vited. Reception of delegates of faculty
of the University in Library Building.
Thursday morning aud afternoon,
Science Hall. Papers aud Discussions.
Adjournment.
The exercises in the chapel Wednes
day evening will be open to the public,
and they are most cordially invited to
be present.
Several addresses will be read aud the
occasion will be one of the great interest.
Aside from the important work of the
convention, a most delightful social
gathering awaits the gentlemen
are delegates to the convention.
fllO
DETECTIVE.
Shrewd, reliable mau wanted in every
locality. Act under orders. No expe
rience needed. Write the Co-Operative
Detective Agenoy, Nashville, Tenn. Iu
close stamp for reply.
A Highly Seasoned Dinner.
Colonel John W. Caldwell, who went
through the civil war. tells au
story about a Louisville company
It
is the
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served iu his command. He says:
“We were camped in Tennessee,
was in the spring and ‘greeus’ was
chief ration. A large number o
boye would get leave every day o g
and‘pick greens.’ One day a an
came to me aud said he had a comp
to lodge against some men of to.' r
ment. ,
“ ‘They totally destroyed my P a
bed,’ said he. ‘Pulled up all my J
co plants.’ . kbii-
“ ‘The men of my command are* l
tuckians and gentlemen,’ said U
cannot believe that they would
ly destroy your property. lue ? troV
take things to eat, but never
what they cannot use. However,
will point out to me the men '
it, I will have them arrested.
“The man left, and it was not ions
until the mystery was ve J eoD ,
Byrne, who was regimental s s ^
was summoned hnstily to atte
of men of the Louisville o°mpy , tQ
wero rolling in agony and a PP fi baf
have cholera. They bad eaten the to^s
oo plants, thinking they were g \r aC oo
■ —^c. Louis Globe-Democrat. _ „
One Minute Cough C°r e
That Is what It was ma?
; Haile.
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