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y midst of the Spring Season, no possibilty to even force at sacrifices the goods from
Konger will this disagreeable weather be the tendency for the merchant to look out
e distressing advertisement of larger reduction in prices ; more money wanted; the*
is no heip'for us. It seems that destruction is staring at us. I am going to get out of
ds rather than suffer the tortures of many merchants, MAX JOSEPH’S issue
Sale. Come right square down to business. The entire stock of goods is to be closed out
Embroidered Swiss Trimming
45 inches long, 22 pi^
slightly soiled from theS
they are 60c and up to fe’
quality, 45 inches W.
Lot No. 1. Very fine Serges,
Beiges, single widths. 20o quality;
your choice at 12 1-2
Lot No. 2. D uble width Camel’s
i Hair Suitings, exquisite dresses,
such as you .pay 25 to 40<v; your
j choice at 16 1-2.
Lot iSo. 3. French Beige Mix
tures, light, medium and dark grays
aud shaded browns ; also English
terges. They are all 40 inches
wide and put up in dress patterns;
the actual values are from 60 to 75c.
Your choice
last Sunday’s advertisement
In Constitution, of Atlanta Mer
chant’s Prices ?
Some prominent newspapers of Geor
gia will change editors soon.
THif. ATHENS BANNER: TUESDAY MORNING
is life in the old town yet.
Thx University students oughts to all
go over to Atlanta to hear Stanley.
The Phi Kappa and Demosthenian
literary societies of the University are
both prospering.
Tbs witty editor of the Dallas Morn
ing News says a man ls'always as bad
as his word.
Easter draws nigh at band and in
spite of the rains the usual amount of
shopping goes on at the stores.
Reciprocity Blaine’s dream seems
to he vanishing. Alas poor BlainI
keep oat of bad company.
Dana gave the Atlanta Constitution
a splendid story in that interview and
the Constitution bandied it well, too.
There is something significant in the
fact that all the votes polled yesterday
went one way, and that way for the
bonds.
Think of ii ! In
and shelves! How l.
Everybody brings forth i
ruinous prices. " jL =
But there is no
The bonds will float, the streets will
be paved, and Athens—bless the old
city—will march on to take her stand
among the first cities of the land.
Now, we want the Atlanta Journal
to join ns in the chorus: Bah! Bab!
Bah! for Athens. Come on, Brother
Bichardson.
Hioheb education in Georgia means
agreat university and good common
schools. The lack of one or the other
means a lack of higher education.
Do not beseech your sad heart to he
still, dear croaker,” sang the ballots
yesterday. “Jest let ’er keep on pump
ing.”
The Charleston World says that if
Savannah is a greater port than “the
City by the Sea,” South Carolina has a
wildcat that can whip any Georgia bull
dog.
Iv the election for street improve
ments yesterday served . other pur
pose than to teach croakers that they
are in the minority here, it was no fail
ure.
The Covington and Macon railroad
and the Northeastern railroad will soon
be under the guardian care of the Rich
mond and Danville, and then Athens
will get a bit of benefit from the accu
mulated millions of Jay Gould.
Miss Dobtch, of the Carnesville
Tribune, surely has great confidence in
men. She writes: “No man wishes to
drag women down to the level of any-
ny-
thing; neither is woman willing to be
dragged down. She uplifts, refines and
purifies.”
And MissDobtcb’s fair head is level,
and it is on all other topics.
A Texas editor who was evidently
reared on a ranch gets off the following
good joke:
The milkman is taught the tricks of
bis trade by bis bad cow. She refuses
to give down any milk and kicks until
she makes him take water.
of
Aftek earnest research into the his
tory of the English language the editor
the Tribune-of-Bome has found out
tat it was the oyster that originated
well-known slang expression, “I’m
>t in it.” The occasion was a church
fair, and the remark was made by the
oyster to the soup.
Atlanta is clamoring for a better
water service and more of it. We have
bad plenty of it down this way for two
months.—Oglethorpe Echo.
Atlanta clamored for it, and the
whole earth got it. That is Atlanta’s
way, you know. The gods and god
desses smile sweetly on Atlanta ever*
Hebe’s a strong argument against
being fat, given by the humorous Dal
las Morning News:
The rszor-bsck bog, the yellow dog
the lopsided thomaa cat, despised of the
world, the hard-featured billy goat who
nervously chews hiB tough quid and
spits at the world in disgust—all these
earn their own living. The fat shoat,
the fat dog, the fat tom cat, the fat billy
goat, the which we have never yet seen,
are wholly without self-reliance, faav
no object in life, keep no move on them
can’t sing, can’t fight, have in them
nothing on earth except food which
their masters have put there. Let us
be lean and independent.
Says the Chicago Herald: Tom Reed,
ex-speaker of the house) has sailed for
Europe. He will be gone severe
months and will spend most of his time
in the study of several legislative bodies
of Europe, the results of which he will
give to the public in the shape af arti
cles in some of the magazines. It is
safe to say that be can visit every Eu
ropean capital without finding a single
legislative body which is run on the
principles of his late “bosinesa Con
gress.” Foreign statesmen familiar
with bis course as speaker may regard
him as a great American curiosity, but
they will not care to adopt his ingeni
ous way of counting quorums and his
other equally unique methods of de
stroying the power of a minority. Nor
as a crushed A merican czar will he out
any figure with the crowned beads of
Europe. They liave no use for fallen
potentates. He would do well, per
haps, to be rather stiy of snch people.
And not under any circumstance what-
iv ever should he visit the czar of Russia.
As a czar who bad been dethroned by a
great popular uprising no longer ago
than last November, he would be a
very unwelcome visitor, and the Rus
sian despot, fearing the effect of his ex
ample, would undoubtedly turn him
over to the tender mercies of the royal
cutioner;
I am going to give away goo
money. 25 Per Cent Reduction
Yard wide Sea Island Sheetiug 8c
quality, at 5c per yard; Dress checks
at 4c per yard; 19 pieces small Ging
ham Checks at 4c a yard; good twill-^
ed Feather Ticking at 9c per yard ;
Good soft yard wide Bleaching at 6c
a yard; 7*8 yard wide Bleaching at
4c a yard.
Pare Linen Towels at 8c; Imita
tion Lace Scrim, a novelty worth
16c. only 7c.*. Holland Window
Shades with complete spring fix
tures at 32c, with handsome dados;
Linen Damask Table Covers, a va
riety of qualities, the prices were
from $i 00 to $2 75—choice of the
lot $1 00.
This will be a
Embroideries.
Dress Ginghams,new spring goods
at 5c a yard, sell everywhere at 10c;
Choicest Spring Prints, very band-
some patterns at 5c a yard; One
dozen pearl Buttons and One Spool
of Thread, free of charge to every
dress pattern of 10 yards of Calicoes;
30 gross Peail Dress Buttons at 5u
per dozen; Spool Thread, at 3c a
spool. Only one dozen to every cus
tomer.
BIG SALE
To close out the stock of
Max Joseph.
Choice of lot No.
and 15c quality at 1
Choice of lot Nc
18c quality at 9c;
Choice of lot No.
quality at 10c;
Choice of lot'
25c. quality :
The choice
and 30c.
can have the choice at th!l
small sum of 35c. a yard, j
Now Read These.
THIS WEEK
j 25c. per yard. It is not 50c on
No. 2. The bal nee of the emir,
lot of very fine EmbroiberedFloa
c ug, which we sold before at
to *1 00, wi 1 go at 50c. per wd
j aoc. per yara. it is not OUC on ^ ^ to $2 00 per yard 1
the dollar of actual manufacturi g 3J?. .^ will go at 85c. a yard J
price, but like all other goods in J" 10 * this, study well—co® |
* — - ® buy and lay m your wants. 1
price, but like all other goods
the store, I will close out at auy
price to clear the store.
Then xt table is loaded with a I
ne line of very fine spring Dres
Goods. They are divided in iota, i
MAX JOSEPH.
FAR GREATER AND FAR GRANDER.
“The Farmers’ Alliance of Georgia
is greater and grander than the Gov
ernor of Georgia or the President of
the order or the official organ of the
order. Alliancemen stand always
ready to defend and uphold the grand
principles of the order, irrespective
of men.”—W. A. Broughton in Mad
isonian.
Now, here is sense, sure enough.
Mr. Broughton has always estabiishs
ed with unquestionable proof that
he was the farmer’s good friend, and
that he well deserved the high trust
that the Alliance has reposed in him.
He has always been found conser
vative in his expressions bearing
upon politics, but has never lost in
terest is the great cause of the Al
liance.
Mr. Broughton talks common sense
when he avows that the Alliance in
its original purpose is greater and
grander than any one man or set of
men in the order. This impression
which he urges the farmers to accept
is most timely just now, when minor
factions and petty quarrels threaten
to burst asunder many a tie that
binds Alliancemen together as breth
ren in a mutual cause-
The farmers could do nothing bet
ter than act upon the advice of Mr.
Broughton and stand nnited in the
crisis that is to come. Thz Banner
has confidence in the Alliance and
believes every man of them will stand
by the principles for which they have
so bravely fought irrespective ot
men, until the end.
McKINLEYISM’S CRIME.
Under the above heading the Chi
cago Herald scores it to the extrav
agant Fifty-First Congress in the
.following fashion : •
Both'of the chairmen of apolo
getics,” Cannon, of the house com
mittee, and Allison, of the senate
committee, admit that the Fifty-first
Congress appropriated 1988,410,129*
or $170,446,269 more than the Fif
tieth Congress appropriated. But
one of their own party organs re
miods them that they omitted a trifle
of $15,227,632 which goes as a grat
uity to certain states under the pre
tense Of refunding direct taxes paid
by individuals a quarter of a century
ago. Adding this item, we have a
total .of $1,003,637,671 voted away
by the Fifty-first Congress, or $185,-
674,901 more than was voted by the
Fiftieth Congress, according to their
own showing and the admission of
their own party organ. Probably
they omited the direct lax grab be
cause they knew it admitted of-no
»r. •< I ( r
apology- ^whatever. The suggestion
has been made that the states should
appropriate this money to world’s
fair purposes. As the suggesii >n
comes from republican sources it en
ables ns to form a fair estimate of
the sincerity of the pretense that the
money was intended for the individ-
als who paid the taxes.
Both of the “chairmen of the apol
ogetics” also make the point that
the large increase ia the appropria
tion for the agricultural department
was mainly on account of the trans
fer of the weather bureau from the
war department to the department
of agriculture. But they do not
seem to have noticed that this expla
nation makes it all the more difficult
to account for the increase of $32,-
085 in the army appropiiation bill
No wonder that the President wants
to abolish the •*chairmanship of
apologetics.”
The naked truth of the matter is
that the Fifty-first Congress voted
the treashry empty and created enor
mous permanent charges, some of
which will grow larger with the lapse
of time, simply to embarrass future
congresses and impede the progress
of.tariff reform. The AlcKinhyites
reasoned that if they should add
$60,000,COO or more to the annual
charges aod at the same time cat ofl
$60,000,000 or more of revenue, fu
ture congresses would have to in
crease the taxes instead of reducing
them, and would not venture to cm
down the monstrous McKinley taxes
on imports. Their purpose was to
fastea upon the country for an in
definite period a system which forces
the masses of the Ameiican people
to contribute hundreds of millions
yearly to the captains of pet indua*
tries, and which has already pros
trated the greatest of all industriis
—agriculture.
This purpose mast be defeated.
The house of the Fifty-second Con
gress should , not hesitate to take any
step which may be neoessary to de.
feat it and throw upon the senate
the responsibility for the frostation
of such step. It may stop the sugar
bounty of $10,000,000, which is likea
ly soon to grow to $20,000,000 or
more, and restore, wholly or in part,
the revenue tariff on sugar. It may
8top the growing ship subsidy expen
diture. It may purge the pension
rolls and modify oar prodigal pen
sion laws. That is to say, it may
offer measures for these purposes to
the senate for its concurrence or re
jection. And it may offer measures
reducing those McKinley taxes which
take from the pockets of the people
five dollars for private tribute where
they take one for public revenue. It
will be the duty of the new house to
lo all in its power to promote sonn
economy and commercial liberty,and
leave the senate and the party which
controls that body to bear the odium
which will come upon them if they
reject these wholesome measures.
A GRAND TRIUMPH.
Out o( the mud.
And pushing on to success with
rapid strides.
The progressive citizens took hold
of the reins yesterday and are now
driving the city chariot.
And they have determined not to
drive it through the mud, but over
Belgian block pavements.
Let no man say that Athens is
not waking up to her opportunities
and snpplj’iog every necessary de
mand made upon her for material
progress.
The verdict rendered yesterday at.
the polls was practically unanimous,
only a baker 8 dozen of votes being
cast against the bonds.
After the discussion of the sub.
jec», the < xcitcment of the vote and
the heat of the canvass, the happy
termination of the ballot put every
body tn a splendid humor.
The result of the election refutes
the oft-repeated assertion' that the
people of Athens never are nnited on
a measure. They stand as a man
for the development of the city. ,
Now that we' have tbe bonds and
will consequently have better.stieets
and sewers Jet the citizens of Athens
rejoice, and turn their energies to.-
wards the building of tbe Georgia
Midland.
Athens has starts 1, and you can’t
stop her.
Athens to Uniou Point against the
seeming carelessness of the Georgia
railroad officials, and the patronage
of tbe Georgia railroad ia growing
lighter every day.
It would be well for the compaoy
to look into this matter.
HUMOR OF THE MOMENT.
Tbe man w ho sells a sand Dit is a bole-
sold fellow.—Yorders Gazette.
The perfumer is always known as a
eccntsable fellow.—Birmingham Repub
lican.
Many a stove manufeturer has worked
up a grate reputation.—Dausville
Breeze.
The tugboat and the chiropodist are
always looking after tows — Boston Bul
letin.
The Secretary of Agriculture should
bring his works oat in cereal form.—
Washington Star.
A well digger who retired from busi
ness explained that he had grown
weary in well doing.—Texas Siftings.
Performing elephants always wear
trunks when they' are perfoiraing their
acrobatic feats.—Yonkers Statesman.
Nothing ever wrs made in vain.
Even Ifoardiug house pie crust can be
utilized for whetstone.—Richmond Re
corder.
L0NGSTREET IS COMING.
THE MEMORIAL • ASSOCIATION
SENDS THE INVITATION
And the Veteran’s Association Begs
That the Old War Horse Will Come—
What Memorial Day Will be.
Politeness always pays. When your
tailor calls to collect a bill, nothing is
lost by asking him to call again.—You-
kers Statesman-
CALLED HOME.
THE CEORGIA RAILROAD;
Until recently the Georgia Rai
road has held . the good opinion of
all Athenians who have called it the
“Old Reliable” railroad of the South.
The road by its attention to every
department won more favor and tbe
greatest patronage of all the roads
running into Athens, and so long as
the company had kept up their well
spent efforts the road would still be
enjoying the same good favor.
But a mighty change is being
wrought of late. Of all the rail
roads that come to Athens tbe Geor
gia is the most poorly equipped with
rolling stock. The passenger cars
are so dingy and shabby that nobody
cares to enter them, saying nothing |
of riding in them several hours.
Complaint that is genuine and'
abundant is heard all over the city j
and along the branch road from
Death of Mrs. Asa M. Jackson Yes
terday.
One <>f Athens’ (host es i no able ladies
answered the call of her Master yester
day morning.
Mrs. As i M. Jackson, widow of the
la‘e vsa M. Jackson, of this city, died
at her residence on Broad street after a
short illness.
The many estimable qualities that
graced her Christian life made for her
hosts of friends who today mourn her
death.
: As a young lady she was Miss Evie
Harden, one of the Classic City’s most
queenly amt-attractive maideus. She
married Judge Asa M. Jackson, who
was the first ordinary of Clarke county,
and who died'abnut two years ago. Mi s.
Js -kson was a sister of >irs. S C. Reese,
of this city. She leaves one daughter.
Miss Evie Jackson to mourn the depart
ure of a sainted toother. <
The funeral exercises' will occur at
the Presbyterian church at lU o’clock
this morning, and the remains will be
laid to rest in the family burying
grounds at Watkinsville.
RAILROAD RACKET.
THE R. & D. WILL SOON TAKE |
CHARGE OF THE C. &M.
Both the Northeastern and the Cov- j
Ington and Macon Will be Vastly l» j
proved-Imnortant Railroad Newt It]
Georgia.
BADLY SHOT.
Tom Tatum Snfferlng From a Self
Inflicted Wound.
He didn’t know it was loaded.
And has holes in him now.
Such is the fate of a negro restauraut-
er, Tom Tatum.
If is the same old story.
He was sitting down fooling with the
pistol and it went off.
The bullet struck Tom in the stomach
and inflicted a very-serious wound.
A physician was called in and pro
nounced the wound very dangerous.
Tatum may get yrell aud he may die.
Only lime wilf show.
Sang TUI the Panic Was Over.
Salt Lake, Utah, March 26.—{Spe
cial.]— During a special service for
printers aud reporters at St. Paul's
chapel last night the pillars supporting
the floor gave way. The choir was
singing a hymn when the floor sunk,
and there was a report like a clap ot
thunder. A panic was averted by the
prompt action of the pastor and by the
choir epotinuing its’song.
The Memorial Association will cele
brate memerial day with genuine faith-
fullness and enthusiasm.
There was never, in fact, more inter
est manifested in the association than
now, and the love that Athenians bear
for their dead heroes grows fonder year
by year.
All the ladies who compose the Me
morial Assoc ation are already hard at
work in the preparation of fit ceremo
nies for the celebration of tbe annual
day set apart for the honoring of dead
confederates.
It will, from the present outlook, be
the greatest event of its kind known in
the history of the Ladies’ Memorial As
sociation. The full programme will be
anuounced withing a- few days in Thb
Banner for the benefit of the old vet
erans and let cverbody hope to see as I
many of the soldiers rally that day as
can possibly come to Athens.
Let it be a big day for the old boys
Who wore gray.
THE OLD WAR HORSE COKING.
General Longstreet will come to Ath
ens to join in the expressions of love
for our old warriors that are gone.
The following announcement has been
issued by the ptesident of the Ladies’
Memorial Association.
Notice.—At a recent meeting of the
members of Ladies’ Memorial Associa
tion it was decided to invite General
Longstreet to be present on m morial
day, the Veterans’ Association l aving
petitioned the Memorial Association to
do so. Mrs. B. R. Hill,
Pr> sidetit.
It is understood that General Long
street will accept the invitation tender
ed him by tbe Ladies’ Memorial Asso-
cition. f u , •
BETSY HAMILTON TO BEAD.'
Who has uot hoard of the famous Bet?
sy Hamilton?
She has kindly agreed to‘come to Ath
etis and give one of her readings iu cos
tume for the Memorial Association’s
benefit.
It will occur on April the tenth in
the new opera house, the use of the hajl
having been generously offered to the
ladies.
The money coming from this enter
tainment will be expended by the Asso
ciation towards putting tombstones over
the graves of all unknown soldiers of
the confederacy buried beneath the sod
of Oconee cemetury.
For the s«ke of the cause, and for the
merit of the entertainment itself, it is
safe to predict that the opera house will
be crowded when Betsy Hamilton ap
pears April tenth.
Mr. Ebb P. Upshaw will deliver tbe
address on memorial day. „ V "*
I A Dwelling Burned.
I Chipley, Ga., March 26.—[Special]—
Mr. N. H. Sledge’s dwelling house and
furniture was bnrned here last nigbe.
; it caught from a defective stove fine in
t some way. Lass about $l,s00; insur
ance $760.
The time is drawivg very near iw
for the Richmond and Danville to nli
charge of the Covington & Macon.
When this is done Athens will p
another impetus and will be greatl;
benelitted by the deal.
The rumor that the deal was not gen
uine, and that the bid of the Richmoii
and Danville would not hold good 07erj
the Covington and Macon has come it |
nothing aud the G.& M. will g) inn
tbe hands of tbe R. & D. and opentel
with the Northeastern, forming »I
through lino to tbe South at an ear;/
day.
Both of the roads will he handsomeif
improved. The jron is already on tbe
road, and will so»n arrive in Athens,
when new nils aud new ties will be
laid the eutire length of th : North#,*-
tern and much of the way down the
Covington and Macon.
Gen. Alexander said yesterday to i
Savannah Norning News reporter, M
he expects the Central will begin hand
ling in a few days the Gould freight!,
mention of which was made in the Tbt
News a few-lays ago. He added tbit
the Central is fully equipped with roU-
ing stock to 1 a idle whatever freights
turned over to its lines.
the largest part of the business hit-
died for the Goulds for the present vih
be from the north to thn west via th*
Oc-an Steamship Company’s vessel*.
In regard lo the grain busintss Go-
eral Alexander does not think »’!
great any great amount of the cei«!
will.be brought through Sav u nah I*
some time, as it is mostly shipped i«
bulk and could nut very well be trace
shipped from here. However, it 11
probable that arrangements v. ill *
>’ a le later on for this portion of tW
business
General Ah xunder is now consider-
i' g plans for two new steamers for
New York line. These vessels w ill w
similar io tbe Kausas City in bo*
speed and appoiutments. The oruri
Will be placed sometime during i“ e
summer.
The Central’s presinent, in speakef
of tbe bright prospects in store for b»'
vannah, said that many people expre*
cil themselves as fearful of the reJtw*
when norther.) men seenred control *
the road, but bethinks, iu the 1 ig ,,r **
past and recent events, that their leno
have vanished.
“At the time.” said Gen. Ah-xxuJth
“I told them that instead of being c»P'
tured by northern men they were
captors, as these men came here andI w
vest id their money in properties wn 1 ^
could not be removed, and every
expended by them to further devew?
the investment would accrue to the »“*
vantage of the city and people. I d“ D
my prediction has been verified.
The recent rumors of strikes on
East Tennessee road are regardco *
more sensational than real, and not
»il likely to effect Macon. M
Superintendent Murphy, was seen J
the Telegraph yeaterduy, said th«*
he knew about the strike was what
had seen in the newspapers.” u .
-erted that there were not even any ’
mors of trouble among the employe - .
his division, and that every tbmsf
working along as smoothly as couio
The East Tennessee train ran
for the first ti**J
Brunswick yesterday ior m« hn |
i n four or five days, having been
out by high wider on the track w*
- by I
Sand Hill.