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Mr. mills on reciprocity.
Mr. Blaine is a circumspective, as
tule and wiry politician. He has a
■way of mystifying everything upon
which he lays his sleek fingers so
that the people are blinded into be
lieving him an honest hearted states
men, who forsooth, at times would
even forget his party for the people
and the whole people’s good.
Mr. Blaine’s iridescent dream of
reciprocity with which be has charm
ed the weak hearted Democrats of
the North perhaps into the’ belief
that he seeks to lay aside rank Re
publican protection to give their
country freer and more wholesome
trade, has about collapsed at last,
and the grand rascal has been uncov
ered frem his mask of delusive reci
procity.
Mr. Mills is the man who did it.
We do not see how even the faintest
hearted Democrat who believes in ‘‘a
tariff for revenue only” can read the
paper on reciprocity by Mr. Mills in
the May number of The Forum,
without seeing the true inwardness
of the administration’s scheme to
condemn it. In that paper Mr. Mills
shows that Mr. Blaine, in his pro
posed agreement with the South
American countries seeks to place
on the free list of exports only those
productions that come from the
shops of the manufacturers. The
farmers’ agricultural products are
not “in it,” to use the common par
lance of the day.
But hearken unto the clinching
testimony of Mr. Milts against Mr.
Blatne in this case:
Our prosperity depends five times
as much upon cur exports of agri
cultural products as upon our ex
ports of manufactured products, and
the benefit to the farmer of free trade
with the southern countries would
be practically nothing. It is the in
terest of the protected manufacturer
that points southward. The interest
of the unprotected farmer points
eastward. We must open wider the
markets of the East for our farm
products, or our farmers will sound
a still greater depth of distress.
The Administration asks that the
markets of the manufacturer shall
be expanded, but that the markets
of the farmer shall be contracted
Wise statesmanship asks that all
markets be enlarged, and that every
obstruction to trade be removed at
every point of the compass; that no
burden, except taxation for the sup
port of government, shall be imposed
on any article; and that, when it is
imposed for revenue, it shall be
placed on such articles and at such
rates as will, with revenues from
other sources, be sufficient to sup
port an honest and economical ad
ministration of government with the
least possible disturbance of private
business.
Again, Mr. Mills strikes a stout
blow in the name of his country’s
Democracy when he says:
We should enlarge, as far as we
icaD, all markets for all products, and
"not lock up our agricultural products
while throwing wide the gates for
the export of manufactures. More
over, in all things we should deal
frankly with the people. We should
not call a steel rril a bushel of wheat
or a locomotive a barrel of pork.
The markets of the South would be
valuable to our manufacturers, and
we ought to do all wc can to secure
them; but we should not secure
them for the benefit of monopolies,
but for the benefit of all our people.
The right way to secure tnem is to
produce our goods at less cost and to
carry them and offer them for sale.
We can produce them at less cost by
removing all taxes from the materials
that are used in making them. This
\ policy would open the foreign market
for our goods and enlarge the domes
tic market; for our best market is
the home market, and it is a good or
a bad market just m proportion to
the amount and value of the sorplus
that we export.
And this is the whole matter in a
nutshell. Discerning men can see
at a glance that the Republican ad
ministration has hit upon this reci
procity scheme simply to beguile the
general public into sympathv wi h
the Republican party. The wide
spread opposition to protective tariff
increasing every day with the intol
erable operation of the McKioly bill,
has driven the Republicans to some
recourse such as this, and Mr. Blaine
is the man who has devised the
method.
But Mr. Blaine’s little game wont
work. He has shown his hand too
early in the game. Reciprocity each
as the Republicans would have, is a
synonym of rank protection.
IT IS MAX JOSEPH,
THE DRY GOODS DICTATOR I
I have closed out my cloth
ing and I will further close
out my Dry Goods and
Shoes. My entire Cloth
ing stock I have sold out,
and I will not be known as
Clothier. But my Dry
Goods stock I have on hand
yet. and ere long all of
these will be gone.
For a short while I will
make things hum, I will
scatter Dry Goods and
Shoes at fabulous low pri
ces—such prices as you
have never heard of before.
A great many thought it to
be an advertisement
scheme, but since I have
£one out of the Clothing
business, hundreds have
come to my store, merch
ants as well as cansumers
of Dry Goods, and are buy
ing lively now. j
Pi ices are my chief ruler.
Prices are what you want.
Prices make the goods go.
Prices you shall have.
Prices way off from the
reach oT competitors I give
you.
At 5c. per yard 16 pieces fine Sea
Island Sheeting, yard wide;
At 8£c. a yard 190 yards black French
Satteen, very fine.
At SJc. a yard 418 yards Mourning
. ‘ | French Satteens, finest quality, in
XTlCeS for this svcck s stripes and small figures*
cial sale, a large lot
Summer Goods to
be closed out:
At 2£c per yard fine Satteen Rem
nants;
At 3c. per yard 985 yds fig’d Lawn;
At 3c per yd. 1248 yds. Spring Calico.
At 3c. per yard 2432 yards fine grade
Challie;
At 4c per yard White Lawna;
At 4^c per ycL.elegant check Nainsooks
At 44c. per yard Shirting Calicoes;
At 4£c per yard 40 pieces Checks;
At 4£e. per yard 30 pieces Shirting;
At 64c per yard 160 yards black
French Lawn;
At 6£c. per yard 140 yards French
Mourning Lawns;
At 5e. per yd fine French Mousseline.
At 64c. per yard white ground col
ored and black fig’d French Lawns.
At (54c. per yard 390 yards finest
quality Batiste;
At 84c. per yard 430 yards Llama
cloth, worth 20c. per yard ; a very
fine texture of very soft Summer
Dress goods, in Polkadots and
figures.
At 10c. a yard 430 yards Persian
■Lawns in plaids, perfect beauties.
Extra Special Sale of Fine
Fabrics.
White Goods.
At 20c. a yard, worth 40c., 6 pieces
Persian White Mull Crochet upon
worked, in striped.
At 15c a yard, woi th 35c., 8 pieces
White Spanish fine Piaid Lace Mulls,
the handsomest White Mulls for
Summer Dresses.
At 15c. a yard, 9 pieces broken
White Plaid Persian Lawns, Satin
broken plaids.
At 15c. a yard, worth 30c., Satin
Striped Lawns.
This special sale of the
finest imported White
goods, will be the greatest
Bargain for very fine goods.
It will be an aristocratic
treat to you to see these.
You are cordially invited
to attend this sale.
Bleaching and 10-4 Bleach
ed Sheeting Sale. Won
derful Bargains. Will
close out Monday
the entire line.
68 pcs, equal to Wamsutta Bleaching,
ia one length, from 10 to 20 yards, to
close out at 74c. a yard, worth 114c.
wholesale. Limit from 10 to 20 yards
as the piece contains, to one custo
mer.
390 yards, equal to Fruit of Loom,
in length from 6 to 10 yards to the
piece, at 64c.. a yard, worth 94c.
wholesale; two pieces to each cus-
t mer.
8 pieces good quality 7-8 yard wide
Bleaching at 5c. a yard* worth 74c.
wholesale.
4 pi< ces yard wide fine soft finish
Bleaching, 9c. quality, at 6c. per yd.
Special Sale, closing out
White Counterpanes and
Crochet Bedspreads at 90c,
apiece for choice, of the
$1 00.1 50, 2 00 and 2 50
grade.
On account of having
been compelled to vacate
the Comer Store, my entire
line of Shoes is in the Dry
Goods room now. This
crowded me very much.
Gere is a room maker for
you. Big display on left
side of store.
Great Clearing Shoe Sale
Don’t miss your chance,
At 75c. a pair for the $1 75 Ladies
Kid Button Shoes.
At $1 00 a pair for the 1 75 Ladies
Dongola Button and Lace Shoes.
At 1 25 for the 2 00 French Kid
and Dongola But'on Ladies.
At 1 50 for the 2 25, 2 50 and
2 75 Ladies French Kid Dongola But
ton Shoes in Opera and Common
Sense.
At 1 50 for the 2 50 Morocco L;.—
dies Lace Patent Leather Tip, Satin
Lined Shoes.
Will you now postpone
your purchase ? You don’t
want to be late. Come
early to get your size.
Special sale of Men’s Shoes
At 1 00 a pair 140 pa i rs v
2 00 Congress and Bals. ‘ 60 *
At 125 a pair, for all th b 2 00
Lace or Congress or Calf Shoes
At 1 60 a pair 63 pairs Don*
Lace and Congress, Wort h 2 5 0 ° t
2 75. u
At 1 75, all the 2 50, 2 75 , ,
3 50 Shoes. °
At 2 00 a pair, choice of fi ne ^
of Patent Leather Lace and Cong rfj ,
Shoes. Were sold at 2 50, 3 oo\ ,
4 00. ^
To My Friends and Patrons
1 bid farewell to the elo
thing trade they have so
liberally bestowed upon me
and with it 1 can assure the
public that my successor,
Mr. M. bramson. will do
his utmost to continue the
luxurious trade so well pa
tronized heretofore, * *
The Dry Goods and Shoe
business will be conducted
by me and receive my spe-
cial attention un.il all «
closed out.
Respectfully,
MAX JOSEPH,
our schools, books that were written
in the North, and contain matter
calculated to teach the children that
their fathers were traitors and rebels.
We do not write in a revolutionary
spirit. We cherish the glory of
American institutions.
But we do maintain that the duty
of the South is clear and plain in
this matter. Our fathers fought for
sacred principles. These principles
we shall perpetuate.
We propose to keep hammering
away until every book of such nature
as to teach our children erroneously
is taken from our schools.
We have plenty of good text books
written by Southern authors. We
want to see them used in our schools.
We close our article with these
propositions :
Such books are iniquitous in their
teaching.
And they must go !
PERPETUATE THE PRINCIPLES.
There is one thing that we intend
to do as long as we wield a pen on
Tm: Banner, and that is to condemn
the present way of insinuating into
ANDREW J. COBB.
Athens has just reason to be proud
of such a citizen as Andrew J. Cobb.
Asa citiz.-n, he has ever been
active and energetic in doing all in
his power to advance the interests of
the city. As a lawyer, he hps car
ried out a splendid reputation at the
bar, and is steadily rising in bis pro
fession.
Up to a few months since, it was
the settled opinion of the State that
the General Assembly had no power
under the Constitution to make an
appropriation for an exhibit at an
exposition such as the World’s Fair;
but this able young lawyer of the
city of Athens has come forward
with the convincing opinion that the
appropriation can be made without
violating the Constitution in letter
or spirit.
His opinion, published in The
Banner some time Bince, started a
movement for a convention, and last
Wednesday that convention was held
in Atlanta.
Mr. Cobb delivered an elaborate
opinion before the convention, and
his reasoning was so logical and
c mvincing that, the convention act
ing on his opinion of the law, re
quested the General Assembly to ap
propriate the sum ot one hundred
thousand dollars, to provide for a
suitable exhibit for Georgia at the,
the
Columbian Exposition.
Speaking of the opinion,
Atlanta Journal says:
‘‘The able opinion delivered by
the Hon. Andrew J. Cobb on the
constitutionality of an appropria
tion by the Stat,e and the indorse
ments of his views by other able
lawyers, it may be concluded, re
moved all doubts in the minds of the
delegates of the power of the State to
make and pay the expenses as an ex
hibit”
The Aagusta Chronicle and other
papers in the State also compliment-
ed Mr. Cobb very highly. He was
the toast of the convention, and his
reputation as a lawyer of profound
ability is second to none in the
State.
The Boss, a newspaper published
ia Arp, Georgia, is much frightened
at the prospect of war with Italy.
He writes as follows:
People of Arp, in time of peace
prepare for the exigencies of war!
You know what a war cloud has of
late been hovering over this country
and Italy. It would be of interest
for you to know why it did not burst,
Italy well knew the great moral force
back of the United States, The Boss.
And well might she hesitate before
she dared to defy this power! Bnt
in a moment of desperation goaded
on by the populance, Italy might de
clare war against the Union.
priving Brooklyn of her wealthiest
and mostgenerou8 citizen. His fors
tune is estimated at from $15,000,
000 to 820.000,000, and he gave
away millions during his lifetime.
He started out without a dollar, and
closed his career with more thou
sands than he could count. He fur
nishes yet another instance ot how
rapidly great fortunes are made in
this wonderful country of ours.
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Away out in Texas the people are
still rebels of the first water. The
New South doesn’t live on Texas soi;
to judge from the circulation ofthi
following little piece of dog-gerc|
that the newspapers are circulating-
Oh! I'd a good old rebel,
Now that’s just what lam;
For the “ fair land or freedom”
1 do not care a d—.
Wl I Ifc
The large fountain erected at Mil
waukee in honor of Henry Bergh has
arrangements for watering horses
and dogs, bnt none for thirsty men.
They are expected to satisfy their
thirst with Milwaukee beer, probab
ly-
Hon. Andrew J. Cobb of Athens,
is the biggest man in Georgia today,
for the satisfactory settlement of the
World’s Fair question was the big
gest work for Georgia that has late
ly been felt.
The following from the Dallas
News puts the mother-in-la* in a
new light:
The vainest person yon ever saw
Is the ostentatious mother-in-law.
IT STILL COMES IN.
COTTON IS STILL KEEPING THE
MERCHANTS BUSY.
IT HAS BEEN HELD BACK.
What the Winter Has Been to Athens
In a Cotton Way-The Trade Has
Increased Wonderfully and the
Increase Will be Greater.
THE NE -V COURT HOUSE.
Cotton Is still coming in.
And now the cotton men are almost
as busy as they were in the midst of the
season.
It is a remarkably late ending for the
season and the reason of this rush at
this time is due to several causes.
The season has been a remarkable one 1 ,'pV—“ nrawmx me tax rare?
in more ways than one, and one that' aretalkta^L^f io,w « uy ‘ >u whiju th «y
will long be remembered by both buy- ~!i a i! C . , . n «’**“* «obe
era and sellers of the fleecy staple.
The market now has reached a point
Has the Project Fallen Through Al
ready.
The Grand Jury recommended the
sale of tne court house grounds and
building and the construction of a new
court house in the central portion of
t.iecity. And a committee was ap
pointed to look after the sale.
But that is nothing more than other
grand juries have done.
Ihis thing has often been recom
mended. but the new court house hus
uot yet been built.
The committee met and appointed a
sub-committee to see if the city wanted
the present court house for a school
building. Will the city take it? Well,
the general opinion seems to he that
the trade will not be consummated.
bunt? wU1 the new court h 01186 ^
That is a question, indeed. The
Grand Jury imposed the restriction
upon the committee that the tax rate
should not be increased.
Can the county build a new court
house without increasing the tax rare 1 *
These are — !
ACCIDENTLY SHOT.
MR. HENRY MCDONALD, OF «.
LANTA, SERIOUSLY HURT.
SHOT HIMSELF IN THE CHEST
Ho Was Riding In a Carriage and At
tempting to Load a Pistol When It
Was Accidently Discharged—
the Wound Is Very
Dangerous.
But you I* bY,u« to fear | lu^^'lSSSSTloS?
in the mountains of Ga., away from 000. This is right and Georgia can
all danger. Rash people! Don’t you easilv afford it & aD
all danger. Rash people! Don’t you
know that she could reach oar very
gates.
This is how she coaid come:—
Barn Savannah, pass up the Sa
vannah river, into the Broad, thence
up its various tributaries into the
Hudson, steam npto Martins bridge
and anchor in 24 miles of The Boss
office! From here she coaid hail
bomb alter bomb into the great me
tropolis of Arp, and before The Boss
could interfere, do immeasnrable
damage. And far more terrible than
bombs, she conld turn loose a whole
army of organ-grinders and monkeys
on ns!
People of Arp, yon see the danger!
Arms! Arms!! Rush to Martins
bridge with torpedos, with sand-
crackers and there prepare to defend
your city from the Lepanto and
Duello, or determine to shed oceans
ot blood (which can ran through
Mr. Brocks canal) for vour city,
country and native land* (the ten
ants can shed tears for other people’s
land )
Right now!! To arms! To arms!!
“I au the son of Asa Pratt, a hard
working cabinet maker, who toiled
from daylight until dark, in order
that his family often children might
get a subsistence. All I am I owe
to the kindly endeavors of bis bard
toiling oitizen, who impressed upon
bis children never to waste time nor
money.” That is the simple story
of bow tbs late Charles Pratt begnu
a career which hss joat ended, de-
easily aflord it.
It rainetb on the just and the un
just alike,” and still we are not
trappy!
A Glorious old picnic to-day in
the wild woods.
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The Central railroad is going to
fix up the Covington and Macon.
The
thing.
midsummer festival is the
But, don’t those town fellows play
ball? v J
Athens gets gayer every day.
A SLIGHT BLAZE
And the Department Waa Prompt In
Its Work.
Yesterday morning about half past
three an alarm of fire waa turned in and
the attention of the citizens was turned
towards Waddell street where a bright
blaze waa seen which illumined the
whole neighborhood.
The lire department came out quickly
and were soon on the scene of the con-
uigration.
it was the kitchen and out house of
Dr. J. E. Pope, and they had nearly
burned down when the department
arrived. But through the efforts of the
department, the flames wereconfiuedto
the burning buildings and kept from
8pieading to the main building.
The loss was very slight.
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In Good Shape.—The drives around
Athens are all getting
and are crowded with
evening.
where to sell means absolute loss, if the
cotton has been held , for any length of
time, and yet the majority of planters
are so situated that to sell is a necessity
88 the supplies for the coming year mu»t
be bought and those used in the vea r
just passed must be paid for.
That being the case cotton which has
been held so long for better prices is now
coming into the market with a rush.
about the season.
The season which has just passed has
been one that has shown up Athens to a
great advantage and proved that her
merchants are wide awake and her cot
ton buyers equal to the work they have
to do.
The receipts last year were about
90,000 bales and this year will foot up
in fiwi 1 , 100,0 2?* n increase of at least
10,000 bales. This is very noticeable
when it is considered that the majority
of this cotton comes into Atbensin wag
ons and every load represent a trader
As the years go by Athens’ repute-
tion spreads and goes abroad in the
land and when the sensible and practi
cal farmers decide that it is a good town
m which to trade that may safelv be
put down as a fact, which no envy or
jealousy can shake.
Athens' merchants are always spread-
ing out their trade and this is exempli
fied in the cotton trade more than in
anything else.
that happy time,
11 vyuiuvu occ
very diverse upon the matter.
slowlyon*'* 16 th ® courts °* justice grind
THE AGRICULTURAL CONVENTION
That Meets In Athens Next August.
„ 4 1 !good news, very good news,
and should make every citizen of 4th-
k?, r f ad8 U Prouder or his town,
but there is a happier and better day
w,1 cn the present prosperity
TW £ me b «Y, *‘ de ° r th « to bom*
**,. when the Georgia,
^ orthern railroad is com!
Pil eted ii n ^ > Ath ® 18 ‘ Then indeed will
boomed before and’tak^* on a^ewiife
“*
There -.tilbe a wonderfully rich te -
i w t* sned “P Athens, a territory
which has never been touched by
the merchants of this place and s terri
tory which will be a source of great
revenue, if it ia properly worked. ***
the .?/' V* ®running, and a
cqtton re-
grow until 'hey pass the
citStoSs. dream8 ° f her m ° 81 enthusiastic
It is several months yet before the, Ag
ricultural Convention meets in Ath-
But the people of this city and sec-
tion are not sleeping meanwhile.
«i v at bod 7 convenes mtheClas-
sic City her people intend showing the
members that they have missed a great
deal by not meeting here before.
fJL h l ,arm ? r8are P oin * to display be
fore them the results of their labors to
wards the upbuilding of the agricultu
ral interests of the section, and ths citi-
ze ?f H xt *» oin g them a ro yai ovation.
Dr. Newton, of the Farmers’ Club,did
a grea. deal for Clarke pounty when be
nnS h, th ® exhibit at the last State Fair
tnin^h 'j 1 i h® will be on baud to enter-
tato the delegates in his own inimitable
A grand reception will be given the
farmers next August when they assem
ble in this city and they will be showi
that, although this is called the Classh
th«»’m er P?®? 1 ® ar .® stiu in touch with
wo wifi? °* i he in hea «y accor*
USM e,r interests and advancement
and determined to help raise the educa
tional interests of Georgia far highm
than they are now or have ever been.
a.T° ,I Tk U D t,LLU “ General Assem-
BLY.—rhe Banner on yesterday re
ceived a large, handsomely engraved
dornth r 0 " f i rOIU the general assembly of
1 co'cpration of their first meeting which
took plage in May, 1091, in the citv ef
Columbia. On the first page is the in-
nwmMnfbeautifully engraved, with the
names of the committees below. Inside
17fll bl wW o® Vi ‘‘ WS , of th ® Columbia oi
y as no * much else but for
est and plains, and the Columbia of
today a thriving and prosperous rival
of many a southern sister city. The
terLfln^ c ® nta,D8 an elaborate and in
teresting programme, which extends
iKHf{ thr i e ®l lavs, I roai M .»y 19th to the
16th inclusive. Many visitors from all
over the Southern StateB will be pres
ent on the occasion, and the South Car
olinians will entend a hearty welcome
to th*ir guests. A large party will go
over from Athens and irom other Geor-
gia cities, audit is needless to say tffi
with the recollections and ^sentiments
r fe and W J th lhe ma £uiflcent military
s '2fiwiFsnfiw35
at the centen-
Mr. Henry McDonald, of At’anta.
Was accidently shot last tight.
And is in his room at thy Jonmwcii
Hotel very dangerously wounded.
The shooting waa accidentally dee
as at the time, according to the Mali
nieut *f Mr. McDonald, and the driven
the cartage. Ike Williams, he wasu
tempting to load a pistol.
Which was discharged, the bullet ei
taring his left breast one inch above tl
nipple and ponetrating tha lungs.
HOW IT WA8.DONK.
Last night about half past oin
o’clock Mr. McDonald got in a carrias
driven by Ike Williams, and started I
Milledge avenue. There were tw
trunks in in the carriage whieh were I
to be delivered at Mrs. Lipscombs, o
Milledge avenue. When the cams*
arrived there the driver stopped to pi
off the trunks and Mr. McDonald gi
out.
He said that he was going up tt
street and told the driver to wait a fei
minutes as he might return and go bac
down town.
Before the driver had put off the sec
ond trunk Mi. McDonald appeared an;
said that he had been unable to get i
and would go back with him. Whei
the trunks were delivered the trip
begun for the city.
J ust before the carriage reached the
home of Col. Goodloe Yaucey Mr. Mo
Donald asked the driver if be could
ioad a pistol and reoeived an answer i-
he affirmative. The driver auppo^
chat Mr. McDonald had the pistol in bh
■land and told him not to point it to-
vards him.
Mr. McDonald said laughinghly,
“Well, 1 don’t reokon 1 will shootmj
self.’*
, The next minute there was sn expk>
siod and he-Called to the driver that b<
was shot and told him to hurry to th<
hotel.
The driver thought that he was joking
and it waa several minutes before be
realized the fact that be was carrying 8
badly wounded man.
^The hotel was finally reached, Mr.
McDonald carried to his room and ®ed-
ical assistance summoned. ,
Drs. Benedict and Goss responded
and made an examination, with there-
suit above mentioned.
A wouuu through the lungs is eery
dangerous and the chances are ag-un**
Mr. McDonald’s recovery, although he
may pud through.
Mr. McDonald has been in Ath
f«r a week or more and is well known
and popular all over the State. ^
He is the son of Rev. Dr. Henry
Donald, pastor of the Second Bsptwt
church of Atlanta, and numbers b»
friends by rhe score, and one »nd* u
will be grieved to hear of bis unfortu
nate accident. • .
telegrapledtol**
hly rfrfve todsjr.
resting
nate accident.
'uTwAlmS
vehicle* every __ , — nial celebrationhf th e tenor„?!o C ® nt ^* At a late hour he was resting
jllcBlwc* Win#of Parttaitprwc«k»*fT*«,|oi fhe Falmetto State. S ucra l assembly and quietly^and waa. ha pcrfifit