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ABOFT SHODlfi SIIOKS.
BOLES 1 HAT LAST A WEEK, AND
WILL NOT BEAR WETTING.
UnpoHltioi s*n*t ji«c«.|^fun Carried
on ri tli* Exp*»i«i« of the Poorer daettre.
Canine, Home U»r.lo, i»ti-Mannr. o
-nr« «f Mmm dy Goods. ^
Jbr In the manufacture of hot md > m>-s
men, women and chiklreirsome of the
g ossosfc impositions and dee ptions are
earned on. A well informed mechanic
said to a reporter the other day:
“It is aw outrage that manufacturers of
boots find shoes should be permitted to
throw such trash as they do ,pon the
market. I only Why, just look at my »hoen, and
bought them last wer g. .My test
arc almost on the ground. I might >***
said to be ‘walking on my uppers. > ) I
“What’s the trouble?” wiIh asked.
“Trouble! wh , there’s trouble* enough;
and i am only to out of thirty or tarty
thousand person. in thb city who have
Shui victimized by the Manufacturers arid
retnlhu's of U;esc dio< dy shoes ' Tu n 1
first pu* on tiie jo/noee I am nov oaring
they looks d as welt as any to Kj se,»n m
the Itroad'.vay or Fifth avenue stores; bn
wifi; the first rainstorm the notes began to
peel off, and upovi exam jjion l found
that, tho bottoms a? my «hres were made
up of paper and sen m of leather, which
at first had the upper ranee of leather I
Went to the store \vu re, hod pure ha *©<5
them, but Ik bens gave me no fac¬
faction. He sail ho didn’t tuskb 1 wuu
told tm*. ! had < .ght them chcr *, a.. ,
* mevvhet iusoieutiy \vnnt»! tokn «v >, hat
e.vpocteil to get for $8. 1 told *i p i,i
plain wards that 1 expected to ^f t ..
shoe for that money, j Uhbvrrd him t u
jpaper .vfics m toy shoes, but ti.ahs nil toe
goo» 0 did me’. I licenced hiir, Mug a
swindler, pointed to Dk* '•.itmicn o« hoxe^
rf shoes abmil thi* store from whiel, i ha
Eecu him Like the same is no u:, but ho
took the matt* r bo e Hilly that l made up
my mind he wes t\E-*d to t He h - d a
well u *a iii* V • *>d store and! =1 ofes^wt to :ia*y
good &. toe 9T , which on «c uuuv of X big
trade, he could - r-~ ord to ceil coin T* are
tively cheap. A c* iht turn there wa.- *1
number of \vt»W dressed women ii:j the
Stan, and vvl n they saw Uu p iper r u d
shoes 1 h-du up, and heard what I he .
say about the goods on hand, they U
cwl up their akiiaj and walked o.a ■*- ut
the proprietor didn’t K«r 11 to miud U. as
lrn knew that his low priced sH that
w r.v labeled 1a the winoow'S would draw
in plenty of e.tstom. 1 tell yc ^ir, I’m
u hard vvork’.nj u..in, and haven large
f.itr.ily to car*, in r, but ith money, money
all the time tu buy uhoes for my vlilldren.
I’m a mechanic, and 1 know iow good
work ought to sta.id.”
Another workman with whom tor \e
porter tor.ver^nl ro*at©il pretty much tbo
same e'qierieuoe :'n eguM to sh- *» that
he lnvd ’nought, for his boys, and U ent
ally im ntioned a rei'ent experience his
wife, bhe lia t on a pair of iowcu u. ne s,
h*td, cbunctng to get tsrugbt in u heavy
ruluotorm, came home ulmost barciooted.
The water 3 id soaked through the paste
or comjrosiUon, and ihe outer sole. ap. r
cutty of kathe** luul nearly peeled of*,
The inside sole was cuy paner. T« m
man’s experience W'«s <ba' these shoea
would wear off -0 gradually in very dr
west nor that a good v>iiv.y couldn't 1 tic
it; but let them be worn out once or t vice
m .» rainstor. n and then the wearer
would wonder w h.P made the . ulss pot!
off. lie said that he hod to buy ss cheaply
as poss’bie, t. I no matter in what store
on (h B*iw< or about the avenues he
traat-i. *\ie proprietot or hi» ck*rk wm
always vri)’:lag to take an natn that the
shoes v ere "cgulrrly aew*>- “l * ell you
what, sir ” hi said, bluntly, “these are
th days for trying men’s soles,*’ and the
apeaL'n* laughed rn, the old joke.
Several reputable libotmakers denouncod
the in»rmsitk>us that wei*o practiced in the
iranmacture of shoddy ahovs, as j» was
very severe upon men who h* c to work
hard for their money, nini only gel small
wages the best. One of these slioe
i vvl w* s&id:
“Most $t ihe cheap goods sold in 2 .*v
1’ork and elsutvhere a- made in Mavs-v
ciiuscltes, mostly by 'tiacbinery, opd the
niauafiiclv'tvrs u -c t’ .* oibi 1 of Ica.'hev
# A*.
split6, Hk.'vuj’.v* rape* or i cun position
leather, m hph<,hor.seh le In many men’s,
W( men’s iruJ .JJHrnT cdioes the inside is
of pud ah..ard. ami te linin: is coarse
«h" enow ,a ••a through; and then the
■4 >U s . i-,1 heel balled Only
expei * • • n .». L* ha do crenee *etween
thk ri :■> of sho Wy shoos and haiu.1 made
v.o.-k, u i an isooiciy are they finished
F’roi Uu, top to the bottom of the shoo
the lvhoi.' thing !s! doccpf.Te. The man; i *
competing with each other, and every one
daily studies * n r. tui out the
che,i|/cst and v • look good*. These
shoddy shoes ; sent all over die United
Suites, and p rsons whose means &r i
grumped are taken in by them. The bar
gains they dunk they are getting arc The
worst sort of fells.”
.Seven-.; other custom work shoemakers,
c;lk.u £ ; of J- s dd that in ub
I he - - machine Cm
mrtr nal a us used m aien won en sa u ,
^
c' .ire ll.uon .. '. : rfm»os. fi renwmt liurrwhide fil, iicmg «od ^phr vomit and
,
burned fcef.s rr, , uutuc ap in <ml
tat,ion t cobb.'- ;1 o ■.
Iron* -he vcnoua mantu.iotorjee .io ■.>
east t he; t shoddy goods are ship pen
wholesale bou;«-\ whc'ce they find r heir
Way to »Ytvuer* abor. town, by w ove
they arc - >hl n, > dy u. h poor •* j, eopie,
who think .1:*. y are gc dug bargaiu*. It
h variously oat?muted that from #8,/-0 to
U ‘DO a flay would or;, nn r toe quan
/ of t s i' 1 •t of trash that Is sol'm
th ed ik r A,’ul it i h lop bj d \h *,; Tie
c: ’ vai-i t -b opon l.bosp who ;'au
aft 1 f There ar sc*>r»:’ >f shou
.ho «U n.c, . ™.r. 5 nd
to ••»>••; cer i fc. A°sr ihor* a had frui-i Lie ;?**••'*« cost o.
. c . ; k
l j a oati'i'. of a goo^ art!c>e wt alone
the cost of i:i .mg up iit -Kv goon* ."U’fi
ku^v » V the trull e- “ urn dices ”from
th- “• t» iflt the .ns* If papn' sole i» first
Secured U ■ I;e Upper and then • hi* Shoe !*•
turned iusideom, when 1 fie sole is secured
b.v in ; . t. ■> >*:»,- > 0 <1 <;f "iwipB a Stitch or
'
... 1 * t rK he ,.•'?> ' T, shoes R * 1 °' ; <he 111
m nek :u . ‘vt 1 ere leather, and so
t a, 'rally are, but it is not the dressed
* ah tutaet. h cey a called “pa.ent sol*
lag, Aral are ^rupoved of scraps gjouud
up, aki’vn* ami .othov t r u’t- fi.A'enah
iorulica into a eotupouHon - m v oll d into
various thicknesses b> puvertul niach n
*'vy From ouch strip, when it comes
Iroin the roihu’s and is drieu, two p 1 *- e.
<-ies can be cut, and the waste *■« asc .for
hu In dry weather «uch so! will
wear \oi ~"'-dy well, bn' hi wet v.- athef
they soon melt away. This pa tern; soling
ism v'ly used by manufacturers 1 their
1 wept priced goods though many cobblerf
a 1 1 *rit t >uu t*se it in half soling and het-1
iixg. Thera i- a grade of iuachine made
sloe coir, ‘sod of pood stock, brt thfl
great bulk of this .industry is shoddy ■—
N6w York Commercial Advertiser.
Sc. #r*<*ul Hcspitib** in th<. Mountain,.
Gtm. Thomny Kane’s idea o f pti;ting up
a rn jicti hospital among the crisp
mountain breezes of K.lu county, Penn
svlvania, so t-httt in capital cases, both the
surge or an. 1 th-3 patient could repair for
tm, op* .n tion fco a craclng atmosphere,
vs.**rthinly at sighted. It would al
^ t> > t much wiser, we belicvo, even at
the add *d '*-'M \ hick a great surgeon’s
i-hr.. cutails, f o have f.trekal ojatratlons
in thv mi acj ^ea£.*n performed outside
of the depressing ufltieii 'os that any larg
city is r. bjeot ro. It vould not have
takeo nuic a more man a %w 0. gccesmom
of cpprissi > e heat and humidity during
tie recent a sated fortnight to have ex
hausted a numbs? of perron in th ir
usual state c«f health who ha »e managed
to keep alive and attend io their business.
A very slight iddition to the dey ssing
drcmnsUne.es >n the ner^ centers might
have beta fatil to hand xis wLc Have
felt themselves brought a. .rar a, y ues T
fco ue danger TKiirt of b«ur* er.dnrarce.
It may he weF to koep the K .te id ' in
iaind wbenever fi>r that n»ountain air surgery, and,
practice r’c, tc tet the surgeon
a ’>ise an operatic fob*? done in an at
u«a-pJiere that is bracing and sttmulat
ing-—Philadelphia Iiedgcr.
and Bitter.
“ r n*i.s is h had sud bitter world,”
marked a gentleman o, Irish extraction,
»We nev»*r furew fiowvis on » van’s
grave nutil af1»r he &i deau.*’ • * M bk|*
ttm Hlitbhr
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A NEW GEFiMAtt COLor-Y
Prep ,j*«d IS* * orient of a Vast 'Jftrmei o,
I'tttd in Fa .* /ifrif#-^oll *.n*i U:a»«^e.
Theattemp 'an mg :..«a»h--. by G-w
many to fom OtODV in * asf- Africa
will he watch l in this country'v fib in
terest. Shcu it -.dtcn.d3»i «1r.& -'uccef,>
it cj’.mot Sc..l v * *••••-.<» avtrv marked eftect
uu the irmriigu ~:oa of Chmasm s*'o&yte
io America, while the t; c • : ^ States **>
than other nations xvui ui .1
V*ane'dts ac*"'' • g to the opeiang o’ a new
■uiarket for western pi •outlet T‘*u m
mission try handed over to Uerm^mv by the com
appointed io delimit ih** territory
of the a a! tar. of T&nrJuu* efrccches from
the Osi river in the nonu s ;j the Ilcvnu-a
river in the south This latter river also
farms f lie northern boundary of ih<- Port
ugnege province of Mozambique. Its
eastern limit »s defined by a line drawn
ten miles inland trorn the Indiau ocean
between these two points, and the port
<} j pangani is ceded temporarily by the
.,-.,1 tan of Zanzibar, to tkwt .4. «j»
iliecL ^eranui poi»i«w)uns arc
rave where they march w.th the
tex^ltory of ‘ha Congo Freer State as de¬
fined by rie i -ace of Berlin,
Jt is tti% of conwe, propose-T to ttompt
the setilemert ot tliis vast rat of land
except bj slo v degrees. T ix* first at .< pt
la to be made in the Chaga country, which
l*es to the north of the. port of Mombassa,
‘a iir hiuluder; within i r s li^ts the *r> un
C? nous district of T • w;ajui'o This
t mfifcry, of which t it lip va* k >wn a
f .w years ago, has lat Ay fc en thocony v
^UorL^^^v V admiLljy
ft™, tbot- r, rts to be
adapted for suec^ssna oolomzatb n.
High rolling downs Hornate w? i* bean
afrilv water '’u s. and the slopes of
trhe grek Tt infcai f range ore loverod
wir.i formats o* v&j ?*■ hi >*£ ' J rmc r» d* nr
^ tue «UOW ill -■* T rf r ]>ri W.ipal het
ural K odacts 1 Abe duTricr, ar? indif
ru rnF.lwr ^ ’ Hmw / l ’ re T! a«*« ■' nr ? * ,. r ,t ..mi AU
* *
gum arahic, and - oc tuu -ar f . kmv, several
hin«is of rosewood and Atrh jut fo&k. The
{swell adapted for io raising o
grain crops, and, 4 ad iul, n. ueb of it is ai
ready nod or cu tivutioii, Chrga huiiug
for y ta.* chief ree. ailing
forcaravanr trading between the >2vansa
and the east <orst Indian com, millet,
dhurra and rice are oh i«..?.ed in ^oriMVier*
uole quantities. "‘•>bneco *s grown to
yjhagee, and in the low lylnrr l;:nas
cotton of very god qualit ’ raised,
Experime .ts are to be made will coilee,
cloves and tea, ail of which should do
we ip
The climatv of the plains a unhealthy
and likely to pro'*© trying to white set
tle^s but on the hiii slopes, A»t a height o:
about ' 500 feet above the sea eve!, a
beautiful climate can he enjoyed. The
thermometer at iij# ''nt rarely registets
more than 80dees., n it night i lisas
low as 00 (legs. The rain/ season com
mences in November and IhSts ii!l i eh. j
ary, after wnHi inert» but little rain
falls till th© no.;: t rainy sc. j son eommenoes.
j a her can be eastH i ocured d» the Chaga
district, as the u«..T,es &rn peuc .a dy i»
«,p.ned ttd ice*st >mra t„ gric dturnl pur
stii f s. At first the ,on settlers may
ej-p^rien^e diffi ic*' with the Masai
tribes, who iniialu the couiitt r 0 >e
northwest. These people are iaviterate
mfti&uders. but if tliey are oner taugnfc
the lesson hat the white man Is not to be
lightly interbred with they wd« loubtle s
intake themselves to (.,* 10 * par. ~ Fh
delphia Times.
. —---
AvoiM-m tc th? Hoapit*!.
In mj expexieuce here I h*vve nctieed
the great a oiakai to being - at tc tue
hospital by ue%TOto and Fishmeu. V.'ith
the negroes it s a up- r$ ‘ttoxis fee of
medical \nstUnlvnns They fear ih% . th*y
will be luade medidue of, and the “night
doctor” or body snatcher has all of its old
time horrors for v im. In the matter of
orcken down, decrepit-, alcoholized Irish
men they are the worst form of what we
call ‘hospital dead bears,’ but the IrLa
laborer or mechanic is. as a rule, as proud
as a Hidalgo, and when he is brought in
here all biokeu up by an accident be will
,*nslss upon being HR sent to his hximhm « l a?
U> pome tenement, where he can be but
illy«ared for. He will accept the tern
?x**v charity of his friends and live in
’ r i * o: necessities, lui he vn: 4 no- be*
on * -i c.hr ge upon the city.—City Di&-
1 -> F in Globe Deinocrit
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yrim'ft Vtfb i 3 ^ * tf r*fJ trir
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! • I 3>£*n 111 iwA- i pezBij it, i I
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iViaeor., G**.or^ria
K ST A N f-"' A ? tew V 1
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Kitiuitton, s-eor^i
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Will wacliee .a all the com - of'
*^ & t» .-pe d attention 'given to UtcM
lean '
ys^Alf .0 money a; o m $>r
far min on e -.ad 0 *, 3sos tinu at 8
cert Th. * m. mm. <;onu • aud sec me
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TOE'S us r.
OVER COLTJMBUS BaX f
Xa.1
^ 5 ®Alt Dise ,c cs of d\z hftrnth ?
* - eeth treated in the bes-t manner
l t StrflS A .^OurUV , OPG?t r%) m •> $ n.«.i
WUlbe S oU :.he *urt h<,«.e *
// f ‘ rl^S'i'w'"-’‘“l ' ^!, -r!
higher. ■■<(. f 4 R n X" : ' L,
<3a -t m J ■- •» ‘ A * T Li. .
pl £K7.!: /t K.’irL, ,S cn an j/vied ,i -j 5 :, ,•
c owy up>n t.* '• rr<
,-rt • of W » i Tnomrsor o < •. i t'y ». ii *a ir.si
from Mu^cotye Superior Court i * Lvo* of
“ “ t i nompson
Also at the amue rune rnd piaoa, t
1 y »» . rhr.m,i* m
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m d it 0 icr i o, 1 t ©1 and & >. i.
ifce 1 dia*riot v H«*ri8 oonu v a)
hette? jh own ss the fan 1 d ided •: ' t
«v**enters o' .1 I> Thortu .on c* Ho? via J.
v II j rid testament r<-s ; Jan * *Vj
•**»D , loceased, and Uueinda Ann TLi 1
-OC. Levied apoti as the uj’Cj v.
tt F Phoir hsco to satisfy a it fa fr
Mn.npRe-i Superior ec irt in fa^or of h
Enifiuitu, Charles he sfruau iri>csfer
trn I F Thomason.
A *o at 1 he seme 1 me and place, I
y
ar s of iane in the ifiitfc*distnef of Sa
001 .tty, b'».UK' on the north by J*
Osborn’s land, .a. Ibe east by ianJ <■ '
' Boon.on the west by lend of C I .h -.r
ml the eomte by . ; ann f-F M v ht
v-i ? cres of iano in ihe 29ih a rri
t aid county bounded on hie nort?
•a; Osbo?t\ by /' i: ’4h'*>u, no t y
M bidweii an! wmt by H 3K
■ 1 upon «f. iht* property of Iht Mh.
to satisfy a 8 ( { . from Han
r \ a ** c a rf ;n favor o? Win a Baa
' .* v J3 m( • -> iM. B<.‘v-rs.
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F. M Tai.l by, Shi
Gi 1 org'til, Ha rris (;o *uri \
Executor’s ^ale.
p i ,, ? , r: ae i he is i w'*! and ?e? ^
r .« L Worrdl, late Wtore of said coenu- ir/ f
" ^ I will cown'o! sail tbo co heu
, , Gtmiiton or tis* g.
cecd.iiy in November next *he fodowj
i escr bed lard belong*ug to said decor
to- wic -« Lot of lard No. Si oolUavtk
Vw °l K»*' ***\ tii^Vsth di^- *
T ' w df* - tvina' ‘ " ’ ,h ^ p//*
** / ' 4 .~ : V
,l } . _ fc 9 1 v
K ' * 1 ‘
v . L * T iJ \" '! ,
e r
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**’*““ w ~ ... m+m
heortfin, Harris Count,
Tesae Me' low 5 , Rbmmislrrtcr of 8:
M i ioWN,!a‘0 of suid county, dec*.
>-» *n'.« for ve to *e .
ianii b ,uvgirg to the estate of Raid .
ceased,
Ali persor.b eont.-eTced arc* ncreby
fiec* to sh< w cau*e. if any they b vo,
order the 5ist should Moods: HH| not in be October grant J uext, said HRi *fc' V
/*snt io sells :d land. Lsnd and cffioisi \ "
Oiyen un k my 3
tore 8epr dth, 1887. |
J P O Willi* 1 **, Ordim
