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will surely beat him, only so much
worse than before. The people will
rule.
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Burglars are becoming alarmingly
numerous. Greenville, Stinson and
Hamilton have suffered, Vigilance
is a source of safety and ought to be
exercised.
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Dun & Co.’s weekly report of the
state of trade is not encouraging and
the fastest ship will have to take in
sail. Nothing short of rigid economy
and great diligence in business will
restore prosperity to the country.
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jjie Central railaoad has taken a
new departure in refusing a free ride
to stockholders and their families to
the annual meeting of stockholders.
Wherefore ? This is economy in the
wrong direction.
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Hon. G. J. Orr, State School Com¬
missioner, departed this life at his
home in Atlanta on the nth, inst.
A great and good man hag gone He
served his day and generation wisely
and well and left a recoru worthy of
imitation.
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Judge James S. Hook, of Augusta,
has been appointed State School
Commissioner in place of T. J. Orr,
deceased. It is due Judge Hook to
say that he was not an applicant for
the place.
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Speaker J. G. Carlisle will be in
Atlanta on January 23rd, and in Ma¬
con January 24, and at each place
discuss the tariff.
Reader.
Hew Engines.
The Chattanooga, Rome & Col¬
umbus railroad is being pushed for¬
ward as rapidly as possible, and it
does look as though the officials
mean business in the strictest sense.
There arrived in this city yesterday
two engines for this new road. They
are from the works of the Rhode Is
land locomotive works at Providence,
R. I., and are very handsome pieces
of machinery. They weigh forty tons
each and are adapted either to light
freight or passenger service. Mr. J.
A. Hamilton came on from the
works to suoerintend the putting up
of the iron monsters. He says that
he will set up one of them at this end
of the line, and that it is probable
the other will be tak«n to Rome, Ga.,
to be used ftqm that point.—Chatta¬
nooga Tinifesm r
C onsumption Sturdy Cured.
To the Editor : — Please inform your
reader* that I have a positive remedy for
(he nbovr uaiued disease. bj* its timely
nsc thousands » »f hopeless «nses have been
permanently cored. I shwll he glad to
send two bottles of my remedy free to
anv of voor readers who have consumption
if they wifi' their express and
P . Kt offfi spect’y, 1
T A Pearl st, N. Y.
IN THE SAME FIELD.
I. L. Pollard Still in the Grocery Busi¬
ness at the Same Old Stand
Good Things for Christmas
“Step into my grocery store up
town and make a note of the good
things there and tell the readers of
the Journal all about it,” wa.; a
command which the reporter receiv¬
ed from that very clever gentleman,
Mr. I. L. Pollard, who for a number
of years h s sold groceries to the peo¬
ple of Harris county, always to their
satisfaction.
The order was cheerfully obe,ed,
for next to eating of Pollard’s good
things, seeing them and telling of
them come next in the line of pleas
ure. His store is one of the prettiest
in Columbus, with large, beautiful
windows, but its most attractive fea¬
ture is the display of groceries upon
his shelves and counters.
Upon your right, as you enter, is a
beautiful display of fine candies, nuts
and confectioneries. Pollard’s is
headquarters in Columbus for these
goods. He has a wholesale demand
for them that enables him to keep a
fresh supply always in stock. Any¬
thing in season, in this line, can
had of him, and all of the best brands.
His candies are made from pure su
gar and are free from talc and other
deleterious adulterants. They speak
for themselves.
To the left of the candy and con
fectioneries and upon the opposite
side of the store as well, are the finest
and purest canned goods that the
market affords.
“You get the best at Pollard’s” has
long been a Columbus proverb and
he does not intend to lose his well
eained reputation. In this day of
adulterants it is well to remember
where you can get that which is
pure. A pure article costs but a
fraction more if anything than that
which is impure, and the manufac¬
turer who has no more conscience
than to adulterate an article of food,
is not apt to bother himself concern
ing either the cleanliness or whole¬
someness of the adulterant he uses.
In addition to the goods referred
to, Mr. Pollard keeps a complete
stock of heavy groceries and family
supplies. He buys to the very best
advantage, for cash, of first hands, in
large quantities and handles every¬
thing upon the smallest margin of
profit. It will pay >ou to examine
his stock and get his prices before
buying elsewhere*
Remember that he has groceries at
the old stand—opposite the Express
Office—and that his stock is larger
than ever before.
Crops are short but C J Edge, of Ooi
uoabus, has teduetd the prices on his
to k of boots aLd .shoes.
The snocess of some cf tbe agents ecu
ployed by BF Johnson & Co Richmond va
is truly tnarvallous It is not an unusual ihi
eg for their agents to make as high as S20
and $30 a day.and sometimes their profits
run up as high as $40 and $50—even
more. But we hesitate to tell jou the
whole truth, or you will scarcely believe
wo are in earnest. Write them and see
for yourself what they wili do for y’oa.
ABOUT SHODDY SHOES.
SOLES THAT LAST A WEEK, AND
WILL NOT BEAR WETTING.
Gross Imposition and Deception Carried
on at tlic Expense of the Poorer Classes.
Coming Home Barefooted—Manufac¬
ture of Shoi’iy Goods.
In the manufacture of boots and shoes
for men, women and children, some of the
grossest impositions and deceptions are
carried on. A well informed mechanic
said to a importer the other day:
“It is an outrage that manufacturers of
boots and shoes should be permitted to
throw such trash as they do upon the
market. Why, just look at my shoes, and
I only bought them last week. My feet
are almost on the ground. I might be
said to be ‘walking on my uppers.’ ”
“What’s the trouble?'” was asked.
“Trouble! why, there’s trouble enough;
and I am only one out of thirty or forty
thousand persons in this city who have
been victimized by the manufacturers and
retailers of these shoddy shoes. When I
first put on the shoes I am now wearing
they looked as well as «ny to be seen in
the Broadway or Fifth avenue stores; but
with the first rainstorm the soles began to
peel off, and upon examination I found
that the bottoms of my shoes were made
up of paper and scraps of leather, which
at first had the appearance of leather. I
went to the store where I had purchased
them, but the boss gave me no satisfac
faction. He said he didn’t make them;
told me I had bought them cheap, and
somewhat insolently wanted to know what
I expected to get for $3. I told him in
plain words that I expected to get a good
shoe for that money. I showed him the
paper soles in my shoes, but that’s all the
good it did me. I accused him of being a
swindler, pointed to the numerous boxes
of shoes about the store from which I had
seen him take the same as mine, but he
took the matter so coolly that I made up
my mind he was used to it. He had a
well appointed store, and professed to keep
good stock, which, on account of a big
trade, he could afford to sell compara
tively cheap. At the time there was a
number of well dressed women in| the
store, and when they saw the paper soled
shoes I held up, and heard what I had to
sa y about the goods on hand, they gath¬
ered up their skirts and walked out; but
the proprietor didn’t seem to mind it, as
he knew that his low priced shoes that
were labeled in the windows would draw
in plenty of custom. I tell you, sir, I’m
a hard working man, and have a large
family to care for, but it’s money, money
all the time to buy shoes for my children.
I’m a mechanic, ana I know how good
work ought to stand.”
Another workman with whom the re¬
porter conversed related pretty much the
same experience in regafd to shoes that
he had bought for his boys, and incident¬
ally mentioned a recent experience of his
wife. Slie bad on a pair of low cut shoes,
and, chancing to get caught in a heavy
rainstorm, came home almost barefooted.
The water had soaked through the paste
cr composition, and the outer sole, appar¬
ently of leather, had nearly peeled off.
The inside sole was only paper, This
men's experience was that these shoes
would wear off so gradually in very
weather that a good many couldn’t notice
it; but let them be worn out once or
in a rainstorm, and then the
would wonder what made the soles
off. He said that he had to buy as
as possible, and no matter in what store
on the Bowery or about the avenues
traded, the proprietor or his clerk
always willing to take an oath that
shoes were regularly sewed. “I tell
what, sir,” he said, bluntly, “these are
the days for trying men’s soles, ” and
speaker laughed at the old joke.
Several reputable shoemakers
the impositions that were practiced in
manufacture of shoddy shoes, as it
very severe upon men who have to
hard for their money, and only get
wages at the best. One of these
makers said:
“Most of the cheap goods sold in
York and elsewhere are made in
chusettes, mostly by machinery, and
manufacturers use the offal of leather—
splits, stivers, paper or a composit
leather, or split horseliide. In many mei
women’s and children’s shoes the insid
of pasteboard, and the lining is cos
enough shoe is to polished sift pears and through; heel balled, and tb^'jj yfl
experts can tell the difference bet®
this sort of shoddy shoes and hand mt
work, so handsomely are they iinishel
From the top to the bottom of the sh*
the whole thing is deceptive. The mai
acturers of shoddy shoes are constan
competing with each other, and every (
daily studies how he can turn out i
cheapest and best looking goods. Thl
shoddy States, shoes and are sent all whose over the Unit]
persons means a
. camped are taken in by them. The bf V
gains they think they are getting are t
j worst sort of sells.” j
! Several other custom work shoemakemg'
j 1J1 speaking of the subject, said that in tm
j theSe material machine was used made in men’s, shoes women’s the cheapeg aigi
;
j children s shoes; horseliide being split a»
) dressed up to represent calf, and poor J
j I tanned tation of sheepskins pebble goat. being made up in ing)
From the various manufactories dovs
east these shoddy goods are shipped
wholesale to retailers houses, about whence town, they by find who* the|
way
j they are sold mostly to , the poorer peopll
is w ^° variously think they estimated are getting that from bargains. $b,000 « ||
.
$10,000 a day would ncu cover the qua
. trash that sold
tity of this sort of is
1 Jhis city alone, and it is too bad that
I mss should 1 all upon those w no
j fH afford it. There are scores of
keepers who sell men s, women s a
j boys^ boots and shoes from den
to 75 cents less than half the cost
I the material of a gooci article, let alo
j the cost o f making up. These goods
j known to the trade as turn shoes, fro®
| ^ke fact that the inside paper sole is
•ecured to the upper and then the shoe J|
•
! turned inside out, when the sole is secur
ky nails, paste and perhaps a stitch
j ^ storekeeper w0 - The soles will of swear these are cheap leather, shoes and thjH sf!
;
they really are, but it is not the
bide intact. They are called patent
an d are composed of scraps
formed U P> skivers into and composition other waste and rolled materially invO \
a
various thicknesses by powerful
er Y- From each strip, when it comes
from soles the rollers be cut, and and is the dried, waste two is pairsV^r usi B
can
filling in. In dry weather such sole &
wear tolerably well, but in wet we!
they soon melt away. This patent so v
is mostly used by manufacturers in th
lowest priced goods, though many
about town use it in half soling and
ing. There is a grade of machine mat 1
shoe composed of good industry stock, is shoddy.-^t but tMy
great bulk of this
New York Commercial Advertiser.
1 SOCIAL ETIQUETTE.
How Fashionable Folk Use Finger Bow
and Eat Eggs—Objectionable Terms. 1
Instead of individual finger bowls, a lar,
silver or glass bowl filled with water watcj||
( which is some such perfume as rose
sometimes handed around to each guejHf
turn after the meal is over, and into it
dip their fingers and dry them on their
kins. The Art Interchange pronounces
a practice not to be commended.
plate Individual with small finger doyley bowls between are placed plate on^^L adP
a
bowL They are put on the table for the la*
or fruit course. Sometimes a silver knifes
fork and spoon are placed with the doyley
j the plate^around the glass bowl. k
By far the most elegant way to eat auth<^K a soQ
boiled egg, according to the excellent
ity already mentioned, is directly from
shell, but it requires delicate
and careful handling to accomplish it su*p
cessfully, unless the egg has been boiled oven
four minutes. When particularly
and affected persons eat a boiled egg, they
crack it on the side of tbe egg instead of at
one end or the other; but one of our fashionA
ble ladies, a leader in society, was lately
to turn her egg into a glass and eat it from
that, being also guilty of breaking two in the
atass at tbe same time.
The building for the Ramona Indian
school, at Santa Fe, N. M., commemorating
Helen Hunt Jackson, will cost §30,000, being
arranged to accommodate 150 pupils.
