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will surely beat him, only so much worse than before. The people will rule. « * m Burglars are becoming alarmingly numerous. Greenville, Stinson and Hamilton have suffered, Vigilance is a source of safety and ought to be exercised. ♦ * * 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. * # * 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. * m * 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. * * * 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. * * ■* 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.