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THE MORNING CALL.
. VoL IX. No. 101.
Anti-Flirting Law«-
At its last session the legislature of
Tennessee passed what is known as the
“Johnny law.” The legislature of Vir
ginia has before it a similar bill, and
the -probabilities are that it will be
passed. In broad terms, the Tennes
see law and the proposed Virginie law
are designed to minimise the danger
ous pastime of flirting, especially as it
is indulged in school girls to the neg
lect of their studies. It is well enough
understood, of course, that the actual
prohibition of flirting is beyond the
power of the law. So long as there
are smiling maids and susceptible
young gentlemen, just so long will
there be flirtations, and love passages
and marriages. But it occurs that not
all young men are young gentlemen.
In almost every city there is a class of
young chaps who persist in forcing
their attentions upon girls. They are
to be seen banging about prominent
corners, about theater doors and else
where, ogling and smirking at tbp
■ girls upon all possible occasions. They
even take lueir brass cheeks to the
churches, and attempt th?ir flirtations
at the church doors, if not in the
sanctuary itself.
The chief end of the laws referred to
, above, then, is not so much directed
against flirting, per ee, as against these
"Johnnies.” They are nuisances, and
it might be said that the legislation
against them is merely anti-nuisance
legislation. It is proposed that the
Virginia law shall be very broad and
sweeping, going much further than
the Tennessee law, which has especial
reference to the young loafers hanging
around school houses. The Virginia
law will take in the theaters, the street
corners, the churches and other public
places. It will endeavor to prevent
bold and ill-bred young men from an
noying passers-by and others who do
not desiie their attentions. Meantime,
whether the bill becomes law or not, it
would be risking nothing to say that
Cupid will hold court in the Old
Dominion the same as ever’—Savan
nah News.
When Bryan Was Mentioned
One of the most striking things to
our mind at the Newnan gathering on
Friday was the lack of enthusiasm
when the name of Hon. W. J Bryan
was mentioned.
/We would not construe it to mean
that the democrats of Georgia have
any the less loyalty to the Chicago
platform, but it was somewhat as if
they thought “we don’t know whether
we want him or not, and we don’t
care.” The applause was not a spon
taneous outburst, but rather scattering*
There were a few vociferous io ap
plause of Bryan’s name, but it was not
general.
. The mind of the banqueters was in
tent on state issues and the state cam
paign, and all seemed most interested
in that feature. While we attach no
significance to the incident as indicat
ing any special opposition to Mr. Bry
an as the next candidate of the na
tional democracy, yet we record it as
an interesting fact,—Rome Tribune.
Incendiary’s Work.
Saturday night some fiend took a
bottle of kerosene and poured it upon
the floor of John Ison’s new home, be
ing built out on the Zebulon road, one
and a half miles from Griffin, and then
applied a match.-
The oil burned a hole through the
floor, but the walls failed to catch, and
there being no litter or trash beneath
the house, and the lumber ip the
building being new, the fhmes went
out of their own accord, doicg no fur
ther damage than recorded above
No clue is had to who attempted the
dastardly act.
Public School Notice for 1898.
Public schools will be continued the
present year six and one half scholas
tic months, or 130 days. The first
term embraces the mouths of January,
February, March and April, closes
, on the 6th of May The summer term
will begin July lltb end continue two
months 1
A temporary examination will be
held Saturday, Jan. 15th.
By order of the board :
J. O. A MILLER, C. 8 C.
O-a. SM.'OjptX.
House For Rent Cheap.
Close to business and schools. Best
™ter in Griffin. Apply to Mrs. L. R.
West, Milledgeville, Ga, or W. M.
Thomas at court house.
Why the South Will Win.
I Other things being equal, the cost of
» any product of labor is less in a warm
and genial climate, like that of the
I cotton-growing states, than in the rig
» oroua climate of New England. The
■ single item of fuel cuts a large figure
’ in the expense account of a New Eng
i land family redding in a city, hut Jit
amounts to very little in the cotton
belt. Clothing and bedding are other
indispensables in which the New Erg
landers labor under great disadvantage
compared with their southern compet
itors. Rents are higher in a cold than
in a warm climate, because it is neces
sary to construct more costly dwellings
in the one than in the other. Food is
naturally more abundant in the south
than in the eastern states, for vegeta
bles and fruits grow with little care,
and two or three crops can be grown
annually on the same ground in most
of the southern states. For these solid
reasons, which neither legislation nor
labor organizations can change, it will
always cost less for subsistence in the
south than in New England. And
the cost of subsistence has such rela
tion to the cost of labor, and, there
fore, to the cost of production, as must
inevitably be a permanent factor in
manufacturing industries. Other
things being equal, this single fact
would give the cotton states a steady
reliable advantage in the business of
converting their staple into cloths.
But other things are not equal, as the
south has one other and much greater
advantage which, resting like its cli
mate on nature’s laws, can be held
against all competitors for all time.
The proximity of the factory to the
leld would of itself enable the south
ern manufacturers to make money in
turning out goods at prices below cost
of production in mills far removed
from the fields.—Washington Post.
Admission to the Bar.
The Forsyth Chronicle publishes the
following:
-Among the many wholesome laws
enacted by the legislature was one pro
viding for the admission of applicants
to plead and practice law in this state
in the future. As is well known the
law regulating the admission of appli
cants to practice law has been so
loosely enforced that the bar in Geor
gia has become. ctpwded with young
men utterly incompetent and unfit to
assume such responsible obligations*
Nobody has realized this fact more
clearly than our supreme court. To
remedy the evil that has crept into the
practice all over this state, the legisla
ture at the session just adjourned pass*
, ed a law changing the manner of ob
. taining license to practice lawr
The law we understand provides
that c< rtain questions shall be prepared
by the j idges of the supreme court and
forwarded to the judge of the superior
court, where theapplicant resides, who
, shall keep the same a secret. The ap
plicants are required to come before
the judge or his representatives when
the questions are furnished and they
are required to make answer then and
there. The applicant signs the exam
ination paper by a number, withhold
ing bis name. The paper thus an
swered and signed is forwarded to the
supreme court by the judge of the su
perior court, who will then pass upon
the application. It will be seen that
when the supreme court passes upon
the application they do not know the
name of the applicant.
The above is a brief outline of the
terms of the law. Under the opera
tion of this law, if strictly enforced,no
more incompetent lawyers will be
turned loose on the people of Georgia.
In Olden Times
People overlooked the importance of per
manently beneficial effects and were satis
fied with transient action; but now. that it
is generally known that Syrup of Figs will
1 permanently overcome habitual constipa
tion, well-informed people will not buy
other laxatives, which act for a time, but
, finally injure the system.
CASTORIA
For Infants and Children.
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, ’ No-To-Bm for Fifty Cents.
Guaranteed tobacco habit cure, makes weajc
men strong, Wood pure. soc.SX. AU druggists.
FOR RENT. 1
A5-room residence on Poplar street.
The house contains 5 rooms, a cook room
and servants’ room. A good well of water
and garden. Adjoins Dr. McDonald’s
| home. Apply to J. D. BOYD.
GRIFFIN, GEORGIA, TUESDAY MORNING, JANUARY 4,18 M.
Revising the Inner Man-
Verily, whither are we drifting? The
wise men of the medical profession
i have given an opinion to the effect
that that troublesome incident of the
i human anatomy, the vermiform ap
pendix, is useless except for the pur
pose of producing an aristocratic
complaint, appendicitis, and making
large doctors* bills. Tbe lay public
had about settled down to the belief
that it would be a good idea for all
who conld afford it to have the vermi
form appendix extirpat\l», when now
comes news from Switzerland that not
only that little annoyer, but the whole
stomach, is not essentially necessary
to life; in fact, that the stomach and
its variona appendages is rather a
menace to comfort and good health.
Happy discovery I With the stomach,
vermiform appendix, etc, removed
early in life, infantile cholic would be
abolished. There would be no more
walking the floors at night in vain
efforts to quiet the heir apparent, and
no more searching in dark and dan
gerous closets for squills and paregoric.
There would be no more reason to fear
grape seed, and the young hopeful’s
bill of fare might be extended witjj
impunity. And then, later along in
life, there would be no reason for tak
iug “a little something for the stom
ach’s sake,” to the great benefit of the
pocketbook and the nerves.
Now, if the good, kind doctors would
just discover bow one could get along
without a liver, they would confer an
inestimable blessing upon the bunam
race. What a picnic life would be
with no stomach and no liver! A poor
liver, or a badly conditioned one, is
the cause of a very, very large part of
the trouble in this world. A bad liver
is the bane of the profusions! man
who permits that part of bis internal
economy to get out of order through
not taking enough exercise.
And while the liver is being gotten
rid of, it might be just as well for the
doctors to abolish the kidneys also.
They are second only to the liver in
causing trouble.- It is not possibly,
that we have been civilized up
point where we do not actually need
all of these trouble-making organs?
Stomachs, livers and kidneys were no
doubt necessary to man when he ex
isted in the rough times of the stone
age, and possibly also in the medieva*
period. Ages ago men ate roots, ber
ries, raw herbs, raw meats and the like.
I' Now they subsist on scientifically pre
pared foods.
There is no telling what wonderful
1 things the doctors have in store for
mankind in the future. The only
thing to be feared is that they will
, remove so much of the internal econ
omy that a great deal of the fun of
living will be spoiled—Savannah News.
Eat Plenty of Lemons.
An experienced and highly respected
, physician gave a Valuable hint the other
day, which all may find valuable. “I am
convinced,” said he, “not only from prac
tical personal experience, but on the theo
retically scientific grounds also, that a
safeguard against much prevalent summer
illness lies in the free use of lemon juice.”
—Athens Banner-Watchman.
- • MOZLEY’S LEMON ELIXIR.
A PLEASANT LEMON DRINK.
Cures indigestion, headache, malaria,
kidney disease, fever, chills, loss of appe
tite, debility, nervous prostration and
heart failure, by regulating the Liver,
Stomach, Bowels, Kidneys and Blood.
Lemon Elixir is prepared from the
fresh juice of lemons, combined with other
vegetable liver tonics, carthartics, aromatic
stimulants and blood purifiers.
W. A. Jambs, Bell Station, Ala., writes:
I have suffered greatly from indigestion or
dyspepsia. One bottle of Lemon Elixir
done me more good than all the medicine
I ever taken.
A CARD.
For nervous and sick headaches, indi
gestion, biliousness and constipation (from
which I have been a great sufferer),! have
never found a medicine that would give
such a pleasant, prompt and permanent
re sos as Dr. H. Mozley’s Lemon Elixir. I
have used it in my family for years—it
has never failed in a single case.
J. P. Sawtell, Griffin, Ga.
MOZLEY’S LEMON .HCT DROPS.
Cures all Coughs, Colds, Hoarseness,
Sore Throat, Bronchitis, Hemorrhage and
al! throat and lung diseases. Elegant, re
liable. % . •
Twenty-five cents at druggists. Pre
pared only by Dr. H. Mozley, Atlanta, Ga.
Administrator’s Sale.
STATE OF GEORGIA,
Spalding County.
By virtue ox an order granted by the
Court of Ordinary of Spalding County,
Georgia, at the December term, 1897, of
said court, I will sell to the highest bidder
before the courthouse door in Spalding
county, on the first Tuesday in Feb
ruary, 1898, between the usual -hours of
sa’e the following property, to-wit:
Five shares of the capital stock of the
Southwestern Railway. Sold as the prop
erty of Mrs. Martha T. Trammell, late of
said county, deceased, for the purpose of
Eying the debts and division among the
irs of said deceased. 7 arms cash.
BOBT. V HEATON,
Administrator of Estate of Mrs. Martha T.
Trammell.
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ROYAL BAKING POWDtR CO., MW YOM*
A Logical Reault-
The Dipgley tariff law is directly re
sponsible for the situstiou in the Fall
River district By erecting unparal
lelgd barriers to trade, it bas enraged
the best consumers America bat bad
for her products, and they are buying
elsewhere. Home consumption will
not take all the products of American
cotton mills. Other countries which
have been liberal purchasers, finding
our ports shut against the products
they have to sell, are buying their cot
ton in more friendly districts, and
American workmen suffer in capse
quence.—Dea Moines Leader.
Deafness Cannot bo Cured
by local applications, as they cannot reach
the diseased portion of the ear. There is
only one wav to cure deafhese.and that is
by constitutional remedies. Deafness is
caused by an Inflamed condition of the
mucous lining of the Eustachian Tube.
When this tube gets inflamed you have a
rumbling sound or imperfect hearing, and
when it u entirely closed deafness Is the
result, and unless the inflammation can be
taken out and this tube restored to its
normal condition, hearing will be destroy
ed forever; nine cases out of ten are caused
by catarrh, which is nothing but an in
flamed condition of the mucous surfaces.
We will give One Hundred Dollars for
any cue ofwdhess (caused by catarrh)
that Cannot be cured by Hall’s Catarrh
Cura. Band for circulars, free.
■d Ohbney & Co., Toledo, O.
Sold w Druggists, 75c.
__ HairsTamily Pills are the best.
CABTOR.IA..
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Still Lefting.
A. K. Hawkes received the gold medal
highest award from the great Exposition,
' superior lens-grinding and excellency
.n the manufacture of spectacles and eye
, glasses. This award was Justly earned by
Mr. Hawkes as the superiority of his
glasses over all others has made them
.among all over the country. They an
' now being, gold in over eight thousand
cities and towns in the U. 8. Prices are
never reduced, same to alt.
J. N. Harris & Bon have a full assort
ment of all the latest styles
M. o. bowdoln
Renting Agent,
No. 31 Hifl street, - - Griffin, Ga.
WM. E. H. SEARCY, JR.,
Counsellor at Law,
GRIFFIN, ,‘GA.
GENERAL PRACTICE.
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DISSOLUTION NOTICE.
The firm of Brewer & Hanleiter is this
day dissolved by mutual consent W. H.
Brewer assumes all debts due by Brewer
& Hanleiter and alldebts due to Brewer A
. Hanleiter to be paid to W. H. Brewed
W. H. BREWER,
W R HAJSTLEITER
Griffin, Ga., Dec. 17,1897.
I will continue the wholesale grocery
business on my own account Thanking
all for their liberal patronage to the firm
of Brewer A Hanleiter, I hope to merit
and continue to receive the same patron
age for myself. My ambition is to make
Griffin a regular jobbing city where the
surrounding country can get their supplies
as cheap as any market in the state or
Isewhere. W. H. BREWER.
ONE FOURTH OFF
FOR SPOT CASH.
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You can buy any OVERCOAT, SUIT or WOOLEN UNDERWEAR in ow
store for TWENTY-FIVE PER CENT off of market price*
Hard times make it difficult tor people who actually need a sail or overcoat to
buy. But at these prices, ONE FOURTH OFF, any body can buy:
$ 4.00 SUITS OR OVERCOATB4FOR $ 3.00.
5.00 “ “ “ “ -
6.50 “ 4.88.
7.50 « “ « « 5.63.
8.50 “ “ 6:37.
10.00 “ “ “ “ 7.50.
12.50 ** “ * 9.38
15.00 “ “ “ « 11.25.
■BOS “ “ “ “ 13.50.
THEBE PRICES ARE ABSOLUTELY FOR THE CASH.
ANY ONE HAVING AN ACCOUNT WITH US CAN 'HAVE TW»RR
GOODS CHARGED AT REGULAR MARKET PRICES.
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GENTIEMENS TAN ANP RUSSIA HOUSE SUPPERS. j
BLACK AND TAN ROMEO ELASTIC SIIJES.
GENTLEMENS FINE PATENT LEATHER SHOES.
“ BROWN WILLOW CALF SHOES.
LADIES FELT LINED HOUSE SLIPPERS. W
M FUR TOP ROMEO.
“ FINE SHOES AND OXFORDS.
“ EMBROIDERED AND HEMSTITCHED HANDKERCHIEFS
1 “ FINE HOSIERY AND GLOVES. 4 J
INFANTS SOFT SOLE SHOES IN COLORS. >
Low Prices to Everybody.
R. F. STRICKLAND & CO.
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- Holls i Joliiay Toys.
. XyAy PRICES TO bUIT THE TIMES. ONLY
Ski m li'WR a raw cents will 11x0 thb
LITTLE ONES HAPPY AND NO
|||p- CHILD SHOULD BE NEGLECTED.
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NOTICE I XTOTICE 1
OWING TO THE LOW PRICE OF OUR CUSTOMERS’ PRODUCT
COTTON-WE HAVE DETERMINED TO LOWER THE PRICE OF GOODS.
WHICH MEANS LESS PROFIT. NOW WE WILL SELL CHEAPER THAN
EVER, FOR CASH ONLY. WE URGE OUR FRIENDS WHO OWE PAST
DUE BILLS TO COME AT ONCE AND SETTLE.
N. B. DREWRY A SON.
Ten Cents per Week