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1 IM ■— - / ■ _ W ■ A Wk IBT "Wk. > dk - W‘ ■ ■ J I /1 U W 9 I W * f !¥ I % # I I '■ 1 •X- A1 % I a■ ■" Vol IX. No. 117. TERBOBS of the storm. Former Citizen* of Griffin Suffer From It. A letter was received yesterday by one of onr citizen* from a friend in Fort Smith, and it contained an in** tereeting and graphic description of the recent storm which passed over that place. The writer said that the accounts in the newspapers did not in any partic ular exaggerate the destruction and the awful devastations of the atorm. Over 80 bouses were blown completely •way, and many other buildings were damage. Over a million dollars worth of property was destroyed ; about 20 people were killed and 125 were in jured. Dr. Cate’s borne was a total wreck. He is lying at the home of a friend with one arm broken and several in juries. His wife is at another friend’s home, seriously and it is feared fatally injured. The mother of Mrs. Cate died the day the letter was written. A number of other persons were men tioned in the letter as being killed and injured but they are strangers to our people. A War Cloud- McKinley "popped a cap” in Wash ington yesterday, while the muzzle was pointing in the direction of Spain, and all Washington and the United States navy is trembling. The inquiry naturally arises, is the government going to do what should Have been done years ago? Matters really begin to look warlike and tbe next few days may find this country involved in a foreign war. In that event Gov. Atkinson can furnish Colonels enough from his staff to whip a brigade of Spaniards. Twelve Months in the Gang. The jury in the burglary cases yes terday morning brought in a verdict of guilty against Oscar McMahon and "Bones” Etheridge, and a recommen dation to metcy, whereupon they were sentenced to serve twelve months up on the county chaingang. It is understood there will be no ap peal from the verdict, and tbe young men will enter promptly upon their terms of service. Don't- Don’t judge the judge by the jury. Don’t believe that love ever laughs at the wedlocksmith. Don’t think that because life is short men outlive their good resolutions. Don’t judge a man by the character given him by bis next door neighbor. Don’t kiss your sister before another girl; always kiss the other girl first Don’t acquire too much dignity ; you might be mistaken for your-footman. Don’t get too self important; you’re not the only drop in the bucket. Don’t forget to tell your wife occa sionally that you love her; otherwise she might not find it out Don’t worry about trifles; the hole that lets water in your shoe will let it out again. Ironical Ifs. If a man releases a piece ofy/roperty he takes a fresh grip on it. If people didn’t have hobbies the world would cease to levolve. 4 If a man once uses porous plasters he is apt to become much attached to them. • If hope assumes the guise of an Easter bonnet it springs eternally in the female breast. If it’s necessary to write to any one you don’t care 2 cents for use a postal card. If we listen to the troubles of other people it sometimes makes us better satisfied with our own. If two souls find they have but a single thought it is. useless to waste any time contemplating matrimony. If a man marries a woman because she has more sense than he has, he is never allowed to lose eight of tbe fact. —Chicago News. Piano Tuning. Charles H. Smith, of Atlanta, will be in Griffin the latter part of thia month to tune pianos, organs and mu sical instruments generally. He wil come fully endorsed by teachers and persons of note. Any one wishing him to do any work for them will receive prompt at tention upon bis arrival, if their re quest is left at the Call office. Educate Yoor Bowels With Caaearets. Cathartic, cure constipation forever. Wc, 85c. If C. C. C. fall, druggists refund money. Give Factories a Chance. Why is it that Georgia la falling be hind other southern states in manu facturing ? It is not because her na tural advantages are not a* great a* those of any other southern state. She has raw material, excellent transporta tion facilities and cheap labor. She has water power sufficient to run all the mills in the south and coal is de livered along the lines of all her rail roads at a remarkably low price per ton. Why then is it that, as a manu facturing state, she has fallen, since 1870, from the first to tbe fifth place among the southern states? Those who have studied this subject carefully are of tbe opinion that the high rate of taxation in Georgia ba* something to do with this condition of affairs. A convention has been called by tbe Atlanta Chamber of Commerce for Feb. 10, to consider the advisabili ty of asking the legislature to give in corporated towns tbe right to exempt manufacturing plants within their re spective limits from municipal taxa tion. Tbe question of exempting fac tories from state and county taxes is not to be touched upon, because tbe state constitution makes such taxation obligatory. Would it not pay- cities to exempt factory plants from taxation—at least for a number of years? It would un doubtedly. Without such exemption very few of them will have any facto ries. With factories they would have a much larger population to support the business of those who pay tbe taxes. Municipal governments, there fore, would be gainers by exempting factories from taxation. Some of the towns do exempt factory properly, but ther x e is a doubt of tbe legality of tbeir action, and as long a* there is no certainty that tbe exemp tion will be continued they fail to re ceive the benefits they seek to obtain. A law authorizing such exemptions would enable them at once to offer in* ducements which, in many instances, would secure thriving cotton factories, and factories of other kinds. In North Carolina, South Carolina, Kentucky, Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana factories have exemption from municipal taxation, and all of these states, especially North Carolina, South Carolina and Alabama, are be* coming great manufacturing states. Georgia, owing to the lack of foresight of her legislators, is lagging in tbe rear. It is for her people to say wheth er or not she shall continue to lag. Suppose Georgia should turn into fabrics her cotton crop—that portion of it which is now exported—and should send these fabrics to foreign markets? Would not her people be benefited to the extent of many mil lions of dollars annually? They cer tainly would. Georgia towns would increase in wealth and population rapidly. This city, in all probability, instead of having one idle cotton mill would have half a dozen first-class mills in operation and a large factory population. Let us have the kind of legislation which invites progress.—Savannah News. Dineleyism in New England- Here are two direct results of tbe Dingley tariff' so far as tbe cotton in dustry is concerned : First, a greatly reduced foreign demand for American cotton manufacturers, followed by, second, stagnation in tbe cotton trade, an over-supply, and no market, re sulting in a cut in wages and a strike of 100,000 workmen seriously affecting tbe trade and business of an important section of the union.—Pittsburg Post. In Olden Time* 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 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. nsho- zf - , stall* x'Tr z/r» z. *«■ Ufuturs/V* FOR SALE. One SSOO first mortgage 7 per cent Odd Fellows bond for sale. Apply to Call office. Te Cure Constipation Forever. Take Caaearets Candy Cathartic. 10c or 25c. If C C. C. fail to cure, druggists refund money. GRIFFIN, GEORGIA, FRIDAY MORNING, JANUARY 21, 1898. Bobert Edward Lee. The warmest, most appreciative trib ute that Las recently been paid to tbe memory and character of Bobert E. Lee earns from E. Benjamin Andrews, president of Brown University of Rhode Island, in an oration •in the Central Music Hall, Chicago, two or three months ago. Mr. Andrews was born in New Hampshire, fought with the First Connecticut Heavy Artillery in the war, and has lived and labored most of his life in 'New Hampshire, Ohio and Rhode Island. The tribute be pays Les, therefore, comes from an appreciation of merit, and not from tbe sectional feeling whioh might be charged if he were a Southern man. In the course of his oration, President Andrew* said of Lee: "He had tbe faith of <tbe crusader; his letter* would make a guide to holi« ness. He was always a soldier—never impure in thought or act, never pro fane or obsene. He did not touch tbe cup. * * ♦ "He was never outgeneraled by Grant in all the campaign from Rap pahanhock to James river, never trap ped and never caught napping. I fail to find in the books any such master-- ful generalship as Ibis hero shoi/ed, bolding that slim gray line, haff starved, with no prospect of additions); and fighting when bis army was too hungry to stand and tbe rifles were only useful as clubs. His courage was sublime. He was as great as Gustavus Adolphus, or Napoleon, or Wellington, or Von Moltke. * ♦ » “Lee successfully defeated, outgene raled and routed the best generals that Washington could send against him, and it was not until tbe immortal Grant, with the finest army of veterans that tbe world has ever seen, took the field against him that Lee’s marvelous accomplishments received a check. Even against Grant, Lee fought as probably no other general ever fought, and against odds that would have driven Napoleon to despair. "It was a great death struggle when Grant faced Lee, and Lee then knew that hie was a hopeless struggle. He kept that thin, gray line of ragged, hungry men, growing thinner and hungrier each day, together. His courage, his wonderful presence and strong personality kept that little band of tattered and emaciated men in bat*, tic array, and fought to the last ditch, surrendered only when he realized that it would be murder to keep up tbe struggle.” Deafness Cannot bo Cured by local applications, as they cannot reach the diseased portion of the ear. There is only one way to cure deafness, 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 Is 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 often are caused by catarrh, which is nothing but an in flamed condition of the mucous surfaces. We will give One Hundred Dollars for any case of Deafness (caused by catarrh) that cannot be cured by Hall’s Catarrh Cure. Send for circulars, free. F. J. Chbkby & Co., Toledo, O. Sold by Druggists, 75c. Hall’s Family Pills are the best. O-A. SII.’O f*e he- /I •an* xTr z z, <«• X* z" itsrd? d?" v,vr l tt Educate Tour Bowels With Cascareta. Candy Cathartic, cure constipation forever. De, 25c. If C. C. C. fail, druggists refund money. Fine Cane Pasture. lam prepared to pasture your dry cows through tbe winter; also have several milk cows for sale or to trade for dry ones. For terms apply to A. 8. Blake. DISSOLUTION NOTICE. Notice is hereby given that the partner ship heretofore existing under the firm name of WHITE A WOLCOTT has been dissolved. The businef s will be continued by Thos. J. White, to whom all indebted ness must be paid. Thos. J. White hereby assumes all liabilities of said firm of White & Wolcott. THOS. J. WHITE. CHAS. F. WOLCOTT. A CARO. To My Friends and Customers: As you will see the firm of Scott A Horne has been dissolved, and I have bought out the stock of goods of RobL L Williams, and will henceforth be found at the Scheurman Store, where I will be pleased to serve my friends, I trust, as well in the future as in the past Thanking you for past favors, I am, - Respectfully, Jan. 1,1898. W. P. HORNE. CA.OTOHXA. ft* fw- z? . lifUtnM/ r J*." f ■ e 2 -" ■*“ OVB7 Rayal HMkaa tk« Smß p«r« t POWDER Absolutely Pure ROYAL aAKINO POWOCR CO.; MW YORK. Heroines in Modern Novels. The extraordinary change in novels •nd tbeir heroines is due, in a great measure, to the change in women themselves. These have ceased to be tbe romantic, sentimental, artificial beings they6vere even thirty years ago, and tbeirffeflex in fiction has been diS conthjutJa. We will not read of the ■hfnguishing, empty, mawkish, flavor* less Sybils, Angelinas and Arabellas that our mothers and grandmothers hung over and wept over. The heroine of the period is not satisfied to look pretty aud obey tbe fixed rules of eti quette; nor is the actual women so satisfied, either. The actual woman wants to be somebody, to do some thing, to take some part in life, and she is and does, even if surrounded by luxury and bulwarked by influential friends. It is noticeable how active she is, bow useful she tries to make herself, whatever tbe temptation of wealth and society to render her other wise. Reading novels of the old sort was weakening.. If not demoralizing. It contributed to silliness and namby pambyism at least. Not so with the later novels, those of tbe present espe cially. Tbe better kind are intellectu al, encouraging, stimulating in a good sense, and teach valuable lessons of life, because based op observation and experience. Their heroines act favor ably, as a rule, on feminine readers, and feminine readers, in away, act fa vorably on them.—Harger’s Bazaar. Still Leading. A. K. Hawkes received the gold medal highest award from the great Exposition, superior lens-griuding and excellency m 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 .amous all over the country. They are now being sold in over eight thousand cities and towns in the U. B. Prices are never reduced, same to all. J. N. Harris & Son have a full assort ment of all the latest styles She sic- , | Gailfßorden | > Eagle Brand | f Comdensed Milk. > < Bcst INFANT focd. -< No-To-Bac for Fifty Cent*. Guaranteed tobacco habit cure, makes weak men strong, b'ood pure. 50c, *l. Al! druggists. W’ copyr<cmt IwbS GETTING THE GRIP is easier than getting rid of it unless you use our Grippe Pills. Your grip on good health is best preserved by keeping the body in good condition, and your vitality strong, by the use of Grippe Pills, which prevent* sudden chills, and enables you to resist disease. Try it, and you will weather the winter without illness from colds. N. B. DREWRY * SON, 28 Hill Street Dissolution Sale. 1 ' THOS. J. WHITE HAVING BOUGHT MR. C. F. WOLCOTTS INTEREST IN THE BUSINESS OF WHITE <fc WOLCOTT, Offers at Absolute Cost! All Winter Suits for Men or Boys, All Overcoats for Men and Boys, All Winter Underwear. THESE GOODS MUST BE CONVERTED INTO CASH AT ONCE. NONE OF ABOVE ARTICLES WILL BE CHARGED TO ANY ONE AT THESE PRICES. ANY ONE HAVING ACCOUNT ON MY BOOKS CAN HAVE THESE ARTICLES CHARGED, BUT AT REGULAR MARKED PRICES. THOS. J. WHITE, • I SUCCESSOR TO t j f ts J/ j g R-F. Strickland & Co. (.) SAMPLE SHOES. Our third line for this season has just been received. All styles for men, women and children at wholesale cost. Buy your Shoes now, before the sizes are gone, and save one-third the price you pay elsewhere. K. F. STRICKLAND & CO. H.P.EADY&CO. IN HILL BUILDING, Buggies, Wagons and Hamess. We give good prices for your old Buggy and Harness in exchange for new ones. All kind of repair work promptly done. • H. P. EADY & CO. DISSOLUTION NOTICE. The firm of Scott & Horne has this day been dissolved by mutual consent, W. P. Horne retiring, and J. A. Scott assumes all debts due by Scott & Horne, and all debts due to Scott & Horne to be paid to J. A. Scott. J. A. SCOTT, W. P. HORNE. Dec. 81, 1897. I will continue the former business at the old stand, where I hope to meet and serve my friends as heretofore. I shall endeavor to merit the patronage of the public by legitimate dealings, J. A. SCOTT. ° NOTICE TO DEBTORS. All accounts due David Waxelbaum are with Walter H. Beeka, who can be found at the law office of Beeka A Boynton, cor ner Hill and Solomon streets, Masonic building. Please call and settle, to save cost of collection. ___ DAVID WAXELBAUM. Ten Cents per Week V/bei?iyou are rgjrfyto \ jjHOjWy x • us To tn&te; - fcfewsuftesftoes. DO YOU LIKE A NICE BEDROOM SET in antique oak, or birdseye maple? If so we can give you the finest bedroom sets made, which wo are offering this week at low prices for those who are economically inclined. They are the best value for the money we have ever sold, and will fit up a room to look neatly, while they are as useful and comfortable as the more ex nensive sets. CHILDS&CODDARD. FOR RENT. 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. To Caro Con.tlpatkon Foreeen Take Cascarets Candy Cathartic. Uto or Se. If G C. C. tall to cure, druggists refund money.