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VoL IX. No. 135.
MAKE HONORS EASY-
The Gentlemen Should Reciprocate
the Ladies Kindness-
The casual observer at the Olympic
the past two nights, could not help
but notice the number of ladies who
removed their hats immediately upon
taking their seats,thus showing prop
er appreciation for those occupying
seats in the rear by not obstructing
their view of the scenes upon the
stage.
This custom is prevailing in all the
theaters of the State, and meets with a
hearty endorsement from all theater
goers.
When the ladies remove their hats
they cannot tuck them away beheath
the seat, as gentlemen do, but are
forced to bold them upon their laps—
but they make no complaint of this.
But what the Gall wishes to sug
gest is this: Inasmuch as the ladies
remove their hats for the benefit and
comfort of those sitting in the rear,
would it not be in equally as good taste
for all gentlemen to remain seated,
between the acts, instead of getting up
and forcing their way out to an aisle"
in order io walk out?
By this thoughtless though rude
practice the ladies’ bats a:e often
crimped, the feathers and other trim
mings are mashed or broken, and the
hats often brushed off upon the floor,
all to the great annoyance and dis
pleasure of the fair owner.
This same ordeal is to be gone
through with upon the gentleman’s
return, in regaining possession of the
seat needlessly vacated a few moments
before.
Let the gentlemen be as thoughtful
I of the wishes and feelings of the ladies,
who have so kindly disrobed their
heads, and keep their seats during the
evening.
It is not unusual to see a gentleman
leave his seat between, every act, and
by so doing render the occasion, ap
parently, extremely unpleasant to more
than one lady occupying the same row
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If gentlemen will keep their seats
and the ladies continue to uncover
their heads, while in the opera house,
an entertainment would be rendered
far more pleasant and agreeable than
under the former practice.
Try it and see if the ladies do not
endorse our views.
Things That Are Different in Mexico-
Mexican men and women carefully
refold their handkerchiefs before re
turning them to their pockets.
Women doctors are practically un
known and the first woman to be
admitted to the bar recently took her
examination.
Most doctors have signs as large as
those of the dry goods stores, reaching
clear across the front of their office
buildings.
Judges take a more active part in
trials than in the states, and as a rule
question the prisoners and witnesses
direct from the bench.
The City of Mexico owns a closed
street car without windows that is used
for transporting prisoners from one
part of ibuocity to another.
As a usual rule commercial houses
have certain hours for paying, just as
a bank, and many of them only make
payment one day in the week.
It is sometimes necessary to hold
court at least for a short time on Sun
day, as, under the law, jury trials can
not be continued for a longer time
than twenty-four hours
Mexican butchers have uo use for
saws. They cut beefsteak, chops and*
everything else with one big, thick
knife, weighing several pounds, that
they use both as knife and cleaver.
No whatever can be
placed in the streets without authority
from the municipal authorities. A
painter must even get permission to
put up his scaffo'd from which to paint
3 sign on a building—Modern Mexico.
CASTORIA
For Infants and Children.
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International Convention Foreign Mis
sions, Cleveland, Ohio.
Account of this occasion the Central of
Georgia Railway Co., will sell round trip
tickets at one first class fare. Tickets on
sale Feb. 20, 21 and 22 with final limit
March 2. .
. 0.8. White, Ticket Agent, Griffin.
* J.C. Haile,G\P.A.,Savannah.
THE HANDKERCHIEFS WE USE
328.500,000 Single Ones Consumed in
the Trade Every Tear.
“Very few people outside the trade,”
said a leading wholesale dealer in
handkerchiefs in New York to a Star
reporter recently, “are aware that the
consumption of handkerchiefs
throughout the United States amounts
to about 75,000 dozen daily’. Thio
means 27,375,000 dozen a year, or
328,500,000 single handkerchiefs. To
satisfy this enormous demand there
are always kept in stock in this city at
least 350,000,000 handkerchiefs. It
would he extremely difficult to say
what such a supply of goods is worth
in the aggregate, as handkerchiefs sell
at anywhere from 30 cents to S4O per
dozen, according to quality and finish.
But the figures which I have given
you are not exaggerated, and they
throw a strong light on the gigantic
dimensions of an important branch of
the dry goods business.
“A comparatively small number of
handkerchiefs are manufactured in
this conaitry, and those that are made
here are mostly of the cotton and in
ferior silk variety. The finest silk
goods are imported principally from
Japan, which country sends us annu
ally between 17,000,000 and 18,000,000
'Japanese podgees.’ The best cambric
article comes from France and Belgi
um, and linen handkerchiefs come
from the North of Ireland and also
from St. Galls, Switzerland. Japanese
silk handkerchiefs are worth from $3
to S4O per dozen, while the imported
cambrics from Brussels sell for from $5
to $7 a dozen, and the cotton product
manufactured in Pennsylvania and
New Jersey may be bad for 30 cents
per dozen.
“The capital invested in this busi
ness is immense. It may possibly
amount to $100,000,000, but, owing to
the fact that the trade is distributed,
nothing like accurate figures can be
given.
“Thare are six or seven firms in the
dry goods district which deal exclu
sively in handkerchiefs. But only two
of these bouses handle the domestic
article extensively. Most of the large
American factories are located outside
of the city, but New York, as in several
other branches of the dry goods busi
ness, is the great distributing center
for the trade.”—Washington Star.
Pointed Paragraphs. *
An easy lesson in . bookkeeping—
don’t lend them.
The hair on a horse’s neck is bis
mane protection.
Money is useful as a servant, but
tyrannical as a master.
Lazy men are dead to the world, but
they remain unburied.
Woman is the fairest creature on
earth—also the unfairest.
You can’t judge a man’s character
by the high standing of his collar.
When a wife makes poor coffee her
husband has good grounds for divorce.
No man would be willing to swear to
everything he says during courtship.
The trouble market is easy and it
can always be borrowed at low rates.
Ambition often raises a man up for
the purpose of giving him a good bard
fall
A cynical bachelor says that a widow
should be either married, buried, or
shut up in a convent.
Nature oahnot jump from winter to
summer without a spring, nor summer
to winter without a fall.
Producers of poultry should refrain
from enumerating their juvenile fowls
until after the period of incubation
has expired.
There is .more Catarrh in this section of
the country than all the other diseases put
together, and until the last few years was
supposed to be incurable. For a great
many years doctors pronounced it a local
disease, and prescribed local remedies, and
by constantly failing to cure with local
treatment, pronounced it incurable.
Science has proven catarrh to be a consti
tutional disease, and therefore requires
constitutional treatment. Hall’s Catarrh
Cure, manufactured by F. J. Cheney &
Co.. Toledo, Ohio, is the only constitu
tional cure on the market. |lt is taken in
ternally in doses from 10 drops to a tea
spoonful. It acts directly on the blood
and mucous surfaces of the system. They
offer one hundred dollars for any case it
fails to cure. Send for circulars and tes
timonials. Address,
F. J. CHENEY & CO,
Toledo, O.
Sold by druggists, 75c.
Hall’s Family Pills are the best.
City Tax notice.
The city tax books will positively dose
on Feb. 15th, and executions will be
’ promptly issued against all defimlters.
Thos. Nall,
i Clerk and Treasurer.
GRIFFIN, GEORGIA, FRIDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY U, 1898.
The Way to Prosperity.
A few days ago we published a letter
from Latham, Alexander dr Co,cotton
commission merchants of New York,
in which it was made clear that a cot
ton crop that does not come quite op
to the world’s demands bring much
more profit to the cotton growers than
a crop that is considerably beyond tbe
world’s wants. While it is true that
the consumption of cotton is greater
when the price of it is low than when
it is high, still, when the price falls be
low the profit line, the growers have
nothing to spend and all kinds of
industries which depend upon them,
partly or wholly, for support, suffer.
It is much better for all concerned,
.therefore, that the cotton growers
should receive a fair price for their
cotton. But, in order to get a living
price, they must not overburden the
cotton market.
In 1893-94, a crop of 7,549,617 bales
sold for $292 932,899, while the large
crop of 1894-95, amounting t 09,901,251
bales, brought only $288,918,504, more
than $4,000,000 less. Similar illustra
tions could be easily given of tbe folly
of producing more than can be sold at
a price which yields a profit.
Why is it that cotton growers will
give so much attention to cotton and
so little to other crops, such as wheat,
oats, hay, fruits, and the various kinds
of zegetables which they need for their
families is a question that is difficult
to answer. They pay high prices at
the country stores for articles of food
which they could produce at home at
a great deal less cost. If they would
reduce the cotton acreage one third
and give some attention to food crops,
fruits, dairy products, hogs, poultry,
etc., they would get from 8 cents to 10
cents a pounl for their cotton instead
of and they would have to buy
very little for the support of their fam
ilies and stock, and, hence, would be
on the way to prosperity. It seems,
however, 0 if they were determined
not to accept advice, but to find out
the way to prosperity by bitter experi
ence.—Savannah News.
A Serious Miltake-
Deacon Jackson was a very pious*
but very determined old colored citi
zen, of Owl creek valley. He bad a
young mule which his boys were un
able to ride and their failure to break
the animal so exasperated the old man
that be determined to ride it himself.
He was, however, no sooner located on
its back than he was thrown into an
adjoining lot, where he was picked up
with both legs broken and his neck
badly sprained.
“What on earth did such an old
man as you mean by trying to ride a
wild young mule like that?” asked the
doctor.
“Waal, sub,” said Deacon Jackson,
"I never does undertook to do nothin’
widout fust consultin’ ov de Lawd an’
seein’ whut he dun thunk erbout hit.
I axpd him el I orter ride dat mule
wbat my triflin’ uo ercount boys
couldn’t ride, an’ he Lawn, he sed,
yessab, jes’ ez plain ez I am talkin’ to
you.”
“Well, but he seems to have given
you bad advice.”
“No, doctor, his judgment was all
right, fer de Lawd knows dis ole nig
ger never seed de day when he was
afeered to straddle anything from a
circular saw up to er elephant, but dis
time I think de Lawd was jes’ mis
tooken in de mule.”
The Modern Way.
Commands itself to tbe well-informed, to
do pleasantly and effectually what was
formerly done in the crudest manner and
disagreeably as well. To cleanse the
system and* break up colds, headaches,
and fevers without unpleasant after effects,
use the delightfill liquid laxative remedy,
Syrup of Figs. Manufactured by Califor
nia Fig Syrup Company.
To Cure Conatlpatlon Fore vet.
Take Cascarets Candy Cathartic. 10c or 25c.
If C. C.-C. fail to cure, druggists refund money.
REGISTRATION NOTICE,
The county registration books are now
open at my office in Hasselkus’ Shoe Store
and all qualified to do so should call and
register.
They will close twenty days before next
election. T. R. NUTT, T. C.
Educate Tour Bowels With Cascarets.
Candy Cathartic, cure constipation fore f er.
foe, 25c. If C. aC. fall, druggists refund money.
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To Cure Constipation Forever.
Take Cascarets Candy Cathartic. 10c or 25c.
If C. C. C. fall to cure, druggists refund money.
Royal makes the feed pore,
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ROYAi. BAKING POWDER CO., NEW YORK.
This Is True,
Ao boceet man will not buy what
ba knows he cannot pay for; he will
not borrow money when be can see no
way to pay it back ; if be cannot meat
an obligation he will come forward in
a manly way and tell his creditors tbe
whole truth ; be will not hide out when
pay day comes, bat will face the world
and say ; “I cannot meet it now, but
give me time and I will; I will not
run away from my debts.” Such a
man aa that can always get credit, ba
he ever ao poor. Tho business world
is beginning to place more confidence
in good moral security than in the
best of real estate and money collateral.
This puls a premium on honesty. A
man’s money may slip through his
fingers, but if he he a man of honor he
will always be willing to pay wbat he
owes, and some day God’s bounteous
hand will be held out to him, and he
will not only be willing, but ready.
After all, there ia much truth in the
old saying that “honesty is the best
policy,” and ip Pope’s famous line:
"An honest man ia the noblest work
Os God.”
OIVB EX JOYS
Both the method ana results when
Syrup of Figs is taken; it is pleasant
and refreshing to the taste, and acts
gently yet promptly on the Kidneys,
Liver and Bowels, cleanses the sys
tem effectually, dispels colds, head
aches and fevers and cures habitual
constipation. Syrup of Figs is the
only remedy of its kind ever pro
duced, pleasing to the taste and ac
ceptable to the stomach, prompt in
its action and truly beneficial m its
effects, prepared only from the most
healthy ana agreeable substances, its
many excellent qualities commend it
to all and have made it the most
popular remedy known.
Syrup of Figs is for sale in 50
cent bottles by all leading drug
gists. Any reliable druggist who
may not have it on hand will pro
cure it promptly for any one who
wishes to try it. Do not accept any
substitute.
CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP CO.
BAM FRAHCISCO, CAL.
UMMYIUE, n. H£Bf YOM, #.l
IN WASHINGTON'S TIME
Furniture was as stiff and straight as the
manners were formal. The ftarniture of
today, of which there are exquisite sam
ples in our superb stock, have all the vir
tues, without any of the lumbereome,
ungainly features of Colonial styles. We
are making a special feature just now of
Oak and Mahogany, which are the best
value for the money we have ever offered,
CHILDS &GODI>ARI>.
Dissolution Sale
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THOS. J. WHITE HAVING BOUGHT MR. O. F. WOLCOTTS INTEREST
IN THE BUSINESS OF WHITE A WOLCOTT,
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Offers at Absolute Cost!
AH 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,
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We will continue to sell everything in the
WILLIAMS STOCK at the marked cost until
Feb. 15th.
Call and price our goods before making a
purchase.
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New goods of every kind bought right and
sold right. Others get our prices and
try to meet them; they don't
always do it.
THOSE NEW EMBROIDERIES
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OF OURS ARE MUCH ADMIRED BY EVERYBODY. THE PATTERNS ARE
ALL OF NEW DESIGNS AND THE PRICE IS THE ONLY, THING CHEAP
ABOUT THEM.! • *
10-4 UNBLEACHED SHEETING 12ic.
10-4 BLEACHED SHEETING 15c.
4 4 CABOTTB BLEACHINGS Gjc. ALL THE BEST BRANDS AT THE
LOWEST PRICES.
SATIN STRIPED TICKINGS MADE TO SELL FOR 15c. WE BOUGHT
THE WHOLE LOT—OUR PRICE 10c.
'MENS UNLAUNDERED SHIRTS THREE FOR SI.OO.
MENS NEGLIGEE SHIRTS, NEW STYLES, 50c. EACH.
NEW FLOWING END FOUR-IN-HAND TIES 50c.
LADIES HERMSDORF HOSE 12ic., 15c., 20c. AND 25c.
MENS SOCKS, FAST BLACK OR TANS, Bc. TO 25c.
SHOES, SHOES!
ALL SAMPLE SHOES AND BALANCE OF. WINTER STOCKS WILL BE
CLOSED OUT AT REDUCED PRICES.
R. F. STRICKLAND & CO.
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J. H. HUFF'S BOOK ANO MUSIC STORE
HAS OPENED UP A BEAUTIFUIrTJNE OF
LACE VALENTINES*
Fault Finders and Hit-’Em-Hard Comics.
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Ten Cents per Week