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W'-’W Wk. T A W" Wr . ■ 1* *-■ >/1 | ■ I— 9 I B I iff a • % ■ I I I . I B w m I B I w. IT W J I < I • 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 of seats. x - 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. rufu- - axil. xTr //a - Is • * wans - 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. CABTOHXII. The *> ' u»ii« - >«« sfmteN/ tntj vr*w» 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, holc®osn© Modi mi EOT!? 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 -vr THOS. J. WHITE HAVING BOUGHT MR. O. F. WOLCOTTS INTEREST IN THE BUSINESS OF WHITE A WOLCOTT, ■ *-■ ■ ’'. ; 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, SUCCESSOR TO ‘ ‘ ' '■ -‘A J n B B AJ J * x / f) f J ■■W.’!"". 1 '■ 11 V.!"-.-'"- IL.!!'■■!■ L, . ■I..J 1U a TTr’F T/"" < "TS'igß! aJLi ala aJLw V aJL MbbZ aXiLj •.'.it '■ ' -'* > ’ &-M-Z’7- „ A rp ’. - < SCHEUERMAN STORE. 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. ft if 5 . 21 Hill Street—at Scheuerman Store. « • !■ —1 ■■■4 1 . 1.. I i-1. .1! ..■IM.U'BSSaBBMBBMRBB R. F.StricklanOCo. ’ -—-A" ■- > 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 .'♦ • • 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. ========= rrrwßj- . .. J. H. HUFF'S BOOK ANO MUSIC STORE HAS OPENED UP A BEAUTIFUIrTJNE OF LACE VALENTINES* Fault Finders and Hit-’Em-Hard Comics. O’. H T 4 I J ’P'R l - Ten Cents per Week