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... . r .. - - - - i SCHEUERMAN STORE. - "(O) THW WEEK WE SHOW YOU FOR Me. PER. YARD, IMPORTED JFRENCH ORGANDIES, IN PAINTY AND SHEER PATTERNS- REAL IMPORTED SCOTCH GINGHAMS, A NOVELTY AND SURE TO PLEASE. 40-INCH WIDE FIGURED BLACK WORSTED ADAPT ED ESPECIALLY FOR SKIRTS. A pretty lot small figured Gingham*, in plaid* and stripe*, good quality, 7c. yard. \z In lining*, Cambric 64 cloth at 4c. yard. The now Percaline in all shades at 10c. TJaon Canvass at 15c. AU styles Simpson Calicoes in black, grey, plaids and silk effects at sc. - TXT. 3F- ■. • WE ARE STILL GIVING EVERY CUSTOMER A FREE GUEBS AT THE GOLD WATCH. <&» ■_, , . _ J. H. HOFFS BOOK AMD MUSIC STORE Ta headquarters for the celebrated Easy Run* nlng and Noiseless Sewing Machine. Sold on easy terms. Best assortment of Needles and Oil always on hand. TT "FTTT K I T«~ I ■ - ' ■»»— ' !!T= New Garden Seeds. All fresh from the best growers. Genuine Eastern Irish Potatoes. Prescriptions carefully compounded. J. N. HARRIS & SON BARGAINS IN GROCERIES. 40 bar* Soap for tl.oo. A good roasted Coffee for 10c. lb. SO Um. Suga/Xr >l-00. Baw Peanut* 50. lb. ; i> . 50 lb* Grit* for SI.OO. We are the lowest price house on Ball Potash, 10c. ball for sc. Hay, Corn, Bran, Cotton Seed Meal Prune*, Sc. and Hulls. G. W. CLARK & SON. Wholesale and Retail Grocers. Es Hr?.' •' l *M^^——————— 1 i —■ . —■ ■ - ■■■ —.... Morning Cail. i GRIFFIN, GA., MARCH 29, 1898. Uffleeover Davit’ Hardware Store TILXPHONIMO. n. , ■ ■ NICE LINE OF BABY CARRIAGES. ’ Utah, time or easy payments. Call and see them. MANGHAM «ROS. —— ™ PIBBOMAL AMD LOCAL DOTS Clark Shattuc left yesterday for La- Grange. D. W. Perdue epent yesterday in Atlanta. Col. W. J. Kincaid went to Atlanta last night. B. Thompson spent the day in Atlanta yesterday. Welborn Hill, of Newnan, was in the oity yesterday. Hon, Jas. 8. Boynton spent the dsy in Atlanta yesterday. Mrs. R. A. Drake spent yesterday with friends in Atlanta. Mrs. L» L. Heins returned yesterday from a trip to New York. Rev. V. W. Wadsworth, of Atlanta, was in the eity yesterday. Gas Brown returned yesterday from a few days visit to friends io Atlanta. Allen Thomas, living just beyond the western limits of the city, is quite aieik M ; m Gussie Milligan left yesterday to spend some time with relatives in Atlanta Miss Jessie Lawton spent yeatetday in Sonny Side with the family of Adjt. Gw.Kell. , Workmen commenced patting on a now tin roof on the Methodist church yoMorday. Col. Byrd Garland, of The Rock, spent yesterday in this city with his brother, Dr. H. J* Garland Miss Lois Hudson left yesterday for Atlanta, where she will spend a few ■ days visiting relatives and friends. Capl H. H Bass returned yesterday 5 from Americus, where he attended the ) annual meeting of the state Y. M C. A. We regret to learn that Dr. W. H. , Touchstone, of Mt. Zion district, is quite feeble from his protracted illness W B. Clements, of Atlanta, travel ing passenger agent ot the 8 A L, was in the city for a ehoit while yesterday. Miss Hattie Fuller,of Woodbury, ar rived in the city Sunday morning and [ for several days will be the guest of her sister, Mrs J C. White. Yesterday was warm and summer like, but up in the northwest a bliz zard has been sweeping over the coun try for several days, freezing every : thing it touched Miss Fonda Gilbert, a very hand some young lady of Albany, who has been visiting relatives and friends in Atlanta for some lime, arrived in this 1 city yesterday and will be the guest of Mies Lucy Beck for a few days. 1 Every son and daughter of Spalding couuty, whose father was in the Con federate army, should hear Gen. Gur don’s famous lecture ou “The Last Days of the Confederacy.” Unless he is induced to deliver this lecture here ’ on tbe 30th inst, another opportunity may never be presented Os course all ■ the ' old rebels” will go Many of the citizens of Griffin have asked the Call, the past few weeks, about the water the city authorities proposed furnishing' the cemetery. Spring lime is fast approaching and not a drop of water can be had to plant flowers or aught else. The council meets tonight and it is hoped they may adopt active measures for supply ing this great want promptly. Best of All To cleanse tbe system In a gentle and truly beneficial manner, when tbe springtime comes, use the true and perfect remedy, Syrup of Figs. One bottle will answer for all the family and costs only 60 cents; the large sixefil. Buy the genuine. Manu factured by tbe California Fig Syrup Com pany only, and for sale by all druggists. CASTORXA.. is. How a Thief Wm Mad*. "Some year* ago," said a Keueiug* ion mfcnofactarer ol cloth, according to the Philadelphia Record, M l r foutid that my mill was being robbed ; once I or twice a month a piece of finiabed t goods would disappear. A* the thefts j were all from the finiahing room, ana . picion naturally pointed to the hands there, and alter a long while of ama . leur detecting I felt pretty «ure I had my man Yet I had no evidence ■ gainst him, nor could I, to save my »<>ul, get hold of any; I jiiet suspected him, yt/u know. So one pay day I tested his honesty On pay day, you must understand, each hand’s money is given him in a sealed envelop, on which is written bis time, his rate per i hour, and the amount duo. Well, there was duo thia man sl2 and in bieenvel- I I Ip I [’lit $22-$ 10 too much. Ab I I # had rxprcled, he said nothing. Sol discharged him. This man had work- • ed for me eight ycart. - Times were ! hard, and he lay idle for eight or nine | moulin*; then moved away with bis family Scarcely bad he moved ajvay , whew Iho tbef's, which bad ceased for near 1 / a year, began oncn more. Once 1 morel turned detective; this time with b-tier luck, for I caught the thief I and I traced every piece of cloth be I had stolen. The man discharged was innocent, save in the case of the $lO ” One of the manufacturer’s small audi ence spoke gravely; “Yes, you did a clevef thing Ybu made a thief of an - honest mao You placed in an honest man’s way no almost unoonquerabie temptation, when one considers the * size of the salary you paid him. The man fell because you tripped him up. I The Bible; I think, says something somewhere about such deeds, and you are promised your reward.’’ Where the Profit Goes. Many farmers are buying corn and hay at time prices, remarks the Bain bridge Democrat. Os course they ex pect to pay for it with money derived from cotton. They are perhaps in creasing their cotton acreage to meet the demand. Why not put in a few more acres in corn? This will not bring the ready cas'i, but it will surely keep you from ultimate ruin as a farmer. What is the use to make one debt to pay another? Stop now, while the debt is small. As for hay every farmer destroys enough hay in making a single cotton crop to buy it five limes. He has plenty of the finest hay in every corner of his place, yet he conies to town and invests in hay . raised by farmers who do not raise , cotton. No wonder the farmer is poor. lie buys his hoe, and ax bandies, plow lines, plowstocks, plows, singletrees, baskets, mules, fodder, corn, hay, meat, flour, lard, syrup and everything possi ble almost all of which can be pro* duced at home. In fact he will not make anything he can buy except cotton. Nothing Behind Spain’s Idle Threat. , The Madrid paper which says that Spain could carry on a guerrilla war against the United S.ates, as she did against Napoleon early in the century, , has strange ideas as to the conditions which would confront Spain in this case After being driven out of Cuba a id Puerto Rico, as she would within a ' fjw months of the opening of hostili ties, the only chance she would have of fighting would be upon the water, and with those islands gone her coal . supply on tliis .side of the Atlantic i would be cut off. Spanish ships which i would “coal up’’ in Spain and then i come over here to fight would never 1 get borne. The poisoning of wells, the stabbing in the back with poniards, and the other methods of assassination by which the Spaniards fought the French invaders would be rather diffi cult to repeat in a war on the ocean. — St. Louis Globe-Democrat. ANNOUNCEMENT. For Sheriff. I respectfully inform my friends—the people of Spalding county—that I am a candidate for the offlce.of Sheriff, subject to the verdict of a primary, if one is held Your support will be thankfully received and duly appreciated. M J. PATRICK. FOR SHERIFF. I am a candidate for the democratic nomination for Sheriff, and earnestly ask the support of all my friends and the pub lic. If nominated and elected, it shall be my endeavor to fulfill the duties of the of fice as faithfully as m the past. M. F. MORRIS. I hereby announce myself a candidate for J ustice of the Peace 1001st District, G. M., for the unexpired term. Election first Saturday in April. W. D. CARHART. Dugan House For Sale or Rent. My house and lot on Poplar street. Apply to myself, Mrs. E. W. Dugan, Williamson, Ga., or H. P. Eady, Grit* * fin, Ga. numbing Booed. ■latnnMß*. Not slumming, but plumbing, is ths latent and most fasblonsble diversion. Hie plumbing docs not vouslut in laying or repairing ths* pipes ond mains, but in inspecting and witfciaing thorn. There is, of course, a guide or lender who first picks out some houses where things are peculiar ly defective and who pilots the party about, pointing out how dreadfully unhy gienic it all is. Most of the inspecting crowd probably know no more about it when they are through than when they began, but the div< rsion has the air of be ing philanthropic not to say scientific, and it is certainly novel. There was a “plumbing party” on hand yesterday. It was made up of the rank and file of the New York Household Economic associa tion, none of the important members be ing present, and it left the Palace of In dustry at 3 o’clock. About 20 women were in the crowd and it was in charge of Mr. Charles V. Wingate. As the one man and the whole crowd of women made their way along the streets it was interesting to observe tho stares and the comments of the passersby who were not yet familiar with the plumbing party. Not until the new diversion becomes more common may we expect the general public to be callous to it. The party tackled a house on East Sixty-third street and proceeded to exam ine its drains. Mr. Wingate was very par ticular to point out the importance of the right sort of traps, and the women were soon converted to his opinion. The ques tions the women asked were remarkable and varied. They ranged all the way from queries as to tho proper size for butlers’ pantries to interrogations concerning the high price of putty in New Orleans. Mr. Wingate was both patient and painstak ing, however, and tried his best to make everything clear. There is no doubt, too, that tho new diversion contains much of practical value to those who enter into it in tho proper spirit. Tho slumming party was nothing more than a gratification of curiosity. The plumbing party provides a capital object lesson in that roost Impor tant field —domestic science.—New York Sun. The “Queen’s” English. If Cobbett were alive, ho could still crit icise the English grammar of the speech prepared for the sovereign at the opening of parliament. The queen adopts this speech at her council on the advice of her ministers, and jt is then given to parlia ment as‘‘her own words.” It is impor tant to observe that the president of the council and tho minister who last saw the queen at Osborne in reference to the speech read yesterday is also tho head of the edu cation department. Is there an inspector of schools under him who would pass a reference to expenditure which is beyond “former precedent?” A question in English grammar might bo set in tho schools from the following sentence: “A portion of tho Afridi tribes have not yet accepted tho terms offered to them, but elsewhere the operations have been brought to a successful close.” The question would be: What is the term in opposition to “elsewhere?” Ip the refer ence to Crete wo read: “The difficulty of arriving at an unanimous agreement upon some points has unduly protracted their deliberations —1. e., the deliberations of the powers—but; I hope that these obstacles will before long be surmounted.” What obstacles? As “the difficulty” is the sub ject in this sentence, ‘ ‘ that obstacle’ ’ would appear to be the appropriate phrase. Observe also “an unanimous agree ment.” In the days when our grandfa thers spoke of things being pecooliar or oonique the rule that the indefinite article comes before the vowel sound applied, but as in these days “unanimous” is not pro nounced oonanimous, but you-nanimous, tho “an” before tho word is an abomina tion in speech and in writing but lamely defended, like certain rhymes, as satisfy ing to the eye although offending the ear. As for the literary style of the speech, it is not likely to be used as a model in the secondary schools. —London News. Patagonian Giants. Tho tribes to the east of the Cordilleras in southern Patagonia belong to Arauca nian stock and are a superior race. The Tehuelches—as they call themselves—-of southern and eastern Patagonia are the people whose unusual stature gave rise to the fables of early days to tho effect that the natives of this region were giants, averaging 9or 10 feet in height. It is a fact that they are the tallest human beings in tho world, the mon averaging but less than 6 feet, while individuals of 4 to 6 inches above that mark are not uncommon. They are in reality by no means savages, but somewhat civilized barbarians. They are almost unacquaint ed with the use of firearms, notwithstand ing some contact with tho whites, but they have plenty of horses and dogs. Unsurpass ed hunters, they capture tho guanaco and the rhea, or South American ostrich, and from tho skins of these and other animals they make clothes and coverings for their tents. They make beautiful capes or mantles of fur and feathers, which are highly prized by Europeans and find a ready market, most of tho proceeds being spent for bad whisky, which Is brought into the country in quantities by traders. —Boston Transcript. The Mouse lu the Piano. “Speaking of mice,” said Mr. Biffleby, “a friend of mine that owns an old fash ioned piano tells roe that when it was be ing played upon the other day a mouse ran out of it and scampered around on the top and then ran down a curtain whose folds touch the piano at one end. The mouse has done this twice in a singlfe day. “Search was made in the interior of the instrument for a mouse’s nest, but none was found. Perhaps tho mouse bad only just selected this place and had not yet begun building when it was first startled by the sound of the strings. However that may bg, it still comes back, and it comes out and runs away only when classical music is played, and not for two steps and that sort of thing. “As to the accuracy of these facts there can, of course, be no doubt The only question in my own mind is as to whether the mouse’s failure to come out when the two steps and so on are played really indi cates a preference for tho lighter forms of music, or that—er-r—the mouse isn’t there.”—New York Sun. The Fly In the Ointment. “This,” said the bystander, "must be the proudest moment of your life.” “No,” sadly answered the owner of the winning horse. “It was a great race and I’ve won a fortune, but from nowon I see that I shall be known only as owner of the horse that won It. ’ ’ —lndianapolis Journal. A Struggle. “There are some men who would rather fight than eat.” “If you lived at our boarding house you would have to fight to eat.”—Philadelphia North American. Flemister& Bridges. | Flemister& Bridges. HOW WE FEEL ABOUT IT—THERE IB COMFORT IN TRADING WHEN YOU FEEL AT HOME IN A STORE. WE KNOW HOW IT IS OURSELVES. WE BUY GOODS, TOO. WE WANT YOU TO DO AS YOU PLEASE IN THIS STORE. COME AND GO WHEN YOU CHOOSE, BUY OR LOOK. WE WANT YOUR TRADE. BUY WHAT YOU FANCY, WITH THIS UNDERSTANDING, IF IT DOESN’T SUIT BRING IT BACK. • Have lidded the past week to our already large and attractive stock Ladiee Shirt Waists, Fans, plain and check Ducks, Belts, etc. Our Ladies Muslin Underclothing Department is filled with splendidly made garments at but little more than cost of material. Foreign Fancy Wash Goods. We are offering the finest and most attractive assortment we have ever shown in Exclusive Patterns. Organdies, plain and printed, Ginghams, Zephyrs, Shadow Cloths, Plaid Zephyrs, Fancy Tufted Ginghams, Lace Stripes, Batistes, Lattin Check Fancies, plain and fancy Piques. Show also a perfect paradise of pretty American Printed Goods from sc. to 20c. yard. We seek criticism, we want people of taste to see them. We hope everybody will accept this as a special invitation to come and see them. Embroidery Bargains! Have you seen the wonderful values we are offering in Swiss and Nainsook Embroideries in lengths of 4} yards ? These are not mill ends, which are always impertect, but first-class goods in odd setts, bought under value and sold same way. Wool Dress Goods tor skirts or suits 15, 20, 25, 40, 60, 75c. and SI.OO yard. Black Silk and Wool Grenadines all prices. New Taffeta Silks, Black Brocade Silks, Satin, etc. We sell Vantine Fans. Entirely new stock from sc. to $1 each. The new green, purple and red Satin Finished Fans. Get your Easter Outfit of us. New white, yellow, tan, black and pretty colored Kid Gloves SI.OO and and $1.50. Button and Foster Hooks. Oxodized, silver and gold jeweled Belts 25, 50, 75c. and $1 each. Jeweled leather Belts 25 and 50c. Large line new Lace Curtains and Curtain Swiss by the yard. Special value in 72-inch full bleached Table Damask 75c. yard, worth sl. Shirting Prints 3Jc. Heavy 4-4 Sea Island 4c. “A.'C. A.” Ticking 10c. • 3- Percales sc. ' Percalines, for dress linings, 7Jc. 4- Percals 8, 10 and 12ic. Best Table Oil Cloth 15c. Good checked Nainsook sc. White and colored heavy Cord Pique 15, 20, 25, 35, 40 and 45c. yaed. New stock Standard Patterns and Fashion Sheets for April. Call for one. Flemister & Bridges. WAR DECLARED! 0 On All Fall and Winter Goods. BASS BROTHERS HAVE ISSUED THIS PROCLAMATION—THAT ALL WINTER GOODS MUST GO AT GREATLY REDUCED PRICES IN ORDER TO MAKE ROOM FOR OUR NOW AND SOON TO BE ARRIVING NEW SPRING AND SUMMER GOODS. Few more pair of those 50c. Blankets left. Come early if you want a pair. All wool Blankets worth $6, will go for $3.25. Cloaks and Capes at less than half their value/ We do not want to carry these goods over and will save you big money in this line. FLOOR COVERINGS.—It you want anything in Carpets, Mattings, Rugs, etc., you will find it to your interest to see us this week. Clothing, Clothing! All winter suits and odd pants will be sacrificed to make room for new spring and summer purchases that will soon arrive. If you want a fine suit cheap, very cheap, come *o see us. New spring and summer samples for Clothing have arrived. It you want ar new stylish suit, made to fit you, at hand-me-down prices,' see our new samples and get our prices. New Spring Goods. You are invited to call Monday and every day this week at our store and ask to see the new Percals, new Sateens, new Embroideries, new Laces, new full line of Embroidery Silk, new Braids, new Crochet Silk at sc. spool, new Chambry, new black brocade Dress Goods. These are beauties ana you should see them. Just received new black Satins, handsome quality. SHOES, SHOES. First invoice of new spring and summer Shoes just received from Drew Selby & Co., also H. C. God man. Ask to see these when you visit onr store. For style, quality and price we are sure to please the most fastidious. A HINT TO YOU, WATCH OUR REMNANT COUNTER. WATCH OUR SAMPLE SHOE COUNTER. WATCH OUR SAMPLE HAT COUNTER. LOOK TO YOUR INTEREST AND WE WILL MAKE IT TO YOUR INTEREST BY GIVING YOU GOOD VALUES THE COMING WEEK. BASS BROS.