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THE MACON DAILY TELEGRAPH: TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1885.-TWELVE PAGES.
BULGARIA AND ITS PEOPLE.
Tlio Women’* Love of Parisian Finery—An
Industrious and Frugal Race.
Ban Francisco Argonaut
In the spring of 187G the Bulgarian atro
cities horrified the civilized worm. Crushed,
hopeless and helpless, the Bulgarians made
no effort in self defense. Suleiman Pasha
swore to exterminate the Christians of Rou-
melia and leave their country a desert. The
Itoumelians offered no resistance, bnt, like
their countn men across the Balkans, sul
lenly submitted. For this tamo acquies
cence, this want of spirit, historians have
called the Bulgarians and Ronmelians cow
ards and sheep, and for their subsequent
guerilla warfare agaiust the Turks, in East
Roumcliu, they have called them wolves.
Both terms are unjust. Bulgarians, Rou
manians nnd Ronmelians are neither cow
ardly nor revengeful. An Eastern states
man likens them to the Germans. He
thinks their weakness as a nation due
not to cowardice or laziness, but to
their peculiar development of individuality,
resulting from their sudden leap from
slavery to freedom. lie describes their in
capacity for self-government to their want
of political apprenticeship. In less than
100 years the Bulgarians, whose very name
and language had become almost extinct.
Suae from the most abject servitude to sub
stantial independence. They are industri
ous, frugal, persevering. The Bulgarian
student makes up for lock of brilliancy by
undying patience and application. The
Bulgarian school, established from patriotic
zeal, has done wonders in educating the
mnrrf Obstinate and slow to adopt new
ideas, the Bulgarian holds them fast when
ho gets them. His religion, for which he
fought so desperately, is, like the religion of
all enslaved nations, marked by superstition;
his virtue—for among the native Bulgarians
crimes of violence are rare—is marred by
lying, stealing, nnd the small rogueries
characteristic of subject races. That
he is a rogue should surprise no one,
when it is remembered that for five hun
dred years he was the bondman of Turkey,
and for another five hundred years was
ground under tho heel of the Patriarch;
Jhat he was taxed and excommunicated by
Wiskops, who hail sometimes been barkers
and cooks; thnt his property was confiscated
under chargos which he never heard; that
the Turkish pashas, with brawling retinue,
would stop nt his home, cat bis food, carry
off his daughters, and kill him if he ob
jected; that on the highway he was often
forced to carry a lazy Turk on his back for
miles. All this he bore with no hope of re
dress—the Constantinople officials were in
league with the pashAs, and both found a
convenient slave in him.
Though morally and mentally he deterio
rated under this slavery, physically he im
proved. Tho Roumanians and Bulgarians
of tho present day are among the hand
somest races in Europe. For centuries the
lights of pashas' harems have come from
the banks of the Danube. At Passau, a
little town on tho river bank, every wotnau
is beautiful as a houri. Tourists make
pilgrimages there to see them. They are a
noble tv pe—placid, massive Jnnos, with
solemn block brows, heavy-lidded, velvet
eyes, skins notnrally olive, but mtiticially
tinted, oml profiles worthy to bo stamped
on Roman coins. Peasant girls wear their
hair—of a dull, lustreless black—hanging
down to their feet, sometimes twisted with
beads and flowers, but generally uncon-
fined, when it envelops them like a cloak.
Standing about the village fountains of un
evening, tlicir massive figures straight as
arrows, their earthen jars poised on their
bred* with one large, white arm raised to
steady them, these handsome peasant girls,
vi'". bn .•.ml ipin • in all’ iglow,
make a group for Bonguereau.
The passion of the ltoumanian-Bulgarian
women is dress. To be dressed in clothes
from 1*0x14 is to them the summit of earthly
bliss. Fashion is their goddess, and even
among the peasants she is exacting. Each
an over-Bmart description nnd put on in a
slovenly manner, gave the wearers an up-
all-nighlish look anything but taking. The
men were also dressed in French fashion,
and from their dark, sallow appearance and
general cast of features showed clearly that
their ancestors, the Roman convicts, hod
largely intermarried with the gypsies.” In
fact, the gentlemen in question, who intro
duced themselves os Roumanian princes,
were in reality a Bpecies of Oriental confi
dence men—n variety of the kurnnu species
which flourishes in Turkey os elsewhere.
A BROADWAY BLOCKADE.
Caused By a Mechanical Toy In a Show
Window.
Sew fork Special.
A white cat peeped out of a footman's
boot in the show window, at 1201 Broad
way, on Saturday afternoon, nnd, after tak
ing a leisurely new of the store, turned her
head around sedately toward the street A
dozen people hiul already gathered to see
what she was doing, and what she was go
ing to do. See stared ut them thre seconds
with unwjnking eyes, yawned, stuck out n
long, red tongue nt them and disappeared
down the boot leg like a flash of lightning.
Men stretched their necks up to try nnd
look down tho boot leg after her. She hadn't
gone far. She peeped out again, stuck up
her her head facing toward the interior of
the store, turned it slowly to face the
street, stared three seconds, yawned, stuck
her tongue out anil was gone. Then she
did it agais. About the twelfth time a big
policeman pushed his way into the store.
“Yon must take that cat out of the win
dow," he Baid to Mr. Upton, president of
the Rochester Lamp Company.
“Why?” inquired Upton.
“Tho crowd is obstructing the streets.
The street cars are blocked. If you don’t
tako tho cat away I'll arrest you."
“Do you mean it?" said Mr. Upton, who
began to think the staid policeman was ca
pably of joking. The policeman said he did
mean it, and walked out.
Puss remained in the window. Every
time she faced the window she yawned in
500 faces—women’s faces, boy’s faces,
bankers' faces, loafers' faces, Yankee, Irish,
German, Italian, French and Chinese faces,
the faces of sandwich men, balloon ped
dlers, labor reformers, carriage customers,
clergymen, District Telegraph boys in t
hurry, corporation scrapers of the Street
Cleaning Department, ear drivers, truck
drivers, ex-stage drivers, aldermen, actors,
hotelkeepers, barkeepers, cue keepers and
dive keepers, and every time she vanished
500 grins blazed into the shop window, nnd
a roar of laughter come in at the door.
Some of the theater men, who had heard
about the policeman's threat, began to visit
Mr. Upton. The manager of the Comedy
Theater wanted to buy puss to set her on
the stage. Mr. Edwin A. Brooks, who
keeps a shoe store opposite, wonted puss.
Henry Gilsey and other property owners in
the vicinity dropped into the store, nnd vol
unteered to go bail for Mr. Upton if he was
locked up, and said that if they could only
get reserved seats to watch tne cat, they
wouldn't mind waiting until midnight to
get bail.
At 9:30 the stalwart form of Capt. Wil
liams squeezed in at tho doorway.
“That cat must get out,” be said.
“You can't take the cat out,” said Mr.
Upton.
“I can take you out, though,” said the
captain.
“What can you do with me?”
“Get you lined $10.”
“The policemen are on the street to make
people move on; are they not?”
“Can’t keep a policeman there on pur
pose to protect your interests. The cat
must go.
Mr. Upton said he would take the cat out
o* the window for the night, because he
didn't want to be arrested on Saturday
night, but he would lind out about it, and
__ _ _ in all probability put the cat hack on Mou-
viTlage has flit particular oostume, mid when j day. lie took puss out of the window,
a buxom belle enters a shop she mentions much to tho grief of the assembled prop-
ber village, and is immediately shown the orty owners and banner carriers,
particular style of dress which is supposed! , Fussy wasn't in the window yesterday.
SOUTHERN SCENES.
Plantation Life In Georgia In tho
Plantation Time.
Written for tho Macon Telegraph.
The first sharp frost hod nipped the green
cane blades, nnd Grandpa Bolton was
bustling around getting ready for the sugar
boiling. How well I remember the old live
oak rollers with their hard cogs chiseled out,
and kept well tallowed to make them run
easy. I went with Uncle Mentor to the
creek after them. Old Beck and the curt
were there, anil Jake anil Uncle Mentor had
a pretty heavy job loading the heavy rollers
on the csrt.
‘Why do they put 'em in the creek ?" I
naked.
"W'y, chile, don' yo’ .w 1-.1-
crack open ef dey wust £’ at do housq? Yo
see, we frows ’em in de wuluu iu ue sutu-
moh time, an' hit keeps 'em swelled up an’
solid, ready to' de sugah b'ilin' time.”
When the clumsy old mill was erected,
Beck and the cart were dispatched to Grnn'-
sir,Gibbs's, to get his kettles. Thoso ket
tles were different from the large, shallow
pans now in use. They were deep like a
pot, nnd hold twenty to thirty gallons. Tho
furnace of clay was built of sufficient length
to hold half a dozen of those pots,
with a tall, tapering clay funnel at
the rear end. A great pile of wood was
hauled, nnd the long cypress sugar trough,
the dip gourd and the skimmers were got
out and cleaned up, and all was ready.
A gang of hands were sent to the cane
patch with sharpened paddles, with which
they struck off the rough blades, then an
other band came behind and struck off the
tops with a sharp knife, nnd lastly one who
cut tho cane off at the roots with a hoe.
Then tho boys piled it, and old Beck drew
load after load to the mill. There were
“herds" on the green cane thnt stuck in our
hands and faces, so we preferred
handling the ribbon cane. First thing
every morning would bo Uncle Mentor at
the mill, the mule drawing the long “sweep"
that turned tho rollers 'round and 'round,
until n path was beaten in the trodden cir
cle, anil the sweet juice crushed out and
forming a continuous rill as it fell into tho
barrel. From time to time tho kettles were
filled, and as the juice heated the scum was
taken off and thrown into a barrel. And
didn't we enjoy it? Our jackets were
stiffened with the saccharine accumula
tions. And we would drink the “beer"
from the barrel of soured skimmingr,
nnd eat the worm sugar foam
with paddles of cane peelings. To save
time the hands wonld sit up late of nights,
and the creaking nnd groaning of tho mill,
the hum of the boilers, and the gray mist
that rose from the boilers are before me
naw. Uncle Mentor or grandpa had to
•judge" the sugnr. That is, they watched
the boiler and gave tho word at the proper
time to remove the boiling mass to the
cooling trough. Yes, I remember it nU.
Happy days they were. I used to sit by
the furnace nnd listen to the weird tales
thnt the negroes told until my sleepy eyes
would stay open no longer.
One story I rememeuiber thnt Jake used
to tell, and it held me spell-bound during
every recital. When I would ask Jake to
tell it he would begin:
Well, I gwine tell yo* dia tala, an' dis is
cr sho’ 'nough truo story, hit is, an’ ef yo'
don’ bTeve it, yo’ des ax ole Aun’ Annoky
'bout’n it, case she knows, she does, an' she
says hit is so.
“Once dey wus er boy, an’ his name wus
Jack—mos' all de fellahs wot has er
time is name Jack, dey is, an’ dis
Jack 'e had er whole pack cr do bullies’
er dogs, dey wus b'ar dogs, dey wus. Dey
wus name Ringwood, Rock wood, Flop-
; -ear, Cropyear, Finkenboy, Sooboy.
, lack ilid'n' have no gun, but he bad er good
bow on's six arrers, be did, an' dey wus do
beses bow an' arrers in all do lan', dey wus.
Jack's mammy wus an' old witch, she wna,
an’she used ter tie nil deni dogs up w'en
she tu'n ter run, bnt dey done cotch up wid
'er an' dey des tore 'er all to Hinders, nu’
Jack '0 went home, V did, on’ all de neigh-
bo’s us glad dey wus, 'cave dey ain't bod-
dered wid do wolfs no mo’, renle witches
no mo’, nn' Jack 'o wus made de guv'nah, 'o
wus. an’ dat's do las’ I beam uv ’nn.”
All! how vividly do I remember those
S uoint old plantation yams. Some times I
[most feel that Jack nnd his exploits be
long to the unwritten history of my early
life, so strongly was I impressed with those
weird tales. M. M. Folsom.
Americas, Gn.
CIRCUS DAY IN AMKRICUS.
to be thoroughly rAlc there. She shows a
noble disregard for pomp anil vanity, how
ever, as she trudges home from market
with the conveniently loose front of her
white linen jacket filled with cabbages, tur
nips, eggs, and any other spoils of a shop
ping tonr. But on her wedding day she is
gorgeous—gUttaring with glass and amber
beads, and covered with really beautiful
embroideries. The groom ia like a brigand
in tho o[x-ri -ho wears n red hussar jacket,
a green waistcoat (both a mass of embroid-
dery), a red sash bristling with silver-
mounted revolvers and knivos; his white
petticoats are tiu-knl anil stiffened till they
stand ont like a ballet dancer's, nnd his
shapely legs are covered with fawn-colored
trowBers hooked up the sides with an end
less array of hooks anil eyes, while, to com
plete his appcanuice as a young blood, tho
bowl of his pipe towers over his hat, the
stem being stuck down the back of his
neck. lie is generally a lucky dog, for the
Bulgarian woman la a gentle soul—warm
hearted and kindly. She greets the way
farer hospitably, gives him a place before
the lire, and a supper of damper- nn ex
pansive dough—which swells like cork in
side him ana make his sleep a reign of ter'
tor.
Rich Bulgarians nnd Roumanians at So
fia, Baksrest, und the othes largo cities, are
grandees. The women are handsome aa
pictures. Large and lazy, they spend tbeir
days on divans, eating fandies, smoking
cigarettes, and reading French novels, for
all well educated Bulgarians apeak French
Uko Parisians. When they go out, they
drive. Walking they abhor. A stiff leath
er boot on the plump foot of a Bulgarian
belle would cause her agony. Exertion
bores her; sho ia always languidly lazy and
graceful, always gorgeously and gaudily
dressed in the latest novelty from Paris,
and always falling in and out of love. To
her divorce ia a bagatelle. It seldom causea
unpleasantness; everybody remains on per
fectly good terms with everybody else, it
is all a matter of convenience; she and her
husband don’t agree, that is all. After the
divorce she marries some one else; anil so
on do capo. The successive members of
the dynasty of husbands are all friendly
with each other and with her. When a Bul
garian beauty—fat, alow, handsome and
gorgeous as a bird of paradise-on-
ten a ball room, she bows to
husband No. 1, who is chatting to husband
No. 2 in a corner; then seeing unsbond No.
:i leaning on the mantelpiece, she blows
him a kiss, whispers a soft nothing to No.
4, on whoso anus she leans, and all the
time her dark, sleepy eyea are keeping a
abarp lookout on the door for the entrance
of tne prospective No. 6. A Boumehan
grandee remarked once of society at Buka-
••Marriage with ns resembles S ma-
i ae footman's boot was set on a side coun
ter in the interior of the store instead, and
pnssy popped up for the entertainment of
customers. To keep her fresh, a boy wound
her up occasionally with a brass key. She
;oea by clock work. Mr. Upton said that
lia lawyer had told him that he had a per
fect right to exhibit the toy.
‘•There is an electrical toy that repre
sents a policeman dabbing," the salesman
said, “and evero time he clubs he hits the
window pone and makes people look at
him. Yet the police don’t try to stop him
from clubbing. Why should they sit down
on pnssy, I’d like to know?"
THE HAYOOOD-FELTON MATTER.
Ktlitor Grogan's statement as to Ills Inter
view With Or, Haygood.
Elberton Leader.
The interview at isane was written sever
al days after we hail a conversation with
Dr. Haygood on the train cm route from
GreenviUo to Atlanta. As a matter of
course, we did not use his exact words anil
statement It was onr purpose only to
substantially set forth his views, which he
says we have done. It was our purpose to
employ hia characteristic words and style.
Thu we were able to do from an intimate
acquaintance with him as a pupil. This
added to onr qnotatinns misled the Tklb-
• mil'll and caused us to say more and
than Dr. Haygood said. We are quite aura
that he made no malicious or uncalled for
attack npon Dr. Felton. His words, while
strong, were dispassionately spoken We
do not remember tlikt he used the word
“untruth.” We ore sure he did not use it
in connection with Dr. Felton's character,
and, as it is to be inferred from the inter
view, only referred to the argument used
in Dr. Felton's speech. We are also sure
that be did not affirm as a matter of know
ledge that Dr. Felton “would run as an in'
dependent candidate for Governor, failing
to receive the nomination." He only ex
pressed his opinion as gained from what
was said, reported, believed. No sane per
son, able “to take in a situation," would
have inferred more from our words. Then
(ss now, in a lesser measure) Dr. Felton'
speech as a public officer upon a question
of public interest was discussed variously
both in print and in private, and his ven
omous objection to a citizen's opinion, not
to speak of bis fancy that he was individu
ally called a “liar" and known to be an “In-
bears nnwarrant npon its
dependent,
In’ our owfi defense for having published
rs an interview what was an on-tlie-tnun
conversation we have little to sny. May be
there is little to bo said. We knew that
the sober-thinking people of Georgia wonld
rest: “Harris with u. -emb.es . me- I g^^JSTnSSS
znrka, in which our Ultra take a turn„ the Tzuemurn bos voiced, and that if
with one cavalier and then with Mother. „ mn cured not for wbat
Another great diversion **•*«*£“ deeming him it was Dr.
uer*. ia her trip to Pans, io give lanui 1 our intentions, and we thank
is the eublimeet of eelf-aamicu 1 him for his words of exoneration. Youth
cons love Pans. Russians adore it, hut ^ indiacretion and notable precedents wa
ask to lie conxidcretl in our defenie.
rani lore
Bulgarian* woruhip it
Xr her .taT\n tho gay eupiUh -be
cornea back with fine doth** and flaraU
them in the faces of her bosom friends with
refined cruelty. Her taste, bowevor, i»
something eccentric. Nays s leeentDM-
nbian traveler: "The UBravre
board here w«e all In magnificent toiUU f
newest French fashion; bnt, being 01
Agent* Wantei.
We want an agent for the FlBtlTM-
ours in every community in the Houtn.
We wiU “•.Ire such arrangements aa■ wul
any one to make money canvaannp
Write for terms to agents.
Jack 'ns out cr huntin', an' w’en 'e call ’em
she'd tu'n ’em loose, an' dey'd des natally
tear snyfing up w'ut Jack set 'em onto. But
Jack done awo' 'e gwine kill all de witches,
an' ‘o mammy got oneasy, an' sho studied
up ‘er plan ter git ’way wid Jack.
“Jock say ter 'er one day, sezee,‘Mammy,
I’a gwine er huntin' an’ I specs ter kill er
wolf, an’ ef I gits in cr tight I
wan' yer to tu'n de dogs
loose.’ She promises she gwine do '■ ’e say
she did, an’ 'way he went. Bimeby, ail on
er sudden, ’a met up wid er whole gang cr
de bigges' so’t er wolfs, case all ilem witch
es, ’cep’n’ ’e mammy, dono tu'n ter wolfs,
dey hail, 'n Jack hail ter scoot fer 'e life,
W’en 'e see dey gwine er ketch 'im 'e shoot
ir des aa fur ea 'e 1
could. Den ’e ran
jumps onto it and say, ■Grow, arrer, grow
to er tall pine tree.' Den 'e call 'e dogs—
‘Y’or, Ringwood, Rockwood, Flopyear,
Cropyear, Pinkenboy, Sooboy t' 'E old
mammy she stood an' watch de bowl er
wutah, 'case Jack done tole 'er dat w'en
de watah tu'n ter blood dot 'e in
heap er trouble, nn' 'e life in
danger. De doa hear dey mass, call’em
fur off, an' dey howl an' gnaw dey chains.
A’ter er w’ile de wolfs gnaw de pine tree
dowp, an’ den Jack shoot er nudder arrer,
hop on to hit, an’ say, •Grow,arrer,grow ter “*• v” 1 ® *• M®*
er toll popish tree,’ an' de arrererow, an' 'e
call’ dem dogs—‘Yer Ringwood, Rockwood,
Flopyear, Cropyear, Pinkenboy, Sooboy!'
Still de ole vritenomcro watch de bowl er
watah, an' de dogs gnaw de chains. De
wolfs, dey gnaw de popish tree down, dey
did, an' den Jack, 'e shoot er nudder arrer.
an' w'en 'e git on it, 'e say, ‘Orow, arrer,
grow ter a big chancy tree,
nudder time 'e call to
dogs, ‘Yer, Ringwood, Rockwood,
Flopyear, Cropyear, Pinkenboy, Sooboy!
De dogs hesb de mans toiable plain, now,
an' dey howl an' gnaw tho chains. Nex
time 'e shoot 'er arrer Jack say, 'Grow,
arrer, grow, ter 'er big locus' tree,' an' '•
call dem dogs, an' iley bowl, an' de oh
witch omern watch de bowl er watab. De
ole wolfs soon gnaw down <le locus' tree,
an' Jack tell 'e nex’ arrer to grow ter er
stubbed oak tree, an' '0 call 'e dogs, an' say,
Y-e-r, Ringwood, Rockwood, Flopyear,
Cropyear, Pinkenboy, Sooboy!’ an’ now 'e
so 'near dat ’e could heuh dem
dogs howl, an* hit look lack
dey linint nevah gwine come, an' de
old witch omern notice dat de watah 'gin
ter look red, an’ she smile an' look ais
wny." With this Jake would give a horrid
grimace that waa frightful to behold.
“A’ter erw'ile ilem wolfs, dey gnawed the
stubbed oak down, dey did, an’ Jack teit
sorter skittish, he did, 'case 'e Tong way
Tom home, an' 'e haint got but one mo’
arrer lef. W’en 'e shot % last’ arrer, ran
'n jump onto it, an' 'e soy, •Grow, arrer, I
S ow ter er tail hick’ty tree,’an'de arrer
t growed ter be de bigges’ so't er hiek'iy,
an' Jack 'e call loud, ‘Y-e-r, Ringwood,
Rockwood, Flopyear, Cropyear, Pinkeu-
boy, Soo-oo-boy.
Here Jake always assumed a tragic look,
anil bis voice was raised to a high key, but
sounded as if it were away off yonder.
“De'olc wolfs dey gnawed an' chawed, an'
ue dogs dey gnawed on' chawed, an'de ohl
witch omern saw dat de watah 'ns tu'ned
ter blood! De big hickery tree 'gun to crack,
on' des at dat time ole Ringwood 'e broke
loose, *e did, an’ '0 tore at yndder dogs
loose, e did, an’ yer dey come, des ea fas'
as dey heels could carry 'em, an' de ole
witch omern she 'us a’ter ’em, on' she done
fo'got to tn’n Inter mm’p'n else, an’ des
’fo p de tree feU de dogs got dere,
an' I tell yo' wa't, dey des fix dem ole
up in cr hurry, ’■
The Sights to Be Seen Iu a Georgia Town
Once a Tear.
Amxmccs, November 19.—Late Wednes
day evening tho crowd began pouring in.
The big six-mule teams, laden with cotton
from u distance of thirty miles; the little
onc-ox cart with its load of half rotten
wood, nnd every sort of intermediate be
tween these extremes.
Yes, I'll buy your wood if you’ll wait
till Saturday for your pay.”
‘Can't do it, boas, I wants ter go ter de
circus.”
Every imaginable prodnet of the woods
and fields was brought into requi
sition. Several big 'possums,
fresh from their wild haunts,
were being hawked about the streets. In
little knots and groups, half-wild negroes
from the river plantations were jabbering
and gesticulating, entirely carried away by
the many wonders of the city.
Darkness fell npon the city; bnt little rest
it brought. Cake and peanut renders snt
up the livelong night, getting ready their
wares for tho grand rush, and I suspect
that more than one staid and dignified mer
chant caught a fair share of the enthusiasm
of his humbler imitators.
All night long the rumble of wheels on
the bard streets disturbed the slumber of
those who hod no interests at stake to
trouble them with insomnia. Ever and
anon was heard the tramp of feet, the tuue-
ful note of the harmonica intorluded with
raps of camp-meeting song.
Thursday morning uawnetl. Gray clouds
hung over tho city, and the hnrrieil atmos-
here indicated a disagreeable, drizzly day.
Tb Americas Preston and Lumpkin road
earn e rolling in and discharged its load of
living freight, and harried back for more.
The drivers of those great mole teajjis were
np betimes, driving around the principal
streets, cracking their whips and
geehawing their males, bawling
out the compliments of the
day to some acquaintance in the crowd
that thronged the sidewalks. There was
the airish town negro, with a cigar stump,
and his battered plug bat tipped back, and
by his side the big-eyed country negro with
hi» hands in his pockets and his month
wide open. Passing tho fruit and refresh
ment stands, which filled every available
space, with a hungry expression, listening
to the measured strokes of the city clock,
iraying for the hour of nine, when tho
tanks would open sad the boss would turn
him over his pittance of cash.
The fateful hour arrives. With enough
money to buy his “show ticket” stowed
away in a separate pocket, he swoops down
on those tables laden with such tempting
viands. Hero ho buys a nickle’s worth of
canilv, there nn orange, at the corner
couple of big red apples, nnd lastly a sugar
cone, and he nibbles off this varied lunch
as he elbows his way through the crowd.
Noiv he stops before a lunch table presided
ovqr by on old woman. He fairly devonrs
ho wares with his hungry eyes, and right
hero let me say that there is nothing on
earth so hungry and hard tofiUaia country
negro on circus day.
The presiding genius of the table catches
the oomplaint, end is mails hungry herself
by looking at that hungry country fellow.
She nibbles a ginger coke, then crams her
mouth tall as though she feared this might
be her last opportunity.
“Ef yo' don" wan' Ur bny miffin', go way,
niggnh, 'n don' be starin' at dis grub lack
ne ter cat it wid yer eyes.
Well, it has been raging for fifteen months at 07 Cherry
street. The proof of the assertion is tho RED HOT BAR
GAINS the Leaders and Controllers have been, throwing to
the people.
WATER.
Well, judging from the easy manner tho Leaders and
Controllers have drowned out all competion and their HIGH
PRICES, one would judge that considerable of the prohibi
tionist’s liquid had been used at 97 Cherry street.
S3IOKE.
The Leaders and Controllers don’t need anything of tho
kind to dazzle the oye3 of the people, as their Bargains are
genuine and they never wait for any of the raging elements
to come to their assistance.
LYONS & CLINE
Make it a rule to always have bargains. Our ^prices tell the
story of our success.
This week we will offer you something fresh in the way
of new and desirable goods.
A line of Canton Flannels at 5c.
A Une of Standard Dress Ginghams at 7}, worth 12).
A line of Dress Qinghams at 3), worth Me.
A line of Illuminnted Dress Goods, last week 15c, tlrifcj wcek 10c—not smoked out,
bnt genuine.
A line of Highland Plaids at 6), worth 10c.
A Une of Turkish Towels, consisting of 50 dozen at 15c each, worth 25c.
A line of Pillow Casing in all widths at 10,12 and yijo., free from ail the effects of
the three destructive elements—five, water and smoke.
A Une of all Linen Towels nt $1, $1.25, $1.50 and $2 per dozen, fresh and without a
stain.
A Une of Table Doylies, consisting of 87 dozen, just received and wS wUl sell yon a.
dozen Linen Doylies a 35c., something bettor at 40c. and for 50c. Lyons & Cline will seU
you a quality worth elsewhere 87Je.
Do yon want any PiUow Casing? Lyons A Cline have a big stock and want to reduce.
So this week we will offer a Bleached Pillow Cosing one anil a quarter yards wide at 12 jc.
Same goods wonld be cheap at 17)c, considering the fact it bos never been fired ont,
smoked out or washed ont. Perfect Ooods.
10-4 Bleached Sheeting (a few pieces left) will close at 16]c. Sound goods.
10-4 Unbleached Sheoting (a few pieces loft) wUl close at 15c. per yard.
Did You Ever Buy Any Cabot Bleaching-1
Well, the Lenders nnd Controllers wiU throw to tho trade to-morrow 5,000 yards of
Bleaching just as good as Cabot at 5 jc. per yard, perfect goods, but yet a red hot bargain
—in fact, too hot for competition to handle unless a little damaged.
Onr stock of Cantons at 10c. are new, fresh goods, and you cannot duplicate tho
■•me goods elsewhere at 15a A few piece* left.
180 dozen of Gento' Unlnundriod Shirts at 25c. apiece, good Shirt and no mistake.
150 dozen of a better quaUty at 40e, and for 50a we will give yon tho best Shirt in
the State.
—Lyons & Clino’s Red Woolen Knit Undershirt at 50c. tako these cold days, anil if th<-
wcather continues the Shirts wUl give out. So come quick, for they are solid bargain*
A PICNIC FOR THE LADIES.
Have you bought your flno Dress? To-morrow you wUl find onr entire stock of
handsome Bonrette and Bonle Combination Saits redneed from $2<>, $18, $16.50 nnd $15
down to $10. Y'on can have your pick by coming early nnd avoiding the rush. They
are now and stylish. No handsomer goods in the market. Lyons A Cline don't wait to
get smoked ont before they moke up their minds to give the people solid bargains,
and especially tho ladies. Onr idea is this: What is the use to wait until the end of tho
season to reduce goods. Vie let the people hire them while they need them.
Ovu* Buyer Off fox* N ew Y oi*Lt
More goods wanted at 97 Cherry street. YVe bought heavily this season, bnt oar
sales have been immense. Oar trade calls for more goods anil the good work of giving
the people bargains will continue to go on.
Just here the grand parade begins, and
for several hours sU is duos and confusion
indescribable. Tho disguised show folks
crack their stale jokes, each and every one
of which is received with the wildest storm
of applause.
White and black, big and little, rich and
S or, bustle and josllo their way toward
a entrance of the big tent, the arena men,
the side show men and tho red lemomatle
men yell themselves hoarse, and the und!
minished stream pours on.
After the performance U over, again the
serried ranks of the hungry sight-seen in
vade the business squares, anil later they
begin to wend their ways homeward, laugh
ing and talking, rehearsing the things they
have seen and heard, and satisfied—nay
satiated- with the pleasures of the day,
although their pockets are as empty aa a
last year’a birds'nest. M. Ml Folsom.
Jlosadalis Tor Rheumatism,
Messrs. II. Peek k Son. of 8tatesboro. O., writes
•Why do yon not advert!** Rosa*
dalis for inflammatory rheumatism? It la doing
wonders here in coring the disease." Well, we do
advertise it to cure rheumatism, aa any one can see
by reading onr circular. It ia a splendid blood med
icine. and it reaches the root and seat of disease by
being conveyed through the blood. Druggists,
leading physicians and cltisens of the highest stand
tag unite in commendation of BossifsHs
lMn de ole witch 'omen
A Sweeping; Reduction in Coverings.
$5.00 will bay a Russian Circular reduced from seven dollars and fifty cento.
$6.50 will bny a Rasaian Circular, reduced from eight dollars and seventy-five cento.
$2.00 will buy a Child’s Covering, worth font dollars nnd seventy-five cents.
$4.50 wiU bny a beautiful Misses”Covering, worth six dollars and fifty cents.
$5.59 will bny a Misses' Covering worth tune dollars.
Onr line of handsome wraps have been reduced in price. YVo will show yon to-morrow
for the srnaU som of twelve fifty anil fifteen dollars on elegant assortment of SHORT
WRAPS, ia Brooaded Velvet and SUk Msntelssse Boa!* Cloth, elegantly trimmed with
for or with Aitrachan anil ornaments, worth $18 and $20.
This week are going to rnako room for new goods. W. C. Lyons in now in Ni w York
and the goods will commence arriving next week. Bo we have to make room.
TO-MORROW, MONDAY MORNING,
We will offer yon a lino of Kid Olovee at a big reduction. Oloves that wa sold at $1,
$1.25 and $1.50 will be shown to-morrow at 55c. Wc want to close ont the entile lot.
Opened pint week a new lino in all colors of G-4 Tricots.
LYONS & CLINE,
Itie Leader* and Controllert>. 1)7 Cheery Street,
MACON*,
GEORGIA.
CLOTHING AND HATS
ESTABLISHED IN 1885.
"Wiiisliip «fc Callaway,
126 Second Street,
Extend a general invitation to tho public to call and see thoir
extensive stock of First-Class Clothing and Hats for Gents
and Boys now opening for tho fall and winter trad*” G ; vo
thera an early call.
VALUABLE CITY PROPERTY FOR 8A LIZ
J. A. anil J. B. Beall, ex-enton estate Jen Beall, Cotton Exchang . New York, offi r for
■ale their city lota sitnatodon southwest corner Broad and Jackson streets, Albany. Ga..
65x210 feet. Upon these lota there is on, three-story lrcn front brick utorvhoi. - , 15x75
feet, with basement some dimensions, fronting on Broad street; also one-storv luirk
storehouse, 22x50 feet, fronting on Jackson otreet Besides the shove descril*d’h >
there is room on said lota for five more stores fronting on Jackson street, same size aa
one described; also one 271-2x78 feet, fronting on Broad and Jackson streets. TUn
property ia located in the beat business portion of the said city, and bnt one block from
the celebrated artesian well ami rents annua.' 'y for over $1,000. For terms and prico ap
ply to executors, or
-A-. C. WESTBROOK:, .Agent,
octl8-3Uw2m ALBANY, GEORGIA.
REMEDY FREJL—A victim of youthful Inipm-Ience
cmulng Premature Decay. Nervous Debility, Lost
Manhood, etc., bavin* tried In vain every known
‘ s discovered a simple means of self
T | cure.TWffT*® will sand FREE to hia fellow suffer*
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