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^7 7 » lire jjcrnld and ^drertisn;. Newnan, Ga., Friday, Oct. 14, 1887. ! ALL MEN EDITORS. The Man Who Would Admit That He Could Not Run a Newspaper Not Yet Discovered. ‘•Hipronyroous Cranv " in Memphis Times. 1 have never yei discovered t lie man who would acknowledge anything else; No Place for Young Men. Kansas City Letter to the Louisville Courier- Journal. ; Kansas City is overrun with clerks I and other commercial young men in i search of something to do. The city is likewise full of business, and many merchants accumulate large fortunes in a few years; but the proprietors, like their brethren in the older cities, see no reason why they should divide the profits with their ompolyes, and as . , , , 1 they can obtain plenty of the latter, he might confess that he had mistaken ... . ... , they are never afraid of a strike. J he cost of living is vegy high in Kansas City, and clerk hire is correspondingly low. Add the two together and you obtain the total produced by the same process in the Eastern towns. The re suit benefits Kansas City, because the clerk when he goes away, as he usually does, never takes any money with him, but leaves it behind ill the pockets of his employer or boarding-house his calling in becoming a minister; lie might say that he was never built for a lawyer, or that medicine was not to Ids taste ; he might own up that he could •iot run a saw-mill, a locomotive, a ho tel, a school, a steamboat or a saloon; out he would never admit that he could not make a newspaper a howling suc cess. I discovered this psychological fact several years ago when a friend of mine j k p ej " f , r took a trip to Europe and asked me to worked in that wholesale dry- run his paper foi h.m while he was goods store four years for $40 a month,” away. Xow r , if there was any one j 8a j d a y OU ng man, pointing to a five- thing that I thought I could do then, story building in front of which the it was to conduct a newspaper; so I j 9 i deW alk was littered with boxes of promptly acceded to his request and , good9> « and j i abo red like a galley was installed as editor. I determined j g i ave? too, but I could never get any in the first place that I would sound i more salary. I came out West to make j»ublic sentiment, and find out accurate- , ny f or tune in the commercial business, ly what my readers wanted, lime aie and j was then 23 years old. I went to a few of their opinions: , Omaha, Atchison, Denver, Topeka and ; everywhere else, and the only thing I I could get was that place over there. Every town in the West w T as crowded with young men in search of profitable employment, but willing to take any- 1 1 thing that would keep them alive. I was considered very fortunate when I secured my clerkship, anti as compared Peo- “Your editorials are too Ion pie don’t read anything longer than fifteen lines nowadays. They believe in paragraphs.” “Why don’t you give us some edito rials? Those short comments are no worth reading. They give us no idea of a subject.” “You ought to give more personal and society news. Surely the move ments of respectable people are of much more importance than the records of the police court.” “What makes with the others 1 was. I could have : gone to my home, a pleasant little Pennsylvania village of 20,000 inhabi- i tants, and taken a much easier place at ! S75 a month, but I was too proud to do U ,u ^ oul P a P ei it. I had come West to make my for- witli all this slush.-' Nobody caies to j tune, and I would not change my in- read that kind of stuff.” j tention.” “I can t see why you fill your panel “Do you retain that idea ?” with so much trivial local news, when j “i c i ung to it for four years> but at so many important events are taking j atd - bave come to ray senses. I resigned place elsewhere . j three days ago and am going back home. For goodness sake, gi\e us a rest on yj v p e0 p[ e always wanted me stay this foreign news. Nobody here cares there> aild they will kill the fatted ca f f what the royal idiots are doing in Eu- ^ f or uie j can obtain employment there l '°l )e -_ • as soou as I want to for a salary double Why don t you cater moie to tjie that I received here, with the work ladies t They are the greatest newspa- mucb lighter and the cost of living not per readers, and it seems to me you j half s0 great< No more Kansas City ure in saying what to him seems the truth. They are usually clean. They do not pander in their news-gathering to the tastes of salacious readers. slight them entirely.” “Look, here! You arc making a mistake in publishing a woman’s pa per. If you expect to succeed, you will have to put something stronger in it.” “As soon as you quit publishing this infernal base ball news you can renew my subscription for me. I have had enough. The ex perience of four years has taught me thagl 1 can make a fortune just as easily in Pennsylvania as out West.” The Carlin-Dupree Wedding. St. Paul Glolie. The Carlin-Dupree wedding, that “What’s the matter with your paper : t°ok place Saturday on the Cheyenne now? It has no base ball news in it. j River, sixty miles northwest of Pierre, That’s the only department I read, and ; was ^he great event of the sea- if you can’t give us more than you do. j S!)n ’ as ^ was ^ ie first time in the liisto- wliy you can stop my paper.” i 1 ' of that section of the country that “You could greatly improve your pa- j a " man n ^te has married a per by publishing articles of the best j sc l uaw * The groom, Douglas Carlin, is humorists occasionally.” j a aiundson of I territorial Governor Car- “I can’t understand why you stuff i °f Illinois, and is the nephew of your columns with the alleged humor j ^ ai ‘^ n °f the regular army. The of Bill Xye, Bob Burdette arid the fun- ^‘ide * s ^ ie daughter of Frederick Du ll y papers. Nobody wants to read that j I uee * a ^ renc h half-breed. Her mother kind of truck.” * s ^ ie °f the Minneconjou band “Well, I see you are publishing a red j The ceremony was perforrn- hot prohibition paper now. You will j e< ^ ' ) - Justice Kinnie in the presence of make a great many enemies by eiu-P'^® Sioux Indians and 30 whites, bracing that folly.” After the American ceremony was per- “I hear a good many complaints ; an old squaw came from a hut among the prohibitionists of the luke- : an ^ chanted a dismal song as an indipa- warmness of your paper. They say that j ^ ou ^ )at ; ^ IK ^ aas wer ® satisfied, you have gone back on the cause.” j ^ i ie me( ^ tane man °f the Sioux then, “There is one thing lacking in your ; " head covered with a buffalo paper. You are not spicy and person-: 1( ^ ,e > binned herbs and invoked the al enough. People want personalities passings of the Great Spirit, after nowadays. They want to be shook " hieh t\\ o Indians rode white ponies U p ’* * " | across the plains and presented them “You ought not to indulge so much to the bride,and groom as the approval in personalities. Maintain a judicial j the Great Spirit. The feast then tone, and avoid anything like heat or' conim onced, which consisted of ten ox- malice.” cn roas t e d whole arid 100 dogs boiled “If the paper had more sporting news '■ sou P- _ The latter was not sampled in it and fewer religious notes, it would the wnites. xlie presents made be more popular.” Urom.the father-were 500 cattle, fifty “Religious people complain a'-great P on i es > ail( l tliirty domestic buffaloes, deal about you filling your paper with Dancing-was commenced .and kept up sporting news, and neglecting the af- -three vdajs without intermission. As fairs of the Church.” ‘ ' | ta^t as one Indian was!-exhausted" an-‘ Such was the advice I got. It was 1 0, J ler tooLliis place, and the ball went | plain that in order to satisf y everybody j on< - The bride is an ordinary looking j I had. to double the size of the paper ^ education. She was j or discontinue its publication entirely.; c at lrt . a -of black silk, with beaver j I concluded to adopt the adviceliu see- fur trmftnu**. red .ribbons and elk j. - teeth ornaments.' She does riot look: striking, but is regarded to be worth-til0,-1 Cooks villa. Mr. Editor:—Everything is calm, quiet and serene in our little ville. Cooksville High School closed Friday night, September 30th, with an exhibi tion and supper. There was a large crowd in attendance and it was pro nounced quite an enjoyable occasion. Rev. Mr. Owensby preached a very interesting sermon at Cooksville acade my last Sunday evening. Cooksville Farmers’ Alliance met last Saturday and elected delegates to the County Alliance, which convened at Liberty, October 3d. This associa tion is growing rapidly in this county, and will doubtless prove of great ad vantage to the farmers. Cotton is being gathered and sold, and the farmer receives that familiar autumnal invitation from the mer chant—“Come to see me; your note is due.” Mrs. H. L. Hendricks has been spend ind some time with her mother, who has been quite sick at her home in Franklin. Mrs. Nancy Brown has been quite sick, but we are glad to know she improving. Dr. John Cook and family are visit ing relatives in western Heard. Mr. Sam Owensby, of Owensbyvifie was visiting relatives and friends in this and adjoining neighborhoods last Saturday and Sunday. Master Lee Bruce is threatened with fever. Mrs. Paschal Wood, we are inform ed, is quite sick. Judge W. H. Cook, after a recess of some time, is again mingling with the fair sex. Success to you, Judge, in your matrimonial pursuits. There is certainly extreme need of ; long bridge across New river at Cook’ bridge. Then, ye who have the power, why not give us the bridge ? Wanted—by a young man of this neighborhood, a young lady by the same name of the fellow that slept in the lion’s den. Dr. J. W. Cook, a rising young phy sician from Houston, Ga., has been vis iting his mother and brothers at this place. Calamity Jim. Oct. 4th. If you want to have your baby healthy and beautiful, four things are necessary; Fresh air, good food, bright sunshine and Dr. Bull’s Baby Syrup. Note. Be suspicious of persons who recommend any other article as “just as good,” and take nothing else but Dr. Bull’s Cough Syrup. GEORGIA STATE FAIR, October 24th to 30th, —AT— Macon, Georgia. Most Liberal Premium List Ever fered by Any State Fair in the United States Of- Special Features Every Day ! OBITUARY. tions. I became l>y turns rapturously religious and sublimely skeptical. 1 wrote like a litterateur one week, arid like the correspondent of a sporting 000 in her own right, ahdisthe heiress to the Dupree estate arid AG0,0(KJ in cash,j and other securities. The Indians now journal the next. I constructed -pan- "“y 1 il,umnb uo > v derous articles 011 the tariff and a.< an ' u '§ art l ttti great honor for a white-man offset penetrated the giddy of the sld- marry-a I is this case they Gilbert—Died, of typhoid fever, September 26th, 1887, Minnie H. Gil bert, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. T. H, Gilbert—aged 7 years, 9 months and 13 days. l*t was the writer’s pleasure to know Minnie very well, and we do not know of one who possessed so many rare vir tues of her age. A kinder or more obe dient little girl it has never been our pleasure to know. At school, by her kindness and sweet disposition, she ! gained the friendship and esteem of all ier associates. Around the fireside, she was all a kind father and mother could desire;—obedient and kind, ever ready to do all she could to make home happy and pleasant, to her brothers arid sisters she seemed greatly devoted. During her sickness she did not murmur nor complain, but bore it with a patience seldom found I11 one of her age. While all was done for her that could be done; although a fond mother and sisters, with anxious hearts, watched by her bedside, it pleased an all-wise Providence to remove her from our midst. When her last moments came she closed her eyes and quietly fell asleep in her Saviour’s arms, and her sweet spirit winged its flight upward to the God who gave it, there to meet her two little sisters, gone before. We can almost see them, beckoning us to follow them, to enjoy the endless bliss they now enjoy. But, oh ! how sad it was to give her up! Such a bright lit tle light, so quickly to expire, only to shine the brighter in - heaven. To* the bereaved family we tender our heart felt sympathy in their sad bereavment. They should feel comforted with the consoling reflection that Minnie is— Freed from sickness and suffering. Saved from ail earthly taint, forever; Pure as a fresh-driven snowflake, The gift has returned to the Giver. Among the white-robed, sinless angels, And close to the dear Shepherd’s breast, She is testing l he pur<- joys of heaven— Sweet rapture and infinite rest. But. oh! the sad hearts that are aching, k And the home that’s so darkened to-day, Since its light, its joys, $nd its gladness, Were silently borne away. Beud near in thy pity, dear Savior, Beneath thine out-spreading’M ing May their stricken hearts rind shelter, A' refuge through their sorroM'ing. May the sweet star.of faith .ever shining, Through deepest and sorest, distress, Point the way turougli these, dim, dusky shadows. Towards fadeless and pure happiness. Towards yonder bright city eternal. Where sad partings never mav come, Where the dear little • nes waiteth TO-Welcome their dear family home. ; ; " A. E. Hindsman. PueketGStntion, Ga. rejoicing- going on throughout the entire ^botimls of the reservation. -. • ' Growth of Southern Newspapers. Hivcttord .Oomiuit There is no better evidence of. South ern prosperity thj.ni the new life ex- offset penetrated — „ r .._ ..... . _ l , . dies and dished up an editorial, on mC ,uo pleased ciety. I wrote learnedly about hare ball and developed an easy co^yhoy style in. mv literary critiques.- I no ticed every local plank walk that had been-laid and every waterniekm Tawn party that ha;l been given one week; and the next 3 -wrote about the early •extermination of Europe. I gave my views about agriculture in a way that infatuated tin? eiffire Granger element. I wrote up a public official in a judicial way, and nobodj paid am attention to nor agree with a good deal t. I denounced another official in a lurid, red-lieaded style, and contracted a serious ease ol doctor’s bill on account of it. When T had been an editor for about six weeks I became aware of the fact that if the owner of the paper did not return soon he would find nothing of his journal left except the mortgages on the type and press. Give Them :t Chance. That is to say, your lungs. Also all your breathing machinery. Very won derful machinery it is. Not only the larger air-passages, but the thousands of little tubes and cavities leading from them. Q When these are clogged and choked with matter which ought not to be Wednesday, October 26th, —WILL BE- Confederate Veterans’ Day. On that day there will be the last grand review of all surviving ex-Con- federate Soldiers by Ex-President Jefferson Davis. On this occasion there present most of the Living There bers of will also be Confederate Generals. are but four surviving mem- Mr. Davis’ Cabinet. They are Messrs. Reagan, Watts, Davis and Memin^er. It is feared the latter’s illness will prevent his attend ance; but it is assured the other three will be there. The entries of all kinds of exhibits Exceed all Other Fairs* A close comparison of the premium lists of all the other State Fairs shows that the Georgia State Fair’s Premium List is Larger and More Liberal Than any offered in the LTiited States. Horse Racing. The State Fair Race Track has no equal in t he South. It is a full-mile track. It is an old well-beaten Track; and the city of Macon, at < r reat expense, is having it now put in the best possible racin" condition. There are more and better horses entered to-day than there have been at any two State Fairs heretofore. The premiums are large and the best stock of the South, including KENTUCKY and TENNESSEE, will be on the course. Lowest Railroad Rates. The Railroads have put the rates within 130 miles of Macon at ONE CENT a mile, and for distances further than that, within the State, at $3 for the round trip. These are the MOST LIB ERAL RATES EVER OFFERED in the South. Special low railroad rates will be given to all without the State. Accommodations. A committee of citizens of Macon lias been appointed to provide ample ac commodations for all visitors. There will be no difficulty in entertaining Fifty Thousand Strangers. For all further information on any subject, address E. C. GRIER, Secretary, Macon, Georgia. NO, THANKS ! I don’t want the earth! I shall be satisfied with a reasona ble fragment of it! Some men would probably gobble the entire globe if they had a chance; but I am no iiog! All that I want is a fair share of the public pat ronage; and if, after comparing my goods and prices with those other enterprising merchants, the average wayfarer does not vield me the palm for selectness, quality, cheapness and general superiority, why then I will call in my friends, divide out my goods and chattels and retire from the field. In these piping times it is useless to try to do bus iness unless you have money, experience and gall sufficient to sustain you in competition with the Ishmaelites of the mer cantile profession. Recognizing the importance of these val uable aids to success, I Hatter myself that I am fairly well equipped for the fray, and bid defiance to all competitors. Now, do not be misled by these desultory remarks. I would not have you believe that I am one of the Vanderbilt heirs, or that I have a resident buyer in New York, or that I have been in business since before the war, or that I expect to run an auction house. Neither assumption would be just to me, nor to the veracious medium through which this announcement will find its way to the public. * I simply mean that I have a large and well-assorted stock of CLOTHING, DRY GOODS, GROCERIES, etc., and am selling them at prices that will bring tears to the eyes of my esteemed competitors when they find it out. But I can’t help their embarrassment. If they oversleep themselves and allow me to get the drop on ’em in the matter of mercantile bargains, it is not my lookout. 1 sometimes find it necessary to sit up at night in order to do this, hut it is one of the hardships of the trade that must be occasionally endured. Indeed, I frequently toss upon my sleepless pillow for hours at a time, devising schemes whereby I can best serve my customers with the choicest there is in the land, and at prices that they will be forced to esteem as bless ings in disguise. My stock of Clothing, Gents’ Furnishing Goods, Shoes, Hats, Dry Goods, etc., is fastidiously select, and will bear close comparison with any similar lines kept here or elsewhere. My stock of Groceries comprises everything needed in the way of eatables, and is always large enough to supply the de mand—whether for cash or on time. A. P. JONES. J. E. TOOLE. JONES & TOOLE, CARRIAGE BUILDERS AND DEALERS IX HARDWARE, LaGRANGE, ga. Manufacture all kinds of Carriages, Buggies, .Carts and Wagons. Repairing neatly and promptly'done at reason able prices. We sell the Peer ess Engine and Machinery. CAN YOUNG MAN, Catch your eye, I would like to call your attention to my large and varied assortment of Gents’ Furnishing Goods, Shirts, Col lars, Cuffs, Hosier}-, Underwear, Neckwear, Handkerchiefs, etc. I keep the latest, nobbiest styles and make a specialty of all goods in this department. The celebrated “Pearl Shirt” is one of my most popular lead ers. Made to order, if desired. I keep also a complete line of samples, including the finest Cassimeres, Cloths, etc. Will take your measure and insure as good a fit and in as late and fashionable style as can be se cured from any tailor in the country, and at half the cost. I. P. BRADLEY. Next door to Newnan National Bank, Newnan, Ga. FURNITURE! CARRIAGE AND WAGON ' REPAIR SHOP! We are prepared to do any kind of woik in the Carriage, Buggy or Wagon line that maj be desired and in the best and most work manlike manner. We use nothing bur the best seasoned material,- and guarantee ;all work done. Old Baggie.- Lnd Wagons.over hauled and made new. New Buggies and Wagons made to order. Prices reasonable. Tires shrunk and wheels guaranteed. Give s a trial. FOLDS A. POTTS. Newnan. February 11. 1<K7. work. And wliat they do, they cannot do well. Gall it cold, cough, croup, pneumonia. JERSEY BULLS! hibitetl by the. Southern press in tlie j Tner - e ’ your lungs cannot half do their wide range and thoroughness of their ! news-gathering. The representative | piiCU1 iiu„m, Southern papers are abreast of the j uitalTh, consumption or any of the fam- j beef Cattle country in their enterprise. We can-! re °* [U‘ 0:i y a ’>d nose and head and . . ^ lung obstructions, all are bad. All we see m j ought to be got rid of. There is just Southern- newspapers, but it is a pleas-1 one sure way'to get rid of them. That ure to come in contact with their open-' K To ta ^ c ' e Bosrtiee’s German Syrup, nr Mai W A Turner which any druggist will sell vou at 73 ur vv * 1 timer, cents a bottle.' Even if everything else J. T. REESE has failed, you may depend upon this I buy and sell more FURNITURE than all the dealers in Atlanta combined. I operate fifteen large establishments. I buy the entire output of factories; therefore I can sell you cheaper than small dealers. Read some of my prices : A Nice Plush Parlor Suit, $35.00, A Strong Hotel Suit, $15.00. A Good Bed Lounge, $10.00. A Good Single Lounge, $5.00. A Good Cotton-Top Mattress, $2.00. A Good Strong Bedstead, $1.50. A Nice Rattan Rocker, $2.50. A Nicfe Leather Rocker, $5.00. A Strong Walnut Hat Rack, $7.00. A Nice Wardrobe, $10.00. A Fine Glass Door Wardrobe, $30.00, A Fine Book Case, $20.00. A Good Office Desk. $10.00. A Fine Siik Plush Parlor Suit, $50.00. A Fine Walnut 10-Piece Suit, $50.00. A Nice French Dresser Suit, $25.00. I respectfully invite everybody to examine my stock and get ! my prices before buying your Furniture. I have the finest as | well as the cheapest Furniture in Atlanta. I will sell cheap or trade for 6 or S fine Jersey Bull Calves, from registered stock. Call on undersigned Write for prices. A. G. RHODES, 85 Whitehall St., Atlanta, Ga. A new Dakota town tants and five saloons. has 118 inhabi- uess and prevailing sincerity. , There is another noticeable point. The South ern editor has never been timid about i expressing his mind, except in certain directions where liberty of discussion could not be allowed. At any rate, he expresses his miml now with refreshing j candor and frankness. He is, perhaps, no more free from prejudice than the ! rest of us, but lie seems to take pleas- •JOHX W. HUGHES. FRED B. LAW. for certain. Newnan, Ga., Sept. 1, 1887. DR. THOMAS J. JONES. The annual expenditures by Europe upon military and naval purposes, ac cording to a recent English publication, amount to nearly 4si8,c.73,000,iXK), while ; the total of the national debts of El’- Respectfully otters his services to tlie people rope reaches the astoumlimr amount of i in Newnan and viciuity. Office on Depot *->i -mo a-,7 «-.o . street, R. H. Barnes old jewelry office. Res- i ,7 7 i /vVi ,w\ nAn 1 . i Uttci slim near- jdence on Depot street, third building east ol h 000,000,000 IS paid for interest. . a. & \v. n. depot. HUGHES & LAW, HATTERS AND GENTS’ FURNISHERS! VALISES, U M BR ELLAS ETC PEACHTREE STREET, - - - ATLANTA, GA. 1 J