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Stlw Herald and ^dwrliscv. Newnan, Ga., Friday, Nnv. 25, 1887. FAIR TRADE DETECTIVES. Explanation of the naninc** of n "Pricer." A Floor Walker'll Ml "take. Tlie other day two pretty young ladies, both daintily dressed, entered one of our large drygoods establishments, took the elevator to the second floor and the fur department. 1 loro a careful cxarnimP ion of costly furs resulted in the selection of a sealskin dolman. One of the ladies opened her purse. At that moment the floor walker stepped up. He was excited and spoke harshly. ‘'Put that dolman away, William,” he said; “and you.” turning to the purchasers, “leave this store at once.” Astonished and terrified, they stared helplessly at t lie man. ‘ ‘Come, get out, 1 tell you," lie continued, "or I'll have you ‘bounced' in short order.” The ladies were thought to lie “pricers.” A detective and several salesmen assisted in their removal to the street. That this was a case of mistaken identity became painfully apparent to the startled firm a few days later. Suit was brought and $.7,000 was required to settle, in order to keep the case out of the pajiers. It trans pired that the ladies were the daughters of wealthy residents of the city. The in cident serves to show to what lengths •great firms go to detect these “pricers.” The term “pricer” needs explanation. Some of the most successful houses in Philadelphia and New York keep a small book entitled: “Purchasing account.” The page# of this brass bound little vol ume are scanned only by members of the firm and by the confidential clerk, who has exclusive control of this interesting bit of trade policy. At the close of the season the amounts which “balance” run nearly into six figures. These represent disbursements for purchasing, for sala ries, carriage hire, luncheons, messenger service and incidentals, and show credits for goods purchased from rival houses, ranging from laces, gloves, hosiery, silk» and satins to imported costumes, furs, ! (| ie nationality of each every time, mantlet), bric-a-brac, art embroideries, Globe-Democrat, bronzes and other costly articles. • Some of the names of ladies which ap pear on these pages opposite heavy pur chases also appear prominently in the social world. The competition between big houses is so keen that the only way each can keep even with the other is to employ professional people to go from one to the other and inquire prices and compare goods. For obvious reasons the mission of these people is secret, while their appearance must be unexception able. it would not do for common look ing people to he buying $700 sacques, $ I silks-and $10 velvets every few days. Really fashionable and wealthy people are required for the delicate service, and strange as it may seem are readily se cured.—Philadelphia Times. Prettiest Feet In the World. “The Spanish,” continued Crispin, “are generally supposed to have the pret tiest feet in the world, but I do not think so, although they are certainly the small est. The foot is very slender and the in step extraordinarily high, a result in a large measure of the constitutional an tipathy of the people to walking, as a Spaniard will ride on horseback when he has to beg for a living. The Germans have strong, stocky, well developed feet, inclined to be short, hut many of them exceedingly shapely for ail that. The French foot is smaller boned and rounder in outline, a graceful, agile foot, not so slender as the Spanish, but longer than the German. It does not lack strength, but is more remarkable for quickness and agility. All the distinguishing qualities of the nation are embodied in its make up. It is no slouch of a foot. I tell you. The Holland foot is very different from either the Teutonic or Gallic. It is longer than either and lower. I have seen little thin Ib'lland women, hut four feet high, with feet a foot long, as sure as you live. They have the longest, low est feet of any nation on the globe except, perhaps, the negro, whose foot exceeds the Holland in length of heel, although it somewhat res' i.’il.'l' S it in general make up. The Mexican foot is a modification of the Spanish. It is a .trifle longer and not quite so classical in outline, i he Chinese have a pretty loot, short, small boned and quite shapely. “IIow about the American pedal ex tremity?” ••Ah! that is to a certain extent in formation, not fully crystallized into a tvpe. It is a conipedte foot, lighter and daintier than ihe English 4*r D a, more nervous and longer than the I rent >, stronger, and more developed than the Spanish, fated to be the finest, most shapely foot of the world, and partaking somewhat of the good qualities of all. Of course, sir, there are individual varia tions upon all these types, but I would j bet all 1 have got that if I had in a room 100 representatives of the leading na tions and could only see their feet I could A Society Lender Ernie * Crnre. A pi - ant little 6tory is told of a for me: V. 1 ecling lady, who removed to Texas some time since. In the city in which she resides dinner parties became vcr» fashionable, and the society ladies vied with each other in exhibiting the finest chinaware until it became almost a mania. The lady who gave the last din ner attempted and generally succeeded in outrivaling her preuecessor in the way of fine china, and the former Wheeling lady determined to outdo them all; so when her dinner party was announced the eocietv i:i that piace was all worked up - in ant icipation of something grand. The day came and the expected guests. : The nsuzi chat and gossip preceded tin ; e and then the guests were eseortec. ! t . me dining room. Of course they were ad on the tiptoe of exjiectancy and all i eves immediately turned to the table ; when they entered the room. And what . a sight met their gaze! Ye gods! Where 1 v.cie the previous e. iner parties? There stood a table in all its grandeur. An l ordinarv table covered with a torn and i tattered" cloth, common wooden plates : with newspaper cuts pasted in them in mock imitation of hand painted china Aa immense wooden towl stood in the center of the table, put of which pro truded a common tin ladle, and every thing was of the most pristine character. The break was too good, and the guests were ail compelled to acknowledge that they had all been outdone. But they sat down, and-then they were served with one of the most elegant, and elaborate dinners it had ever been their good tor ture to parrake of. But that completely knocked out the’ fine china rage, and a:: -. W.’s ] arlv was the talk ot the town 1, r many da vs. Bright idea, wasn t it? —Wheeling Register. R. D. COLE MANUFACTURING CO., NEWNAN, GEORGIA. Fooling AVItli Nitro-Glycerlnc. Nothing fills the small boy of the oil regions with more glee than to find in the woods a pile of empty nitro-glycerine cans, which careless and negligent oil well shooters persist in leaving in the neighborhood or places where they have l>een operating, although there is a severe law forbidding this secreting of empty nitro-glycerine cans. There is always enough of the fluid left in the cans alter being emptied into the torpedoes to pro vide an explosion more or less violent, and frequently enough to be exceedingly destructive. These deadly caches are • often found bv hunters passing through the woods. Once a hunter near Warren shot into a hunch of brush in which In- had seen a lox take refuge. The shot was followed by an explosion that tore up the ground, and shattered trees ior many feet around, and knocked the gun ner senseless. Some one had placed nitro-glycerine cans in the brush pile, and the charge from the gun had ex ploded them. Boys are constantly searching for these hidden cans to have Ihe sport of explod ing them, although every year many boys are made cripples for life by indul gence in this sport, and not a few are killed. When the dangerous playthings are found they are set up, one at a time, a rod or so away, against a st tie or tree, and the bovswho have found them throw stones at them until (lie force <>f a Idow from one of the stones explodes a can. The sport is in the loud report and the way in which earth, stone;-, and every thing within the range of the concussion are hurled about and in t he air. There is not an oil town from New York state to the Washington field that i'.r.s not one ■or more crippled or sightless hoys, made so by this reckless trifling with one-of the most terrible explosives known.—New York Sun. Courting tin* Newsboys. • The newsboy bids fair to become one of the most pampered members of so ciety. Newspaper publishers are begin ning to appreciate the value of his influ ence in building up circulations, and are therefore making much of him. All the | newsboys in New York were recently | given a theatre party by a publisher who j wished to gain their good will, an entire j theatre being necessary to hold the | guests. Not long ago another publisher i gave the toys a picnic in the country, | and the territory surrounding the scene of’their festivities still looks as though it had been devastated by an invading ! army. A Detroit publisher carried his enterprise so far as to bring on a ball ; nine of newsboys from Chicago to play a j “championship” game with a nine of | Detroit boys. He provided a special ! sleeping car for the Chicago boys, boarded “Who Struck Billy Patterson?" Do you know the origin of the expres sion, “V* ho struck Billy Patterson? This is it: About forty years ago, at one ,,f the medical colleges of this country, the students had a trick of hazing every new mart who-entered the institution. r fhey would secure him hand and foot, carry him before a mock tribunal, and there try him for some high crime with which they charged him. He would he convicted," of course, and sentenced to be led to the block and decapitated. A student named William Patterson came j nifinri in time, and was put through trie j court and sentenced in the Usual cole mil , TO COUNTRY PRINTERS! and impressive manner. He was blind- j folded and led to the block, and his neck • placed in position. The executioner i STEAM ENGIN * * K J a AIX’, SPECIAL GIX- WE HAVE ON HAND SOME SPECIAL BARGAINS IN STEAM ENGINES. NERY OUTFITS, WHICH WILL REPAY PROMPT INQUIRIES. A VERY LARGE STOCK OF DOORS, SASH AND BLINDS ON HAND AT LOW PRICES. R. D. COLE MANUFACTURING CO., Newnan, Ga. iComplete Newspaper Outfit For Sale! Kailroab Sctjebulcs. ATLANTA & WEST POINT R. R. near Patterson’s head. 1 lie students laughed when the trick was at an end, but Patterson was dead. He had died from what we medical men call shock. All the students were put under arrest, and the question arose, Vvho struck Pat terson? On the trial it was shown that nobody struck him, but the medical stu dents retained the expression We have for sale a quantity of first-class pvintingniaterial, comprising the entire out fit formerly us.fi in printing the Newnan Herald, as well as type, stones, chases, anil numerous oilier appurtenances belonging to ~ 'i T„ a 1 tlie olfi Herald Job < iffiee. Most of the mate , a.IU U II.IS , j n f.xcellnit COIlli thorn aL the best hotel, and gave each newsboy in Detroit a certain number of tickets to the game, to be sold for his (the boy's) individual benefit. If the compelii ion among the newspaper pub lishers continues, we may expect to see free excursions to Europe provided lor newsboys, and find them selling tlicir papers from coupes and indulging in such other luxuries as may suggest them selves to the minus of enterprising mana gers anxious to secure their good will. While the notion on the part of those who provide these benefits for the hoys ! are not altogether philanthropic, the pub- I He at large is doubtless quite willing to ! sea the generosity carried to any extent. ! believing that the life of the newsboy is none too crowded with enjoyment. - Hardship is his daily portion, and an oc casional spree of a rational sort m:t) he the means of spurring his ambition with the desire to reach a plane of iii'e where enjoyment is more frequent.—New York ! Commercial Advertiser. ,.aj is in excellent.condition and will be sold come down through them to tlie present I from 50 to 75 per cent, below foundry prices. ,i ,y _p~ Sam ‘ -index-son in Globe- ! The following list contains the leading ar- u “.’ • - i twi^s: i Campbell Press, in good Democrat. A Negro l am,> N At a negro camp m- u: OUgh, Ills., the i day : of realism that oavritv on days of i he Pi gave an eloquent. «" -coni <r r.l son. During i s t.c' ; darky a; rayed i t ! vinr. colorei l tatter to . « • son stood ::t a clamp > ; for his cue. At i : 1 ■ shaj e of a ; < wt when he rusheir > arms of the old the part of fat'.... brought forward • been prc\ iously . and every one lx at : . in the days of old. sounds s.'ini what : ■ • - enacted 1 y the ci ■> ■ ' • good faith and flippancy. at Iinisbcr- icro was a Git lack to the The preacher on (he pvodi- .-rv a voiing ;e lUiii many the prodigal :fi:es waiting ■ came in the e. .: \ \ i horn, fill into the wi.o v,. cted sistt • * t.i.k-h lad si m enure , ic-oii of Devil 1'isU in Plenty. There are a good many devil fish in tits bav. and every few days some of the fishermen bring in one or more of them. Ik annuel Thomas, the fisherman, says he j he has caught a great many, devil fish , this season. ••The biggest devil fish, or octopus, as j some call it, that I have caught in this ; bay.” said Mr. Thomas recently, “was, . when its arms were stretched out, four- j teen feet across—that is. its arms were I seven feet long. Then 1 have caught a j good many smaller ones on my lines, l'hev are very ugly things to handle, and when l take them out of the water 1 am not, for a moment even, careless how i 1 handle them. They have a mouth just j like a parrot. It is located just under the ' sack or body. The long arms are 1 ered on the under side with valve suckers, which exert extraordinary power. When they get hold of anything it is a rare in- stance when they are not victorious. ; Thev are cunning, too. for when they fasten their around a man they work their arms so as to get the points into his ils. If tl do he is a goner. They . , can crush the life out of a man or an ani- j msil in a moment. A 'hen they are at- i tacked tin y throw out a black secret i-a j wi ids clouds the water, confuses their , antagonist and enables them to escape, ! They are very hardy. They will live fer j Three or four days after being taken out f of the water. 1 am going to try and take • the one I catch to the os. ; Thev can be transported without much i ittle (W .is!' Maxims for Merchants. In every line of business some man „ must lead. . . ; ; 1 Young- me n make positions; positions rarely make (liem. I Some men buy when they should sell j and sell when they should buy. Goods frequently changed upon the j shelves give them a fresher look. When the customer loses his temper, ; that is the time that you should keep 1 yours. 1 _ ! A man who has a good trade or busi- ! ness, and brings to it brains and diligence, ! can afford to wait. Wlmt men call luck or accident is often } the fruit of years of careful study, pa- ; tient endurance and devotion. No past- popularity, no fame earned by ; • , a lifetime will avail if men do not keep j Flourishes, ctC. to the front and keep up the stroke. Business repute is better than stocks, bonds or money. Revulsions can t shake., : robbers can’t steal, and the cyclones of j trade can’t engulf it. |* Advertise when business is brisk. Ad- 1 vortise when business is dull. Advertise ! constantly and lavishly, then will the printer grow rich and his children rise up and call you blessed. SHOW-CASES 250 lbs. Brevier. 150 lbs. Minion, 50 lbs. Pica. 50 lbs. English. 50 fonts Newspaper Display Type. 25 select fonts Job Type. 8 fonts Combination Border. Imposing Stones, Chases, Type Stands and Racks. Tlie Campbell Press here offered is the same -quill which T«B U ERA 1,1) AND AhVF.KTIS- kr is now printed anil has been recently over- h >ulcd and put it. good repair. It is sold sim ple 10 make mom for a larger and faster press. Address NEWNAN PUBLISHING CO. Newnan, Ga. A New Cheap Light in London. London is exercised over a new and : cheap light. A tank is placed in the roof j of a dwelling and filled with oil. Con- j neetion is made with the gas pipes, and j the burner is capable of being turned on j j or off. The light is white, soft and agree- I able, and as brilliant as that supplied by j electricity. The cost is about one-tliird ‘ that of gas. An exhibition was recently j given in the presence of the representa- ; tives of the press. The secret of the new i cov- ! process is a machine, which is wound up like clockwork and which separates the 1 hydrogen from the oxygen of the atmos- ] piiere, and causes the latter to mix with oil and give forth the excellent light, which is the admiration of all beholders. —Philadelphia Call. j A. P. JONES. JONES & J. E. TOOLE. TOOLE, CARRIAGE BUILDERS AND DEALERS IN HARDWARE, LaGRANGE, ga. Sept, (til, 1SS7. IIP DAY PassengerTkain—East. Leave Selma -5-20 am Leave Montgomery ” b2 a 111 “ Grantville 11 15 a nj “ Puckett's 11 77 a m “ Newnan 12 OS pin “ Palmetto 12 32 pm Arrive at Atlanta I 2a pm Down Day Passengek Train—West, j Leave Atlanta 1 1’ 1,1 1 “ Palmetto - \J l ,ni j “ Newnan 2 15 p m <• Puckett’s 3 t o |> m i “ Grantville 3 12 p m | Arrive at Montgomery 7 15 p m | Arrive Selma lump m j Ue Night Passengek Train—East. I.eave Selma 3 30 p in Leave Montgomery s l.> p in “ Grantville 13 a in “ Puckett’s 3 37 a m “ Newnan 3 r>S a m “ Palmetto 1 l i a in Arrive at Atlanta 0 10 a in Down Night Passenger Tkain—West. Leave Atlanta i ( > ,,rt 1> ,v “ Palmetto Iimptn “ Newnan •- :l “ Puckett’s 12 32 am “ Grantville . 12 nil a m Arrive at Montgomery IL1O n 111 Arrive at Selma 1117 a m . Accommodation Train (daily,—East LaGrange *1 1*> a m Gruntviile 7 02 a 111 Puckett’s 7 20 a m “ Newnan. “ PowHl’s “ Palmetto. * F :l “ Atlanta Olm VCCOMMODATION TRAIN (DAILY)— \\ '“I. Leave Atlanta ••• Arrive Palmetto - “ Powell’s “ Newnan Puckett’s.. “ Grantville “ LaGrange Columbus and Atlanta Ex pki GOING SOUTH. Leave Atlanta Arrive at Newnan “ LaGrange,. “ Opelika “ rolumhus “ Montgomery. “ Spima QOI Leave Selma “ Montev.rmry “ Columbus “ T.aGrange “ Newnan Arrive at Atlanta. (HAS. K OFFICE & B.WK FIMITIRE & FIXTURES, Ask for Illustrated Pamphlet. TERRY SHOW CASE CO., Naslivillc, Tenn. Leave A rri ve 7 33 a m I .7 52 a m ' 1/ ORGANS Of all makes direct t<> customers from head quarters, at wholesale prices. All goods gimr : anteed No money asked till instruments are re ceived anil fully tested. Write us before pur chasing. An investment of 2 cents may save you from S50.00 to $100.00. Address JESSE FRENCH, NASHVILLE, - TENNESSEE. Wholesale Distributing Dcp’l for the tioutft. FREEMAN & CRANKSHAW, ' ';[/ / IMPORTERS AND MANUFACTU RERS OF I li ’j'' :i 111 ' S IK) )l III ; h 5 » il !!1 | y f\S si m j 11 07 it m 12 10 :t m 1 yti v 111 ! NOKTZX. FINE JEWELRY. L AUGUST STOCK! 1 • iN UST ASS(HITM UNT ! LOWEST 1’1 iicus 10 M a in 12 30 j, m 1 25 p m 3 34 pin 4 30 p m 545pm CROMWELL, New Yvivl. So Soon Forgotten. The funeral of Milo. Aimec showed how very few friends an nctress can coiuit upon surviving her. In spite of the fact that her will gave a very large amount to an orphan asylum fi r thecan- dren of artists, and her well known gen erosity during her active dremafic • veryH'w (x-oole fotmd leisure logo mine small church. The management o1 tja* Varieties sent a crown of llowers. 1 ut Lie company gave nothing, and yet during the French war Aimeesent from America 5.000 francs to these very comrades. All her fortune was bequeathed to charitable institutions wiih the exception of a few friendly souvenirs.—Paris Letter. AH sorts of advertising circulars corn* to"i*)oopK wlioae names are “always .11 the newspapers. Xew York’s Chinese Women. So far as known, there are only four- »een Chinese women in New York city. Of these nine are married, one is a widow, one an unmarried girl, one a nurse, and two anonyma. Although r .-.idents of- the United States, they obey to the very letter the strange system of law and custom which obtains in tho Flowery Kingdom, a system which | strongly resembles the treatment of the ! queen bee in an apiary by her drones and workers. Five of these little women celebrated their marriage vows in China, two in San Francisco, and two in New York.—Nelly Blv in Cleveland Leader. When the Pamphlets Hov.lfd. A certain old lady down in Maine has the genuine genius of Mrs. Partington, and may'fiave let n the original of that fr.m us" character, for all the Listener knows. Not long ago she was telling of the wild times in the woods down there before the country was settled. “YYhy," -afil she, "the folks used to be wj k 1 up in the 1 ight by the howling of the j nlets in the w It is to be inferred that she meant pth rs,” thoughno_doal?t there h av ® bom such things as howling pamphlets. —Boston Transcript. Manufacture all kinds of Carriages, Buggies, Carts and Wagons. Repairing neatly land promptly done at reason able prices. We sell the Peer less Engine and Machinery. YTCl iAU NO MORE EYE-GLASSES, KOI E WEAK EYES ■ Another Superstition. The latest “fad” is the interest at tached to the finding of an old button shoe. We were told, with great sincer ity, that if a young girl on finding one would count the buttons remaining on it she would be able to tell exactly the num ber of years which would elapse before her marriage, each button jepresenting one year. It is looked upon as a great piece of misfortune (by the credulous) to find a shoe minus buttons.—Chicago 1 News. MITCHELL’S EYE-SALVE; A. Certain, Safe and Effective Remedy for I SORE, WEAK AND INFLAMED EYES- ! Produces Long-Sightednes’s. and IL -ton s the isigM of the Old. Carrollton 5 4.1 a n Vtkinson.T. G fi 00 a T:; Bi • ig c; io ii Whiteshnrg t*. •>) ii )i Sargent's 6 5 N wnao 7 Sharpsburg 8 * 0 Turin i- Sr no; a . . . . ’ F * »*2 a j t Brooks ;i fc. :■ r i Vaughns !f :• !r Gridin 9 i a 11 Sriffir 12 M p II a? Vaughns. 12 IS p II Brooks . 1- Fi. p Ii Senoia ] ]f» \ " Turin . 1 J‘ 1- Sharpsburg \ r • f t* Newnan .. 2 2s V !» Sargent’s 8 25 p r: . Wbitesburg 3 IS P Banning 4 INI P Atkinson, T. O 4 2 • P 14 Ca rrolltOH 4 ro : * iKLKNAP, Gr-n’I MaiUf-. X E \Y A l >YEK LI SUM EX 1 31 WliitehaH St., Atlanta, Ga. uM f HAVE A LARGFfe LOT u;mBER FOR 8A1,E. DIFFEIl- M' QUALITIES A ND FlilOESj BUT I’BK’ES AI.U LOW. W. B. BERRY N. - ... March Jib, 1S8L name on a pacha go cf COFFEE is a guarantee ci excellence:- COFFEE is kept in ail first-class stores trom the Atlantic to th.e Pacific. l’apier Mache for Small Work. To make papier mache for fine, small i work, toil clippings of brown and whita | : ..per in wr.n \ strain end lx.*at theminto j a . : a I- glue or gum and size, and 1 pi\ ss into molds. Pennsylvania has more potofiices tliaa any other state ui tlie U?!»>n. !.11G. New York has 3.248. CrSES TEAR DROPS, GRANULATION, STY 1.1 TUMORS. P.EP KYEP. MATTED EYE I. V-H- Ert. AND PKODUCINGAtl’ICK RELIEF AND PERMANENT CURE. Also. iRjually elficacions when used in other ; maiiulies, such as I’lo-rs. rVver Sores. Tu mors. Sait Rheum. Burns. Piles, or v. ' - rever : infi-immationexists. MITCHRLfi’S SAIA K : may l>p need to advantage. Sold by all Drug gists at 25cents. W A ^ KD work at th>-ii : be ipiif! lv ■ ; ;i . P <• dr.-ss at hi . I st . B* s ■ sias IjADIliS tor 01 r I COFFEE wn lioim s Work It KNT *X -":I7 r-:yd.-- in*r Ad- l M : !■: is never goo ' v/h-ir. exposed to tho air. Always b ay this brand inhermeticalfy sealed ONE P ' I'KAGEf. i>. SETTLE UP! Sugar doe? nofi as rniny sn t -jour, pro. mote decay of the teeth. IMPORTANT NOTICE! If you are indebted to us, • her for FinL ti.r or i.k.iUns, come up promptly i;i:l pny t ‘ account, ’.to need the money now. fHOMPSON iiiiO.S. fTENDING ADVERTISERS -‘10 .. a,i- GLIi P. ROWELL A CO., D Shut! Sr.NnvY' ; ■ city, li: SCI.E* T LIST' Fite' NS Y.";-:>a i’Ei.S YVil! he sent t'e.ia:. on 1 application AII pa hlacksii din dr-1 it'd to I*. J. folds it Co. lev . s :.i> buggy and wagon repa- • a-- no t!i«.-ii aecountsare now :, 11. ; - paid. We are obliged re • . .. our husin. fun’, (hose * • • • as \.-.:i e.,; 'era l::' <>r t»v .VtlKlIg i»..i. r»»i I'm j,- «■*. New lain, Ga., Sept, .no: 1..