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BILL NYE ON THE TARIFF.
Labors to Show How "Little He
Knows About the Issue.
"While so many other men, who know
■sw little about it as I do, are discussing
•the tariff, it seems almost cowardly in
me to hang back. T have resolved,
therefore, to give utterance to a few
terse and ringing sentences, not calcu
lated to inflame the country, of course,
fori have alwaystried to be temperate,
especially in my language, and sought
to avoid using my wonderful gifts as a
word-painter and rhetorical thundor-
bolt-jerker in a way that would excite
i lie lower-case nature of man to war or
tend to depress the stock market,
to any Wall street, man of prominence
to-day and he will tell you, unless lie
priceless boon of liberty, it is true., the
liberty to pay big war prices for every
thing L« wanted, and to sell hascrops
for less and less every year, competing
with foreigners abroad and foreigners
who caroe here to compete with hien :
libert.y!t©T»ay big prices for machinery,
help, dlotihing, and everything else he
bought, a*;<i then ride into town on a
December day, accompanied by tbe
continuous advertising. It may be the
most expensive style, but it is certainly
the surest of success, if arranged sys
tematically, b*t it must be arranged
so, and not otherwise. If you choose
this style, don’t expect to get your
money’s worth at once. Wait one year
and lose money; wait a second, and a
third perhaps; the fourth will bring it
all back again, the fifth will be clear
These figures are
cold still remains of an assassinated profit, and so on.
hog,’only to be-, told that the threatened ] not based upon any certamty-they are
JlULrWi flattened out and that] chosen at random and actually disau-
Contsnuous advertising
year. This
foreign war had flattened uui «"'■ j .
nork had-one down to four cents! It] vantageouslv. Conttnuous :
to ride sixteen miles in generally pays the second 3
1 ho^ that has died by | style of advertising has built up many
to-day ann ne win ion y >>»■•, . , i ori
I w ith no eye upon you but tbe leaden
vou but this e
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happens to be prejudiced because
have pinched him in some deal or other,
that I have never tuned
the society of a
one’s own hand, and every time you
look around see that same frozen smile,
with a chip in it, while his chest is
thrown open in an ingenious way by
means of a hickory stick in order to
show that his leaf lard is all that it has
Go! been represented. It w not cheerful to
ride all the forenoon with no one near
-old and pulseless clay,
my lyre for
the purpose of inciting the nation to
civil war or sought to unsettle values,
or to wreck great financial enterprises.
Hut T say, that at a time when the less
a man knows about tbe tariff the more
freely he enters into the discussion of
it, I think it would be wrong forme
to longer restrain myself, bo where
you will in this country to-day and you
will find men talking about the tariff
and the tax on raw material who have
not had a mouthful of raw material or
any other kind in the bouse for weeks,
except as their wives earned it and
brought it home to them. This country
is full of men who have thought so
hard for the common weal that the
*eats of their trousers shine like the
dome of the Massachusetts’ State-
houise,
And pow there arises in the distance
a large and growing surplus which in
dicates that an soon as the two parties
get nearly balanced and sit up niglds
to watch each other at Washington
f hern is a good deal more money com
ing into the treasury than is needed to
rim t lie mighty machinery of the gov
ernment. Friends of the present meth
ods say it is easier to handle a surplus
than a deficiency, for you can return
it surplus to the people. That is true.
Vou can take it from the pockets of the
people who unjustly paid it, and then
return it to those who have no claim
upon it, meantime paying good salaries
to those who collect it vnd to those who
disburse it, allowing a good percentage
for what may be deflected towards
Canada.
Mr, Blaine desifes to reduce the Sur
plus by reducing the tax on tobacco,
thus making tobacco juice as free as
water, and thus winning the esteem of
several voters who would trade what
patriotism they have for an eledtion-
day "cigar, with a spinal column to it,
ahy time. As a man who has ustd a
low grade of high-test cigars for Some
years, and a man who has been sup
porting Mr. Blaine year after year, un-
til I had almost become a slave to the
habit, 1 desire to state that the style of
statesmanship that strives to win my
young and trusting heart with the
promise of seven good cigars for a quar
ter is not the kind that first established
this government on a paying basis.
Everybody recognizes the utter im
possibility of knocking out financial
stringency, by means of melodious res
olutions, or of paralyzing poverty with
a dark-red preamble. You cannot
gather fresh train figs on board the
Thistle, or pacify old man gastric with
the empty promise of cheaper chewing
tobacco.
Several gentleman have invented
iriktliods for the prevention of rich
men, scheme# by which property could
1^ equalized and divided per capita- in
stead of per capital. The result of this
coHld be easily figured in advance. To
day Jay Gould would be wealthy and
Henry George hungry, we will say. To
morrow Jay Gould and Henry George
would have *6* apiece. Tuesday Henry
George would have $36 and a case of
colic. Jay Gould would have *60 and
l» at the head of a Jamaica ginger
trust. Wednaaday Mr. Gould would
li*ve *130 and an order on Henry
George’s ^an* for tha proceeds of his
i0xt lecture on anti-poverty.
If infant industries are to be protect
ed, and fostered by the way, why is
not the American lecturer protected
from foreign lecturers ? Whether you
regard an American lecture as a manu-
flactured article or raw material it is
generally essentially American, and
ought it not to be protected ? Lectur
ers build up a tawn. They make busi
ness for railroads, hotels, opera houses,
newspapers, laundrymen, tailors, etc
and if successful they go abroad and
itieir lectures become an export, bring
ing money into this country. Just
soon as our lecturers here produce more
lectures than are absolutely necessary
for home consumption, we can send
them abroad, but as it is now our
glruggling lecturers are forced to com
pete with foreign lecturers like Wong
t jfrin Foo, who can live much cheaper
than our native born lecturers who
have been used to dried apple pie three
times a day.
How is it with the. American farmer ?
Lh» has been driven up further and fur
ther and further into a corner by the
legislation of the past twenty-fit e
years, and yet, because he is not actu
ally starving to death, he is pointed to
with' pride. The American farmer con
tributed more to the war than anybody
else, both in blood and money,
really got less in return.
FINE
eya of the dead. I^et the reader who
has never tried it ride sixteen miles
when the shades of evening begin to
lower; ride over a lonely road, over bare
ground with a pair of low-browed bobs,
a green calico comfort over your kr.ees,
with the clammy features of a dead
and decollete hog in your lap. Then
if you want to feel your spirits sink out
of sight, ascertain, after you have laid
out all the money in your mind on a
basis of 8 cents per pound, that A to 4
are the quotations on an animal that
you have loved in hi* infancy, hid down
in tbe cellar so that you couldn’t hear
it squeal when it was killed and aftei-
wards helped scrape with a case knife,
so that even in death he would be a
source of pride to you !
Men tell us that manufactures make
prosperous towns, so we must foster
manufactures. On the same theory
a violent death every morning before
breakfast was what made the flush
times in California, Nevada, and Colo
rado, In order to have prosperity we
must have more murders and lynching
soirees, Why, when a" man was killed
every day or two in Leadville, laborers
got as high as 810 a day. Therefore
crime makes money plenty and wages
high.
I do not claim to know how to make
times more prosperous, otherwise than
to open my own whooping coffers and
put iu circulation the surplus 1 have
been clinging to so long. I have re
solved to do so. Let others follow the
example. Who will be next? Let the
government itself fall in. Let us do
good with our riches. Let Us form
what l Will term the do good party.
Mr. Gould wires me (“collect” from
Rome) that he will lend his heart and
soul, such as they are, to a movement
of that kind, and at liberal rates. Mr.
Gould says that he would advise me to
communicate my plans-by wire,over the
Western Union—to everybody and seek
the co-operation of the government.
He thinks that Congress would be will
ing to make an appropriation covering
the expenses for telegraph, at least.
Mr. Gould also adds that be would
certainly take an interest in such a
movement, and says be would prefer a
controlling interest.
a millionaire, and its field of experi
ment is, in the first place, the news
paper column. To know how to adver
tise is the nerrus rerum of mercantile
success.
A Remarkable Climate.
Chicago Tribune.
“Yes,” remarked the St, Paul man
to a friend from Chicago, as he stood
arrayed in his blanket suit and ad
justed a couple of buckskin chest-pro
tectors; “yes, there is something about
the air in this northwestern climate
which causes a person not to notice j
the cold. Its extreme dryness,” he.
ties there lives a farmer who has not
planted a seed of cotton in three years
and who never raised over three bales
in one crop in his life. He is over 80
years old and never bought a grain of
com or a pound of meat in his life. He
is the most independent man in Georgia
to-day. When we saw him recently on
the train he was going to a neighboring
town, with the money in his pocket to
buy a house and lot. This money was
made on a farm by the sale of grain and
meat. This man literally obeys the
apostolic injunction. “Owe no man any
thing.” We looked in his open, honest
face, wrinkled with age; we took his
hand hardened with toil; we uncovered j Qjjgj.jy and Imitation suites
our head in the presence of this truly
independent citizen. He is an honor to
his brother farmers.
NEW NAN, GA.
AND CHEAP FURNITURE
- AT PRICES—
THAT CANNOT 8E BEAT IN THE STATE.
B\<r stock of Chamber suits in Walnut, Antique Oak, and
continued, as he drew on a couple of
extra woolen socks, a pair of Seandina-! back E ng land.
vian sheepskin boots and some Alaska ! b was, through mistake, not even open-
overshoes—“its extreme dryness makes ; e( ^ bu j- shipped again, this time bound
A Strange Story.
Charleston, January 15.—A strange
story comes from Chesterfield county,
in this State. It is said that the body
of General Pakenham, who command
ed the British attack on New Orleans
in 1815, is buried in that county and his
grave has been found. The following
is the story gathered from old residents
of the county:
The General’s body was said to have
been packed in a cask of rum and sent
On its arrival there
The Nervus Rerum of Mercantile
Success. .
Gustavus Boehm iu Inland Printer.
The “ad.”—what a world of meaning
is buried in these two letters ! Ask out-
big medicine men, ask our dry goods
princes, ask our stock Croesuses what it
means, “the ad.” There’s millions in
it. Gofer them. But how? To ad
vertise and to advertise promptly are
two distinctly different things. You
may advertise all your life long and
have no success, while others reach
within a comparatively short time the
uppermost steps of the ladder as a con
sequence of proper advertising. I am
of the opinion that to know how to ad
vertise is a talent, born with the indi
vidual and cultivated by experience.
A grammar of advertising can hardly
be of any use; still, a few hint6 may be
acceptable to the uninitiated.
The principle that from nothing
comes nothing is firstly to be observed.
If you are afraid to spend a cent, you
cannot expect to earn any. The con
servative ideas of our forefathers, who
declined the services of advertising, be
lieving it too humbug-like to praise
their goods above their value, or to
speak of them at all, in the belief that
they will speak for themselves accord
ing to their owi merits, are completely
out of placs in these “live and let not
live times.” You may have gold and
your neighbor brass, and he will beat
you if he advertises and you don’t.
Try it, and be convinced, as the usual
circular phrase reads. Do so. We have
manufacturing firms in the United
States who spend more money per an
num in advertising than in producing
the article they sell, and they become,
almost without exception, millionaires.
Their field of labor is not the laborato
ry; it is the newspaper column. I don’t
wish to say that you will be a Croesus
in a month, even if you sell sand by
merely advertising it for gold. Oh, no;
the public will soon see into it and ig
nore your “ads.” But you can sell good
sand in quantities to make you rich to
people who don’t look for gold when
they need sand, and there are plenty
of them. Whoever intends to take
Rome in one day will do better not to
go to Rome at all. He may be disap
pointed. Th# world was not made in
one day. Don’t try to beat the record
of the Lord. Take your time—have
a degree of cold, reckoned by the mer
cury, which would be unbearable in oth
er latitudes, but it is simply exhilarating
here. I have suffered more with cold
m Michigan, for instance,” he added,
as he drew on a pair of goatskin leg
gings, adjusted a double fur cap and
tied on some Esquimaux ear-muffs—
“in Michigan or Illinois, we will say,
with the thermometer at zero or
above, than I have here with it at
45 degrees and 55 degrees below. The
dryness of our winter air is certainly
remarkable,” he went on, as he wound
a couple of rods of red woolen scarf
about his neck, wrapped " a dozen
newspapers around his body, drew on
a fall-cloth overcoat, a winter-cloth
overcoat, a light buffalo-skin overcoat;
“no, if you have never enjoyed our
glorious Minnesota winter climate,
with its dry atmosphere, its bright sun
shine and invigorating ozone, you
would scarcely beljeve gpmp tilings I
could tell you about it. The air is so
dry,” he continued as he adjusted his
leather nose-protector, drew on his
reindeer-skin mittens, and carefully
closed 0116 eye hole in the sealskin
mask lie drew down from his cap—“it
is so dry that actually it seems next to
impossible to feel the cold at all. We
can scarcely realize in the spring that
we have had winter, owing to the ex
treme dryness of the atmosphere. By
the way,” lie Went on, turning to his
wife, “just bring me a couple of blan
kets and some bed-quilts and throw
over my shoulders, and hand me that
muff with the hot soap-stone in it; and
now I’ll take a pull at this jug of bran
dy and whale oil, and then, if you 11
have the girl bring my snow shoes and
iceberg scaling stick I’ll step over and
see them pry the workmen off the top
of the ice palace who were frozen on
yesterday. I tell you we wouldn’t be
going out this way five hundred miles
further south, where the air is damp
and chilly. Nothing but our dry air
makes it possible.”
Robbing an Editor.
Texas New Era.
Nearly all our life we have lived
here. We have always been well
treated and have never liad a com
plaint to make against any member of
this community until now. During our
long stay here we have never until
now been suspected of having any
money. Various enterprises have been
started here, but we have never been
solicited to take a partnership. Even
in our village church it would some
times require a nod of the head to in
duce the man with the basket to stop
and get our nickel. But on an unfor
tunate day we became an editor, and
at once the burglars were after us. We
have been robbed. Everybody seems
to think that editors are rich. This
bold burglar who robbed us has known
us for years. He heard we would soon
become an editor and he thought “here
is my opportunity.” He showed great
judgment in the matter and did not
tackle us the first night. He waited
until we had been an editor just three
day8—jave us a chance to accumulate—
and then this bold burglar rifled our
pockets while we were asleep.
for Charleston. Reaching this city it
was sent to one McMullen, who kept a
general stock of groceries, liquors, etc.
There the spigot was placed in the
barrel, aud the boys vho had returned
front the war would congregate around
the store, take a large portion of the
good old Jamaica rum and tell of their
exploits in the war.
After the rum was exhausted the
head of the cask was knocked out, and
the body of a man was found therein.
The news spread like wildfire, and the
boys gathered to inspect the body.
Several of them had been to New Or
leans and had seen General Pakenham,
and at once identified it as being no
less a corpse than that of the General.
The body was inclosed in a coffin and
buried near the store. Mr. Austin now
owns the property. He lives a few
miles from Rossville, Chester county.
Until quite recently there were still
living some of those who helped to
drink the rum and who identified the
body. The report comes from a relia
ble, source, and the matter is being in
vestigated.
Bill Nye’s Cow.
Sill advertises his cow for sale :
“Owing to ill-health I will sell at my
residence in township 29, range 18, west
according to government survey, one
plush-raspberry colored cow, aged
eight years. She is a good milkster,
and not afraid of cars—or anything
else. She is a cow of undaunted cour
age, and gives milk frequently. To a
man who does not fear death in any
form she would be a great boon. She
is very much attached to her home at
present, by means of a trace chain, but
she will be sold to any one who will
agree to treat her right. She is one-
fourth short-horn and three-fourths
hyena. I will also throw in a double-
barreled shotgun, which goes with her.
In May she generally goes somewhere
for a week or two, and returns with a
tall, red calf, with long, wabbly legs.
Her name is Rose, and prefer to sell
her to a non-resident.”
French Dresser Suites (ten pieces), from $22.60 to $125.00,
Plush Parlor Suits, S35.00 and upward.
Bed Lounges, $9.00 and upward.
Silk Plush Parlor Suits, $50.00.
Good Cane-seat Chairs at $4.50 per set.
Extension Tables, 75 cents per foot.
Hat Racks from 25 cents to $25.00.
Brass trimmed Curtain Poles at 50 cent^.
Dado Window Shades, on spring fixtures, very low.-
Picture Frames on hand and made to order.
SPLENDID PARLOR ORGANS
Low, for cash or on the installment plan.
Metallic and Wooden Coffins ready at all times,
dj> ' THOMPSON BROS.,
NEWNAN, GA
night
or
FURNITURE!
I buy and sell more FURNITURE than all the dealers
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 f^uit, $35-°°*
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 Nice 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 Silk 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. Write for prices.
A. G. RHODES,
85 Whitehall St., AtlanLG.Ga.
Morocco is sometimes called the “Chi
na of the West,” for it is fully as much
behind the times, and is even more of
a mystery. There is really less known
about some parts of it to-day than there
is about the centre of Afric a. Its area
lias never been accurately computed,
and its population has been variously
estimated at from two and a half to
eight millions; the very names of the
tribes that compose it being unknown.
Its high mountains, the loftiest on the
Mediterranean, are unexplored, and
many of its inland cities have never
been entered by a European.—Cosmo-
politdn.
Neuralgic pain is usually of an intense
ly sharp, cutting or burning character.
To effect a speedy and permanent cure
rub thoroughly with Salvation Oil, the
greatest pain-cure on earth. 25 cents.
When a man is ill he should send for
a doctor at once; but when he has a
cough or a sore throat he needs only
Dr. Bull’s Cough Syrup. 25 cents.
HUNNICUTT & BELLINGRATH,
36 AND 38 PEACHTREE STREET,
ATLANTA, GA.
and
He got the
HEALERS IN
Stoves, Heating Stoves,
Hall Stoves, Parlor Stoves,
Office Stoves, Cooking Stoves for
everybody, Ranges, Furnaces, Marbelized
Iron and Slate Mantels, Mahogony, Walnut^
Cherry, Oak and Ash
Mantels, Tile Hearth, Tile
Facings and Vestibule Tile, Plain
Grates, Enameled, Nickel and Brass Trim
med Grates. Just received, a beautiful line
Brass Fenders, Andirons,
Fire Sets, Coal Vases, Coal
Hods and Tin Toilet Sets, that in
qu&n city, quality and designs cannot be sur
passed in the city, Gas Fixtures, Chandelier5
aud Pendants, Plumbers,
and Steam Fitters, Supplies, Water
Closets, Bath Tubs, Pumps, Rubber Hose,
Brass Goods, Steam Cocks and Gauges, Tin Plate,
Block and Galvanized Sheet
Iron, Wrought Iron Pipe for steam,
gas and water. Practical Plumbers, Steam
Heaters and Gas Fitters, Architectural Galvanized
Iron Workers and Tin Roofers.
Agts. for Knowles’ Steam Pumps, Dunning’s
Boilers, Morris & Tasker’s Wrought Iron Pipe for
steam, gas and water, Climax Gas Machine^,
gry Plans and specifications furnished on application.
Call and examine our stock or write for price list and circular. You will
ceive prompt attention and bottom prices.
HUNNTCUTT & BELLINGRATH.
Phillip D. Amour, the Chicago mil
lionaire, is at work in his office from
| 6:45 a, m. to 6 p. m., six days in a week,
Burglary is defined as the breaking j and goes to bed at 9 p. m. Asked how
and entering a dwelling house, etc.: he succeeded in business, he said re-
This burglar didn’t break the house, j cently: “I always made it a principle
Hfe broke us when he took our dollar j when the Almighty was not on my side
and thirty cents. He left our town the ; to get on His.”
next day. We suppose remorse for; Grandmas Tea.
robbing an editor or disappointment at! Thft q1J grandruot her made mullein
the amount of our cash drove him; teas f or crG up and coughs. Taylor’s
from home. Maybe he has committed j Cherokee Remedy of Sweet Gum and
suicide ; and if any of our readers j Mullein is a mullein tea combined with ;
should find the dead body of a young : “J hg and = roup> j
darkey floating in a nearby stream with ; —— \
one dollar and thirty cents in his pock-! In the part of philosophy, woman;
et, and about ten dollars’ worth of re- • has seldom strolled to much distance,;
morseful expression on his counte-; but when times are tight she can go to j
nance, please forward him to us at the market with a dollar bill and comeback | Hay, Oats, Corn, Meal, Bran, Stock Feed,
earliest opportunity. with more comfort in a basket than a
man could crowd into a two-horse wag-
• on. if told to back up and help himself.
MICKELBERRY & McCLENDON,
WHOLESALE GROCERS,
PRODUCE AND COMMISSION MERCHANTS,
NO. 15 SOUTH BROAD ST., ATLANTA, GA.
Money Without Planting Cotton.
We frequently hear farmers say that j 4 Sqnaiiing itai.y.
they are compelled to raise .cotton, and wbv is a n ewly-bom baby like a gale j
that on the farm they cannot make a 0 f W1 fi d y Because it begins with a j
living unless they do raise cotton. ; squall. Cold gales induce coughs and
This class of farmers we would refer to j croup. Taylor s Cherokee Reuiec j o .
. , , , .. Sweet Gum and Mullein will cure it.
the following paragraph from the!"
Greensboro Herald and Journal, which j The thing that a woman always i
knows best is how some other woman]
patience. And this brings us to the says: .
first style of advertising, the so-called In one of the Middle Georgia conn-, ought to dress
Onions, Feathers, Cabbage, Irish Potatoes
Dressed and Live Poultry, Meat, Flour,
Lard, N. O. Syrup, Dried Beef, Cheese,
FRUITS AND ALL KINDS OF PROVISIONS AND COUNTRY- PRODUCE.
Consignments solicited. Quick sales and prompt remittances. Good dry rat-Droof stor
age. Excellent facilities for the care of perishable goods. i prooi sior
Judge Tolleson Kirby, Traveling Salesman.
References: Gate City National Bank, and merchant* and bankers of Atlanta
generally.