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- " > f ®h<[ gcratd and ^dctrtisq. Hewian, Ga., Friday, Feh. 3, 1888. 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 _ l - 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.