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22^ $tw Hfrald and jPctrtiser. NeWnan, Ga., Friday, Feb. 3, 1888. f fa : Not a Popular Proposition. ♦Savannah Yews. The Atlanta Constitution apparently does not find this proposition to repeal the whiskey tax (|uite so popular as it ? . thought it would be. It has doubtless discovered that the people of Georgia H| are not so anxious to have free whiskey as they are to have t he taxes on the nec essaries of life reduced. It now says: I®, By no means are we for free whiskey. % Let the tax remain, hut let the State | humanely collect it, and let it go to the ^ State for the benefit of its tax-payers. J This is our position. The Constitution is evidently trying to capture Mr. Blaine’s thunder. Bong ago Mr. Blaine said, “Let the revenue from whiskey be divided among the States,” and that is what the Constitu tion, in effect, now says. Anyone who will give the subject sideration will reach cess in the newspaper business is to be achieved by fitful bursts of spasmodic enterprise. It is quite questionable whether these do not do as much harm as good. They give the whole enter prise a flashy character and seem to imply—as they cannot possibly be kept up—that the new paper has not come to stay. They are like bursts of fire works, which are very pretty to look at while they last, but which are sure to be succeeded by black darkness. When a newspaper announces that it has es tablished a balloon service to the moon, long had the habit—and a very good one it is—of saving up their coppers and nickels and dimes? and, doubtless, many of them are indebted to it for their wealth, for there is much truth in the old Scotch saying, “Take care of the mickle, and the muckle will take care of itself.” A gentleman who tried the new craze relates his experience with its work ings. When he concluded to give it a trial he had in his pocket four silver dollars and a 25c. piece. With the 25c. he paid for a morning paper, getting in COLE MANUFACTURING CO., NEW NjA N, GEORGIA. people clap their hands and applaud its ; change two dimes, which he put in his enterprise, but it is remarked that, j vest pocket for safe-keeping. At noon though they buy the paper for several | he bought a 30c. lunch and received in days to see what the man in the moon | change a 50c. piece and is doing, they do not subscribe. Tor sublunary news they continue to rely on their old favorites. It is doubtful if these ever was an in stance of a paper which was started for a specific object becoming successful two dimes. Then, as was his custom, he indulged in a nickel cigar, handing over the 50c. and received back 25c. and two dimes. Here were six dimes, or 00c., to go into his savings bank at home, and by the purchase of another cigar two more until it abandoned that object. Sever-; went in his vest pocket before al of the leading papers of to-day were j lie had spent 45c. during the day moment’s con-! started to accomplish certain objects, the conclusion, but ihe proprietors, being shrewd men, ft however, that if the tax is to be distrib uted among the States Mr. Blaine’s way of distributing it is much more just and fair than the Constitution's is. His way is to distribute it among the States in proportion to their respective populations after it has been collected by the general government. In view of the fact that the people of the States in which the tax is collected do not pay it—the tax being paid by the consum ers of the whiskey who are distributed throughout the whole, country—it would hardly be right for the States in which the whiskey is made to have the entire benefit of it. .Indeed, it is doubt ful if the Constitution would agree to its own proposition if it had an oppor tunity to do so. If the States collected and retained the tax Georgia would get less than $350,000 a year, while Illinois would get $25,000,000 and Kentucky about $12,000,000, assuming, of course, t hat they would continue to collect the same .proportion of the whole amount collected as they do now. Illinois, Kentucky, and some other States, would become rich very quickly, and Georgia would help to make them so. If the tax is to go to the States, it must be distributed as Mr. Blaine proposes or not at all. Great care should be ta ken in advising the adoption of Mr. Blaine’s propositions, for fear that the people might be led into admiring and adopting Mr. Blaine. The Constitution says, let the State “humanely collect” the tax. Does it think tjiat the State could or would Lcollect the tax any more “humanely” than the general government collects it V Who are those who, in this State, are enforcing the collection of the tax i Are they Georgians, from the Judges Of the courts to the clerks of the inter nal revenue collectors, and are they not all Democrats? If the State had the collection of the tax would not Geor gians be entrusted with the collection of it, and if there was a disposition to evade it, or refusal to pay it, would not laws have to be made to compel its payment? And if there were such laws, would they not be enforced, even if the ■fax-resisters had to be sent to prison ? What nonsense is it, then, to talk about the State collecting the tax “humane ly.” No one who deals honestly with the general government realizes that there is anything particularly harsh or objectionable in the law to enforce its collection. Only those who attempt to evade it complain of it, and t. ey would attempt to evade it if it were a State law, and.would complain of it if it were enforced. No thinking man will be led away from the true issue by the posi tion of the Constitution. The issue is this: Shall whiskey be made free, or shall the necessaries of life be made cheaper? soon discovered that the aecompli-h- rnent of a reform was one thing and the establishment of a newspaper as a bus iness enterprise quite another, and they dropped the former to devote them selves to the latter. If they had not their papers would have pied. I \ i Starting a Newspaper. Augusta Evening News. -ju It is easy enough to start a newspa- ? per, but very hard to establish one. Any man with money can start one. Presses are easily bought; type is for *ale everywhere ; printers can easily be hired; writers are like the sands on the seashore; newsdealers are always ready to fflace a new commodity on their counters. But when all is said and done, the element necessary for sue cess—popalar support—is likely to be wanting. Every newspaper reader may be supjiosed to be in the habit of reading some particular paper. He reads it because he thinks it is a better newspaper than others, or because it agrees with his opinions, or because he \ fJrelies on its honesty. Now comes a new journal which appeals to him to discard his old paper and take it in- •f-stead. To be successful the appeal must be made on very strong grounds, indeed. It will not suffice to argue that the old paper has for ouce adopted an unpopular course. Papers constant!} ieh do not approve, yet, unless their departure is outrageous, it is overlook- led and they lose little or nothing. 1 Whereas the new candidate for public The Coming Newspaper. Millerigeville Union and Recorder. When the .South was politically divi ded by two great parties, Whig and Democrat, the masses looked to the leading organs of the press at the seat of government of their respective States for counsel and politics, both of princi ple and organization. Then a column leader, or even one much longer, in such papers as those of father Ritchie and Gales and Seaton at Washington were read as attentively and sacredly as the deacon in the church reads his Sunday morning’s chapter in the Bible, from begining to end, and often with more lasting impression. The South has but one party now, and long politi cal leaders in the pressure read by few, if any, of the masses who do the voting at the polls. The ever-alert newspaper organs recognized this change, and set about to meet it. Then began immense double and triple sheets, and a reduc tion in price so striking as to captivate tlie average subscriber, who jumped at a chance to get a paper three times as big for the same money lie had been paying all bis life for the one published at his county site. He thought he was making a sharp trade when he stopped taking his home paper, which he al ways read from end to end, (and then was hungry for more) and sent off to some city, North or South, for a big paper to get something cheap and with more reading matter than his home pa per contained. Well, he got the big paper, and is not happy. He hasn’t got time, he says, to read it, and if he had, the type is so little it hurts his eyes, and what he does find to read is not what he understands or cares for. He don’t see in it anything about home affairs, or his neighbors, and finds himself, when‘he comes to the county town, so ignorant of what is going on right under his nose, lie is ashamed of himself, quits the big weekly away off yonder, subscribes for his county paper, which is only fifty cents a year more, reads it, and his wife and children read it, and get as mad as a wet hen if any body takes it out of the office and reads it before they do, and he swears if God will only forgive him, he will never stop his home paper again while he lives. That is just the way of it. But what the man wants now to read in his paper is the news. He wants a jiaper with hundreds of short para graphs, disconnected, well selected, on live subjects, so that he can pick it up at odd times, read here and there and lay it down without having to make a mark at the line where he stopped reading. That’s what he wants. The big papers are now trying, be sides the double sheets, to attract the eye of readers with pictures of notable people, which are about as correct like nesses of the original as if pine knots had been used to print their faces in stead of wood and lead cuts. These features of the present newspaper are fatiguing the patience of readers, and they are sick of them. Immense so- called “Trade-Journals” are got out to attract advertisers, who are foolish enough to bite at such bait. No one man, woman, or child, outside of a citv, ever reads advertisements in a “Trade-Journal” and the only use they ar* put to in the country is to make bustles, kindle fires and chimneys. laid by 80c, He began the habit be cause it was the ruling craze, but the dimes piled up so fast that it became fascinating, and now he describes him-j self as being a “miser with dimes.” Southern people ought to become | “misers with dimes.” No people under the sun are so generous with their mon ey, and none give so little attention to small coins. Except in the larger cit ies, coppers are not used. If an ac count is, say, $10 48, it is settled with 810 50; if it is 810 47, it $10 45. Either the buyi ler loses 2e. in every bill of the kind. AYe can get a useful hint in this matter from our Northern friends, and one that will save us, in the long run, con siderable money and teach us economy. The dime craze is the most sensible one that has been started in many years. It is traveling Southward, and when it reaches this section it ought to be welcomed and made popular. Will 1888 be a Year of War? Philadelphia Inquirer. The present year is the fifth year of modern times in which the aggregate of the figures is twenty-five, and there will be but five more years in which such a combination is possible. But few have ever heard of the old prophecy, which runs as follows: In every future year of our Lord, When the sum of the figures is twenty-five, Some warlike kingdom will draw the sword, But peaceful nations in peace shall thrive. Students of modern history will readily recall how faithfully this proph ecy has been fulfilled in the four previ ous years to which it applied. In 1699 Russia, Denmark and Poland formed the coalition against Sweden which inaugurated the great war that ended in the disastrous defeat of Charles XII. at Pultowa. The year 1789 will ever be memora ble on account of the breaking out of the French revolution. 1798 witnessed the campaign of Bona parte in Egypt and the formation of the second European coalition against France. In 1879 war broke out between Eng land and Afghanistan, followed by the invasion of the latter country by British troops. In what manner the prediction is to be verified in 1888 remains yet to be seen, but the present condition of Eu rope seems to promise an abundant ful- lillmest of the prophecy. STEAM ENGINES. WE HAVE ON HAND SOME SPECIAL BARGAINS IN STEAM ENGINES. ALSO, SPECIAL GIN NERY OUTFITS, WHICH WILL REPAY PROMPT INQUIRIES. A VERY LARGE STOCK OF DOORS, SASH AND BLINDS ON HAND AT LOW PRICES. R. E>. COLE MANUFACTURING CO., NEWNAN, GA. J. H. Reynolds, President. Hamilton Yancey, Secretary. ! TO COUNTRY PRINTERS! SHOW-CASES ROME FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY, OF THE STATE OF GEORGIA. CAPITAL STOCK, $103,400. A home company. Management conserv- atlve> prltdeiit, sale. Soliciting the patron- age ofits home people and leading all com petitors «t Its home office. Its directory composed of eminently suc cessful business men; backed by more than one million dollars capital. H C. FISHER & CO., Agents, Newnan, Ga. A. P. JONES. JONES & J. E. TOOLE. TOOLE, CARRIAGE BUILDERS Complete Newspaper For Sale! Outfit AND DEALERS IN B. A. Bartlett, of Randolf, in this State, is a remarkable rifleman. In a recent exhibition of his skill he is said to have hit a common white bean at a distance of twenty-five yards, holding his rifle in various positions. He also hit a postal card that was set up edgewise. Using a thirty-two calibre ball he shot through a thirty-two calibre pistol bar rel, the bullet splitting on a knife-blade on the further end of the revolver bar rel and each half of the bullet breaking an egg. He ignited a parlor match held by a person at the target stand, knock ed the ashes from cigars and concluded by shooting a bean from the nose of a friend who had sufficient confidence in his skill to permit the attempt. All these remarkable shots are vouched for by reputable witnesses.—Chicago News. Though the wages or remuneration in glass-blowing are very high, the indus try is not popular. Its unpopularity is no more than natural, the labor being severe and exhausting, the pain and discomfort great, and the healthfulness being unpleasantly small to those en gaged. It has a characteristic disease— the glass-blower’s cheek—just as the white lead and quicksilver industries clean lamp j have their specific ills. From long-con tinued blowing, the cheeks, at first nms- What the people—the country and i cular, grow thin and lose their elastici- town readers want—and will have, is j ty; they then begin to hang down like the newspajier that contains home and , inverted pockets and finally grow abso- State and national news boiled down j lutely unusable. It is a matter of re- UlipUpUliU wuicv. * - - i fo the smallest’possible space, aud j cord both here and in Europe that glass adopt a course which their subscribers ; p j eHty of it Thev ^ on - t want an im-1 operatives have blown holes through J unless their new mense blanket sheet, or two or three | their cheeks; but no living curiosity of sheets pasted together, or loose and | this sort can be found at the present hard 10 handle, but an average-sized j time.—Philadelphia Telegraph. . , i sheet filled with the latest home and ! favor has got to establish affirmatively j fo . n news t tos;ether in such a | When you see a man on a moonlight that it deserves public support and will! * and so arranged that, they can j night trying to convince his shadow that continue to deserve it. This must al- j ^ r}(rht to the verv paise ami col-1 it is improper to follow a gentleman, ways be a matter of time. Reput*- j what they want. That’s | you may be sure it is high time for him tionsare not built up in a da> : the they want and they mean to have ;to i°in a temperance society. nublic waits and watches; if after a se-1 ries of vears the new journal establishes j ir * 1 * — . ~ ; Mothers if your baby suffers pain lies OI yea ; and ! The Dime Craze. and is restless do not stupefy it by ad- a character for sinceiit}, ju » • j j ministering opium, but soothe it with a ener< T v it will probably command sue- Savannah News. . reliable remedy, such as Dr. Bull’s Ba- r " But in the meantime the projee-; A new craze, which is said^ to be ex- j Syrup. 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 less Engine and Machinery. We have for-sale a quantity of first-class printing material, comprising the entire out fit formerly used in printing the Newnan Herald, as well as type, stones, chases, and numerous oilier appurtenances belonging to the old Herald Jot) Office. Most of the mate rial is in excellent, condition and will be sold from 50 to 75 per cent, below foundry prices. The following list contains the leading ar ticles: i Campbell Press, in good repair. 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, Flourishes, etc. Imposing Stones, Chases, Type Stands and Racks. The Campbell Press here offered is the same upon which The Herald and Advertis er is now priuted and has been recently over hauled aud put in good repair. It is sold sim ply to make room f7>r a larger and faster press. Address NEWNAN PUBLISHING CO. Newnan, Ga. NO MORE EYE-GLASSES, NO MORE WEAK EYES! 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I HAVE A LARGE LOT OF LUMBER FOR SALE. DIFFER ENT QUALITIES AND PRICES, BUT PRICES ALL LOW. W. B. BERRY. Newnan, Ga., March 4th, 1887. FREEMAN & CRANKSHAW, IMPORTERS. AND MANUFACTU RERS OF FINE JEWELRY, LARGEST STOCK! FINEST ASSORTMENT f LOWEST PRICES 1 31 Whitehall St., Atlanta, Ga. NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. CARRIAGE AND WAGON REPAIR SHOP! We are prepared to do any kind of woik in the Carriage, Buggy or Wagon line that may be desired and in the best and most work manlike manner. "We use nothing but the best seasoned material, and guarantee all work done. Old Buggies and W a goes over hauled and made new. New Buggies and Wagons made to order. Prices reasonable. ! Tires shrunk and wheels guaranteed. Give os a trial. FOLDS dfc POTTS. Newnan. 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