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THE DALTON ARGUS.
SATI liJUAV. J»E< EMRjER I<>. 1S«I2,
A. H. SHAVER, hdit,or.
J. B. STERN, Business Manager.
Eutereii at the I'ostoiliw in DuiUni. Gh.. u*
swoiwl eLu* nurtter, and isMuyl Saturday
byrHAVKR A htkkn.
ONE DOLLAR A YEAR.
The correspondent* of The ’.hour in the *ev
er*f distrl. t* of the eoutjly are autbori?i>l to re-
X-eive mid fonvjtd siibwripUons.
Address ull letter* and muke all cherts paya
ble to
IH K ARKIN. I>nlt<»«. Un.
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Wake,, snakes, day’s breaking!
The market is again overstocked with
ithe tiend .wltp writes it “Xmas.”
If Dalton does not bjiild that big to
bacco factory at once, it will always be
sorry for its neglect toxlo so.
The merchant always ad
vertises, and the liberal advertiser
always retires on a competency —yr die#
rich. (
•Chattanooga just now is 6pcning,.a
field for a new industry. A nign voiijd
open a receiver's ollice up there and do a
log-rolling business.
The Argus wgnts fpr publication an
article from the pen of some North Geor
gia fanner on the cultivation of broom
corn. Let us have it at once.
The fact that the chief of police of
Chattanooga and the Najihvilje, chief are
quarrelling over the diamond thieves
' again calls to mind the old age.
Whether .Georgia is represented at the
)Vorld’s fqir or not, Whittield cyunty aptl
North Georgia must be. What actjve
ami live man will start this ball to rolling
The sciUlbJd on which John Brown
jyas lugged at Harper’s ferry has been
.sent to the World’s fair—a fact that,
proves that the fools are not all dead yet.
Sister Alaby Ellen Lease is running
for the senate against Jere Simpson in
Kansas. Jere wears no socks, while
Sister Mary Ellen wears —but Jet that
pass.
.1 ay Gqi'i.d \vilf be forgotten when
thousands of poor, charitable, Christian
soldiers will live fresh in the memories of
those whom their charity au,d goodness
blessed.
Jay Gould did not lake a cent of his
s2toj>oO,oW with him. Then why work
s,o hard for.it? The rich and the poor
stand on equal ground before the judg
ment sexit.
The Atlanta Evening Herald perti
nently remarls: “’The Constitution ‘
says Jay. Gould was Napoleonic in his
way. Could not the same tbjng be said
of Jesse James?”
“And he found them asleep.” Will
this be the epitaph of Daltpn, when the
God of Progress and Advance travels
.over she country to bless those who
are awake to their interests.
If ever a man made a more ridiculous
aspect of himself in the field of politics
than Gov. John I’. Buchanan, of Tennes
see, l?as front the beginning to the end
of his reign, he has not been heard of.
Billje Peek, though terribly disfig
ured, is still in the ring. He js notv
speaking out in fayor of taking money
from the .cqmm.on s,choo)s of Georgia and
appropriaflng it to the State University.
Billie is a rather queer sort of duck.
T/ie republican party is just obliged to
try its Ifttnd at stealing any way you can
fix it —it is its second nature. Having
failed to again steal the presidency, it
js now busy trying to steal two or three
senators from the western states. The
republican party should be jailed.
Between the big tobacco factory', the
new cotton mill, and the annual fair,
Dalton has enough projects on foot to
keep it Climbing up forever and forever,
if her people would only get together and
put these projects on a sound, active
footing. Wake up, day’s breaking!
We publish this week Bill Arp’s latest
Jetter, by courtesy of the Atlanta Con-,
stitutiop. And, speaking of BiJi Arp re
minds us that his new book is one of the
most suitable of Christinas presents £|jat
you could give your wife or your bus
band. It js worth a dozen or so pifirg of
slippers and toilet sets.
The third partyites in North Carqjjna
are adopting a rather dirty method of
avenJiHig themselves on democratic
preachers—they pimply refuse to pay
their church assessments. Editor H. A.
Wrench, of the Brunswick Advertiser,
says of them: “It will not be long before
they go where their party is.” But, what,
Brother Wrench, if the devil refuses to
admit men guilty of such a dirty trick,
regardless of party? He certainly ought
to, if he has any respect for himself.
THE ARGUS: DALTON, GA., SATURDAY, DECEMBER 10,1892.
(GEORGIA MI ST HAVE AN ENHIRIT.
The ablest lawyers of the stab*, ami tfre
best lawyers of the Georgia house and
senate agree in the opinion that, under
the present Constitution of bije stale, the
general assembly cannot make g direejt
appropriation of money to send a Geor
gia exhibit to Chicago, or to build a
Georgia building at the World's fair. Os
this fact, there can no longer be a doubt,
ns .Governor Northern has recently had a
conference with many of tl#e beg' legal
talent of the state, and the unanimous
verdict of the conference wqs to the ef
fect that the Constitutian of the state
strictly forbids money fiping given for
any such purpose.
This settles the Georgia, exhibit so far
as the help of the legislature js con
cerned. But Qeorgiu must have an ex
hibit just the same, and the best way to
g/> about getting it, is tbe question of the
day.
The* best way to proceed about getting
up u creditable exhibit from Georgia is
to go about it ip a business-like manner.
The exhibit will have to be made by the
business men, the men in charge of the
enterprises ami industries of the state
and the producers. •
Then, let a few of the leading.business,
industrial and agricultural lights of
Georgia meet and start the ball rolling ac
tively by organising sub-committees of
similar live and active men in each conn
ty tQ pusfi tfie matter of subscriptions
from individuals and corporations; let a
few of the orators who did such gtillaiil
work on the stump tor democracy, give
their time to doing this far more benefi
cial work for the good name of the state,
and for the advertisement of its wonder
ful resources.aud oarvelous fertility.
If there is any exhibit, from Georgia, it
is evident that it must come from funds
contributed by individuals and corpora
tions; fjie state cannot giye a cent to
wards it. Then, why not get to work in
flie only field left open? Why not push
and perfect the plan of individual sub
scriptions begun some time since? Why
not be up and doing, and strive to per
fect the only plan that pow seems feas
ible.
Georgia must have a creditable exhibit.
Admitted Then why npl go about se
curing it in a husfuess-lise way?
'There is no time to waste.
A iOll.-lAU NTY FAIR.
Last week The Argus published an in
terview with Air. J. B. Spencer in which
that gentleman pointed out the great ad
vantage that an annual fair of Whittield,
Catoosa, Murray and Gordon counties
held in Dalton Would be to Dalton, to
Whittield and those surrounding coun
ties. Air. Spencer’s words were full of
sound sense and his suggestions were
more than timely. Such a fair would be
the making of this seection. Such fairs
have unable other sections that possess
by far fewer advantages and facilities to
outstretch North Georgia in the work of
development. Such' fairs have enabled
cities that were as almost nothing com
pared to Dalton, to thrive aud prosper,
ami leave Dalton behind. These facts can
notbe disputed. Then, if these fairs have
done and are doing so much for other
sectionsand other towns, why would not
they do as much for Dalton and North
Georgia. There, is no reason; they would
benefit Dalton in a similar manner.
Then, why not have them? There is no
reason, except the .apathy of those who
are expected to lead in such matters.
The Argus trusts that Mr Spencer’s
suggestion will be adopted, and that a
committee of citizens will meet wjth that
gentleman ami discuss the /natfep in a
business-like way. And meet wijfii him
at once. There is no reasop for delay,
ami every reasop for activity ju the mat
ter.
Then, meet Mr. Spencep and gef to
work at ouce. Let’s show the outside
world that we are not sleeping.
YOU CAS MAKE TIMES EASY".
The editor of the Dawsop News paper
preaches a sermon to his. readers from
the text that “the best way to make
money more plentiful and fimes easier is
for each and every man, womap and
child to spend their money witfi their
home merchants and home people; never
send off for a single thing that you can
buy at home.’ ;
Even if the price should be a few cents
higher, says tjie News, it would still be
cheaper to trade at home, for by doing so
flic money remains among us and each
One gets to handle it oflener When a
farmer brings jn syrup, turnips, potatoes,
butter, chickens, eggs and other things
produced on hjs farm, the town people
ought to buy them and pay him just ;w
much as the same things wopld cost to Jay
them down here from some other place.
No farmer should ever be* made to hijul
back home anything that l;e has brought
to town to sell. It is just as important for
the merchants to observe this rule of
buying everything at home as it is for
the farmers and other consumers to buy
at home; the rule works both ways.
This lesson is as potent to the people
of North Georgia, as it is to the people of
South west Georgia. Everything that is
needed to eat can be raise,d in Whjttield
and Aljoiping counties. We should en
courage our farmers by giving their pro
ducts the preference, and buying every
thing they produce. Our merchants
should buy all they can ipin the farmer,
and the conguifiers of Dalton, Whitfield
and adjoining counties should ’buy ev
erything they need from our local mer
chants. This plan, if followed, will not
only result in stimulating trade, but it
will stimulate our farmers to raise diver
sified crops, and produce everything we
eat.
Merchants buy from our home farmers
at good prices; you will soon get the
money hack again for merchandise of
some other kind.
Consumers, patronize our home mer
chants and industries. Yon will soon
get the money back for your produce or
your work.
By pulling together, we can make
North Georgia what it ought to be. Un
less we do pull together the next few
years, we shall go backwards.
Pull together. Merchants buy from
home producers; consumers buy from
our home merchants.
That’s the programme that will win.
In Chicago, it is reported, “gangs of
burglars, highwaymen and masked rob
bers have the citizens completely terror
ized. The police are comparatively pow
erless, ami in the suburbs good citizens
have been forced to organize vigilance
committees for sell-protection. No money
safe in the strongest building, even under
the shadow of police headquarters, is be
yond danger of a raid from the outlaws.
Ladies arc stripped of their jewelry fn
broad daylight, on reputable streets, and
peaceable citizens on their way homo
are sandbagged and murdered after
dark.” And this is the city to which we
propose to invite the Rations of the
earth next year. A pretty come olf, in
deed.
Now that the political campaign is
ov ji’, and it is settled that democracy will
soou be in power, the business men, the
live and progressive citizens, will pre
pare themselves to meet any change that
a new administration may bring about.
The people of Dalton and North Georgia
should get ready to take advantage of the
glorious era of prosperity that will soon
dawn upon us. <
When the news that the Georgia leg
islature had instructed Georgia’s repre
sentatives in congress to vote for the
anti-option law was received in New Or
leans cotton took a downward tumble.
This raises the question: “Would the
passage of the anti-option bill benefit the
farmer so much after all.
The editor of The Argus is under ob
ligations to the Atlanta Constitution for a
neatly bound copy of the letters of Hon.
Clark Ilowqll to the New York Herald
during the campaign just closed.* It is a
priceless little book, aud is indeed a val
uable memento of the greatest campaign
since the days of Bpnker Hill.
Sajj Jones is a case. He met a friend
in Madison during the session of the con
ference. ‘‘You are still sticking to Mad
ison, 1 see,” said Sam. “Yes, yes,” re
plied his frjend. ‘kAnd Madison
is still sticking to hell,” said Sam as he
moved on.
The papeyg pf Ringgold, Calhoun and
Spring Place should whoop up the four
county fair at once. Get the people in
terested and it will be a success. Whit
tield, typrray, Catoosa and Gordon coun
ties cannot afford to longer delay this
vital matter.
They will no doubt make arrangements
to away with the steam hegters in the
hall of the house of representatives.
Tom Watson, since his defeat, is hot
enopgh to heat the whole building.
Dalton will present a scene of great
activity and gaiety the next two or three
weeks. Those merchants who advertise
in The Argus will do the bulk of the
business. Remember that,
We will at all times be glad to print
the views of paltonians on any and aij
subjects, but we will not he responsible
for those vipws, unless we express our
endorsement editorially.
Next year $368,000 of Georgia’s public
debt matures. A bill has already been
introduced into the legislature author
izing the governor and stafe treasurer to
pay it off. *
Little Benny Harrison has sent his
message to congress, and jt is just such a
partisan rigamarole as the people might
expect frmn the Pigmy of the white
}iouse.
It is rather peculiar that two members
of the present general assembly should
have died of paralysis since the legisla
ture convened.
THE EIHTOR'N EANY CHAIR.
—To jud_’<* from sonyi of his writings,
you would imagine Sidney Lewis of the
Sparta Ishm.iclitc, to>,be a great big,
tierce, unfeeling fellow. But there’s
where you would make a mistake. Sid
is a small man, as gentle as a dove and
as pleasant as the taste of a young girl’s
lips. Sid has a heart in him at> big as a
bushel measure, that beats like a Water
bury watch, and is as warm as cayenne
pepper and as soft as a dude’s brains.
Sid has to write tierce in order to keep in
the middle of the road with Tommie
Watson.
—‘All our preachers are home from
the Conference, and fried chicken roosts
high once more.
—All is serene at our house, and the
matter of Christmas presents is settled
(if the bill never is). The lady who
runs our house (and us, too,) has agreed
to give us a chicken dinner on Christ
mas, ami we have promised to hustle
arouud and present her with the money
to pay for the chicken. We are now
closing out a special lot of our papers at
$1 a year.
—Frank L. Stanton is of those poets
who grow sweeter and better, brighter
and more interesting, with every poem
they write.
—The editor of the Tallapoosa Journal
writes a long-winded editorial denounc
ing whiskey cures and the several treat
ments for drunkenness. He says drunk
kenness is a disease of the brain and that
jt cannot be evred. Is this the voice of
experience, or is it mere guess work ?
—The Clarksville (Tenn.) Tobacco Leaf-
Chronicle, an old and ever welcome
friend, has bobbed up serenely among
our new exchanges. The Lvat-Chronkle
is one of the best papers in middle Ten
nessee, and what it does not know about
tobacco raising is not worth tinding out.
—Jay Gould is dead, and his wealth
will be divided. And yet —we cannot
hope to get a cent of it.
—According to the People’s Party Pa
per every attache of the Atlanta Journal
ottice, from dome to press pit, w ill be an
applicant for federal ollice under your
Lucie Grover’s administration.
—Don’t send the editor too many
Christmas turkeys. One will be enough
and—more than he expects to have.
—Tbe editor of The Argus received
an invitation to attend the great recep
tion of The Chattanooga 'Times, on the
occasion of its moving into its handsome
new quarters, on Thursday of this week.
The-'Huies’ new building is one of the
finest, best equipped newspaper offices in
the land, ami is an ornament to' Chatta
nooga; it is a living monument to the
brain and bn.wn of Mr. Adolph 8. Ochs,
whose ability and pluck have made the
Times what it is, and brought about the
prosperity that rendered sucji palatial
quarters possible. Success to the Times;
may it always lead the van, and be the
most prosperous, influential paper in
its section.
—Why does a rooster always turn his
head sideways and look askance through
one eye at a preacher. Why? Is he
wondering how many of his progeny
the minister lias destroyed?
—Glory, glory ! We tqo.k in 25 cents
in pure cash this week I This is an ac
tual fact, ye doubting Thomases; and if
any of the boys happen to meet qs, and
we are strutting and looking proud, they
muni overlook our haughtiness. Such
good luck never comes to an editor more
tnan once in a litelime, ami it naturally
makes us feel a little stqck-up.
—A few days since, i| man named Will
iam Tucker, in Petersburg, Va., killed
himself by overeating Mr. Tucker
should have joined the editorial pro
fession, and thus avoided all danger
ot ever being overfed. The editor is
rarely tempted to indulge in overeating.
Wrench is getting out a bright little
daily in Brunsvyiclc. Aud it gets better
ami looks more prosperous with each
supcessive issue.
—The man who loves money never
goes to hell. Hell comes to him by his
own invitation, and fie hugs it closer and
closer to his bosom every day.
Our devil is incorrigible. Last week
we paid $6 (borrowed money) for a pair
of new rollers, and yesterday while we
were standing out on the street waiting
for some one to pome along and ask us
out to dinner, he ate up one of those
rollers; and when we kicked he told us
he was obliged to eat, even if we would
nqf pay him his last seven years’ wages.
Now is the time to subscribe arid help us
get a new roller.
—Ellington, of the Ellijay Courier,
still sticks to the venerable “Guess Who”
column. Ellington believes in antiques.
—The Rome Tribune says: “Those
who haye been to the World’s fair usuals
ly come away with the dread of being
called liars.” Well, well) the World’s
fair is in progress and all the rest of us
have been imagining that it did not be
gin until next year!
—The Chattanooga
. says the Chattanooga Weekly News is
“the best weekly published in the
Unjted titales;” Modest;
—Fur years tbe Macon Evening News
jogged along one of the dullest soft of
papers, with no feature of prominence
except the disposition to purloin the
news and editorials of other papers, but
since it has passed iuto Hal Mo,ore’s
hands it has taken on new life, and is
now one of the best afternoon papers in
the country It hikes both tbe Associated
Press and United Press, and is reaching
out to become the leading paper of
Macon and that section of the state. And
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it bi<ls fair to succeed in its ambition ; t
an early day.
—A new version of scripture—TU*,
appetite ye editor always lias with |
—Mr. W. M. Bearden,
poet laureate, is now doing ihe editorial
work on the Chattanooga News. Mr.
BJarden is a clear-cut scholar, a conscien
tious gentleman in every respect, and is
a valuable acquisition to the News.
—The Fort Valley Leader, in its lapt;
issue, “nominates” Adlai Stevenson for
president in 1896. The Leader should
coniine itself to seconding Adlai’s nomi
nation for president in 189(1, as he has
already been “nominated” by scores of
papers “from Dan to Beersheba.”
—Si Hawkins, of the Covington En
terpri.se, does not profess to deck fiiin
selt out in passementerie and jrills and
furbelows. Just listen at him: “Wanted
—a yonng lady who- can run a typo
writer without running the editor
We know we are not pretty, and some
times go around with our suspenders
down and our shoes oft', if our corns
hurt, but that’s out own business. Tins
is>a snap for some quiet, considerate girl
who ain’t afraid of home made socks and
hd whiskers.”
A 1’1»K ECI ATER CO M PEI M ENTS.
—Well, Shaver has I>een beard from '
and he is still on his feet. He is editing ‘
The Dalton (Ga.) Argus, and is mai'B||
that p:i|MT sparkle like the Chattani
News in the days gone by.—darksraHU
(Tenn.) Tobacco Leaf-Chronicle.
—The Dalton Argus came out m its |
new dress last week, and is a hummer., |
The people of Dalton and Whitfield J
pounty should give tv’J.tw
support.—Spring Place Jiipplccute.
—The “Edjtm’s Easy Chair” is doing
good work for 'Uhe Dauton Argus. The
phair is of the latest improved patent,,
and writes with the greatest ease on all
subjects. —Atlanta Constitution.
—The D.Ai TqN Argus, under the edi- '
forial management of A. IL Slkaver, ia
one of the I>est papers hi GeorgiX Dal
ton has ior years been in nets! of ;
class weekly paper and she haR,
and should sustain it with libySral patron
age. As long as Shaver re/iains in con
trol old-fogyism will have to step to the
rear. —Douglasville New South.
To the Voters of Whittield County,
I am again a candidate for re-election
to the office of county treasurer, and ask;
my friends in the county to give me
their support in January. 1 Rope to carry
the county by as large a majority as
Grover Cleveland did in tire presidential
election. lam for low tarifi, and want
the revenue laws repealed, and am for
more money, so I will not be under the
necessity of borrowing money to pay
the jurors in the future as I have
the past. Yours respectfully,
L. W.
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Certificate 5
We seldom publish certificates, Otc., bnt th»
following is one of letters that kre received
daily:
New La.. Oct. IVllb IHMk
Dear Afxr Josie: —I write to let you
how broud we all are that Mamma is '
walking about. You know she hiy! not
a step since I was a IjaVv, and 1 ?.rn now
years bld. Somebody brought us People s -JT
voeate that had an y.*l\ei lisement in it ol S< ?T'
day to I-m Atlanta, Gil:, tliui could cure any
ease. and we wrote id him and g<x sonte utem*
clue sind spe took it. she began ;o wild rignt
away; ana now says she is well -after she hw
thed ull tin doctors and all medicines sue
could get. She says sue wjsbeseVMyb*>dy lliai ,
real bad off would’ send to him. 1 don't r . vU ‘ e ,,!»**
tier the full name, but it had Bacterio in d
was at North iM-imd street. Atlanta. Ga.
ma says site is coining to see ypii in the stum 11 ?™
Write awn, Your N'eii'e;
Mary