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THE DALTON ARGUS.
WATtmPAYf JAMIABT
A. H. SHAVER, * - - ~EDITOR.
J. B. STERN, - BUSINESS MANAGER.
Entered at the in Dalton, Ga , a*
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Double the Circulation of Any
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DO YOU GET YOUR PAPER?
Thk Arovs will take it aa a favor if any and all
of it* subacribers, who do not get their paper
regularly, or fail to get any issue of it, will
promptly report the matterat this office, and we
will have the matter regulated and ferret our
where the blame lies. Bear in mind that we
want to give you a good paper (your money’s
worth) and Dial we want you to have it regularly.
Report to us whenever you fail to get your paper.
The world’s fair exhibit business
seems to have petered out in Georgia.
Why don’t our city fathers give the
Dalton police uniforms? They certainly
need them.
Ben Butler died worth $7,000,000,
and the Atlanta Constitution says this
does not include spoons.
Let every num in arrears to The Argus
for subscription step us and tell us when
he will pay—if he is not able to pay just
now.
To tackle two such able and useful
men as Drs. Hawthorne and Candler
comes very near being “monkey ing with
a buzz saw.”
The sale of the Soldier’s Home, which
has been ordered by its trustees, is an
eternal shame upon the state. Only that
and nothing less.
The weather ot the past week even
chilled the Baron Munchausen propen
sities of the oldest inhabitant. And that's
one good turn it did us.
Rutherford B.Hayesisdead—the only
man who ever tilled the president’s chair
of these United States when another
man had been elected to that office.
The first man in Dalton who begins
the manufacture or sale of home-made
tobacco, will eventually amass a mam
moth fortune. Mark that prediction.
Don’t stand around and say what you
would do and what you wouldn’t do.
Put your shoulder to the wheel and help
your mayor and aidermen build us your
town.
Sid Lewis, of the Sparta Ishmaelite,
says: “The third partyites cursed too
much to catch good fish.” Sid is right.
They have all along used the wrong kind
of bait.
Mrs. Lease has retired from the sena
torial race in Kansas. Now, if Mrs. Fel
ton would cease her attacks upon
worthy men of God, the people might be
happy yet.
Elsewhere in this issue will be found
the affidavit of the pressman of The Ar
gus. Under oath, he says the weekly
circulation of The Argus is 1,032 copies.
And he tells the truth.
Every Daltonian should form the earn
est resolve to do something this year to
benefit the town —even if it be a widow’s
mite. Every little helps, and “many a
mickle makes a muckle.”
The republicans are still trying to buy
a United States senator both in Kansas
and in Nebraska. They lack a majority
in each state, but as usual they have an
abiding faith in boodle.
The December bulletin of the Georgia
experiment station treats of tiie subject
of tobacco culture. Any farmer can get
it free by sending his address to R. J.
Redding, Experiment, Ga.
Sunday night and Monday morning
beat the Dalton record for cold weather.
The thermometer was from one degree
above to one degree below zero in various
neighborhoods about Dalton.
Cardinal NJoran, Archbishop of Sid
ney, made a vow early in life that he
would never willingly look in the face of
a woman. He must have had a bad ex
perience at home when young. A sen
sible man should know that everything
he says against woman is first of all a re
flection upon his owu mother and sis
ters.
HEI.P TIIE «OI’N<TE.
Dalton has a mayor and a board of ai
dermen of whom she is proud—all repre
sentative men, hiul all men with clear
heads and practical ideas. They are men
who can. and who will do much for Dal
ton’s advancement during the coming
year. Under their guidance the affairs
of the city may be expected to prosper,
and the city’s material prosperity be ad
vanced to the furthest possible notch.
But the mayor and councilmen cannot
do everything —they cannot make a large
and prosperous city out of Dalton all by
themselves. They must have the earn
est co-operation of the citizens. It is the
duty of every citizen of Dalton to do
ev< rything he can for the good of his
city; it his duty to help the city fathers
and to encourage them in their efforts to
build up the town. And we hope to see
them doing their duty m this respect.
lal the year 1893 mark a new era in
Dalton; let it show a united people—no
rings, no factions—and a united effort for
the general good.
Dalton has been held back too long by
u lack of united effort upon the part of
its people. Let there be no more of
this. Get together and pull together,
and help the council you have elected to
push the city forward.
Put the city’s good ahead of your
likes and dislikes, lend a helping hand,
and all will be well. We have an able
council, a zealous, an enterprising coun
cil, but they need your help in improv
ing your city.
OUTLOOK FOR A TOBACCO CRD I*.
The fanners of the “Chattanooga dis
trict” are at last turning their attention
to the cultivation of tobacco, and we be
lieve they are doing a wise thing. The
history of those* sections raising tobacco
as a market crop is very encouraging to
the tobacco raiser of this section, and
the prosperity of the towns and cities in
the tobacco raising sections is very prom
ising for both Chattanooga and Dalton.
And Dalton should do everything it can
to encourage the cultivation of tobacco
in the surrounding country. It will do
little good to Dalton that tobacco is culti
vated in Whitfield, Murray, Catoosa and
Gordon, if it has to seek a market in
Chattanooga. Dalton in that event,
would go backward and not forward.
It is now estimated that fully 5,000
acres will be planted in tobacco in the
Chattanooga district. Os this large
acreage, North Georgia will have a fair
proportion. Every day farmers come
into The Argus office, and most of them
report that they are raising tobacco this
year—some more, some less; if not the
most of them, fully one-half. This
means that these men will have tobacco
to sell this fall. Where shall they sell it?
In Dalton or in Chattanooga? That
question must be decided by Dalton, and
can alone be decided by Dalton.
The Argus is of the opinion that the
cultivation of tobacco marss a new era
of prosperity for North Georgia, and it
will equally benefit Dalton, if Dalton will
see to it that she is made a tobacco mar
ket, and a tobacco manufacturing centre.
There is no reason why Dalton should
not become a second Danville, Va. All
that it is necessary for Dalton to do, is to
encourage the cultivation of tobacco, and
to prepare to avail herself of its produc
tion around her.
There are those who will say that we
are putting the cart before the horse —
advising the establishment of a market
before the crop is raised. In a measure,
that is so. But more tobacco is being
raised in these parts than you have any
idea of; and the man who is always too
soon is never too late, but the man who
is too late is never reckoned iu the listk
KOASTI MG BBS Bl TIER.
The papers generally are roasting Gen.
B. F. Butler now that he is dead, as they
did while he was living, and the most of
them agree that Mr. Butler himself is
doing some roasting just at this present
time. Some redhot eulogies (?) of Ben
Butler have appeared, but none of them
equal the utterances of Walter Cain, ed
tor of the Nashville American. Os Gen
eral Butler’s death, Mr. Cain said:
Old Ben Butler is dead! Early yester
day morning the angel of death, acting
under the devil’s orders, took him from
earth ami landed him in hell. In all this
southern country there are no tears, no
sighs and no regrets. He lived only too
long. We are glad he has at last been
removed from earth ami even pity the
devil the possession he has secured.
If there is a future of peace in store for
Ben Butler, after his entrance upon eter
nity, then there is no heaven and the
Bible is a lie. If hell be only as black as
the good book describes it,then there are
not the degrees of punishment in which
some Christians so fii mly believe. He
has gone, and from the sentence which
lias already been passed upon him there
is no appeal. He is already so deep down
iu the pit of everlasting doom that he
could get the most powerful ear trumpet
conceivable to scientists and hear the
echo of old Gabriel’s trumpet, or 11 v a
million kites and get a message to St.
THE ARGUS; DALTON, GA., SATURDAY. JANUARY 21,1893.
Peter, who stands guard at heaven’s
gate.
Os course, such utterances are in very
bad taste, to say nothing of their wick
e Iness, but Gen. Butler did not seem to
care for abuse while living, and we do
not suppose he will worry much about
it now. If ever a man did get used to
abuse and affront while on earth, Butler
w as certainly that man.
The editorial ot the Nashville Ameri
can brings back to our minds an incident
in Washington high life that created
quite a sensation some years ago. A
southern lady attended a reception in
that city, and was promenading on the
arm of Chief Justice Chase. Gen. Butler
walked up and asked her to give him a
japonica which she was toying in her
band. She looked at him a moment,
threw the flower to the floor, crushed it
beneath her foot, and said: “Excuse me,
sir, but that was a flower; not a silver
spoon.” Then turning to Chief Justice
Chase, she apologized to him and burst
into tears, saying she felt so hurt that she
could not refrain from replying as she
did to the enemy of her people.
Gen. Butler had a tough time of it
when he came in contact with true blue
southern democrats in life, and if he
finds any where he has gone, he will,
no doubt, meet with a few more such re
buffs.
We believe in the old Latin “de mor
tuis nil nisi bonum,” and as we know of
nothing good to say about Gen. Butler,
we will let the old man rest where the
good Lord has put him —be it in hell or
heaven.
STAY AT HOME AND WORK.
_ •
The opinion of Col. T. R. Jones, of.
Dalton, expressed in a northern paper at
the time of Arthur’s inauguration (which
opinion was to the effect that a republi
can administration was beneficial to the
south in a measure, because the young
men of the south instead of running off
to Washington to hunt office by federal
appointment would stay at home and
help develop the south’s resources), is
again impressed upon our attention by
the following piece of wholesome ad
vice taken from the columns of Harper’s
Weekly: “No one who has not summered
and wintered at Washington, who has
not been in at the beginning of an ad
ministration, can possibly realize the ter
rible hunger for office that afflicts many
of our fellow countrymen. To all young
men who contemplate a journey to
Washington for the purpose of securing
employment the best advice is, don’t.
The humblest situation in a mercantile
house, where the pecuniary reward is
small, where the hours are long, and
where the labor is hard, is better in the
end than a government workshop.”
In speaking of this piece of advice, the
Knoxville (Tenn.) Tribune says:
This advice is in accord with that of
every experienced politician who is
acquainted with department life in Wash
ington. The young man who secures a
clerkship in the Government service loses
to a large degree what energy, self-reli
ance and independence he may have pos
sessed, and becomes a creature subject to
the caprices of his superiors to whom he
must pay obsequious allegiance. There
are few goverement positions especially
clerkships in the departments, that are
inviting to a young man of independence.
Once having sought and obtained a posi
tion, it is never secure, and in the best
there is little chance, or at least probabil
ity of saving any money. It is a servile
life, not at all inviting to the young man
of independence, ambition and self-reli
ance. Once having held office the ener
gy one might otherwise possess deserts
him, and when he loses his position and
is.forced to seek other means of livelihood
he is handicapped by a lack of energy
and “hustle” and is often a failure in life.
There is not much wisdom, energy or
force in a young man who is willing to
spend the best vears of his life in a Gov
ernment clerkship.
The Argus feels impelled to emphasize
these truths and to warn the young men
of North Georgia to give the government
clerkships a wide berth. You can make
nothing out of them, and you consign
yourself to a life of slavery when you ac
cept one of them.
Stick to the farm, the workshop and
the store. You can make a failure of life
at best, if you allow love of office to make
a fool of you.
In a recent libel suit out west the court
held that the word “hornswoggle” did
not mean to rob; that you could say a
man “hornswoggled” you out of money
and not be liable for libel. The delin
quent had best look out; we will be call
ing him a “hornswoggler” the first thing
he knows.
The papers are telling of a man in
England whose special hobby is liquor.
On one occasion he had a huge basin
constructed in his garden and covered,
with a canopy to keep out the rain.
This basin was intended for a punch
bowl, and it was the largest the world
ever saw. In it were mingled four hogs
heads of brandy, eight barrels of water
25,000 lemons, twenty gallons of lime
juice, 1,300 pounds of sugar, 300 toasted
biscuits, five pounds of grated nutmeg
and a pipe of old Malaga wine. Ibis is
a good hint for the consideration of the
various press association committees
when arranging for their annual gather
ings. It would be an improvement on
the present dispensary plan.
They are trying to make Gov. Northen
president of Mercer University, Macon,
Ga. A most excellent idea. Gov. Nor
then is a born teacher, with the best and
most thorough training, and it is an
honor even to a Governor to lie presi
dent of such an institution. Gov. Nor
then would be of more value to his
generation as president of Mercer than in
all the political arenas of the world.
And then, with Wm. J. Northen as pres
ident of Mercer and Warren A. Candler
as president of Oxford, the Baptist and
Methodist youths would be in the safest
of hands.
McGowan of the Chattanooga Times
says: “Sam Small says we must have
had a jag on when we saw the comet.
Well, we didn’t see the comet. Sam,
however, being a man of experience in
the matter of jags, we may be mistaken
as to whether we were jagless when
somebody else saw the comet. The last
time we saw Sam he was sober.” Now*
look oilt for squalls—small squalls, as it
were. _________
The northern papers howl about the
crime that goes unpunished in the south,
and then publish accounts of a Massa
chusetts man who was sent to the peni
tentiary for four years for murdering his
mother. When the north rebukes crime in
such stentorian tones as that, it is, in
deed, time that she rebuke the south that
hangs the matricide on the spot.
Steve Ryan is out of jail. The old
saying about justice being blind is true —
blind to overwhelming evidence, but ca
pable of distinguishing a rich man from
a poor man. But where do Ryan’s cred
itors come in? In the soup tureen?
As all the other editors of the state
have registered a little joke about the
Columbian postage stamp being a big
thing to lick, we forbear. There is such
a thing as taxing even the patience of
the people a little too far.
It is Said that the young lady athlete
from Boston who delights Philadelphia
audiences by kicking a tambourine six
feet eight inches from the ground, exhib
its her skill only to audiences of women.
We hope so.
THE EDITOR’S EASY CHAIR.
—An accident on the East Tennessee
road delayed the arrival of the Atlanta
Constitution several hours last
Monday and Tuesday, and the
whole town went in mourning.
Daltonians cannot do without the old
reliable Constitution a minute.
—There’s many a delinquent slip be
tween the subscription cup and the ed
itorial lip.
—The 2-weeks-old Shellman Graphic,
edited by J. E. Twitty, bobs up serenely
among our exchanges. It is a bright,
pretty, laughing baby boy, and we wish
it a happy boyhood and prosperous man
hood.
—The wife of an Ohio editor the other
day gave birth to her twenty-fourth
child. Among the lot are five sets of
twins. All the children are living,and liv
ing on the old man. And the Ohio edi
tor still lives. It is very, very hard to
kill an editor.
—Tom McKinney is making the Blue
Ridge Post brighter and newsier than
ever.
—Money can be in circulation a long
time and a poor, one-gallus editor never
know it. We stepped into the bank a
few days since (as we often do to take a
look around and keep familiar with the
appearance of money, so as to be able to
recognize it if we should ever meet it).
We saw a new coin,and asked the cashier
to let us examine it. It was pretty, and we
asked him when this new style coin had
come into use, stating that it was the first
one like it we had ever seen. “Oh,” he
carelessly replied, “they have been in
use a iittle over a year now.” The
crowd laughed, and we sneaked back to
our den.
—The able and sprightly Knoxville,
Tennessee, Tribune is among our wel
come new exchanges.
—All country editors are not great pol
iticians, but yet, when it comes to work
ing the old “G. Washington,” they all
have strong pulls. .
—We need a new joint of stove pipe.
Will some delinquent please respond?
—The Franklin News and Banner,
Heard county’s bright paper, comes to
us with a request for exchange, which
request we gladly grant. For
we like both Editor and Editress Mc-
Cutchen, and like to read after “hand
some McCutchen” and his hondsomer
sister.
—Editor W. 11. Griffin, of the Obion
Democrat, Union City, Tennessee, has
been selected as messenger to carry the
official returns of that state to Washing
ton. A good selection; for, as Tatom says,
Editor Griffin’s democracy is all wool and
a yard wide, and be has long been a
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steward in good standing in the Demo
cratic Church. He is a Democrat in
principle, a Kpight of Pythias in prac
tice and a Baptist in religion, and the
man who is so reckless as to say anything
against either of those excellent organ
izations in his presence is breeding a
fight.
—Our circulation continues to in
crease, and we are getting happier and
happier.
—The fools are not all dead yet. A
North Alabama editor, as a joke(?), tele
graphed a Birmingham paper that he
was dead. And now his creditors have
scooped down upon his office from all A
quarters of the globe and they make him <
wishlie was dead.
—That is the bell,
That sounds so well,
Because, you sinner,
It calls to dinner.
—Hon. Adolph S. Ochs, of the Chat
tanooga Times, has been the recipient of
a handsome testimonial at the hands of
the members of the Southern Associated
Press, for the valuable services be has
rendered them in bringing them under,
the thralldom of the New York Asso
ciated ring. It is in the shape of a mas
sive and handsome silver cup, fitly en
graved and inscribed. This is a deserved
tribute to a deserving man. Mr. Ochs
has done the southern press a good ser
vice, and the effects of his able and zeal
ous work is seen in every daily paper in
the south of any note.
—Hal Moore is making “a gem of pur
est ray serene” of the Macon News. Hal
seems to be determined to give Macon a
live paper at last.
—Will some delinquent please step
and pay us enough on account to buy ;■
spool of thread? Our
need darning, and we have not
a darn bit of darning thread,
nor a darn cent to get anything to darn
them with. Now is the time to sub
scribe!
—Sam Small puts it: “A souvenir coin—
your last red cent.” Sam has had enough
ups and downs in the business to know
by experience what a man’s last red cen t
is, to be sure.
—The Chattanooga News has discon
tinued its Sunday edition for purely bus
ness reasons. It did not pay the fiddler
—ls Sid Lewis twice as large as Sterl
ing Roberts? At the top of the editorial \
page of the Sparta Ishmaelite Sid’s I
name as editor appears in pica, while
Sterling’s name as business manager is
tacked on in nonpareil like the tail of
a kite. It looks funny.
—The Flow’ery Branch Journal is ndl
more. Editor Smith has moved his ouH
fit to Roswell and will print a paper
there. Like Jack Majors, Brother Smith
is of the opinion that it is cheaper to
move to a good town than to starve to
death.
—The Lord loveth the man who
planks down a dollar and says: “Send
me the paper, and w hen my subscription
is out, 1 will call and pay again.” And
the editor cannot find it in his heart to
despise those whom the Lord loveth.
—Stanton asks: “Does any editor in
the state know the whereabouts of Sam
Whitmire?” Did Stanton ever hear that
sad refrain: “Down on the Old Man’s
Farm?”
—Editor Hale, of Conyers, is playing
in hard luck: Hear him: “We lost a
subscriber this week because we refused
to take a three-legged cur dog on sub
scription. We don’t mind taking a dog
occasionally, but we be dinged if he
musn’t have four legs.”
APPEECTATED COMPLIMENTS.
—Shaver is making The Dalton ArgulT
a real live and useful weekly. Pity more
southern weekly managers don’t “do the
act” right with their papers.—Chattanoo
ga Times.
—The last issue of The Dalton Argus
was decidedly the best that the publish
ers have ever gotten out It was news
from the first to the last column, and
news served in the most readable and
attractive shape. It will be hard for
Shaver to surpass that issue.—Atlanta
Constitution.
—J. B. Stern, of that bright paj>er, Tiie
Dalton Argus, is in the city on busi
ness connected with his flourishing
paper. We have frequently referred to
the value of The Argus as a newspaper
and advertising medium. It is first-class
in all respects, and much of the credit of
its success belongs to Mr. Stern. —
stitution.