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A H. 'SHAVER, • EDITOR.
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Double the Circulation of Any
Paper in Whitfield County.
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DO >ol UET %OI K PAPER?
Tltr \Kot's will take it us u favor if any and ull
ol its aubacriber*. who do not get their paper
regularly, or fail to get" any issue' of it, will
promptly report the matter at this office, and we
will hate the mutter regulated and ferret our
where the blame lies. Beat in mind that we
want to give you a good paper (your money’s
worth) and that we want you to have it regularly.
Report to us whenever you fail to get your pajier.
Wonderful Growth.
August 1, 1892, when J. B. Stern
itought The Argus, its circulation
numbered
4.82 Copies!
November 14th, 1892, when The
Argus passed into the hands of
Shaver A’ Stern, in printed
624 Copies!
lX?c6mber 24th. 1892. according
to the aflidavit X)f J. B, Stern, its
circulation numbered
960 Copies !
January 14th, 1893, according to
the aflidavit of its pressman, its
weekly circulation numbered
1,0.32 Copies!
And it is still climbing upward, and
will print 2,000 copies each week
before the year 1893 is out.
Help build up Dalton!
Let every citizen of Dalton have a good
word to say for his town.
Mr. Cleveland by his wise and dig- <
niiied silence still keeps the cabinet <
makers frantic.
The women are talking again about
adopting the hoopskirt. May the Lord
have merev on them!
• . ,
THe winter meeting of the Georgia ,
State Agricultural society convenes iu (
Columbus next Wednesday, the tfth inst.
The organ and the upright piano are
said to be far more tnodest than the 1
square and the grand. They never ex
pose their legs to view.
Mrs. Feeton has subsided, and Dre.
Hawthorne and Candler still expound
the Word of God at the same old places,
j n the same able and devout manner.
Talk about Dalton having had cold
weather! Why, out in Wisconsin the
mercury froze in the thermoinete? tubes,
and they could not tell how cold it really
was!
Chattanooga is In a stew over several
charter amendment bills. Chattanooga
is obliged to have her stew, and it might
as well be oyer this question as over any
other.
Special attention is called to the ad
dress of Mrs. Lizzie Carrie Daniel, of
Richmond, Va., on the Confederate Mu
seum. Every southern man and woman
should read it.
Justice Lamar’s funeral was the
largest ever seen in Macon. And well it
should have been; and thousands attend
ed it in spirit and iu grief who were
hundreds of miles away.
People who desire* their communica
tions published in The Argus must!
accompany them with their real names,
as an evidence of good faith with the
editor. Henceforth, no other kind will
find their way iwte-tlmsd colum'nsT
Says a contemporary: “An old maid
in New Jersey fainted when she was
told that in the process of the manufac
ture of champagne the grapes were
squeezed six times.” It was no doubt
the recollection of her happy girlhood
experiences .that floored her.
HOW TO HELP O ALTON.
• Dalton is l*eginniug to feel some of the
good effects of the prosperous era that
everylnxly in saying insure to come. Dal
ton is feeling it, because the eyes of the
1 country are turned in this direction, and
Dalton cannot wholly eseaj>e; her nat
ural ad vantages attract where they be
come known. Dalton is feeling the
eths-ts of tlie good times coming in a
small way; she would soon feel them
in a large way, if she would make the
prosier effort.
Lately Dalton has received several val
uable additions to her citizenship, and
others are corresponding with Daltonians
looking towards locating here. It is a
fact worthy of note, that none of these
people have failed to locate in Dalton
after Dalton’s advantages had been
shown them. As soon as they saw Dal
ton, they were attracted by it, and the
result is they have moved here.
The lesson of all this is plain. It is
Dalton’s duty to advertise herself, and
advertise herself in such away as to
bring herself directly before the eyes of
the capitalist seeking investment, of
those seeking health, of the man seeking
a pleasant home and profitable business
among a goodly people. That is the way
to feel the good effects of the good times
coming on a large scale. And that is the
only way.
Dalton should advertise ler self, and
the public-spirited men of the city
should see that this is done at an early
day, and done systematically. There is
no benefit in cheap, clap-trap advertising
dodges and pamphlets descriptive of the
town. Boom towns with town lots with
out number, inhabited alone by frogs
ami tadpoles, abound in such advertis
ing schemes, and moneyed men and
outside world generally do not pay much
attention to them.
The best way to advertise your town
is to exhibit one of its live enterprist's—
support and circulate a paper that repre
sents a live and thrifty community; ad
vertise in it, subscrilte 10 it, and send it |
off to all quarters of the globe; by read
ing your paper, if your paper represents
your town, money ami people will be
attracted this way ami your town will 1
double its present size in five years. ;
Those are facts that there is no getting
around. Your paper is an index to your
town; the world will see what you are
by seeing your paper.
Bear these facts well in mind.
ME agree after all.
7~ I
In another column of this issue willl»e
found a card from a school teacher at ,
Fillmore, taking,exeeptions at a remark
of the editor of The Argus to the effect
that the normal training of some of the j
teachers of Georgia was not what it 1
should be. As the card originates in a
misunderstanding, there is no room for
discussion, and hardly any need of an
explanation.
The writer of the card, Jesse L. Pal
mer, himself a school teacher, empha
sizes the comment of the editor of The
Argus by declaring that, “Os course, !
there are some incompetent persons in .
this profession, as in every other, but
they are dropping out, as they necessa
rily must.”
That’s it. That’s what The Argus |
said. The teachers of Georgia need
every advantage of normal training, so ,
as to remove Georgia from w here she has J
been placed by the census—among “the
most illiterate states of the union.”
For the teachers of Whitfield The
Argus has sympathy and respect; as a
rule they are as good as can be found
anywhere; they labor dilligently and
conscientiously, and do a good work.
And for them The Argus has always a
helping hand. •
However, it is to their interests, 'as
well as the interest of the parents and
scholars, to have the incompetents
weeded out, or made coinpetenta Surely,
there can be no discussion on this
point.
"MH I'll Elf N SELF-HELP.”
The Chattanooga Tradesman says:
One of the encouraging signs of future
prosperity in the south, of amarked char
acter, is the general determination of
southern business guilds to take care of
their own affairs; look to home capital,
skill and energy for home development.
The Rome Tribune comments upon
the Tradesman’s remark as follows:
Self-help is the keynote of success. The
progress of the south so far has been
made by southern people. Our northern
friends are fond of calling Atlanta and
Birmingham Yankee cities. As a matter
of fact, they are nothing of the kind.
Most of their heavy w ork was done since
by Confederate soldiers. The
colonels have become captains and gen
erals of industry. Nearly all the capital
in the south was created south. That is
the true and sure way to get it.
Which is in part t'orreet. Even the
majority of Chattanooga’s industries and
business are operated by southern capi
tal. and Chattanooga has more northern
capital in its midst than any southern
THE ARGUS; DALTON, GA., SATURDAY. FEBRUARY 4. 1893.
1 town of her size. Northern capital has
-helped develop some portions of the
south, and it has been welcome and will
alwava be welcome; it has done us much
good and we should not forget that fact.
Dalton, perhaf*, has less northern cap
ital invested in its preeints than any
southern city, according to population,
and its financial backbone is as big as
the Amazon river. Its manufactories,
factories, banks and hotels are owned by
Daltonians, and it has never been the
victim of an alleged “boom." Still it
has northern capital invested here, and
northern residents among its best citi
zens. Both of which it has encouraged
and protected.
The time for such sectional boasts is
past. In the glad new era now upon us,
we have not time to ask where an in
vestor comes from; capital is capital, and
, plensy of capital will make our glorious
southland a perfect Eden of prosperity.
We should encourage capital to invest in
l our midst, welcome it. protect it, and
never insult it. It is all American money,
invested by Americans.
“THE SHORT ARTICLE.”
There is great merit jn the short story,
and greater merit in the short article,
but some of the papers and magazines
are running both in the ground. It is
more difficult to write a good short arti
cle than it is to write a long-winded one,
and probably .more people read it, but
there are occasions when the long story
is the better, and the long article the
more desirable. A happy mean would
bejto have both the long article, and the
short article, diversify the tiling and suit
every reader.
Wise and successful journalists differ
I on the question of the desirability of the
i long and the short article. One of the
most successful large metropolitan dailies
in the south (the Atlanta Constitution)
usually has some two or three hundred
paragraphs of different natures on its
j editorial page, w hile the Chattanooga
: Times, also a most successful paper,
‘ rarely ever has more than a dozen or two
paragraphs on its editorial page. Mr.
Clark Howell believes in the short arti
cle and his motto is, “Condense;” Mr.
Adolph S. Ochs believes in a full state
ment of tacts and a full argument, and
his motto is, “What is worth telling is
worth telling fully.”
Each system has its merits and demer
its. The short article often leaves the
reader still hungry for the news and tha
particulars; the long article often tires
and bores you by going too much into
details.
The press just now is discussing this
question at length, and no doubt will
soon reach the wise conclusion that
neither the long nor the short article will
do to stick to as a rule; that the success
ful journalist and the sought-for paper is
the one that varies the length of his ar
ticles according to the subject treated;
that gives the news and its opinions as
the occasion requires and the spirit
moves it; that adopts no dry rule, but
varies the length and style of its articles
to please every fancy.
That, at least, is the true solution of
the question.
The Chicago Intei'-Ocean relates this
gospel truth: “You can always judge a
town and its people by its newspaper.
Never buy town lots or land where a
a poor newspaper is published. News
papers these days are a necessity, not a
luxury. They are so cheap that the
poorest man can have them—unless he
is running a bill at the saloon. It matters
not how many city papers a man may
take, he should give an honest support
to his home paper.” Words of wisdom,
aptly spoken. A good newspaper is the
best advertisement for any town, and a
good patronage makes a good newspa
per.
We have the best city of its size in
the south right here in Dalton. Its peo
ple should advertise, lib|plly, and help
its paper to advertise it liberally. A
good paper, representing every business
in the city fully, with cards of all its
merchants and industries, is one of the
best advertisements a city can have.
That’s what we are trying to give you.
Help us by your patronage.
The Manufacturer’s Record says:
•‘What the country needs most, especial
ly the south, is public spirit in public
men. The south, being in greatest need
of development, is in greatest need of
developing forces.” A great truth! And
one that every reader of The Argus will
do well too ponder over. Are you a pub
| lie man, and do you lack public spirit?
An Illinois man by the name of
Quinby, advertised for and purchased
1 1,300 cats. He tagged them with adver
tisements of his business, turned them
loosd, and in a few hours every town
within a radius of thirty miles from Car
thage was deluged with cats advertising
Quinby's store. A novel method of ad-
vertising, to be sure; but even advertis
ing with cats is better than not advertis
ing at all. .
An exchange remarks that there are
more “original Cleveland men” in Geor
gia than any other state in the union.
And another exchange wonders that so
many who last spring dubbed Mr. Cleve
land “the tool of Wall street,” are now’
calling him “the greatest man in the
democratic party.” The thirst
causes some wonderful flops, to be sure.
Os course, they were all “original Cleve
land men,” they could not now get office
else. •
If President Harrison nominates At
torney General Miller as L. Q. C. La
mar’s successor on the supreme bench,
will the senate confirm his nomination?
When Cleveland nominated Ad lai Ste
venson as judge for the districtof Colum
bia, we believe, the majority of the pres
ent republican members of the senate
held that a defeated president had no
right to nominate any one for like offices.
Will the senate go back on its record?
Clark How ell has an able article in a
late issue of the New York Herald ou the
political situation—“ Democracy’s Oppor
tunity and Democracy’s Duty.” Mr.
Howell handles the subject in his usual
able and entertaining manner, and now
that he is again giving the Herald a
weekly’ letter the boys of the press are
expecting a w’eekly treat.
Some of our worthy contemporaries, it
strikes us, are having a deal to say about
nothing. While we believe in the
motto “De Mortins nil nisi Bonum,” still
“a rascal living is a rascal dead,” and we
see no need in extolling them to the
skies, simply because others have abused
them.
Henry Cabot Lodge’s methods of
securing his election to the United States
senate were such as might have been ex
pected of such a force bill bigot —devoid
of decency and a devotee of boodle
methods.
Robert Louis Stevenson is dying in
Samoa. When he dies the world will
lose one one of its greatest, most thrilling
writers of fiction. His loss will be
deeply deplored by’ the literary people.
The man who has made a failure in
his own affairs, is always the most pro
lific in his advice to others in regard to
their business and their investments.
Watch, and see if this is not so?
The recent cold snap dispersed the
corner loafer, but they are again back
at their tricks. Surely the police can
follow’ the good example set them by the
cold weather.
Mrs. Lease has just discovered that
the people’s party is dead. Mrs. Lease
is slow of comprehension, but she seems
to have grasped this great truth at
last.
The Atlanta Constitution very prop
erly remarks; “Dr. Warren Candler is
doing a brave and grand work at Emory
for God and the state.”
The conceited man should remember
that the best people are all dead, and by
so doing avoid the otherwise certain visit
of the fool-killer.
Americans chewed eighty-five tons of
tobacco last year, and yet there some
people who eschew chewing, even as
popular as it is.
When are the city fathers going to
uniform Dalton’s police?
Pull together for Dalton 1 Don’t be
bull-necked steers!
THE EDITOR’S EASY CHAIR.
—The darkest hour is just before the
dawn. Last week dur meal bag was
empty and starvation stared us in the
face. But Sunday’ a kind friend sent us
a box of spare-ribs, backbones, sausage
and pig’s feet, and we have been
eating ever since. We have, by this
providential charity, been enabled to live
yet a little w hile longer and get out
another issue. Will the delinquents
please walk up and help us get out still
another issue?
—lt is rumored that a new morning
paper will be started in Savannah wfth
a capital of $125,000. It is to be hoped
that it will instill new life into that
sleepy old affair, the Morning News.
And now they advertise “cut rate
coffins.” The next thing editors will be
offering them as premiums to club sub
scribers.
—The old reliable Elberton Star is
among our new exchanges. As of old, it
is prosperous looking and well edited.
—His tired face was cold and wan,
His eyes were red as a cinder;
The tomcat again howled "amen,”
And the whisk flew through the window.
—The cash subscriber and the liberal
advertiser occupy places of honor in the
New Jerusalem! The delinquent goes
to —well, ask Dr. Hawthorne where the
delinquent goes.
—W. G McNelley is again at his old
post on the Dahlonega Nugget, and we
gladly welcome his bright and newsy
paper to our exchange table.
—They are of starting a reli-
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gious daily in San Francisco, California.
Os course all weekly editors are religious,
but we can’t understand how they will
ever find a religious man to edit a daily.
It is beyond our comprehension. We
have never seen one.
—Phil Byrd, of the Rome Hustler,
boasts that he always squeezes the girls
when he insists upon enjoying that,
privilege. Phil must be a gay bird, and
Rome must be a gay town.
—Meat has gone up, and so have we,
because it is no longer within our reach.
$1 a year.
—The editor of the Albany News and
Advertiser says: “The harder we work
the sweeter our bread is.” Perhaps if
our brother would work a little harder
still, he might run across a little meat.
—Heartsell,of the Spring Place Jimple
cute, is happy. Hear him: “Spring Place
is in it. We’ve got plenty of wild eat
whiskey and the natives fatten their
hogs on still slop.” *
—Michael Davitt says he lost $8,750
running a newspaper. Davitt got off
light.
—A doctor charges you $2 a visit;
writes a prescription and his work is
over. The editor pays you fifty-two
visits, writes a string of copy a million
miles long, and works all the time; and
all for $1 a year. Now is the time to sub
scribe!
—The Hustler and the Tribune of
Rome are about to tear out eqch others’
eVes over a newspaper cut that belonged
to a third party. We have seen news
paper rows before, but this one takes the
cake.
—Sid Lewis is aghast because the Con
stitution found something in the Ish
maelite to copy, apd forgot to credit him
with it. If Sid would put in big news
items oftener, he would soon vet used to
this sort of thing in all the big dailies.
However it is a compliment to Sid’s
news service, ami he should not get riled
at that sort of thing.
—The Perry Home-Journal bobs up
serenely among our exchanges. The
Home-Journal has always been Houston
county’s leading paper, and Editor
Hodges holds it ftp to its high standard.
—People have, been known to catch
disease from touching the bacteria found
on paper money, and to die from the
effect. The wise delinquent will avoid
such danger by giving the editor his rag
money. We are not brave, but we are
willing to run such a risk to accommo
date a delinquent.
—The editor of the Buford Gazette
offers free tuition for a whole year to the
boy or girl who gets him ten new sub
scribers. But he fails to say what he
will teach them—whether to possess
their souls in patience and starve quietly;
or whether to hustle around and
raise cordwood and potatoes.
—Mr. U. M. Furlow has sold his inter
est in The Madison Manisonian to Mr.
Candler. Mr. Candler is a bright, capa
ble young man, and will make the always
newsy and sparkling Madisonian still
more so.
—Sam Small perpetrates th is good one:
“Amelie Rives is writing a book
Hotter than any of those
With which she yet has made us blush
And hold our righteous nose—
So call the fire department out
And tell Vm— 'Turn on the hose !’ ”
—The Spring Place Jimplecute slanders
us thus: “The news has reached us that
Shaver," of The Dalton Argus, has
struck it rich. During the snow he
caught two rabbits and a ground hog and
found a souvenir half-dollar.” Heartsell
does us proud, but he forgets that we
are not mayor and cannot make violators
of the law pony up the jack rabbit. We
have to catch our own rabbits.
APPRECIATED COMPLIMENTS.
—Brother Shaver has easily entered
The Dalton Argus among the leading
weeklies of the state. —Ringgold New
South.
—Shaver & Stern are receiving many
nice notices from the press, but not more
than they deserve, for they are getting
out the liest reading matter of any paper
published in Georgia. —Spring Place
Jimplecute.
—The Dalton Argus is “getting there
with both feet” —and It has a good pair
of feet, too. Wtth Shaver as chief quill
driver and Stern managing the business
end, The Argus has a walk-over. —Cedar-
town Standard.