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Interesting News.
FOB THE
LADIES!
A small Embroidery
purchase by
LOVEMAN.
We have purchased 432
yards of EMBROIDERS,
divided into pieces of 41
yards each. 10 cents a yard
would be cheap for them,
but we offer the 4| yards for
only 35 Cents.
Such a BARGAIN as
this is a surprise even
to us.
OTHER
EMBROIDERIES
in all widths and lengths, at
the very lowest of prices.
Lovely new Valenciennes
Lace Edging and Insertion
at 20, 25 and 35 Cents
per bolt.
Elegant new Black Cre
pons, 45 inches wide,
$1.50 per yard.
I
Forty-two inch Crepon,
$1.25 per yard. !
Colored Crepons at
50c. per yard.
Excellent quality Table i
Linen, 64 inches wide, worth
75 cents,
only soc. per yard.
Turkey red Table Cloths,
full size, 75 cents.
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HOSIERY.
X .
A brand new lot of
Ladies’ and Children’s Hos
iery just received. We be
lieve we have the largest and
most complete Hosiery De
partment in Dalton. We
offer a Ladies’ GOthread Lisle
finish black Hose for 15c;
cannot be bought elsewhere
for less than 25c. Lovely
quality Lisle black drop
stitch Hose,
at 35 and 50 Cents pair.
Boys’ Ribbed Hose —
extra strong and durable,
15 and 25 cents, worth
double the price.
wim moim
LINEN HANDKERCHIEFS, 25c.
Excellent values in 5,
10 and 15 cent plain White
Handkerchiefs.
Keep Coming,
to see ns. We want to
have always a complete and
attractive line of goods to
show you.
LOVIM'S
THE DALTON ARGUS, SATURDAY, JULY 29, 1899.
FOURTH ESTATE AFTERMATH.
“The Aftermath of September is Not the Sweet Clover of Juue,” but it
is Quite as Necessary—Some Incidents of the Recent Press
Gang’s Dublin Convention and Outing at Tybee.
One of the most pleasant features
of the editor’s recent trip was the
presence at Tybee for a couple of
days of that genial, cultured gentle
man and prince of good fellows, Edi
tor Tom Loyless,of the Macon News.
There’s no nicer gentleman anywhere
than Tom, and although he has tem
porarily retired from the newspaper
business, and is now working in the
i interest of the Macon Carnival, he
still retains bis wonderful popularity
among the boys, and we all did w'hat
we could both to make him enjoy
his stay and to enjoy his company.
Yes, indeed, one of the sweetest feat
ures of the whole trip was Tom’s de
lightful presence at Tybee.
One of the regrets of the trip was
my failure to see Hon. Fleming du
Bignon in Savannah. I called at his
office twice—once he was in Atlanta;
the second time he had returned and
gone again on a business trip to New
York. I didn’t feel like I had really
been to Savannah; but I made the
best of my disappointment, and en
joyed the company of the other
choice spirits I met there.
» •
A pleasant meeting in Dublin was
that of my party with Miss Carrie
Horne, who was visiting the family
of Capt. L. Q. Stubbs there. Miss
Horne went up the Oconee on the
“City of Dublin” and came back on
the Gypsy, as did my party, but she
was so surrounded by tiie gallant ed
itors and Dublin beaux that it was
hard to get even a sight of her. Site
will return home next week with
many new scalps dangling at her
belt.
* *
I felt sorry for that country hotel
keeper at Tennille, when the Central
special swooped down on him about
1:30 Tuesday morning. He had about
15 rooms and about 150 guests to ac
commodate. It took him until nearly
3 o’clock to allot them rooms, and
after he had been fruitlessly trying
to solve the* problem for nearly an
hour, I begged him to get a piece of
chalk and draw a diagram of his
house on the floor and let me help
him figure it out. He scowled at me,
and the next move allotted three men
and six ladies to a room already
overflowing. I made my chalk sug
gestion again, and he gave me and
my party two rooms to get rid of my
sass. The room I got had about ten
cots in it and no lamp, and for about
an hour I was aroused every time I
began to doze by some poor country
editor falling on top of me, or over
some other cot, and deluging the at
mosphere with cuss words. In the
room he gave the ladies, there were
two crying babies, and a fat woman
who made the whole earth creak
every time she turned over or rolled
off on the floor. Once she jarred
the building so that t* front blind fell
off, and the ladies who were prepar
ing to retire, put out the light and
finished in total darkness.
That hotel experience at Tennille
was worth the price of admission, and
will long be a happy reminiscence.
* *
I enjoyed about an hour’s conver
sation with Editor E. N. Hancock, of
the Savannah News, who many Dal
tonians will remember as the pleas
ant, polished gentleman who spent
the summer of 1897 at the Hotel Dal
ton. He is the same courteous,
jovial gentleman and bright talker
that he has always been, and my
chat with him was not only enjoyed,
but was really profitable to me.
* *
My party in its trip covered over
1,169 miles by rail, besides several
boat rides, and all the street car
ridess, one trolley ride alone (the belt
in Savannah) being over nine miles.
These additions were made by Miss
Cecil Huif, and you see that, al
though we had a most delightful
trip, we let no grass grow under feet
except at Tybee, where we stayed
three days and in Charleston two
days.
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W. J. Vandiver, traveling passen
ger ag-ent of the Central railway, with
headquarters in Macon, made a trip
with the boys. He was in charge of
the editors’ special to Savannah, and
made many friends among the boys
by his courteous treatment. Os
course, you all know that he is the
son-in-law of our fellow-townsman,
Judge Joseph Bogle, and is as clever
and nice as his father-in-law; and
that’s saying a good deal.
The presence of Gov. Allen D.
Candler on board the special train,
and at Dublin, was a source of great
pleasure to all tne boys, and es
pecially to me, who had not seen him
since the day of his nomination. He
was in the smoker talking to an At
lanta Journal man when I went up
and shook hands with him. After
the ordinary greeting, Gov. Candler
was pleased to turn to the Atlanta
man and say:
“You have been talking about my
backbone, here’s a man that’s got
more backbone and nerve than I
have; The Dalton Argus is always
right; it speaks out in meeting, and
sticks to what it says. I get hun
dreds of papers at the mansion ; the
first one my children hunt up is the
Gainesville home paper, of course;
and then they hunt up The Argus;
one of them, about 18 years old, al
ways hunts up The Argus first; it’s
the most popular paper that comes to
the mansion.”
Os course I made my most modest
acknowledgements, and told the
Governor I appreciated his children’s
partiality for The Argus, especially
if they were “chips off the old block.”
The governor made two speeches
at Dublin; and captured everybody
who heard him, especially the gentler
sex. For, you know, the governor,
like all brave, true men, is powerful
sweet on the girls, and loves to give
them taffy.
« *
Dublin is very fortunate in its
newspaper men. Ido not presume
there are time nicer men in the bus
iness than Editors Hilton, Morecock
and Stanley. I had known Ed More
cock and Atys Hilton years ago (a
few years, you know; for I can’t own
up to being old), when we were all on
the Savannah News together, and
Editor Stanley proved a most pleas
ant new acquaintance. I enjoyed
intercourse with them immensely;
they were genial and wholesouled.
* «
The pink cheeks and juicy lips of
a young girl hardly rival those El
berta peaches that Editor Allen of
Worth county distributed among the
ladies and gentlemen of the party on
the Central’s wharf. And they were
Worth county peaches, too, of a size
and quality that would make Frank
Summerour go into ecstacies.
* *
I was much pleased to meet my old
employer, Col. J. H. Estill, the pro
prietor of the Savannah Morning
News, while in Savannah ; he seemed
to be glad, too, and I was in such a
good humor at seeing him that I for
gave him for dissembling. There are
few nicer, abler men in Georgia than
Col. Estill, and few more successful,
more charitable men. He has done
so much for Savannah and Georgia,
that but for his native modesty and
retiring disposition, he would long
ago have filled the highest position
in the gift of the people in his state.
He is a practical printer, and has
carved out his own name, fortune
and fame.
« *
While in Atlanta, I went with my
party to the Cbamberlain-Johnson-
Dußose Co., and had the pleasure of
seeing Miss Nora Love and that
prince of good-fellows, O. C. Stone.
It was quite a pleasure to meet these
people, and we all enjoyed their warm
greetings.
* *
No wonder the Central of Georgia
is such a popular railroad. No road
could be otherwise, with such gentle
men in charge of its affairs as Vice-
President J. M. Eagan, General
Passenger Agent J. C. Haile, Col. C.
C. Hanson and Traveling Passenger
Agent W. J. Vandiver. They vied
with each other in showing the boys
and their ladies every courtesy, and
made us all feel like we were hon
ored and welcome guests.
If I ever own a railroad, I am go
ing to try to get that team to help me
run it.
* *
While we are talking about the
railroads, it would never do to forget
the courtesies extended by the old
reliable Western and Atlantic road,
and that cleverest of all passenger
agents, Chas. E. Harman. Nothing
could exceed the elegant, obliging
service there furnished, and w*e want
to speak out in meeting in its praise.
It is a mighty hard thing to get
used to giving big names to old
friends, and the true-blue boys al
ways seem to be boys to me when I
meet them suddenly after a long sep
aration.
I walked into the banquet hall
about 9:45 p. m., with iny wife and
Miss Cecil Huff, and about the first
person I ran against was Senator A.
S. Clay. Before I thought, I held
out my hand and said: “Why, hello
Steve!’’ Then I thought of his being
a senator, and apologized for my fa
miliarity. Just like the same good
fellow he always was, he grasped my
hand heartily and said: “I am al
ways ‘Steve’ to the boys; I’d feel
hurt if one of them called me any
thing else.”
I introduced Idm to my party, and
we all had a pleasant chat, and then
devoured some powerful good eating,
to be sure. But Steve told a joke on
Gov. Candler down there that is
worth repeating.
It seems that a young lady’ applied
to Gov. Candler to have her brother
released from the army. Candler
wrote Clay to get his help and closed
his letter thus:
“Do your best, Steve; his sister Is
a charmingly pretty girl, and she has
promised me a sweet little kiss, if I
succeed, and I’ll make her give us
one apiece.”
Clay did his best, but had to get
Congressman Will Brantley to help
him, promising Brantley one of the
kisses. Together they got the dis
missal, and Congressman Brantley
We Wish to Say
That we have, as stated in last week’s Argus b< k
L. Tapp’s entire stock of Jewelry, and willkeei) m [
and complete line of goods, up-to-date in everv J. ? u
Watch our space in The Argus each
We kindly solicit your liberal patronage and will sell
goods as cheap as possible. We li-elieve in living
live. vlu b‘ l nalet
J. A. HAFF JEWELRY COMPANY
E. E. BROWN, Manager.
wired Gov. Candler:
“Have got the young man’s release.
Tell the young lady 1 will be in At
lanta next Tuesday for my pay.”
To which Gov. Candler replied :
“No use coming. The young lady
was in my office when your telegram
came. She has paid me both of
them.”
Senator Clay was on the train near
Atlanta, about two weeks later, when
a very pretty young lady came up to
him and said:
“And this is Senator Clay. I want
to thank you for securing my
brother’s release. And since I have
seen you, you area so much hand
somer man than Mr. Candler, I am
sorry I did not pay you instead of
the governor.”
When Senator Clay told that joke,
the roof almost left the building.
And nobody laughed louder than
“Uncle Allen.”
• •
Among the guests at Tybee Beach
Hotel, when the press gang was
there, was Miss Coralette Beall, of
Ringgold, the pretty and accom
plished daughter of Capt. E. W.
Beall, the clever Western and At
lantic railroad conductor. Miss Beall
is visiting Miss Frank Stewart, of
Savannah, and they were spending
awhile at Tybee.
* •
The courtesies shown our party
when we visited the Atlanta Consti
tution office by Editor Clark Howell
and Poet Frank L. Stanton, and by
Night Editor Walter C. Henderson
in conducting the party through the
various departments, was deeply ap
preciated by me. I have known
those clever gentlemen all my life,
but never realized more fully to w hat
trouble they would go to entertain a
friend. If I ever catch them up here
I am going to retaliate in kind.
If the Georgia editors are not warm
supporters of the uniform, square
cotton bale, it will not be the fault of
Col C. C. Hanson, of the Central
Railway. He escorted the party to
the Central’s Compress, and made
them a speech on the subject. Col.
Hanson has been doing some valu
able work in the interest of the square
bale, and work on the right line.
The square bale is against monopoly
while a ginning and compress trust,
and the round bale would place
the farmers where they could be
squeezed, instead of their cotton.
Mr. Hanson did not say so;
he spoke only in favor of the
square bale, but that’s the way the
round bale looks to “a man up a
tree.”
* •
That veteran of the press, Editor
N. C. Napier, of the Walker County
Messenger, was there, accompanied
by two of his charming daughters I
enjoyed his society on several occa
sions, and was profited by the clear
ness of his ideast-many new, all
forcible and well stated. Long may
he live to honor North Georgia!
* *
I had a most pleasant chat while
coming down the Oconee river on the
steamer Gypsy with Banker H. H.
Smith, one of the leading spirits in
the upbuilding and developingof that
wonderful city of Dublin. Mr. Smith
is president of the Laurens Banking
Company, and had just returned from
the Bankers’ convention at War n
Springs, where he had several talks
with Col. F. T. Hardwick,of ourcity.
Mr. Smith is interested in cotton
milling and is thinking of starting a
big mill in Dublin. He asked a hun
dredquestions about Dalton, and its
cotton mill. While Dublin is a mag
nificent town,with brilliant prospects,
of course, I told him he had better
bring his mill up to Dalton, if he
wanted to coin the ducats. And
Claude Melnotte’s description of
Lake Como would make tame reading
compared to what I told him about
Dalton.
And every word of it was truth,
too. I’ll bet, if he ever leaves Dub
lin, he will come to Dalton to live.
* *
Will Harris, of Cedartown, Senator
Clay’s private secretary, was with the
boys at Dublin and a day at Tybee.
Os course, there never was a human
who would not enjoy the company of
such a bonhomme fellow as Will, and
I am but human you know.
* *
Congressman W. G. Brantley’s
speech at the Dublin banquet, in
answer to the toast “Woman,” was
a matchless piece of eloquence. Mr.
Brantley is the finest “male elocution
ist” I have listened to in many a
year. He had a splendid subject—
who can’t say sweet, nice things
about woman ? But his beautiful
language and high, noble sentiment
was emphasized not by pyrotechnic
oratory, but by a wonderfully sweet,
well modulated voice, as distinct in
its lowest cadences as in its highest
accent, and although he began speak
ing atll:3op. m. to a tired crowd,
well filled and sleepy, the attention
paid him was as intense as the dr» n
Ing of a mus tard plaster on an
chest, and the applause was 80 S’
taneous, so tremendous that it w
evident that everybody
every word, and had been C S
away both by the grand thought
the matchless voice that uttered ?
If I ever die lain goinir tn 1
Will Brantley a line n," I’.l'n" j?|
dußignon tn a funeral oration in m
memory. Two such inatchfi
tongues as theirs would melt their
hearers into sympathetic tears over
man s humanity,and might persuade
some one to believe that there had
been something good even in
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Comes Home Tonight.
Bethel Springs, Tenn.,
July 24,1899.
To the Editor of The Argus, Dalton, Ga.
Dear Sir and Brother:— The
Argus will find me in Dalton from
now on. Will be there Friday night.
Let me again thank you for sending
the paper to me here. I assure you
I have thoroughly enjoyed it—even
more, if possible v than when in Dal
ton. lam assisting in a meeting at
my home church. The prospects are
fine for a glorious meeting. Please
announce that I will be in my pulpit
Sunday—both morning and evening.
Will assist in a meeting next week
at New Prospect, over on the Chatta
nooga Southern. With best wishes,
I am yours, etc.,
Will!’. Swaim.
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