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J 14.50, SKSO,
TO ADJUST BUSIN-ESS
On the new basis, conformed to the “Glittering Gold Standard ofContraction” that is working now
so beautifuly to make all prosperous and happy in these “piping times of Cievelandism.”
«i#W. M. Gammon & Company,
Have determined to close out their entire stock of Clothing regardless of cost or va.ue. FOR CASH,
CASH AND ONLY CASH We Will from Monday, the 9th of July, offer Choice of all $22.50 or
$25.00 Or $30.00 Suits “this means all our finest Suits” for $1 4.50.
All sl6, $lB. and S2O, Suits at sl2. All sl2, and Sls, Suits 8,50.
360 splendid all Wool Suits, Fine Cassimers, Cheviots, Worsted and
Serges, sold before at 10. and 12.50 for $5.
STRAW HATS! STRAW HATS!
Will go in this sale at one-half their values; many at half their cost. While this will be a great sacrifice and will entail a]heavy loss on us,Jyet
it goes to show what “a blessing in disguise” our noble President is to most of the’people, who, can getj
goods now at half price.
We mean to sell these goods, and ,neither cost nor value will be regarded in pricing them. If you have the cash to pay down for a Suitjwe
will sell it to you now so low that your compassion will be excited for
W. M. Gammon & Company
237 &> 239 BROAD STREET.
SERVED HIM RIGHT
HOW A BOOM TOWN NABOB REAPED HIS
DESERTS.
A man sat in his store and refused
to be interviewed.
He chased the advertisement sol
icitor out of the front door and the
insurance agent out of the back one,
He bought cheap for cash and dis
torted the truth for the same thing.
He even encouraged the country
people to believe they were beating
him out of hiz goods at scandalously
low prices.
But one night the town burned up.
The next day every body who had
been trading with that town wanted
to know who had done this thing.
The little man next door had made
SIO,OOO out of his insurance.
The man across the way had liens
on nearly all the farms around there
for the agricultural implements he
had been selling.
A man from Chicago said the fire
was a good thing, for the town could
now be laid out right and built up
again bright and new for half the
money the people would get for their
insurance. He represented a lum
ber company.
Kxerybody seemed to have
something to feel cheerful about
except the man whose name does
a °t uead this article because he.
"ould never give it to a newspa
per for publication.
Iu otber words it is the gentle
®ail r6 t mentioned who sat in
h ‘ s door au d looked so hard that
' r .' oody with a consience passed
7 on the other side. While those
**’ had n °oe went in and tried
nt him out of what he had
6 made traveling men keep off
a 9 gra6 ®’ for it grew in spots all
around his front door.
him°r ard t' 0168 had prevented
them roßl i ayiUg a briclc P avemeQ t
•tetTV 0 debt il M
0 business men in
town had done.
But the fruits of patience and
sagacity had all fallen off the tree
of prosperity’ at one fell blow
He was the biggest man in town
do loDgor,
A victim was wanted to satisfy
the cravings of the insurance com
panies for revenge.
And also some prominent firms
iu Boston, Philadelphia, and oth
er unsophisticated centers of the
jobbing trade which are rapidly
learning to let the boom towns in
the West do business without
their assistance, j
New Yorkers know better. They J
never let out money or goods in this ,
part of the county unless they have/
a baiter around the neck of the rep-J
resentative of the Rowdy West who
is thus taken into their confidence.
But this is a diversion, as ,the
Philadelphia lawyer said to the Kan
sas man who had borrowed money
and failed io do business, aud was
even then trying to secrete the goods
and chattels which he had bought
on credit.
The character of this man has prob
ably been sufficiently described - it is
his ultimate sad fate in which the
reader is now interested. He had
been llurishing iu accordance with
strictly business principals laid down
by his father, and he hail learned
nothing since the old man died forty
years ago, and not much before that
time, as the sequence of this story
will show.
As before stated he was the only
man who stood in the ruins of that
lately rapid town who looked like he
had lost all his friends, though it
was a well known fact that he never
had any.
Ho didjnot seem to think there was
any more fun in living.
He went out at the dead of night
and hanged himself in front of the
only building which had been left
standing}
This was the city jail. It had
been rendered fire proof by build
iug it out of logs hauled iu from
the vicinity for firewood,
While he was hanging there
some villian reached out through
the bars and cut the cord with
which the would be suicide had
tied himself up.‘
Then the prisoner hauled iu un
til he had enough rope with which
to get out of his own troubles.
He got away that night:
But not so with the hero of
this story.
They suspected him of starting
the fire.
The newspapers to whom he had
never given an advertisement,
proved it on him .
For all the drummers that he
had throwu out of his store
swore he was of uusound mind
and liable to do anything in a mo
ment as frenzy.
On this evidence ho was declared
insane and placed in the county
jail until he begged to work on the
roads.
He is there yet.
This is the first time he ever did
anything for the community at
large.
But this is not an exhibition of
public spirit,
It is a case of necessity.
The Lord knows when wo will
et out.
For when he complains of over
work they ask him if he never
made any bod}’ else weary.
And whenever he grows violent
thsy put handcuffs on him and
sit down ou him like he used to
do everybody else iu towu,
For nobody likes him.
He knows it now. —Telegram.
JfffUT. Iti v" for Bff-*
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HE WAS A READER
HOW A MERIWETHER COUNTER MAN BROKE
A POPULIST ORATOR ALL UP.
The following good yard in span at
the expense of a third pa.ty spouter.
At the end of one of his most impres
sive periods an old gentleman in the
audience aaid: “That’s Tom Watson/’
The orator bit his lip and proceeded,
At the close of another outburst
the old man ejaculated; “Taat’s Bill
Peek. ” The speaker frowned severely
and went on.
At the end of another neatly turn
ed sentence the old critic said “Jerry
Simpson.” The statesman looked
daggers at the interrupt, but went on
with his piece.
. Pretty soon he got off an anecdote
of questionable taste. Said the old
man; That’s Livingston at Ocala.”
The orator paused and shook his fist
in the direction of the quiet looking
old newspaper reader, to his manu
seipl aud read a rapid sentence or
two.
“That’s sister Lease or Moses, I’ve
forgotten which.” Fellow cijizens, put
that old blackguard out of the house.
“That’s his own and the only origi
nal sentence he has uttered, ’ said the
gray headed old critic as the indig
nant friends of the speaker hustle
the gantlemau out of the room.
After that the meeting became
more enthusiastic and the applause
was frequent as the well rounded pe
riods of Watson et al. rolled tripping
ly from the speaker's voluble tongue.
Meriwether Vindicator.
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GA
And return, only $ I.
via Rome R. R. of Ga.
Tickets on sale July
31 st, good to return
3 days from date of
sale. Call on C. K.
Ayer, G. P. A. or J* B.
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