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The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1889-09-05

MARIETTA don't intend to be excelled as
cotton market this fall. We have the
cotton buyers and they have the money,
and if the most liberal prices viii get the
cotton, then the streets of Marietta will be
lined daily with wagons loaded with the
'heecy staple. We assure our farming
friends that they need not hesitate about
bringing their cotton to Marietta when
they get ready to market it, as our live
and enterprising cotton merchants are
fully prepared and determined to make it
to your interest for you to sell your cotton
IN this place. Marietta is the best interior
cotton market in this section, and pays bet
ter prices. as those who come thirty and
forty miles to sell their cotton here fully
attest.
Coal Tar for sale; Phoenix Foundry.
MEssRs. J. h. BATS & Co., our popular
jewelers., repairers and opticians, have a
new advertisement in this issue. Their
trade is steadily growing. They are doing
a splendid business because they keep
what the people want. They have as
fine and pretty line of gold and silver
watches, jewlery, chains, rings, clocks,
silverware, etc., as you can find anywhere.
They are reliable and guarantee everything
just as represented. Give them call and
patronize home.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1889-09-05
GEM CITY SHOE STORE.

The baby daughter Of Mr.. Mar
cellus Troutman, a farmer living
above Rome, was baptized last Sun
day with water from the river Jor-
dan. The water was brought from
the Holy Land in bottle by rel
alive OF the family.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1889-09-05
Wholesale and Retail.
Boots, Shoes, Hats,
And Furnishings.

Five hundred pairs Of our Ladies
Dongola kid, button, custom~made
shoes at 81, as good as any $3.50
shoe in America. Call and see
them.
The largest line of mems and
boys hats north of Atlanta, in stifs,
furs and straws, at prices that defy
competition.
Largest line OF mems neckwear
in North Georgia, in all the new
shapes, in silks and lawns, 25 to so
per cent. lower than Atlanta prices.
In furnishings we carry large
line, correct styles and prices.
AS to our shoe stock we cannot
say too much. We carry from the
cheapest TO the finest goods made
Gall solid), and carry more than any
three stocks put together in this
city, and can save you from 25 cents
to 81 per pair on every pair you buy
from US. All we ask is trial. Re-
spectfully,
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1889-09-05
Popular, Practical, Prices,
Please Prudent, Practical
People.

tentlon to his D and 10 cent coun-
tiers. Just think for a nickle you
can buy basket, polka dot tum-
blers white and all colors, garden
trowels Ga perfect wonder), ladies'
handkerchiets, large dippers, silver
inc mugs for children, toothpick
holders, pepper boxes, glass mugs,
sauce dishes, Is assorted marbles in
bag, tin rattles for baby, with look
ing glass and horn, Japanned wait
ers, money bank, tin buckets, polka
dot wine glasses, base balls, wash
basins, pot covers, lovely pepper
and salt stands, and numbers Of
other things for 1Octs. Wire bas-
kets, berry baskets assorted colors,
wooden wagon, blown glass tum-
blers, clothes line 90 feet long, roll.
ing pin, large revolving handles,
large wash basin, brass walters,
large deep pudding pans, ladies'
hammer, cast steel, our drummer
sitter, (splendid), perforated, chair
seats, large corn peppers, coffee
pots, large vegetable graters, bail
buckets, milk strainers, iron stove
pans, box of paper and envelopes,
brick soap pans, large milk pans,
large round silveride walters, linen
towels, ladies gloves, and almost
everything you can think of for a
nickel or dime.
For things to eat, we have gra-
ham biscuit, oat flakes, penny wheel
crackers, Boston biscuit, snow
fakes, ginger snaps, cornhill crack
ers, plain soda, and pearl oysters,
cor2ed beef, roast lamp, potted
meat, Deyiled ham, Holsters, salmon,
sardines, (the finest French or
American, an assortment of pick
les, olives, fresh tomato catsup,
Biloxi shrimps, lunch tongue, cove
oysters, canned pine apple, canned
pears, canned peaches, fine maple
syrups in glass decanter, fine glass
ware, large lot Of crockery,, fine
toilet soaps, laundry soaps, best fla
yoring extracts, baking powders,
fresh cheese on ice, all the heavy
groceries, lard, hominy, rice -four,
meal, oat meal, buckwheat, tea and
coffees our specially. The best SUI
gars and syrups. Fine mackerel to
arrive in few days. Now we only
have time or space to enumerate
few things, but if there is anything
you expect to find in first class
grocery store, give us call. We
are sure to please you. Hats almost
at your own price. We have
store full from top to bottom, and
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1889-11-08
Bill Snort in the White House.
WASHINGTON, August "a


My DEAR JOHNNY: As / wrote you
in q previous letter, since adopted
Egc Halford's plan of making both
ends meet, have been sailing down
money every week. When anybody
performs any personal service for us
members of the Administration, we do
not pay him in actual cash out of our
own pockets. Not a bit of it. We
simply go to the President and have
the aforesaid creditor appointed to y
lucrative Office, and that cancels the
debt.
But now, Johnny, we have struck q
new scheme that will cause our cheeks
to stick out with fatness. 1t will
work like charm. l will explain it
to you. You must know, Johnny,
that in the various departments there
are thousands and thousands of clerks
and clerkesses. 1t has heretofore been
the rule that peddlers, distributors of
circulars and catchpenny advertise
ments should not be allowed to in,
wade the department buildings. The
Ostensible reason for this exclusion
was that the Government employees
weuld be hindered in their work.
This was a flimsy excuse for keeping
the peddlers out. There are only COM
paratively few of the clerks and clerk
esses that work. If barrel Of cider
was appointed to clerkship, it would
stop working right off. There is a
good deal of flirting going on, but
that's not work. At least, it not very
hard work, 80 am told by some OF
the Senators and one of the members
from Texas.
At any rate, all distributors of ad-
vertising circulars have been kept out.
If one of them tried to get in, a jani-
tor would rush at him with uplifted
hoof and kick him until the footnotes
sounded like the patter of a mules
hind legs on the ribs of hired man.
1t occurred to Wanamaker that this
arrangement might be changed to his
own personal advantage. Wanny has
a great head for business. Yesterday
l happened to 60 into the Treasury
Department to see beautiful clerkess
who is paying me some few attentions.
When entered the building, the door
keeper showed an illustrated circular
into my astonished hand. Every
doorkeeper and watchman in the
building had a wad of these circulars,
and before got out of the sacred edi-
fee ] had dozen copies.
l did not have time to examine
them until i got out back to the office
of Shorts Hdrrison's Vindicator in the
White House. discovered then that
it was the advert, ement of Washing
ton business cO!ege. How did the
author of this circular manage to
evade the rules?
On the front page was a picture of
Wanamaker himself, with a cast-iron
smile. on his face, such as we see in
pictures of martyred saints. Opening
the circular, l read: Worship the
Lord in the beauty of holiness, and
one of Wanamaker's seventeen-dollar
suits. Mems lawn-tennis shirts, only
50 cents. Mems fancy blazers, $2.49.
Mems fancy hose, IA cents, etc. Clothe
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1889-11-08

to those whose hearts are in the good
work of booming our reform admins
tration.
The result will be that thousands of
pounds of your chewing gum will be
sold in Washington. Like the praises
of the present Administration, it will
be in everybody's mouth. You will
become suddenly rich. Now, the ques-
ton is, what is your chewing gum
company going to do for Snort, Harri-
son & Wannamaker in return for
these privilegesf
We are willing to accept q round
sum annually for these facilities, but
1t will have 10 contain five figures.
How does a check for $4,000 strike
you, with . liberal contribution to the
election expenses in 1892?
Or, we will accept a moderate ROYALTY
on each package of gum. Or, we will
accept shares of stock in your firm,
and you can rely ON our not being
deadheads in this scheme.
Please apply at once, as have al
ready been approached by rival
caewing-gum firm.
SNORT, HARRISON & WANAMAKER.
(Per Bill Snort.)
So you see. Johnny, ii this scheme
works, I'll have money enough to 20
out West to one of the new States and
get myself elected Senator.
There is no telling what amount of
business We may not do. 1 am al
ready negotiating with a cigar firm to
supply the department clerks with
cigars. Some of them may not care to
smoke, but if they don't learn How
they will not be in their places very
long. The clerks have been taught to
take hint. If the cigar firm comes
down handsomely, there will be so
much smoking that strangers in
Washington will think the town is on
fire.
The name of the brand of cigars will
be La Reforma. They will really be
worth about cent apiece, but the de-
| partment clerks will get only two for a
( quarter. The photograph of the firm
of Snort, Harrison & Wanamaker.
highly colored will be on the box.
Henry Clay has got his mug on cigar
boxes, hence why should not the in
tellectual faces of living statesmen be
similarly perpetuated?
1 don't see any reason why this plan
OF raising the wind should not be ex-
tended to every article that clerks and
cierkesses use. We might make an
arrangement with some local bakery
that pies, properly stamped with Bill
! SnOrts features and the Lone Star of
Texas, be furnished the employees for
a mild consideration, no other pic
maker being allowed to have access to
the buildings. The ginger-snaps and
sOda-crackers might be richly en-
bossed with profile of the President.
You see, Johnny, that this scheme
Is in its infancy as yet, but when the
members Of the firm of Snort, Harri-
son & Wannamaker put their heads
together and develop it more thorough
ly, at least nine-tenths of the salaries
OF the Government employees ought to
go into pockets of the new firm and
the contractors who furnish the chew
ing-gum, pies, etc.. Your friend.
BILL SNORT.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1889-11-08
thysels in the garments of righteous
ness. See Wanamaker's adv"

thySei! IN the garments OF righteous
ness. See Wanamaker's adv"
caught on at once to what Wanny
really meant when he told me, con-
fidentially, the other day that his
methods and policy generally were be-
ginning to crystalline as the machin-
cry of his department was working
more smoothly.
In another place in the circular un-
der the heading of Golden Words"
the Postmaster General is referred to
as merchant prince and there is o
rebus On the art of finding money in
the pocket of every man who wears q
pair of Wannamaker's three and a
half dollar pants.
After looking over this circular care
fully, it occurred to me that the Wan
namaLer ideas might be worked ON a
big scale to the great advantage of this
reform Administration in general and
Bill Snort in particular.
My idea is that Snort, Harrison,
and Wanamaker be photographed in
a group, with me i'll the middle as the
bright sun around which they reyolve.
This photograph, under the great seal
of the United States, will be used to
advance the sale of any article that
the thousands Of department clerks
may or may not want. The following
business letter to New York chew
ing-gum firm will give you an idea of
how we are going to work this little
scheme:
WHITE HOUSE, ID. C. Aug. %, 1889.
My DEAR SIR: As you are we'll
aware, your brand of chewing-gum has
only limited circulation in Washing
ton. propose the following arrange
ment, by which we can be mutually
benefited:
We, that is, Snort, Harrison &
Wannamaker, will furnish you with
wrappers for each chunk of gum. On
these wrappers will be the portraits of
Snort, Harrison, and Wannamaker,
together with some such little printed
gems of thought as:
"COl. Snort OF Texas is universally
conceded to be the handsomest man
in Washington"
Pants bought at Wanamaker's
p1Zlar never DaS ~ tuc knttS. hoIu
fast unto that which is gOOd-St.
Johns Epistle to the Philadelphians."
President Harrison, the peer of
Washington, uses our gum exclusive
ly. So do Lige and Russ"
All the janitors and doorkeepers in
the department buildings, not to
speak of numberless other Federal Of
ficials, owing to pressure l will bring
to bear on them, will sell your gum
exclusively, without commission, to
the employees. You could also print
on the wrappers: To be had ON ap-
plying to all Federal officials, door
keepers, janitors, ct al" American
consuls in foreign countries would be
instructed to push your gum all over
the known world as part of their Of
fetal duty.
The prevailing rule in the depart
ment buildings forbidding the chewing
of gum during Office hours would be
rescinded, and the employees will un-
derstand that if they are found with
! out your gum in their mouths they
. will be fred out and their places given
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1889-11-08

THE WASHINGTON PIONEERS,
To TIE Pioneers OF WASHINGTON:

o.
fmemIe thu Pioneer
Information ileNem correct
@ the
sewing copy hereof to carefully read advise
not noted printed list
hingon IiueerAwo
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1889-11-08

MINNEAPOLIS claims a population Of
235, 600, the estimate being based on the
directory published in July of this
year. st. Paul's latest count is 1913 900.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1889-11-08
AGENTS WANTED.

FoR CLUE RATES, or any further inSorma-
clearly stating your residence, with State. Coun-
ty, Street and Number. More rapid return mai
delivery will be assured BY your enclosing a
Envelope bearing your full address,
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1889-11-08
Address Registered Letters containing Currency d
NEW ORLEANS NATIONAL BAsk.

New Orleans, L.
g pEMcMnE0 that the payment Of Prixcs
FOUR NATIONAL Ranks Of New Oriesn !.
and the Tickets arc signed by the President uf
an insfit.tion. whose chartered rights are rec
ognized In the highest Courts; therefore, H.
ONE DOLLAR 70 the price OF the smslis
part or fraction of Ticket Issued By UB sr
any drawing. Anything In our namc oaered fsf
less than Dollar 10 . swindle.
May IL. 1859.
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IMPORTANT.

Address n. A. DAUPHIN,
or N. A. DAUPHIN, -
Washington, ID. Q.
BY ordinary letter containing Money order
issued BY all Express Companies, New York Ex
change, DRAFT or Postal Note.
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Commissioners

We the undersigned Banks and Bankers scin
pay all Prizes dra,cn in the Louisiana State
Lotteries ,ohich may be presented at our coun-
ters.
II. NJ. WALMSLEY, Pres. Lou'a Nat. Blk
PIERRE LANAUX, Pres. State Natsl Rk
A. BALDWIN, Pres. New Orleans Nat Bk
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1889-11-08

DATE OF ARRIYAL
IN W. T.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1889-11-08
GRAND MONTHLY DRAWING,
In the Academy oi llis, Atv 0rleals, isssaay,
November IL, 1889.
CAPITAL PRIZE, $500, 900
LIST OF PRIZES.

100. 900 Tickets at Twenty Dollars
each. Halves 80; Quarters o5, Tenshs
913 TWentfe A.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-04-25

N. W. FIELD.
and the political dis
appointment which
followed seemed to
destroy his business
capacity. While a
congressman he be-
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-04-25

came somewhat In
temperate, and soon after turned to other
vices For the ensuing six OF seven years he
lived a curiously double life, apparently try
ing to throw away his large fortune in the
most foolish of all possible ways, namely, in
pampering the unworthy and enriching wo-
men who pleased his fancy.
To one female acquaintance he presented
house and lot worth 100000. To another he
gave a like sum in money and assigned her
his life insurance of $4,000 A man who
scatters $4,000 gifts is in a fair way to gain
''acquaintances. They came, not single
spies but in battalions, and he gave them seal
cloakS, silk dresses, dog carts and little sums
of from S. TO $500. The boy who ran the
MolTatt block elevator soon became familiar
with certain silk dresses and flashy hats
whose wearers were frequent visitors to Mr..
Fields office; and the ex-congressman's name
often appeared on checks presented at the
banks and finally on various hotel registers
in close proximity to those of his female
visitors.
Towards the last all his friends knew of
his shame, but his family remained in COM
parative ignorance or were restrained by
shame from open complaint. A queer no
ton entered his head-at least so it seems
last summer that his sanity might be ques
toned and ne applied to Drs. Lyster and
Shurly for a thorough examination. They
pronounced him perfectly sound in mind and
body Having thus, with what seems like
cool malignity, taken efficient precautions
against his own family, he proceeded to
throw away the last of his fortune as rapidly
as possible. To Mrs Mary Goring he gave
lots, checks and cash requests TO an amount
popularity estimated at 100000, and his note
for $4,000. Two days after signing this note
he was a corpse. And then the legal inquiry
began.
Mrs. Goring's husband and family put
bold face on the matter, claiming that the
gifts were honestly and hOnOrably made. Her
brother, Charles Rice, Joined with her in the
defense, was convicted some years since of
selling "sniden jewelry. The husband very
compiacently says that Mr. Field spent his
spare time at their house because it was like
home to him. On his last visit there he was
seized with a chill, and they called a carriage
and sent him home where he sank rapidly
and in two days was dead. If anything could
add to the CHASTITY grotesqueness of such a life
history it would be this extract from the will
of the dead debauchee:
Gin regard to our dear children, the best
gift l can confer upon them is the great
worth of mothers love, the devotion, the
consideration, the sympathy, the tenderness
of a gentlewoman; mother loving God, and
illustrating her Christianity by her deeds,
her kindness to her neighbors and devotion
to charitable work. Furthermore desire
to express my love, my appreciation, my eS-
TEEN for my beloved wife, woman always
hopeful, forgiving and sincerely trying to
help all"
Yet Mrs. Field and her daughters allege
that they viii be almost destitute unless they
recover part of what he had given away.
As late as 1884 Mr.. Field was elected regent
of the University of Michigan, and his term
had not expired.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-04-25
THE BACHELORS EGGS.
BE Tried to Get Them Boiled Soft, but
They Came Out Stone Hard.

BE Tried to Get Them Boiled Soft, but
They Came Out Stone Hard.
A Scranton bachelor, who boards at one Of
the hotels and rooms outside, got so tired of
eating stale eggs while ago that he thought
he would see if he couldn't change the pro
gramme little So he bought three dozen
new laid eggs and took them to his lodgings,
and when he went to tea that night he carried
couple Of the eggs in his pocket and told
the pleasant faced waiter girl to have item
boiled soft. They came back as hard as rocks,
and the bachelor boarder declared that no
one in that kitchen knew enough to boil an
egg. The handsome waiter girl said she was
sorry that the cook hadn't done as she had
ordered her to, and she volunteered to have
two other eggs boiled soft, but the boarder
told her she needn't. The next morning he
took two more eggs over to the hotel and
gave special directions as to how they should
be boiled, and he had to swear when he
opened them, for they were as hard as base
balls.
At supper that night he took three eggs,
got another girl TO take his orders and gave
the same directions Result: Three eggs as
unyielding as bullets The bachelor said he
guessed it was time for him to change his
boarding place and he uttered other unpleas-
ant remarks regarding the interior manage
ment of the culinary department of the
house. But he was on hand the next morn
ing, and he had three nice large fresh eggs in
his pocket. Calling his favorite waiter girl,
he said:
''Now, l want you to open these eggs, drop
them in hot water and poach them very soft,
and, my dear, want you to stand by them
and see that they are cooked right"
She said she would and away she went, but
In a minute or so she returned looking sad,
and with the three eggs in six halves on
dish.
Il am sorry, sir" she said, and her light
soprano voice trembled, but these eggs were
already boiled as hard as they could be when
broke them" and she placed them on the
table in front Of the irate bachelor.
He smelled a rat right away, and he left
the table at once and started out to verify his
suspicious. His investigations were finished
by the middle of the forenoon, and what he
found out was this: A married friend of his,
who lived in the house where the bachelor
had his lodgings is practical joker of the
first order He had taken all of the eggs to
his kitchen, boiled them as hard as he could,
ami then placed them back in the bachelors
basket.
''It's all right said the bachelor to another
friend, ''but I'll lay for him with trick
tb=St'n make him hate himself like Satan for
yetr and half. New York Sun.
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They Are Sensitiue.

''You've lost him for good this time" said
the boss barber to one Of his shavers as
customer went out and slammed the door be-
hind him.
eyes, but forgot"
"That's no excuse. If you can't attend to
business you must 60"
"What is the trouble7" queried a reporter
of the boss.
''He didn't brush the mans headn
"But his head was as bald as bone"
Certainly, and that's why he should hive
brushed it. Bald headed men are very sensi-
tive, you must use the brush the same as If
they had plenty of hair. To do 50 gives them
an idea that you don't take particular notice
of their badness"
"And won't that man return"
''Never. He'll try some other shop neat
time, and will even advise his friends to keep
away from here. Detroit Free Press.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-04-25

with a zeal which soon
gave the Greenback
party the balance of
power in that state.
But this excessive work
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-04-25
CnnIdn,t MIKE ,Em Ont.

She was a kindly old lady and a shrewd,
and many of her sayings were well worthy q
place in the books wherein are recorded the
wisdom of the sages. Some one or other had
one day been discoursing to her of the ills of
the Aesh, the particular apropos being the
sickness of one Of the neighbors, and Aunt
Aisle, for so she was known to everybody
within the radius Of the township, summed
the whole matter up by remarking:
eyes. there are two things that l never
could make out to think understood-the
mystery Of Providence and the mystery of
our inwards Boston Courier
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-04-25
The Etinuette Of CourtshIn.

Slimson-How late do you usually stay
when you go counting, Peterby?"
Peterby-Well, that depends upon how the
old gentleman is feeling. Now, last night a
piece of ceiling came down at $780, and
concluded to move on. But some nights her
pa falls asleep and then I stay until the gas
meter begins to drop stitches.-Burlington
Free Press