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The great excitement of the year—when the new Piano f'j
Arrives on Chriamns Day. There’s double reason for pleasure
if it comes from the old, reliable firm . f
Thomas 6c Barton Co.
When the family comes together on Christinas there can’t
be too much music. We have the largest stock and finest col
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ever assembled under one roof.“.Mnny of them are in rich,
beautifully figured .Mahogany Veneers, specially selected, for
our Christmas trade.
t Our Furniture Department I
is piled full of Fine Goods tliat will make handsome CMRIS T -
MAS PRESENTS, and our 1’RIOES ARE LOWER THAN
EVER. It will pay you to see us before you do [your Christ
mas shopping.
Thomas & Barton Co
Augusta, Georgia.
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Christmas Fruit Cakes.
Fresh Bread and Rolls.
When you want fresh bread, ’Phone 62, the
Home Bakery, and your order shall have prompt at
tention. Everything clean and up-to-date.
Let Me Bake That CbristmaslFriiit Cake For You.
It will be sure to please and will save you a
lot of worry.
Your patronage is appreciated.
J. B. STANLEY, PROPRIETOR.
OLD TIME FORCEPS.
When the Thing Wai Turned Some
thing Had to Give Way.
And speaking of teeth reminds me
that the country doctor hud to draw
them When they ached. The dentist s
artistry had not attained the elevated
plane It occupies trdny. when every
body’" mouth shines like the inside of
a communion cup. 1 honestly believe
the modern dentist has more different
’■Mrwls of tools than even a sanitary
plumber, and (lint's a whole lot when
you come to count them tip. The mod-
EARLY ROAD BUILDING.
cm dentist hates the worst way
draw a tooth. Nevertheless if the
modern dentist must draw Hie tooth
he lias a particular forceps for a par
ticular tooth, and a cruel hearted and
cold looking thing it is too. It puts
Every quality of paper, from the
cheapest to the most expensive, car
ried in stock by the Herald for Com
mercial Printing. See us.
How a Wretched Pennsylvania "Turn
pike Was Improvtd.
The desire to speculate a hundred < r
more yon is ago was apparently us (great
as It ts today. An exnmple of this l«
shown by tlu* organization of a cum
pany In 17!rj to build a turnpike from
Philadelphia to Lancaster. I'm., a dis
tance of sixty miles. The charter was
secured, and In ten days U.-Ki sulv
scrlbers made application for stock.
As this was more than the law al
lowed, the names were placer I In n lot
to i tery w heel, and 000 were drawn With
tlieFe subscriptions the work began.
The road builders of that day knew
little or nothing regarding the con
structlon of highways, and the rldlou-
I Ions mistakes made on this occasion
taught them some valuable lessons.
1 says (Toy Elliott Mitchell In the Amor-
: lean Cultivator. The land was con
demned. the trees felled and the rond-
. bed prepared. The largest stones that
could bp found were dumped upon It
you so In mind of a successful finan
cier. When you brace yourself In the
Iron chair and lake a light grip on the
arms of it and make up your mind
you'll try to stand It and he gets that
forceps well nnder the gum and—wait
a minute; I feel so kind o' faint! I for a foundation, and upon this colon
Laws! Why didn't 1 mind my mother sal base earth and gravel were spread,
when she told me not to crack hick- Then (he work was declared ooui|..,-te.
ary nuts with my teeth? Well, any- but when the washing ralus came deep
way, you know lie'll gel the tooth out holes npgsared on every hand, sharp
without doing more than take the- stones protruded fron the surface, and
whole top of your head off, and that the horses received scratches and b o-
onl.v In a figurative sense.
Uncle I)og had one implement that
did for every tooth, big and little,
front and back. It wasn't a forceps;
It was a turnkey. The real old folks
know what that Is and will say so
with the cold chills running over them.
Hut you've never seen one. aid many
a man that you would call old Inis
never seen one. It's something like n
cant hook. The loosely riveted piece
that curves slips over the tooth and
'ntbhcs on the Inside: the solid earn
boats on the outside gum: ibe operator
(urns the handle. Let’s not talk about
It. Something has got to give. Maybe
the tooth will come out; maybe It will
break off; maybe the Jaw will frac
ture. All those are details. The main
point is (lint If (lie operator twists Ibe
handle something has got to give, and
that's all there Is about It.—Eugene
Wood In Success Magazine.
A GENTLE REPROACH.
Telling Retort of the Lamblike, Violet
Eyed Beauty.
There Is a certain young woman who | road
is beautiful, with that childish, wistful,
iunuccul looking, violet eyed beauty
which reduces one-hall' the feminine
world to tears, the other half to utter
ly helpless rage. We ail know the
iyi c\ but it is seldom given us to see
it in Ktii h perfection. We usually as
sociate it with a lamblike, appealing
mentality that permits itsi If to he rid
.km upon as soon expect a wood violet
:o R.r.i and rc-r.d you.
A short time ago she was asl.ed to
a woman's; luncheon and g< t herself
up for the occasion in a way that
made the result of her efforts a tiling
not easily forgotten. She arrived lot k
ing so lovely that there was little said
among the guests fur a few moments
after her entry into the room. I'erhup-
siie fell the silence. At all events, she
tinned it) the woman standing nearest
her ni:d sukl lu a childish voice, with
ever sn b a little li p and pretty south
cm accent:
“How well yo‘ are lookin’ today!"
It was a well meant civility from a
young woman to an older one. who
seemingly was unable to accept ii ns
such and'put up her lorgnette, sweep
ing the speaker from top to toe. Wha:
she saw was enough to disconcert a
younger and prettier woman than her
self, but even so one finds it difficult
to justify her next move.
"Wish L could say the same for
you " si'" returned, closing her lorgnette
witfi a snap.
One* or two of the guests were
friends < f the pretty woman and ul
most stopped breathing in order not
to miss what they felt sure would
come—and It came. The pretty one
raised her eyebrows slightly, then
said, with an air of gentle reproach;
“Why don't yo’ lie like a lady, like
I do?” - Itchoboth Sunday Herald.
ken limbs as they sank between the
bowlders up to their l uces.
The gigantic error of the rond build
er was tlum made plain. Indignation
meetings were held, at which the turn
pike cbm puny was condemned and the
legislature blamed for giving the char
ter. Mad It not been for an English
man who offered to rebuild the turn
pike on (he tnnoitdnm plan, ns lie had
seen loads built In tile “old country."
Improved road construction would
have received a severe blow. The Eng
lishman's proposition was accepted by
the company, and he was successful In
completing the Lancaster anil I’lilln-
delpl la turnpike rond. which was then
declared to be "the liest piece of high
way In the United States, a master
piece of its kind.”
NEW ROAD MACHINE.
Grading Attachment That Can Be Put
Upon Any Traction Engine.
Streets of Holdrege, Neb., linve
been improved and beautified by a
very unique and eminently practical
and street grading machine, the
What He Needed.
A sovereign would tempt many men,
and when I'limkius, making a few pur
chases at the stores, saw one lying on
the floor just by the counter he quiv
ered with excitement.
Glancing around to reassure himself
that none was looking, he quite acci
dentally dropped one of his kid gloves
neatly on the coin and then dived. He
got the glove a!! right, but still the sov
ereign remained.
A shopwalker approached him.
"Good morning, sir,” said the man,
rubbing his hands together in the ap
proved style, “and may I show you a
bottle of our celebrated liquid glue,
which etick3”—
— London Mail.
The Cellar Stairs.
A man who once had a bad fall when
going down his cellar stairs now has
a broad strip of white painted on the
floor at the end of the last step. This
is easily seen, even if the cellar be
dark, and many a misty accident Is
avoided. If the house is rented and
you do not like to paint tlie boards a
piece of white oilcloth can be tacked
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Invention of Elijah A. iiolletilieck of
Funk, Neb. The machine was built
by Mr Hollenbeck himself, and not
withstanding its crudity of construc
tion. owing to lack of facilities for
turning out the proper kind of work.
It ins proved a success mid a money
maker from the very start, says the
Omaha World-IIerald. It is in fact n
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,'i iL.,1 ii cull o.Hiii.i be put upon any
ordinary make of traction engine.
The machine Is very (Ample In it •
construction and reldoin ever gets out
of order or onuses any annoyance to
the operator. It e insists of a frame
attached to the boiler and running
gear of the glue. On the left side,
directly In front of the large drive
wheel, is a beam carrying the plow
The furrow cut by the plow Is Just
outside of the trend of the drive wheel
of the engine, enabling the operator
to cut ii straight bank to any length
desired. The dirt is dVoppod from the
me Id board upon a belt conveyor paxs
ing under the boiler of the engine and
deposited in the middle of the street
or rond to make the grade. The outer
end of this elevator can be raised or
lowered to meet requirements.
Mr. Hollenbeck, the Inventor. Is a
young farmer v ho has lived on n farm
nil Ids life. lie has had no special
training as a machinist, his only edu
cation in that line being that gleaned
from practical experience In operating
thrashing machines and other kinds of
.'arm maclrncry.
Keep Out of Rut—Save Reads.
It Is not unlikely that American
(armers who have with them always
the question of good roads and how to
maintain them may find In the follow
ing order, which was Issued by the
Panama canal commission to officer*
and tneu on the isthmus, a suggestion
of how carelessness contributes to
making good roads bad and bad roads
worse. The order says;
“Noilees have been posted at the cor
rals, and the corral foremen have in
structed teamsters that the custom of
wagons following In one unotber’s
tracks must lie discontinued. Consid
erable of the maintenance work on the
macadam roads, especially during the
wet season, is made necessary by
wagons wearing deep ruts. The team
sters have been Instructed to distribute
travel over the full width of the high
ways. and it Is believed that the cost
or road repairs will be much reduced as
soc.» as compliance with those Instruc
tions becomes general.”
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Grading a Roadbed.
It is simply extraordinary the lack
of judgment shown by, many who un
dertake to shape a roadbed. The rond
allowance In various states is sixty-
six feet. In rounding up the roadbed
the earth Is sometimes moved toward
the center from nearly the entire dis
tance of the width of the road. This
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to the floor nt the foot of the stairs. | means that the ditches for carrying
See that the tacking is securely done
or a worse fall may follow than from
a mlsgnuged step.—Philadelphia Press.
Dodged.
“T got my wife through advertising.”
“Then you’ll admit that advertising
pays?”
“I’ll admit that It brings results”
was the cautious reply. — Louisville
Courier-Journal.
No man can be provident of his time
who is not prudent in the choice of his
company.—Jeremy Taylor.
away the water are not distant from
the fences that hedge In the highway.
The roadbed is entirely too wide. It
cannot be sufficiently rounded toward
the center, and as a result water does
not run ofT with sufficient quickness.
The temptation to spoil roads by grad
ing them thus is ull the stronger since
road graders have come Into use. This
result follows from the comparative
quickness with which the earth can bo
moved by these machines. A distance
of forty-two to forty-five feet between
the' outer edges of the ditches fur
nishes a roadbed sufficiently wide.
The Sandersville Herald
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Sandersville, Ga.
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Highest grade Ginning Machinery,
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