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llßM^lcolm Cox, my erH
suitor,'•Was married and to an eajpi'ir
girl whom I had never even seen
struck me as so droll that the moment
I received the announcement of the
wedding I-determined to be the first
one to entertain them when he
brought his bride home to Chicago.
I decided to have them to dinner
with just Uncle Bob and Betty to
meet them, as I thought a small, in
timate party would 'be the most
friendly.
My Invitation was answered by a
rather stiff little note from the bride.
I took it to mother, thinking she
would be amused by its primness,
^he read it and then cast one of her
reproachful g&nces at me.
.. ’‘Why, Lucile," she exclaimed, "is it
possible that you invited company to
dinner Saturday night? Didn’t you
remember that we are all going out
to your Uncle John’s farm for the
' week end?”
"That’s so; I had quite forgotten
it,” I said. “I’ll have to stay at home,
though.”
“But I’ve promised Tilly a few days’
vacation at that time and so even if
you do stay at home I don’t see how
you can give a dinner party. I do
wish you would consult me before you
issue invitations.”
“Oh, dear!” I sighed. “It seems to
me that whenever I try to have a lit
tle pleasure something goes wrong.”
“Well, dear, don’t feel so badly,”
said mother, seeing the tears in my
eyes. “Surely, you can postpone the
dinner.”
“No, I can’t; it would be too awk
ward, for I don’t know Malcolm’s wife
at all. But if Cousin Fannie will only
stay at home from Uncle John’s she
and I can get up a nice little dinner
and maybe Betty would bring her
maid to wait on the table.”
“Fannie is so fond of the farm that
1 hate to ask her to give up the out
ing,” said mother, in her undecided
way.
“Oh. I’ll ask her, mother,” I return
ed. “She would enjoy going to the
farm just as much some other time,
I'm sure.”
Saturday morning when grandmoth
er and father and mother were leav
ing the house father was greatly sur
prised to find that Cousin Fannie and
I weren’t going to the farm with the
others.
“Lucile had an engagement for to
night and Fannie is going to stay and
set as chaperon,” explained mother.
“I don’t like it at all,” grumbled fa
ther. “Lucile, is this one of your—”
“Don’t scold me, daddy, dear,” I in
terrupted him. “I simply have to
keep my engagement. If it weren’t
for that I’d just love to go to Uncle
John’s with you. Next time you must
surely take me. Anyway, I am saving
you a little money by not going. The
return trip fare is $5, isn’t it? If you’ll
Just give me that amount, I won’t
have to ask you for anything extra
on this week’s allowance, as I was
afraid I’d have to do.”
He handed me a $5 bill. “I can’t
quite understand your system of fi
nance,” he said as he kissed me good
by, but he laughed and I felt glad
that his vexation had passed away. I
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।he receiver. Betty’s‘W^j|»|MMy
gracious/ to say the leasC^^^F
Th? dinner was very good. I made
the mayonnaise and whipped the
cream for the dessert. Malcolm
seemed very much impressed when I
told him that I had prepared the din
ner myself with Cousin Fannie’s help.
“You are adding cooking to ytour
other accomplishments,” he said.
‘That’s what my wife is going to do,
aren’t you, dear?”
“Yes,” she answered quietly.
She was very quiet, indeed, and the
more Malcolm and I talked and
laughed over some of the good old
times we used to have the stiller she
grew.
I really don’t see how Malcolm ever
happened to marry such a glum little
creature with no vivacity.
She scarcely smiled even when I re
lated how, when attending a house
party once, Malcolm and I z ran away
by ourselves late one evening for a
moonlight row and in our haste to get
into the boat, I fell into the water and
he carried me, dripping, back to the
house, where every one thought him
quite a hero for rescuing me, for they
didn’t know that the water was only
a foot deep where I fell. We laughed
heartily at the recollection, but she
merely turned to Cousin Fannie and
asked in her stilted way If she was
found of boating and such things.
Poor Malcolm! I fear his marriage
was a mistake.
Child’s Burden of Care.
“You must try to be like God. son
nie,” eaid the kindly minister to the
worried looking child who entertained
him in the parlor while his mother, up
stairs, was preparing for company. “I
guess I must be,” the boy answered,
wrinkling his brows, “for God and me
gets blamed for about everything that
happens in this house. If it’s a big
thing, they say the Lord did it, and if
any little thing goes wrong it’s sure
to be me!”
* Would Not Part With Dog-
Nb> pnly in England and America,
but in Germany, fanciers pay high
prices for dogs. At the recent exhi
bition of .dogs at Cassel a Frenchman
offered $3,000 for a police dog. The
dog belongs to Sergeant Dacker, who
refused the tempting offer, observing
that" his dog should net quit Germany
at any price.
Seven Pounds of Toothache.
A keeper, who was attracted the
other day by trumpetings and loud
roarings from the elephant cage in a
menagerie at Woodbridge, England,
found one of the elephants in an
agony of toothache. He was unable
to relieve it, and later heard a thud
on the floor. It was found that the
elephant had cast a tooth weighing,
it is stated, about seven pounds.
Bacred to the memory of Walker
Wr Walden, who departed this life
on the 15th day of February”, 1912.
Mr. Walden had been sorely afflict
ed for many years, though he bore
his affliction without murmuring. He
was strictly an honest, upright gen
tleman, and his motto was that any
thing that was worth doing at all was
worth doing well.
He died quietly at his home in Mc-
Intyre, surrounded by all of his im
mediate family, which consisted of
three sons and four daughters and
an almost heartbroken wife. The
family was almost heart-broken at the
loss of father and husband, but the
good Lord, who promised to be a hus
band to the widow and a father to
the orphan, will care for you discon
solate ones, and we commend you
into his hands.
The funeral service w'as conducted
by A. S. Avant, pastor of Mclntyre
church, and kind hands placed the
last remains of our friend and broth
er in the cold grave, where God said
all flesh must go.
Mr. Walden had been postmaster
at Mclntyre since 1887, which place
he filled with credit to himself and
satisfaction to the government.
The floral offerings were most
beautiful and the heart wreath was
presented by the Local Union No.
414, International Brotherhood of
Electi-ical Workers of Macon, through
his son, J. B. Walden, who is an
honored member of that order.
Look on me as you pass by;
As you are now so once was I;
As 1 am now so you must be,
Prepare for death, for you will soon
follow me.
Written by A. S. AVANT.
BAH! BAH! BLACK SHEEP.
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The Wife (at the summer hotel) —I
saw you flirting on the porch.
The Husband —Bah!
The Wise —You needn’t act so sheep
ish about it.
Use of Cement Saved Bridges.
At Hamburg there are two bridges
the masonry of which was threatening
to fall in ruins, being traversed by
innumerable cracks of varying size.
A remarkable process has just been
made use of to rejuve^te these
bridges. A number of Iroles tvere
bored throughout the structure, so as
to give access to the interior and
cement was injected by pumps under
pressure Reports on the present con
dition of the two bridges are favor
able.
Premature Escape.
In Rooks county, Kan., thirty years
ago a man was charged with murder.
The evidence was all in, the attor
neys had made their pleas, and the
jury was out deliberating. The man
gave the sheriff the slip and has never
been seen to this day. Five minutes
after his escape the jury returned a
verdict of not guilty.—Kansas City
Journal.
Too Buey to Be Interrupted.
"Why didn’t you notify Mrs. Wom
bot that her house was on fire?”
“Well, I went over there for that pur
pose. But she’s a rather keen bridge
player, and I couldn’t get an oppor
tunity to interrupt the game.”—Wash
ington Herald.
. Misconception Corrected.
A good many mistakes arise from
misapprehension. For instance, a den
tist advertises that he will extract
teeth without pain. You suppose he
means the patient will not experience
pain. That is a wrong conclusion. It
Is the dentist who feels no pain.
Real Object of Life.
Pay as little attention to discour
agements as possible, plow ahead as
a steamer does, rough or smooth, rain
or shine, to car^y your cargo and
make your port is the point.—Maltbie
B. Babcock.
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pN COUNTY, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, M ARCH 1, 1912.
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