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/ V DEVOTED TO KOME INTERESTS, PROGRESS AMD CULTURE #1.450 a Year in Advanct IERR\, HOUSTON COUNTY, gJL THURSDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1902, Pulling His Weight, Strange Origin of the Christmas Tr Most of St. Louis Republic. The President lately observed that every man should “pull his weight.” With respect to pulling, man kind divides itself into three classes: Those who pull their weight and more; those who pull barely their weight, and those who pull less. There are a few heavy-draft fel lows, veritable wheel horses, who pull vastly more than their fair share. They are societiy’s best and truest heroes. Outside of these the load is pretty • evenly distributed. Upon the men who pull more than their weight socie ty depends for its advancement. If they were to abandon the load to those who pull simply then- own weight and those who pull less, retrogration would iuevita- bly ensue. It follows that the man who pulls simply his own is only a grade better than the man who pulls nothing, His only virtue is negative, his sole superiority lies is the fact that he does not liter ally retard progress. As a matter of fact, he is equal ly blameworthy with him who is pulled along, for he moves with the advancement made possible by the pullers, takes advantage of conditions created by them, and his way is made easy by their efforts; in return for whicli he gives nothing and lends no assis tance. He is the crime of medi ocrity added to the greater crime of selfishness. The man who pulls nothing is so much dead weight. He im pedes progress; adds to the bur- don of Ins fellow-man ; his exam ple tends to demoralize the man scarcely a degree above him who does pull as much as his weight; in geueral, he makes for confus ion, disorganization and disorder. He is a parasite and worse than one. Fortunately, he constitutes an ignomiuiously small frac tion of society. He is the pauper, the criminal and the merely idle. He upon whom the greatest censure should fall is the selfish man who pulls his own weight and who can pull more but will not. He constitutes a large pro portion of society, and conditions of stagnation may be directly laid at his door. In him is the greatest latent power for good, but he will not exercise it. He represents the greatest possibility for society’s advancement, but he will pull only so much. In him lies the hope of ideal conditions as contrasted with existing ones, if he can be induced to look be yond his own fancied self-inter est. When the weight is evenly dis tributed and every man pulls his fair share, all men will be heroes, mediocrity \Vill have no place in the vocabulary, and the pauper, the idle and the criminal will be transformed into workers. What is the magic out of which the change will come? , ; The Richmond Dispatch (Dem.) says: “Upon the whole the mes sage is characterized by a caution which the public would hardly have expected of Mr. Roosevelt. He seems to be feeling his way as to many questions. He seesaws between the trusts and 3 the labor vote and in many places in the message we perceive that he is looking and hoping to succeed himself in the presidency.” Foils A Deadly Attack. “My wife was so ill that good physicians were unable to help her,” writes M. M. Austin, of Winchester, Ind., “but was-.com pletely cured by Dr. King’s New Life Pills.” They work wonders in stomach and liver troubles. Cure constipation, sick headache. 25/ at Dr. Holtzclaw’s drug store. us know that the Christ- J M mas tree comes to us direct from ■:$ i 1 Germany. And we know of the tree-worship of the Druids which obtained in England and Frunoe, and which probably had some in fluence on the later use of the tree in the Christian festival. c >* But we do not all know that a -V1 V I similar festival with the tree as a *' 1 crowning feature is observed among many heathen nations,! aud tnat it comes from sun-wor ship, which is older than history.' ^ The levival of the sun after the T-<? winter solatia has ever been the' ^ subject of rejoicing aud of eele-1 bration by ceremonies which rep ! resent the new light brought back to the world. Our tree, with its small candles, its gilded knick-i I-I /All - A knacks and toys for the children, j li-V/ iu'D is a direct desendaut of this old ! festival in honor of the sun. i Traces of it exist . in Iceland, j ' AOi where the “service-tree” is found 663 MUBBAA adorned with burning lights dm--! ing Christinas night. The Eng- ■Doj-pr lish yule-log is a faint survival i . of this festival. But it is beyond these that I wish to draw your at- ! ^ 1 tention, back further even than .'openiff! the Druid mysteries of the Gal- 1 lie forests. It is to China, that home of all wonders and of all As* J), history. It has been shown that rtr as long ago as 247 B. C. a trie EMMH with a hundred-lamps and flowers was placed on the steps of the andieuce-hall. This appears again in the records of Princess Yang, • who lived 718-755 A. D., and who , caused a hundred lamp tree eiglv- j ty feet high to be erected on |j mountain. It was lighted dur-i ing New Year’s night, and the il- Afc a nominal coat by joining COLEMAN’S CIRCULATING LIBRARY. Fifty cents per mouth, $3 00 for six mouths, or $5.00 fpr twelve months. Write for new List of Books and farther particulars. I also handle a Complete line of BOOKS AND STATIONARY, am special attention to Mail Orders, My Houston County Friends are Invited to Call When Iii MuuoX, T. A. COLEMAN, 1 308 Second Street, MACON, GA. OF THC ATLANTA CONSTITUTION UPOM TOTAL PORT RECEIPTS OF COTTON 1st SEPT., 1902, TO tmh jANj1 ©ontbmbt- ©L.os&ac& o eEcS§:m SISST 3* m< To the one WBaklnc; tho exact, or tho nearest to tho the receipts of cotton AT ALL iSUiTBD 8 TAT F. 8 P 1002, to January 80, 8908-• * Toth© next JiearaeS: ©atlbiate | To the sccottd next nearest •... To the five next nearest r : 00 ore To th o ten next most rest p do <*> r. c To the fifteen next nearest - • • 1 c oj c c- - To the t wenty next nearest 1:- >. esu To the fifty next noare.sf fb c < To the one hundred nearest j— fc> c= •?. estimate of* / "om en.coo V. f OOO ...... 5 GOO 8 00 r..o 6 :< 2C3 pi lroc) com For distribution among those ostiirifistofi mot tk/ing any o< •' » r-’r. Ing within 1,000 baloo oithor way of tho exact ftu-urovi Should the exact figures have boon Riven during th« con-cf,* prior there was offered to tho successful eutimate, If made bcioro then .,.. ' Crand total ./ Conditions oi Sending E&ticmstes in this fE&zimr fl] Send $1.C5 for. WEEK LY CONSTITUTION and SUNNY SOUTH, boll, oq,e year, apa iicnd two cutiniatOH Itl tliie contoat—that Is one eitlmatafor the SUNNY SOUTH and another estimate for THE COJtt’T.TUTtON. [2] Send $1.00 for WEEKLY CONSTITUTION one year end with It one efttimitfa in the (to-.itent. [3] SendCOo for SUNNY SOUTH one year and with It one estimate in Use couteeL [41 Send OOo for one estimate alone in the contest If vou don’t want a eutSGorlptlora, or If you wish to mako a numbor of estimates on this basis you mry send Yri 3 ill* ostlmatoo for o^ory ON'E DOL LAR forwarded at tho came time estimates aro’ sent. If c,s nvt.f.v utt TEN esiAnv'.tos are oont at the same time, without subscription, tho condor may forward them whh only THREE do!iars--thls ape- oial discount being offorod only to estimates 61 ton. A poetr.l card receipt v.-i;i be sent for oach estimate so recoivod. Whore cubBcriptlons are cent thoarrivdl o/ trta paper Itself is an acknowledge ment that your estimate has bt»*n rwoolvod and carefully. rocordo :l. [6] The money andtbf anbotriptloa U,® n;imato must come In ilio wime envelope overy time. The eeWmuta, the money •nd tho eubsorip- tlon go together. Thin rule is pastil to. [0] No estimate must be rnuilsd later then December 31et, 1002, [7] In cose of a tie upon any prlr.e eeUiosls, lh« money will be equally divided; STATISTICS OF EAST SEVEN CROPS. THE PORT RECEIPTS for the puet few years, from Sep tember I through tho ilrst tea days of Jnnuary, are given to aid you in making an intelli gent estimate in this contest. It is not necessary to itemlzo your estimate, give It in one plain turn expressed in figures tmiy: let them mean Just what you mean to say. Total Port Receipts from Cotton Year— Soot. -If to January JO. 1805-6 3,662,190 1896- 7 5,139.272 1897- 98 6,961,253 1898- 9 6,166,283 1899- 1900 4.207,855 --mm Secretary Heater, of tho New Orleans Cotton B*change, will furnish tho official figures to decide this contest. Don’t forge.t, every ouhacrlp- lion for yourself or your friends will entitle you to an estimate In the great S20.000 contest.' . tun Foa $i.oo in three estimates, without suiliiwos, (To be changed If rotscriptioni end estimates both are sent.) PUBLISHERS CONSTITUTION, Auantn, Cla. Enter THREE estimate, for me, for |i.u« enclosed. In your current oontest as follows:' Upon Total Port Receipts September t. 1902, toJanuary to. 1903. Name, State ..... NOTE—-If you wish only ONE estimate to the contost, send FIFTY CENTS and fill out only one line of blanks. 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