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There wasn’t a thing against Bessie
Hicks, excepting the fact that her
aging father was ,
only a flagman at
the railroad cross
ing, and he was
rather a forlorn ||
figure in his shab
by coat with its 5
one empty sleeve.
At any rate, four IWffl *
or five of the girls fjj
who attended the
village school evi
dently considered \ n qB
it obligatory to (fry 3|
ignore Bessie in
their recess \C
games, judging «dV
from the slights
they thrust upon
her.
However, Bes- fi ( X, . I
sie’s deportment J
was something to fl • \ B
be emulated with ,1 II \'T"a2m
profit; moreover, l\ 1 . \
she was an apt
pupil; and even In
a school yard may
be found a goodly
percentage of
- people to
whom qualities of '
heart and mind appeal before mere ex
ternals.
1 “Shucks!” ejaculated Lena White,
"Edna Larkin needn’t consider her
•elf so superior to Bessie. She’s way
below her in class—always is, dear
knows; besides, she hasn’t half her
<ood manners."
The four or five "best dressers” had
a most exclusive time of it, so it was
not the flagman’s little girl who had
.Muse to complain of loneliness, by
•ay means.
With the older children hi school*
the tots at home were sometimes per-
to play in a neighbor’s back
■yard. They required watching, too,
sometimes more than they got, for the
instinct is particularly strong
tn some wee ones.
That this was true Os at least two
Laymates, the small maids in question
rere to demonstrate soon, for, hand
a hand, they managed to elude their
dders, and were heading straight for
die “wailwoad track,” as Dotty pro
nounced it.
The screech of a locomotive whistle
was sufficient to prevent Dotty’s com
ipanion from venturing further, so
•Maizie prudently turned back in the
direction of home.
The next minute there was a tiny
White-garbed figure in the very mid
idle of the track right above the watch
box of the old flagman.
The child, bewildered by fright, was
vmcgytain which way to go to get out
cf the way of the oncoming train.
It took but another moment for the
flagman to comprehend the little one’s
peril, and in the same moment he was
racing from his box with dhe engine
well nigh at his heels.
Leaping on the track with the grim,
belching monster horribly near him,
he had barely time to seize the half
paralyzed toddler by the back of her
clothing, and to swing her aside with
his one arm, before the train whistled
by on its thunderous path.
A few pedestrians who had wit
nessed the spectacle groaningly turned
away their heads to avoid seeing the
mangled body of the helpless baby.
Great was their relief, great as was
their amazement, when their dazed
eyes could assure them of the truth,
that the almost-victim had escaped
any worse injury than a few bruises!
Excitement ran high among the
group of spectators, and while one
who recognized the child was taking
her to her home, the little knot was
presently augmented by the pupils
from the school house.
‘‘Who’s hurt? What’s the matter?’’
demanded the nowcomers, in alram.
“Couldn’t be our Dorothy, could it!”
almost screamed Edna Larkin, without
waiting for a full account. Her fear
winged feet never halted until they
bore her to her home.
“Then she isn’t injured. They told
the truth. Oh! I thought—”
“Yes,” interrupted the neighbor who
had carried in the object of solicitude,
her escape was miraculous; but even
more so was the escape of her res
cuer. A braver deed never was per
form jd than his, and physically han
dier ped as he was, too.”
“ er rescuer? I never waited to —”
* tagman Hicks,” announced Mrs.
!<■ n, “I’ve just been told. Such
b ;m as his can be repaid never!
n we owe the life of our pet”
a went to her room where she
weep unseen. The debt was too
for words!
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Uj'** Fruit to Mayor of London.
Of 1 I ancient city privilege was wit
at London a few days ago,
when the lord mayor, Sir David Bur
nett, was presented by the printers
with a fine collection of luscious fruit.
The gift marked the continuance of a
custom which has existed for many
years and is a survival of the days
when the lord mayor was entitled to
sample all the fruit that came into
the city. All the fruit presented re
cently was grown in England, and
most of it came from Kent. Perfectly
shaped pineapples, velvety peaches,
apples, pears and melons, and, indeed,
almost every variety of fruit England
can produce were to be seen in the
overflowing cornucopia and three
large baskets, decorated with carna
tions and blue silk ribbon in which
the gift was contained.
APPEAL SHE COULDN’T RESIST
Possibly Adjectives Tramp Employed
I Had Nothing to Do With It, but
You Can’t Tell.
! “Mad am,” began Weary Willie, as
i an elderly woman opened the door
in answer to his knock, “could
you—”
“We have no cold victuals to give
: away,” she coldly interrupted him
with.
“I was going to ask you, madam,”
he continued, “for—”
“And we don’t give away old
clothes!” she broke in again.
“Nay, madam, neither do I ask for
clothing. Will you kindly loan me a
pencil and a bit of paper and an en
velope ?”
“What do you want them for?”
she asked suspiciously.
“I would write to my poor old
mother, madam—my poor old moth
er, who sits knitting in far-away Kal
amazoo, and—”
She handed him the articles, and
five minutes later he got her to the
door again to show her what he had
scrawled. It read:
“Dear Mother This being
Thanksgiving day, and a kind-heart
ed and good and beautiful lady hav
ing given me an old coat and a pair
of shoes and made me drink three
cups of Mocha coffee and eat a large
piece of roast beef and a whole mince
pie—”
“I took you for a tramp,” she
said, as she returned the scrawl.
“But I am, ma’am.”
“Oh, no, you are not—you are a
lawyer.”
, But he got a square meal.
FORM A NATURAL BUTTRESS
“Peculiar Growth Provided by Nature
for the Support of Some Trees
In the Tropics.
A remarkable elm tree stands on
the banks of the Oklawaha, near
Silver Springs, Fla. The interesting
feature of this tree are the high but
tress roots at the base of the trunk,
says the Scientific American. These
buttresses are plank-like outgrowths
not more than an inch or two thick,
extending six or eight feet outward,
and about five feet upward along the
stem. These acted as stays or props
to preserve the upright position of
the tree, which grows in wet, shallow
soil underlaid with hardpan. They
are a common occurrence in many
tropical trees, which, as a rule, have
tall, straight trunks, with the
branches and leaves only at the top,
and therefore require some support
as is offered by these buttress roots,
Such “spurs,” as they are often
called, are commonly seen in large
mahogany, Spanish cedar and ceiba
trees in tropical America, but it is
very unusual to find trees from the
temperate climate with such pro
nounced buttress development.
UNPLEASANT TASTE.
A Chicago housewife who was pre
paring to put some furs and other
winter clothing away for the sum
mer placed a small bag of moth balls
on the table in the dining room and
went into the kitchen to look after
her baking. When she returned she
saw her young son making a wry
face. x
“What’s wrong, Robert?” she in
quired.
“Nothing much mamma,” replied
the boy, “but I do believe those
marshmallows are spoiled.”
CONTAMINATION.
<f Jou believe in the curfew, do you
not?”
“Sure, I do. Think of the bed
manners one may acquire by coming
home on the owl cars at night.”
THE WINNER.
“So Miss Biffers is married at
last ?”
“Yes.”
“And who is the happy man?”
“Her dear old dad.”
COMMON DISEASE.
“He’s got the foot and mouth dis
ease.”
“Never heard of it, what’s it like ?”
he opens his mouth he
puts his foot in it.”
CHEERING SIGN.
“There is evidently fresh heart in
the theatrical companies.”
“Why so?”
“The price of eggs is prohibitive.”
TURNED AROUND.
“This store advertises a revolution
in men’s underwear.”
“I don’t think I’d like underwear
that buttoned up the back.”
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By ANNIE H INRICHSEN. >♦<
Gibraltar and I are partners. Gib
raltar is a dancing bear. Some people
might say I am Gibraltar's owner, but
between him and me there’s never
been a question of master and beast
We're partners, share and share alike.
We walk from town to town. We
have enough to eat, and there is no
sweeter sleep than the sleep one gets
under the stars.
One day as Gibraltar and I were
strolling along a country lane we
saw a girl coming toward us. She
stopped a little way and called:
“Will your bear hurt me?”
“No, indeed, miss,” says I. “He’s
as gentle as a kitten.”
She came up to us and my! she
was pretty. Her eyes were like the
sky and her cheeks were like the
wild roses in the hedges.
“Will he mind if I pat him?” she
asked.
She patted old Gibraltar’s head
and pulled his ears. “I do 10ve bears,”
she said. “What’s his name?”
I told her and she said that was a
beautiful name for a bear.
I made him dance and she sat down
by the road and laughed and clapped
h er hands.
After awhile she said she must go.
She dropped a dollar in my money
basket and went her way.
It was about sundown and we
stopped at the first haystack and ate
our supper and went to sleep.
In the night I woke up. There
were people on the other side of the
haystack. A woman was crying.
Then a man said he was sorry; that
he couldn’t help it; he didn’t love her
any more; change was the law of na
ture and she must accept conditions,
She said something about the love
of the old days and the claim it gave
her. That seemed to make the fellow
tired and he said he didn’t care for
hash love. H© asked her to give him
something—l couldn’t hear what- and
she said she wouldn’t, it was hers and
gave a little scream.
“Oh, you brute,” she said. “You’ve
broken the chain and stolen it.”
That woke Gibraltar and he groan
ed. The man came around the hay
stack. “What are you doing here?”
he asked.
“Sleepin’,” I says.
“Get out,” says he. “This isn’t a
hoboes’ roost.”
Next morning when I woke up I
saw we were near a house and we
ambled toward it looking for a break
fast. It was a big house with a long
porch in front of it and on the porch
were a lot of people. It wasn’t a farm
house, as I had supposed, but some
swell’s summer cottage, and Gibraltar
and I had butted into a house party.
When they saw us they called to us
to come to the porch, they wanted Gib
raltar to dance.
On the lowest step sat my little sun
shine lady and beside her was the
fellow I had seen the night before.
Near them was a tall woman with
yellow hair.
After Gibraltar had done his stunts
I passed the money basket. The last
person it came to was the fellow be
side the sunshine lady and he was sc
busy talking to her that he never
lookpd at what he pulled out of his
pocket and threw into the basket.
I hung the basket on Gibraltar’s
paw and told him to make a bow.
He bowed so low that the basket slid
off and fell at the sunshine lady’s
feet. There was something in it which
didn’t look like money and she picked
it up.
It was a gold locket about the size
of a half dollar. She opened it, and
there was the fellow’s picture and:
“To Beatrice, from George.”
She snapped the locket shut and
handed it to the tall woman. “This
is yours, I think,” she said.
The man looked as if he wanted to
smash things, Gibraltar and me par
ticularly.
The little sunshine lady put her
hands in Gibraltar's fur and shook his
big head. “Gibraltar,” she said, “you
have done a great deal for me today
and I thank you, old fellow. Even
out of the paws of bears —”
She kind o’ choked then and I took
up Gibraltar’s chain and we went off.
When Snuff Was Useful.
“Some people have the knack of
doing and saying the right thing at
the right time,” comments Lord Ross
more in “Things I Can Tell.” And as
an instance of the value of presence
of mind in an emergency, he tells of
a dog fight in Bond street, London.
Two terriers that belonged to two
socially eminent ladies had engaged in
a businesslike tussle.
The distracted ladies alternately
made tearful but vain appeals to
their favorites and to the bystanders.
Just as the fight seemed about to ter
minate fatally for one of the animals
a blase-looking “chappie” elbowed his
way through the crowd with a polite
“Permit me.”
He calmly surveyed the two strug
gling dogs; then he produce a hand
some gold snuffbox and taking a pinch
of snuff from it he dropped a little on
the end of each dog’s nose. A fit of
sneezing ensued, which compelled
them to release their grip, and the
combat came to an end.
With a polite bow to the ladies, the
strategist walked leisurely away.—
Youth’s Companion.
The Only Thing.
“Well, I got something in free of
duty?”
“What was that?”
“The English cigarette I was smok
ing as I left the dock.”
Letters TJueal'fd For.
| Remaining on hand in the Gaines
-1 ville post-office for the week ended
' March 2. 1914:
LADIES :
Mrs. J. J). Blackstock. Miss Eva
Bruce. Mrs. Katie Beall. Mrs. Mary
I). Cox, Miss Rossie Dukes, Mrs.
Mattie Dyche. Mrs. Carl Duukier,
Miss Minnie Hamilton. Mrs. T. B.
Kemp, Mrs. .1. P. Lipscomb. Miss
Mary Little. Miss Heleh R. Perry.
GENTLEMEN:
Joe G. Allen. Dee Abercrombie,
C. L. Ash, W. F. Barrett, M. A.
Bramyo. C. S. Bowling. J. H. Cobb,
I. F. Cox, Reid Davis, T. M. Early,
W. J. Flanders, Prin W. M. Holsen
back, Joe Hamilton, J. W. Lang
ford. Jas Lowe, B. H. Medlin, S. P.
Pruitt, W. M. Shelton, Asip Wilson,
Ervin Wallis, J. E. Wallace, Al
bert Wilson, Willie Williams.
Persons calling for same should
say advertised, and give date. One
cent due on each letter.
Mrs. H. W. J. Ham, P. M.
Kickapoo Worm Killer Expels
Worms.
The cause of your child's ills—The
foul, fetid, offensive breath —The
starting up with terror and grinding
of teeth while asleep—The sallow
complexion —The dark circles under
the eyes—Are all indication of
worms. Kickapoo Worm Killer is
what your child needs; it expels the
worms, the cause of the child’s un
healthy condition. For the removal
of seat, stomach and pin worms,
Kickapoo Worm Killer gives sure
relief. Its laxative effect adds tone
to the general system. Supplied as
a candy confection —children like it.
Safe and sure relief. Guaranteed.
Buy a hex today. Price 25c. All
Druggists or by mail. Kickapoo
Indian Med. Co., Philadelphia 01?
St. Louis.
Make Him Content.
One of the principal duties entailed
Upon the housewife is insuring the
comfort of the husband. Every man
is contented so long as the solid com
forts of life are his —so long as hia
meals are to his liking and his home
always ready for his occupancy.
Spring Blood and System
Cleanser.
During the winter months impu
rities accumulate, your blood be
comes impure and thick, and your
kidneys, liver and bowels fail to
work, causing so-called “Spring
Fever.” You feel tired, weak and
lazy. Electric Bitters—the spring
tonic and system cleanser —is what
you need; they stimulate the kid
neys. liver and bowels to healthy
action, expel blood impurities and
restore your health, strength and
ambition. Electric Bitters makes
you feel like new. Start a four
weeks’ treatment—it will put you in
fine shape for your spring work.
Guaranteed. All Druggists. 50c.
and SI.OO. H. E. Bucklen & Co.,
Philadelphia or St. Louis.
Money to Loan.
Unlimited supply of money;
prompt negotiations; very attrac
tive contracts; it will be to your in
terest to see me. H. V. Johnson,
office over Robertson Drug Co.,
Gainesville, Ga.
FRUIT and ORNAMENTAL
TREES, GRAPEVINES, ETC.
Also Simmons’ Seed Corn
for sale. Samples of Seed Corn
and Irish Junipers can be seen
at the Piedmont Drug Store.
Fo r prices phone or write
P. B. Simmons, Gainesville,
Ga. Phone 2704.
QUICK RELIEF FOR
STOMACH MISERY
Mi-o-na will put your Sour, Gassy,
Upset Stomach in Order
If you are a stomach sufferer do
not despair—immediate, safe and
sure relief is at hand. Mi-o-na
Stomach Tablets, sold in fifty cent
boxes at all drug stores, are a spe
cific for out-of-order stomachs.
Mi-o-na is not only a quick diges
tive. but a stimulant and strengthen
er of the stomach walls. It increases
the flow of digestive fluids, sooths
the irritated membrane, and puts
the stomach in shape to do the work
nature intended.
If suffering with indigestion, dys
pepsia, gastritis, or any of the vari
ous forms of stomach misery, usually’
indicated by nervousness, distress
after eating, headache, diziness, or
sour stomach, do not wait, do not
suffer needlessly—take Mi-o-na to-
I day. J.,B‘ George sells it on money
back if not satisfied plan.
I Our Southern Friends are Proud of Mexican Mustang lisunc ii |
because it has saved them from so much suffering., It soothes m
|| and relieves pain soon as applied. Is made of oils, without B
§ any Alcohol and cannot burn of £ting the flesh. I iundreds B
w of people write us that Mustang B
Liniment cured them when all
other remedies failed.
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MEXICAN
Mustang I
Liniment Mifaltell
The Great Family Remedy for j
Sore Throat, Colds, ♦
Mumps, Lameness, 'vl
Cuts, Burns, Backache, y
Rheumatism, Scalds,
Sprains, Bruises
and the ailments of your
Mules, Horses,
Cattle, Sheep.
and Fowl. : yi
i ■ SW
' Since 1848 the foremost
w T > ain Reliever of the South.
| Price 25c., 50c. and $1 a bottle. ■
Take this to your dealer and say you want a
Mexican Mustang Liniment. |
Gainesville Midland Railway Schedule
lime Table No. 12, Dec. 18, 191&
LEAVE GAINESVILLE
No. I—dailyl—daily 9.35 a. m
No. 3—daily 4.50 p. m
No. 11 —Daily except Sunday 2.30 p. m
ARRIVE GAINESVILLE
No. 2 —Daily 9.30 a. m
No. 4 —Daily 4.45 p. m
No.l2 —daily except Sundav - 12.50 p. m
Money to Loan.
We are prepared to negotiate Loans in any amount on
improved Farms in Hall County, on five years time, at low
rates of interest.
HAM & THOMAS.
Rooms 8, 9. Granite Bldg. Phone 302
Florida Service
VIA
Southern Railway_
4 4 J A n m Pullman sleeping cars, dining car, I day coach
ll.lv d. 111. es —Arrives Jacksonville^.2o p. m.
iOO6 I) TH New Royal Palm; all SteelZTrain—Pullman,
Iv.vu p. ill. drawing room and compartment sleeping
cars?free reclining chair cars—arrives Jacksonville 7.40 a. m.
4AOA n tyi Local sleeping car, Atlanta jto Jacksonville,
lUiVV p. 111. open at 9.1 bp. m.—breakfast on dining car
before reaching Jacksonville 8.40 a. m.
11 40 D TO Pullman drawing room sleeping cars, day
11 '“V p. 111. coaches, breakfast on dining car before
reaching Jacksonville 9.20 a. m.
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GAINESVILLE, GA.