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IHE VENTURED HIS LIFE | <•£ *4 V >N J i By S. V. LEVI 3. £ 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! I / I 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.” T< 1- Z-Z 1 FROM THE BEAR’S PAW | v 0 u >*< v £< 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. s ' -- 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. 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