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Horse, Buggy and Harness
I Commencing MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, every customer will have deposited in a
yjnj Sealed Box, with each pair of Shoes bought for CASH, a card bearing his or her name. One of these
A cards will be drawn by a party selected by the contestants and to the name thereon will be awarded
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HORSE, BUGGY AND HARNESS
Buyers of SHOES have everything to gain and nothing to lose by purchasing from us nil their Footwear. You get shoes of Highest Quality at the Lowest Prices and of Standard Makes only.
>»o Job Lots, Rejections, Odds and Ends, Bankrupt Stock, Fire Stock or other junk.
Call at Store or Telephone 566, for Full Particulars About Horse, Buggy and Harness.
| WE HANDLE SUeH MAKES AS FOLLOWS:
For /Men-"Johnston & Murphy, $6, $6.50 and $7; Slater & Morrill, $5 and $5.50; The Co-operative,
$4 and $4.50; T. D. Barry, $3.50; Marcy Bros. Co., $3, $2.50 and $2.
For Ladies—Smaltz, Goodwin & Co., $4 and $5; Lindner’s, $3.50 and $3; Hoge & Walden, $3 and
$2.50; Sherwood Shoe Co., $2, and the product of several leading manufacturers of Shoes for
Girls and Boys. Prices range from $1 to $3.50.
GET YOUR NAME IN THE BOX.
LESTER-CLARK SHOE CO.
516 Cherry St.
Phone 566.
MACON, GA.
1OUEERJXPERIEHCE
Alma-Tadema’s Miraculous Es
cape From Death.
FREAKS OF AN EXPLOSION.
Th* Artist's House Was Wrecked, and
How He Got Out Alive and Unin
jured It a Mystery—The Puzzle of the
Staircase and Hallway.
In 1874 a cunnlbout carrying a hun
dred barrels of gunpowder along the
Regent’s park canal In London ex
ploded just opposite the magnificent
house of Laurence Alma-Tndcimi, the
famous artist, across the road. This
happened at 4 o'clock on u rainy mom
lug. Every window In London within
a radius of a mile was smashed, and
the houses lu the immediate vicinity,
though solidly built of brick and stone,
wore wrecked.
“I was sound asleep In bod at the
time," said Alma-Tadema, "and the
first 1 knew of the explosion was when
I found myself standing out on the
slilewulk lu front of my house In the
rain, with my pajamas on and burc
feet. IIow I got there 1 never knew.
Tlie entire top of the brick wall in
front of the lawn before my house was
blown off, and I he front of the house
Itself was ns If driven In by the blow
°f u giant's list.
"The* caualbont, we found out after
ward, had blown up underneath a solid
bridge that crossed the canal at that
point. Had It not been for that my
house and the others near it would
have been utterly knocked to pieces.
It was fortunate, too, that there was
no one on the street at the time. Ilnd
the explosion occurred in the daytime
hundreds of persons might have been
killed or maimed.
“Rut the strangest episode connected
With tlio event concerned the man
whose duty It was to keep watch on
the bridge during the night Ills name
was Peter Knox. He was thirty-seven
years old, married and had two chil
dren. I knew the fellow and had often
chatted with him on tho bridge. The
day before the explosion he had ar
ranged with a friend of his to come at
4 o’clock and relieve him. It was a
Saturday, and he wanted to take his
wife and children a little trip down to
Bushey park on the Thames, and he
■wished to get to his home In east Lon
don In time so ns to have breakfast
and be off early on Sunday morning.
"Well, as 4 o’clock drew near, Peter,
bo he told me afterward, began to feel
anxious lest his friend should have
forgotten tho appointment. He paced
up and down the bridge and looked
up the street, but the morning was so
dark and misty with the rain that he
could see only n short distance. A
few minutes before 4, he said, he no
ticed a line of canalboats come slow
ly down toward the bridge, but paid
no special attention to them.
"Just before the first boat passed
under the bridge he stepped off It,
though in doing so he was infringing
the regulations, and suuntered up the
street In the direction from which he
expected his friend to n.ppear. He had
gone about forty yards when the ex
plosion took place, and when he turned
not a brick of the bridge was left If
he had been less Impatient or If his
friend had been more prompt, one or
both of them would never have been
seen or heard of again.
“But my own little adventure was
singular enough. As I said, I was
not conscious of having been awak
ened by the explosion, still less of
having got out of bed, come down
stairs, opened the front door and step
ped out to the sidewalk. The shock
had knocked all memory of these acts
out of my bead, and I have never re
covered It
“But what puzzled me most was the
condition of things I found when I
went back Into the house. The hall
was a mass of wreckage, nud the stair
case from top to bottom was covered
with pieces of broken glass, sharp as
razors aud so distributed that I found
it Impossible to ascend without a light
to show me whero not to tread.
"Nevertheless I had come down
those same stairs, with my eyes shut
or unseeing, and had never so much ns
scratched my bare feet. The thing
was Impossible, and yet I had done It.
I hnd been skeptical about miracles
before that, but since then I have been
both a believer and an evangelist”—
Chicago Record-Herald.
His Quietus.
The bridegroom relaxed for a mo
ment Ills arm’s tense pressure.
“What would you do." he whispered
hoarsely, “If by some terrible accident
I should be drowned?”
In the mild moonlight he saw his
young wife pale and shudder.
“Oh, don’t, Tom!” she cried. “How
can you? You know I don’t look well
In black.”—Chicago Inter Ocean.
CROPS GROW WITHOUT RAIN.
How the Syrian Peasant Makes Use o*
the Moist Subsoil.
In Syria and Palestine from the be
ginning of April until October there Is
practically no rain, yet In July the
fields teem with u vigorous growth of
watermelons, tomatoes, cucumbers,
etc., all flourishing without artificial
watering, although at that time uo
rain has fallen for many weeks.
In fact, the Syrian peusnut from the
moment his seed has been sown prays
that uo rni'i may fall. During the pe
riod of growth of a crop the surface of
the soil to a depth of six or eight
Inches Is perfectly dry and loose. Be
low this surface layer will be found
moist soli, In which the roots extend
aud grow vigorously. In this moist
subsoil plants continue to grow until
late autumn. When the crop is re
moved In the autumn the rains com
mence, and the lund Is plowed after
each heavy rain as soon as the soli
begins to dry.
Two primary objects are kept In
view In plowing—to furnish a favora
ble surface for taking up all the water
and to prevent Its upward evaporation
from the subsoil. The great point is
to keep tho upper six Inches of soli
perfectly loose and friable, so that the
moisture from below Is not drawn up
ward aud lost In evaporation, but does
not ascend higher than the compact
subsoil that Is not broken up by the
plow. For this reason the plowing Is
shallow, nvoraglug from four to six
Inches In depth.
When the time for sowing the seeil
arrives the land Is plowed to a depth
of about six Inches and the seed Is
sown from an arrangement attached
to the plow, falls on the damp subsoil
and Is covered by the soil closing over
behind the plowshare. From this time
the upper stratum of loose soil pre
vents the escape of moisture upward
beyond the wet subsoil on which the
seeds rest and Into which their roots
after the process of germination
spread.—Chicago Tribune.
Road Tax Notice.
There seems to have arisen some con
fusion ns to the purpose of the levy of
the commutation tux of $2.00 per head,
which is to be collected this Fall. This
levy is for THIS year, and is not in
tended for a commutation ihx for
NEXT year as seems to have been un
derstood by some. It shall be the pol
icy, however, of the Board to collect
road tax only in the Fall ol the year
hereafter so that next Spring there
will be no rond tax collected, but the
road tax for the yenr will be collected
in the Fall. Road overseers Hre au
thorized to receipt for 1008 only.
I. W. Newman, K. 1). Joiner,
Secretary. Chairman
Not Impressed.
“I have been abroad In the best of
society,” boasted the city youth. “Why,
even my trunks bear the labels of
Switzerland.”
“Gosh, that ain’t nothing, sonny!”
drawled his rural uncle. “So does a
box of cheese.”—Chicago News.
Hardened.
Tom—I’m going to ask your father
tonight for your hand. Tess—But you
don’t seem to be a bit nervous. Tom-
No. I’ve been both a life Insurance
agent and a book canvasser*—Pick-Me-
Up.
In Venice.
“Yes,” remarked Mrs. Malaprop-Par
tlngton, “we had a lovely time In Ven
ice. There are no cabs there, you
know, because the streets are all full
of water. One hires n chandelier and
he rows you about In a dongola.”
She Recalled an Instance.
“Mrs. Peddlcord,” said that lady’s
husband, “did you ever say anything
that you afterward regretted saying?”
“Certainly. I said ‘Yes’ once and
have been sorry for it ever since.”—
Detroit Free Press.
Change Road 93rd District.
Office of Commissioners of Roads and
Revenues, Washington Comity.
September 8, 1908.
Notice is hereby given that if no good
cause is shown the contrary by or
on the 8th day of Octub - ', 1908, tlm
following change of road (reported by
special Commit tec »s of Public
Utility) will be made ms follows :
Commencing at. n big Sycamore tree,
corner land mark, between N.L Adams
Hnd Dr. Win, Rawlings and discontinu
ing old road-bed leading around swamp
to ford, and opening new road from
the Sycamore tree above mentioned
through lands of N. L. Adams, inter
secting old road at ford thus making h
inure direct route between the above
mentioned points.
B. D. .Toinkk, Ch’m’n.
I. W. Newman*, Sec’y.
Put your Money in The Farmers & Merchants
Bank, Tennille, Ga., Where it will Be
Insured Against Loss—
Instead of putting it in a stove, where it will be burned.
He Hid $400.00 in a Stove;
Wife burned up money!
Macon, Cm., Sept. 17, 1008. j;
H. P. Sehnitler who resides on Third Hi,, Im aiue the losejr of
eight fifty dollar bills this morning when Ins wil<-arose early and
made lire in the kitchen stove ic prepare the morning meal. He
had worked hard and saved the $400.U0 to buy u home, and drew
his money out of the bank to pay for his lot Having to keep
Lite money over until the next day, the man placed his money in
ti.e tiie grate of his stove to hide it troni burglars; his wife not
knowing it was there, made fire in the stove and when husband
went to secure Irn money it was burning.
If this man had left his money in the Bank and paid for the
lot with a check, In* not only would have hnd his money snfe,but
1 In- check would Imve bet n a double receipt for the money he
pa d out.
But Your Money in a Bank \\ here it Is Insured Auainst
Lors; ask to sec the evidence of the insurance.
The Farmers & Merchants Bank, Tennille, Ga., Insures all
of its Deposits against loss from any anti all causes.
Yours veiy truly,
S. C. KNOX, Cashier.
HERALD and TRIBUNE Both 1.00
ir We want a good corresnondent j
in every section of Washington eourty
to send the news each week tn this
paper. We furnish stumps aid
stationery and send the paper fre e.
When a woman does It at home she
calls it the “wash,” but when she
sends It down town she calls It the
“laundry.”—Atchison Globe.
A LETTER FROM
NORTH CAROLINA
Warrcnton, X. C.—I was nearly dead
with kidney affection for six months,
growing worse all the time. My case
was ho|»cless—was unable to get about
but little. I had tried everything with
little benefit. I took three bottles of
Stuart’s Buchu and Juniper and was
perfeetlr cured. Am now well and all
right. 1 owe my life to Stuart’s Buchu
and Juniper.—H. T. Macon.
If you suffer with backache, dull head
ache, swollen feet, stiff joints, and have
no energy and sec imaginary specks in
the air, you have symptoms of kidney
trouble.
Stuart's Buchu and Juniper will relieve
you. All druggists, $1.00. Write for
free sample. We will send enough to
prove its wonderful merits.
Stuari Drug Manufacturing Co.
ATLANTA. GA.
WHEN YOU COME TO THE FAIR
Don’t fail to visit our storefand inspect
our magnificent stock of
Furniture, Carpets and Rugs.
Make our store your headquarters when
in Macon.