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a: —i rr~ so so t-n sc z: SC ra * - z z ® 06 “V VOL. XXIV. $ 50 . 00 . MONEY IN THE MISSING WORD! The Sentence is Simple! The Word is not Diffi¬ cult! You can Get it! The Sentence is: “TILL TWILIGHT INTO dark; What is the Missing Word? The Contest Closes April 14. The sentence is from the pen of a well known author. The sentence is known to no one except the City Edi¬ tor of The Record, who has it doubly sealed and locked in the safe of the Southern Publishing Co., at Toccoa, Ga., and will not be divulged in any way till the envelope is given to the awarding committee, who decides to whom the money must be paid. We Propose to Give $50.00 to the Gtiesser. For instance: If only one contestant gets the word right, be or she, as the case may be, will have all the money. If more than one strike it, the sum will be equally divided, each correct answer receiving its pro¬ portionate share of the money. The Condition Precedent for Sending a Guess At the missing word is that each and every guess must be accompanied by a year’s subscription to The Record; the guess must be sent in the identical en¬ velope that brings the money that pays for the subscrip¬ tion ; forgetting it, or leaving it out by accident or oth¬ erwise, or not knowing of the guess at the time you subscribed, or any other reason, will not entitle one to send a guess afterwards. The guess must come with the subscription or not at all. Should a party send more than one guess, he or she will be entitled to a share of the fund for each correct guess sent; there will be no capital prize —every one will get a first prize ; if more than one person names the missing word pro¬ perly, the money w ill be equally divided and all stand exactly on the same footing. Persons may guess as many times as they send subscriptions. TO AGENTS —We will allow 10 per cent discount and a guess on each subscriber sent in (besides allowing each subscriber a guess.) There must be at least five sub¬ scriptions sent in at once to take advantage of this offer. THE CONTEST CLOSES APRIL 14 — At which time we will pay out to the successful party or parties the full prize amount. IN MAKING YOUR ANSWER —You need not write the sentence out in full, just state simply the missing word for April is u ? 5 The Southern Record Toccoa, Ga. I FINE PRINT ing you want and at shoddy prices? Then send for prices. I SOUTHERN RECORD, Toccoa, Ga. WRIGHT & EDGE, THE DRUGGISTS. Oui diug depaitment is presided o\ ei b\ men who un- derstand their business. We till prescriptions just as they are written—provided, of course house'needs they are written correctly. PAINT Your paint; we’ve got the paint and want to sell it. Therefore get our prices be¬ fore you buv. We sell as cheap as the cheapest. Soda Water and j Cold /-r 1 j jx I/finkS • 1 always on draught. WRIGHT & EDGE, Dispensing Pharmacists. A |s->H r <» Devoted to Southern Progress and Advancement. TOCCOA, HABERSHAM COUNTY, GA., FRIDAY, TIARCH 5, 1897. 10 cj/hJbafc h® SOCIAL M ■s. j ■<**'*» ■' •! PERSONAL OLA JONES “There is a meadow green in slumherland, Where the grass is deep, my haby, Where the daisies blossom on either hand, And nid-nod gaily, by soft winds fanned, Sleep, O sleep, my baby. The little bird swings in its cradle high, O, downy nest, my baby, j The brigtit stars are nodding ’way up in the sky, While the breezes sings them a lullaby ; Best, O rest, my baby. The little brown elf to the woodland hies | By the glow-worm’s gleam, my baby, He lights his dwelling with gay fire-tlies, And frolics and sings till the bright sun rise, Dream, O, dream, my baby. Maude Campbell. Lullabies are always attractive because they always go right to the heart and touch it in its tenderest spot, but I think the one quoted above is unusually sweet, and we will appreciate it all the more when it is known that the composer is a lovely young southern girl, and furthermore, a Georgia girl who makes no pretensions, but simply wrote in this what came sponta¬ neously from her large,warm south¬ ern heart when the women of Ma¬ con were editing for one day the Macon Telegraph. If southern women could have the energy and ambition of our northern sisters to force them to work out what there is in them,we would see some remarkable pro¬ ductions. The few Georgia wo¬ men who have done literary work have proven what can be done. Mrs. Ohl, (Maude Andrews) Mrs Lollie Belle Wily, Mrs. Corinne Stocker Horton, and Miss Ellen Dorth, etc., have all done journal¬ istic work which has attracted wide and complimentary notice. The southern woman has always been endowed with a deep and sen¬ sitive faculty of appreciation and of discerning and worshipping excel¬ lence and beauty in an unusual measure. Then she has an imag¬ ination, memory, surprising in its fidelity and extent, and rich expe¬ riences to draw from. Further¬ more her nature is full of color and her thoughts flow readily when she writes because she does not check the soul, yet she is so fond of being made a great deal of, so contented with the worship of men who would put her up on a pedestal and insist upon doing themselves all that came under the head of real work that she has been careless of literary reputation, and hardly aware of her ability until the wo¬ man’s clubs, which are flooding the country, reached our fair south¬ land, swept away the shallow sur¬ face of character,and uncovered the hidden, yet restless ambition which was a secret even to herself. But on entering this newly | covered field of action,she does not become manish. A true southern \\oman never could be that. Her husband, her children, her home are always first in her heart, and her literary work is not done as a ! means of support, it is done always ■ to make her an intelligent compan- j - on f or ^ er husband, her lover, or I men in general, and a moth- er compe tent to rear chil- dren who wiu come up to what is required of them in this day of un- usual advantages, and not with any ho P eordesir e to excel the man, whom she likes still to lean upon and consider her lord. I say by all means let woman im- prove herselt in all the graces, ac- j accomplishments, and studies. Greek, Hebrew, and Sanscrit in- included, if she can perform her womanly duties and still find time for these—but God forbid that the manish woman, as represented by Dr. Mary Walker in her male at¬ tire, should ever get a footing in our cities! When she comes, the chivalry, reverence, respect, admi¬ ration, and tenderness of our men will go, because these characteris- tics, which makes the southern man noted all over our country, are directly dependent upon the wo- manliness, tenderness, dependence of our southern women. Mr. W. P. Fife, who is looking for a suitable place in the south to establish a Bible conference on the order of the one at Northfield,Mass. was in Toccoa Thursday of last week, and expressed himself as be¬ ing delighted with Toccoa. In fact he said he liked our little city better than any other place that he had seen, and we have some hope of getting the Bible conference if our people will show enough inter¬ est. The gospel meetings conducted at the Presbyterian church during the past ten days by Mr. Miller, have been well attended, and such earnest expositions of God’s word cannot fail to bring forth good fruit. A spiritual uplift is sure to follow, and the Christians of our town are very thankful to have had this de¬ voted man of God in our midst. Dr. and Airs. Alcjunkin enter¬ tained at dinner last Friday the following friends: Mr. and Airs. Hiott, Air. and Airs. W. A. Fow¬ ler, Air. and Airs. L. P. Cook, and Aliss Laura Craig. The occasion was a delightful one, and it will be long remembered by those present. Aliss Alarion Brewer of Elberton and Aliss Alyrtle Yow of Avalon, came last Friday to visit Aliss Alarie Bruce. Aliss Yow returned home Tuesday, but Aliss Brewer wili, to the delight of her many friends in Toccoa, be here several days lon¬ ger. Airs. Carelton Neville and beauti¬ ful little Nelly Neville, who have been the guests of Air. and Airs. J. C. Suttles’s family, for several days, returned to their home in At¬ lanta. Airs. Edward Schaefer and her little daughters, M. E. and Carter, returned home Saturday,after a de¬ lightful visit with friends in At¬ lanta. Airs. I. A. Ketron and Air. Alar- vin Ketron of Clarkesville, spent rom Satuiday until Alonday with i -I • -Y Capps. , T. he Clionion Club meets at the home of Aliss Corrie Lee AIcA.voy Saturday afternoon at 4 o clock, Author to be discussed : James Russell Lowell. The YY Oman’s Literary Club will meet at the home of Airs. Walker Gilmer, Saturday afternoon at 3 -.30 o’clock. Air. J. B. Harris returned Tues- day from a visit to his wife at La- Grange. Aliss Marie Bruce returned home last Friday, after a delightful visit with Aliss Alyrtle Yow at Avalon, Alr. T. A. Capps spent three or f our days the first of the week at Clayton Farm and Clarkesville. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: $1.00 A YEAR OUR BUSINESS CONTINUES TO GROW. Our fair' dealings and low prices are meeting .with the approval and patronage ()f tHC trsdlll^ ptlbllC. Just a word for our HamCSS department, r We are giving the people some low pri- ces on Harness, Collars, Bridals, Haltars and Saddles. Every style of Saddle repre¬ sented here. Don’t fail to see me before yon buy. J. R. MANN, Toccoa, Ga. / J Dr. S. A. Taylor of East Point, Ga., visited his sister Mrs. M. A. Greene, of this place last week. Mrs. A. H. AIcAllister, who has been on a visit to her sons in Nash¬ ville Tenn., returned home last Friday. Air. Ralph Taylor, the son whose sickness called her to Nashville, returned home with her. Mrs. Alary J. Jones returned Alonday from Elberton where she had a delightful visit with friends. Archdeacon Walton will preach at St. Alathias Chapel next Sunday afternoon a four o’clock. Aliss Maggie Rankin of Calhoun is visiting relatives in Tocoa this week. Air. Alahaffey spent three or four days at his former home, Buford, Ga., last week. The accomplished Parliamen¬ tarian, Aliss Rosa Woodberry, con¬ ducted a Parliamentary drill in the Atlanta Woman’s Club recently, and the Constitution reports the following interesting and laughable extract from it : When the meeting was formally called to order by Aliss Woodberry, a well-known Atlanta woman secured the flood and said : “The resolution which I am a bout to present for your con- sideration is in the interest of un- married women who must earn a living by their own efforts. It has been for some time apparent to those interested in broadening the scope of woman’s work, that some- thing must be done to protect this class of dependent women. Ow¬ ing to the peculiar conditions of our country, it is considered unwise by the opposite sex that women should labor in other avocations than as school teachers, clerks, maids, seamstresses, superintend- of boarding houses and steno- Of course we appreciate ie chivalry which proifipts our to take this broad-minded NO. i 7 course; they reverence the utter dependence of woman upon man, and we as women must applaud them for adheanng to this time¬ worn custom. I offer this solution. Be it resolved, that no married woman shall be allowed to labor in any of the following avocations to which women of our state are eligible, namely: Seamestresses, cooks, maids,school teachers,clerks, stenographers, superintendent of boarding houses and last, but not least, that she be debarred from usurping the one office of dignity and honor within the reach of Geor¬ gia’s women, state librarian.” “I suppose her resolution,” said a lady rising excitedly, regardless of the chair, “unless the married includes French bonnets, trips to Europe and sealskin coats, I think a woman has a right to go out and earn them if the necessity presents itself. Women must have ideals to live up to; everybody knows the story of the woman who purchased the exquisite tea pot of aesthetic design. Calling her husband’s attention to it, she said : ‘Algernon, we must live up to it. 3 3 3 The lady was here deprived of “the floor” by the chairman, who informed her she had no right to it,, and should never refer to the pre¬ vious speaker as “she, ’> K her, or “Airs. So-and so,” but as “the member on the right” or “the mem¬ ber on the left.” When the “previous question” was called a lady in the rear of the meeting proposed an amendment to the effect that “women only who had young children should remain at home.” An amendment was offered to this amendment suggested that the word “sick” precede young chil¬ dren. Here many questions arose as to the signification of the term young children, and the impulse to discuss the ailments of children manifested itself just at the moment; both amendments were defeated and the original resolution was put before the meeting again.