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THE RECORD. PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY BY SOUTHERN PUBLISHING CO. INCORPORATED. Entered at the post office as second-ciass mail matter. A. n. MECKLIN, I Editors. R. E. McCRACKEN, Rates of subscription: $1.00 per year; 60 cents for six months and 25 cents for three months. Obituary notices of ten lines or less free; over ten lines 5 cents per line. The editor is not responsible for sentiments expressed by correspondents. Articles intended for publication must be ac¬ companied by the writer’s name, not nec¬ essarily for publication, but for pro tection to us. Light Is Coming. Mr. Simpson is putting the elec¬ tric light poles in the ground, deep and securely, and the big coils ot wire are here for stringing. Mr. Smith, of Atlanta, arrived here today to soon begin running the electric wires, Glad we are to know Toccoa will soon have electric lights. The big dam at the Falls is one of the complete things’ we have er seen. It is so built that the stronger the pressue the stronger is the dam embankment to resist. A Question of Sex. Prof. Bowman says he has gain¬ ed 5 pounds since he opened hi& school in January. We are told that teaching school is very wear¬ ing, but school teaching in Clarkes ville seems to be different—'Clarkes- ville Advertiser Look out Prof; the boys are just fattening you up so they can make pork out of you by Christmas.— Demorest Record. We did not suspect that even real fat teachers were so savory as t| ia t.—Westminster Times. It would be a question of sex if we were doing the chewing. From Cornelia. Miss Sallie Massey, of Ayers- v i lie, has been visiting friends and relatives in Cornelia the last week. Mrs. G. H. Mulkey after a few days visit to Central S. C •> is at home again. Mrs. Marilda Bailey, of Ayers- ville, is on a visit to her sister, Mrs. Sackett. Geo. H. Mulkey, Miss May Rai ne y> Miss Myrtie Reynolds, of Clayton, and Miss Hughes, of Tallulah, spent Saturday and Sun¬ day at the gate city. Mr. Roy Walker, ot Mount Airy made a short visit to our little town Friday. Mr. J. C. Faulkner and Mr. Can- nor are spending a few days in At¬ lanta this week- We had a very large hail storm here this A. M. 6 30. Quite a lot of our young men visited Gainesville last week. Ray. From The Clayton Tribune. The following items from The Clayton Tribune will prove of in¬ ters! : Gibraltar York left Monday for Boise City Idaho. There are a number of Rabuns young men in the west and they keep going. We expect to be engaged for an indefinite time making a prelimi¬ nary survey of the Blue Ridge and Atlantic Railroad. There was a string of fire about a mile long burning on the Black Rock mountain last Thursday night which was a charming sight. Reece Carter of Toccoa was in town Monday. R. J. Garland, of Toccoa was in town Saturday W. E. Thompsons tannery, grist mill, shingle mill, boiler and engine were destroyed by fire Tuesday last, about noon. The building was set on fire by sparks from the engine. Mr. Thompsons loss is about two thousand dollars and as he had no insurance,is a total loss. Mr. and Mrs. R. A. Whitmire moved to Toccoa this week we aegret very much to give them up. The Granite Will Soon Be Blasted. THE MATERIAL ON GROUND. The Machinery Expected Next Week. The Rock People flean Business. There has been some uncertainty regarding the proposed granite quarries for a while, but now there seems to be no hitch. IiT fact we are informed that Mr. Troy, the promoter, has had Mr. W. A. Fow ler, who will have charge of the commissary department of the quar¬ ries, to purchase the lumber for the buildings at the mines. The crush¬ er and other machinery will arrive next week. Indirectly this enterprise will be a help to Toccoa. The hands em¬ ployed, it is said, will be brought here by the company, but the mon¬ ey they earn will be spent here, and there will be oppotunities for home labor. The quarries will gradually de¬ velop into a more extensive enter¬ prise, and in |he long run it will be of more advantage to Toccoa than if it werejlocated in Seneca or any other place. A SPLENDID LECTURE. To Be Delivered at the School House Friday Night next, By Lucian L. Knight, Georgia’s Henry Grady the II. At a meeting of the school board last Friday it was decided to have a lectare or two for the benefit of the school, and steps have been taken. Mr. Knight, the well known lec¬ turer, will be here next Friday eve- ning. He will discuss the influ¬ ence of woman upon the life of the republic. Mr. Knight is one of the most entertaining orators in the state, and his lecture will doubtless prove very interesting. Following are a few of the opin¬ ions of some of the state papers of Mr. Knight’s lectures : ‘It was a glorious blending of wit and pathos, eloquence and thought. It charmed and delight¬ ed all who heard it.”—LaGrange Graphic.’ “One of the most remarkable masters of beautiful thought and facinating language who has come to the front in Georgia for some years past is Mr, Lucian L. Knight of Atlanta.’’-Cedartown Standard. “We shall remember Mr. Lucian L. Knight’s address as like the pro¬ tean hues of a blessed bright opal surrounded by perfect pearls of truth. ’ ’—Rome Tribune. Thus it will be seen Toccoan’s will have an opportunity afforded them of hearing something unusu¬ al in the lecture line, an opportu¬ nity, we trust, that will be grasped readily. Everything New This Seeson. The climax of all tented amuse¬ ments, A. G. Allen’s Big Original New Orleans colored Minstrels, will appear in Toccoa Monday night, April ist. under canvas. The comyany includes some of the best singers, dancers, cakewalkers and colored specialty artists known among the colored race. This is the only Minstrel Company in the United States that shows under a canvas. Mr. Allen is the origina¬ tor of the idea and he has succeed¬ ed in getting together a minstrel or ganization of such a size and mag¬ nitude that would be impossible to be produced in an Opera House. Owing to the large seating ca¬ pacity of his tent he is enabled to place the price of anmission at 15 and 25 cents. Watch for street parade at 10:30 a. m. day of the show it WOMAN AND FASHION. For Outdoor Spring Wear—Bloom in sc Hat*»—A Smart Wliite Serge Costume. The skirt and jacket of this model are made of warm looking and yet not heavy material. Homespuns or vicunas would look as well as broken pattern English cloths, which,have a good deal of style besides the advantage of not ISr \! e FOR OUTDOOR WEAR. creasing or getting shabby. It would b© nice to have a dress of this kind for out of door wear in the morning. White cloth lapels would be more in the style of this class of costume than silk, but the latter Is preferable for a costume not exclusively intended for travel.— New York Telegram. Blooming Hats. The picture hats of the Frenchy order that will be worn later in the season will leave the impression that the trim¬ mer stood in a garden and trimmed from the bush or tree. When your hat suggests that, you may rest assured you are wearing the right thing. The poetry of nature is the latest cry in millinery where flowers are used. We find the long ostrich plume on low crowned, wide, circular brimmed hats fixed as grande mode. Indications point to the abandonment of all small birds. Women themselves are showing a sensitiveness to wearing them lest they be commented upon too freely in public places.—Abby E. Underwood in Woman’s Home Companion. A Smart Spring Costume. The gown has a white serge skirt, box plaited and mounted on a deep fit¬ ted yoke, but with points, and bordered with a band of the serge. At the hem It is trimmed with five bands of light blue canvas, four narrow and one wide. The smart little Eton jacket is of blue canvas, slashed at either side of the front, with the edges held together by a band of canvas fastened at the ends with a gold button. The slashes and m M. W - WHITE SEBGE WITH BLUB. all the edges are bordered with a nar¬ row band of the white serge, and the large sailor collar Is of the serge, fall lug over a second collar of tucked white muslin. The canvas sleeves widen be¬ low the elbows, are slashed and border¬ ed with serge and fall over very full undersleeves of white muslin, finished with a plaited cuff and a frill of the same. The blouse is of the muslin, and the cravat and belt are of black taf¬ feta.—Philadelphia Ledger. Fachiou For Boys. For reallv little bovs nothin* hotter THE EDWARDS HOTEL Eleva non IBS. senger trains daily. 100 Yards from Southern Depot. W. A. FOWLER, Lessee and Manager, Toccoa, Ga. "M.e4\c\Tves, 'iolVcY BIG BARGAINS Clears, jotoaexos, IN So&a "\0a\et\ EVERY LINE. Coca Co\.a. Here are some of our prices \ Borax, 15^ pound Peruna, 8 oc a bottle: only one bottle to a customer soap reduced from ioc to 5 C a cake 5 good soap 3 cakes for iocj Laundry Soap 6 bars for 25c. a 1 V&etpvrvkvw. awd Co., YavtAs, \)axTWs\ves, The Popular S\aY\.owe,T\y GWs Druggists, awit &a£l IbvusVvfcS. *c) 0 CC 08 t, Sc\vooV T&ooVs. than the sailor or Russian blouse suits. They rise superior to the flight of time, with its ever changing fashions in clothes for men, w T oraen and girls. The small boy in his middy suit, with the long, flaring trousers or knee breeches. is always in fashion and always at tractive to look at. says Harper’s Ba- zar The Russian suits have been a fad for months past and are certainly picturesque for the small boy from 3 to 8 years of age. They will still be worn this next summer. SCHOOL NOTES. “TheiifLe .ee of the American Woman upon the Life of the Re¬ public,” is the subject ot Lucian Knight’s lecture Friday evening, April 5th at the school house. We trust that the entire town will turn out to hear Mr. Knight’s lecture as he comes in the interest of the school. Mrs. Mabry, Mrs. Bruce, Mrs. Caps, Mrs. Cocolo, Miss Eliza Bright, Miss Nellie Bright, Miss Merle Capps, Miss Mary Gilmer and Miss Ina Lawson were our visitors Friday. We are tryin to raise enough money to buy us a curtain before commencement, °o come out to hear Mr. Knight’s lecture. We have as many as a dozen dif¬ ferent games of baseball in opera¬ tion at the same time on our grounds. The girls play too and enjoy it. The school and Miss Hudson’s music class will give a public en¬ tertainment Friday afternoon, April 5th. You are cordially in vited to' attend. The following program was ren¬ dered very creditably last Friday afternoon in the chapel : Recitation.—Georgia Carter, Speech.—Pope Hill. Recitation.—Sallie F. McClure. Speech.—Dobbs Scott. Instrumental solo.—Susie Bruce. Speech.—John Rhodes, Euter Capps. Recitation.—Martha Edwards, M yrtle Young. Instrumental solo.—Ditsy Ram¬ I say. C. Speech.—Zumph Huff. Recitation.— Bessie Wooten. Olive Capps. » Instrumental solo.—Bertie Hol- I j Recitation.—Mary . . Cocolo, Car- rie Moss. Instrumental solo.—Miss Willie Mabry. Recitation Miss Edna Payne. Select Reading.—Miss Mary Neville. lnstrumental solo.—Miss Mary Gilmer. Recitation.—Miss n % \• X/T Mary Gi •1 mer. Recitation.—Miss 0 >r . Vivian Capps, ^ Duet.—Susie Bruce, and Ditsy Ramsay. By special request, Miss Hudson played for the school. HT* JEll : $$ILRO0 DIRECT LINE TO THE West, Northwest and Pacific Goast. THROUGH PULLMAN SLEEPING CARS DAILY ATLANTA to ST. LOUIS and CHICAGO. Via Dix^e Fiyer Rout3. Ror rates and information address FRED D. MILLER, Trav. Pass. Agt,., No. 1 Brown Building, Atlanta, Ga The large bell has been placed in the Cupola. The eigth and ninth grades were examined in Latin last Fsiday. It is very encouraging to the teachers and pupils to have the patrons and friends ot the school visit us often. Miss Hudson captured the entire school last Friday afternoon by her wonderful playing. Parents are requested to keep their children at home Jll the first bell rings in the morning. Mrs. Charley Dance’s name was of unintentionally left out of our list' visitors last week. I he Board of Education has se¬ cured Mr. Lucian Knight of At¬ lanta to lecture in the school chap¬ el Briday evening, April 5th. I he object is to raise enough mon- ey with w ; uch to purchase a stage curtain. We trust that ev- er>body will patronize this lauda¬ ble enterprise. Florence Emily Newton, of the 5th grade wrote the following pa¬ without per on Washington at schoTjPfryd help, as a language lesson : Composition. 4 4 If you think so, you are at lib¬ * erty to step back.” “It is a spent ball. No harm done. ?» Give a biogaaphical sketch of the man who "ttered these words. George Washington—tie was born in Westmoreland county, Va.. February 22, 1732. He never told any lies in his life. When he was quite a small boy he cut his fath- er s cherry tree down and you re- member the storv. After he was grown he went to the war and took sword exercises from a ^J enc hman Washington named Vambram. In virtue outshines the nai na Hitme Kome or of hreece’s r'r the , heroe well ! l °. known f i,n P e sages. old Washington went to school m an log house in a field, Ai- ter war he farmed for a while. . He was elected twice for president und the third time he re- signed sio-ned hi* his place r q ^ and , went to , live a qmet life at his home in Mt. ^ ernon where he died soon after. He won many a battle and freed an d to tlm da v wt * cei ‘ ebrate the birthday . . . of our . George W ashington.