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Railroad T^ews.
A meeting of the directors of
the Lula Homer Railroad wan held
at Lula Tuesday afbertoon and J.
X. Hill, I). Z. Zeigl-r, J. B. G.
Logan and Howard Hill were ap
pointed as a committee to meet the
Railroad Commission in Atlanta
Thursday for the purpose of se- |
curing a permit to build tlje road.
'I he right of way has l>ecn granted
through all the land the road will
traverse, a deed has l>een made
to the parts of the public road that
will lie used, and everything is
now ready but the securing of
som*‘ stock which will not have to
l>c paid for until the road is com
pletc and trains running into Ho
mer. Many people hive declared
th *ir willingness to take stock if
they could be assured that the
road would Is* built. These per
sons will now have an opportunity
to subsei ilie for stock with that a* -
su ranee.
Have calmness —when the tongue
of malice and slander, the per
secution of inferiority tempts you
for one moment to retaliate, when
you forg,-t yourself so far as to
hunger for revenge, Ik; calm.
“When the gray heron is pursued
by its enemy the eagle, it does not
run to escape; it remains calm,
takes a dignified stand and waits
quietly—facing the enemy un
moved, and with the terrific force
with which the eagle makes the
attempt, the boasted king of birds
is often impaled and run through
on the quiet, lance like bill of the
heron.” The means that man
takes to kill another’s character
becomes suicide. No man in the
world ever attempted to wrong
another without being injured
in return—someway —some ow—
sometime. To the man who is
calm, who lias the clear inside, re
venge is so far beneath him that
he cannot reach it even by stoop
ing. When injure I he does not
retaliate, he wraps around him the
royal iol>es of calmnc-s and he
goes on his way.
Mr. Scab Carter, a respected
citizen of Popular Springs district,
died at his home Thursday morn
ing at 3 o’clock. This death was
caused by measles which lie eon
tract si several weeks ago.
DIET AND HEALTH
HINTS
By DR. T. J. ALLEN
Food Npoctoltol
MODERATE DRINKING WITH
MEALS UNOBJECTION
ABLE.
Recent Inveetigatlonw have
shown that the almost universal
proscription by the medical pro
fession of drinking at meals
needs some qualification, and
also that the conclusion reached
by Prof. Hawk of the University
of I’llnols, that liberal drinking
at meal times Is beneficial, Is
not to be generally accepted.
Much liquid dilutes the gastric
fluid excessively and causes an
undue secretion of It, which "m
many cases is to be carefully
avoided. Much careful Investi
gation has led to the conclusion
that the more uniform the con
tents of the stomach, other
things being equal, the better the
digestion, and this applies also
to the mixing of liquids, though
to a less degree; but the chief
objection to drinking freely
while eating is the tendency to
prevent proper mixture of the
saliva and to reduce mastica
tion. When water was placed
near a dog's food, he never
drank first, if he had not been
running and never stopped while
eating to drink, but always If he
had eaten a full meal he would
lap a tittle water and lie down. I
There is no doubt that the slo
ping of a cup of water, not Ice
cold, or of cocoa or weak tea at
tha conclusion of a meal 1s un
objectionable.
Money In crowing Willows.
A Chicago merchant advertised for
1.000,000 willow clothes baskets htch
Indicates that the willow-growing in
dustry is very much neglected The
government is encouraging It by
t rhlng farmers how to grow H
-lows. They requird a soil that wIU
BTO.v wheat
Gymnastic Stunt.
Barbour —"You seem warm; bare
you been exercising V Waterman —
Yes, indeed; I went to the mutes’
dauce . i <1 swung dumb belles around
all c-' ng.”—Michigan Cargo*;*
OUR NAVAL AMMUNITION.
Unci# Sam’a Carefully Guarded Bata
In tHa Hudson River.
Close by the west bank of the
Hudson river, in the lower pasaage
to the Highlands and lying between
Stony Point and West Point in a
region made famous by the Revolu
tionary war, is lona island, the am
munition base of the United Slates
navy.
At this little known place, a res
ervation of slightly more than 100
acres, several hundred men are em
ployed in the preparation of am
munition for the guns of our war
ships. Back of the hills which se
clude most of the island from
general view are magazines and
storehouses holding approximately
3,000,000 pounds of smokeless pow
der, 1,000,000 pounds of black pow
der and tens of thousands of shells
Skirting the island, joining its la
boratories and storage places and
connecting with the landing pier,
is a small railroad, the locomotive
of which is operated by compressed
air, to avoid heat, sparks and elec
tricity. This is used in the trans
portation of the deadly cargoes
from one building to another and in
carrying ammunition to the dock
where it is received for the war
ships.
Four separate fireproof walls sur
round earn of the magazines, which
are divided into compartments in
order to safeguard against the com
plete destruction of the works in
the event of a fire or small explo
sion. Careful inspection of all of
the cartridge stores and powder
buildings is made at frequent in
tervals during both day and night
After sundown every visit at one of
these places is recorded at the ad
ministration building by electric in
struments.
Close attention is pnirf to the
temperatures wherever explosives
are kept, the heat being regulated
to remain between 85 degrees and
90 degrees at all times. The in
terior walls and floors of the maga
zines are so made that not a single
piece of iron or steel is exposed.
Upon entering one of the structures
inspectors and workmen wear a
special kind of clothing and soft
shoes without nails, carrying abso
lutely nothing composed of iron nor
anything which in any possible
manner might produce n spark.
Similar precautions ure taken in
the filling rooms, where the charges
are placed in the shells. Here every
one is dressed in white serge, and
the tools, such as measuring cups,
scales and funnels, are made of
copper, which does not give off
sparks, even when struck by stone.
—Exchange.
Cured of Discontent.
“I never complained,” once said
Sa’di, the poet, “of my condition
but on a single occasion, when my
feet were bare and 1 had no money
to buy shoes, but i saw a man with
out feet and became instantly con
tented with my lot."
Being asked from whom ho learn
ed his philosophy, Sa’di replied,
“From the blind, because they uev
er advance a step until they have
tried the ground.”
“They asked me,” Sa’di writes in
the Gulistan, “ ‘Of whom didst thou
learn manners?’ I replied: ‘From
the unmannerly. Whatever I saw
them do which I disapproved of,
that I abstained from doing.’ ”
An Armed Crab.
“This crab,” said the keeper of
the aquarium, “goes armed in his
native state. In his claws, which
are too weak to fight with, he al
ways carries sea anemones.
“The crab is of the genus Melin.
He lives among beds of coral in
tropical seas. The anemones he car
ries—one in each claw, like a nose
gay—are stinging, poisonous ones.
"Thev are his defense against
enemies, and when 1 sec a soldier
carrying a gun 1 think to myself
that there is a little pink crab in
the sea that is quite i- wise s miy
soldier."
Just as n Compliment
Count Biiltlis.-are i .istiglione
wrote of manneir in sixteenth cen
tury Italy: “discourse of love is
used by every gentleman, * * * not
only when impelled by ardor, but
also merely to do honor to the la
with whom he speaks. The pi
tense of loving her is, at any rut..
n testimony to her worthiness to he
loved. She, on her part, will for a
time seem to fail to understand
and anon will take it all as a merry
jest”
Fi*h nd Fro.t.
Some varieties of fish can stand
any amount of cold without harm.
Perch will live in ponds which are
frozen practically solid in every
hard winter. The whitefish of Can
ada. caught through holes in the
ice. have been picked np frozen so
still that thev would break like brit
tle sticks, yet when carefully thaw
ed out showed signs of life.
RANKS CCUNTY JOURNAL, HOMER,GA.,
fohn Gordon Ray Passes to
His Reward,
On November Ist, 1914, John
Gordon Ray, in answer to the
death summon, passed to his re
ward. He was 65th years old.
born May 18, 1849 in Jackson
county, Georgia.
The greater part of his life was
spent in Jackson county. For
many years he was a citizen of
Banks, but passed away in his na
tive county having moved within
two miles of Commerce about a
year before his death.
Mr. Ray was a loyal and active
member of the Baptist church,
having united witli that faith early
in life. His Christian life was
characterized by simple trust in
the dispensations of a wise and
merciful God. This was the se
cret of his genial cheerfulness in
all the experiences of life. Anoth
er characteristic of Mr. Ray was
his strict honesty. He prided
himself upon the fact that in all
his dealings’ he acted fair and
square, lie will be greatly missed
bv his many friends and by the
community in which lie lived.
He was laid to rest on Monday
afternoon Novem!>er 2nd in the
McDonough grave yard, Dr. Gil
bert Dobbs, of Commerce, conduct
ing the funeral services.
He is survived by his wife and
four children and two grand chil
dren to whom we extend our sym
pathy in this hour of grief and
loss.
DIET AND HEALTH
HINTS
By DR. T. i. ALLEN
food .Specialist
,■ y, iiw ■ pi i^—
FEEDING A CHILD.
That defective nutrition Is the
cause of the failure of many
children in school work and of
truancy, it the opinion of Cha.
A. Love, truant officer of Aurora,
111. ‘‘Hundreds accomplish lit
tle beyond the fifth grade be
cause they obtain little nourish
ment from what they eat and in
many instances tuberculosis and
other diseases take the lives that
have eo weak foundation." This
is the result of long observation.
Children ehould have simple,
plain, easily digested food. The
habit of quiet, slow thorough
mastication should be taught as
more important than the three
R’s. No eating between meals
should bo allowed; little drink
at meais; no flesh meat, nor
f.csh white bread, pastry or
cake, and only good candy. The
natural appetite for sweets
should be satisfied with sweet
fruits. It Is surely as Important
to feed children properly as
calves or horses or pigs, and
general principles are the same.
Tea, coffee and tobacco and over
much cane sugar should be ex
cluded.
;r, • i . ' i- ->•! >
The FASHION BOOK for WINTER
of the
PICTORIAL REVIEW PATTERNS
is now on sale.
Every woman ought to have a copy of this Marvelous FASHION BOOK.
It contains Fashions not to be found in any other Style Book.
We Highly Recommend It!
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December Styles
Now Ready for You at
Mrs. J. T. Smith,
Maysville, Georgia.
Fall Millinery
At Cotton Prices
This beautiful Line of Millinery eclipses
anything ever before brought to Mays
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WOMEN and CHILDREN S SUITS
We have a big line of Women and Childrens Suits and Cloaks.
Never take a railroad trip to another market until you have in
pected this stock.
You’ll find in our stock many exclusive novelties both in style
and patterns found in no other shop—it will pay you to bring your
friends here where the selection is so large that thera is no possibil
ity of a mistake in choice and where absolute satisfaction is posi
tively guaranteed.
You’ll get the best values for the least money if
you buy your Fall Goods here.
Mrs. J. V. Smith,
MAYNVILLE, - - GEORGIA
HOME MADE SYRUP
1 have h large quantity ol as tine
syrup as was ever maile. Put up
in 10 lb. buckets. Price 50c per
bucket. Amounts of 50 buckets
or over will 1* delivered.
.1. .1. (’AUDF.I.L,
9-21-8 t Homer, (ia.
Whenever You Need a General Tonic
Take Grove’s
The Old Standard Grove’s Tasteless
cliill Tonic is equally valuable as a
General Tonic because it contains the
well known tonic properties of QUININB
and IRON. It acts on the Liver, Drives
out Malaria, Enriches the Blood and
Builds up the Whole System. 50 cents.
FOR SALE
Hoad Summons 35c pet hun
dred, 50 for 20c 25 for 10. Pos
tage paid. Journal Office.
DIET AND HEALTH
HINTS
By DR. T J. ALLEN
Food Sptcialm
"BRAIN FOOD.”
“Is tlv-rx a special brain food
and In mat articles is It sup
plied?” a reader asks. Each
cell contributes to the parform
ance of every function, physical
and mental, and brain efficiency
Is as much dependent upon
health In general as is stomach
efficiency. We digest with the
mind and we think with the
stomach, although each func
tion has its special organ. Hence
efficiency in any department Is
dependent upon good nutrition
and a welt developed organism
through heredity and education.
You can't produce a great in
tellect by feeding “brain food.”
It Is a fact, however, that phos
phorus Is found to be deficient
In all cases of nervous weak
ness so that phosphorus may be
said In a sense to be a brain
food, and its best sources of
supply are peanuts, oats, wal
nuts, potatoes, wheat, beans,
apples, raisins, figs, prunes.
Cabbace Plants
O
Weather conditions have lieen
ideal and lam justified in saying
that you can’t buy any better
plants, aud 1 feel sure you will be
more than pleased with them at
the ressm able price offered. Va
i iet.es: Early Jersey, Charleston
Wakefield. Eaily and Laic Flat
Dutch. Early and Late Succession.
Price 500.75 oeuts; #I.OO per 1000;
5000 aud over So cents per 1000.
Special price on large quanities.
Beet, Lettuce and Union
' >
PlanLs ready after December Ist.
Write foe price ou these.
Plauts by mail 35 cents per 100.
Shipments are made same day
order is received and satisfaction
will lie cheerfnllx given.
Appreciating your favors,
Alfred Jouannet,
Mt Ileatant- S- C-
Lost—A Boy.
Not kidnapped by bandits and
hidden in a cave to weep ami
starve and rouse a nation to fren
zined searching. Were that the
case one hundred thousand men
would rise to the rescue if need lie.
Unfoitunately the losing of the
lad is without aiy dramatic ex
citement, though very real. The
fact is his father lost him; being to
busy to sit with him at the fireside
and answer his trivia questions
during the year when ia hers are
the only great heroes of the boys,
he lets go his hold upon him.
Yes, his mother lost him! Being
much engrossed in her teas, din
ners, and club programs, she let
ibe maid hear the boy say his
prayers and thus her gri slipped
and that boy w as lost to his home.
Aye, the church lost him! Being
so much occupied w it-h sermons for
the wise and elderly who pay the
bills and having good care for dig
dity, the minister and elders were
unmindful of the human feeling of
the boy in the pew, and made no
provision in sermon or song or
manly sport for his boyishness,
and so the church aud many sad
hearted parents are now earnestly
searching for the lost boy .-•-Se
lected.
Stop In Atlanta
At Hotel Empire
Opposite UuioM Depot on Pryor
S', lienuvat'd aud iriu nix fled
lb i uugho ji. iwaervatious made
on application. Hot and cold
water,private baths, electric lights
and elevator.
First class accommodations at
extremely moderate rates. Euro
pean plan 75 cents up.
John L. Edmondson,
Propietor.
cw To Qlve Quinine To Children
the trade-mark name given to an
.proved Quinine. It is a Tasteless Syrup, pleaa
at to take and does not disturb the st> mach.
ildrets take it and never know it is Quinine.
Mso especially adapted to adults who caanoC
ke ordinary Quinine. Does not nauseate nor
cause nervousness nor ringing in the bead. Try
it the next time you need Quinine for any pur
rose. Ask for 2-ounce original package. The
name FEBRIUNE is blown in bottle. 25 scuta.