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W. C. T. U. Column
By Mrs. R. J. Strozier
DO YOU NEED MONEY
GUILDS ITS NEST OF N0D|
Ht Had Qualified,
stranger In as Indian* Tillage
{Under the Eaves of Houses Cliff' h * ml * llt tho tlino by
Swallows Maks Thalr
Tears ago, before houses and bams
were as plentiful as they are now, the
ofiff swallow built Its house of tiny
mud bricks on the side of a rocky
eliff, says the Philadelphia North
American. The nest builders find a
convenient patch of clay, roll up the
pond Into tiny pellets and carry them
{to their nesting site. There they
ifaahlon them Into a home as skill-
Ifully as any bricklayer could do It,
{rounding It over the top like a roof
aqd leaving a round opening for a
door. Because these pests were usu
ally found on the sides of cliffs they
nanjpd the bird the cliff swallow.
, Today the .bird doesn't have to find
attending service In the local church.
At the conclusion of a lsngthy talk the
minister announoad that he should
Hke to mast the board. The stranger,
In company with several other par
sons, proceeded to walk to the front of
the church. The pastor, thinking there
must be some misunderstanding, said
to him; "I believe, sir, yob are mis
taken. This Is Just to be a meeting
of the board.”
"Well," replied the visitor, "1 have
listened to you talk tor more than an
hour, and It anyone has been more
bored than I have been I should like
to know who It Is.”—Christian Herald.
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a cliff for Its home. A sheltered place
;under the eaves of a barn will suit
It Just as well. Tou'll'llnd more cliff
''Swallows today at home under the
eaves than you will In their ancestral
castles on the rocks.
' The bird wears a shiny blue black
.coat and a brownish yellow vest. Its
jtall, a reddish brown, Is only slightly
(forked, which distinguishes It from
{the regular “swallow tails.'
Perhaps you have been told that the
.nest of the cliff swallow la' Infested
(With bedbugs,, and perhaps you have
|torn down all the nests you could find
to get rid of the pests. This Is a
.common slander .against the swallow.
iThe nest contains no Insects which
can be communicated to houses. On
{the other hand, the cliff swallow per
forms Immeasurable benefit by de-
many leaf bugs and weevils.
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Bewlxt and Between.
"The hesitating, Hamlet type of man
bad best keep out of finance,” said
Mr. Lawson at a recent dinner, accord
ing to. Everybody's Magazine.' “1 had
a boyhood friend of the type I mean—
a fellow named Grimes. He was a
falterer, a doubter of the most exag
gerated sort.
“One evening I stopped to call on
him and found him In a deep study,,
bent over a white waistcoat lying on
a table.
"'Hello, Grimes,' I said. ‘What’s
the trouble?'
“‘This waistcoat,’ he replied, hold
ing the garment up to view. ‘It’s too
dirty to wear and not dirty enough to
send to the laundry. I don't know
what to do about it!’ ”
IN DEBT TO FOUtt GEN-
ERATIpNS.
' Every worth-while man is in debt
to at leak four generations: To be
worthy of his parentage by making
his father and mother proud that
they bore him; to ba a blessing to
his own generation by so serving bis
age that men and women around
him will be stronger and better for
his having touched their lives; to be
so helpful to his own children and to
the children of his neighbors and to
the worse than parentless children
that never had a chance, that these
children shall grow to morally, phy
sically, mentally, stalwart manhood
and womanhood; and, finally to sec
to it that the next generation, the
unborn babies of his own children,
(hall have worthy parents, well
reared and well trained for the sub
lime parental office. A wide and
alluring life mission is that four-
foul program, but no smaller or nar
rower one is worthy of a child of
king.
And yet everybody knows that to
the extent that the saloon propers,
every part of this program fails. Let
a man become the victim of drink
imd his father must be ashamed of
him, his own generation is injured
by him, his children suffer irrepar
able injury at his hands, and his
children's children are in deadly
peril from the weak and wicked in
heritance that his own vicious slav
ery bequeaths.
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O. W. HORNE
OFFICE OVER IOC ETORE
GENERAL INSURANCE
FARM LOANS
the difference in weight (the Gov
ernment paying as much- for the
weight of equipment as it does for
the mail itself) can be easily calcu-
men have been centered along lines
which will not only produce large
economies to the people of the coun
try,, but will also prove a great con-
Inted. The locks replaced by this venience to those in the service. Dur-
new and better style cost 21 cents ing the past three yean two objects
each to make; those now being man- hav been kept constantly in view,
ufaetured cost 8 1-2 cents, direct viz., saving the public money wher-
Obllglng.
. At a certain church in a Jersey
town it is the invariable custom of
the clergyman to klu the bride after
the ceremony. A young woman, who
was about to be married in the church.
More Tnan a Minx.
He was a very «hy young man. For 1 did not relish the prospect and in-
wo long yean he had been paying structed her prospective husband to
ler attention and bad not yet even tell the clergyman that she did not
lueezed her hand. { wl »h him to kiss her. The bridegroom
One evening as they lingered In tho , obeyed the Instructions given.
low of the trees by her gate he| “Well, Harry," «ald the young
_od timidly: wosfkn when he appeared, "did yon
"Florence, would you—might I—er, tell the minister that I did not wish
Id you mind If I placed one rev him to kiss me?"
gt kiss on your fair hand tonight
11 leave your
i Florence thought he wanted speed-
: 'up. So she dropped her head
’ on his shoulder, lifted her face
aptlngly to bis and replied:
| "Well, George, 1 should think It do-
dedly out of place,"—Tlt-BIts.
Hold Temper gnd Tongue.
[ Hold your temper and your tongue.
: Is better to say nothing yarn to say
i wrong thing and then have to spot-
“Yea"
"And what did he sayr
“He said that Is that case he would
charge only half the usual tea 1
Matter of SentlmenL
“What makes you go In through the
kitchen r
"I don’t know our servants very
well," replied Hr. Cumrox. "Some
way, the front hall seems kind of for
mal and distant Around at the kitch
en Steps they’ve got an old door mat
with ’Welcome’ On It"
Attention, Gins And
Saw Mills
■Every young man or young wom
an has the right, aye, the duty, to be
able to aay “yea” every time oppor
tunity issues invitations to higher
places of service and usefulness; but
only the physically strong, the ade
quately educated^ and the morally
upright can thus accept the invita
tions of opportunity. The saloon
when it succeeds with its victims—
and its greed for victims is never
satisfied, and the brightest kid best
of our youths are fed into its insat
able mawi—always destroys health
shortens the school period of the
youth and blackens his character.
The dearest and most vitslly nec
essary institution on earth is the
happy, wholesome, God- honoring
home in which husbands and wives
Jive in mutual confidence and love
and where little children are train
ed in the fear of the Lord. Give ns
cnly such homes and all other prob
lems of society and government will
be solved. But no home is immune
from assault at the hands of the li
quor dealer. He gloats in ghoulish
glee over crumbling family altars,
laughs in fiendish delight around
the ruins of erst while domestic
trupt;«dances in Satanic joy over the
grave of dead family devotions and
fireside peace, and rejoices, like the
willing slave of evil that he ia, ever
every despairing shriek of the little
children whom his cupidity, aided by
our national stupidity, has robbed
of their brightest of love and train
ing and care.
The saloon has siqned away its day
of graco, and thes overeign people qf
this republic have decreed that it
shall die. Trusting in the Lord Jesus
Christ for strength let us set as the
day of its execution July 4, 1920,
the three hundredth anniversary of
the landing of the Pilgrims on Ply-
month Bock in search of what we
cannot have until we declare our in
dependence from the liquor traffic
—personal and religious freedom.
—Excerp from address delivered as
Plying Squadron speaker at Bacine,
Wis.
and indirect charges considered, the
saving thus rhown on original cost
of production, to date amounting to
263,760. Of the old style, out of
the great number sent into service,
but 906 have been returned, and as
these new style locks can be repair
ed at a cost of 3 cents each, the an
nual saving on this item will amount
to over- (2,100.
The Department has in this ad-
r.inistration encouraged ita employ
ees to give their best service to the
| Government and many instances
ever poasible and serving the people
to the fullest extent There was
room for great improvement and
there has been much accomplished.
It is but common justice to award
due credit to these administrative re
forms to the Fourth Assistant Pos-
muster General, in whose Bureau
these measures of economy were de
veloped and who has ao faithfully de
voted hit time to that purpose.
Piss sure at Death.
A wise man shall not be deprived et
pleasure evon when death shall ene
mon him; forasmuth as ho has at
tained the delightful end of the beet
life—departing like a guest fun sad
well satisfied; having received- lift
upon IVnst, and duly discharged that
offloa. be acquits hlmeolt at departing.
—Epictetus.
We carry this belt
in stock and can fill
orders on very short
notice. We can
make the price on
this belt of any mill
supply house in the
South, i W e also
have a first*class
connection on
leather belting.
This belt is suited to the very hardest wear, it
.being a Friction Surface Belt. Will stand up al
most anywhere put.
We have in stock: Babbitt Metal, Alligator
steel, Belt Lacing as well as Rawhide Lace, Ma
chine Bolts, Carriage Bolts, Cap Screws, Stove
Bolts, Lubricators, Injectors, Valves. Steam
Gauges, Gauge Cocks, Saw Bitts, Saw Locks,
■CrOss Cut Saws, Files. Tools, etc.
FARMERS’ HDWE. CO.
INTELLIGENT MANAGEMENT OF
A PUBLIC INDUSTRY.
Thousands of Dollars Savod Annual
Ijr by tho Introduction of Mod
em Mothods In tho Post Of*
fico Department.
The interest people in public af
fairs is considerably heightened
when they learn, that ther evenues
of the Government are wisely and
judiciously managed. A statement
of economical expenditure which
susceptible of proof will alwayi at-
thoughtful reader.
Among the varied industrial en
terprises of the Post Office Depart
ment in Washington is an establish
ment devoted entirely to the manu
facture of mail locks and the bag
attachments used in mail transpor
tation. When this administration
came into power, tho Department
lively needed an improved type
mail lock. The shop waa immediate
ly reorganized, placed on a business
basis, and ita activities enlarged
as to meet this imperative demand,
Within a very short time a new and
greatly improved lock had been de
vised and its production begun.
The lock in use weighed 6
ounces; the new lock weigh* 2 -4-6
ounces. As 430,000 of this new
product tore been put into service,
have recently come to notice where-
in'the Department has greatly profit
ed by this wise public policy. In the
lock shop a recent nchievement in
this direction is an improved cord
fastener, the work of three of its
employees, for use on bags; also one
designed for locking large quanti
ties of parcel post matter, which has
heretofore been without this protec
tion.. It can be made at a very low
price, requiring less material and a
fewer number of operations. The
significant part of this lies in the
great number required in the service
between three and four millions, the
output bing 600,000 annually. As the
cost has been reduced by the new
method from 4 1-2 to 3 cents each,
will be seen what a splendid
showing this makes for administra
tive economy.
Another valuable improvement
boa been the perfected locking cord
fastener designed for uae on tie
sacks, something .which the' Depart
ment for years has needed and vain-
endeavored to accomplish. This
device will be of great value to the
postal service at large by increasing
the capacity and efficiency of mail
bags to a degree difficult to esti
mate. The modern system of bos
ir.ess methods and the proper en
couragement of employees to take
an active and earnest interest in
their work, both of which desirable
features this administration of the
Department has favored and put in
to practice, ia responsible for the
many improvements made and the
advantages gained.
Active experiments are 'constant-
1> being made for the betterment of
the service. For many years a tre
mendous expense has been the label
ing of the immense quantity of mail
bags in use. The form of label used
in the past and still used by clerks
all over the country is the doubling
and refolding Of what is known as a
facing slip.’’ The preparation of
these labels by the thousands has
been and is an expensive proposition
yet there appears to have ben no
effort on the part of. previous admin
istrations to progTsa from the old
method. Under present direction n
perforated label in sheets and runs
has been designed which is practi
cally ready for use when furnished to
employees.. Every postal clerk in
the country and thousands of post-
office employees will find this new
method of great advantage and it
will result in a large economy in the
service.
There have also been some other
notable improvements made, vis.,
the substitution of steel where brass
was formerly used, at a very consid
erable lessening of expense; a de
vice for fastening foreign mail
pouches, doing away with the old.
fashioned method of string and seal;
scheme for saving twine by
means of a simple holder which pre-
mits free and easy use without waste
and a flexible stamp design, for
which the contract price was 34
cents, but which will now be made
at a cost of but 8 cents. A mechan
ical pickup or facing table for use
in first-class post offices has also
been developed and will soon be pr-
feeted. Thil device is considered
superior to those now in use and
costs less than one-third as much to
manufacture. Those at present in
use cost approximately $1,600.
It will thus be seen that the ac
tiyities of the Post Office Depart-
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Monday, 17th. The“ Mysteries oft
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Pathe News No. 54.
Wednesday 19th. “The Soul Mar
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Friday, 21st. The Vanishing Fakes.
Heinie and Louie. Pathe News No. 55.
Saturday, 22nd. “The Winning
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