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Mad* the Moit of Her Time.
Ossip Gabrllowltsch, tUo pianist
used tb tell the story of a pupil who
came to Harold Bauer and asked his
.tenqs for lessons. After the fourth
lesson he said to her: “Why, madams,
do you always briny rhapsodies,
etudes, swift music! Why not a quiet
humber, something that shows your
phrasing — some Andante!" "Mr,
Bauer,” replied the pupil, “year les
sons are too expensive—I can't afford
to slay the slow mostc.”
FAULTY SWEET POTATO
STORAGE-HOUSE PLANS
How's This?
. We otter One Hundred Dollars Reward,
for any case of Catarrh that ««»«
cured by nut's Catarrh Medicine.'
Hail's Catarrh Medicine has been
by catarrh eulterers for the past thirty*
Ore years, and has become known as the
meet reliable remedy for-Catarrh. Hairs
Catarrh Medicine acts thru the Blood on
the Mucous surfaces, expelling the Poi
son from the Blood and healing the dis
eased portions.
After rou hare taken Hall’s Catarrh
Medicine for a short time you win ass a
great Improvement In your general
health. Start taking Hell's Catarrh Medi
cine at ones and gat rid of catarrh, land
for testimonials, free.
Lid*?
ProTettlonal gard$.
r. E. WILLIAMS, M TCr
Physician and Surgeon.
Yikma, Ga.
Office oyer Walton Broe. StorV
X. y. slrlna, n.o. a. a. nobler, n. D
BIVINS k MOBLEY,
PHYSICIANS AND SOBOkONd.
Calls Promptly Answered.
Vienna, ... Georgia.
L L. WOODWARD,
Attorney-at-Law.. .
Vienna, ... Georgia.
V. O. DAVES
Plixticlan and Surgoon
Office in COOPER BUILDING
Calls promptly answered
OHAS. S. GURU
Intoranee
Officajn Vienna New*
/- Bnilding
PHONE 181
DR. E. P. WHITEHEAD
DENTAL SURGEON
VIENNA,'- GEORGIA
DR. T. E. BRADLEY
SPECIALIST
Diseases el Eye, Ear, Nose and
Throat
Westbrook Bldg., Cordate, Ga.
DRS. ELLIOTT Jb ELLIOTT
OSTEOPATHIC PHYSICIANS
CORDELE, GA.
T. Hoyt Davis - Chas. P. Noles
DAVIS A NOLES
Attornayt_*t Law
Officei Over American Bank
ing Corporation
Vienna, Georgia (
D. P. HOLLIMAN
DENTIST
Office over Bobbitts Pharmacy
UNADILLA, GA.
Raliabla Work at Raaaonabla
Prlcee —
Washington, D. C., July.—There
is no mystery about building a satis
factory storage house for sweet po
tatoes. Southern farmers who are
paying large prices for patented plans
and equipment alleged to provide the
only successful way of staring sweet
potatoes are being defrauded. Spec
ialists of the United States Depart
ment of Agriculture whose atten
tion recently has been called to In
stances in which farmers have paid
as high as $760 for sets of plans, do
not heslttate to brand such activi
ties as jdain humbuggery. Plans of
houses that incorporate the. simple
principles of storage and common
aense methods of construction, and
which have proved -successful by
years af cartful trial, are furnished
free by the Deportment of Agricul
ture to any farrniF who will ask for • taort absences the expert-
them _ | ed surname, Bed. parallel to Black,
Became reports hare been made
and circulated in the south that
storage houses recommended by the
WHY “RED” IS HOT SURNAME
Not Used Like Black, White and
Brown, Because It le Modifica
tion of the Original Woid.
Black, white and brown are common
surnames In English, bnt there it no
English family called Red. The for.
mer names were given originally be
cause of the complexion of the persona
who received them?'- It seems strange
that lb a people among -whom red
beads were common none should have
acquired the name "Red," especially
as this Is frequently bestowed as a
nickname.
The Century Dictionary explain* this
as follows:
"Red, like lead Gad), with which It
I* phonetically parallel, Jiad In Middle
English a long Towel, which has be
come shortened. The long vowel re
mains, however, In' the surnames Read,
Reads, Reed, Reid, which represent
old form* of the adjective, and the ex
istence of which as surnames explains
stan ana levers. The' same wnter re-
fers to another similar machine which
was made tb rotate by a man who
Walked Inside the capstan.' Such a
primitive elevator is still in use to lift
passengers and freight from the first
to the .second story of a convent on
Mount Sinai.
Department of Agriculture are not
satisfactory, it is believed necessary,
now that the time to provide adequate
storage for the coming harvest is at
hand, to correct each statements.
One man with plans to sell has said
that the shrinkage of tweet potatoes
stored in houses .designed by the
government specialists is from 16
to 20 per cent, while in houses of bis
design there is practically no shrink
age. The fallacy of such a claim,
department specialists point out, lies
in the fact that shrinkage is essen
tial to good keeping of the potatoes.
Sweet potatoes stored in the type of
house recommended by the Depart-
Brown, White, etc.'
The equivalent of “red" In foreign
language* I* just as common a sur
name as are the equivalent of "black,'
“white" and “brown,” fv the reason
that In them there has been no modi
fication of the original word: In French
w# find Tdoeir, Leblanc, Laima and
Leroux; In German, Bdilrarts, Weiss.
Braun,sad Beth; In Italian, Nerl, Bias-
cfaL Brunt and Root; In Spanish, Ne
gro, Blanco, Moreno and Rojo as the
corresponding surnames.
AUSTRALIANS GREAT HUNTERS
Knowledge of the Habits of Animals
Make* Up for Crude Weapons
and Lack of Endurance.
In endurance and speed the Aus
tralian aborigine is not the equal of the
ment shrink from 8 to 10 per cenfbr American Indian, and his weapon* of
weight, not bulk—by reason of evap-. wood and poorly fashioned stones are
oration of surplus moisture.. ProperJ effective only at short range, soya the
curing of sweet potatoes means get-{ National Geographic 'Magazine. But
ting" rid of surplus moisture, and the, ** • hunter the native Australian la
type of house which the specialists, marvelously adapted to hlsenvlron-
suggest accomplishes this by com- ““t- His success lira in an intimate
-.-i.-ini— -v knowledge of the habits of the anllhals
bming the ordinary principles or 1(md lQ m A to trees and
good ventilation wrih common sense under watWi nnd hls wonderfu ily de .
Just So.
“You are constantly surrounded tiy
jesters, sir."
“Yes, always got my wits about me,*
responded the king, who was some
thing of the sort himself.
Trial by Ordeal In Early Days.
Trial by ordeal goes back to ear
liest days, and in the Book of Num
bers there Is a case recorded of a
Hebrew woman having been required
to submit to a test Among the Hin
dus the ordeal baa been practiced by
fire, by water, by poison at drinking
Water In which deities bad b*«
washed, by chewing ties by hat ML
by red-bot Iron, sad hr dn.wtag twe
images ont of a Jar. Livingston* de
scribed the practice as being common
among all negro races north of tha
Zambesi, tha native* having the great
est faith In Its efficacy. And It baa not
always failed, or the trepidation cf
the criminal before the dreaded ordsal
has frequently betrayed him.
Much Food In Email Bulk.
The British "Tommy." when fresh
.bread Is not available, Is supplied with
what he calls “dog biscuit” It looks
like just that being a thick cracker
four inches square and weighing
-three ounces. Of whole wheat flour
pressed solid. It might be described ss
a condensed loafof bread.
The French have a “war bread"
somewhat similar, which, when put
into hot water or eoup, swells up like
ZIRON IRON TONIC
FOR YOUR BLOOD)
-DO YOU NEED IT?
Lack of Iron In the Blood Means Lack of Appetite, Lo«
of Energy, Pale Cheeks, and a General Debili
tated Condition of the Entire System.
ZIRON Will Pat Iron Into
Your Blood.
Be physically fit! Guard your health as the most prised possession you
have. When you find yourself losing your grip, becoming Irritable, nervous,
weak, anemic, take Inventory. 8ee what la wrong!
Your blood probably does not contain sufficient Iron. The red corpuscfe
may haye become diminished, and consequently, your entire system suffers
from Insufficient and Impoverished Mood supply, and the accumulation of
poisonous waste matter.
If you find this to be the case, you will want a remedy that will supply
Iron, which will Increase the number of red corpuscles. Try ZIRON, the new
Iron Tonic, which contains no alcohol, no habit-forming drugs, and is rec
ommended as a safe, reliable, tonic remedy for men, women and children.
Mr*. Llule Pennington, of AdameviUe, Ala., writes: “About two weeks
ago I was in bed with an awful bad cold, and I was awful weak. I had taken
putative medicine, hut wanted to try something with Iron to see If I couldn’t
get back my strength. My ton thought Zlron would help me, so I commenced
“• J*f nerves generally run down In the Spring and I need something to
build me np.. .When I got some better and waa up and around, we commenced
the Zlron and it surely helped me to gain my strength and throw off the
cola.. .1 have need only about a half bottle of Zlron but feet ao much better
qnd stronger that I may not have to take any more for awhile."
SPECIAL OFFER: Buy a bottle of ZIRON, today, at your druggist's
and give it a fair trial, according to direction! on the bottle. If, after using
up one bottle, you find It hat not benefited you, take the empty bottle back
to the druggist and he will refund what you paid him for It We repay him.
“ * v — ‘ reaeon why he ehould not repay you. This offer only applies
bottle. (ZA8
The famous German "pea sausage*'
la composed of pea meal, bacon and
fat It was the Invention of a Ber
lin cook, who discovered a process
whereby pea meal could be made
proof against deterioration. One
sausage, eight Inches yields
twelve plates of nutritious soup.
methods of construction.
| veioped power of observation.
Storage houses built according to ( „„ dec0 ., p cU( .« n , by imitating
plans suggested by the Department | their cryg, catches ducks 1>y diving be-
of Agriculture have been in use in j low them, locates nn opossum In a
every State of the South for five or. tree by marks on the bark or by the
six years. The department has n<r: flight of mosquitoes, finds sharks by
knowledge of failure in any house observing the action of bird* nnd fol-
fcuilt and operated strictly accord-! l° wi a 1° It* store of honey,
ing to recommendations. Four years I ®*l ma l which leaves a track
of investigation with one hundred, howeT f„ dlra ln ““d. “ " ln
houses under observation ehowed;
..... . . * . Children are taught to track lizards
that the average loss by decay- after j an(1 snnkc8
over bare recks and to find
an average -storage period of 1 tlielr absent mothers by following
days, was less than 2 1-2 per cent. In 1 track* too indistinct to serve na a
determining this loss representatives 1 pmie f or a ny European. When a wmw
of the department personally graded | mnn is lost ln the desert or n child'
thep otatoos in each house—a total j strays from homo the final resort is to
of 228,000 bushels. Every potato! secure a “black tracker.”' _
that had n decayed spot was thrown
Why He Came Home.
Roscoe Boone, a Munclo electrical
contractor, went home lnte the other
afternoon to find Mrs, Boone enter
taining a company of women at cards.
He had forgotten about the party and
besides It was the usual period of the
day for him,to remember about the
evening meal.
“Ob, Mr. Boone,” said one of the
guests ns he stumbled upon the room
filled with women, '"did you come
home to supper!"
“Oh, no; not at all,” he replied gal
lantly, even if somewhat confusedly.
"I just came home to see what ttmc
It was.”—Indlananolls News
that you are in'busi
ness, come in dnd let us
show what we can do
for you in the way of
attractive cards and
letter heads.Good print*
ing of all kinds is our
specialty and if we can
not satisfy,you we don’t
want ycur business.
That’s Fair,
Isn’t It?'
out and classed as decayed. In en-h
case the potatoes were harvested,
stored end cared for by the farmers.
In the Department’s own storage
house at Arlington, Virginia, sweet
potatoes stored in October last year
and removed in the latter part of June
showed a loss of less than 1 per cent.
Farmers intending to build stor
age houses should write to the De
partment of Agriculture for Farm
ers’ Bulletin 648, "Storing'and Mar-
“Stump-Jump" Plow*.
Tho fact that practically tho entire
surface of the areas susceptible to
cultivation in western Australia Is
heavily wooded and that the dearth
end cost of labor preclude the clearing
of the land of stumps and roots, bos
led to the Invention of a special type
of plow known ai the "stump-jump."
This i* so constructed that it will roil
over stumps and other obstructions ly
ing on the ground. The plow was
invented by an Australian and, so far,
keting Sweet Potatoes.’’. This bulls- has been manufactured only ln that
tin gives plans atldl ists of materials country. In breaking np new lands
needed and also tells how to convert Preference is given to the stump-jump
building such as abandoned tenant *2“.“ S“ MELTS
houses into storage quarters.
99 Out of 100 men say:
iW ¥ M ¥ “TF Kor-Ker will do what you
l/(ltl/Pr A claim you have a wonder-
MUIMvl ful product.”
% Kor-Kcr does more then we
JBmJliraJinJ claim—and we truly have a
“ wonderful product.
We want to demonstrate the value of Kor-Ker to you
—we want to drive nails into our tires and show you that
Kor-Ker seals the punctures instantly.
But most important of all Kor-Ker
ttops the slow leaks that gradually de
flate every tire. •
If Kor-Ker will do what we
that a moldboard plow would leave un
touched. As the lend becomes clean
er of roots after two or three years’
application of this treatment, the
stump-jump moldboard is preferred be
cause of Its better soil turning quali
ties.
Uniformity of Thought
No on, who has traced tho current
Of bamsn thought from the earliest
sources revealed to us down to tho
present Ume can fall to he struck
with Its uniformity, writes John Adams
Dtx. Indeed, the writers »•» succcdlng
nges seem, at first glance, > be but a
succession of plagiarist*; and yet they
are evldenUy, on a closer view, uncon
scious imitators—constrained to be so
because the current of thought in all
that rriMsto the abstract ran* for
ever f/ iffiffrflM, channels. Thus th*
utters,'tijWMAe present are little
else thi^JPP. of the voice* of tha
post Thera are passage* In Cicero
almost word for word like other* In
th* Psalms of David, and In St Paul'*
epistles word for word like others In
th* words of Cicero.
• Elevators ef Ancient Day*.
Tha earliest mention of a device la
any way resembling the modem ele
vator or “lift" may be reed In VUru-
rloa, who describes a hoisting machine
which waa Invented by Archimedes.
This elevator of the second century B.
G. was worked by ropes which were
soiled upon a winding drum by a can-
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SNELLINQ & ROBERTS, at Pine
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