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Official Paper of Thomas County
Oueratlctd Cluuletlcn 3,400.
1 SCHOOL IMPROVEMENT.
lliis week’has witnessed the orgnui-
nation ole school improvement clnb in
Athens.' Its special object Is to eulist
the women of every oommOnity In the
state to organise themselves into local
school Improvement clubs, having in
view the improvement of v the school
buildings and the introduction of pic-
’ tares, the beattUfying of the grounds,
the addition of school gardens, and all
the facilities for making the schools
neat, clean and attractive. ‘ v
Mow, this la a etep in the right dime-
tain. If tjjero Is anything that has suc
ceeded since Eve organised the apple
consumers union m the Garden of
Eden, itumgeess has beon more or lees
due to woman's Influence.
The chart'll if stronger than it has
ever been. Bnt csst yonr eye over the
audience and yon will see Ally a sprink
ling of tdack coats. Look over the list
Of olinroh workers and the prefix “Mr.'*
is about as common as a wintry day in
May.
.. .The fine qualities and powers uf wo
manhood are Indispensable to the sac-
l Olinroii. The sumo powers and
at im the canse of education, will
i lift and porposo and vigor. ‘ With
increased appropriation froii ;the
ate, the earnest efforts of 1I10 splendid
i of teaohdrs now engaged, and tho
y of the interest and sup-
, port of Georgia womanhood tho com
mon schools, must In the very nature of
i things outer upon tho brightest epoch of
their hlstory-
PRINTER—PREACHER,
The Headland (Ala.) Poet brings the
new* that Chester B. Johnson has been
licensed to preach in the ’Florida 00m
fereuoe. Mr. Johnson!* a native of
Quitman and is welt known in South
Georgia print shops everywhere. The
Wsyrreee Herald snggesta-tliat it mi
in tliat office that ho received the , in-
spiration that has culminated so for-
tnnately. Mr. Jolmscn was also an
emplqye of the'Times-Enterprise- After
seeing sin and being tcuned against It
in Wayeross, ho donbtlees received a
mighty shove along the road to ecclesi
astical ecstasy, here in TbomuviUe -
Our printers don’t case, even when
they pi a form.
Well, the political surprise matoral-
Peabody la treasurer of the Demo
cratic campaign. Ho is’not pea-brained
cither.
The ldoa df the county picnic seems
to do spreading liko w.lld-firo, Como
Oomo come alt
Hooeerelt will play for the coon rote.
Ho baa bad his picture taken' showing
him eating a watermelon.
Bishop Potter has started a model
saloon m New York. We await wjtli
bated breath the model drunkard.-
Tbe House of Representatives has
passed the boll weevil bill. Mow let
hope that the b. w. will pass Georgia
by.
- The postmaster at Esopus says every
body in the country seems to have writ
ten to Judge Pprker. Billets will change
■4o ballots In November.
m
**Rnd.vard Kipling has writtcu a poem
’entitled "Once on a Time there was a
Man.” We have it ou good authority
that he baa received the following tel-
i'. egrem: “Dear Kip:—Please change
ttWar I am still alive. Teddy.
Georgia legislature was wise
the school fund and
denyanuppscpnaHta
(or the mala Botnl of Health. What
good wiUit do th* kids to be educated If
they dta from contagious diseases in
- SEND WORKERS
It has become^uhionable for people
to knock the legislature and mate 'fan
of it. Most of this is done in a good
natnred way, however, and the solons
do not feel tne gibes very deeply.
Tho Georgia legislators is abont to
alote a fifty day session, with a mod rush
of bnslness, night sessions and the con
fusion usually incident upbn such occa
sions. In this confusion it lays itself
open to the most serious criticism and
ought to be handled without gloves,
and in any but a good natnred way.
Thomaa county it fortunate in having
a trio of hard working, conscientious
members, bnt all of the legislators are
not like them. l]po many of the solOne
regard the session as a holiday, a play
time. They accept the sop of a (tye
pass from the railroads, and from Fri
day until Monday gad abont the state
to tea-shore resorts, and moo n tain hotels
leaving the state business to take care
of itself. As » consequence there is no
quorum in the lipnae. An occasional
faithful'member sticks np his hand like
an oasis in adesert land of empty bench
es, the clerk counts a constitutional
majority, and a hill is nulled through,
with only a baker’s dozen who know or
core wliat it la abont. True these Sat
unlay sessions are devoted to local bills,
but the precedent Is a bad one, and tlie
practice if not checked out will lead to
dangerous results.
The early days of the session are con-
apioioua for absentees and wind jam
mers. The business of the state has.a
hard timo steering- between -the Soylla
of one and the pharybdis of tlie other.
Enough talk Is wasted to start a gas-
plant ot calibre to float a Santcs-Dn-.
Wont air ship. Laxity, carelessness,
laziness, are the trinity adopted as guid
ing stare by tli.o majority of the legisla
tors. Work is poetpouod from day to
day, ami finally Is rushed through with
out deliberation or thought. This oc-
, HELP; AT HOME.
. Yesterday we mid a few words'about
the help that could be given school im
provement by tlie women of Georgia,
The women of TbomasviUe can help in
town Improvement if they have a mind
to. Mot even 'they could keep- the cows
oft the street. -They are as fixed ana
unalterable in their garden-destroying
freedom, as the laws of tile Meil.is and
Persians of fabled immutability, Bnt
therein room for improvement else
where. |
The TliomasviUe women can begin
at home.- By the way most TIiouus-
ville ladles rale tlie house as well as
keep tlie jSoqse. . Sncli of the homes as
wo liave been privileged to .enter are
immaodlkte. Mow let tho orderly
housewife, extend tins sway of neatness
over the yards. Let her see that the
tree* are trimmed, the siirabs trained,
tho grass cut, and that the picket-fence
doesn't have a snaggled-toothed appear
ance. •
And let her snggest to her husband,
four or five times a day that'some of
tlie sidewalks hate minature reproduc
tions of the Mammoth Gave, and that
some of thesvstreets need fixing, and
wouldn’t he plegse speak to tlie mayor
add aldermen abont it If a few Iran,
dred ladies did till fatew hundred meu
would speak to tlie mayor and conncil-
men and they would spend a few hun
dred dollars fixing np, and maybe in a
few hundred days Thomatvllle would
assume the appearance that she ought
to keep pace with liei natural advan
tages, and make her visitors name
her far and wide as a model city,
Mow all of this may be a dizzy dream
bat there is no telling what women can
do—if thoy will.
THE SUKDAY SCHOOIi.; the tricky grouse.
LESSON VII, THIRD QUARTER, INTER
NATIONAL SERIES, AUO. 14.
Tho Macon Mewssnggcsts that college
students by acting as street oaf conduct
ors In vacation may best develops the
tire centres.
Balwbridge merchants aip suffering
ffom snf epidemic ot burglary. A
warding to them to lay up treasures
where no thieves bleak in and steal.
Judge Alton U. Parker lias resigned
as Jndge of the Oonrt of Appeals. His
action'was necessary and proper and we
trost will be rewarded ny a higher of
fice.
A GeorgHt legislator lias introduced a
bill making it a misdemeanor for a
drunken person -to enter;'a railway
coach, or strpet car. How ls a fellow to
esespo an Irate wife or mother-ra law''
Tlioiuasvllle is an minsallv good town,
to be trusted daring the absence of two
of Its preachers on a vacation. Along
curs every year^ud a whole lot of people | „ 0 ronliimert tlmt tll0 rtCT l|
are growing tromondously weary of
its senseless repetition
If tlie election bould beheld Just after
adjournment while the memory of tho
misdeeds is fresh, about 00 per ceut of
the legislator* would fail of re-elcc-
tion. But the people are good at for*
getting aud they «ond tho same old crew
bask year after year. They ought to
remember that the legislators are tho
people’s servants. How loug would you
keep a clerk who dojiortod himself
with the intelligence aud industry of
the average Georgia legislator? Three
$nd one-half minutes would be a long
term of service. Yet how much more
important is tlia business transacted by
legislators.
The qualification* that go to make up
an ideal legislator are not a hearty
hand-clasp, a surplus of avoirdujiois
and a never-sax^dle, thirst. Some day
the people are going to b$ shocked into
con scionsuess by something or other,
abd when they are—but that’s another
story, "**
Judge Parkor is one of those rare men
who improves ou acquaintance.
takes no vacation and if. tho ministers
had his physique they probably wouldn’t
either.
Text of tho Lmdoo, I Kins* xrUU
MlM^eiuorr Verse*. 13-10—Guide*
Text. 1 Ktus* xrlll. 12—Commentary
Prepared by Bor. D. 31. Steam*.
[Copyright, 10*4, by American trt'ta jUtodition.l
In our study of the* life of Elijah we
must ever see bJtp as a man of God,
standing before God. bearing the voice
of God and speaking the word of God.
Hearing Implies obeying, so we see
him doing just what God told him un
hesitatingly/' A mi)n of God is a God
controlled man, wholly in the hand ot
God, that God may be glorified in him.
We left Elijah in our last lesson in
the home of the widow of Sarepta, the
three inmates of the home witnessing
day by day. the miracle of the con
stant increase- of the meal and oil ac
cording to the word of the Lord.
The incident of the death aud resur
rection of the widow’s son ’ and the
widow's testimony, “Now by'-this I
know that tlmn art Hi man of God and
that the word of the Lord Id tby mouth
Is truth," closed the chapter, showing
that the Lord God of Elijah could uot
only miraculously sustain life, but also
give life to the dead. What an honor
to be a representative of such a God
and to be in constant and conscious
touch with Him, as Elijah was!
According to the Spirit’s testimony
through the Lord Jesus atid through
James (Luke Iv, 23; Jas, v. 1?) Elijah
spent three and a half years by the
brook and in the widow's home, a full,
year being spent In the latter (1 Kings
xvil, 15), bat now the same word of
the Lord that sent him to bis hiding
places comes to him with the message,
“Go, shew thyself unto Aliub, and I
will send rain upon tbe earth” (xvlil,
1); and obedient Elijah went to show
himself to Abub. When Joseph was
told to take Mary and the child Jesus
and go down to Egypt, the comtnoqd
was, -lie thou there until 1 briuglbee
word,” and the same messenger
brought him ..word when it was time
tor him to leave Egypt God was man’
aging; Joseph bad only to obey (Matt.
U, 111, 20).
Turning from Elijah for a moment,
we learn that A huh had as ruler of his
house a God fearing man named Oba-
dlah, who. us Ills name implies (serv
ant of Jehovah), served the Lord .in
that tmgddly house, reminding us 'of
Joseph in Egypt and Daniel it) Baby
lon and suggesting to us that it Is pos
sible to servo the Lord under any cir
cumstances in which He may permit
us to^e placed.
About tbe time that tlie Lord sent
Elijah to meet Aliub both Ahnb and
Obadiab started forth, Ahab going one
way by himself and Obadiab another
way by himself (verse C). to see if they
could find water and grass to save tbe
horses and mnies alive. Elijah*, met
Obadiab and said* to him. "Go tell thy
Lord, Behold, Elijah Is here” (verse S).
Obadiab replied tlmt It was ns much
as his life was worth to do Mach n
thing, inasmuch as Ahab had caused
search to bo made for Elijah every
where and had taken an oath of every
kingdom and nation that they could
not find him (verses 0-14). Although
ft Bw Bndredn of Dot lees Fox
Eladinf tbe Hunter.
The grouse has a btfudred tiTcks of
defense, It will lie still until tlie hunt
er is within a yard of It, then soar
straight upward In his front, towering
iike u woodcock; again, it will rise for
ty yards away, and the sound of its
wings Is his only notice of Its pres
ence. It will cower ifron a branch
under wblcli'be passes, and bis cap will
he uot more than a foot below It as he
goes, and, though It has seen him ap
proaching. if will remain quiescent In
fear until his back is tufned. It will
rtish then, and when he hds slewed
himself hurriedly around be will catch
only.a glimpse of a brown broad wing
. far A way.
Wounded and falling in tlie open. It
will be found—if It is. found at bll—
with the telltale speckles ot Its breast
against tbe trunk of some brown tree.
agatuiit which Its feathers are indis
tinguishable, and the black ruff about
tlie neck ot tlie male will be laid
against tlie darkest spot of the bark.
Often it will double like a fox; often
as a man draws near It will spring
noiselessly Into some spruce and bide
until he pusses, dropping then to the
ground and continuing its feeding; of
ten, too. It tfifi jlocJIne to take wing,
though unhurt,Mind will run fast for
half a mile*—so fast that the most ex
pert woodsman will l»e unable to keep
pace with it. This It wip only do on
leafy ground and never when snow
would betray its tracks.—Outing.
PE-RU-NA NECESSARY
TO THE HOME.
FEAT OF A MACGREGOR.
Wondcrfar Phralml Streanll* That
Was I'wd to Good Parpoac,
Sir William MacGregor was tbe hero
of such an adventure as one expects
ordinarily to read about only in fiction
of n certain hue.
The steamship Syria, with a lot of
Indian coolies on board, struck on a
rock about twelve hours from Suva, the
capital of Fiji.
Dr. MacGregor, then noting colonial
secretary, organised a relief expedition,
clambered ovej a broken mast that was
the only path to the emigrants dud
again and again returned with a man
or woman on'his back and sometimes a
child, held by its clothes between his
teeth. v n.
A mnn of vast physical strength,
MacGregor wauled it all for hi* final
feat. Down below on the reef was a
woman who bad fallen ovorboMrd, had
got, at the spirits and was mpd with
drink. The captain of the ship and a
police officer who had gone after her
were being swept out to sea. Mac
Gregor slid down a rope, caught the
knot of . the woman'* haIr lu his teeth
and with his hands seized the two men
and drugged them both into safety. He
nt back to Suva Jrt a -borrowed suit
of pajamas, having left all his clothes
and a-good deal of bis skin on the coral
reef. * > ^ - *
Modest. like many heroes, MacGregor
left himself out of hi* own repoft, and
it was from the governor that the
qnecii first heftrd the whole story.
Congressman George llenry White, of
Tar boro, X.C., writes the following letter
to Dr, Hartman in regard to the merits
of the great catarrh cure, Peruna:
House of Representatives, )
Washington, Eeb, 4, JJO9. ]
Peruna MedicineuCo., Columbus, O.:
Gentlemen—•• I am more than satis*
fled with Peruna, and find it to be an
excellent remedy for the grip and ca*
tarrh. / have used it in my family
and they all Join me in recommending
excellent remedy. ”
Very respectfully,
IP George H. White.
Mrs. Nannie Wallace, Tulare, Cal.,
President of the Westorn Baptist Mis*
ijonarj* Society, writes*
“I consider Peruna an indispensable
article in n»y medicine chest. It is
twenty medicines in one, and so tax
cored every sickness that has been f»
mf home for five years, I consider it ot
special value to weakly women, os it
builds np tho general health, drives out
disease and keeps you in the best of
health.”—Mrs. Nannie Wallace.
If you do not derive prompt and satis
factory results from the use of Peruna,
write at once to lir. Hartman, giving a
full statement of your case and he will
bo pleased to give you his valuable ad-
rise gratis.
Address Dr. Hartman, President, of
Hie Hartman Sauitariufti, Columbus, '
Ohio.
Th© legislature acted wisely and well
in appropriating $95,000 to'the Stato
Normal School. Tlie gift is coudHiouod
ou the mining of a like amount by tb©
friends of the great institution. They
should get to work at once.
Georgia has a good list of now indus
tries for tho past week. It is us follow
ing.
Macon—Stouo and tiliug company.
Oartersvillo—$100,000 development
company. •"
S.tiHmore—Eloctric light- plant.
Valionta—$100,000 naval stose com
pany.
Colnmbns—30,000-spludIc cotton mill, j before whom 1 stand.’
Macon—Cooperage plant.
Carrolltou—Fertilizer factory.
Lamont for Govornor of New York
means a lament for the Republicans.
Shaking of monumental failures,
lnok'at the Greater*Georgia association.
The Georgia lcgis’atnre appropriates
mo my to fight the boll weevil and gives
nothiug'to wage war against small pox
and consumption. •
Congressman Jas. M. Griggs lias been
appointed as the member from Georgia
of thej Democratic campaign committee.
Griggs is a campaigner allright.
MONEY TO L0\N.
I negotiate five years loans ou farm
lands at lowest ratest of iuten sr. Com
mission charge* reasonable A small
abstract fee, consistent with the amount
of work and trouble involved, will !*•
charged in each case. Bring your chain
o ’ title with yon.
EDWIN L. BRYAN,
Attorney-ni Luw,
8-Mv Moultrie, Ga,
Thomasvilte Business College.
If yon are interested in a Business
Education, you will do well to investi
gate the method* of x $k( >boy©rnamed
Institution. For “full information, ad
dram or call on,
ANSON W. BALL,
* President.'
Obadiab feared the Lord and was
brave enough to risk the vengeance of
Jezebel when lie. saved alive a hun
dred of the Lord’s'prophets by hiding
them in caves at tbe time that ahe at
tempted to kill them all. yet he feared
death, for note his threefold. "He will
slay me” (verses 0, 12. 14). Bnt this is“
not stxpnge, for Abmlmm asked Sarah
to lie, and he himself wall dot truth
ful cottceruhip their relationship, for
fear that he might bo slain.
They had»not revealed to them (a
those days that whieh we have re
vealed to us concerning the gain that
death is to the believer (Phil. I, 21, 23;
II Cor. Vi 8), nor was it quite the same
to the believer to die before Jesus
Christ died ami rose again that it has
been since. Tire captives whom! He
set free, according to Epli. iv, 8, may
have been tho redeemed of the Old
Testament days, who until the resur
rection and ascension of Christ had
not the happiness which then became
theirs. There are still many believers
who are all their lifetime subject t6
bondage through fear , of death, but
there l* no need of it, for lie is uble to
deliver from nil such fears.
Elijah’s reply to Obmliab's fears was,
”As the Lord of host* llvctU before
whom I staud, I will surely shew, my
self unto him this Cay” (verse 13).
Compare xvil, 1, aud let us take as one
of our watchwords. “The Lord llveth
Note In con-
I auction with It Gabriel’s testimony in
Luke i, 19, and our Lord's own wbrds
In John vi, 57, “As the living Father
hath sent Me.'and I live by the Father,
so be that eatetb Me, eveu he fehail
live b.v Me.”
Obadiab, being encouraged aud as
sured. went uiul told Aliab. ahkf Ahab
went to meet Elijah, and when they
met Elijah fearlessly told Ahnb that
he, not^EUJah, Was the cause of all
this trouble .upon Israel, and he com
manded him to summon tho prophets
of Baal to Carmel, with all Israel, that
the God of Israel might publicly give
a token that He only Is (hi* living and
true God. Our next lessen will fully
describe this. There Is groat need to
day or Elijahs who will promptly and
fully obey God and either hide tbem-
selyes or fcerle&ly meet the blasphem
ing Ahnb* ns tbe Lord may say, or do
both at once, for It Is only'as self Is
hidden, reckoned dead, that God can
manifest' Himself to the ungodly
Ahubs who would fain rule Him and
His Christ off the earth, and oat of
Ills hook ami. as men sny„ run .things
.tberaselvy*. exalting self above every
god and recognizing no god bnt the In
tellect of man and no will bnt their
own. Yet the Lord llveth (Pa. xvlii,
46).
Woe* of «a Editor.
When a newspaper tells the simple
truth about n bad juun who is trying
to get Into a public pla* e where he
can steal, the truth Is calletd “attack.”
If when the same man runs for office
tip* fa,cts of lfis past career are printed
to show the people what they may ex
pect. the editor who prints these facta
is abused, and tlie rascal poses as a
martyr. When a man turns oat wrong,
as the editor said he would,’ If tbe edi
tor says Ids prophpcles came true, the
people accuse hfiu of persecuting a
man nml “kicking him when he Is
down.” Yet if the paper says nothing
ub6ut bad ipen who are trying to rob
the people they say that the editor Is
bought off nml that be lias takeu hush
money;- Emporia Gazette.
TOE CENTRE OF LIFE.
We live only ny the food tlmt is di
gested and -assimilated, hence tbe stom
ach is the “centre ot life.” If the
stomach is Vroak, the bdfly will lie pro
portionately weak. Strengthen the
“centre of life” by using Rydale’s
Stomach Tablets. They digest the food
and rest the stomach. Thoy act os a
tonic to the digestive organs aud help
nature restoie them to health. These
Tablets are guaranteed to cure indiges
tion and dyspepsia. Trinl size 25 cents,
family size coutains 2 1-2 times tbe trial
size. 60c. J. W Peacock.
Imitation Perfume*.
“It may seem peculiar,” aaid a per*
futnfcry manufacturer, “but perfnmca
arc adulterated and Imitated Just us
baking powder and other things are.
For Instance, we mrke a high grade car
nation pink perfume* from the flowers
themselves. Tills, of course, is costly,
but tho perfume returns 1^ odor, »ud a
handkerchief that bus been scented
with It will retain tbe perfume even
r it Is washed. A h©t iron w!!l
bring out the cdor again. Now, a per
fume (hat I* Jest us good to all first
appearance* and that for ten minutes
will hive the same effect can be made
out «>l*tln» oi) of cloves mixed with al
cohol. At the c.i 1 of ten ukinutes the
*«ior will be gone.”—Milwaukee Sen-
tbwri. ’ k
The PI rut Gingerbread.
The homely luxury, gingerbread, has
been popular ever since the fourteenth
century. It was then made and sold
la Paris. In those days It was prepar
ed with rye meal made into a dough,
and ginger and other spices, with sugar
or honey, were kueutled Into It It
was Introduced Into Enghiud by the
court of Henry IV. for their festivals
and was soon brot-'li; into general use.
treacle being aft* - a time employed In
the manufacture imm -su! of honey. ,
HOLINESS CAMP MEETING, IN
DIAN SPRINGS. t*A.
August tfth to 2tot,1904-
On account of the above occasion a
rate of one first fare, plus 25
cents, for tho round trip from all i>oiata
in Georgia bus been, authorized. (Min
imum rate 50 cents > Ticket* to be'eo’d
to Fibvilla-August 10th to 16th inclusive,
final limit August 22d,
Southern railway train* leave Maoon
3:03 a. m , 8;30 a. in. 1*36 p. in. and
7:30 p.ra., all of which rnako direct
direct connection at Flovilla for tJie-
Springs except the 3.03 a. in. train.
For further information apply to"' ==3 <
JAMES FREEMAN,
Phono 43t T. P. A Macon. Ga.
aril) In Dauht.
,Bookie--So, y'scc, if the ’orse starts
at fifteen to one you get fifteen quid.
f*Mi to one you get ten quid, five to one
five. D’y’see? The Imioccut—Oh, yes.
I see perfectly. Bht what do I get
if tbe horse starts at 1 o'clock exact-
ly?—London Illustrated Bit*.
Recoaclled.
Widow. Wizen—'Yes, Henry died
quite reconciled. I. was at his bedside
until the last moment. Dumlej (mean
ing to be complimentary)—Ah, that ac-'
counts for It—Boston Transcript.
Moit mon postpone bappin
le future, a
—Epicurus.
tbe futnre, and ttyg future never <
until
About what you will give
that friend who is going to
get married. Simply come
[down here and tell us.how
much you want to spend.
We’ll do the rest—and guar
antee that the present wifi be
elegant.*You don’t have to
spend a fortune to obtain ele*-
gance.
L H. JERGER,
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