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THE BANNER, SUNDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 22, 1907.
ME ATHENS BANNER
Publtahed Dally, Sunday and Waakly.
H. J. ROWE.
Editor and Proprlator
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ATHENS’ BUILDING RECORD.
The people of Athens have just
ground for pride in the achievements
of the city in a building line during
the year that is now closing. Dur
ing the year at least six hundred
thouand dollars has been spent on
new buildings; and that is a sum that
proves that the building development
of Atbeus has been on no small scale:
During the year there has been am
ple employment for the carpenters
and bricklayers and other workmen
in the city; they have been paid good
wages and have been enabled to live
comfortably and save some money.
The amount of money put in circula
tion by tliis building development has
added to the circulating medium and
made itself felt in business circles.
Despite this activity, howeve
there are now many people who
would come to Athens if they could
secure residences in which to live
The outlook in the building line in
Athens for the next year is bright.
There will be many new buildings
rected and the outlook is good for
ilenty of employment for workmen
for another year.
cessfully In St Petersburg, Berlin, Pa
ris and other European capitals. Her
first London appearance was at Co
vent Garden la 1887. When she re
turned to America it was to sing at
the Metropolitan Opera House with
the greatest singers of the world.
TELEPHONES; Buiine** Office 75
Three molt
Claus will To
days and old Santa
iiii tlie children.
The general impn
ton will gi> to big:
the season is (tut.
ssioii is that vot
er figures before
Messrs. Williams ar
should patch up their
and l»e friends again.
il DeAn
little tit
The entire sta
Hon. S. IV. Mel.
wife over the los
te sympathizes
I'lidon and his
v of their only s
And Still the farmers talk about
coming to tiie cotton school. That
school is sure to be a magnificent
success and will do much good for
Georgia agriculture.
In spite of the stringency in tin
money market farm lands are sell in:
at gvod figures. A large farm ii
Jackson county was sold yesterday a
thirty dollars an acre.
The boys who
the days now. ,l
and they will hat
tigers or going v
have been accm
irink are countim
:t a few more day.
to lie hunting blinc
bout the stuff tlno
tin
PAYING THE TEACHERS
State Treasurer Park within
past few- days has made glad
learts of many school teachers in the
late by mailing out checks to the
imount of more than a quarter of
million d dial's. Coming at tlii-i
time of the year the money will 1
most accepahle to the recipients for
II like to have a little change
hand during Christmas week. I
doubtful whether the teachers will lie
aide to have much spending nione
•nit of the amounts due them, for
their salaries are so meager tha
;n- diablv the greater part of tie
dm- has already been spent.
The legislators of Georgia migh
s well make up their minds to solv
tiiis problem of teachers' salarie
The salaries are too small and the
are not paid promtply. A great stilt
like Georgia can ill afford to allow
-noli a stat.- of affairs to rental
rente lied.
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STATE AFFAIRS. 4
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Macon News.
Should the governor call the extra
session Tom Watson will be appeased
and the reform battle front for the
senate race will not be as scarified as
it looks Just now.
Rome Tribune.
Tlie president's announcement that
he would not again be a candidate
was not altogether Satisfactory-
Secretary Cortelyou. It appears
have interefered with his political
plans considerably.
Savannah News.
It appears from the records that the
benevolent stove trust, iu whose in
terests so strong a fight was made
during the last campaign it still in
creasing prices to consumers notwith
standing tin- lower cost of iron anti
the efforts to secure lower freight
rates.
The Banner has been telling
people a long time about that
hotel building, hut this time it
go. The year l:«0S will witness
completion and it will be a bea
loo
People who are thinking of run
ning blind'tigers after January 1-
in this city might as well he picking
out tlie suits of convicts' clot lies til*-
are to wear, for that will be tlu-ii
portion.
The Athens tuerclm
through the financial
good shape. There li
single failure; in fat
ts have gone
stringency in
s not been a
It has been
some time since a failure in thi
ens business world occurred.
Atli
In spite of the close money markf
there lias been a good business in
Athens for the past few days. Th
merchants have reason to congrat-i
Ute themselves on the trade that is
now going on. This section of Geor
gia Is ill splendid condition.
Tomorrow will witness the cleaning
up of the old Washington street lot
and with the disappearance of all ti
old building from the lot, the hotel
company can start its work on tlie
new hotel. That will be a. glorious-
time for Athens.
Athens should have better side
walks. The mayor and council
should pay particular attention to this
feature of improvement during tlie
coming year. The streets are the
best in the state, and now the side
walks should be made as good as the
streets.
The drunklards in Atlanta have
been having a rather easy time on
probation, and they thought they
would pursue the same tactics this
Christmas season, but lo and behoi-i
Recorder Broyles has suspended the
probation rule and is sending them
to the gang. He is trying some of
Mayor Dorsey's "cage cure’ with good
effect
Joe Bailey has plenty of nerve. He
is not satisfied with holding his seat
in .the United States Senate at the
bands of the Texas legislature. He
will resign and run again before the
people of the state In a regular dem
ocratic primary and let them say
whether or not they still have confi
dence in him since the disclosure of
the evidence tending to connect him
with the Waters-Pferce oQ scandal
Times-Recorder.
Rumor is current in Atlanta
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4- THE GOSPEL OF -V
4- PURE FOOLISHNESS. •
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There isn’t any use in making a ra-
cuous preachment upon the sacredness
of the Christmas season That has
been dinged into unwelcoming ears
till it lias been seared with the ef
fort. There Isn't any use in dissert
ing a deserved dissertation on the ra
tional observance of the holiday thut
won't he spelled with more than one
There isn't a mite of sense in
weeping gratuitous tears over the
silky, sickly, slickey sentiment that
wreathes tear-drops on the mistlc toe
tear-drops on the mistletoe and sizes
and sizes large sized sighs all over
the holly bunches.
Be foolish. And again I say it to
you. verily, BE FOOLISH. Perhaps
,-ou will cynically, sinisterly say
yorself and possibly to the other fel
low that the advice is preposterously
unnecessary. Well. I am doing a bit
of work of superogatlon. That's
the very point I am trying to make.
A’o do some work of that sort. B<‘
foolish for Christmas.
Tlie most of us are a solemn, sober-
somber, sour-faced lot at the happiest
time of the year. Tlie most of us
carry our Christmas trees around as
a burden and moan over the load of
that Itho Santa-sock The most of us take
TO CIRCLE THE GLOBE.
It is given out that Theodore Roos
.-•■it is to make a trip around tl
world as soon as he retires front tin
•residency. It goes without savin
bat his trip will be one of spectacle
nr interest. With his big slid-
-omen hat trimmed by virtue of los:
if office but there nevertheless
•ome shape, his hunter's trappin
a is teeth, his “dee-lighted" expres-
ion. etc., will all be in evidence
President Grant took a trip aronn
- world' onee and was acclaimed t
ndreds of thousands and even mill
is of people. Will Teddy's trip lie
>thing like that of Grant, so far as
I >n!ar acclaim is concerned?
There aio some who still think
at Teddy will serve another tern-
the White House and that he will
'ill's, tint he evidently has iiis head set
are. lint he evidently lias head set
this trip around the world and
II not have anything like another
I'm as president.
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THIS DATE IN HISTORY. ♦
December 22. 4
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1777 -William Ellery, American 4
Revolutionary patriot, born. 4
Died February 15. 1820. 4
17.Mi—Anne Haseltine Judson, 4
first woman foreign mission- 4
ary. horn. Died October 2L 4
1870. 4
1807—United States congress 4
passed the second embargo 4
act +
1821—United States congress -4
voted Lafayette a remunera- 4
lion of $200,000 and a large 4
tract of land in Florida 4
4 1S32—Civil war terminated in 4
Mexico.
1853—Steamship San Francisco
wrecked, with a loss of 290 4
lives. 4
1864—G'en. Sherman established
headquarters at Savannah.
4 1SS0—Marian Evans ("George 4
Eliot") famous novelist, died. 4
Born November 22, 1819. 4
1902—Frederclk Temple, arch- 4
bishop of Canterbury, died.
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Gov. Smith may call an extra session
if the legislature. As the governor,
lie legislature and the rtiilroati com
mission have all hut pushed the rail
roads into bankruptcy, if this subject
is to be treated it will no doubt be
obedience to the reactionary sen
timent which has spread over llu
state.
Marietta Journal.
Senator Clay succeeds to the chair
manship of the select committee on
woman's suffrage formerly held by
Senator Bacon. Senator's Clay's oth
er committees are appropriations,
postolfice and post roads, manufac
tures, public buildings and grounds,
coast defenses, coast and insular sur
vey ami tlie University of the United
States.
Griffin News.
"If Hole- gets that extra session.
Steve Clay bad better have clasps
riveted on his senatorial togs,” says
tlte Macon News. Hoke doesn't seem
to lie so dead certain of that as our
contemporary
hristnias entirely and italically too
heavy. 1 do not mean to diminish by
tne weight of tlie peace dove's feather
tlie sanctity of the occasion, the reli
gious significance of the Holy Day. 1
do not mean that the day should not
he of benefit on account of the really
1 serious associations. I do not
mean that there should be detracted
from the celebration of the birth of
the Savior King one jot or tittle of
the eternity-encompassing importance
the event.
What's tie
tit of a ban
t or bet we
mattresses a
a burglar al
closet.
ome Tribune.
use taking your nione
; and hiding it ill a clot
-n the mattresses. Tit
■e likely to burn up an
ways goes into the fiist
Griffin News.
Tlie Brunswick News annulme
nt it was one of the three daily
apers in Georgia that supported Gov
Hoke Smith for the great office in
now occupies." and that while it owns
blocks of railorad stock, it is get
ting very tired of so much railroad
legislation on the part of the reform
administration it helped saddle on the
stale.
Clarkesville Advertiser.
The iKistofiiee fight in Toccoa has
justly caused much indignation. The
Toccoa and Conyers cases have both
been carried before President Roose
velt by Senators Clay and Livingston
and tlie president is investigating
them, and it is thought he will take
part of the ladies who are nov
filling the offices well. They hav
strong supporters in the senators who
have gone before the president for
them, although they cannot vote.
“THIS IS MY 50TH BIRTHDAY.”
Mme. Nordica.
Lillian Norton (Mme. Nordica) tho
famous prima donna, was ■ born In
Farmington, Me., December 2(2, 1857.
As a girl of 18 or 19 she was sent to
study at the conservatory. In Boston
and at the same time sang in tho
church choir. Her first pnbllc appear
ance was mhde at a Boston concert,
when she sang Leonora’s aria from
“II trovatore’’ In a way that led to her
being engaged as a soprano soloist
for the Christmas oratorio of "Tho
Messiah” In 1876. Two years later
Patrick Gilmore, the famous bandmas
ter, “discovered” her and took her
with his concert company to Paris. In
Parts at the age of 21 she made her
first appearhnee at the Trocadero,
and fronf that date her pathway to
fame was a smooth one. Her debut
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The man who Insures his life Is
wise for his family.
The man who insures his health
Is wise both for his family and
himself.
You may insure health by guard
ing It. It is worth guarding.
At t h e first ottack of disease,
which generally approaches
through the LIVER and mani
fests itself In Innumerable ways
TAKE —.
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And save your health.
About Digestion.
It Is not -the quantity of food taken
but the amount digested and assiml
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stomach and liver and enable them
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H. R. Palmer & Sons, Warren
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But again I say unto
Be sho’-nuff silly
Be fool
* simple,
year. B.'
-ill think
of min i
Be so
Be natural—one time in the
so foolish that your wife v
on have lost the "peace"
she wouldn’t let you keep
silly that the children will laugh
artil.v and wholesome at you- -for
oil will be funny. Be so simple tha’
the babe will coo at you with a wink
cognition and' sympathy,
childish that your own mother will
onder if you have not turned the
Christmas clock bick aliout twenty
nr thirty years and look for tlie tel!
tale jam on your moustache.
o: Do some foolish tilings to
prove it For n instance: Give your
ife a lumen of five No. 10 soap-wrap
pers or six to buy her Christmas
presents with. She'll faint; but she'll
t over it—the faint. I mean; she'll
never get over the No. 10's. For an
other 'n instance: Go and buy her
Christmas gift that costs till Its
hurts the joints of your rheumatl
(or. is it romatie?) old poeket-hook;
something she has no enrthl
use for in the world, something site
wonder who on earth bought it
Don't buy her a range or a. hall lamp
a piece of furniture. Get some
thing SHE can enjoy all by herself.
Then do the same thing to a lot
more of your friends
Poke your dignity into a sewer-
pipe, sttm’ers. and your self-import
ance into the hack of the fireplace.
Give your "rational" side turn ov
FVir one time in the year be yourself
Be downright FOOLISH!
And you’ll he HAPPY!
Likewise you won't he LON]
SOME!
- The N. P. M.
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Spanking does not cure children of
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cause for this trouble. Mrs. M. Sum
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send free to any mother her success
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tions. Send no money but write her to
day if vonr children trouble you in
this way. Don't blame the child, the
chances are it can’t help it. Thli
treatment also cures adults and aged
people troubled with urine difficulties
by day or night.
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Can You Find a Xmas Rememberance
That will give old and young alike
more pleasure than a
Victor Talking Machine
or an
Edison Phonograph
OUR DISPLAY Q y=:=-= —=
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1117.) rs
Scissors
Coal \ ases
Guns, etc
GET
coil)|>lt te
CUR
PRICES
Bondurant hardware Go.
John L. Arnold
Headquarters for Wall paper, glass and pure Paint-
He gives his spicial attei.ti> n to contracting for house
and sign painting, paper hanging and picture framing.
At same old slant!.
Corner Clayton and Jackson Streets.
Start the New Year Right
By carrying your Shoe and
Harness repair work to
MARTIN BROTHERS
Tuck Bids’. Clayton St.
We do it right. We also carry a full line of
Harness, Lap Robes, Whips and Riding Saddles at
the lowest prices.
GIVE US A TRIAL
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