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VOL. XV—NO. 20.
DAHLONEGA, GA., FRIDAY, OCTOBER 21. 1904.
W. B. TOWNSEND, Editor and Proprietor
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The Pension List.
It was reported the other day
that the pension bill reached its
maximum and that hereafter it
would be in diminuendo. But the
quarterly report of the pension
commissioner does not justify the
report. He shows that duriijg the
quarter < uding September 30,
1904, there were on hand 285,528
numerical proportions of the roll
itself. It will bo many a year,
doubtless, before there shall bo an
appreciable reduction in the ap
propriations on the civil war ac
count, and in the meantime, should
j we have a succession of war lords
i k> administer the government of
i ih,. UnitedStat.es, it may tie doub
le! or trebled.
'Twas the spring poet who used
to be always strenuously trying in
that green season to turn the
young man’s fancy lightly to
thoughts of love — light fancy
would probably express it better.
Time lias developed, however,
that the fancy has a way of assert
ing itself just any old season, and
that love is a poetic license that
tunes itself iti the young girl’s just
the same as in she young man's
breast. The spring poet has been
mnbbgd by mosquitoes, and his
..pilled blood will soon be dyeing
with Hush the frosted crest of fall
ing cares. ,
The yellow haze of golden red is !
opening ilullily against the greens
that darken and dimple in cooling
weather, and in the pink glow of
morning, and the purpling shad- j
j ow of evening, one can just feci
the hint of ice slowly gathering
| upon the breath of Laughing
1 Wall r, and yet the subject of love
I that was old last spring—and the
j spring before that —and ever so ;
1 many springs before, is as new '
and bright as a maiden’s dream, 1
j while still her feet stand upon the |
j brink where the child and woman
I meet. To all whose senses are ,
j wrapped in the soft emotion, the j
1 following from a writer in the ;
! North Georgia Citizen, will, if!
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properly digested, given properly,
! practical turn to the mind.
I “ ‘One loves more the first time,
better the second.’ All women ex
perience a lirst crazy love allair
that is for the purpose of teaching
them 11 few real stern facts. If
j you will turn the search light of
1 sound sense upon your own
thoughts you will realize that it is
J most absurd to dream foolish
j dreams about a man whom you
1 scarcely know. No woman should
! permit herself to think sweetly of
J*a man until she is sure that he is
| extremely fond of her. Since you
! know him so slightly, how can you
! tell that he is the sort you would
1 respect'f He may lie one of the
horid kind who say things when
the steak isn’t right, or who blus
ter because the coffee is too hot.
Cease thinking of this angel in
men’s" garments and get your
*1 mind centered on more interesting
: and profitable matters. This is a
! pretty, sunny old world, and it is
n pity to miss a moment of enjoy-
TIow many fathers there are in
this country who never think of
making companions of their boys
cannot bo estimated, and yet the |
need is always great. The father j
who invites the confidence of his
boy, who makes a companion of j
him and who makes him feel that (
ho can always come to him in evil i
report, ns in good report, will
rarely have anv cause to complain j
of his son. The great trouble is |
that men, ns a rule, know too lit
tle of their boys; but this would
not bo the ease if they made com
panions of t hem as far as pos
sible.
Boys, nsa rule, are afraid of !•
their fathers. No boy should be 1
afraid of his father. There should
he respect and admiration for the j
father born of love and duty, but :
it is an awful thing for him to be
in constant dread of the parent,
and yet this is the ease with many
of them. The man who makes a
companion of his boy, who par
takes of his youthful pleasures,
who can always find lime to
change views with him, lias an
opportunity to correct his mis
takes and give the hoy the benefit*
of his experience, but where there !
is no companionship between !
them this cannot be done.
The father who never has time |
to sit down and talk with his boy
about their own affairs, however
simple may be the subject, makes '
a mistake which, sooner or later, -
be will discover, and the discov- i
ery is generally toy late for cor- j
rectum. Men sometimes miss
their chance to shape and 'mold !
the character of their boys simply j
because they have neglected their 1
companionship.—Greenville Her
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Love Letters Looked
Years After.
How
A traveling man at a hotel re
claims for pensions pending. Since j con tly found a hair,in tlve honey.
July 1, 1900, a total of 5,490 new
applications were received and it
is estimated that an average of 700
now claims are filed each working
<h»y. The death rate, it is said in
the report, is executed by the new
applications seven-fold, wlrat the
commissioner calls “the disappear
Lg army” dying at the rate of 100
a day.
Daring l ist year there were 81,-
728 deaths of pensioners of all
classes, of whom 80,071 were sol
diers of the civil war. The com
missioner says that there are still
from 150,000 to 180,000 soldiers of
that war not on the pension rolls.
I hose he refers to as the “unknown
army.” H 0 believes that the mors
tality this year will reach about
47,000.
But according to the ratio of ap
plications to deaths, it is not appar
ent that the “high water mark” of
the pension bill has yet been
leached, either in point of the
'harore upon the.treasury or in the
He went to tho proprietor and
kicked. “I can’t help it,” said
the latter. “I bought it for comb- ;
ed honey.” Tho next clay at din
ner he happened to run across a ,
small hair in the ice cream and ;
the landlord could not account for |
it. “The ice is shaved,” he said. |
q’he guest was boiling, for the
next day he picked a raven hair
of his portion of the pie, and
nit
angrily jerked up the proprietor,
wiio turned him down effectually
as follows: “In apple pie, eh?
Well, that beats the Dutch I I
•lit those apples for bald-
4.”- Ex.
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special train of the Los
s Times, hearing seventy-
; four newspaper workers on a thii —
! , v ( ]j,vs’ trip of 9,000 miles, reach-
I ed San Antonio, Tex., tie
! ,l !iy and left for El Paso
| party is living on its train a
! printing a daily newspaper on
| duplicate apparatus.
other
The
While rummaging through tho
1 drawers of a book case in her
daughter’s room in search of some
writing paper the other day, Mrs.
Wim her ling, of Oak Park, a Chi
cago suburb, came upon a bundle
of letters tied with a pink string
and emitting a faint perfume.
She untied the bundle and
glanced through several of the let-
1 ters.
Then s he packed them up, went
down stairs and confronted her
daughter.
“Eunice,” she said, in a high
state of indignation, “who is the
idiot that you’re corresponding
with, I’d like to know? . Of all
the lovesick halderda h I ever
saw, this is absolutely the worst.
1 shall consider it my duty to re
port the matter to your father if
this tiling goes any further. W ho
wrote those letters?”
“j am not going to lie to you
about them, mamma,” said Miss
Eunice bravely. “If you will put
mi your glasses and look at them
again you will find that they re a
lot of old letters papa wrote you
when you were a girl.”—Chicago
Tribune.
An insane mother in an Eastern
city, believing that her children
were to lie taken from her, band- J
ended her home, and with two re- j
volvers recently defended the j
! premises for more than seven j
j hours. A crowd of two thousand
1 people was drawji to the neigh-
! borhood by the sound of tho shool-
! ing. The police tried to induce
the crowd to disperse, because
they saw that its presence confirm-
i ed the woman’s fears for her chil-
! dren; but the mob would not be
cheated of its entertainment.
No injured workman is placed
: in an ambulance to be borne to
! the hospital without sudoring the
| annoyance of a similar gaping
i crowd. No woman faints in a
public place without being sub
jeeteil to the further pain of finds
i ing a densely packed ring of Jiu
! inanity pressing‘so closely about
I her to shut off the very air she
needs. During the Grand Army
i parade in Boston this summer the
j ambulance surgeons had almost to
: resort to force to keep the curious
mob back from veterans who had
j been overcome by heat or fatigue.
These crowds are not maleviden.
At the worst they are merely
thoughtless, and their motive is
often that of sympathy. But Uny
fire inconsiderate, and therefore
ill bred. If one is a witness of
any painful incident which has
drawn or is likely to draw a crowd,
puts himself in the place of the
injured person, he will consider
whether, by staying, he can be ol
any real service, and if he cannot,
I10 will go about his business.—
Youth’s Companion.
There is a little streak of obsti
nacy in a child which that fatal
word “don’t” frequently brings
to the surface. Try to avoid it
and turn the child’s mind in an
other direction
. FAMILY
GROCERIES
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General Merchandise.
Origin of Fire.
No one discovery has done so
much for mankind as tho discov
ers'of fire and its application to
human wants. Without fire hu
man it v would be in a helpless eon-
dition except in the tropics.
Were it not for fire to give warmth
to our homes and power to our
locomotives the human race would
not have progressed far. How
was fire first discovered? How
did the first man learn how to
cause fire to burn into flame by
the friction ojf one wooden stick
upon another? This is an inter
eating question. The human race
lived for over 100,000 years with
out, fires. Finally some man was
back before historic times dis
covered that friction between two
pieces of wood would cause fire,
1 but how dul lie make this discov-
■ if.-y? l'revious to that discovery
it is doubtful if man had any ex
perienco with fire or any knowl
edge of it except that he saw* fire
i in the flash of lightning. I can
imagine one df-iyl, dry tree sliding
, from the mountain top at such
| speed over the dry timber as to
i cause fire, but it does not seem
possible that man first discovered
fire through such an example.
Possibly fire was first caught from
r volcanoes.
Having n o^t i e e d a report
that a decision hud been made by
the Supreme court tli.it election
managers could not be paid out of
the county treasury, we w rote to
Mr. ,1. C. Hart, states attorney,
and this is his reply: "I am i 11
receipt of your letter of the 29th
idt. Ill reply thereto 1 begin i-ay
1 know of no decision of the Su
premo court to that (fleet, Unit
managers of an election shall not
be paid out of the county treasury.
In a discussion of the Australian
ballot before the last, legislature
some member on the floor of the
House made the statement that a
Supreme court Judge had said
that a county could not be held
liable for expenses incurred in
elections, and I suppose this is
where you got y eir impression, ’
that
that
Some weeks ag i we state 1
a change had been mu le and
power to ton the street cars m
Gainesville had to be procured
from the Dunlap. This is true
but it w as because one of the dyna
mos had to be can i<-d there to
furnish Gainesville with lights,
1 i.’s 11 uii th .I ! he water is very hov
evei vwlu-re m Lumpkin county,
Imt the Chou'.utce still iifiord.-
full
lightn i
enough water to
power necessary
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ed drouth hei
