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VOL. XV—NO. 32.
DAItLONLGA, U.A., FRIDAY, JANUARY 20. ioor.
When the Year Closes.
Raise Peppermint.
A re St ill at 1 lie S;um
OJLalS
When th» year elo.-cs I lure
creeps ii|lo our hearts such sa l,
sweet memories, such waves of
temler emotions come to us, and
such real love tor huinaiiily a -
we hid good-bye to the old and
welcome ill" oncoming n w. ail
prophetic w i 1 h glorious possibili-
ttes. To each of us there have
come disappointments and heavy
borders we are reminded that
“This world that we’re a livin’ in
Is mighty hard to beat ;
We get a thorn with every rose,
bill ain’t the roses sweet?”
We will forget all in the <
| year except the good, the bean
| fill, that the tiny, siken skeins
1 love and friend-ln
With a TV nil Line oi
C L O T H I N G.
Quit raising corn, wheat, cotton
or any of the ot her standard crops,
if yon would have hi<j returns and
get rich quick. Turn your place
into a garden for tho production
of peppermint. That at least,
would seem to he the lesson taught
bv the experience of an Indiana I
farmer, who lives near South Bond.
According to this enterprise tiller |
of the soil, he hauled one load" of j
this | induct to market and receiv
ed for it $11,896.75 in cash. It
was in the shape of oil, of course, f
and the load weighed nearly two
i- | tons, tl e sale price being $8.05 a
of j pound. The farmers tn northern
ha\v twined in j Id liana and southern Michigan are
One Collar Per Annum
W. B. TOWNSEND, Editor and Propr.jt r
< * O TO
PRICE,
you n
id
Largest, Best & Cheapest Stock
Ever Brought Here.
Abundance of Dry floods and Groceries.
DA FILOAEG ii.
Livery Stable,
Moor© 1 >ro-, Propr’s.
ii
RU X DAILY HACK LINE
to and from Gainesville.
1-’A II11. 81.50-
Leave Dahlonega 8, a. m., and arrives 4:30 p. m.
Make J his the Best Year. 1 Wait.
I he New Year bell rings,out its j
solemn eall alike to those who are ’ * t]U -
Christians, and those' who are not. I hit wing, keep
Tn this latter class it will be a
“happy New Year” if they will so
cure Jesus Christ as their friend
nt once. If you say, “I will do
this as soon as my business is iu
hotter shape, “you are bargaining
with satan, who is sure to cheat
you. If you say, “I will decide
Ini Christ by and-by,” you are de
ciding against hint, 'lake the first
step at once, and put the hand of
voui faith into that loving hand
that was pierced for your sins.
Do this promptly, and perhaps a
hull of joy may be Tung for you in
heaven! Brother Christian, do
tormine to make this the beet year
°f your life, the richest, the ripest,
strongest, happiest. But you can
not grow in grace by “whidesalo.”
I''‘gin the year by putting the
knife into some bad habit or be
setting sin. Begin by
hold
When trouble is
till. When slan
dor is getting on his legs, keep
still. When your feeling are hurt,
keep still, till you recover from
your excitement, at any rale.
Things look differently through an
unagitated eye. In a commotion,
once, 1 wrote a letter and sent it,
and wished 1 had not. In mv la
ter years 1 had another commo
tion, and wrote a long letter; but
life rubbed a little sense into me
and I kept the letter in my pock
et against tin: day when I could
look it over without agitation and
without tears. 1 was glad I did.
Less and less it seemed necessary
to send it. I was not sure it
would do anv hurt, but in my
doubtfulness. 1 leaned to reticence,
and eventually it was destroyed.
Time works wonders. Wait till
j and among the days 11) it qro n >\v
! of t ho past.
i “S'owly comes tie future,
swiftly as an arrow (lies the pros-
lent, while the past stands forever
still.” .
The present alone is real, the
past exists only iu our memory,
i and tlie future is in our iiiiiigma-
[ tion. The bitter si sting in all
j repentances is “the past stands
forever still.” We cannot go
1 back into the past year, and do
j what wo left undone, or updo
i what we have done. Wo cannot
! live the year over in order to
| change the record it holds for us,
i and the future is only a hope.
We can net only in the present,
i and its opportunities arc within I
our reach. 11 is a waste of time j
to fret over the past or to dread j
the future, but chietlv we must
j concern ourselves with the pres
| cut. By living the best we can a
: day at a time, we will make a past
| that we will never have to regret
i and prepare ourselves in the best
| possible way for the future. If
' the year lias not brought us as
: great happiness or prosperity as
we hoped for we will be as gia
cions as we can and greet the new
year with a heart for any late.
We t rust that our farmers as
they stand at the Wishing Gate of
1905, will say with Lincoln, “Dio
when 1 mas , 1 s' ant it said of me
by those who know me best, I al
ways, plucked a thistle and planted
a (lower, when 1. thought a flower
would grow.”.
First, let 1 he thistle be plucked
from our own hearts and homes,
J the selfishness and fault 'finding;
then we can reach for the thistles
that are growing in our neighbor-
| hood, all that tend to make peo
ple selfish, all that is coarse, all
that make boys rough and gills
silly. In place of the t hist 1<- " i
ran pb 111 the (lower of kindliness,
helpfulness, the Gulden Ru'e and
the tin i omm.'indinents. If we
are promt t> pluck the thistles
and plant the (lowers, we will keep
earner4 spirits, warm hearts and
open minds. Let us help our boys
to keep out the thistles that are
made of cigarettes, the oaths, the
coarse language and the idle hab
its; let ns help on” girls to pluck
the thistles that grow from love of
display and ‘.ho waste of time and
talent, and in their place let the
(lowers of gentle serving, sweet
companionship and helpfulness
«ro\v. — Ex.
j devoting muoli attention to pep
permint and onions, with fine re
! suit-.—American Farmer.
The man who owns a small farm
is indeed monarch of uH he sur
veys. He can be independent of
everything save death and the tax
collector Ife will make the mis
take of his life whenever he parts
with that piece of land to move to
town. He can educate his chit
dron right there on that farm. It
is all nonsense to suppose t hat an
i education can only be had at col
lege. Horace (freely educated
himself. Many of the successful
men in American life did the same
thing. Hold on to farm. En
courage the boys to read newspa
pers and magazines and to work
puzzles around (he fireside, and
they will come out all right in the
matter of education. Hold on to
the farm. — Marietta .Tonnil.
If all onr farmer friends are as
enthusiastic as the one who writes
us from' Bloomfield, Indiana, it is
needless to wish them n happy
i new year. This is the way this
j happy Hoosier lets off steam:
“This is the bumper year for the
farmer in this country. The corn
is better than for the past thirty
years. The tomatoes are as large as
flatirons. The muskmelons were
sweeter than John the Baptist's
honey. The sweet potatoes are as
large as the appetite of the 10-
year-old boy. Irish potatoes have
difficulty to find skin enough to
cover them. <kibhage heads look
like Japanese gunboats. Beans
are luscious and a pod looks like a
sea serpent. Chickens are fat and
as tender as soft corn. Let ns lie
thankful to the weather clerk.”
Have a purpose in life and stick !
to it. Be sure you're right—that \
tie 1 purpose: is worth your effort,
that to win is just the thing, and !
I lien stick. Live plain, lie honest j
and work hard. Steady work and |
plain food will keep a man in the j
prth of rectitude when sermons
fail, and contribute not a little to |
his success. The brain cannot do
its best work when sprinkled with
the ashes of a dissolute, ill-directed
life. Be sure you’re right, then
then stick. —Dr. Abbott.
A General
favorite, i
A. 1ST D
GROCERIES.
ezzz.;:. massmsBammom
I Tealer in
FAMILY
GROCERIES
General
A X I)
Merchandise,
Potatoes are
when sold at f
bushel. An
a profitable crop
5 to 30 cent- a
acre of ordinary
The ■ mallest island inhabited in
the world is that of which the
E.ldystnne lighthouse stands, for
•tl low water it is only thirty feet
in diameter. At high water the
base of the lighthouse, which
a diameter of only a little oyer
jeereresa
There is only one place in the
world "lure '.he sun sets twice
daily, and that is at Lei k, in Slnf
fordsbire, England, the reason of
this is tli it a jagged mountain is
situated to the wr.-f of the town,
ami ill rile ( veiling t he sun sets
behind it and darkness comes on.
Then the fir-t sun-et occurs, the
gas lamps aiv Id. and apparently
night has set in. But it has not,
for in the space of an hour or so
-in Illinois judge adjourned
eonrl for two weeks in the middle
o November, owing to the fact
that, the majority of the jurors,
litigants and witnesses are faf-
nn who found it impossible m
aitind court without neglecting
'heir corn gathering. The scar
city of labor and difficulties of get,
ting buskers made it necessary for
“all hands and the cook” to turn
Holiness means si
yon speak calmly, and then you ground will yield a farmer more
nyin<* stiff j w '^ 11() t need to speak, maybe, money in potatoes at 2o cents a
neglected duty, i Silence is the most massive thing bushel than any other crop lie can
put on the acre—tobacco excepted.
It is an oft repeated saying that
the opening at t he side of (he
mountain, and daylight again ap
pears. Artificial lights are exs
tingnished and da'light again pre
vails until the am descends below
j the op.-aii.g a ! tlie second sun
sets occurs and night comes to
I stay.
j More than 9,000 "omen are om-
lias I ployed in the various government
offir.'s in Washington City, 2,044
twenty-eight feet, is completely
cm i red with water.
out in the fields! Law can wait;
the sun reappears again through j |„it Kiug Ct
ittoation.
can
An n demands immediate
on some
Consecration means letting Josus I coocoivaGle, sometimes. It is
Christ own the whofo of von. I strength in very grandeur.—Dr.
.. .serving Christ in
, 1 'tags; and remember that
"i all the year 1905 von will see
" l, v ‘*ay, and ‘ihi.t
called “today.”
heaven is dimed
hut round
Cuvier,
Bui ton.
am
The
not
round,
Paris green, it is discovered, has
, 1,0 i no terrors for the cotton bo!I wee-
bv a leap Vl1 - 1 hey sec tn to regard it as a
—Theodore kind of seasoning to make their
lunch on cotton more palatable.
potatoes will bring a farmer as
high as 25 cents a bushel " hen fed
to stuck. 'Phis is a pipe dream. One
bushel of potatoes must put five
pounds of fle.-h o:l a bog to do this,
and one bushel of potatoes will in-
ei-eae-' a bog’s fat even time
pouv L.—Ex.
of "bom 11 .v.■ i ntiued the service
after competitive examination.
Nine humbid are paid salaries
, ranging fr. in $1,000 to $1,890 a
In captivity elephants always j ypnc dn* others from $(500 to $900
stand up when they sleep, but | a year.
when in the jungle, in their own • (hose to the chore of Eastern
land and home, they lie down, j Hirer in West Dresden, Me., there
• +• „A|,„ a;ir „ I is an apple tree which has few
1 its reason given tor the (litteience . 1 i
r . . . ; equals. It stands thirty feet high,
between the elephant in captivity j measures ten fret and t ine inches
and in freedom is that the animal i around and spreads fifty' feet. Mr.
cqnires coni pi te confident o j 1)13 K ftl luivt l in some years
thirty bushels of apples from this
nov
in his keeper
for liberty.
and always longs
tree, which is said to bo more than
100 years old.
\\ ith the corn crop last j’car,
according to Secretary Wilson, our
farmers could pay off the whole
national debt besides ouo year’s
interest, and have enough left ovcp
to liquidate half a ycAr’s expeuacs
of the government. It is prob ■
able, however, that the farmers
"ill have other use for their corn
money than using it to pay Undo
Sum’s debts
Teu dollars is what au extra sir
loin steak costs, cut from Jute 1J,
i he grand champion steer of tbo
international Ftuck show. Ho
si Id f >r 8(3 cents a pouud on the
hoof, weighed 1,900 pounds, and
brought $700. Most of us will
have to pass up Jute 11, declaring
fox and grapes sty lo that other loss
fashionable steers make better
beef.
