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WOMEN GAMBLERS WORRY
SOME ATLANTA MINISTERS.
Atlanta. Dec. B.—The rapid In
crease in Rambling among women in
Atlanta, and particularly among the
women who are members of church,
fe becoming the scandal and despair
of a number of ministers whose eyes
are open to the true situation, and
who admit that it is apparently be-
yond their power to cope with.
Not only, it is said, do the fair
ladies gamble for money at practi
cally every afternoon bridge party,
but both matrons and debutants have
also become adepts at poker andi are
Included aa a matter of course in
jack-pot and stud) garms which wttro
formerly regarded as the exclusive
perogative of the males.
In fact when It oomes to poker
playing the men admit that ui woman
who is expert at the game is more
difficult to figure out than a man
who has been playing for ten years,
and they cite the case of a baby
faced, blue eyed damsel in a recent
game on Peachtree who passed four
queens, then raised the pot when it
was opened, giving everybody the
impression she was drawing to a
flush, and then won a stack of blue
chips as high as a house from a poor
misguided mere man wiiio had caught
a third jack to jacks and sixes. Af
ter that the men are almost willing
to agree with the preachers that it
is a very wicked thing for an inno
cent young lady to play poker.
How Much Iron Can Wo Make?
Iron furnaces of this country, in
cluding all In blast or idle, could, ac
cording to the Iron Age. "apparently
produce about 40.000,000 tons if they
remained in blast u year." This would
be 9,000,000 tons above tlie maximum
calendar year output. The Iron Age
doubts, however, if all the furnace*
could stay In blast a full year, and
suggests a tritle over 38,000,000 tons as
maximum capacity.
Very Annoying.
“I can't bear these men novelists.”
declared one lady.
“Why not?" the other Inquired.
“They calmly tell you that the hero
ine wore a gown which fascinated a
duke and not a word as to what it wus
made of or how It was trimmed." —
Louisville Courier Journal.
Untrue.
“Your lending lady Is not true to
life."
“What’s the matter?"
“In the first act she receives a tele
gram. and you hove her open It with
out fear or trembling."—Detroit Free
I’ress.
Make yourself an honest man, and
then you may be sure there Is one
less rascal in the world.—<’arlyle.
Hous:wives’ Troubles Lessened.
Do a week’s Ironing in three hours
with an Electric Iron, with less fuel
and without the heat and trouble of
the old way.
NOTICE! IMPORTANT!
Are You Interested?
We are lending money at
7 per cent for five (5) years
Without red-tape and exorbitant fees and
overhead charges. We are connected with
Companies DIRECTLY, doing away with DE
LAY AND EXTRA EXPENSES.
Large Loans a Specialty.
If you have first-class farm land to offer,
we are in position to save you money and
time, by securing you best of attention in
handling your business. A trial is what we
want. Call or write us and you will receive
our best attention.
North Georgia Trust & Banking Cos
F. W. BONDURANT, Mgr.
Insurance and Farm Loan Department.
The Winder Newt, Thursday Afternoon, December 9th, 1915.
Now Well
'Thedford’s Black-Draught
is the best all-round medicine
lever used,” writes J. A.
Steelman, of Pattonville, Texas.
"I suffered terribly with liver
troubles, and could get no relief.
The doctors said I had con
sumption. I could not work at
all. Finally 1 tried
THEDFORD’S
BLACK
DRAUGHT
and to my surprise, 1 got better,
and am to-day as well as any
man.” Thedford’s Black-
Draught is a general, cathartic,
vegetable liver medicine, that
has been regulating irregulari
ties of the liver, stomach and
bowels, for over 70 years. Get
a package today. Insist on the
genuine—Tliedford’s. E-70
Negative Suggestion.
legend tells of u Hindu fakir who
seemed to have a working knowledge
of practical psychology mul made him
self ric h selling plain wicker baskets in
the streets of Calcutta.
The peculiar virtue of tin* baskets, he
explained to (lie buyers, lay in the fact
that if one tilled his basket with ordi
nary pebbles, placed himself in a re
ceptive attitude of mind and stirred
them with a stick, for an hour, each
and every pebble would be transmitted
into a nugget of gold—provided the
stirrer did not think of n hippopotamus
while stirring.
The baskets were sold, but the idea
of a hippopotamus was so firmly fixed
In the minds of all the purchasers that
not one of them ever had legitimate
grounds on which to demand his mon
ey back.
Colloquialisms.
One of the most common surprises In
reading Is to come across in old books
what we have been accustomed to tak
ing for modern colloquialisms. We
have just struck this: “Why, then, do
you walk as if you had swallowed a
rod?" Where? In Epictetus. The
modern form Is likely to be a poker,
but we had always looked upon the
whole image as essentially American.
It is in reading the Elizabethans that
this experience is most frequent, al
though one Is likely to have It in read
ing any classic. The best colloquial
isms are likely to be the oldest. —Har-
per’s Weekly.
John J. Schleigh, of Springfield,
Mass., at 77, works as a blacksmith.
PRIVATE WARS.
Any Pretext Would Sorvo to Btart a
Conflict In Feudal Times.
•‘Of the many privileges conferred on
the nobles of Europe by the feudal
system none was more jealously guard
ed or more frequently exercised than
the right of waging private war,”
writes Dr. MacMillan In the Scottish
Review. "This lawless custom was
the cause of untold misery, barbarity,
ruin and destitution. Upon the slight
est pretext—often Indeed with no ex
cuse at all—the feudal baron would
sally forth from his stronghold In or
der to carry Are and sword Into the
territories of some neighboring chief.
** ‘This abuse.' says Cox In his “His
tory of the House of Austria.” ‘was
carried to so great an extent that not
only sovereigns and states engaged In
hostilities from interest or revenge,
but the lesser barons, und even assoel
atioos of tradesmen and domestics,
sent defiances to each other on the
most ridiculous pretenses and in a
manner scarcely credible at the pres
ent day.
“ ‘We find n declaration of war from
a private Individual. Ilenry Mayen
berg, against the emperor; another
from the Lord Pruuenstein against
Frankfort, because a young lady of
the city refused to dance with his un
cle; another in 1450 from the baker
and domestics of the margrave of Ba
den against Eslingen, Reutlingen, and
other imperial cities; another In 1462
from the baker of the Count Palatine
Louis against the cities of Augsburg,
Ultn and Both well; one in 1471 from the
shoeblacks of the University of Leip
zig against the provost and some other
members, and one in 1477 from a cook
of Eppenstein, with his scullions,
dairymaids and dishwashers against
Otho, count of Sol ms.’
“But this lawless nnd mischievous
spirit did not expire with the abolition
of the right of private war.”
THE PROTECTING FOREST.
Important Part Trees Play In Prevent
ing Serious Floods.
It has been shown that forests pre
vent the rapid melting of ice and snow
and thus avert or modify floods in the
spring. Mountains also play an Impor
tant part with regard to floods. By In
tercepting drifting currents of moisture
laden air mountains are active agents
in precipitating rainfall, and unless
they are protected by forests the wa
ters pour down into the valley in de
structive torrents. The evergreen
trees, particularly the spruces, are es
pecially useful in controlling these tor
rents. Under all spruce forests there Is
a large deposit of what woodsmen call
“duff.’’ This is composed of partially
decayed trees, bark, needles, cones and
mosses.
This duff varies from one to six feet
in thickness and has the power of ab
sorbing and holding w-atjer like a
sponge. During the heavy spring rains
it becomes thoroughly saturated with
water, w hich gradually oozes down the
mountain sides into the streams in
summer. The trees also protect the
snowfall from the rapid action of the
sun In spring, thus restraining floods
from that source also.
The protection of the forests there
fore is the surest and safest w-ay in
which to prevent destructive inunda
tlons. They are really natural storage
reservoirs, not, holding back great
masses of water in bulk, which may be
released by the breaking of some dam
and carry terrible destruction before
them, but storing it in the capillaries
of the spongy soil and yielding it gen
tly and continuously during the season
when most needed.—Loudon Standard.
Cutting Down Expenses.
It is expensive enough to put on a
play and get the true artistic effects
without wasting money on unneces
sary detail. As an example of this, a
manager tells the following incident:
A playwright was reading a comedy
to the manager when he came to these
lines:
“Have a cigar."
“Thanks; I don’t mind if I do."
“Wait." said the manager. “If I’m
going to produce that play that second
line will have to read, ‘No. thanks; 1
don’t smoke.' That change will save a
good deal of money every season, for
an actor must smoke good cigars when
it is necessary to smoke at all.”—Kan
sas City Star.
Testing the Piano.
The town council of a thriving Scotch '
burgh recently acquired a piano for
their town hall and appointed three of
their number to inspect and report on
the purchase. The councilors were not
musical experts, but one. a joiner,
bending down and applying his eye to
the several corners of the instrument,
remarked. “I'm uo judge o’ music, but
I'll warrant ye a’ the boards are
plumb."
Scarlet Fever.
Scarlet fever is practically unknown
in the tropics, and doctors say this is
because so little fresh milk is drunk
there. The streptococcus, which occurs
in large quantities in most raw milk, is
always present in scarlet fever, and
medical experts see in that a cause and
effect.
■ Have Your House Wired and
Get a 6 lb. Electric Iron FREE.
During December we will give FREE to each person for
whom we wire a house a 6 lb ELECTRIC IRON.
For particulars call C. //. GOFORTH , Mgr •
Repairs a Specialty
GOFORTH BROS., Electric Contractors—Supplies
Phone 150 Winder Bank Builking Winder, Ga.
Listen to This
All parties indebted to the late firm of Griffeth, Hill
& Cos., are urged to settle their notes and accounts at
once. Last fall things were pretty hard for our custo
mers and we were as lenient as possibly could by with
you. This year the shoe pinches the other foot. Our
obligations are large and we are hard pressed\ and we are
confidently expecting you to come to our relief. Come
forward and pay us what you owe us before December
15th. After that date we shall be compelled to resort to
the courts for an adjustment.
Respectfully,
Griffeth, Hill & Cos.
The Bull Tractor
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all other makes combined. Only one year ago the
Bull Tractor came to Georgia,but he came to stay,
he had the MERIT. The Bull Tractor is a success
because it is practical and will PLOW LAND
CHEAPER than can be plowed with MULES.
Mules and Mule’s Feed
Are too expensive when you can get a BULL.
We are maintaining our record of a car load a
week in Georgia, FJordia and South Carolina. See
us for one now while the plowing season is on.
WOODRUFF MACHINERY
MANUFACTURING CO.
Winder, Georgia.
Christmas EHr
Just Arrived
A nice line of Chains, Lockets and
Bracelets and many other nice
things in the Jewelry line. Come
in and see my line and get my
prices before buying.
J. L. Whitley, “