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Too late for Fire Insurance after it burns. Too
late for Life Insurance after your health is im
paired. Make use of opportunity. See us to
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KILGORE & RADFORD, Insurancec Agents,
BfcaSTOffice at The Winder Banking 1 Company.
W. E. YOUNG. The Shingle Man,
Dealer In
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§| CORTRIGHT j|
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LEATHERS & EAVENSON,
Winder, Ga.
Administrator's Sale.
GEORGIA, Wai.ton County.—
Ry virtue of an order of the Court
of Ordinary of said county, will
he sold, at public outcry, on the
first Tuesday in September, 1908,
at the court-house in said county,
between the usual hours of sale,
the following, personal property,
to-w it:
One-half iat rest in a Big Steer
Wagon.
One-fourth intrust in Sawmill,
Engine and three Carts, the
engine a 15-horse power Frick,
and the mill a Farquar?.
One-helf intrust in six shares of
Lowry Notional Bank stock, par
value S2OO per share.
One-half interest in ten shares
of Walton Cotton Mill stock, par
value SKK) per share.
One-haif interest m sixteen
Bhares of Bank of Monroe stock,
par value SIOO per share.
One fourth intrest in one hun
dred shares of Winder Oil Mill
stock, par value SIOO per share.
One-fourth interest in four
shares of Winder Banding Com
pany stock, par value. SIOO per
share.
One-fourth interest in eighty
three shares of Winder Foundry
and Machine Works stock, pm*
value SIOO per share.
One-fourth interest in thirteen
shares of Hoschton Oil Mill stock,
par value $ 100 per share.
One share Monroe-Campton Tele
phon Exchange, par value S2O.
The sale will continue from day
to dav between the same hours,
until all said property is so'd.
Terms, CASH. This the sth day
of August, 1908.
G. W. SMITH.
Administrator of ,1. S. SMITH
Good Farm For
SALE!
Anybody wanting nice farm of
178AGRES
of land, 8-room dwelling, two
tenat houses and outbuild
ings call on
J. T. MORGAN,
Three and one-half miles
north of Winder, on Athens
and Lawrenceville road.
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Newnan, Georgia.
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Gome To Wilkes County.
This summer is the tune to buy.
' I have 5,500 acres of good farm
lands in and near Ficklin, Ga.,
which I will sell cheap and on the
most reasonable terms. Only come
and see is all I ask. This is the
test part of Georgia. First come,
first served. J. W. RIDER,
Ficklin, Ga.
The First
Boarder.
By Temple Bailey.
Copyrighted. 1908. by Associated
Literary Press.
It wan so different from the usual
summer boarding place that Denton
stopped short and eyed doubtfully the
wide lawn, the massive stone house
and the garden flaming with June
roses.
He even looked at the great mastiff
that sauntered toward him with a sus
picious eye.
“Look here, old fellow,” he said, “are
you in a fairy tale, or is this just an
everyday fact?”
•‘Luke, come here,” called a clear
voice, and the dog bounded back to
the porch.
Denton followed him.
‘‘Are you the princess?” ho asked of
the owner of the clear voice.
The girl flushed and stared.
“I don’t understand”— she stam
mered.
Denton laughed. “I beg pardon,”
he apologized, "for boring you with
my fancies. But this place is so beau
tiful that I thought 1 had stepped out
of real life into fairyland and that the
dog was the monster that guarded the
gate and that you were the enchanted
princess.”
The girl’s eyes twinkled. “I'm not
a princess,” she told him. “I'm your
landlady.”
Something of a disappointment crept
into Denton’s expression.
“Then you are Mrs. Carter?” he haz
arded.
"Miss Carter.” she corrected, and
he looked relieved. “In the letter that
I wrote you I signed myself Mehita
bel Carter, and I suppose you thought
I had gray hairs and wrinkles.”
“The name did suggest them,” he
mused, watching her sparkling face.
“Every one around here calls ine
Belle,” she explained. “But of course
when one writes letters to prospective
boarders one realizes that a dignified
name is an asset.”
“Certainly.” he agreed and settled j
back in bis chair, content to listen and
look.
But his hostess was more energetic, j
“I’ll show you your room.” she said
and led the way through the spacious I
hall and up the stairs to the second
story.
When Denton came down a little
later and found his landlady walking
in the rose garden he said to her:
“You needn’t tell me. This is an en
chanted castle. Who ever heard of
white bathtubs and nickel trimmings
and pond lily friezes and Circassian
walnut furniture for $lO a week?”
A little anxious frown burrowed Miss
Carter’s forehead. “I was afraid I
was charging too much,” she said.
“You see. you are my first boarder.”
It appeared on further conversation
that there were to be six other board
ers, and they were to arrive at 7:30.
"Five of them are maiden ladies,”
Miss Carter explained, “and I told
them they might bring their cats and
parrots”—
"And the other one?” Denton de
manded.
“Is a man,” said Miss Carter, “and
be wants to bring his automobile.”
Denton gazed pensively across the
garden toward the purple hills. “Alas,”
he sighed, "and 1 brought only a type
writer. The automobile is the dragon
that I must slay.”
Bhe stiffened a little at that.
"1 don’t think 1 quite understand,”
she said.
“Of course not,” Denton agreed quite
cheerfully, “as a writer of stories 1
deal much in metaphor. It isn’t to be
expected that you would understand.
But you will—some day.”
He switched to other topics and
learned that the beautiful house, with
its beautiful furniture, had been the
summer home. That the failure
of her father in business and his ab
sence to fill a position in another city
made her decide that the house must
support Itself or be sold. So she had
advertised for boarders, and. with two
old and trusted servants, she was go
ing to make it pay.
“We raise all of our vegetables,” she
confided, “and we Jjave our cows and
make butter, and there are plenty ot
chickens and eggs”—
| “Don’t say any more,” Denton
begged. “I am hungry enough as it is
without hearing of real milk and but
ter and eggs."
She laughed. “The train is due
now.” she said; “as soon as the other
boarders got here we will have sup
per.”
Contrary to Denton’s expectations,
the six old maids proved to be delight
ful company. Throe of them were
teachers, one of them wrote for the
magazines, one, having a private for
tune, was something of a globe trot
ter. and the sixth, being domestically
inclined, had brought the cat and par
rot.
The one man was the object of Den
ton's special observation. His name
was Nesselrode.
"He makes me think of a pudding.”
Denton remarked to Miss (Barter.
“I don't think he looks that way at
all,”Miss Carter said indignantly. “I
think he Is very handsome, if he Is
stout.”
“Oh, I don't mean his looks,” Den
ton remarked resignedly, “but his
name.”
Nesselrode, however, proved to bo
very good company, and it became
quite a matter of course that the two
men should spin through the country
every morning in the lag motor car.
In the afternoon Nesselrode always
took .Miss Carter, and in the back seat
he packed two and sometimes three of
the old ladies.
“And I stay at home with the cat
and parrot,” Denton remarked indig
nantly to Miss Carter one evening
when lie had carried her off to the
rose garden, “for the old ladies who
don’t go with you always take their
naps at that time, and if it wasn’t for
the cat and parrot I should eye of lone
liness.”
“It's too bad,” Miss Carter mur
mured sympathetically.
"“Too bad!” Denton flared. “It's pre
posterous. He takes me in the morn
ing and you in the afternoon, and I
have been here three weeks, and I
haven’t had an hour's comfortable
conversation with you since that first
day.”
“WheD you thought I was a prin
cess,” said Miss Carter demurely.
“I still think you are a princess.”
said Denton ardently. He leaded to
ward her, and the moonlight showed
his pale, eaget* face. “I still think you
are a princess, and, now that I have
found you in your enchanted castle, I
yearn to carry you away with me to
my kingdom”—-
There was a rustle in the leaves be
hind them. Miss Carter sat up straight.
“Who is it?” she cried sharply. “Who
is there?”
“Polly, Polly.” said a chuckling, wa
vering voice, “pretty, pretty Polly.”
Then a deeper voice boomed beyond
the hushes.
“Is that you, Miss Carter? I am
looking for Miss Pierce’s parrot.”
“I can’t even propose to you without
his butting in,” Denton complained the
next night when he had Miss Carter to
himself for a moment in a corner of
the dark porch. “Say ‘yes’ before he
finds us here, princess, and”—
“How’ do you know”— Miss Carter’s
voice trembled through the darkness.
“f do not know,” he said softly. “I
can ouly hope”—
As he reached out his hand to take
hers his fingers touched something
warm and velvety.
“Purr —urr—up,” came a confiding
feline murmur just as Nesselrode’s
lumbering figure loomed near the steps.
“Did Miss Pierce’s pussy cat come
over here, Denton? I’ve been sent to
look her up.”
*******
That night a burglar entered Miss
Carter's house. Denton was the first
to give the alarm, and he showed the
family silver piled up in the middle of
the table in the dining room, with the
corners of the cloth twisted over it.
“I saw a light,” he said, “and I came
—and I suppose be was scared away.
I had not been to bed”—
Miss Carter, very beautiful in a rosy
dressing gown, examined the silver. “I
think everything is here,” she said.
"You are sure that nothing is gone
from your room?” ItentoD asked. “He
might have gone there first.”
Miss Carter flew upstairs, with the
six old ladies at her heels. When she
came down she was as white as chalk.
“My pearl necklace is gone,” she said.
Denton turned to Nesselrode. “Per
haps if you took your automobile and
followed the man you might get the
pearls”—
“But”— Nesselrode protested.
"There are no buts in the service of
a lady,” Denton reminded him gravely.
And after Nesselrode had whizzed
away, and the six old ladies had re
tired to their rooms to talk it over,
Denton detained Miss Carter.
And when he had pulled down the
shades of every window, and when he
had closed the door, he put his hand
In his pocket and pulled out the pear)
necklace.
"All’s fair.” he said, “in love”—
“But”— she gasped.
“There was no burglar,” Denton de
clared. “I found the pearls on the
porch after you went in, and that gave
me the idea, and 1 mussed up the
things on the table. It was the only
way that I could get to see you again
tonight, and I couldn't stand another
day of Nesselrode's monopolizing”—
Slowly a smile curved Miss Carter’s
lips.
“Any one would know you were a
writer of stories,” she said, “there were
so many easier ways.”
“I couldn’t think of any,” Denton
said, “so I tried this.”
He went toward her. “Nesselrode
will be back presentely. We must be
quick. Oh, princess, is it ‘yes?’ ”
Her cheeks were as rosy as her
pretty gown.
“Of course when the prince storms
the castle the princess surrenders.”
As he kissed her they heard the
“chug-chug” of the returning automo
bile.
Nesselrode came in, puffing. “Not a
sigu"— he began and stopped. The
two people by the table were smiling
radiantly.
“I am so sorry.” Miss Carter said !
as she held out her hand, in. which
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Origin of “Georgia Cracker.”
From The Augusta Herald.
1 have the following on the “Geor
gia Cracker,” in response to an in
quiry made yesterday:
Richard Malcolm Johnston says
that among the followers of Gen-
Francis Marion in his Guerilla war
fare, during the war of the Revelu
tion, were some Georgian, who
were especially expert in the use of
a rifle, the crack of which got to he
much dreaded by the British, who
gave these riflemen the name of
Georgia Crackers.
After the war the name changed
from a military to a social signifi
cance.
A theory of Charles H. Smith
(Bill Arp) is that the hardy and in
dustrious Scotchmen who settled in
Georgia, and who came in conflict
with the rough and uncultured set
tlers from other sections, called
them “crackers,” which is a Scotch
term, and means ‘‘boasters,”
“idlers,” who talk much and work
little.
From the Century Dictionary
comes this —one of an inferior class
of white hill dwellers in some of the
Southern V. S., especially in Geor
gia and Florida.
The name is said to be applied
liecause cracked corn is their chief
article of diet.
Here is still another definition,
taken from the History of Georgia:
Tears ago theabsenceof railroads
compelled farmers and others to
bring their produce into the state
in wagons. The drivers of each
wagon carried a whip, which lie
often popped and cracked as he
drove along. With the handle in
both hands, he would pop his large
whip from side to side, until it
sounded like the rapid firing of a
pistol. From this practice the
name “Georgia Cracker” is said to
have originated.
grhmnerecT'n nrr.T* heap of milk white
beads, “I am so sorry that you had
your drive for nothing, Mr. Nesselrode,
but”—she hesitated and then went on
steadily—“but—but Mr. Denton found
the pearls!”
Circular Storms.
Meteorologists are now agreed that
what are called circular storms are not
circular in the proper sense of the
word. There is not merely a flow of
air round, but also convergence to
ward a central area. There is also a
large upflow over and near the central
area and also an outflow above and a
descent probably in the outskirts of the
storm area; hence the motion is suc
cessively complicated. It is also very
variable, as squalls and gusts of the
most violent character may alternate
with strong but less destructive winds;
also in the cyclonic storms of the tem
perate regions of the northern herai- .
sphere the- winds in the same quadrant
of cyclonic storm and from same
general direction differ largely in their
meteorological character.