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I WOODRUFF MACHiNERY IS THE BEST! I
~ W3GDRUFF HARDWARE & MANUFACTURING COMPANY, Winder, Ga. I
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e ARE SELLIXG THE ;£ ° LD RELIABLE RAMBLER”
and other makes. You know the satisfaction of a
good article. RAMBLER’S teat! all others in light
O running, durability, and satisfaction. Once tried,
never denied. We also carry a line of repairs. We
_______ need your business, you need our goods.
Command us,
SMITH HARDWARE CO.
CHARLEY JOE
The Laandryman
Opera House Building,
Behind Express Office.
First-Class Work. Satisfaction Guaranteed.
Prices: CoHars, 2c: Shirts, 10c; Cuffs, 4c pair.
All kinds of laundry neatly done. Will open for
business May 31.
W. L Young.
LUMBER.
I jjlgN YOU KNOW HIM.
Warehouse on Candler Street.
VARIES IN QUANTITY.
A Cord of Wood Is a Rather Un
certain Proposition.
ODD FACTS ABOUT ITS EULK.
There Are Many Different Conditions
That Affect the Measurement of the
Pile —The Interesting Result of an
Experimental Test.
When is a coul not a cord?
To the fanner harvesting his small
wood lot and to the man laying in logs
for die large fireplace of his country
or seaside home, to the paper manu
facturer buying pulp wood and to the
proprietor of the ordinary city word
yard, to ail of those men this question
lias an important financial meaning.
gueer to say and contrary to the be
lief of most people, there are many
times when a cord is less than a cord
and many conditions when it is more.
School arithmetics say that a cord of
wood is IHS cubic feet, or the con
tents of a pile eight feet long, four feet
high and four feet wide. Wood is mar
keted on this basis. A pile whose
length, breadth and height multiplied
together gives this number of cubic
feet fills this requirement, no matter
whether the stl; ks are long or short,
straight or crooked, round or split, un
less there is an understanding to the
contrary. Nevertheless, a cord, though
It comes up to legal measurements, is
an uncertain quantity, even when the
seller is honest and the buyer satis
fied.
A lumberman may have a tract of
pulp wood which he sells to a paper
mill at si> a cord 1 r as many cords as
it will make. It is i:i the contract that
he shall cut and stack it. He cuts it in
twelve foot lengths, and when the job
is complete it measures 200 cords, and
he receives SI,OOO for it. Would he
have made or lost by cutting four foot
lengths instead of twelve?
He would have 1 st in the first place
from the additional labor required to
cut four foot wood, but his principal
less would have resulted from a great
ly diminished number of cubic feet,
due to the fact that short sticks lie
closer together than large.
Measurements and experimental tests
have been made to ascertain exactly
how much actual wood is in cords of
different lengths, sizes, shapes and
species.
Had the 200 cords of twelve foot
wood been cut in four foot lengths
there would have been only 17G cords,
and the owner would have received
for it SBSO instead of SI,OOO. It was,
therefore, clearly to his advantage to
cut twelve foot lengths, but it would
have been to tlie buyer’s advantage to
have it cut in four foot lengths. He
would have received the same actual
quantity of wood for $l2O less.
It also makes considerable differ
ence to the seller whether wood is
chopped or sawed. If chopped, the
chips are lost. Where the logs are
large this loss amounts to no small
total. In a cord of four foot wood,
with sticks six inches in diameter, the
chip loss is from t> to 8 per cent, and,
of course, the shorter the sticks are
cut the greater the loss. If the wood
is sawed the sawdust loss is scarcely
the half of 1 per cent.
The difference due to spaces between
the sticks, of course, depends very
much on the shape and size of the
sticks. Straight, smooth sticks lie
close together, and a cord contains
more wood and less air. For given
lengths sticks of soft woods are usual
ly straighter and smoother and when
stacked lie closer together. Hut what
ever the kind, cords of long sticks are
pretty sure to contain more empty
space than cords made of short pieces.
Likewise cords of split wood contain
less than cords of round sticks. The
finer the wood is split the more it
makes; hence wood dealers are often
willing to sell kindlings, all sawed and
split, for the same price per cord as
unsplit wood. They get back the cost
of labor in the increased bulk.
A cord (12.8 cubic feet) of four foot
hardwood usually contains about
eighty-three cubic feet of solid wood,
a cord of three foot wood averages
eighty-three and one-half feet, <>f two
foot wood eighty-four feet and of one
foot wood eighty-five feet. The coni
fers, soft woods, contain ninety to
ninety-six cubic feet. Thus the pur
chaser receives on an average about
two-thirds of a cord of real wodd and
one-third of a cord of spaces.
In some countries word is bought by
weight, and the buyer comes more
nearly getting what be bargains for,
but even then he may miss it if he re
ceives green wood when lie wants dry.
According to timber testing engineers
of the United States forest service,
wood may lose half or more its green
weight in seasoning. Cedar for lead
pencils Is bought by weight in this
country. The pieces are so small and
of such irregular size that they cannot
conveniently be stacked and measured
ns eordwood.
The bulk of nearly all woods de
creases as seasoning goes on. A hun
dred cords green will make from
eighty-nine to ninety-three cords when
' dry. factor, of no. spiall lm-
U-sual Low Rates
ACCOUNT
Confederate Reunion
MEMPHIS, TENN.
Round Trip $9.70
SEABOA RD
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Short Lint front all]' tints in South Carolina and Georgia,
Eat dinner at home and breakfast at Memphis.
TWO GOOD TRAINS DAthY.
SCHEDULES.
No. 57 No. 33
Leave Winder 5:23 a. m. 3:12 p. m.
Arrive Atlanta 6:00 a m. 4:00 p. m.
Arrive Birmingham 12:10 p. m. 8:45 p. in.
Arrive Memphis 8.05 p. m. 7.30 a. m.
Reunion Tickets will now be sold for all trains June sth. 6th and
7th, good to leave Memphis returning as late June 14th, and
upon payment of 50 cents limit can be extended until July Ist, 1900.
THROUGH COACHES AND SLEEPERS.
Call on Seaboard Agents for further information and tickets or
write E. C. McDONALD, Agent, Winder, Ga.
C. D. WAYNE, A G. P A., Atlanta, Ga.
1). W. MORRAH, T. P. A., Atlanta,Ga.
porta nee to dealers who handle large
quantities.
Wood lot owners and farmers who
have small forest tracts from which
they expect to sell cord wood are no
loss interested than contractors who
buy and stfil large quantities. It will
stand them in hand to know how
much difference it makes whether
wood is cut long or short, chopped or
sawed, whether the sticks are round
or split, whether large or small and
whether the measurements are to he
made while the wood is green or after
It is seasoned.
EUGENIE’S WEDDING DAY.
The Gift of Violets From the Market
Women of Paris.
Even on her wedding day the Em
press Eugenie received a sign of ill
omen. The market women of Paris
presented her with a mountain of vio
lets on the day of her marriage to
Louis Napoleon.
And those market women they boil
ed over! They yelled and pushed and
crowded into the palace gardens. They
screeched and screamed for the em
press until at last a window opened,
and Eugenie stepped out on the bal
cony, and, ever eager to please, she
held in her hands a great mass of the
violets the market women had sent
her.
Then suddenly one eld fish wife
shrieked out at those of the commit
tee: “Pigs! Idiots! It is the flower of
sorrow you have sent to her.” While
quick another raved out: “It Is the col
or of mourning that you send the
bride of the emperor! Violets—purple
violets to a bride! 1 iga! Idiots! Dev
ils! It is an omen—a sign of evil!”
And then the light began! Oh, mon
liieu! They are terrible! They tear
one another like wild beasts! The gen
darmes try hard to make order, when
a voice up above us says out < lcar and
gentle, “Oh, soldiers, don’t hurt them!"
And the idea that any soldier on earth
could hurt a dame des Ilalles was so
funny that everybody stopped fighting
to laugh. And they laugh and laugh
and wipe off the blood and slap the
gendarmes and say, “Don’t hurt us,
messieurs—don’t!” And they dance and
shout, and the beautiful empress
stands now by the emperor and bows
and throws violets to the crowd, and
all below cry, “Vive l’lmperatrice!”
And she smiles qnd smiles and so re
tires. But that old witch was right!
Yes, madaine, though the violet was
the flower of the Bonaparte, it Is the
flower of sorrow, not fit to send a
bride! It was an omen and given at
the Tuilerles it pointed to < ’hiselhurst.
—Clara Morris In Woman’s Home
Companion.
Tom’s Wellwisher.
In a Philadelphia club a member was
met not long ago by the announcement
from a follow member that a friend
of both had fallen ill.
“I understand from the physician,”
said the *irst member, "that tom lias
brain fever. He’ll recover, but its
thought his mind will .he a blank.”
"I trust the diagnosis is incorrect,”
came in fervent tones from the sec
ond member, “inasmuch as Tom owes
me $100.”— Lippincott’s.
Inquisitive.
Small Roy—Papa, where does leather
come from? Papa—From animals, my
boy, tlielr skins being tanned. Small
Roy—And does sole leather come from
their souls, papa?—Chicago News.
Difference of Opinion.
Kitty—Mrs. Carleigli thinks her son
Harry is the salt of the earth. Janet
! —Well, I can’t sec why. I think he is
about the freshest tiling I ever met.—
Lippincott’s.
It takes a great man to make a good
1 listener.—Helps.
Trying fo Keep Ip.
‘‘l supp >se you have read Shake
speare’s work?” said the young
man from the E ist.
’Yes, all of them, ’ replied Miss
Fritz of St. Louis, ‘‘that is, unless
he has written something within
the past year. - ’ —Chicago News.
breaking it Gently.
m
A young man marrivd against the
wishes of his parents, and, in tell
ing a friend how to break the news
to them, said:
“Tell them first that I am dead,
and gently work up to the* climax-”
—Tit-Bits
Never Give In.
“I just had to marry him, he
told me he novel gave up anything
he loved ’’
“Well, it’s good to have a hus
band who loves one, ’
“Y-e"s,but I have learned that
he loves money, also.’' —Houston
Post.
“Your story has considerable
nerve, rattle, dash, and go, yet it
breaks down in spots.” “Well,
what do you want in an auto
story?” —Louisville Courier-Jour
nal.
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Clara —Stella is awfully timid,
don’t you think so? Maud —Yes;
why, 1 believe she would jump at a
proposal. —Chicago Daily News.
Don’t forget to j
bo photographed
immediately ni
ter this interest
ing occasion.
And don’t for
get to have f he
phot og* r a p hs
taken by
THL ALLEN
STUDIO.