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PROFESSIONAL CARDS
E. R. HARRIS, M. 1).
Physician and Sukukox.
Bethlehem, * Georgia.
LEWIS C. RUSSELL.
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Winder, Ga.
Offices over First National Bank.
G. A. JOHNS,
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
Winder, Ga.
Office over Smirh & Carithers'
Bank. Practice in State and U.
S. Courts.
J. F. HOLMES,
ATTORN EY-AT- LAW,
Statham, Ga.
Criminal and Commercial Law a
Speeialtv.
W. H. QUARTERMAN
ATTORNEY AT LAW
Winder, Ga.
Practice in all the courts
Commercial law a specialty.
W. L. DkLaPERRIERK
DENTAL SURGERY.
Winder - - Georgia
Fillings, Bridge and Plate-work
done in most scientific and satis
factory way.
Offices on Broad St.
SPURGEON WILLIAMS
DENTIST,
Winds ii ... Georgia
Offices over Smith & Oarithers
bank*. All work done satisfac
torily,
Phone 81.
DR. S. T. ROSS,
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON,
Winder, Ga.
Offices over First National Bank.
EDMOND F. SAXON, M. D.
WINDER, GA.
Office over Turner’s Pharmacy.
Residence on Broad St. ’Phone
1 l(j. Attend all calls day or night
DR. R. P, ADAMS,
BETHLEHEM, GA.
General Practice. Telephone.
ALLEN’S ART STLDIO.
All kinds of Photographs made
by latest imthods. All work done
promptly. Office on Candler St.,
Winder Ga
B&L 'Tp'i
You are proud of
your wife and chil
dren. Why don’t you
bring them to us to
be photographed?
We will give you a
picture that will make
you prouder still.
ALLEN’S ART
STUDIO
WINDER, GEORGIA.
Schedule Gainesville Midland Railvwy
SOUTH BOUND
No. 11 —Lv 8 :4o a. in.
i;.‘ —Lv. 8:10 p. m.
No. l") —Lv. 10:20a ra : Sun. onlv.
NORTH BOUND
No. 12 —At. 11:25 am.
No. 14 —A i. 6:05 pm.
No. 16—A*. 5:15 pm : Sun.onlv.
All train? going through Winder
yard must be under full control.
LOOKING AND SEEING
There Is a Marked Difference Be
tween These Two Acts.
THE POWER OF OBSERVATION
It Should Bs Cultivated Even In the
Most Ordinary Things—A Faculty
That Is Possessed by All, but That
Is Developed by the Few.
It is the hope and desire of all par
ents that their children shall make
some sort of a mark in the world when
they grow up. They do not in the ma
jority of cases expect that their off
spring will become famous and make
names that will live for ages, hut they
cherish the thought that they will be
successful men and women in some
profession or business. That is the
keynote—that success shall be tlieii
portion.
Yet it is a fact that most parents
neglect or pay very little attention te
one part of the child’s education which
is of the highest importance They de
not train the perceptive faculties.
Power of observation will help you
more than anything else in your strug
gle for existence, and yet there are
comparatively few people who are
keen observers. One small fact will
prove this latter statement. The man
who observes everything, he who sees
everything lie looks at, is singled out
either as an Inquisitive person or a
clever one, and this shows that he is
an exception.
It is easy to give instances of this
lack of perception even in the ordinary
things of life. Some years ago an art
Ist engaged in a Loudon linn of print
ers had to draw an advertisement in
which the central figure was a cock in
the act of crowing. Nothing seemed
easier, but when he set to work tin
artist found himself confronted by a
difficulty—does the cock show its tongue
prominently when it crows? Every
one of the hundred men employed bv
tbe firm had seen a cock crow scores
of times, yet not one of them could
answer the question. The artist had
to go to a friend who kept fowls and
chase the poor rooster round and round
the yard until it crowed.
A schoolmaster, wishing to test the
perception of his boys, asked thei
how many times they had seen a cow
or pictures of that animal and found,
as he had expected, that all the boys
had seen the creature more times than
they could remember. Then lie offered
to give small prizes to the boys who
could correctly answer this question:
“Are a cow’s ears above, below, in
front of or behind its horns?” Only
two boys gained prizes, and their an
swers were guesswork.
Now sit down and test yourself in
some such simple manner. You have
all seen a horse “down.” Can you de
scribe how it rises? Does it get up on
its fore feet first and then on its hind
feet, or does it kneel first, then get on
its hind feet and finally on its fore
feet?
However, you need not coniine your
self to the animal kingdom in testing
your perceptive faculties. Many sub
jects will suggest themselves to you.
As an excuse for this want of obser
vatlou it is often urged that "a man
can’t know everything,” but the excuse
is a bad one. There is a great differ
ence between knowing little or nothing
and knowing everything. When the
faculty has been trained it requires no
more effort to note the points of the
object looked at than it does to glance
at that same object and come away
none the wiser.
The chances of success in life are on
the side of man who knows cer
tain things because he has learned
about them by using ins senses instead
of having to go to a book for all that
he wishes to know. Books are indis
pensable, as there are so many things
which cannot come within the range of
our observation, but wherever possible
we should use our senses to acquire
knowledge at first hand.
This will explain why men who can
not read or write have built up sub
stantial businesses. They have made
use of the power possessed by all, but
cultivated by very few.
The perceptive faculty must le train
ed during childhood and youth. After
the completion of the twentietli year
very little progress can be made. A
grown man is unable to develop his
powers of observation to any satisfac
tory degree. Y’outb is full of energy,
and that is the time to inculcate the
lesson that we should see ail that our
eyes rest upon.
It should be the object of every par
ent to teach his child to note every ob
ject that comes in his way. When out
for a walk in a park the child should
be told to observe the shapes of the
leaves on the different trees, the pal
ing of the color of animals toward the
under part of the body, and so on, and
should be told that wheu asked a ques
tion on the subject be must be prepar
ed to say that it is so, not that he
thinks it is.
All children have inquiring minds,
and after a walk or two, coupled with
such instruction as we have mention
ed, you will find the child making
great'progress aliu'acquiring'a quality
that will be invaluable in after life.
One of the methods adopted by H<m
dln, the conjurer, for quickening tht
perception of his son was to make him
walk rapidly past a shop window or a
stall on which a uumber of articles
were displayed and then write down a
list of the objects noticed. At first
ouly half a dozen articles were per
ceived during the moment occupied in
passing the store or window, but after
having done it once a day for a month
the boy was able to make a list of
forty objects.—Tearson’s Weekly.
CHANGED HIS MIND.
Influence of a Game of Golf Upon a
Man’s Life.
A New York pastor received a call
in his study one morning not long ago
from a man with whom lie had a
pleasant but uot intimate acquaint
ance. And the visitor told him with
out much ado that he had called on a
peculiar errand.
“Some time ago," lie said, “as you
know, I lost my wife. I have no chil
dren, I have no kinsfolk, and 1 am
very lonely in the world. Last week,
by an unlucky speculation, l lost my
whole fortune. 1 am therefore w ithout
compauionship, without occupation,
without money. lam too old to start
again, and 1 have no joy in life as ir
is. I have deliberately decided, there
fore, to commit suicide. And I called to
tell you of my purpose and to ask the
favor of you that when my body Is
found you will make such an explana
tion as your good judgment and kind
ly feeling toward me may suggest. I
have come simply to ask this favor
and not to argue the question, which 1
have settled for myself. If you do me
this last service I shall be very grate
ful.”
The preacher said little and was far
too wise to undertake to dissuade him,
but he permitted the man to say all
that he had to, say without interrup
tion.
Then as he was going away the
preacher called to him and said:
“I have not seen you on the golf
links for some time. You use to en
joy the game.”
“Yes." said the other.
“Well, go out and play one more
game today before you carry out your
purpose."
The man smiled for the first time
and went to the golf course aud-he is
living yet.—World’s Work.
Old Tims Gas Charges.
The price of gas in the early part of
the last century is shown by a sched
ule of charges issued by the Liverpool
Gaslight company in the year 1817.
Instead of so much per cubic foot be
ing levied each individual burner was
charged for, and the price varied ac
cording to the hour at which the light
was to be extinguished. Thus for
using one No. 1 Argand burner up til!
8 p. m. £3 per annum had to be paid.
i'or the right to keep it alight until f>
£3 18s. was the figure, while those
roistering blades who sat up till 10. 11
or 12 had to disburse £4 10s„ £b 12s.
and £0 Bs. respectively. Imagine the
gas bill at a house where ten or twelve
burners are flaring away until tlie
small hours if such a method of taxa
tion were In force nowadays!—Liver
pool Post.
AS TO LOSING MONEY.
A Case Showing the Importance a Ten
Dollar Bill May Reach.
“To some men,” said a man now of
amplest means, “the loss of SIU,(MMJ
might be a joke, and then to some the
loss of a ten dollar bill might be a
tragedy.
“Poor? Why, we were so poor that
we had to count every cent, every pen
ny. Not that we were miserable. We
were very far from that. Asa matter
of fact, we wore happy, but we cer
tainly did have all the time to sail
very close to the wind.
“There were four of us—wife, two
children and myself—and, bless you.
how we did have to figure and scrimp
to make both ends meet. I’ve seen
the time, many a time, when a nickel
was of great importance to us, wheu
it was the last cent for carfare. 1
often think what a blessing it was
that we were none of us ever sick;
that nothing ever happened to us. I
don’t know what we'd done if there
had.
“I was going to tell you what it
might be to some folks to lose a ten
dollar bill.
“Ten dollars was the amount of our
monthly rent, and whatever else we
did we always saved out of my week’s
pay the weekly proportion of the rent,
to have it ready when it was due. I
always used to get a ten dollar bill in
my pay envelope, and when it came to
the last Saturday in the mouth we just
used to fake tlie ten dollar bill out of
the envelope to pay the rent with, and
then we had the amount we’d saved
out of three weeks to go on for cur
rent expenses.
“Well, one last Saturday that hap
pened to come three days before the
end of the month we took the ten dol
lar bill out of the envelope as usual
for the rent and as usual my wife put
it away—she always looked after the
finances—and there we were all com
fortable and happy, with the next
month's rent ail ready, and then on
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the last day of the month, when -she
went to get it out to have it handy
when the landlord came she couldn't
find it!
“If that wasn’t a tragely I don’t
know a tragedy when 1 meet it. I
don’t suppose I took it quite so hard as
she did, and I'd have shown It as lit
tle as I could anyway on her account,
but to her it was nothing less than a
calamity.
“When the children had gone to bed
we tore the house apart. Wo looked
and looked and looked into every nook
and corner over and over again, but
♦ hat ten dollar bill, with all Unit It
meant to us—and I doubt if you can
imagine how much it did mean—was
gone. That was the first tiling we had
on our minds when we woke up in the
morning, and gloomy enough for us
that morning was. And tlien when I
was eating my breakfast in our mod
est dining room she looked in at the
door from the kitchen, and ‘l’ve found
it!’ she said, and so she had, just
where three days before she had hid
den it away, and so was our great
gloom changed to Joy—to joy with a
large, large J.
“Y’es, sir. We got more now, by con
siderable, and now she lias what she
wants; now she doesn’t have to skimp.
In these days I take her home myself
now and then u ten dollar bouquet.
We can afford it. But I never shall
forget ns long as I live how we felt
when we thought we’d lost that ten
dollar bill or the Joy that came to us
when we found it, for, you see, how a
loss strikes you depends so much on
how much you’ve got.”—New Y’ork
Sun.
Climbs Up the Trunk.
The native elephant driver never has
to bother with a step ladder in mount
ing his beast after lie lias trained him
for a little time, for tbe easiest way
to get up is to ascend by way of the
trunk. Standing in front of the ele
phant the driver grasps him by the
ears, this being a signal that he wishes
to mount, and the obedient monster
promptly arches ids trunk so that the
master can easily step upon it and go
right on up to the top of the elephant’s
head.
The Smuggled Box.
A joker had some fun with the cus
toms officials at New Y’ork some years
ago. A servant had gone ashore from
a German liner with a basket and was
about to leave the pier when a passen
ger whispered to a customs officer that
he had better see what the basket con
tained. Following the tip. the basket
bearer was detained, and a wooden
box was found among a lot of soiled
linen. The box contained another and
this still another box, the third secure
ly fastened with screws. When these
were removed a card was discovered
on which was written in throe lan
guages, “This Is the Ist of April.
Many happy returns of the day.”
Good
School
Auburn
and I have several Rouses
and lots for sale. Water is
the best and Auburn is a
desirable place to live.
Also store bouse for sale,
and if you had rather
live in Carl 1 have homes
and lots for sale there.
Write to
June H. Wood
Carl, Ga.
Pictures
Framed
I am prepared to frame
any kind of Picture.
Nice lot of Moulding to
select from. Satisfac
tion guaranteed.
HERSGHEL EIILL.
OVE.R W. T. ROBINSON’S
Furniture Store.
CANDLLR STRE.E.T.
A scientist say? food can be made
from air. If hot air will do, the
people in some communities ought
not to go hungry. —Cartersville
News.