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We handle the best and latest improved Mower on
the market. We sell it at a reasonable price. It is not
made by the TRUST. We sell you a Mower for $-50.00, a
good Rake for $20.00. This is a saving of five to nine dol
lars for you.
This machine is guaranteed to be equal to any ma
chine on the the market. It is equipped with brass bush
ings and in every respect a first-class machine.
We are here to save vou five to nine dollars on each
machine, also to keep up competition so that the Trust
will not run the price any higher. Call and see us and ex
amine the machine. Yours for business,
WOODRUFF HARDWARE & MANUFACTURING COMPANY,
WINDER, - GEORGIA.
A SHARER.
Ido not ask to storm the heights
To realize fruition,
I would not trample on the weak
To win a dear ambition.
I do not crave another s place,
I ask but what is mine,
I would not wander from the path
Marked out by Thy design.
Give me my share of toil and pain;
My portion of the best,
My part in Thine economy;
My place among the blest.
—Mary R. Baldwin,
—in Kanasas City Journal.
THE TRICK THAT TAILED.
At the last session of congress
there was a very close division on
an important measure that was
pending. A Western member was
fighting the bill with all the vigor
at his command, and his success
depended absolutely on his presence
at his post. A clever member of
the opposition devised a scheme
whereby the troublesome man could
be lured away, says the Washington
Post. Accordingly, on the morn
ing of day the vote was to be taken
a telegram was sent to the hotel of
the fighting member. It read:
“Come home. Your wife is dan
gerously ill.” The congressman
glanced at it. read it carefully two
or three times, and then started
toward the capitol. The perpetra
tor of the Ncheme asked the con
gressman whatNtlie telegram con
tained. He showetNth) him-^"
‘‘ What! ’’ gasped the'Tnquirer,
“and in the face of that you are
going to the capitol? ’
“I am” was the cool response.
‘‘But don't you feel worried about
your wife?”
‘‘Not in the least,” was the reply.
‘‘Why?” asked the other.
“Because,” replied the fighting
member, “1 have no wife. "
Don’t trust to luck unless you
have a return tieket home.
Suffragette —What we maintain
is that women should get men’s
wages. I hev do Beastways, 1
know my wife gets mine
Sampieless Salesman.
Ther were half a dozen drummers
on the train, and they were talking
about another drummer who
traveled in the same territory with
themselves.
Oneofthen said: “He's straight.
He’s a Christian. Whatever he
tells you about an article you may
know is just so. He can go all over
his territory without a sample, and
sell goods to every man he calls on.
His word makes samples unneces
sary.”
All the other said, “That’s so,”
“I know it.” And this was said of
their successful competiton- They
felt no jealousy, they admired him
this Christian salesman, whose word
made samples unnecessary.
A man offered to lend anothre
SSOO. “What security do you
want?” asked the latter.
“I do want any. Your personal
note is enough.” The man back of
the word’ back of the name, stood
tor honesty and good faith. No
additional backing was desired.
A farmer met a man of another
neighborhood and said to him: “I
have an extra span of mules this
season. They are five years old,
are gentle, Avill work in single or
double harness, and are without a
blemish. I want S3OO for them,
and they are well worth it. Come
over some dav soon and look at
them.' ’
“No, I don’t care to see them. I
have to buy a span and I'll take
them. Bring them to town next
Monday and I'll give you a check
for them. Just consider them
sold.”
That is an iderl way to do busi- !
ness. And there is a good deal of
it in the business world.
A trusted word is so much easier
to carry than a sample case. So
do business that after awhile* you
can leave your samples at home.
Aim to become a sampleless sales
man. —Ex.
If you’re afraid you will fail, vou
are halfway to the Land of the Has
Beens. .Stop thinking you can’t
succeed, and you've turned your
back on Failure.
WISE WORDS.
Where an opinion is general it
is usually correct. —Jane Austen.
Industry is a loadstone to draw
all good things. —Robert Burton.
Truthfulness is at the foundation
of all personal excellence. —Smile.
The counsel you would have an
other keep keep first thyself. —
Proverb.
Our occupation is that which we
select, our interruption is that
which is sent us.
You may reform a hardened old
reprobate, but a fool or a saint is a
hopeless proposition.
There are lots of complaints that
are catching, but experience is not
one of them. —Hutchion-
Only let us give heed that we are
ripening in all goodness as the swift
days pass. —Queen Louisa of Prussia-
If a man would hasten toward
the good, he should keep his
thoughts away from evil. —East
In dia Saying.
There is no man so friendless but
what he can find a friend sincere
enough to tell him disagreeable
truths. —Bulwer Lytton.
HEREDITY.
Professor Pumpernickel was a
great authority on heredity. He had
compiled a work running into 170
volumes on “The Principles of
Heredity as Applied to Centi
pedes, Pole-Cats, Moles and
Sponges,” and was now on Vol. b of
a magnum opus,in which he wasen-
deavoring to prove that if the step
sister of your great-great-grand uncle
had a mole on her left cheek, the
probability was you would be born
with a bunion on your left big toe.
“ How beautifully your daughter
plays the piano!” an enthusiastic
caller exclaimed to him one after
noon .
Pumpernickel furrowed bis brows.
“Yes,” he mused, “she has a fine
touch —in fact, she loves the piano
I and never tires of it. Now, why
I site should have such a taste for
music?’’ Fora moment be pond
lered, then suddenly brightened,
j“I have it!” he cried. “To think
that I should never have thought of
lit before! Her grandfather had
j his skull fractured by a cornet at a
I picnic.”
WHO IS RESPONSIBLE?
In the presence of over two hun
dred men, a converted gambler and
loon-keeper made the follow
ing statement, wihch created a pro
found impression:
“I have been in the saloon busi
ness, with a gambling-room attach-
ed for the last four years, and claim
to know something about what 1 am
now going to tell you. I do not Itelieve
that the gambling den is nearly so
dangerous, nor does it do anything
like tlu* same amount of harm, as
the social card party in tin' homo.
1 give this as my reason: In tin*
gambling room tie 1 windows are
tightly closed, the curtains arc pulled
down; everything is conducted se
cretly for fear of detection; and none
but gamblers, as a rule, enter there;
while in the parlor all have access to
the game, children are primitted to
watch it, the young people are in-
vited to partake in it. It is made
attractive * and alluring by giving
prizes, serving refreshments and
adding high social enjoyments. For
my part 1 never could see the
difference between playing for a
piece of silver molded in the shape
of money, ami silver molded in the
shape of a cup or thimble. The
principle is the same, and whenever
property changes hands over the
luck >f the cards, no matter
how small is the value of the prize,
I believe it is gambling. Have you
ever thought of it?
“Where do all the gamblers come
from? They are not taught in the
gambling dens. A ‘greener,’ unless
he is a fool, never enters a gambling
hell,because he lmows that he will be
fleeced out of everything he possesses
in less than fifteen minutes. A man
has learned somewhere else before
lie sets foot inside of such a place.
When he has played in the parlor
in tlu* social game of the home, and
has become proficient enough to
win prizes among his friends, the
next step with him is to seek the
gambling room, for he has learned,
and now counts upon his efficiency
to hold his own. The saloon men
and gamblers chuckle and smile
when they read in the papers of the
parlor games given by the ladies,
for they know that after a while
these same men will become the
patrons of theii business. I say,
then, the parlor game is the college
where gamblers are made and ed
ucated In the name of God, men,
stop this business in your home.
Burn up your decks and wash your
hands.”
After he had taken his seat,
another converted ex-gambler arose
and said:
“I endorse everv word which the
brother before me has just uttered.
I was a gamblei. I learned to
play cards, not in the saloon, not in
my home, but in the homes of my
young friends, who invited me to
play with them and taught me j
how,”
Another told of a mother who
had her eyes opem and to the danger
of card playing in the home. She
hah been in the habit of going to and
giving “progressive euchre parties,”
and frequently won “prizes,” which
she brought home and showed to
the family. One morning her son
showed her a roll of bills, and said,
“Mother, these are what I won last
night in playing cards with some
men 1 met down town.’ VYhy,
my son, elo you mean to tell me
you have been gambling? YY by,
mother,” he said, ‘ I learned to l>e
an (‘Xpert player here at home, and
the prizes won here were only
different in value.”
She then and there saw the dan
ger, and by putting the “accursed
things” out of her home and life,
was enabled to show to her boy the
awful possibility of ruin ahead of
him, and to save him from a gam
bler’s life and fate.
A number of men went home
from that afternoon meeting and
set up anew rule in their families
that never should another game be
played inside the houses, that par
lors should not became kindergartens
for training young gamblers. —Way
of Faith.
Paper from Cotton Stalks.
For the last three or four years
there has been much discussion of
the possibility of manufactursng pa
per out of cotton stalks, and more
recently the idea lias been to include
has the cornstalks produced in such
abundance by the West. Necessity
ever been the mother of invention,
and as the available supply of wood
out of widen to make paper is b.scorn
ing so rapidly exhausted, invent
ive genius basso sought to utilize
some other source of supply. This
is thought to be the cotton stalk,
and the world will await with cu
rious interest the result of the prac
tical test which is to be made in the
near future. A news item states:
Contracts nave been signed be
tween the Southern Cotton Stalk
Pulp A Paper Company, of Atlanta,
and Little A Phillips, contractors,
of Cordele and Fitzgerald, for the
erection of the first complete mill
ever designed for the manufacture
of paper from cotton stalks.
The mill is to he erected for com
pletion by October 1. Orders for
the machinery and power equip
ment have already been placed, and
it will be ready for installation as
soon as the building is far enough
advanced. Operation will begin as
soon as possible after completion.
The initial capacity of the m 1!
will be twenty-five tons of com
mercial wrapping paper per day,
which quantity the plant is ex
pected to he putting out by Nov. 1.
Later on the capacity will be greatly
increased, and higher grades of
paper will be manufactured also.
The finest grades, it is claimed,
can be mande from cotton stalks.
This company, which owns ex
clusively all the patents on the
proof ss, is headed by an expert pa
per manufacturer from the North.
The company is confident the new
process will revolutionize the paper
manufacturing business and that it
will add not less than $50,000,000
to the annual income of the South
from its cotton crop. If the experi
ment is a success, it is the intention
to establish a chain of mills which
will augment greatly the manufact
uring prestige of the South, be
sides furnishing the world with pa
per at lower prices than have ever
been known Though Col. Mul
lx:rry Sellers was visionary and im
practicable, humanity today is the
beneficiary of the perfection and
operation of many ideas that ap
peared a thousand times more im
possible than this new undertaking.
It is to be hoped that the pioneers
in the new industry will realize
millions out of it. —Nashville
American.
The Great Men Gone.
Senator Beveridge, in the course
of an eloquent after-dinner speech
in Boston, said of child labor:
“When we consider the indifference
with which so many of our
great men look upon the child
labor evil, we can’t help wondering
if these men are so very great after
all ” Senator Beveridge paused
and smiled. “An orator,” he said,
“was addressing an assemblage of
the people. He recounted the peo
ple s wrongs. Then he passionately
cried: 'Where are America’s great
men? Why don’t they take up the
! cudgel in our defense? In tue face
of our manifold wrongs, why do
j they remain cold, immovable, si
lent?’ ‘Because they’re all oa-t in
bronze,’ shouted a cynic in the
rear.”