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NEW IMPROVED DAIN MOWER. A ¥ M, - Rt jJL„I ■ i -'-J V \ IX' / -f , t iar r p : '*'■■; ' ■■• ■? 'jp . t V* ‘\A V *** 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.”