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NEW IMPROVED DAIN MOWER.
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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 yoififive to nine dollars on each
machine, also to keep up competition so that the Trust
will not run the price anv higher. Call and see us and ex
amine the machine. Yours for business,
WOODRUFF HARDWARE & MANUFACTURING COMPANY,
WIXDJiR, CJEC>RG i A.
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samples.
LEATHERS & EAVENSON
WINDER, 6A.
Good Luck Rings.
A man stood on a lower Broadway
corner with a box of pood iuek rings.
They were horseshoe nails made into
rings, bright like silver, glittering in
the sun. It was amazing the number
of people who went up and bought
these rings of the man. fitting them
carefully on their fingers, paying for
them, walking off with them, turning
them this way and that to admire
them, though their price was o!y a
nickel.
“Do you make your living selling
them?” asked a woman, who bought
a very fetching one for her third fin
ger.
“Yes. madam." said he.
“There must be a lot of superstitious
people iu New York,” said she. “if a
man can make his living by selling
horseshoe nail rings at a nickel apiece.”
"There are. madam,” said he.—New
York Trees.
MEXICAN HOTELS.
They Close Early, and Guests Cut Late
Must Tip the Porter.
“I’m glad to be back in the land of
the latchkey,” said a mining engineei
who had been in .Mexico for the past
year. “In France. Spain, Italy and
throughout Latin America there is a
servant in every house and hotel whose
business it is to opeu the door. In
Mexico you would think, being so near
this country, that the American latch
key would be common. But even in
the finest hotels in the capital the big
doors are closed at 11 o'clock, and to
gain admittance after that hour you
have to pound on them with the great
knockers that hang outside. After five
minutes you hear a sleepy grunt with
in, then some mutterings and the Span
ish word which means Tm coming.’
Finally the small door in the center of
the big one will be unbarred, and you
step inside. Then if you don't want
to sleep in the park the next night you
are kept out late you give the ’portero.
n the keeper of the gate is called, a
piece of silver. Between 11 and mid
night the fee is. 10 cents. From 1 on
until morning the gratuity, regulated
by custom, steadily increases. Be
tween 1 and .3 it is from 2.3 to 40 cents,
and after 3 it is half a dollar.
“Many a night I have been awak
ened by the pounding of the knockers
in the neighborhood of my hotel. I
timed one man for ten minutes before
1 fell asleep. Probably he had neg
lected to foe the 'portero' or else the
keeper of the gate was drunk, as he
frequently is. Those “porleros' usually
sleep curled up in blankets just ihsidc
the door on the stones with which ev
ery interior courtyard and entrance is
paved, and all of them have colds. Yet
ft is a position much sought after, and
the gatekeeper ranks highest among
the servants.”—New York Press.
The Honeymoon.
The honeymoon has no definite dn
ration, but is longer or shorter accord
ing as the temper of the high contract
ing parties determines, or their rela
tives, or the weather, or the mode or
the comparative cost of traveling and
staying at home. Briefly, it is that
interval during which the man, going
out in the morning, remembers his kiss
and forgets his overshoes as distin
guished from the interval during which
he remembers his overshoes and for
gets his kiss.—New York Life.
Pluck.
"Pluck.” said the financier, “is the
secret of success.”
“Well,” interrupted the shabby man,
“I’ll give you £lO if you'll teach me
your method of plucking.”—London
Telegraph. v
A Reasonable Request.
“Arabella.” said old Billyuns as he
finished his dinner, ”1 am going to
ask you to do me a favor. 1 want you
to give your young man—Mr.—Mr.
Whatshisname—a message from me.”
Arabella blushed and looked down at
her plate.
“Tell him.” the bluff old millionaire
went on. “that 1 don’t object t<> his
“faying here and running up my gas
hills, but that 1 do object to his carry
ing the morning paper away with him
when he leaves.”—London Answers.
Force of Habit.
“I’m surprised that you should be so
interested in watching those silly
dudes.”
“Force of habit. I guess. I'm presi
dent of a real estate improvement com
pany.”
“Well?”
“Well, they’re a vacant lot.”—Cath
olic Standard and Times.
A Man Must Think.
A man must use his own judgment.
He must think his own thoughts. He
must believe his own convictions, lot
them jostle whom they may. There
are ideas which are in the air. They
settle down upon us like smuts in a
manufacturing town. They settle upon
us in the subway and on the streets.
Wo find it difficult to brush them off
our minds, and they grow bigger and
stronger and dominate us.
We think we hold opinions when, as
p. matter of fact, they hold us. And
■his would be of the less consequence
if they were our own opinions. But
they are not. And they are not the
opinions of our friends either. They
have not been made in the sense in
which one builds a conviction or
shapes a life. And the trouble is that
we think we are thinking "vlien we are
only obeying the orders of the opinions
which have taken possession of us.—
I)r. Charles F. Aked.
It Went Back.
Ic one of our old towns, which has
recently been the scene of a pageant,
a party of Americans were being con
ducted over the ancient abbey.
The ages of this part and that were
pointed out by a learned attendant,
and at length. “That arch.” says he.
“may possibly go back to William the
Conqueror.”
“Don't you like it?” said a guest
promptly.
The attendant explained that he did
not understand.
“Doesn’t it suit you? Why are you
sending it back, anyway?”—London
Mall.
Knowledge is power to think you
know a heap more than you do.
THE MOUND BUILDERS
Mystery of the Great Monuments
Found In This Country.
RELICS OF A VANISHED RACE.
The Strangely Shaped Structures Art
Thought to Be More Than Twc
Thousand Years Old —The Enigma
of Those Who Reared Them.
Scattered through the middle west
and In o.her parts of the United States
are more than 10,000 monstrous, odd
shaped "mounds.” Some are built
like lorts. others in queer, sharp geo
metrical figures, others shaped like
huge serpeuts. crocodiles, buffaloes
turtles, eagles, lizards, dragons with
eggs in their mouths, etc. Some of
these mounds are a mile long, some
much smaller. In Newark. 0.. stands
a continuous mound, constructed in a
perfect circle, more than 5.000 feet Iti
circumference. The mounds are often
covered with trees that are many ceu
turies in age. These strangely shaped
structures are thought to be more than
2,000 years cld.
Who Luiit them?
Certainly not the North American
Indians. The Indians have ever been
a lazy, roving race, making their live
llhood chiefly by hunting and Ashing
seldom remaining long in one neigh
borhood and using tents or tbe rudest
buts as their dwelling places.
The mysterious people who built tin
mounds were not a race of rovers
An infinitely long time must have
been required for erecting each huge
earth shape. Nor were they lgnorau:
savages, for the mounds show dee|
knowledge of geometry us well as ot
astronomy and of the principles of
building. Carefully laid out military
fortifications abound in the mound
builders’ country, indicating that the
aborigines bud martini lore and on
gineering skill and that they under
stood many modern principles of at
tack and defense.
There are also sepulchral mounds
some of them sixty feet high. Those
contain human bones, skulls, etc., as
well as copper utensils and bits of pot
tery. The lames when exposed to air
crumble at once to dust. As the bones
of Europeans who died twenty con
tuties ago are often found intact .and
strong, many authorities believe the
mound builders date back at least
several centuries before tlie time of
Julius Caesar.
Cleverly made pottery and copper or
bronze implements of war and peace
are found all through the mounds
Ancient abandoned copper mines on
the banks of Lake Superior show that
the mound builders well understood
the art of mining. The workmanship
of the copper bracelets, bronze knives,
etc., prove their skill at the forge.
In one of the prehistoric Lake Su
perior mines has been found a mass of
copper weighing eight tons, resting on
a'high platform, ready for removal to
the upper earth. This implies the use
of well constructed mine machinery.
Pictures that have been found etched
upon copper and ivory portray much
artistic skill.
Prom all this it seems that in some
remote age the central part of North
America was inhabited by a race of
warlike, industrious, decidedly civi
lized beings who bad splendid skill at
building, at the arts of mining, en
gineering and higher mathematics and
who flourished apparently during nu
merous centuries. Vet so long ago did
the mound builders cease to exist that
in all Indian folklore there is no men
tion. no memory, of them.
None know where the Indians them
selves came from. Vet they apparent
ly settled in America long after the
mound builders hud vanished. The
skulls discovered in the mounds are
not shap.ed in the least like skulls of
Indians nor even of Europeans. Some
archaeologists claim to find strong re
semblance between the mound build
ors’ skulls and tlmse of the ancient
Egyptians. If there were any connec
tion between the two. who can explain
how an Egyptian ra e chanced to flour
'
The fate of tin* mound buildefs is
as mysterious as the strange people
themselves. After reaching so high a
civilization and thriving for so long a
time it seems strange that they should
have been completely destroyed. No
satisfactory explanation has ever been
offered. Perhaps the mound builders
moved south and became merged wfth
the Mexican Aztecs or Peruvians, or
some savage race from tbe north may
have swept down and utterly destroy
ed them, or a wholesale pestilence may
have wiped out their nation.
The weird looking earthen monu
ments (the purpose of most of them a
puzzle to the best archaeologists) are
the sole remaining proof that this
great lost American race ever existed.
—New York World.
The only time a man takes much
pride in being a pillar of the chuch
is when he is running fora political
o ffice.
GOING THE LIMIT.
The Souvenir She Carried Off From a
Week End Party.
Among the habits which have
grown apace among Americans <>f
recent years has been that of souve
nir hunting. Souvenir spoons,
knives, forks, plates, photographs,
postal cards and what not have been
a perfect passion with the multi
tude. The thing seemed to have,
been carried a little too far when
somebody at a reception to the
Chinese ambassador some years ago
tried to snip off a piece of that emi
nent humorist’s pigtail with a pair
of pocket scissors, but even that
was surpassed by a certain Chicago
woman of great personae attractive*
ness, who seems to have reached the
ultimate.
A stranger, speaking of her to an
other woman and not being familiar
with certain facts in the family his
tory of the lady to whom she was
talking, observed that she had hea rd
that the Chicago woman was
a confirmed souvenis hunter. “Not
really a kleptomaniac, you know,”
site said.
“Oh,no; not at all!” was the re
ply.
“She is just the ultra of souvenir
hunting. 1 happen to know too.
You see, some years ago she paid X
week end visit at our country place,
and when it was over” —
“You missed your silverware?”
‘‘No, indeed,” was the answer;
“my husband!” —John Kendrick
Bangs in Lippincott’.
DON'! WHINE.
l *Boine one has said: “Whining
is poor business; it identifies you
at once with the under dog, and
does not get you any sympathy at
all.” The man who whines con
fesses his weakness —his inability
to match his environment, lit- can
not command the situation; ittis
too much for him- All he can do
is to kick and complain. The
whiner never accomplishes any
thing.
The man or woman who uses up
vitality in complaining, finding
fault with circumstances, kicking
against fate; who is always protest
ing that there is no justice in the
world, that merit is not rewarded,
that the times arc out of joint, and
that everything is wrong, is put
down rightly as a weakling, with a
small,narrow mind. Large-minded
men and women do not spend their
energies in whining- If they meet
an obstruction, they go through it
and pass on about their business.
They know that all their time and
strength must be concentrated on
the work of making life. The whin-,
er not only wastes his time and
strength, but lie prejudices people
against him. No one feels inclined
to help a man who is always com
plaining of conditions and blaming
his “hard luck.” Somehow, w@
g-1 tic feeling that he does not
deserve help so much as a good
scolding. —Kx.
He Wouldn’t Quarrel.
An Atchison fruit dealer opened a
box of pears the other day and put
upa sign “two for five.” A cus
t mier came along, said he wanted a
couple, and began digging about ii>
the box for the two largest
ones.
“Hold on,” said the dealer,
“you must take them as they come.”
“Keep your pears! ” snorted the
customer.
“And you may keep your money,”
said the dealer quietly.
“Go to hell! ” shrieked the offend
ed customer.
“I don’t want to go there, ’ ’ saic
the dealer calmly,“and I don't wan '
you to go there, either.”