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An Essentia! Thing, and there are many, in the management of bank is the personal, painstaking care of its officers. Recognizing this responsibility, the officers of this institution keep them selves in touch with every important detail of the business. And the outcome? A generous, and a steadily increasing patronage. THE WINDER BANKING CO. winder, Georgia. =r“INDEPENBEfff=“ Buyers of € often Seed. We are in the market f<r Cotton Seed. Most convenient place in the city to weigh and unload. Highest Market Price Paid Will exchange Cotton S 'ed Meal and Hulls for Cotton Seed. See us at the store. LAY & GRAHAM, WINDER, GEORGIA. WINDER LUMBER CO. WINDER, GEORGIA. Phone 47. ON THE FLAT SHELL Oy*tr Opened That Way With a Pur pose, the Waiter Said. The waiter had taken a long time In getting the oysters, but as he was well known to his guests and his guests to hint that occasioned no comment. When the oysters were brought the waiter set them down before his cus tomer and asked: “Do you like them better that way?" The diner looked, but he didn’t no tice any difference, so he asked, "What way?" “Why, on the flat shell," replied the waiter. “Don’t you see they aren’t on the curved part of the shell, as usual?" “I see it now that you tell me about It,” said the diner, "but 1 don’t exact ly get the 6igniticance." “Well, you see.” said the waiter, "they always keep them upstairs on the round shell, and when any one calls for oysters if they do come on the round shell it isn’t a certainty that they have been opened fresh. Some times they aren’t good, just because they have been standing. When 1 call for them on the flat shell, as I do for some of my customers, then they have to open them specially for that order In that way you get them fresh." “Ah. I see!" remarked the diner. But when he told the professional cynic about it the cynic said some thing about betting that they kept them standing opened in both ways. "Besides, any one knows they look fatter on the flat shell, which is all the more reason they’d be likely to serve them to some folks that way. If they asked for extra large oysters they’d get them on the flat shell. The same oysters on the curved shell would go as ordinary sized oysters,” remark ed the cynic gloomily.—New York Sun. The Humble Librettist. In the history of opera there are many curious anomalies, but perhaps the strangest is the role played by the librettist. For the most part obscure A Cordial Christmas Greeting is extended to all our friends and patrons, with many thanks for past favors, and trust that we will not be forgotten when good lumber and efficient service is needed in the future. We can always be found at Winder, where a well selected stock of hard and soft woods, paints, etc. is entirely at your service for all building pur poses. and unimportant and generally unre membered. his ranks have neverthe less been recruited from the ablest and most brilliant men of letters. Among those who have undertaken the part are such unlikely narneM as Voltaire. Goethe, Wleland, Addison and Field ing, while others of considerable poet ic talent, as. for example. Metastasio. Calzabigi. Rinucclni, Boito and Cop pee, have tried their hand at libretto writing with assurance, giving to It their best efforts. And yet the suc cessful librettists are few—the merest handful out of a harvest of three cen turies—Forum. How Sunshine Beats Down. It is a common thing on hot days to hear people say that "the sun beats down." Rut few suspect that the rays of light actually do beat down upon the surface they strike. Light is a wave motion in the ether, and waves, wheth er of sound or water, press on bodies in their wuv. Clerk Maxwell calculated the pressure of light, and experiments of Herr Lebedew have shown that he was right. The pressure is very slight, as may be supposed, but it really ex ists. Worse Yet. Mamma—Johnny, you bad boy. you’ve been fighting again! Your clothes are so badly torn that I’ll probably have to get you anew suit. Johnny—That’s nothing, mamma. You Just ought to see Tommy Jones. I’ll bet his mamma will have to get anew boy.—Chicago News. Corrected. Mr. Struckoil—That there sculptor feller says he’s goin’ to make a bust of me. Mrs. Struckoil—Henry, it’s dreadful the way you talk. Say •’burst." not “bust."—Philadelphia Rec ord. Many a woman’s make-up pre vents her from holding the mirror up to nature. OLD WORLD AHMiES Drafting Methods by Which Their Strength is Maintained. TRICKS OF THE CONSCRIPTS. All Manner of Dodges Are Adopted by the Eligible Young Men to Avoid the Enforced Military Service That Is So Hateful to Them. We hear a good deal about conscrip tion. but few people know what It ac tually means. In no country is every person who is able to light drafted into tlte army. All males who are lia ble to serve undergo a physical exam ination, resulting in only a certain number being passed as tit for service. No government has sufficient funds to draft the whole of these men into tlte regular army, so a selection is made by ballot, the number of men en rolled varying according u> the funds in the hands of the authorities. The pay provided for the conscript is necessarily very trilling indeed ami will not compare with that paid to vol unteer soldiers. In fact, it is generally true that the conscript must full back upon his private means. The methods vary in each country Hut take the case of one Kuropean power. Every male subject not phys ically incapacitated is liable to enter* the army at the age of twenty, al though those who care to enlist may do so at eighteen. A register is kept of ail the youths who reach tin* age of twenty in the particular year. Men under live feet two inches in height are exempt from service, as well, of course, as ihose who suffer from natural iniirmities which render them unsuitable for ac tive service. Other men are also exempt if they have helpless dependents thus the only sou of a widow or of a disabled father, the latter category also includ ing the only spa of a father who is above seventy years of age. Then the eldest of a family of orphans is ex empt, and in the ease of two sous only one is liabl \ there being various other exemptions The term served by the conscript is one of twenty-tive years, three years being spent in ttie regular army, six and one-half in the army reserve, six in the territorial army and the re maining nine and a half years in the territorial reserve, all liability to serv ice ceasing at forty-tive. The service is frequently so hated that all manner of methods are adopt ed in order to avoid it. In many cases substitutes are provided hv the wealthy, though there are strlugent regulations with regard to the pro vision of the substitutes. In most European countries military malingering in order to avoid compul sory military service has reached the stage of a fine art. In fact, a formida ble list of new crimes has been added to the statutes as a result, and medical men frequ* r itly have to suffer for their assistance in this particular kind of fraud. Thus some time ago a number of Cologne doctors were arrested upon a charge of having administered pills to young conscripts. These pills consist ed of drugs which produced the symp toms of heart disease so effectively as completely to deceive the military au thorities. with the result that the con scripts were declared untit for service. In this case the fraud was brought to light by on of the couscripts dying as a result of an overdose of the medi cine. lu Germany, where the conscript Is frequently treated with the greatest harshness, there are very few towns where there are not specialists whose living depends solely iu inducing such a condition of affairs as will reuder young meu exempt by reason of untit- Dess. In the French army it is quite com mon for youths to feign all manner of ills, deafness being the usual ailment trusted to in order to escape the serv ice. Asa result the military doctors hare made an especial study of meth ods of detecting feigned deafness and to trap the cunning youth who acts the part of a deaf man. Another common practice in France is to tamper with the eyesight, though this frequently results in permanent injury. For instance, short sight is produced by wearing powerful con cave glasses for a considerable time despite the risk of bringing about per manent blindness it is no uncom mon occurrence for men to commit sui cide rather than submit to forced serv ice in the army. In eastern Europe most brutal meth ods are adopted by parents in order that their sons may be able to work for them instead of serving in the army. The boys nre frequently ill treated, and it is not at all uncommon even for their limbs to be broken or their sight to be destroyed in order to prevent any likelihood of their having to become soldiers. Switzerland probably has the cheap est army and the least burdensome methods of conscription, the service being much lighter thau hi the other confThentaf armies Indeed, the con script in the infantry army has to un dergo actual training for only IMA days during tin* entire period of his service. Philadelphia Ledger. SHOE SIZES. How the Standard of Measurement Was Established. it is most difficult for many persons to remember the sizes of their differ ent articles of wearing apparel. Col lars. shirts and gloves are easy enough, because in the ease of these it is a matter of actual inches. Hut the hat and shoe numbers are what puzzle most people, to say nothing of the mystery why a No. 11 stocking goes with a No. S shoe. This last puzzle Is. however, easily explained. Stockings have always been measured by tne inch from heel to toe*, but the numbering of sh s was fixed a long time ago by a French man. The Frenchman permanently fixe! the numlnws of shoes for all Europe and America. lie arbitrarily decided thap no human foot could possibly be smaller than three and seven-eighth incites So, calling this point zero, he allowed one-third of an inch to a size •and accordingly built up his settle, it follows therefrom that a man cannot line! out the number of his own shoe unless he be tin expert arithmetician. Even then he is likely to go wrong, because till the shoe experts allow for the weight of the individual and the build of his foot before they try to determine what size shoe ho ought to wear. As far as women’s shoes are con cerned the problem is still more* diffi cult, because ninny of the manufac turers instead of keeping to the regu lar scale have marked down their numbers one or two sizes in order to capture easily Mattered customers. Fur this reason most dealers ask out of town customers to send an old shoe with their orders. The system of measuring hats is much simpler. Any man can tell what size he wears simply by adding the width and length of the inner brim and then dividing by two Orders can also be sent to thp shopkeeper by stating the circumference of the head —Boston CJlobe. When "Fluck” Was Slang. The word •pluck" affords an in stance of the way in which slang words in the course of time become adopted into current English. We now meet with "pluck" and "plucky" as the recognized equivalents "f "cour age” and ••courageous." An entry in Sh Waller Scott’s “Journal" shows that In 1.X27 the word had not yet lost Its iow character. He says (volume 2. pag-* 3()i. "Want of that article black guardly called pluck." Its origin is obvious. From curly times the heart has been popularly regarded ns the seat of courage. Now. when a butcher lays open a carcass he divides the great vessels of the heart, cuts through the windpipe and then plucks out together the united heart and lungs—lights, be culls them—and he terms Ihe united mass "the pluck.”-- London Notes and (Queries. Joe Miller Wee Not a Joker. Joe Miller, who is generally believed to have been the soul of wit. never made a single joke in his life. He was an actor and so grave iu manner as to become the butt of other people’s hilarity. When any witticism went the round Miller was accused of Its authorship, and he would never deny it. He lived an exemplary life and died universally respected. But no soonfr was he dead tbitu apfieared "Joe Miller’s Jests; or. The Wits’ \ ade Mecum.” compiled by "Elijah Jenkins. Esq."—that Is to say. forged b.V John Mottley. the Jacobite, just as years be fore Hobson’s "Polly Peacbum" and Ben Johnson's "Jests” had been forged. The Masculine Wig. Civilization has to thank the French revolution and the subsequent wars for masculine emancipation from the wig. It whs partly the scarcity ot f!t>ur and the war tax on hair powder that banished the powdered wig. but partly also the leveling influence ot Jacobinism "1 do not know the pres ent generation by sight.” wrote Wal pole in 1791, complaining that the young men "In their dirty shirts and shaggy hair have leveled nobility as much as the nobility in France have." U nfair. Hazel, aged seven, while feeding the cat at the dinner table was reproved by her father, who told her that the cat must wait until later, whereupon the small girl wept and said: "I think it is a shame just because she Is a poor dumb animal to treat her like a hired girl."—Harper’s Magazine. But Did She? “My head aches awfully." slie sigh ed "If you weren’t here I’d take tny hair off and rest it.” “What?" he cried. “I mean down.” she corrected.—New York Press. The corruption of the best becomes the worst.—Latin Proverb. You don't need to be an expert to- know that is “The Shoe of Quality.” That’s why more of them are worn by men than any other $5 shoe made. Maynard Bros.’ Shoe Store “A KNIGHT FOR A DAY” In “A Knight For A Day,” due here Wednesday, Dec. 32, at The Lyric Theater, a small town express man by mistake, delivers a case of champagne to a self-appointed steward lie encounters on the grounds of a young ladies’ boarding school. The confidence man is his eagerness to boar away his sparkl* ing prize, accidentally drops the wine down a well, where the bottles break and the nectar changes the water A simple slave attached to the college, drinks from the well unwittingly and, of course, become intoxicated. The inebriation scene is said to be one of the most deli date, yet convieing manifestations of feminine exbiliration yet offered on the stage. Reports say that audiences in Chicago, New York and Boston have laughed im moderately for three or four minutes steadily over the maid’s plight. This is B. C. Whitney’s stupen duous production, which, under direction of Ben Falk, this season played New York with the same east and chorus that comes here. , NOTICE. Owing to ill health I am closing up my affairs, and this is to notify all parties indebted to me either by note or account that I must have an immediate settlement. You can find your note or account either at my place of business or at Smith it Carithers Bank. Yours respectfully, A. D. Chandler. Truth and trouble play no fa vorites.