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The Jackson Mercantile Cos. * * * | Proprietors of Store. 1 m^r JACESOIT, r\ O-EORGIA you of what is coming but of what is here now awaiting your inspection. The following a paruai list of what you can find: Long Silk Gloves in tan, black and white. Lace, silk and ganse hosiery embroideried and plain. Spider silks floral designs and shadow checks. Silk and wool Voiles in all colors from 75c to $2.00 yd. OFZEnsraSTGr, THURS. 31 FRX. 33 RESPECTFULLY,^^ THE JACKSON MERCANTILE CO. Not The Only One. Yesterday we were ask, snys the Moultrie Observer, if we ever saw a baldheaded woman , We answered *'N we never did, nor did we eve' 1 see a woman walking around town in her shirt sleeves wiin a cigar in her teebl. and running into every saloon she saw. We never sow a woman go fishing with a bot.tlo in her pocket sit or. the damp ground all day and coma ho.i.e drunk ut night. Nor have w ever seen a woman yank off her coat, and say she could lick any man i.. town, tiud Dims her, she s n >r lu It t hat war.—E>. The ihove maybe true. There is a lot ef nd shne'B she cuts out, but on the i#’ I.. *r band did you ever see a man W l l t'og iibout town bareheaded ? Did you ever *e a him out on a cold windy day w th nothing on his arms, shoul ders or throat but cheese cloth? Did you *■ ver see him go out to a ball bar ®d below the shoulders and chest, ana dan?e with a half dozen diilorent peo ple until exhrustion and perspi > tion forced him to stop and then go and sit in the window or take a walk on the veranda until chilled through? Did you ever see a man crowd a 31- inch waist Into an 18 inch pair of trousers? Did you ever see a man eat a quart of green plums with just a little salt added? Did you ever see him Dull *h hair over from the back of his he id and nail it down between his eyes or draw his pompadour back into a lit'!* wad "n his neck? D and you ever see h tn crowd his No 5 foot into aNo - shoe made on a K last , and with heels so high that he had to throw iiis head and hat back to bal ance his body? No bless his sorry soul, you never did. He may be as mean as old scratch, and maybe re sponsible for lots of sins that flesh is heir to, hut he is not the only fool that walks up and down this earth.— Henry County Weekly. CASToniA.. H ltn Kind You Haw Alvvsfs Bom* *7" Fancy wool suitings in moon • brown plaids. Fancy Silks for waists and suits, Roman, Persian and Dresden effects. Embrcideried waist patterns 75 cents to $5.00. Stamped Collar and Cuff sets. A Hrade Union Inconsistency. One of the anomalies of trades union ism is the demand for “closed shops” and the advocacy of municipal owner ship when it is inevitable that every industry transferred from private to public ownership will become an “open shop." In public employment all con ditions and wages of labor must be determined by laws and ordinances. No law excluding nonunion men from public employment can stand the test of its constitutionality.—Public Policy. Use Ancsthetits In Both Cases. tinner—ln surgery they can restore a person's skin by grafting. Guy or—What a big differece between surgery and politics! Gunner—What is the difference? Guyer—Why, in politics they skin people by grafting. Chicago Daily News. Unwise Under Present Conditions. Until we remove the political influ ence that tends toward corruption and extravagance I believe that municipal ownership would be unwise.—Profess or Sedgwick. Awful British T-slephone Service. Commenting upon the recent sale of the Glasgow municipal telephone sys tem to the British postoffice the Phila delphia Inquirer says: “The people of Glasgow are entitled to commiseration, for it is a case of out of the frying pan into the lire. By those who have tried it words have tieen declared inadequate to describe the badness of the telephone service furnished by the British postoffice. “Municipal ownership may be all right in principle, but private enter prise properly controlled for the public benefit usually beats it In practice.” Present Ills Bad Enough. While the most sanguine ef nn-. r*r atives may, in their most hopeful mo ments or when smarting under tire is sues of either individualism or cor porate audacity, feel an impulse to try the prescription of the municipal own ership doctors, yet a recollection of the examples of municipal employment with which the past is rife is quite enough to make one bear the ills we lenow about rather than open a Pan dora's box of other ills, which once set free may never again be curbed or re boxed.—George W. Ditbridge in New York Sun. A FLORIDA LAKE DRY. Lake Jackson, a large lake located six miles north of Tallahassee cover ing an area of at least 5,000 acres has gone dry, It has emptied itself into a subter ranean body of water, fish and terra pin gathered on the lake bed by the car load, and crowds of people gath erei from all parts of western Florida to see the strange sight. MUiIPALUNACY. Edited by JOHN KENDRICK BANGS. Professor Byron Scribble, the distin guished poet and president of theHiggs ville Authors’ club, has been placed in charge of the municipal gas plant at niggsvllle, Ind. Professor Scribble has had no previous experience in the man ufacture of gas, but there is no man in the Iloosier State who can handle vari ous kinds of meters better than lie, and under his administration it is hoped the produce will more closely re semble the divine affiatus than hith erto. **. * The estimated kiss of 8500 per diem upon the city owned Staten Island fer ry in New York will be met not, as has been feared, by an increase of the tax levy, but by the printing of a sufficient number of tons of ferry bonds to be used as fuel as a substitute for coal, thereby saving vast sums of money and the whole bond issue being con sumed without adding any future ob ligations, interest bearing or otherwise, to the city debt. The city authorities of Glasgow ad n loss last year of SOO,OOO on the operations of their gas plant. Mr. Samly MacXab. the humorist of Troon, has written to the Glasgow Sunday American stating that these figures are more illuminating than the gas, which •trikes the American mind as a pretty |Md joke for a Scotchman. j *t * We hear on good authority that when the city of Chicago finally enter* spot the operation of tho etreeC cur aytriuoi the substitution of hassocks Mi ■winging chairs for o&oga hi Ml •■£* OMly contemplated. Stamped Betls in Linen. Stamped Corset covers. Lilly white Corset covers. New Comb sets. New Belt Buckles. Gem Traveling Companions. A somewhat bashful man desired to propose to a girl, but was in doubt how to do it. Suddenly he picked up tho young woman’s cat and said. “Kit ty, may I ha to year mistress’/” It was answered by tho young lady, who re plied, "flay yoo, ptMT-SaSSM €£& We arc prcparcil^ To Do Your zvTOIB WORK= We Guarantee To Please the Most Fastidious. II will pay you TO ADVERTISE IN THE J acksoni an, BECAUSE—®*— THE PEOPLE READ IT. New Pillow Tops and Covers. New Belts. New Buckles. The most beautiful line of Linen scarfs and covers. In fact our stock is entirely new and complete, it is a pleasure to show goods. Call and inspect them, ■l ■ ■ .Ml I I— I n> iH'Mkt-iIIBIIH .?nam “Respectable,” onco o tern* of honor, has become apologetic, and “worthy," which meant “honorable,” ha* taken !on a condescending Ando. “Nice” orig inally meant “foolhh" Oap wlUtln a low centnrioo hsa