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GOT EASY DOLLARS.
Fraud Order Issued Against a Puzzle
Contest Concern.
One of the latest fraud orders issued
by the postoffiee department forbids
the further use of the mails to the
Hopkins Publishing company, that be
ing the name under which the C. M
Ellis Publishing company of New York
city has carried or. an extensive mail
order business for several years.
The evidence upon which the depart
ment stopped this concern from using
the United States mails shows that
the firm published sever,aJ cheap pa
pers containing various sS called puz
zle contests. Those who wou prizes
were required to send a dollar for
subscription to one of the papers and
to cover -cost of packing and mailing
the prize. The postoffiee department
claims that the prizes were never
wjorth as as a dollar.
-Schemes like this for deluding the
unthinking render undoubtedly serve
to draw away from the couutry dis
tricts and the smaller towns many dol
lars which might be expended at home
to much better purpose. So expended
they would benefit not oul.v the spend
er, but the local citizen with whom
the money was spent, and incidentally
the whole community would be bene
fited by having more cash in circula
tion.
While the postoffiee department usu
ally runs down such schemes and
squelches them in the course of time,
the promoters, as a rule, get many
easy dollars before they are checked.
As Abraham Lincoln might say, this
reminds us of a story:
Once there was a man fishing In a
pond with a great number of books
carrying bait which was forbidden by
the game laws. The big catfish, who
was monarch of the pond, sniffed at
the bait and turned tail.
“The fish and game warden will get
that feller mighty soon," said the cat.
“That may be,” replied the big eel.
who was a slick article himself, "but
before the warden gets him a whole
lot of these little suckers are going to
bite that bait.”
RAILWAY BEAUTY SPOTS.
Phlox end Hydrangeas For Stations.
Blue Grass For Right of Way.
Otto of ihe good tilings for which
people have to thank the railroads ts
the progress they are making In beau
tifying their right of way.
It is the practice of the Pennsylva
nia, as Mc-yly's Magazine points out,
to surround its passenger statious with
little parks with terraces and grace
fully curving paths and roadways. To
care for these station parks is part of
the duty of the inaisWnauee of way
department, just as it is to keep the
rails and ties in good order. Flowers
and shrubbery are planted in artistic
plots, and gardeners keep them fresh
and flourishing.
At a station on the Long Island rail
road, which is a subsidiary of the
Pennsylvania, GOO trees and shrubs
besides beds of phlox and hydrangeas
were set out in 1907. For another sta
tion on the Long Island railroad 423
shrubs and twelve trees have beeD
ordered of the so called perennials and
evergreens.
In the open country, too. far from
towns, the Pennsylvania has adopted
the policy of making its right of way
pleasant to look at. Slopes of unsight
ly rock or dirt are transformed into
green terraces.
Henceforth the standard roadbed,
when the tracks are in a cut, will in
clude the sodded slopes. Blue grass
used for sodding will prevent the ero
sion which has given engineers so
much trouble in times past. In help
ing to solve the drainage problem the
grass is even more useful than it Is
ornamental.
Need of Wider Parkway*.
One of the most difficult .questions to
determine, one over which there is a
great diversity of opinion among engi
neers and other city officials, is the
proper proportion between the side
walk and traveled roadway widths of
any street, says the Los Angeles
Times. By sidewalk width is meant
the space from the gutter or curb line
to the fence or street line, including In
addition to the hardened portion of the
walk the grass strips on one or both
sides ot the walk. The width of road
way should be only sufficient to ac
commodate the vehicular traffic which
may be expected to use it. Many cit
ies and towns make a great mistake in
laying out too wide roadways, espe
cially upon residential streets. Such
errors in judgment result in an addi
tional burden upon the taxpayers for
street cleaning and sprinkling, and the
abutting property owner gets in return
additional dust, noise, street excava
tions and all accompanying discom
forts. They are also deprived of that
pleasure and reetfulness which would
be obtained by the use of such unnec
essary roadway widths for additional
sidewalk spaces with attractive green
sward and additional opportunities for
the growth of shrubs or graceful trees.
Call Central —she knows the
right number.
The End Came Another Way. -
A distinguished itftor was one time
engaged at one of our leading provin
cial theaters m a drama In which he
attempts an escape from a convict pris
on, first by getting rid of his fetters by
means of a file and lastly by getting
over the prison wall. In the act of
doing this he is shot at by a warder
and killed.
One particular night the drama had
run its usual course up to the point
where the actor attempts the escape
over the prison wall. The warder, as
usual, presented his rifle, but instead
of a loud report nothing but a faint
clicking sound was heard. The rifle
was lowered and after a brief delay
again poiuted, but with the same dis
appointing result.
The audience now began to hiss and
jeer. The disgusted actor then got off
the prison wall and, staggering toward
the footlights, exclaimed. “It’s all up—
I’ve swallowed the file!" and fell prone
on the stage amid the laughter and ap
plause of the audience. Pearson’s
Weekly.
Bachelor Sea! Skin.
“This skin,” said the furrier, “came
from a young seal bachelor, a youth
ignorant of love and of life.”
“How do you know?" the lady asked.
“By its fineness, its perfection,” be
replied. “The pile, you will note, is
like close cut velvet. Only bachelor
seal skins have such a pile.
“The bachelor seal,” he went on.
“has a rather sad life. The big bull
seals in the seal Islands have each a
household of fifteen or twenty wives,
but the young bachelors must herd
by themselves. Let one of them at
tempt to marry and straightway a bull
slays him. Not till he is big enough
to fight and conquer a bull—not till he
Is fourteen or fifteen years old—can he
know the delight of settling down In a
home of his own.
“He leads a hard, ascetic, celibate life,
only In the end as like as not to make
a lady a very fine coat All the very
fine coats, I repeat, are made from the
unhappy bachelor seals.”—Cincinnati
Enquirer.
Jack Tar and the Actor.
A famous Irish actor of the eight
eenth century named John Moody
early In life, before he went on the
stage, had been to Jamaica and work
ed his passage home as a sailor before
the mast One night some time after
he had been engaged at Drury Lane
when he was acting Stephano in “The
Tempest” a sailor in the front row of
the pit got up and, standing upon the
seat, hallooed out, “What cheer, Jack
Moody—what cheer, messmate?”
This unexpected address rather as
tonished the audience. Moody, how
ever, stepped forward and, recognizing
the man, called out: “Tom Hullett
keep your jawklng tacks aboard. Don’t
disturb the crew and passengers. When
the show is over make sail for the
stage door, and we’ll flnish the eveuing
over a jug of ptfhch. But till then,
Tom. keep your locker shut.” Moody,
it is related was as good as his word.
—Cornhill Magazine.
Exchanging Annuities.
A blatant sample of the loud voiced,
self conscious, look-ut-me variety of
man took his seat in a bus and called
to the conductor:
“Does this bus go all the way?”
“Yeß, sir,*’ responded the conductor
politely.
“Does It go as far as Oxford street?
I want to get out there."
"Yes. sir,” was the reply.
“Well, I want you to tell me when
we get there. You'd better stick i
stamp ou your nose or put a straw In
your mouth or tie a kuot In one of
your lips, so that you won’t forget it.”
“It would uot be convenient for one
in my position to do so,” said the con
ductor courteously, “but if you will
kindly pin your ears round your neck
I think I shall remember to tell you.”—
London Scraps,
The Sine of Hotter*.
If any tradesman has a lot to answer
for It Is surely the hatter. He will
most unblushingly tell you that a cer
tain type of hat Is suited to your par
ticular style of beauty, knowing that
the Information is falsfe, and all the
while you have a dull suspicion that
you don’t look well in it Yet you are
obliged to believe him. His persuasive
powers are so cultivated that I firmly
believe be would make a dwarf think
himself “a fine figure of a man.”—
Pry's Magazine.
May Do It Now.
“In the olden times it is said that it
was possible for a man to render him
self Invisible.”
“Pshaw! That's not at all remarka
ble. Men in this country are doing It
every day.”
“You don’t say sot How do they
manage it?"
“By marrying famous women!"
How It Wa* Becoming.
“That dress is becoming, my -Aar,”
said the man who thinks he is a diplo
mat
She looked at him coklly for a mo
ment and then replied:
“Yes. It is becoming threadbare.”
TO HOMESEEKERS.
I have bought several nice at
tractive lots in Parkland, Jack
son’s new and promising suburb,
and to correct an impression that
| has gone out that this property
| was bought up by speculaeors to
I prevent people from coming to
our town, I will sell any lot I
bought at cost provided the.buy
ier promises to build within
twelve months. This offer is
open until July Ist, 1908.
James T. Warthen,
Real Estate and Insurance.
P. S. —When I have two or
more lots contiguous, buyers
must take all the block. The
crop now growing will be res
erved.
Peter Painter
m says: the sun is no X
a judge of art.' He cracks l
I up all kinds of paint J
PATTON S^
W' Patton’s Sun-Proof Paints
I give double the service of ■
I jil!-white-lead or any ordinary
j paints. They are made of the I
I most perfect combination of I
K paint materials to stand the I
severest trial the sun and M
ather can gi v e jW
*
On • beautiful <x4of card and full boag
MONEY TO LOAN.
$20,000 to loan on Butts county
farms at 7 per cent. Come
quick if you need money.
T. J. DEMPSEY,
Jackson, Ga.
STEVENS
<T For Trap or Field a STEVENS
SINGLE or DOUBLE BARREL
SHOTGUN is Ideal. Low in Price
—High in Quality—good gun value
right through! Made in standard
gauged lengths, weights, etc.—
Hammer or Hammerless Styles.
CTEVENS SHOTGUNS
SHOOT STRAIQHT AND BTRONO
For nla *7 all pronee
eire Hardware an<f
Sporting Good* Mer
chant#. If you cannot
obtain, waanlp direct,
•zpreaa prepaid, apon
receipt of Catalog
Trice.
rWSr J. STEVENS
ARMS ft TOOL CO.
■ * (pt p. 0. Box 4098.
/ AtnjJu. ®**icopee Fall*
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GEO. CARMICHAEL
JACKSON, GEORGIA
Young Man
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If you want to sell your real estate I can find
you a buyer, or I keep chasing for one. Try me.
JAMES EARTHEN
Crum Building. Jackson, Georgia