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W. W. POOLE, OK HAWKINSVILLE
We take pleasure in calling attention to the big double
page ad. of the Poole Mercantile Co., announcing their carni
val sale at Hawkinsville.
Mr. W.W. Poole, the founder, original and present pro
prietor of this well know®, concern, is an old Coehran l>oy,
who while yet a very young man, has attained wonderful
success in the mercantile world, having built up a business,
in four years time, to one of the largest in this section.
Mr Poole attributes his phenaroinal success to legitimate
advertising, using the best mediums and doing what his ad
vertisement advertises.
“The day before our doors opened four years ago,” said
Mr. Poole, “our ad. appeared in the papers, and we have
kept everlastingly at it ever since.”
Mr Pool makes regular semi-annual trips to New York and
other leading Eastern markets and fashion centers where he
spends much time in selecting the best to be found for his
concern.
Beggars and Bandages.
It was a case In which first nfd to
the Injured was imperative, but no
one present knew how to extend the
aid. Presently a bandaged beggar
vh*- had been sitting on the curb cast
off hi) proto?,se of helplessness. Out
of linen strips provided by the wo
men in the crowd he fushloned band
ages a.nd applied them skillfully.
“Where did you acquire all that skill
in nursing?” a bystander asked.
“It is one of the first things the men
of our profession learn,” was the can
did response. “Half our success de
pends upon arrangement of bandages
that makes us look as if we had been
half killed. No doctor can be depend
ed on to fix us up, so we have to do
our own bandaging. Every successful
man in the business practices on him
self and the other fellows until he can
turn out a first class job.”—New York
Sun.
Johnny Roche’s Tower.
Standing on the banks of the river
Awberg, between Mallow and Fermoy,
County Cork. Ireland, is a remarkable
edifice known as “Johnny Roche’s Tow
er.” The whole tower was built by
the labor of one man, who subsequent
ly resided in it. This individual, wbo
received no education whatever, also
erected a mill, constructing the water
Wheel after a special design of his own.
Long before the introdactloo of the
bicycle he went about the country in
a wheeled vehicle of his own construc
tion, propelled by foot power. Bis last
feat was to build his tomb in the mid
die of the river bed. John Roche died,
but was not interred in the strange
burying place which he selected for
himself, his less original relatives
deeming such a made of sepulture un
christian.—London Strand Magazine.
Smoking That Maddens.
Marihuana la a weed used by people
of the lower class and sometime* by
soldiers, but those wbo make larger
use of it are prisoners sentenced to
long terms. The use of the weed and
its sale, especially in barracks and
prisons, are very severely punished;
yet it has many adepts, and Indian
women cultivate it because they sell it
at rather high prices. The dry leaves
of marihuana alone or mixed with to
bacco make the smoker wilder than a
wild beast. It is said that immediately
after the first three or four drafts of
amoke smokers begin to feel a alight
headache; then they see everything
moving, and finally they lose all con
trol of their mental faculties. Every
thing, the smokers say, takes the
shape of a monster, and men look tike
devils. They begin to fight, and. of
course, everything smashed Is a mon
ster "killed.” But there ate Imaginary
Beings whom the wiki man cannot kill,
and these inspire fear until the man is
panic stricken and tuna.—Mexican
Gerald.
P—lde bat Oaem ~~ ~
When you decide more than oace not
to do a thing K la a save sign tot yea
latn 4a It sooner or totate-Atoht—
The Curse of Cowdray.
Cowdray, once the estate of the earls
of Egmont and now in the possession
of Lord Cowdray, better known as Sir
Weetman Pearson, is the subject of a
very interesting superstition. Shortly
after the dissolution of the monasteries
Cowdray was conferred upon Sir An
thony Browne, the father of the first
I.ord Montague, who had already been
given Battle Abbey as a reward for
his services to Henry VIII. The story
goes that Sir Anthony, who had de
stroyed the church and the cloisters in
Battle Abbey, was visited in the great
hall as he was holding his first feast
by one of the dispossessed monks, who
after solemnly cursing him. prophesied
that his family should perish by fire
and water. Two centuries and a half
later the prophecy was tragically ful
filled. In 1703 the house was destroy
ed by fire and within a week of that
disaster the last Lord Montague lost
his life in Germany in an unsuccessful
attempt to shoot the falls of the Rhine.
—London News.
Belts by the Pound.
A western senator of ample physical
proportions was endeavoring to obtain
a belt at a Washington haberdashery.
He was having a difficult time in se
lecting a belt whose design struck his
fancy as well as of proper require
ments for his girth.
“How much is that one?” he de
manded of the clerk, who was entirely
unaware of the distinguished charac
ter of the patron.
“That is to-’’ raid the salesman.
“Four dollars T exclaimed the sena
tor. "Isn’t that an awful price for a
beirr
"Tee, sir ” admitted the man behind
the counter; "bat. you wte. air, after
they get into the regular surcingle size
we charge for ’em by the pound.’’—
Chicago Record-Herald.
Very Brief.
A record of brevity in a holiday cor
respondence was established by a
Frenchman in the eighteenth century.
Voltaire and Plton, the epigrammatist,
exchanged challenges to write the
shortest possible letter. So, when Vol
taire was starting on a Journey, he
wrote to Plton, “Eo rus,” which is
the complete Latin for “I am going to
the country.” Piton’s answer was
Just "I”—complete Latin for “Got”
In business correspondence the rec
ord is divided between Victor Hugo,
wbo, anxious to know how his “Les
Mlserables” was going, wrote to the
publisher, "T” and the publisher, who
triumphantly replied, "1"
TKo Important Poroonago.
"Are you the owner of this place T*
naked the book agent
"I am,” replied Farmer Oorntaasol.
"Anything I can do for you!"
"No. The chanson are that you are
too hard worked to have time to read
anythiag and that yea haven't any
■pore change anyhow. Let mo talk
to the hired man.”—Washington «tor.
Meetimg of County
Commissioners
Road Tax Collectors appointed
for the Different Districts
of the County.
At a regular meeting of county
commissioners, present Commiss
ioners Fountain, Reeves, Finleyson,
lioluinnon and Dykes.
Minutes of last meeting were
read and confirmed.
Bond of J. S. Jennings as bailiff
accepted.
The clerk was ordered to notify
A. D. Bagby to appear at the next
regular meeting of the county com
messioners.
The following were appointel to
collect road taxes in Hartford,
Mitchell and Frazier districts: N.
1). McAlisterJohn Wynne S. M.
Grimsley.
Cochran District —Doc Collins,
Walker District —Bob Sanders,
Trippville Dist. —Wash Barlow,
Salem Dist. —Richard Smith
Cary Dist. —Tom Abney,
Manning Dist. —Ruel Tripp,
H’ville Dist. —Geo. P. Woods,
Dupree Dist. —.T. B. Churchwell,
Whitfield Dist. —T. J. Holland,
Blue Spring. Dist. —Jim Laidler,
Finleyson District—Sana Miller,
The following hills were read and
ordered paid.
CITY COURT
J. W. Lancaster, $81.20: J. L.
Horne, $28.89: J. B. f?ewis, Tr.,
$6.38
PAUPERS
F. M. Dykes, SB4; C. B. Bolmnnon
$4.00; L. F. Finleyson, $11; W.
P. Glover, $6; C. B. Lewis, Tr.,
$74.50; T. S. Reeves s4l.
ROADS
J. B. Lewis, Tr. $8.50; BixCalo
& Mttal Co., $39.65.
CHAIN GANG
J. L. Horne, $11.50; CL It. Co
ley & Bro., $50.37; H’villo Ma
chine Shops, $22; F. M. Etheivdge
Gro. Co., $29.(53; J. W. Lancaster,
$6; Powell Polhill Drug Co., $3.90;
Dr. J. L. Mathews, 825: J. J.
Leonard, 812.4?: J. T. Harv
ard, $5; E. J.Henry, $156.20:
T. M. Coley, $241.40; Heapp Bros.
Co., $173.86; Brandon A D.eyer
Grocery C0.,5310.80. i
BRIDGES
Whitfield Hardware Co., 82.55;
T. S. Reeves, soc: Dave Searborugli
$23.80; Tom Horne, 81.50; Alf
Porter, 88; R. 11. Lyles, $2.50;
Borrowed from Hawkinsville
Bank & Trust Co. S3,(XX).
PRISON AND JAIL
Dr. J. L. Mathews, 81.50; IV.
P. Glower, $42.20; Powell Polhill
Drug Co., $3.85; Whitfield Hdw.
Co., 25c; City of Hawkinsville,
825.50, J. R. Rogers $137.60.
COURT EXPENSE
J. W. Lancaster, $3; J. L. Horn
$29,39; J. B. Lewis, Tr. $6.38.
GENERAL EXPENSE
John H. Cadwell, $19.25; A. T.
Fountain, $150; T. J. Taylor, $6;
J. H. Hargrove & Sons, $1,826:
H. C. Brown, $42.1 J: F. H. Boze
man, $49.70; City of Hawkii.s
ville, $16.86; D. G. Fleming $2.00
Mrs. J. C. Sanders, $5; Miles Kill
ing S4O: T. J. Holder, $2
P. McGriff Ordinary, 814: G. H.
Hendricks, $ 6.00 —Hawkinsville
Dispatch and News.
Death of Infant
The infant child of Mr. and Mrs.
J. W. Brownlow, who live near
Bailey’s Park, died at three o’clock
Tuesday afternoon and was buried
in Weeping Pine cemetery last
Wednesday.
Good results always follow the
use of Foley Kidney Pills. They
contain just the ingredients neces
sary to tone, strengthen and regu
late the kidneys and bladder, and
to cure the backache. For sale by
Taylor k Kenningtoß.
SPREAD MANURE IN FALL
Old Practice of Keeping Until Spring
Generally Abandoned.
The old method of keeping all the
manure produced upon the farm and
spreading it in the spring is practiced
but little at present, says a corre
spondent of the American Cultivator.
There is a time perhaps during the
taonth of October when the average
farmer is too busy busking corn and
getting ready for winter to stop to
haul manure out every day or every
few days. But after this rush period
the manure should be hauled out ev
ery few days and spread broadcast.
This method is very advantageous
in that it will give the horses exercise
through tlie winter. It does not take
loug each day and cuts out the task
of hauling manure continually for two
or three weeks in the busy spring sea
son. By hauling out as soon as it is
made all danger from heating is done
away with and the valuable constitu
ents of the manure are saved. Nitro
gen, one of the most valuable constit-
manure, is ofteu lost by heat
ing when Tn piles.
Carefully conducted experiments at
the Massachusetts experiment station
tend to show there is no loss in rich
ness when the manure is spread
broadcast in the winter. A difference
Is always noted for the bettor In this
method over the oilier way of waiting
until spring and spreading.
Even though the lumps of manure
freeze while in the field, It has been
shown that this is just what the ma
nure needs. The action of the weath
er on the various constituents is Just
wbat is needed to make the manure
more available ns a plant food.
The possibility of washing is practi
cally the only objection against win
ter spreading, but applies only to hilly
land. With the exception of these very
sloping- lands it Is found advisable to
cart during the winter in practically
all oaeee. It Is beneficial both as a
saving of time and as a benefit to the
soil.
The gaeat (arm cry now is not
more land, hot more -fertile land,
and the only solution in successful
future fanning is in the increased
fertility of the soil. It must be made
more fertile. Future human food
supply depends upon it.
SIMPLY MADE AND GOOD.
Gats Latch Constructed of Easily Pro
curable Materials.
The latch shojyn in the accompany
ing out is one of the most satisfactory
a writer in the Kansas Farmer has
ever seen on a farm gate. It is made
of a solid iron bar threaded on one
end so as to screw into the gatepost.
On this is hung, by a bolt through its
ends and the iron bar, a small iron
roil which lias been bent into proper
shape as shown in the picture. The
TS HANDY GATE HATCH.
[From the Kansas Farmer.]
bar must have a pin through it at the
proper place to catch the latch and
prevent its being thrown clear over
when the gate is closed with force.
A piece of gas pipe may be substituted
for the iron bar in tk- "ost. If desir
able a small piece ,.i iron can be
sailed upon the end \ he gate board
which engage* the la and thus pre
vent wear. This, bww-.rec, is sot nec
essary. This latch Is the invention of
R. J. Llnscott Qt Holton. Kan.
Did you ever know « poof fann
er to have good fence*? Occa
sionally a good fanner ha* a pun
fence, but it doesn't last long.
The Hum of the Hive.
Injury is done beekeepers by spray
ing fruit trees with poisonous sub
stances before the petals fall.
The use of comb foundation has
made possible the production of
straight brood and extract combs and
marketable comb honey.
It’s nice to have your supers all
clean, with the foundation fixed in
the frames and sections. When the
bees need them put them on.
Some beekeepers use a trap at the
entrance of the hive. This trap allows
the workers to pass, but catches and
holds the queen when the bees swarm.
Did you ever think that an ounce of
wax is worth nearly 2 cents, that it
does not take a very large piece to
weigh an ounce and that there are al
ways a demand and ready sale for tn
If you keep your smoker la the
hooey house cut an sM five cation
can in two and nail half of H to the
wall near the door to which to glace
toe smoker whan you Bevo mngdtod
eat the coala after netog K. fltoto a
tow stray apart* senmtokto K toms
Si* to no danger of tome tosggtog to
.ue
HAWKINSVILLE FURNITURE
AND UNDERTAKING COMPANY
HAWKINSVILLE. GEORGIA.
FUNERAL DIRECTORS
ffJNT)
LICENSED EMBALMERS
Day Phone 69. Night and Sunday
Phone 168.
CALLS ANSWERED PROMPTLY.
HEARSE FURMedWWITH
EVERY COFFIN OR CASKET SOLD.
Carnal* That Rid*.
The Bedouins decorate their baggage
camels In the most fantastic manner.
A huge puck saddle is surmounted by
a still larger pannier. Above this
again is a sort of chair In which the
rider sits. The long strips of leather
hanging down the sides are simply
for decorative purposes. I have seen
camels when too young to goon long
treks being carried tn these paxtutors,
and they are al ways used for the -Be
douin children.
This tribe has many quaint and curi
ous customs. Perhaps the most curi
ous of these Is the manner in which
they show their esteem for certain
strangers. One evening when a young
camel had been killed for the meal I
noticed the women collecting the
blood in a bowl. Then, to my aston
ishment, they started painting my
camels on the necks and flanks with
the blood. Unknowingly I was the
recipient of the greatest honor that
can be paid a stranger. The bloorl
dried on and remained for a long
time, acting as a talisman among all
the Sherarat tribe.—Douglas Carru
thers in Wide World Magazine.
A Tragedy of Instinct.
The processionaries are rather strange
caterpillars. A single string of them
five or six yards long lias just climbed
down from my parasol pines and is at
tliis moment infolding itself in the
walls of my garden, earppting the
ground traversed with transparent silk,
according to the custom of the race.
To say nothing of the meteorolgical
apparatus of unparalleled delicacy
which they carry on their spine, these
caterpillars, as everybody knows, bave
this remarkable quality—that they
travel only in a troop, one after the
other, like the blind of Breughel or
those in the parable, each of them ob
stinately, indissolubly following her
leader; so much so that our author
having one morning disposed the file
on the edge of a large stone vase, thus
closing the circuit, for seven whole
days, during an atrocious week,
through cold, hunger and unspeakable
weariness, the unhappy troop on its
tragic round without rest, respite or
mercy, pursued the pitiless circle un
til death arrived.—Forum.
Called For Glory Divine.
Among the customers in a drug store
one day last week was a little girl who
Is known to her playmates In that vi
cinity as “Peggy.” As she stood wait
ing for her turn it coukl be noticed that
Bhe was repeating something under her
breath in her effort to remember what
her mother had sent her to buy.
"Mother wants five cents’ worth of
glory divine.”
“Of what?” said the young clerk,
who? was standing there as if stnnned
by a hard blow of a baseball bat.
"Glory divine, glory divine.” came
the reply in a louder voice than when
she had made the original request.
"You had better go home and have
your mother write It down on paper,
little girl,” said the clerk, feeling that
the girl was too sure to argue with
him.
Boon she returned, and, banding the
note to the clerk, he read. “Five cents’
worth of chlorate of lime.”—Philadel
phia Times
A Bit of Sicily.
"There is no Italian town more pic
turesque than the Sicilian capital, Pa
lermo,” writes a traveler. "In its port
lie crowded the queerest coasting craft
I have ever set eyes on. Sailing ships
of all rigs, their hulls painted all the
colors of the rainbow, nose up against
the quay, where mule carts, whose
drivers are shouting at the top of their
voices, wait to take away the merchan
dise. The narrow street where the
custom house officers examine the
foods brought ashore is a place of
terrific noise. When a driver, two
clerk* and two custom bouse officers
are discussing the content* of a bale
ar a cask tt seems a* though murder
must be committed within tbs next
low seconds. But somebody signs
—sthlng, tbs cost move* *», aad so-
Shrinkage In Glaciers.
Scientists aver that, save over a
•mall area, the glaciers of the world
are retreating to the mountain*. The
glacier on Mount Sarmieote, la South
America, which descended to the sea
when Darwin found It in 1838, Is now
separated from tbe shore toy a rigorous
growth of timber. The lawoßohavea
glacier, In Greenland, has retreated
four mMes store 1808, aad the Bast
glacier. In Spitsbergen, is more than a
mile away from its old terminal mo
raine. In Scandinavia the snow line
is farther up the mountains, and the
glaciers have withdrawn 3,000 feet
from the lowlands in a century. The
Arapahoe glacier, in the Rocky moun
tains, with characteristic American en
terprise. lias been melting at a rapid
rate for several years. In the eastern
Alps and one or two other small dis
tricts the glaciers are growing. In
view of these facts w-e should not be
too skeptical when old men assure us
that winters nowadays are not to be
compared with the winters of their
boyhood.—Dundee Advertiser.
Not Made Up.
Pushing her way through the crowd
! on the ferryboat to the decrepit rig.
I the middle aged woman sized up tbe
emaciated animal from every point of
view, and I lien, turning to the owner,
who had clambered out of tile wagon
and propped himself against the en
gine room. said. "You ought to he
ashamed of yourself for driving a poor
j horse like that; it should be at home
and in the stable.” “What is the mat
j ter with her. lady?” was the easy re
’ sponse of the owner, who didn’t seem
a whole lot perturbed. “Wbat is the
matter with her?” demanded the S. P.
C. A. lady with increasing warmth of
1 tone. “Can’t you see how skinny she
is? She looks starved.” “The boss is
all right, lady.” calmly rejoined ‘the
expressman, as a sweet smile floated
i through iiis scant crop of whiskers,
j “You see, she got up so late this morn-
I In’ that she didn’t bev time to put on
•her rats, pads an’ extenders, or she
would hev been as purty an’ plump as
ther next one.”—Argonaut.
Rook* and Cholera.
The present day security of this
! country against all danger of a chol
j era epidemic is matter for thankfui
l ness not only In human circles, but in
i the rookeries too. When tbe cholera
slew nearly 00,000 people in the Insan
itary United Kingdom of ifeltaeAho
! rooks appear to have snfferedvFi? f
them. This was stated, at any rate,
to have occurred on the estate *f the
Marqnts of Sligo, which boasted one
of the largest rookeries to tbe west of
Ireland. On the drat or second day of
the epidemic’s appearance an observer
noted that all the rooks had vanished.
During the tbcee weeks through which
it raged there was no sign of them
about their home, but the revenue po
lice found immense numbers of them
dead on the shore, ten miles away.
When the epidemic abated the rooks
returned, but some were too weak to
reach their nests, and five-sixth j of
them had gone.—London Chronicle.
The Japanese Policeman.
Japan has a police force modeled
after the French system. In various
places throughout Tokyo there are
small kabancho, which resemble sen
try boxes, but are larger. Three men
are attached to each box dally. One
remains inside resting, while another
stands at ttje door, and the third pa
trols a beat, returning at regular in
tervals to the box. Stations are
changed every eight hours. After
twenty-four hours' work the three offi
cers are given the same length of time
to rest and three other men are sent to
the box. During their "off” days the
men ar* employed to taking census re
turns, making reports regarding the
condition of street*, bridges, embank
ments, drains and cemeteries. They
nine report weddings, births, death*,
theatrical performances and the pres
ence of euaptcieu* persona.—Harper'*
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