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THE FASTfIET LIGHT.
Visitors Have to Be Swung Ashore by
Means of a Jib.
The first glimpse of <1 rcat Britain
that the American tourist gets on
his European tour is that of the
Fastnct lighthouse.
It Si amis on a rugged and solitary
rock, situated nine miles south of
Crook haven, at the extreme south
west corner of Ireland, and is per
haps more storm beaten than an\
other around our coast. The rock
is eighty feet in height, and the
lighthouse towers another seventy
feet above, yet in winter gales the
Atlantic billows literally bombard
the massive structure and have
even smashed in a porti >n of the
lantern at the summit of the erec
tion, the seas frequently sweeping
over the rock with tremendous force.
Some dozen or so years ago the
stormy weather then prevailing pre
vented all communication with the
rock for man)' weeks, so that the
store of food was con.mined, with
the exception of some flour. At last
a schooner managed to approach
sufficiently near to enable a small
quantity of food to be dragged
through the sea by the hungry men,
and fortunately the r.. >:t day the sea
moderated, and the stores were once
more full)' replenished.
Except in very calm weather the
Fastnct is surrounded by a fringe
if foam, and the only m an- of land
ing is by the aid of n “jib" fifty
eight feet in length, so placed on
the rock that in moderate weather
its end reaches out ido the surf.
When a vi itor wishes to land (an
unusual occurrence) he i- rowed in a
small boat as near as the waves per
mit, and the light keepers throw
out a small buoy attached to a rope,
which is secured by the man in the
boat. The jib is then swung out,
and the visitor, placing one foot in
the loop and catching a tight hold
of the rope, is hoisted about forty
feet vertically, and then the jib, be
ing pivoted at its foot, swings him
horizontally about 100 feet on to a
safe landing.—London Telegraph.
The Bill Wat Paid.
Melted and his yvife w re going
over their business ledger one even
ing, contemplating the overdue ac
counts which its pages revealed and
reluctantly acknowledging that
many of them would have to be writ
ten off as bad.
“What’ll ye dae aboot this a lie ?”
laid Mcltad mournfully. “Here’s
twa pund audit shillin’s for a coat
and vest been owin’ bv Elder Doolit
tle since Martinmas last. I’m fear
in’ we’il no get the money.”
“Weel, I’m no sae sure,” replied
his wife. “Leave me to try onyhoo.”
Accordingly the next Sabbath
morning when the collection was
taken up Mrs. Mcßad dropped the
elder’s “little bill,” neutly folded up,
into the plate, and before the week
was over the amount was paid.
“Kirsty, woman,” said Me Had
joyfully, “marriage may be a lot
tery, but I’m thinkin’ I’ve drawn a
prize.”—Pearson’s Weekly.
No Remedy to Fit the Case.
“1 will never forget ray first expe
rience in hospital work,” said a hos
pital surgeon. “There was a green
nurse in the detention ward, and we
had a very violent ease in there—a
man in the worst stage of delirium
tremens. 1 was awakened in the
middle of the night by the head
nurse, who requested me to come at
once to the patient. When 1 got,
there 1 found hint ra\ ing and very
violent, with the new nurse scared
out of her wits. I said:
“ ‘Why did you let him go so far?
I left you some medicine to give him
as soon as lie got delirious.’
“ ‘Yes, doctor,’ she replied, ‘but
you told me to give that to him if
he saw any more snakes, and this
time he was seeing blue dogs with
pink tails.’”—San Francisco Chron
icle.
Named Thom.
A story comes from Milton, N.
H., of an old clergyman named
Goodwin, lie was a tall, broad
shouldered man and was said to
have the largest hands of any man
for miles around. One noon a young
man named Allen was taking dinner
at the cider’s home. It was the
elders custom to ask a blessing at
the table, and Allen had evidently
not been used to this sort of thing,
for in-dead of waiting lie began to
eat. The elder raised his hand with
a restraining gesture and said:
“Pause, young man.”
“Paws!” was the reply. “1 should
think they wus paws.”
i A Fair Exchange.
A man who had pan : ; - one
currant buns at a bakery wa- dis
tressed on starting to cat one to find
that it contained a lly. Returning
to the bakery, he made an indig
nant complaint, demanding another
bun in place cf the inhabited one.
“I’m sorry, sir,” said the sales
woman, “I can't give you another
bun. but if \c-h \ ill '. a a ■ back
the fiv 1 w ' ive von r. currant for
it.”—H -r's YYck'yT
! SOUTH AMERICAN PEONS.
| How the Laborers Become the Slaves
of the Planters.
Of labor conditions in South
America Frank Wiborg, author of
“A Commercial Traveler In South
| America,” says: “The large planters
of Ecuador complain that they lose
a part of their crop every year
through inability to get sufficient la
borers to harvest it. As in most
tropical countries, the question of
labor is most serious, for among the
lower classes the necessities of life
are so few and so easily obtained
j that there is little or no incentive
for steady application. In Ecuador
the attempted solution of this is the
introduction of the same vicious
system which our government found
in force in the Philippines—namely,
peonage or debt service.
“To gain a hold on the laborer the
planter offers him a small loan,
which he with characteristic im
providence eagerly accepts with the
understanding that he is to enter
the service of the planter and pay
back the debt little by little. Until
it is paid he cannot enter the employ
of any one else. It is to the advan
tage of the planter to keep the debt
| unpaid, and it seldom happens that
j a debt once contracted in this way is
* ever canceled. Moreover, the debt
! always grows, for lines are constant
j ly checked against the laborer’s ac
i count —if he misses a day or breaks
a tool—until it actually results that
the longer he works the more deeply
J he is in debt.
“Then t ho various members of his
i family are drawn into the employ of
j f.lie planter J'ur (he ostensible pur
! pose of he lping fi> lift the debt, and
j gradually they, too, become bound
! body and rout. The peons are not
slaves. This j; vigorously asserted
jon all rides. But they might almost
as well be rhiTos, for even if their
bodies are not purchasable their
debts are and through their debts
their services, and a planter desiring
the service of a certain peon can get
it by paying the peon’s present em
ployer the amount of his indebted
j ness. This transfer of debt and
, service is a common practice.”
To Test Water.
A test for the purity of water,
which can be easily applied and
which gives a fair idea of the pres
ence or absence of organic impuri
ties, r made by using a solution of
permanganate of potash in the pro
portion of one grain to two ounces
of water. Use ibis test as follows i
Take n long, dear glass, fill it with !
pure or distilled water and add to it
as much of the testing solution as
will tinge it pink. Then do exactly
the same to a glass of the water you
suspect and watch and compare the
colors of the two samples. If the
pink color docs not disappear or if
it does not turn brown in the sus
pected water you may conclude that
it is safe to use it. if, on the other
hand, it disappears quickly probably
animal matter is present, and if
slowly vegetable matter. In either
ease the water is not above suspi
cion.
Early Use of Tar and Feathers.
We learn from the English annals
of the historian lloveden, who was
court chaplain to Henry 111., that
the old custom of tarring and feath
ering is one that dates back to the
lime of Richard the Lion Hearted.
He tdls us that this renowned king
on setting out for the third crusade
made this enactment, among others,
for his ilect: “A robber who shall be
convicted of theft shall have his
head cropped after the fashion of a
champion, and boiling pitch shall be
poured thereon, and the feathers of
a cushion shall be shaken out on
him, so that he may he known, and
at the first land at which the ship
shall touch he shall be set on shore."
Not Such an Easy Matter.
“Those shoes will be all right,”
said the salesman, “after you have
got th m broken in." The young
man, Who had been hesitating be
tween that pair and one a size lar
ger. took the salesman’s word for it
and purchased the shoes. A week
later he came back to the store with
a perceptible limp.
“I wish you’d stretch these shoes,”
be said. “Thev hurt rav feet terri
bly."
“Haven’t you got them broken in
yet ?” asked the salesman.
“Oh, yes,” said the young man.
“The trouble is that 1 can’t get my
feet broken in.”
Know Her Grammar.
The judge’s little daughter, al
though she had talked several times
through the telephone to her father,
: had never gene through the formali
ties necessary in calling him up. The
first time she tried it she took the
receiver off the book, as she had
seen others do, placed her lips to the
transmitter and said:
“Hello! I want to talk to papa.”
“Number, please?” said “central.”
“Singular." she answered, surpris
ed at the question, but proud that
she knew something of the rudi
ments of grammar.
Hooth anil Lincoln'* Death Haak.
j A touching reminiscence of the great
j actor Edwin Booth is told In connec
■ tlon with Lawrence Hutton’s collection
of death masks in “Talks In a Libra
ry," recorded by Isabel Moore:
Catint’s was one of the two masks in
the <• (flection which affected Booth
most. The other, naturally enough, but
in n very, very different way, was that
of Lincoln. I shall never forget the
iirst time he saw the Lincoln mask.
He asked innocently enough whose it
was, and when I told him, my heart
for a moment stopping to heat, he rose
from his seat, took it in his hands and
looked at it for a long time without a
word. What it meant to him we can
imagine. The whole awful, awful busi
ness came back to him—the mad, dead
brother; the martyred, murdered presi
dent. Still, without a word, lie put it
back in its place, and it seemed to me
is he did so that lie kissed it with his
lingers. I have seen him in that room
look at it silently over his pipe many
and many a time. But he never touch
ed it or spoke of it again, even to me.
What lie thought of it heaven only
knows.
The Snow lAn».
Snow, even In the eeplca, never melts,
but remains coutimt; all the year
round above the height or 10,000 feet.
In colder climes the snow line is much
lower than this.
4- IllT'l I ni.). 4
-CURE—
Biliousness
Ycutig’s Liver Pills
*Act directly on the liver.
They Curejßiiiousness and start all
liver, stomach and bowel secretions
flowing normally. They do not
flush the bowels like salts, but act
directly on (he liver and no not
GRIPE, SALIVATE OR SICKEN. Cull
for Young’s and
TAKE NO
SUBSTITUTE
MANUFACTI’R EpJbV
J. M.|YOLNG, Jr.
~ WAYfiRfiSS GEORGIA.
[Sold by Union Pharmacy.
ra Union Banking Co.,
DaStBTIIMKPateSII 1105)8.
OFFICERS:
j. M. ASHLEY, S J. S. LOTT. J. L. SHELTON
President ) C. E. BAKER, Cashier
j - V. Presidents.
Directors.
J. J. LEWIS, ELIAS LOTT. I. M. ASHLEY, J. S. LOTT ■IIEXKYQ
VICKERS, J. W. QUINCE V, JOHNt McLEAN
C. E. baker.Tjaniel NEWBEEn
Accounts f Individuals, flerchants and Corporations
Solicited.
(Successors to Dan Vickers)
will keep a full line of Staple and famey
GROCERIES
COLL) DRINKS OF ALL KINDS.
Goods exchanged for country produce. Prices met on all goods
Goods delivered promptly. Phone No. 38.
FREEMAN BASS.
Coffins and
Caskets
We beg to announce] that we have added a
(large and nomplete line of Coffins and Caskets,
gand-will be pleased have you call and see them.
'We have them from 5i75,00 down to the cheap=
rest plain coffin,
A
Will be glad to wait on you at
any hour, day or night.
B. H. TANNER & SON,
DOUGLAS, GORGIA.
masr
asm
ii - ja
- r - r V. ;
Artificial S*one.
Now is the time to begin making
cement building blocks, it is the com
ing building material. We are agents
for the Champion Block machine that
will make all blocks necessary for build
ing a Stone home. Write for prices
and full instructions how to operate to
DOUGLAS FOUNDRY & MACHINE WORKS,
Douglas, Georgia.
FOLEY'S
NONEI<<<TAR
The original
LAXATIVE cough remedy,
For coughs, colds, throat and lung
troubles. No opiates. Non-alcoholic.
Good for everybody. Sold every where.
The genuine
FOLEY'S HONEY and TAR is in
a Yellow package. Refuse substitutes.
Prepared only by
Foley & Company, Chicago.
FEELING
LIVER-ISH
This Morning?
TAKE
Black-Draught
DRUGGISTS
A Gentle Laxative
And Appetizer
PROFESSIONAL CARDS
BENJ. T. ALLEN,
Attorney and Counselor at Law,
Pearson, Georgia,
Wil! practice in all courts. C< mmer
cial law a specialty.
CHARLES T. ROAN,
Attorney at Law,
Douglas, - - Georgia,
Will practice in all courts excep. ...c
City court of Douglas. Office in
Court House.
ROGERS & HEATH,
Attorneys at Law
Douglas, - - Georgia
Special attention given to collections,
criminal law, anti-corporative prac
tice. abstracting titles, and real
estate loans.
LANKFORD & DICKERSON
Attorney at Law,
Douglas, - - Georgia.
Office in LTnion Bank Bl’d.
NEWTON M."P AFFORD,
Attorney at Law,
Nichols - - Georgia,
Commercial Law a specialty
j. w. quincey, w. w. McDonald
quincey & McDonald,
Douglas, - - Georgia.
Practice in all Courts. Office in Union
Bank Building.
JOHN J. MOORE,
Attorney at Law,
Willacoochee, Georgia.
Will} attend to all professional
ness entrusted to his care.
LAWSON KELLEY,
Attorney at Law.
Douglas, Georgia.
Office in Union Bank Bl’d.
GEO. R. BRIGGS.
Attorney at Law
Douglas, - - Georgia,
Office in court house.
Close attention given to all busines in
trusted.
E.‘ WILLIS DART.
Attorney at Law,
Toughs, Georgia.
Office in Vicker’s Bl’d
G. R. LOVELACE,
Jk DENTIST
a, “'
Georgia.
Work Guaranteed.
Prices Reasonable
DR. HENRY C. WHELCHEL
Office floor Tanner & Vickers
Building.
Douglas, Georgia.
Special attention to treatment or dis
eases of Women and Children.
Office hours 10 to 12 A. M*, 4 to 6 P. M.
QUITMAN HOLTON,
Physician & Surgeon.
Broxton Georg La.
DR. M. H. TURPENTINE,
DENTIST.
Office in Sweat and Vickers Bl’d next
door to Enterprise office.
Will gladly advise with any one on
their work. All work Guaranteed.
DR W. F. SIBBETT.
D hysician & Surgeon
Douglas Georgia.
Office Phone 27. Resident Phone 22
Office between Vickers and
Sibbett Block.
HENRY P. SMITH,
Physician & Surgeon,
Pearson, Georgia-
Special attention paid to night calls
| and prescriptions careftlly compound
ed.
C. A. WARD.
Attorney at Law,
Douglas, Georgia.
Office in Union Bank Bl'd.
Secret Orders.
Douglas Lodge 203,1. C TF.
Meets every Monday nigl • 1 7.30.
Visiting Brethren cordially yV:: 1.
D. E. POSTON, N. G
JOHN 11. WILLIAMS, Sec.
Douglas Lodge F. & ft. M. No. 386
Meets every Third Friday night.
Alt visiting brethren requested o
meet with us.
J. M. HALL, W M.
GEO. R. BRIGGs, Sec.
Nichols Lodge F. & ft. M., No. 400
Meets on tlie fousth Tuesday night
in each month. Visiting brethren arc
oadiallv invited to attend.
J. J. DcBOSE, W. M.
DAVID ANDERSON, See.
Robert E Lee Chapter U D 0
Will hold their regular meetings on
2nd and 4th Wednesdays, at the school
house at 3 p. m. sharp.
Mrs. W. W. McDonald, Pres.
Mrs. Turner Brewrk, Kec. Sec.
Guardian’s Sale- I
GEORGIA, Mitchell County. After® ~
four weeks notice, pursuant to Section®
2546 of the Civil Code, a petition, of®
which a true and correct copy is sub-®
joined, will be presented to the Hon®
W. N. Spence, Judge of the Superior®
Court, at the Court House in said County®
on the third Monday of January 1907 ‘®
GEORGIA, Mitchell County. To the®
Honorable W. M. Spence, Judge of thr®
{ Superior Court of sa : d county. The®
t petition of Henry Fuller pespectfullyj®
shows: 1
j That he is guardian of Narcissi. 8
Williams, C. D. Daniels and leola Dan-j 1
I iels, heretofore duly appointed as such®
guardian in said county. J
i 2. '1 hat he desires to sell for re-in-"®
| vestment at private sale the following®
I property, the same being a part of the ®
| estate of the said wards, to wit: Two®
j acres, more or less, in the town of ®
i Willacoochee, Coffee County, Georgia, ®
' bounded on the south by lard*-of Polly®
Mitchell and Henry Petersoi® in East ®
I by land of Bill Gaskins, on North by 8
.street parellel with Atlantic Coast
I Line Railroad aud seventy yards distant
j therefrom, on West by alley, seperat-
I ing said tract from land of lohn Guldens
| said tract in shape of upper portion of
a wedge, about seventy yards wide at
western end, and steadily narrowing to
about seventy five feet at eastern end.
! said eastern and western bourdary lines
being perpendicular to said street.
| 3. Said realty pays but little rent,
actually about $20.00 net per annum,
is miles away from the abode of said
| minors and their guardian aforssaid, I,
! and the expenses of taxes and of re- ®
j pairs and of collection of rents practi ®
| cally exhausts the income therefrom pf
rendering the property unprofitable and (j
j a retention of it unwise. Houses there- ®
!on are liable to burn and are not in- ®
| surable. 'j
4. Petitioner desires to invest the d
proceeds of such sale in certain farming ®
lands, to wit:—Twenty acres, more or ®
j less in the north-east corner of lot num- ®
ber One Hundred and Ninety Three in
the Ninth District of said county north
I of Raccoon creek and east of lands of
| F. Fleming.
5. Petitioner shows that notice of his
intention to make this application has
been published once a week for four
I weeks, ? s required by law, in said
Mitchell County, and in county where
said land of said wards lies.
Henry Fuller,
Sworn to and subscribed before me
this 15 day of November, 1906.
A. S. Mc’Collum, Jr
Mitchell County, (jla.
Moneulo Loan.
The Standard Trust Company
will lend you money at 5 per cent
interest to purchase or build homes
or business places, or to pay off
mortgages thereon.
Investigate the Liberal Offer of the
STANDARD TRUST COMPANY
THEY WILL BUILD YOU
SI,OOO !
$2,000 i
A $3,000 HOME
$4,000
$5,000
You pay only 5 per cent interest.
Read the Sample Contract which is fur
nished to all Agents thh
Company. c
THE STANDARD TRUST COMPANY, ‘I
BIRMINGHAM, ALA.
AUTHORIZED CAPITAL-, $-500,000 !
COST OF A $1,000.00 LOAN
If Made When $72.00 i«
Dues Have Been Paid*
Monthly deposit $6.00 for 12 months
(or in advance) $ 72.00 tl
Deducted out of dues forjexpenso . is Ou
Balance to your credit. ... $ .'>4.00 la
Amourt of Loan $1,000.00 f i.
Amount to your credit . 54.00
ti
Bal. due the Company $ 043.00 (■
$040.09 divided by 120 months equals 7.50
per month. b
Xotf.—The advance payment, or purchaseq.
price, of Six Dollars will be added to the
abova expenses. c<
INTEREST TABLE (ON S,OOO-00) Lwnfj
Amount of Loan . $1,000.00 01
Amount to your credit 54.00j a
Bal due at 5 per cent
Ist year $946.00 $47.30
2nd “ 356.00 42.80
3rd “ 766.00 38.30
4th “ 676.00 33.80 s )
sth “ . 586.00 —29.30 ,
6th “ 496.00 -24.80 s ;
7th “ 406.00 20.30)7
Bth “ 316.00 15.80 I(
9th “ 226.00 11.301 T
10th “ 136.00 6.80IJ?
6 mos. 46.00 .... 1.15 yf]
Total Interest 10 1-2 Years ....$271.60-M
„ eKd
.1271 Cr divided by tv. months -.52.16 per moni l j
Monthly payment credits on loan - 7.50 per mont: Y
Total monthly payment s<>.66 U m
Loans May be Paid at any Time, thus j
Stopping Purther Interest.
A payment of $5. per onth for
six months makes you tangible to /
a Loan of Si.ooo, and pro rata foroi
more. Should the loan be made v)
at that time you would have tos
pay $3-5. additional, making Sje.ot
in dues, which is required to be
paid in before the contract holder
would be entitled to a SIOOO loan,
and which would be applied as
per above tab's.
For further particulars cal! onw
or address F. WILLIS DART,
Local Representative, Uougias, Oa ea _