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DICKERSON, KELLY A ROBERTS Attorneys at Law Tanner-Dickersou Building, DOUGLAS, GA. W. C. Lankford. R. A. Moore. LANKFORD & MOORE Lawyers DOUGLAS GEORGIA. DR. WILL SIBBETT, Treatment of Eye, Eax, Nose and Throat a Specialty. DOUGLAS, GA. W. C. BRYAN ATTORNEY-AT LAW Lankford Building, DOUGLAS, GA. CHASTAIN A HENSON ATTORNEYS AT LAW Overstreet Building DOUGLAS GEORGIA. NOW IS THE TIME TO SUBSCRIBE TO THIS PAPER. DR. GORDON BURNS Physician and Surgeon Office Union Bank Building DOUGLAS, GA. F. WILLIS DART ATTORNEY AT LAW Union Bank Building DOUGIxAS, GA. W. H. HUGHES, D. C. CHIROPRACTOR Union Bank Building, DOUGLAS, GA. DR. T. A. WEATHERS DENTIST AMBROSE, GA. DR. E. B. MOUNT VETERINARY SURGEON Douglas, Georgia Office: J. S. Lott’s Stable TURRENTINE & ALDERMAN DENTISTS Union Bank Building DOUGLAS, GA. J. W. QUINCEY Attorney and Counselor at Law Union Bank Building DOUGLAS GEORGIA. MCDONALD & WILLINGHAM Attorneys at Law Third Floor Union Bank Bldg. DOUGLAS, . . , GEORGIA + ♦♦♦*♦♦♦ + ♦♦ DR. JAMES DeLAMAR Office in Langford Bldg. Hours 11 &. m. to 1 p. m. Sunday 9 to 11 a. m. DOUGLAS, GA. u QUR TIME, F I knowledge Ul 8 and experience n 1 I in tfee printing 8 basinesx. When yon are n seed of tome dung it this bne DON'T FORGET THU FORGET ME-NOTS w Bu Francis Elizabeth Lanyon (Copyright, 1916, by W. G. Chapman.) “Who threw that at me?” roared quick-tempered, rheumatic old Richard Shaw. “If you please, sir, no one threw it. It fell from the window up there,” and the chauffeur, helping his master across the pavement to his waiting au tomobile, pointed upwards. “I'll have the owners f the building lu court!” raved the irascible old man. “Yes, I will. I’ll teach them a lesson. U’ura —I suppose she’s the culprit.” Old Richard Shaw let down his chol er. At the second story of the rambling office building, a picture of dismay, was as pretty a young lady as one would see in a day’s journey. The flower pot that had fallen from the window sill was hers obviously, for she had a half-filled glass in her hand. She had been watering her preciou; little plant, there was a false touch and over It went. Luckily it had landed directly on top of the high silk hat that Mr. Shaw wore, daubing it with water and soil and making quite a dent in it. Had it struck his face he might have suf fered. “Bah!” he uttered simply now r , and gave the disfigured tile a fling into an areaway. Sour and crabbed as he was, the sight of that sweet, scared : and genuinely sorrowful face had sof | tened the asperity of his mood. “Where is my nephew?” he inquired, I as they reached the automobile and found It empty. “lie said he had some business in an office in the building, but that he I 3fP==r—w — ‘ A Picture of Dismay. j would be back soon,” explained the chauffeur. “Here is Mr. Vernon now, ! sir.” A young mnn was' swinging out j from the entrance to the building as the chauffeur spoke. He hastened I down the pavement, halted where the ! flowers had fallen and looked up. The young girl drew back from the win dow'. He proceeded to lift the bruised and uprooted plant from the debris, drew out his handkerchief, wrapped the plant carefully within it and went to the waiting automobile. “Well,” demanded his ruffled and bareheaded relative, with a broad stare at the strange burden his nephew bore. “Your hat, sir?” evaded Harley Ver non. “Never mind my hat. That is a thing of the past, thanks to that in fernal flower pot! A memento, I reck on?” sarcastically intimated the old man, indicating the handkerchief. "No,” returned Harley slowly. “You see, I am the cause of the whole mis hap.” “I don’t understand,” said his uncle. “I was in the office of a friend, just above the one where that churming girl was. Dropped my cigar. It hit the window sill below, startled the young lady and she gave the flower pot a start downwards.” “And therefore?” suggested Mr. Shaw r . “I’m going to get this pretty spray of forget-me-nots repotted, or a brand new plant. That’s justice, isn’t it, uncle mine?” “ll’m 1” muttered the old man, with a keen glance at his nephew. Meantime, in the law office where she was stenographer. Miss Myra Gage, the owner of the pretty face, a sight of which had dulled the rage of old Richard Shaw, was in quite a flut ter over all the occurrences of the moment. She had stared in wonder as the handsome, well-dressed young man gathered up the ruins of the potted plant. She had seen the irate old man fling his injured headpiece away. She turned to the office boy, who stood by her side. “You saw this —this unfortunate ac cident, Billy?” she faltered. The lad was grinning. It was dull, usually, in that conventionally sedate law office, and, boylike, he welcomed a deviation from its vapid routine. THE DOUGLAS i “Yes,” he bobbed. “The rich gin is Mr. Shaw. Everybody knows him. The good-looking guy is his nephew. Mr. Vernon. He’s taken away the dou’t-you-forget-its, hasn’t he?" ami Billy chuckled and Myra blushed. “I want you to go and get that hut Mr. Slmw threw away,” said Myra. “Bless me! what for?” stared Billy. “Why, you see, it was all my fault i breaking It, Billy,” began Myra. “I don’t,” dissented Billy vigorously. “That cigar hit your hand and startled you. But I’ll get the hat, If you say so; oh, sure,” and Billy forthwith de parted on his mission. “That was a pretty hard dent,” ob served Billy as he reappeared with the discarded hat. “Thank you,” said Myra, handing him a quarter. Billy fingered the coiu thoughtfully. “Say,” he broke in at length, “I’ll give you back the quarter just to know the idea." “Of what, Billy?” “The headgear, the hat. You can’t mend it —there’s a hole clear through the top. Make it over for yourself, eh?” “Maybe, Billy,” smiled Myra sweetly. “Myra examined the hat closely. She found a tag with its number on, “7%.” She copied out the name of the maker, who operated a select hat store not a mile distant. Myra consulted the directory. At noon the next day she devoted the lunch hour to consultation with the hatter in question. She received some information which pleased her. Mr. Shaw was a regular customer, had his hats made on a special block, and any order in that direction could be swift of execution. The office where Myra worked closed at five in the afternoon, and the next day Myra passed through the large office where her desk was, a hat box in her hand, ready for the street. She had closed her desk. Now, at it stood a young man. He had unwrapped a parcel and the covering lay on the ! floor. Upon the desk he had just | placed a bewilderingly beautiful flower pot constructed of tiles and brouze, and in it was the forget-me-not plant. He was straightening out the leaves as Myra approached. He turned, his face all smiles. It was Harley Ver non. He lifted his hat promptly. “You will pardon me,” he said, “but I took it on myself to replace your property which my carelessness near ly destroyed.” “I—l thank you,” faltered Myra. “It was very kind and thoughtful of you. Please pardon me, but I, too, was just bound on a mission of restitution.” “Indeed?” uttered Vernon. “Yes. I destroyed Mr. Shaw’s hat. I have got him a new one. This is iL I wish to get it to him.” Harley Vernon chuckled, ne could scarcely repress his jollity. “My auto is below,” he said; “not for worlds would I have any other than yourself deliver that hat to the dear old fellow! A sight of your face tamed him down yesterday. To find an honestly inclined young lady, spend ing her own money to replace an old hat —hello! a thought. You haven’t saved the old one, have you?” “Why, yes,” assented Myra, marvel ing at the sudden excitement of this erratic young man. “Is it handy?” Myra produced it from a wardrobe. Young Vernon turned out its inside band, drew out a folded slip of paper and smiled profoundly. “My uncle lost a valuable receipt,” he explained. “Just now I wondered if he had not absent-mindedly placed it in his hat. Sure enough. You give it to him with the new hat, please.” Which Myra did. for she accompan ied Harley to the Shaw home. Old Mr. Shaw openly admired the desire of a modern young lady to make things square. He said some pertinent things about an estimable girl after Myra had left. Upon which hint Hurley acted. There was a wedding before the year was over. "All on account of them don’t-you forget-its!” pronounced Billy, the office boy, expansively. Enough to Hang Him. The following instance of conclusive circumstantial evidence came to light in a case in which Lord Chancellor El don was employed on circuit; in later years he related it to one of his daugh ters in these words: “I have heard some very extraor dinary cases of murder tried. I re member in one, where I was counsel, for a long time the evidence did not appear to touch the prisoner at all, and he looked about him with the most perfect unconcern, seeming to think himself quite safe. “At last the surgeon was called, who stated deceased had been killed by a shot —a gunshot —in the head, and he produced the matted hair and stuff cut from and taken out of the wound. It was all hardened with blood. A basin of warm water was brought into court, and ns the blood was gradually softened a piece of printed paper ap peared—the wadding of the gun— which proved to be half of a ballad. “The other half had been found in the man's pocket when he was taken. He was hanged.—Loudon Tit-Bits. Sheep and Superior Beings. We laugh heartily to see a whole flock of sheep jump because one did so. Might not one imagine that superior beings do the same, and for exactly the same reason? —Greville. To Help Him Out. “You are lying so clumsily,” said the observant judge to a litigant who was making a dubious statement of his case, “that 1 would advise you to get a i lawyer."—Browning’s Magazine. ®PIl Y CARE FOR LITTLE CHICKENS Do Not Worry Mother Hen by Inter ference—Feed Bread Crumbs When 48 Hours Old. When the eggs begin to pip, do not worry the hen by Interference, but let her severely alone till the chicks are all out and dry. Then remove to a dry roomy coop which should be rat and skunk proof. If you can have a small runway attached to the south side, enclosed by wire netting, so much the better. The hen should be kept confined for a few days, allowing the chicks to run in and out at will. Do not be in a hurry to feed the | little fellows, but scatter some coarse sand or clltek size grit in the chaff or litter that you put on the floor of tlieir coop. They will pick at this and begin to learn to scratch for them selves. When 4S hours old, give some | dry bread crumbs or hard-boiled egg. Feed, often, but sparingly the first few ! days. Vary the food given, using! rolled oats, cornbread, curd and stale j light bread ground fine, or soaked in milk and squeezed dry. Keep grit, charcoal and clean drink ing water always before them. Feed the hen first and the chick feed will last longer. After the chicks are two weeks old turn the old hen loose with them to go where she will, always see ing that they are securely cooped for the night. At this age three feedings a day are sufficient. Cracked corn, kaffir and wheat is a very good diet, in addition to what they pick up. BUFF ORPINGTON IS POPULAR Fowls Do Well in Confinement and Are Very Hardy—Laying Quali ties Have Been Proved. The Orpingtons are an all-around fowl, stately and handsome. They were originated in England about twenty-five years ago, and are among the larger breeds, beautiful buff color, pink or white legs, white flesh, plump, round bodies. Weight of cock 10 pounds, cockerel 8)4 pounds, hen 8 pounds, pullet 7 pounds. They do well in confinement; four-foot fence is all that is neeesary to confine them. They are very hardy and are not affected An English Buff Orpington. Jiy change of climate. They are very heavily feathered, do not mind cold weather, and are good winter layers. While they make good mothers, are easily broken up when broody. The Buff Orpingtons have become very popular in the United States. The Orpingtons have proved their laying qualities in many laying contests. There are several varieties of Orping tons, but the Buff seems to be the most popular. HOPPER SYSTEM OF FEEDING Begin by Supplying Dry Mash and Later Include Grains—Feed Oats for Bone and Muscle. At this time of the year if it has not previously been done, the hopper system of feeding should be Intro duced for the growing chicks. Begin by supplying the hoppers with do nnish and later include grains, espe cially oats. Some tell us that their chicks will not eat oats, but there is nothing better for growing bone and muscle. Hopper feeding greatly les sens the amount of labor in caring for chicks and gives the smaller and weaker chicks an equal chance at the < feed with the others. ERADICATE LICE AND MITES Piece of Blue Ointment Rubbed Into Skin Is Recommended—Clean Droppings Out Weekly. If hens are lousy, rub a piece of blue ointment the size of a pea into the skin just beneath the vent and on the underside of the wings. Mites are sure to accumulate if the droppings are not removed every week and the roosts -prayed with kprosene emulsion or dis nfectants. UGH! CALOMEL MAKES YOU SICK! ’ 7 CLEM! LIR JHOWELS MY WM Just. Once! 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ARBUCKLES* COFFEE back guarantee that each spoonful will clean your sluggish liver better than a dose of nasty calomel and that It won’t make you sick. Dodson’s Liver Tone is real liver medicine. You’ll know it next morn ing, because you will wake up feel ing fine, your liver will be working, your headache and dizziness gone, your stomach will be sweet and your bowels regular. Dodson’s Liver Tone Is entirely vegetable, therefore harmless and cannot salivate. Give It to your chil dren. Millions of people are using Dodson’s Liver Tone instead of dan gerous calomel now. Your druggist will tell you that the sale of calomel is almost stopped entirely here. —Adv. Dangerous Place. “That’s a peculiar looking bruise you have on the back of your neck,” ob served the doctor. “Yes,” said his patient. “I’m sub ject to those. You see, I’m a clarinet player in an orchestra.” “I don’t see how that can produce bruises ou the back of your neck.” "It doesn’t produce them exactly, but it places me in a position where I am very liable to get them.” “How is that?” “I sit directly In front of the man who plays the slide trombone.” MOTHER, ATTENTION! Gold Ring for Baby Free. Get a 25c Bottle of Baby Ease from any drug store, mail coupon as di rected and gold ring (guaranteed), proper size, mailed you. Baby Ease cures Bowel Complaints and Teething Troubles of Babies.—Adv. Too Refined. “I wonder if Mrs. Jones could make this kind of a tart answer for the church supper purposes?” “My dear man, Mrs. Jones is too much of a lady to make a tart an swer for anything.” Hongkong reports a shortage in car bonic acid gas.