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* THE CARROLL FREE PRESS, CARROLLTON, QA. Ghristmas Is Just 24 Days Away THE WISE SHOP EARLY. The question of the hour is WHAT to get. Visit our store and the question will be changed from WHAT to WHICH? By shopping now we will have more time to show you through our magnificient Hue, making it more pleasant for both you and ourselves. Look through the following lists, possibly they may help you but better come and see the goods themselves-and if they fail to tempt you to buy, we will not urge you to. You will be welcomed whether you buy or not. Attractive Gifts That You Will Find At Our Store. A Good School “FOR HER” In All Qualities And Prices. Gold Umbrellas Fobs Mesh Bags Brooches Vanity Lockets Diamonds Spike Hat Pins Combs Bracelets Brushes Chafing Dishes Dinner Bells Jewel Cases Tea Bells Desk Clocks Watches Fountain Pens Silverware Parlor Clocks Cut Glass Manicure Sets LaValiers Toilet Sets Neck Chains Bar Pins Watch Chains Belt Pins Neck Charms Waist Pins Stationery Cuff Pins Toilet Water Hat Pins Sachet Powder Scarf Pins Perfume Signet Pins Post Card Boxes Veil Pins Glove Boxes Lockets Handkerchief Boxes Necklaces Nut Sets Set Rings Candle Sticks “FOR HIM” Any Quality—All Prices Shaving Stands Link Buttons Military Brushes Stick Pins Whisk Brooms Fountain Pins - Tie Clasps Charms Coat Chains Match Boxes Ribbon Fobs Coat Brushes Bill Folds Hat Brushes Emblem Pins Nut Sets Emblem Buttons Signet Pins Fobs Elk Pins Chains Watches Vest Chains Cuff Buttons Cigar Cutters Manicure Articles Post Card Boxes Stationery Desk Clocks Gold Fobs Grip Tags Signet Rings Shirt Studs Big-Ben Collar Buttons Letter Openers Nail Brushes Nail Files Hair Brushes Traveling Sets Combs Collar Boxes Toilet Sets Hair Brushes Glass Holders Tie Cases And many other items too numerous to memtion, and All Put Up In Hand some Holly Boxes Free Of Charge. See our line of Christmas and New Year PostCards, Etc. ^Denneson’s Gift Dressiugs^Cards, Etc, I S. W. Corner Public Square Our Free Delivery Is For You To Use ar.«g ■:sssennao^ There is little danger from a cold or from an attach of the grip except when followed by pneumonia, and this never happens when (Jhamlains Cough Ramedv is used. This remedy has won its great reputation and extensive sale by its remark' able cure o^ colds and grip and «.an be relieved upon with implicit con fidence. For Sale by Johnson Drug Co or VV. L. Worthy. how Reading Pays. By reading what other men have done, and are doing, I believe that any thoughtful man can add at least •$500 a year to his income more than he could without the reading. The discoveries of scientists that are helpful to the farmer can only be learned by reading about what they have done, and how their dis coveries can be applied in practice the farm press tells us. A Most Prolific Family. Once upon a time young Mr. and Mrs. Boll Weevil took up their resi dence in a cotton patch to which The Fee System. There is perhaps no one thing the legislature could do at its next session that would prove of more none of the Weevil family had ever a - nd benefit, before found their way. This was in j t ‘ f • 1 die antiquated sys- the spring of the year. The new-' • ■ P. y ^ cou ! lty .. officials by comers were so very small that the And yet, there are thousands struggling with poor land, and not knowing how to and manufacturers was better it, who will not read and learn. Georgia. Upon the success of the I sometimes think that the only way movement it is inaugurating depends we.will ever get a reading farm pop- something like two hundred and farmer gave them no heed. But before frost fell, there had been born unto this one couple twelve million descendants, children and great-grandchildren, that went forth and scourged the cotton until it was no good to man. Then, quoth the farmer: "If I had but known what a prolific lot you are, you should never have found peace in my fields.” This is not a fairy tale but a record of facts, a bit transfigured, from yesterday's session of the boll weevil congress that has just met in Atlanta. A more important gather ing of farmers, business men, bankers never held ulation is to raise it through the rural schools and the colleges of agrlcultue working together, and thus to finally replace the non reading men with a reading people. —W. F. Massey, in Raleign (N. C.) Progressive Farmer and Gazette. NURSING MOTHERS show the beneficial fects of el- fifty million dollars a year, for that is the annual value of this state’s cotton. And upon the security of the what is known as the “Fee System.” This is an age when respectability has become a very great force among our people and to force county officials to live on “tips” is anything but complimentary. It opens the way for graft, and lacks everything of being on a square basis. There should be fixed charges for everything that is done for a citizen, and a system that is not a basis is bound to be wrong, because it opens the way for an official to set his own price and compel pay ment, or do great harm to one re fusing it. This is not meant for a thrust at any official here or elsewhere It is a simple statement of facts. To force faithful and competent officials to live on "tips” reduces their position to that of a porter or waiter, and to self respecting of ficials cannot be other than humili ating. We have had officials who secure their pay bylth'e fee system to tell us cotton crop depends the bulk of in- , Kn( •; dustry and commerce and general |^ e - r seng t e () f e - y re P u £ nant t0 prosperity. Men who have devoted years of study to the boll weevil declared yesterday that this pest is bound to reach Georgia within the next two or three years, certainly not 1 later 1913. This means that if the state’s greatest agricultural asset is to be saved, preparations must be gin now for war. By vigorous and concerted efforts the inroads of the It in a very short time, not only builds her up, but enriches the mother’s milk and properly nour ishes the child. Nearly all mothers who nurse their children should take this splendid food- tonic, not only to keep up their own strength but to properly nourish their children. pride, and that the days of its going would be welcomed by them. Every official, in whatever capaci ty, is entitled to fair and reasonable compensation and anything less is strictly immoral and out of harmony with that spirit which makes for the betterment of mankind. The fee system should be abolish ed. If for nothing else, it should be weevil cah be partly checked and S® f " its destructive power almost nulli- 1 ar ? deservi ag of the - - respect the dignity of their office fled. This, however, demands an ex tensive re-adjustment of our farm requires. The fee system makes for nothing ing method^ readjustment that will elevating.-Dalton Citizen, require not less than two years and perhaps longer. The time for making Mr. otto Paul, Milwaukee, Wis., [ready is thus alarmingly brief. Forj says Foley’s Haney and Tar is still 'more than the best. He 1 every pair of boll weevils that enter ' the state in the spring of 1912, there 1 writes will be twelve million by the fc’-j ! * 10s f tbat bought it think it is . lowing autumn. The state is being , , le . best coa &h s and colds they ' aporoached by an army which is in-1 , , and t ^J n '*■ sbl1 more than visible but which, once entrenched,! , 9 ar baby * iac ^ a ba ^ C °H will become invincible. i and lt , cared , him in ° ae ' da n. Pleas Surely the farmers of Georgia will j^ept thanks. Sold by Johnson profit by the costly lesson of states i ru ^ Lj0 ' like Mississippi and Louisiana where millions of dollars worth of cotton FOB SALK BY ALL MUJGalSTS Head 10c., namo of paper and thin ad. for our oeoiilful Barings Hank and Child'" tiketch-Book. EAch bunk contains a Good Luck lVnuy. SCOTT & BOWNE, 409 Pearl St.. New York , , , I It is gratifying to note that the has been lost within recent years movement represented by this con- th ojj.h failure to foresee the peril gress is to be definitely and perma- of this pest and to forestall it. Not nently organized. Let it from the only the farmers but men in every | outset receive the hearty cooperation field of activity should join the of all the people. For it is the one campaign, for the interests of them •' agency at work to save Georgia’s all are involved. , cotton.—AUanta Journal The U. S. Commissioner of Educa tion publishes the State Normal school among the best fifteen Nor mal Schools In 197 such schools in the United States. Five hundred an 1 eleven students have been registered this fall in the State Normal School, Athens with one hundred and thirty in the Mus cogee Elementary School; making a total enrollment of six hundred and forty-one. There is rooms in the doinitories for only three hundred and sixty students, therefore more than eighty students are hoarding in the homes of the immediate neighborhood. The enrollment this year repres-, ( ents one hundred and fourteen ccun- ties of the state. The counties most largely repres-1 ented are as follows: Baldwin 4; Bul loch 9: Burke 5; Chatam 6; Screven 5; Tattnall 6: Thomas 4; Quitman 4; Houston 6; Pulaski 4; Sumter 7; Car- roll 4; Coweta 9; MeriwetherS; Mus cogee 6: DeKalb 6; Fulton 13; New ton 7; Walton 8; Layette 4; Henry 5; Pike 5; Spaulding 7; Cobb 4; Floyd 4; Whitfield 4; Elbert 8; Franklin 10; Greene 10; Jasper 8; Madison 4 Morgan 12; Oconee 9; Oglethorpe 9; Putman 4; Wilkes 11; Dawson 4; Gwinett 7; Hall 4; Jackson 14; Mil- ton 6; Stephens 7; Colnmbia 4; Han cock 5; Lincoln 10; Richmond 4; Tel fair 4. The other 67 counties have each one or more students in the school. There are forty-two teachers and officers and eight school buildings not counting the infirmary and the dairy barn. There are one hundred and thirty- eight in the school holding diplomas from other schools. A unique item is the number of students who have earned the money they are spending for an education here, one hundred and fifty-six in all. Another item of significance is, the number of students in the school who have had experience in teaching who have came to the school for better training and who go right back into their schools to return to the state more than value reeieved. On January 2 of every year more than a hundred such teachers come I in the common school reviews. It will be necessary this year for. such j applicants to apply well in advance I of their^coming, on account of the crowd. No other school in this or any oth er slate keeps closer to the common- school problem than this school. More than three hundred of the students are the children of farm ers. The authorities of the school have made it possible for seven worthy students to get an education by work ing their way through wholly or in part. Ten students of the school are kept here with their expenses pa.d upon scholarships created by private beneficence, the Orphan Asylums of the slate, the Club Women, or the Daughters of the Confederacy. During the last ten years, the friends of the school have spent nearly $36,000 in helping along worthy students in this school. No tuition, of course is charged Georgia students. The expenses of board in the dormitory is $100.00 for the full session. And yet for these small charges the young people of Georgia have the advantage of instruction in seventeen different dspartments. The new library lias of course, immensely increased the culture value of the school. A little census taken the other morning shows that three hundred and forty-one students brought their bibles wtth them into the school. Three hundred and fifty-two of the students have volunteered to take the four-year course in Bible studies. Seven devoted teachers of tiie faculty are doing this work from week to week. The Y. M. C. A. has this year a resident secretary, Miss Willie Fagan and their idea! is the registration of every student in school in either the Y. W. C. A; or the Y. M. C. A. Brief twilight prayer services have been held in the domitories of the school without a break for sixteen years. Several departments of the school | have been immensely enlarged this year. There is an additional teach er in the Domestic Arts and Science department; also in Elementary Agriculture, with two additional teachers in the department of music. ' The school is offering superior in struction in instrumental and vocal music and the expenses Jof “this in struction is about half the usual charge. This department has recently called for two new Knabe Grond pianos and eight Haines, Bros, upright pianos. Instrumental music is included in the course because of the steady call on the graduates for musical ac complishments. As usual the school has this year again escaped an epidemic, as it has done the past sixteen years. Very unusual attention is paid to hygiene and sanitation. Five hundred and twenty-four Copyright 1909, br C. E. Zimmerman Co.-NofU' New Style Furniture New and old, jf that be possible, old for the reason that it is built anlong lines of usefulness, and new because it meets with modern conditions. Fancy curved bandy legs on chairs and tables, heavy and incrusted ornamental was right in days of leisure, and such furniture was designed for that period, but the new style called Mission, Arts and Crafts or other similar names is designed to meet modern conditions. 5. C.KYTLE Carrollton, Ca. XOalkcr Lumber And Manufacturing Co Furnishers from Pillar to Comb. Contractors and Builders. Estimate Furnished. We want to fur nish your Sash, wiors, Laths, Shingles, Lum ber, Brick or anything else you need in the Building Line. We will 'Dry and Finish your Lumber for you. SDixie $t Crossing. C. L. WALKER, Pres. J. M. WAKKFR, Vi ie-Fie J. R. ADAMSON, Sec. and Treas. 40 Piece Dinner Set See our 40 Piece Dinner Sets we give FREE with a purchase ot $50.00 or more of Furniture. Watch out tor our Big Clearance Sales to be announced next week. Get ir Piano and your bid Domestic for the Sewing Fine Ma- chine. 19th, Bids will be opened Saturday Carrollton Furniture and Undertaking Company. N. A. HORTON, MGR. BOTH SPEED AND EFFECTIVE This indicates the action of Foley Kidney Pills as S. Pardons, Battle Creek, Mich., illustrates; “I have bean afflicted with a severe case of kidnev and bladder trouble for which l found no relief until I used Foley Kidney Pills. These cured me entirely of my ailments. 1 was troubled with back ache and Severn shooting pains with annoying uri nary irregularities. The steady use of Foley Kidney Pills rid me entirsly of ail my further troubles. They have my higheet recommen dation.” Sold by JohnsonDrug Co graduates of the school are teaching in a hundred and nine counties of the state ini eight thousand, two hundred and sixteen graduates are teaching in every county and almost every community of the state. The heart and hoj e of common-school education in Gnorgia is in the State Normal School.—A Student. Curious Prayers. Of curious prayers u writer says: “I have heard a layman utter this E etition during his prayer: ‘O Lord,'^ c thou with us in our upsittings ' and our downrisings’—a variant of the text in the Psalms, ‘Thou kno'"- est my downsitting and mine upris- ing.’ A minister occasionally in-; trodueed a Latin sentence into hisj prayer and forthwith proceeded t«j translate it. Another minister in' his early days experienced consider-; able difficulty with the long prayer! before the sermon. In nonconform-j ist churches this usually occupies a- quarter of an hour, but’long before this period had been reached lie,if was wound up. On one occasion, while in this dilemma, he startled his hearers with the words, ‘And ^ now, O lord, I will relate unto tfiee a little anecdote!’"—