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Mowers E“ $75.00
BIG STOCK ON HAND FOR IMMEDIATE DELIVERY
Don’t experiment. Buy machines of established value.
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We also have an ample stock of Rakes, Disc and Spike Harrows, Riding Cultivators.
G. D. SLEDGE, Athens. Gn.
Dr. J. C, Bennett J. C. Bennett, Jr.
You are cordially invited to do your drug business with
DR. J.C. BENNETT & SON
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Successors to Bennett & Dickson
Fronting the Public Square, next door to the Wilhite
Corner.
For twnety-two years this house has been headquarters
for First Class Drugs, Patent and Proprietary Articles,
Cigars, Candies, etc.
School Sundries, such as Tablets and Pencils, and a nice
line of Stationery.
Let us do your Picture Framing. A nice assortment of
Moulding. Our Mitre Machine does Jthe work properly.
Agents for Branson Sisters Studio. Let us have your
Kodak Photos developed.
Now is the time to look after your Turnip patches, and
do late gardening. See us for your seed. We have them
in packages and in bulk.
Drop in to see us while attending court..
Yours for service,
DR. J.C. BENNETT & SON
Jefferson, Ga.
HIGHEST GRADE RUBBER TIRE BUGGIES
$75.00 CASH
We have a limited number of BUGGIES that we are
going to sell at this remarkably low pi ice.
If you are going to need a BUGGY, you cannot afloid
to miss this GREAT OPPORTUNITY.
DON’T DELAY' COME EARLY
GRIFFITH IMPLEMENT COMPANY
ATHENS GA.
MONEY TO LOAN TO THE FARMERS
I negotiate loans on farm lands in amounts from $500.00 to $100,000.00
time five years; interest payable annually. See Judge C. L. Bryson, Jeffer
son, Georgia, who will take your application for a loan; or write to me,
and I will send my Land Inspector to have your property inspected at
once. Your loans will have my prompt attention.
S. G. BROWN, BANKER, Lawrenceville, Ga.
(Private Bank, Not Incorporated)
Calcium Arsenate
Immediate shipment by freight or ex
press in any quantities from one hun
dred pounds up. Reasonable stocks
on hand in Memphis and Atlanta, best
grade, guaranteed complying with Gov
ernment specifications.
Why let the boll weevil destroy your
cotton crop when you can easily control
the weevil and make a crop.
Wire or write vs for prices.
ASHCRAFT-WILKINSON COMPANY
WHEN YOU READ THE TEST CARD
for the first time with the aid of new glasses we have
selected for you, you will realize that you aie really
seeing as you should for the first time since your eyes be
gan to trouble you. Proper glasses will stop all trouble.
M.F.FICKETT JEWELRY CO.
Jewelers-Optometrists
268 Clayton Street Athens, Ga.
§ NOTICE, TALKING MACHINE OWNERS! <
5We repair all makes of Phonograp f a)] ma j, e i. Expert repair- ,m &
1 glj
1 JAMES r K! e pOLK,“INC M 291 Decatur St., Atlanta. )-M
JUST WHAT YOU GIVE
This world of ours is an even place,
That, like a mirror, reflects a face
As it really is—so if you Will smile
You will find that happiness, all the
while
Will follow you—and if you must
frown,
You’ll see the mouth of the world
droop down.
Just what we give we take away,
Whether it’s joy or work or play;
Whether it’s fear, or eternal youth;
Whether it’s falsehood or gleaming
truth;
Whether it’s gladness or pain or
dread;
Whether it’s hope—or an aching
head!
Just what you plant you gather in,
And jf the harvest you take seems
tfiin,
You’ve mostly yourself to blame; the
earth
Is ready always to give you mirth,
Smile up into the morning’s face,
Remember—the world is an even
place!
—Margaret E. Stangster.
A
Wish
“I have taken Cardui for run
down, worn-out condition,
nervousness and sleeplessness,
and I was weak, too,” says
Mrs. Silvie Estes, of Jennings,
Okla. ‘‘Cardui did me just lots
of good—so much that I gave it
to my daughter. She com
plained of a soreness in her sides
and back. She took three
bottles of
The Woman’s Tonic
and her condition was much
better.
“We have lived here, near
Jennings, for 2(5 years, and now
we have our o'"n home in town.
1 have had to work pretty hard,
as this country wasn’t built up,
and it made it hard for us.
“I WISH 1 could tell weak
women of Cardui— the medicine
that helped give me the strength
to go on and dc my work."
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Machinery Repair Work
The Georgia Plow &
Foundry Company, of Ath
ens, Georgia, is now ready
to do any kind of Machinery
Repair Work. Casting everv
day, as it does, it can do
work VERY PROMPTLY.
It also solicits your business
in any Cast Iron, Brass or
Aluminum Castings. Write,
or call on the Georgia Plow
& Foundry Company, Ath
ens, Ga.
To Stop a Cough Quick
take KAYES’ HEALING HONEY, a
cough meutcine which stops the cough by
healing the inflamed and irritated tissues.
A box of GROVES O-PEN-TRATE
SALVE for Chest Colds, Head Colds and
Croup Is enclosed with every bottle of
HAYES’ HEAUNG HONEY. The salve
should be rubbed on the chest and throat
of children suffering from a Cold or Croup.
The healing effect of Hayes' Healing Honey in
side the throat combined with the healing effect of
Grove's O-Pen-Trate Salve through the pores of
the skin soon stops a cough.
Both remedies are packed In one caxtoL arm the
cost of the combined treatment Is 35c.
Just ask your druggist for HAYES'
HEALING *:ONEY.
Tha Quinine That Does Not Affect tne Hen
Because of its tonic and laxative effect, I.AXA
TiVK BRCMO UUININE is better than ordinsp
Quinine and doe' not cause nervousness noi
ringinz In head. Remember the full name anc
took lor the signature of E. W. GROVE- Wc-
Stone Mountain Memorial
Eighth Wonder
(From Atlanta Georgian)
“I thought it was a dream—impos
sible, fantastic. Now I SEE that it
can be done. There is nothing else
like it in all the world. There never
will be.”
United States Senator Royal Cope
land, of New York, had seen on
Stone Mountain a picture of the cen
tral group of figures to be carved
there by Gutzon Borglum. He had
seen a photographic reproduction of
the stupendous group in exactly the
location and exactly the dimensions
it will be carved.
And with keen insight into the
sculptor’s problem of ‘‘planting” his
figures on the precipice, he realized
that the giant projection lantern had
solved this riddle and opened the
way to complete realization of the
glorious dream.
For one does not have to be a
sculptor to know that a sculptor first
traces an outline of his figure on
the background of his carving, the
same as a painter traces an outilne
of his painting on the canvas.
And one does not have to be a
sculptor or an engineer to perceive
the enormous difficulty, not to say
impossibility, of tracing figures of
this magnitude on an almost perpen
dicular precipice hundreds of feet
high.
Problem* Solved
And one does not have to be an
expert in such matters to realize that
the projection lantern solves the
problem and turns the trick.
There the tracing is, on the moun
tain, as plain as the nose on John
Tyler’s face. And when th? photo
graph of Mr. Borglum’s clay model
of the central group is thrown on
the mountain, the figures fit into the
tracing as the hand fits into a glove.
From where one stands, on the
ground by the studio, in which is
located the projection lantern, the
figures look large, but they do not
look stupendous.
You have to go to the mountain in,
the daytime, when the men are work-:
ing on top of General Lee’s hat, and
observe what tiny specks they are, to
get a full realization of the gigantic
magnitude of the figures on the cen
tral group.
The figure of General Lee in the
center of this group is approximately
185 feet in height. This is some
what higher than the Candler Buil
ding. It is greater in all dimensions
than any other sculptured figure of
ancient or modern times. It is so
stupendous that the mind fails to
‘/rasp its magnitude.
“The Lion of Lucerne is a toad in
comparison with that group of fig
ures,” was Senator Copeland’s terse
statement of the contrast between
that famous sculptured figure and
the work of Mr. Borglum is doing on
Stone Mountain..
Monument of Agej
All other monuments of history
rolled into one furnish no compari
son with this supreme conument to
the Southern Confederacy. No other
monument or aggregation of monu
ments can be compared with it in
magnitude. No other can be com
pared with it from the standpoint of
imperishability.
A million years of erosion have
touched Stone Mountain as lightly as
the clouds touch the sky. Geologists
estimate that the total wearing away
of the surface at the softest spot, if
there is a soft spot, does not exceed
six inches. The figures carved in full
relief in the living granite will stand
as long as the mountain stands. They
will wear away no faster than the
mountin wears away. And if the
maximum wearing in a million years
has not exceeded six inches at the
deepest place, (where rain watei
comes down in streams in certain
slight depressions), it requires no
violent stretch of the imagination
to conceive that this “perpetuity in
stone" will be standing forth vividly
and triumphantly when all other
vestiges of the present civilization
may have crumbled into dust.
Governor Trinkle, of Virginia
expressed the thought of the utter
imperishability of the Ston? Moun
tain Confederate Memroial, in his
memorable address on June 18, when
the carving was started, in th ■ fol
lowing beautiful words.
‘‘How many moons will wax and
wane, how many stars sprinkle their
silver upon these hilltops, how often
will the trumpets of tempest and th?
bugles of storm shatter the silence
of this mountain of stone? Centuries
will be born to die; ag? will follow
age down the unending pathway of
the years; cities, governments and
people will change and p rish—while
yet our heroes, carved in stone, will
stand on guard, custodians of imper
ishable glory, sentinels of tin? \
‘ When the Pyramids of the Fha
rz. hi shall have crumbled; when im
perial Rome shall have faded into a
mockery of memory; when the Lien
of Lucerne shall sleep in dust; when
eternity itself shall have snowed its ]
years upon us.and the white winter
of the world be come—still, cut in
to the .face of this mountain will the
immortal leaders of the South re
main, enduring as the rock of ages.”
World Interested
So colossal is Gutzon Borglum’s
conception of transfoming the face
of a mountain into a sculptured bas
relief, that his plan has become fam
ous throughout the world.
The magnitude of the monument
has captured the imagination of peo
ple everywhere, and the idea of im
perishability has appealed very pow
erfully to every one contrasting the
perishability of all other monuments
with the indestructible and perpetual
qualities of this supreme monument.
The art centers of Europe are dis
cussing the memorial with interest
and enthusiasm.
Yet these aspects of the work at
Stone Mountain do not occupy the
mind of Mr. Borglum, except inci
dentally. The thing that concerns
him when he contemplates the plan
is that the figures carved on the
face of the mountain shall be artis
tically correct.
He summed up his thought in his
recent address to the Georgia Legis
lature, when he said:
“The magnitude of this memorial
means little. It merely means that
so much more granite must be remov
ed, so much more workmen must be
employed, so demonstrating conclu
sively the tremendous public interest
and wililngness to contribute.”
Men Now At Work
Actual work was started on June
18 with appropriate ceremonies, in
which Governor Trinkle, of Virginia,
participated with Governor Hardwick,
of Georgia, and other notables. Rob
ert E. Lee, the central figure of the i
central group, was selected as the,
figure which should first be carved. |
Since that day a force of men have |
been daily at work on the vast pre-;
cipice, drilling thousands of holes
around the top of General Lee’s hat,
and breaking out the granite to make
a projection of the figure.
It is obvious, of course, that r
bas-relief can not be carved on a
flat surface. Therefore, it is nec
essary to mark out the figure which
shall be carved; then to mark off
this figure by means of drill holes;
then to break out the granite and
, keep going back into the mountain
until the silhouette stands forth as
a projection.
This is the work now in progress
on the mountain. Tor..-: and tons of
granite must be removed around the
head alone of this much more money
must be expended. The thing that
counts is whether we create some
thing here which will rank artistical
ly with the works of Greece and
Italy. The bigness of this memor
ial will not save us, alone. Unless
the artistic standards of the work
are on a par with the best works of
Greece or Italy or any other country,
we had better not start.”
After seven years of waiting because
of the World War and circumstan
ces consequent thereupon, which
made it inadvisable to start the fund,
the time at last came when the Stone
Mountain Confederate Monumental
Assocation considered it opportune
to make a beginning.
In the past 60 days the associa
tion has received voluntary contri
butions averaging something more
than $2,000 a day, thereby colossal
figure of the South’s matchless chief
tain. When the projection has been
quarried back to the necessary depth,
then the carving will begin.
Mr. Borglum expects to have the
head and shoulders of General Lee
completed by the end of the summer.
He expects to complete the entire
figure within a year.
Machinery, in the meantime, will
have been placed on the side of the
mountain, which will enoromusly ex
pedite the progress of breaking out
the granite around the figures. This
machinery is now under construction
in Cleveland, by the Brown Hoisting
Machinery Company, and will b- do
nated to the association, represent
ing a cost of $250,000.
Instead of three or four men sus
pended by steel cables on the preci
pice, drilling holes in the granite,
the hoisting machinery will make it
possible to place drilling stands of 20
men each against the cliff. And.the
faster they do their work, of course,
the faster will emerge the projec
tions upon which the actual carving
will be done. Mr. Borglum estimates
that seven years should complete the
whole plan, with the aid of the ma
chinery, and assuming that the fund
shall have been subscribed with suffi
cient steadiness and rapdity to keep
a full force going.
At’present more than half of At
lanta’s quota of $250,000 ha.s been
subscribed, thus justifying a start.
Ail indications point to the speedy
raising of the balance of this quota.
Then the association will go into
other Southern States, including
Georgia, to raise the money which
they have pledged to give as soon as
“Atlanta does her part.”
OH, MR. GEORGIA
DOLLAR
(By W. T. Anderson, in Macon
Telegraph)
The peach growers around Macon
state that the people of this vicinity
responded nobly to the suggestion
that they should eat peaches, and
thus keep Georgia dollars in Geor
gia, and at the same time help ta
consume thousands of crates of delic
ious fruSt that ripened in the or
chards and could not be shipped to
distant points. In addition to these
two features, the Georgians who ate
lots of" peaches this summer were
building for themselves bodily health
reserve upon which to run this win
ter. Peaches were shown to contain
all the necessary articles for health
makng, and the fact that every per
son apparently responded to the call
to cat six peaches each day made the
tremendous losses of ripe peaches
heretofore endured by the growers
appear almost nil. It was fine, and
the helpfulness of the home people is
tremendously appreciated.
Now% that the peaches are gone,
let’s hail the Georgia watermelon!
The history of this delicious fruit is
that it orginated in Africa—hence
the keen relish of the negro for it,,
and who can say we do not owe him
a great deal for this one blessing?
Watermelons are easily grown, and
the market is now full of very fine
specimens. The lrgest and best that
have been seen weigh about 30
pounds each, and after reposing in
?n ice box for about 24 hours, they
are so delicious there ought not to
be any law against people stealing
them, or robbing somebody’s patch
or store or house, or even commit
ting murder to get one. These melons
are red meat right out to the rind,
and every particle of the inside is
cold, sweet and juicy. There are
many growers and sellers of melons
that have good specimens in town.
People should eat Georgia water
melons, especially Georgians, because
they are the most delicious fruit to
be obtained. Up in the East they
sell a round slice of Georgia wate
melon for sixty to eighty cents, or
about $6 per melon. Surely we. at
home, who have all of them we want
at twenty-five cents to seventy-five
cents for a whole melon should not
let a day pass that we don't eat our
share. Every cubic inch of space
filled by watermelon in our stomachs
leaves that much less room for food
that is shipped into Georgia—and it
is this shipping in that, bleeds us poor.
I Now, let’s see what we get out of
a watermelon that will build up our
bodies and us strong for the
coming winter: First and foremost,
we need mineral salts. These are
found in the body in many places. It
is impossible for th? body to func
tion without them. That is the rea
’ son so much argument has been made
in these columns against taking the
bran out of our wheat flour and corn
meal—the brans have the mineral
salts. Watermelon has mineral <s.
In the blood stream we find salts of
iron, calcium, phosphorous, sodium,
potassium, magnetism, manganese,
sulphur chlorine, and many other
compounds. Uncooked foods con
tain these things.
Calcium is necessary for the mak
ing of teeth and bone, and is abso
lutely necessary to the coagulation
of blood, which is nature’s plan for
preventing excessive bleeding in case
of a wound. The amount of this cal
cium in watermelons is higher than
it is in apples, which latter fruit, raw,
is one of the best that can be eaten
by man. The amount of potassium
and phosphorus content in water
melons in high enough to be valua
ble, and all the vitamines (the spark
of life) are contained in the melon.
The pulp of cellulose or roughage is
valuable, and the large amount of
water helps to flush the system. The
sugar in the juice is in proper bulk,
and, taken into the system in thi*
form, satisfies the appetite for sug
ar without doing the body the harm
that follows eating concentrated
sweets in excess.
A melon a day will keep the doc
tor away—maybe.
An Alabama paper says that from
now on snakes are dangerous. It is
an old saying that snakes go blind in
August; but the>y are more ill-tem
pered and combative, are more liable
to strike, and are fatter, stronger
and more venomous then, and
through fall, until time for winter
hibernation, than at any other time.
Look out for snakes! August and,
September are both bad months for
snak'-s and the early part of October
while the hot weather lasts. Snakes
are nuisances at all seasons and
there is a general idea among conser
vative people that “the good snake is
the dead snake.”