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THE TWILIGHT OF THE YEAR.
(By Belah Rose Stevens.)
The twilight of the year, demure
November,
All clad in duns and browns and
sober grays,
Is walking woodsy ways I well re¬
member,
Her dreamy eyes a-gleam through
fragrant haze.
To me there is no sadness in her
smiling;
Just rest and peace ere night be¬
gins to fall.
She lulls the' world with night winds’
soft beguiling;
A little space for slumber—that is
all.
Goodnight, old wolrd! We’ll waken
With the springtime.
Goodnight, and slumber sweetly
’neath the snow.
We’ll dream together of the glorious
wingtime,
When robins ’mid the roses come
and go!
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MRS. WALTER TOUCHSTONE
GIVES DINNER PARTY.
dinner party of recent
Valentines
FUNNY ONES FOR THE KIDDIES—CLEVER
ONES FOR THE GROWN-UPS
No one ever outgrows the sentiment of this old-fash¬
ioned yet always new Day—
Our cards are rich in the sentiment that pleases—
REMEMBER YOUR FRIENDS.
MILLS' The Modem Book Store MILLS'
Printers, Binders, Lithographers, Engravers.
STORE: 117 So. Hill St. PLANT: 126 E. Solomon St.
GRIFFIN, G A
■i If It Is Blacksmith Work
We Can Do It!
BRING US YOUR REPAIR WORK AND
SHOEING
LET US HAVE YOUR PLOWS AND
. SCRAPES TO SHARPEN NOW AND
HAVE THEM READY FOR YOU WHEN
YOU NEED THEM- /
City Blacksmith Shop
J. M. WOODS, Manager
On Fifth Street, Opposite Oxford Hide -asKZ
House.
Sell Us Your
Cotton Seed
Cotton Seed Meal
and Hulls
TO EXCHANGE
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which i Mrs. Walter
date was that at
Touchstone entertained at her hospi¬
table country home, having as her
guests Mrs. Elizabeth Napier, Mrs.
Alva Moore, Mrs. Flynt, Mrs. A. P.
Patterson.
The centerpiece for the table in the
dining room was a French basket of
fragrant white and yellow narcissi.
The house decorations were growing
palms, ferns and pink begonias.
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MR. AND MRS. LEE C. MANLEY
ENTERTAINED AT DINNER.
Mr. and Mrs. Lee C. Manley enter¬
tained Sunday at a beautifully-ap
pointed dinner at their home on South
Hill street in compliment to their
house guests, Mrs. J. A. Timmerman,
of Newark, New Jersey, Mr. and Mrs.
Charles H. Cone, of Atlanta, Mr. John
H. Stevens, of Stevens Pottery and
Griffin.
Handsome growing palms, ferrts,
white Roman hyacinths and pink
Christmas begonias decorated the
lovely home, a pink cyclamen in full
blossom being the center piece for the
dining table.
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COLONEL AND MRS. JAMES M.
KIMBROUGH, JR., ENTERTAIN
AT DINNER SUNDAY.
Colonel and Mrs. James M. Kim¬
brough, Jr., were delightful hosts
Sunday at a beautiful dinner at their
suburban home complimentary to
their guests, Mr, and Mrs. James M.
Kimbrough, of Hamilton, Mr. and
Mrs. Henry Burr, of Atlanta.
Ferns and blossoming plants were
attractively arranged in the lovely
home.
The central decoration for the table
in the dining room was a pretty pink
Christmas begonia, the pot covered in
pink crepe paper, and tied with green
satin ribbon.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles H. Cone, after
a visit of several days to Mr. and
Mrs, Lee C. Manley, returned to their
home in Atlanta Monday and were
accompanied by Mrs. Manley and her
guest, Mrs. J. A. Timmerman, of New¬
ark, N. J., who will be their guests
for a few days.
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Mrs. Green T. Dodd si the guests
of Mr. and Mrs. William C. Lowe, in
Atlanta.
PARADED IN WEDDING FINERY
Peculiar Custom of Eighteenth-Con
tury New England Would Seem to
Put Premium on Vanity.
An unusual custom in vogue in Nevi
England in the Eighteenth centurj
which caused newly married couplet
to appear at church on the four Sun¬
days following their union dressed in
aU the bridal finery they could gel
together, Is recorded by Edward J.
Morris in his book, “The Psychology
of Dress. »»
"This, of course, stimulated a rival¬
ry between families, not likely to fur¬
ther the Puritan aim' of modesty in
appearance. Those who could afford
It had four distinct sets of finery, one
for each Sunday, that there might
be no monotony for those who formed
the audience. In many communities
a pew was set apart In which the bri¬
dal pair was shown, so that the con¬
gregation knew just where to look
for the objects of interest
These selected seats were often in
the gallery, sometimes the front pews
of the center aisle, and at times in
other prominent places. The couple
generally arrived a bit late, that the
observers might all be seated before
their arrival; then they walked slow¬
ly arm In arm to the assigned seats,
while the entire congregation gave
their hushed and respectful attention.
At an appointed time, generally Just
before the sermon, the couple arose
and turned slowly around two or three
times, that every angle of their ap¬
pearance might be viewed; they then
sat down.”
FINEST OF EARTH’S CHURCHES
Men of Genius Through Many Cen
turies Aided In the Erection
of St Peter's at Rome.
The history of St Peter’s at Ro&e,
one of the world's most Interesting
edifices, goes back over a thousand
years, for it was on this spot the site
of Nero’s circus, within walls ornate
with gold and glistening with mosaic
and marble, that Charlemagne received
the crown of imperial Rome from Pope
Leo III., and here was slowly erected
throughout subsequent centuries this
building, called the central cathedral
of Christendom. All that man could
do to make St Peter’s great and beau¬
tiful has been lavished upon that
splendid church. Mme. de Stael said
of it, “C’est le seul travail Ue l’art
sur notre terre actuelle qul alt le
genre de grandeur qul characterise
les oeuvres Immedlates de la crea
tion.' (It Is the sole work of art on
our earth which has the sort of noble¬
ness that characterizes the works of
nature.) Marion Crawford puts one’s
first Impression of St Peter’s In a
nutshell when he says, “The first sight
of St Peter’s affects one as though
In every day streets, walking among
one’s fellows, one should meet with
a man forty feet high.”
While the Interior decorations have
been criticized as being too profuse
—an American tourist once referred
to them as "too much gingerbread »>
that great roof covers the work of
some of the most renowned sculptors
of the world. ,
Fish's Nest In a Clam Shell.
The goby (of which there are many
kinds) selects the clean valve of a
clam and uses this as the ready-made
nest. The pair (for the goby mates
with but one and is Jculous of any
rival) hover round an inverted valve
and then the male scoops out the-sand
from underneath it, forming a cavity,
the shell being slightly tilted and
pressed Into the mu rid. The female
then enters the cavity and deposits
her eggs on the lower (inner) surface
of the shell. These eggs are some¬
what cigar-shaped structures, fixed at
one end by a glutinous network that
secures them firmly to the shell, Hav,
lng done her work, the female then ex¬
changes places with the male, who
remains on guard, keeping up a con¬
stant current of water over the eggs
by movements of the pectoral fins,
and darting out at the approach of an
Intruder.
CATARRH CAN BE CURED.
Catarrh is a local disease, greatly
influenced by constitutional condi¬
tion. It therefore require* constitu¬
tional treatmemt. HALL’S CATARRH
MEDICINE is taken internally and
acts through the Blood on the Mucous
Surfaces of the System. HALL’S
CATARRH MEDICINE destroys the
foundation of the disease, gives the
patient strength by improvin the
general health and assists rut in
its work.
All druggists. Circulars free.
F. J. Cheney * Co, Toledo, Ohio.
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THEIR GREAT MOMENT GONE
Writer Has Little Expectation of CrO
atlve Ability Being Displayed by
Returned Soldiers.
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The spiritual point Is this, writes
John Galsworthy In Scribner’s. In
front of a man in ordinary civilized ex?
lstencs there hovers ever that moment
In the future when he expects to prove
himself more of s man than he has yet
proved himself. For these soldiers of
the great carnage the moment of pro¬
bation Is already In- the past They
have proved themselves as they will
never have the chance to do again, and
secretly they know It One talks of
their powers of heroism and sacrifice
being wanted just as much In time of
peace, but that cannot really be so,
because peace times do not demand
men’s lives—which Is the ultimate test
—with every minute that passes. No,
the great moment of their existence
lies behind them, young though so
many of them are. This makes them
at once greater than us, yet in a way
smaller, because they have lost the
power and hope of expansion. They
have lived their masterpiece already.
Human nature Is elastic and hope
springs eternal, but a climax of ex¬
perience and sensation cannot be re¬
peated; I think these have reached
and passed the uttermost climax, and
In Europe they number millions.
This Is a veritable portent, and 1 am
glad that In America you will not have
It to any great extent
Now how does this affect the future?
Roughly speaking It must, I think,
have a diminishing effect on what I
may call loosely—creative ability.
People have often said to me: “We
shall have great writings and palntlfffcs
from these young men when they come
back." We sh^U certainly have
poignant expression of their experi¬
ences and sufferings, and the best
books and paintings of the war ltBelf
are probably yet to come. But, taking
the long vlaw, I do not believe we
shall have from them, in the end, as
much creative art and literature as we
should have had If they had not been
through the war.
Will Qo Back to Work In France.
If Charles W. Bradlee, Jr., former
ly a teacher of manual arts in Worces
tei academy, Worcester. Mass., hadn’t
been an obliging sort of gentleman, he
wouldn’t be carrying a shell splinter
today under his right cheekbone, so
cunningly lodged there that physicians
hesitate to operate for fear of his face
becoming paralyzed.
While a worker wlfti the Foyer dn
Soldat In France, Bradlee consented
August 7 to replace another worker on
the front line at Lhery. The other wel¬
fare man was away on leave so Brad¬
lee, with his knapsack filled with Y.
M. C. A supplies went up near the
front line. At that time a jagged scar
caused by a shell splinter was heal¬
ing on his forehead. He had been
working only a short period at Lhery
when a Hun shell burst and he was
given another memento of service. This
time the sliver of a flying shell lodged
in his cheek.
Bradlee learned to love the French
and will return to Flanders to work
among them In the devastated sections
as a member of the internation al eom
ml ttee of the Y. M. C. A. He said that
he feels he will be able to aid perma¬
nently wounded men In learning new
occupations.
A Forgotten Language.
“Tee crowfoot girdle treetop turtle,"
said one gentleman to another, as re¬
ported by the-Minneapolis Journal, In
an office In that city. “Scalp thirty
reel blaze,” he continued, reading from
an old leathei^bound ledger. “Scalp
thirty reel blaze,” repeated his com¬
panion, and wrote it down on a sheet
of paper. The two gentlemen, say?
the Journal, were talking a language
once ufced but now forgotten In Min¬
nesota, for they were respectively a
former surveyor general of logs and
lumber and his assistant, busy iden¬
tifying some ancient logs that had
been a long time sunk In a river. The
strange-sounding sentences were com¬
posed of identification marks, of which
at least 6,000 have been recorded
since the pioneer days when logs were
first cut In Minnesota forests. Bil¬
lions of feet of lumber from the great
forests havs been thus marked, and
once In a while some old logs are re¬
covered from the river bottom, and
the old ledger of bark marks and
stamps on the ends of the logs li
again referred to.
Raising Skunka for Fur.
Az wild fur-bearing animals have d»
creased In numbers and the scarcity
and prices of furs consequently In
creased, many Individuals have been
led to undertake the rearing of fui
bearers In captivity, as for exampl?
the efforts to breed foxes In Canada
and parts of the United States, and
the widespread Interest In skunk rats
lng. It is of significance that In on?
state alone the game warden, within s
period of two years, Issued more thnq
fifty permits for breeding skunks lr
captivity.—Robert K. Nahours In thf
National Geographic Magazine.
Energy From Common Powder.
Common black sporting powder Is «
source of momentary energy In som«
railway machine shops and Is used foi
such purposes as loosening nuts and
bolta, breaking up scrap Iron and steel
forcing a rusted locomotive piston, and
breaking metal cooled In a furnace. Il
is employed in steel guns 5 to 12 Inchei
long and of proportionate diameter
The powder Is held by a plunger with¬
out wad, and it Is fired with th«
mouth of the gun about an inch from
the work. An ounce charge is th«
average required for an ordinary loco
motive nut or bolt
PhlUpp.n, ► o.ustt
The forexix of th I’liiftppinee af
.‘ord the greniem vanet> of wood u»
'he world. Sotm of tie hn rd woods
ire unexcelled foi *'-li iii\ nnd dura
nlllty and a big trtuti if leveloplng
in exporting the non • o the United
1 rates
H«lg» of Somethin o • other,
Our Idea of the height of -innefhlng
ir other la s ‘."m-iHinfo* * fed girt
•fitniHl tii’n n till.fin'll* *f <* at
ached I" H iiiMik i' \rkam
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Coal Bad Cargo for Bhlpa.
Coal la a bad cargo for ships, for
aoft coal beats If stacked deep, and
frequently la -fired by spontaneous
combustion. In the open you can
stack coal 20 feet deep without fear
of Its firing, but under cover not more
than 15 or 10 feet.
The proof of this statement is
shown by the fact that fires In Cargoes
of 500-1,000 tons of coal are only 1 per
cent, while In cargoes over 2,000 they
are actually nine times as numerous.
When large cargoes are stored for
long voyages, It Is usual to bed Iron
pipes deep In the holds so as to be able
to notice any dangerous rise of tem¬
perature.
The Flrat Curb Market
The first congress of the United
States, while In session in Federal
hall on Wall street New York, in
1788-89, authorized and subsequently
Issued bonds (then called stock)
amounting to 80 million dollars for the
purpose of discharging debts incurred
by the continental congress and the
various colonies. This naturally led
to* orders for the purchase snd sale
of these bonds being sent to New
York. These orders first came to mer¬
chants, attorneys and others, but later,
as the transactions* increased, some
men began to give special attention to
this business, becoming the first brok¬
ers In America.
Alcohol Supply.
Around sawmills alone, It is said,
27,000,000 tons of sawdust Is available,
from which 500,000,000 gallons of al¬
cohol can be made.
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GRIP
Take
drove's /m
Laxative 00
Bromo
Quinine
tablets SOc.
Be sure you get
BROMO
The genuine bears this signature
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The Carnival of Cottons
Brings the Price-Ground P
Hogs Out of Their Holes
for Good.
The long Winter of High Prices is safely over. The warm sunshine
of lower costs has thawed out the ice that made people resist buying ill
the tnings they desired, because of outrageous prices.
The Spring of thrifty living has come again. Things that you buy,
from th's time on, will be worth the prices that you will be asked to pay
for them—and that is all that any reasonable person desires.
44 Money’s Worth 99
That’s a big thing to give and to get.
This store has always prided itself on giving every customer the big¬
gest possible money’s worth—until war prices came. Then all our best
efforts were fruitless, for nobody could either give or get real money’s
worth. # S
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Now “money’s worth” has come back to us, and we are far de¬
lighted to give it than possibly more
you can be to receive it.
Lhe new merchandise that is coming into our store looks splendid to
us, ana will look the same to you; for quality is so much better in
many things that made now so
were not up to the standard by the hurried hands
that ciiu such poor work for the past couple of years. Now they doing
expert and skilful labor again, and are
the quality is better, while the prices
are so much lower. v
So we turn our faces to the new season, on “Ground Hog’s Day”, with
. hopeful x , expectation
every of serving you vastly better this year, and bring¬
ing back to you the old pleasure and satisfaction of shopping with be¬
cause of the excellent money’s-worth us
that we shall always be able to give
GRIFFIN MERCANTILE
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$8.50
A beautiful quality of kid with imitation tip and
light weight weiUoIes. All sizes and widths.
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Strap Slippers
Just received by express new Strap Slippers in
Brown and Black Satin with High French and Baby
Louis heel. Also same style in beautiful China Buck
in Black, Brown and Gray.
Prices from $11.00 to $12.50
HIGH FRENCH
HEEL OXFOBDS
—in Patent Leather,
Black and Brows Kid
—st—
$7.50
Castile & Williams Shoe Co.
THE LEADING SHOE STORE
DO YOU LIKE A BRO .
PORTERHOUSE?
You will If we serve it to you. F
j* of si), it is a fine juicy steak; t
our chef knows how to cook it to
tain ail 'the goodness. Of
serve more than steaks. In fact,
menu contains ’all the delk
season. And at popular |
BLUE GOOSE CAFE
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w BLUE GOOSE TAXI
Night or D»r.
MEN* mutuakm