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i state fair be
hE LD THIS year?
During the Period_»f the
t Agricultural Society
r Operated It
Since 1846.
^danta . . to the Augusta Cbron
savs, If no state
•OITl Georgia this year, it
he ]d in than
the fir st time more
P the custom was
century that
special . reason
d p xcppt for a
1846 wb 80 the first one took
Stone Mountain there has
at excepting
a fair every year,
four years of the civil war
2 the Agricuitn- . ,
l8 76 t when
octetV suspeuded its custom
f deference to the Centennial
isition at Philadelphia.
oleas Macon or some other city
>s to the front and provides
he attraction, the chances are
it will be passed by, as it
ed that the sentiment of the
it lee that met in Atlanta re
[v was that the affair society unaided. could
undertake the
■ Atlanta Fair Association is
Ining to join with the Farmers’
|u and have a fair outside of
■ regular state attraction here
Ing the national convention of
Billion this fall.
Ihe jety, Georgia State Agricultural
which has conducted all
Ltate jconnected fairs, has been insopara
with the history of
state for more than fifty years,
ras organized in 1845, as the
them Central Agricultural So
[v, its purpose then being the
motion of both agricultural and
lufacturea.
|n 1859 , it was chartered by
jcial act of the legislature under
name l.ow borno, and upon it
j conferred the right to conduct
state fairs.
i’t Discontinue
Georgia Train*.
Neither the train between Macon
n Camak nor the Picayune train
jt of Augusta on the Georgia
Broad will be taken off, the
tuniission declining to accede to
: petition of Superintendent
and.
■No formal order to this effect
Is been drawn up, but will be in
Kay or two. The showing made
I the Macon Chamber of Com
lerce and citizens of Miliedgeville
Id Sparta against taking off one
lily Is train on the Macon branch
so strong and the reasons
lainst it so much more' potent
Ian those for doing so that the
Immission decided against the
lad.
I The Picayune train out cf
lugusta lonyers is very much like the
train in and out of At
liita. The Picayune serves many
pburban ess in Augusta, residents, and who have do busi
to an
lulled it would have been a serious
patter to the commuters.
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THE OLD TIME FISH GUANO teN- '-v j
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For twenty-three years
the standard of the South. mm
lisps
balanced Fish scrap is used in every ton of Farmers* Bone* less Properly sa
and carefully mixed, insuring bigger yields with acreage
TRADE HARK <
# ' e €
REGISTERED
See that this trade mark is on every bag.
F. S. Royster Guano Co.
Norfolk, Virginia.
Sheets « r»
ANDREW CARNEGIE
GIVES $10,000.
He Has Donated That Sum For
Library Building For State
Normal School At
Athens.
Library day at the State Norma'
school was celebrated Saturday at
that institution The exercises
consisted of addresses by Mrs. E.
C- McCabe, of Atlanta, Chancellor
Barrow, xMrs. M. C. White, of
Athens, and President Branson.
More than five hundred books were
received for the library and a neat
sum of money also. This comes
through the Georgia Federation of
Women’s Clubs. At the conclu¬
sion of the exercises, it was an
nouuced that Andrew Carnegie
had given ten thousand dollars for
a library building at this institu¬
tion.
Pull for Covington or pull out.
--teQte—-*-H
WOODLAWN
(last week’s letter)
Mr. J. O. Adams visited relatives
near Rutledge last Sunday.
Mrs. Chat lie Biggers and attrac¬
tive daughters, Misses Sallie and
Ora Biggers, of Dixie, spent Satur¬
day afternoon here with Mrs.
Luther Horton.
Mr. E. W. Adams and family,
of Mansfield, visited relatives here
Sunday.
Misses Mary Hays and Dot Cof
fee attended tha Teachers’ Insti¬
tute in Covington Saturday.
Miss Alma Horton visited hei
grandparents at Dixie Saturday.
Mrs. Susan Marks js quite sick
with grip.
Mrs. E. 0. Leftwich and son, of
Conyers, visited her parents, Mr.
and Mrs. F. M. Hays from Friday
until Sunday.
Master John Adams has returned
home ajter spending a week with
his grandparents, Mr. and Mis. G.
W. Davis, near Rutledge.
Misses Mary Hays and Dot Cof¬
fee were the attractive guests of
Misses Janie and Berta Adams
Wednesday evening.
Squire F. M. Hays visited his
sou, Mr. Fletcher Ilays, near
Broughton, last week.
Mr. Emery Hays and wife spent
Saturday and Sunday with friends
in Covington.
Mr. J. T. Marks has been con *
fined to his room for several
with grip.
Mr. P. D. Coffee and wife, of
Brick Store were guests of Mr. J.
0. Adatns and family Wednesday.
Mrs. J. W. Adams and daugh¬
ter Miss Lillian, visited relatives
at Haystou Thursday.
THE ENTERPRISE COVINGTON Ga
CO-OPERATION IN
RURAL SECTIONS.
It Means Progress and Advance*
ment in All Communities
Where Such Effort Is
Put Forth
American Agriculturist says, The
relation between slipshod farming
and non-attendance at farmers’ in¬
stitutes is of the closest character.
In a neighborhood where weeds
abound and where the methods
generally are primitive and non
progressive, the farmers do not at¬
tend the farmers’ institutes iu
large numbers, They are so wise
in their own estimation that they
know more than their teachers.
They are the men ub>ve all others
who are most ready to point the
finger at the speakers and desig¬
nate them as book farmers, though
they have i.ever heard them.
Those men are a problem. Usu¬
ally they do not read agricultural
papers. Iu their estimate the sea¬
sons are wrong and things general¬
ly in the whole nation are out of
joint. They are a puzzle. They
imagine they know all that they
need to know about farming. How
are they to be reached? That i
yet one of the problems that is yet
to be solved. The best agency
probably that can be brought to
bear ou them is that of some neigh
bor in whom they have confidence.
It may be that he can coax them
into the institute. It he can per¬
suade them to come there is hope
for them, for if they come once it
is highly probable that they will
come again.
Letter to P. D. Coffee.
Coviugtgu Ga.
Dear Sir: Here's a tale with
three or four tails to it.
Professor Ivine has an Academy,
Mercersburg, Penn. He paints
the floors in summer vacation. It
used to take 90 gallons cf paint.
There were two paint-stores there,
and he used to buy (one year of
one, next year of the other) 90
gallons year after year.
Now he paints Devoe; GO gal¬
lons; and the difference is a sav¬
ing of $150 a year.
H. C. Fallon was one of those
dealers, good man; but he
wouldn’t take up Devoe; so we
turned to the other, J A Boyd.
But Fallon has found it necessary
to get a good paint to compete with
Devoe. He got one of the eight
honest paiuts. He has a big hard
ware store and is doing an ex
celtent hardware business; but
Boyd, af course, has the run on
paint—he’s a little hardware man.
We don’t care bow little or big
a man is if he wants good paint
and is active and sound.
Yours truly
F w Devoe & Co
Fincher, Norris Hardware Co.
sells our paint.
not merely idling.
Wherein the Writer Resembled the
Man on the Buoy.
That writer, ’ said a publisher, re¬
ferring to an author who seemed to be
Idling away his time, “is in reality try
ing hard to work, to get his ideas flow
ing, but he is stuck.
He said to me himseif that he re¬
sembled a man who made a bet one
summer day at the shore that he
would swim out a mile and a half to a
certain buoy. The bet was accepted, and
the man stripped and plunged in. His
friend retired to the hotel to watch his
progress from the window.
“From the window with a fteldglass
the friend saw the swimmer reach the
buoy in due course, draw himself up
out of the water and sit down corn
fortably, with his legs dangling over.
So far so good. Evidently he was rest¬
ing, well pleased with his feat.
“Some minutes passed, and the swim¬
mer had not moved. The watcher re¬
turned to his book. But every now
and then he looked up, and still the
swimmer sat iu the same position on
the buoy.
“An hour, two hours went by. Still
the swimmer remained. A white, slim
figure seen against the oncoming dark,
he sat ou the buoy’s edge. His feet
dangled iu the sea. He seemed to be
musing.
“Finally it began to grow quite dark,
and, thoroughly alarmed at last, the
watcher got a boat and a couple of
bargees and rowed out to his friend.
“Out there the mystery was soon ex¬
plained. The man was stuck fast to
the buoy, which had been freshly
tarred that morning.” — Washington
Star.
MEN OF EARLIER AGES.
Were They the Mental Peers of the
Men of Today?
The general idea that our enormous
advances in science and command over
nature serve as demonstrations of our
mental superiority to the men of ear¬
lier ages is totally unfounded. The
evidence of history and of the earliest
monuments alike goes to indicate that
our intellectual and moral nature has
not advanced in any perceptible degree.
In the second place, we find that the
supposed great mental inferiority of
savages is equally unfounded. The
more they are sympathetically studied
the more they are found to resemble
ourselves in their inherent intellectual
powers.
Even the so long despised Australian
savages, almost the lowest in material
progress, yet show by their complex
language, their social regulations and
often by an innate nobility of char¬
acter indications of a very similar in¬
ner nature to our own. If they pos¬
sess fewer philosophers and moralists,
they are also free from so large a
proportion of unbalanced minds—idiots
and lunatics—as we possess. Ou the
other hand, we find in the higher Pa¬
cific types men who, though savages
as regards material progress, are yet
generally admitted to be physically, in¬
tellectually and morally our equals, if
not our superiors. * * * Thirdly, we
have no proof whatever that even the
men of the stone age were mentally or
morally inferior to ourselves.—Alfred
Russel Wallace in Fortnightly F.evlew.
A Curious Grace.
The most curious form, or, rather,
expression, of grace after meat which
I have ever come across was that cus¬
tomary at Clifford's inn, one of the
vanished inns of chancery. The soci¬
ety consisted of two distinct bodies,
the principal and rules and the Kent¬
ish mess, each body having its own ta¬
ble. At the conclusion of the dinner
the chairman of the Kentish mess, first
bowing to the principal of the inn,
took from the hands of the servitor
some small rolls or loaves of bread
and, without saying a word, dashed
them several times on the table, after
which they were takeu away. Solemn
silence relieved only by the thumps
prevailed during this curious substi¬
tute for a verbal grace.—Cor. London
Chronicle.
Instinct and Reason.
Instinct is the generic term for ail
those faculties of mind which lead to
the performance of actions that are
adaptive in character, but pursued
without necessary knowledge of the re¬
lation between the means employed
and the cuds attained. Reason refers
to those actions that are adaptive iu
character and that are pursued with
knowledge of the relation between the
means employed and the ends aimed
at. Such is the technical statement of
the difference between instinct and rea¬
son, but the real, basic difference be¬
tween the two faculties is unknown
and probably unknowable.—New York
American.
Thackeray’s Pink Bonnets.
Thackeray was foud of putting pink
j bonnets ou such of his lady characters
s were to specially fascia at
The eternal CH a ore one, the
j mushy Amelia wore one on her wed¬
ding tour (very probably on her sec
| oml one also), and the clashing Beatrix
j ' also Exchange. set off her beauty by this means.—
Awful Effects.
Acrid Ike—Dey say dat steady drip
pin’ o’ water'll wear away a stone.
Dreamy Fete—Jes’ fink, den, wot'd
happen t’ a man's stomach by pourin’
glassfuls inter it.—Bohemian.
Quite Useful.
“She has a very useful husband.”
“How do you make that out?”
“He can always suggest something
that he wants for dinner.” — Detroit
Free Tress.
A generous confession disarms slan¬
der,—French Proverb.
THAT THE MARCH WtNDJ
blow THE: WINTER Aw/\y
j And MAKE IT. K/ECE55ARY
i TO GET READY "FOR SPRING
ARE Yoo REA tD Y RoR
r SPRING?
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THE MARCH WIND.5 ARE CHILLY; Do YOU NoT
WI.SH TO KEEP THE CHILL OFF AND PUT THE
APPEARANCE ON? JoME PEOPLE .SAY THAT
THING-5 ARE NOT A-5 THEY .SEEM. Do YOU BE¬
LIEVE THAT A WOMAN WHO HADN'T A -SWELL
.SPRING CLOAK GET.S ALONG A-S WELL A-5 ONE
WHO HA-5? YOU WEAR YoUR CloAK ON ToP.
WE CAN GIVE YOU TIP To? OVER GARMENT-5 FOR
THEJE PRICE-5 :
7few aCine of Voiles
— PLAIN AND FANCY —
I PC BROWN -5TRIPED VOILE $1.50 YD.
J PC BLUE' 4 t i 4 $1.50 4 4
1 PC BLACK 4 4 4 4 $3.50 4 (
1 CX. 4 4 4 4 4 4 $ 1.00 "
1 cx. 4 4 PLAIN 4 4 $ 1.00 4 4
50 INGH PANAMA IN BLUE, BRoWN AND
BLACK 65 CT-5 YARD.
$^WATCH OUR WINDOW.
RESPECTFULLY,
CASH, MOBLEY & CO
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