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THE WAYCWT-SS
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THE GREAT RACE CONTINUES
With Waycross Business College And Ferguson Shorthand hi the Lead.
A New and Startling Record Has been
Made Witk FERGUSON SHORTHAND
75 Words Per Minnte Alter Studying 13 Days.
Can you b.eat that with tho older systems? Why wastu your time
and money learning someth I yg obsolete? In this age of invention and
progresKiveneaa. the old roust give way to the new. However, if >ou hate
a de«drc to take a ride in the “OLD HORSE CAR”, we have the team to
pul 1 It, but you are liable not to have anyone with you but the driver.
Our teachers are skilled in the older system*. but make a specialty of
FERQUSON 8HORTHAND.
I C'C<
HO'V IS THIS FOR
ANOTHER RECORD
AFTER 12 WEEK8 STUDY, ONE
OF OUR YOUNG MEN ACCEPTED
A POSITION AS STENOGRAPHER
AT $75.00 PER MONTH. IF YOU
DOUBT THIS, WRITE U8, AND WE
WILL FURNI3H YOU WITH
PROOF,
i What are your Plans
For The Coming Vear?
Wouldn't you like to make life happier Would you not like to In
crease your earning capacity and bank account? IF SO, JUST SPEND
A FEW MONTHS WITH U8 AND LET US PUT YOU IN LINE FOR
PROMOTION.
Write us at onc e *or application
blanks and make arrangements to
enter the beginning of the Winter
Session January 5, 1909.
The System Off
BOOKKEEPING
U*ed In our school, la taught In the largest colleges in tho United
States, and Is considered by the business men, the very best for giving a
thorough knowledge of practical affairs, Special attention given to
ARITHMETIC, ENGLI8H, CORRESPONDENCE, SPELLING, RAPID
|CALCULATIONS, PRACTICAL LAW PENMAN8HIP, ETC.
•nniiiiiniia>itiiii
no w Youno teoplz,
j We have put others on the road to success, why not let us put yoii
| there? Life Is too short to experiment It has been fully demonstrate
§ ed that the UNTRAINED MAN OF WOMAN MUST GIVE WAY TO THE
1 TRAINED.
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OUR QUARTERS HAVE
BEEN ENLARGED
New furniture purchased, and more
teachers employed, making this one
of the finest equipped schools in this
section of tho country. Every indi
cation favors a very lar«o enrolment
January- 5, 1909.
For Full Information address:
R. F. ZEIGLER,
PRINCIPAL
WAYCROSS BUSINESS COIIZGE
THE ADVERTISING MAN.
From on down to Boersheba.
And back again to I>ait t
The forceful ptinh of commerce
la the advertising man.
In the onward inarch of progress,
That house la In the van
Whose life Is known to people
Through the advertising man
Ye page of Dunn and Srndntreut,
Inquiring optica scan.
And whore A 1 la noted,
There's an advertising man.
*11» Snith’s have all gono Into
deep mourning Tor a very distant rel
ative Don't you jlhlnk Ua a sign
ihey’re rich!" "No, Its a tilgn the
distant relative was rich."
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Rumor baa It that Governor Smith
haa already decided that <?ol. Ben-
i Ltt’a time a« Solicitor of the Bruns
wick Circuit expires la January and
that after that date ho will make an
appointment to fill the vacancy.
Cromwell doesn't seem to thtik .it
fa anybody's business who got ithe
forty millions, so Uncle 8am got the
canal Others do not agree with Mr.
Cromwell
Tho merchant who advertise* is si-
ways and under all circumstances the
t»est and most liberal man to trade
with. Notice and sec If this Is not a
.act.
4.
A subsection of President Roose
velt's country life commission Is now
la session In Richmond. We hsve
known country dlfo In Virginia intim
ately and well for a number of years.
To our way of thtuklnr there la not
4,' oe tenth the need of a commission to
4hcw Old Dominion farmers how to
live as there Is for a commission to
teach Roosevelt how to mind his own
fcastaoss.-—Norfolk VIrgtnIa-PIloL
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GREATEST CONFLICT |
SINCE CRUSADES.
As. Mr. Carrington Phelps truly
says In one of his articles in tlve
Broadway Magazine, tho mightiest
morn! conflict waged since tho days
of the Crusades is now under way
In tho United States of America— th
fight against the liquor traffic and the
right of the liquor traffic to hold Its
ONE WAY TO GET HUBBY
BACK FOR CHRISTMAS.
St. Louis, Mo., Dec. 22.—W. W. Kel-
k*y, employed by Turner Brothers, at
the horse and mule market. Nation
al stock yards, started from East St.
Ixiuls last night to make his fourth
annual visit tl Georgia at the ox-
grounds. In this conflict many ele-! P n8 ° of town of Carroiton, Ga.
ments of society and many forces anu Kelk»y*B wife has brought him home
organisations aro engaged, and capl- ev r y Christmas sine their separa- ( engaged In a controversy arising ov-
tal and Investments representing t,on f° ur T*** 11 * a 8° securing a er gonj 0 alleged misconduct of Moore,
over six billions of dollars and over warrant charging him with child, Moore, according to the witnesses,
50,000.000 people aro engaged. It is abandonment. He haa two children, Bhot the officer dead. Leonard Smith
the conflict of tho centuries, tho on ° and ono h®? 10 and 13 ycar8 , rushed to tho rescue of the officer,
strauger that It has originated tn this °W. Joules that ho is to blame, W hen Herschel Moore attacked him
FOUR MEN KILLED IN
3LOODY FiOHT AT OCILLA-
Occilla, Ga., Dec. 23.—In a four
cornered street duel at 9:30 o'clock
tonight Policeman Cain Walters,
I.iconard Smith, a son of Chief of
Police Smith, Charlie Moore and his
brother, Herachcl Moore, were In
stantly killed.
Acordlng to eye witnesses, Charlie
Moore and Officer WalterJ became
comparatively new country rather
than In Europe, where civilisation Is
old ,
Asia, tho birthplace of the human
raco and the* oldest land, witnessed
the first movement against strong
drink. Mohammed, tho Arabian
prophet, was the first great prohibi
tionist. The religion ho founded for
bids the drinking of Intoxicants, and
all consistent Mohammedans, even
today, are abstainers. But with feat
exception the war on liquor haa been
limited to America, the New imux
Christian Europe and Budhlstlc Asia
are looking curiously at what the de
scendants of the Pilgrims ana trie
Cavaliers are doing tn the new land.
How will the conflict terminate,
and of what nature will be the settle
ment or adjustment? That Is the
question.
President-elect Taft, has been web
corned to Augusta and is now a clti-
on of that beautlfud and hospitable
city.
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"Lawd,” prayed the old colored
for the separation, and declares he
provides Tor )tho children. H laid
before the tnln pulled out that there
was no possibility of a reconciliation
between his wife and himself, but
that each year Juat before Christmas
she secures a warrant on which re
quisition paper* aro always issued
by two governors. On previous oc-
casslons when Kelley has been
marched back to Georgia, ho haa been
furnished In the vitiate calaboose
with a line Christmas dinner by his
accusing wife, and he la generally
placed on parole, so that his home
coming Is robbed of Its disagreeable
feantres. Tho charges have always
been dismissed after the holidays.
S. J. Causey, Chief of Police of Car
rollton, Ga., Is Kelley's escort this
yoar. Kelley has laid In a store of
Christmas gifts for hfs children, as
he had teen looking forward to bla
arrest.
THE LE8SON OF CHRI8TMA8
GIVING.
It is a beautiful custom—the* Joy
of giving, which comes to us, more
urgently nt this season than at any
other. Yet there should be more In
the Christmas festival than tho giv
ing of a doll to the girlie, the pair
or skates to the boy, the hanging-up
ct the (!u* Hocking, f.j decking .1
the Christmas tree, or the dinner
which Is to follow. All this Christ-
mas-giving Is but a symbol recalling
the great gift of God—tho giving of
the 8avlour to the sin-cursed world.
To every child should this story be
told In all Its loving details, as often
There Is only one certain thing we
know about that Panama Canal mon*
We didn't get any of It-
with a volley of pistol shots, also as the Christmas-tide comes round.
killing Smith Instantly.
In the meleo Herschel Moore re
ceived wounds from which he died
on the spot.
Charlie Moore died from injurii
Inflicted by the officer, who fought
gamely, Clough mortally wounded.
While tya trouble started from a
very trlval matter. It Is stated there
was 111 feeling between the Moore
boyt and the chief of police, whose
son was shot In the duel.
SHOWING OUR MONKEY BLOOD.
The batsman, congratulated on his
home run, flapped himself proudly on
the chest, and began to boast of still
finer home run* that he had made
In the past.
Did you see that gesture of the
stricken brasst?" said an ethnologist
of Harvard. "Whenever we make
that gesture In our vanity we prove
the Darwinian theory up to the hilt.
You know the gorilla. Kipling
and Du ChiiUu describe him—an
enormous ape that In his Indomita
ble bravado beats his hreist with a
NOTICE.
Nutted Is hereby given that the
fnu of T. O. Bibb and Pinch hereto-
engaged In the grocery busln*
f* the city of Waycross. Georgia. U
*-t* day dissolved by mu:ral consent,
r. G. Mbb retiring therefrom. The
tooted* will be conducted at the
waav ptaro by G. 6. Finch who will
settle all firm liabilities and receipt
tor aT debts doe the firm.
Thin November 23rd, 1808.
O. 8. Finch,
T. O. Bibb.
deacon, "dls yer's the christ’musj London. Dec. 28.—Recent statistics sound like the rolling of tho muffled
time, w'en do saints Is expectin’ mo'njrtow that what Is called "Admlnls*j drums of Memorial day.
what dey been a getln' In de provt-
dentlal line. 1 wll knows,
Lawd, dat U ain't cordin' ter scrip-
ter ter lay up treasure on nlrth, nut
it's my belief*, Lawd, dat It wou'd be
a good Idea tsr give dat scrlpter a
recess endurin' de holiday season,
t been dreamin' cr money dts long
time, Lawd, but you* dream money (s
no good fer turkey an* trtmman's;
what dls ol' saint is a wantin' at dts
pci tickler time, ta the money wld de
eagle on one side an’ de lady's head
on de yuther. Do holfdy season Is In
de midst er ue. e* I may say. an’ Uat's
Tbs whsr de hongry feelln* U, an*
other 3,000,000 make their homes.
London property is insured against
Are for more than $5,000,000,000. One
person In every thirtymie Is a pau
per and more than $5,000,000,000 la
annually expended through Its chqrl
ties. There are In the city 28,265
factories employing 558.641* men.
women and children; there are fifty-
three theatres forty-nine music halls
261 concert hall*, eleven museum 4
eighty one public libraries and many
.treasure on atrthll come Jn mighty I inks. In on* year' Londoner* wrote
handy an' wholcaom’ long orboutl 772.100,000. letters and ,168,800.000
now!”—Frank L. Stanton. ' 'postal cards. *
tratlve London" has an area of 74,8261 "As big as a bull, as swift as a cat
acres of land and water and that I» powerful as an elephant, the gorilla
within that area live 4, 795,789 hu- j believes himself unconquerable, and
man beings, while In the suburbs an- in the vain glory of that belief he in
flates his longs and beats his swollen
breast till the jungle rin^a like
gong.
“We tn our moments of foolish and
excessive vanity inflate cut lungs and
slap our swollen breast*.
“Thus, alas, we show the monkey
bleed in us."—New Orleans Times-
Democrat.
The gift of God Is greater than the
toy park of the mythical Santa Claus
and*the little heart should early be
filled with appreciation of his wonder
ful love, and Its utter dependence for
all good and happiness on the great
parent heart of God. The child's
own eyes can aee with what Joy you
fill all its little wants, and the lesson
cf the higher love should be carefully
Impressed upon the sympathetic
little heart. Let your love tor him,
your loving tenderness, be to tnc
child's a symbol of the love that with
the gift of His Perfect Son, promined
to "With him, giro freely of al>
things-"
We are all jiist little children, in
need of the aupport of tho Father's
lore. No effort of our own will spar?
us from some of the discomforts anu
trials of existence. While It Is re
quired of us that w« "da," It is alii
demanded of ua that we “trust”. In a
sense we Jo, all of ua, trust to some
.Higher power; but we shauld learr
to trust more—to belie re more, an<f
to take courage with stronger hearts,
because of the great parents love of
God. In these time* of stress and
worry, of cruel want and weary wait-
lug. we must do as the children do-
look to the higher love. The cloua.a
will dear, things will mend.* timo.
will brighten, and although Jatt now,
lu many homes, tho lack Ij great, we
must believe In the power which pro-,
claimed "Peace on earth
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Mention this paper
Say what you will about Mr; Brynfi, ^
he got just exactly 1,351,211 more
VLtes than Judge Parker did in 1904
That don't look as if the democratic
party was losing grounds.
FOR RENT-The West farm on
VValtcrtown read. Apply to Chas.
West, 52 Jane street, Waycross, Ga.
Says an Exchanv: “President
Roosevelt’s place lu Hi Mery has not
Sol been defined." Let'* wait till hsj for the first time:
comes back from Africa before plac*j "Ton do solemnly swear. In the
tng hlb£ | presence of Almighty God and these
;
U:nesses, that you desire to become-
' *°* 4 will j a night rider; that you will not write
to men. Let ua accept the lesson,,'talk cr te'I to anyone of the secret?
lookl.* up « . mu, chUd. rnd bo- of ,hU ord.r of oi-h, ,hot. If
Kurin, flrmlv ,h„ do u)k wr „ 0
•on any of ih, weret. of (be order.
ve are permitted to. do r.lth you «
de too at. Ton knew doatb, bell and
destruction will be your portion, and
tbnt your body will not be baited In
n graveyard. Do yon willingly, and
freely submit to nit tht. in ' Je i„ vsu
Godr r
llerlng Bratly that “Hit doetb all
i'ofngs well." We wish you n comfor-
tnbft, end choerfcl CbtlMtnu!—
Helen W.tta in Bryan. - Cotnoncr.
THE NIOHT RIDERS OATH.
The night rider, oath U here given
