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r)R.uG Store I Every Christmas there are some people you want to remember, but don’t know just what to send t-nem. Frequently, on the other hand, you are un *ble to select a suitable gift for the money you can afford to spend You are especially invited to bring all troubles of this nature to our store — nc t only are goods here to answer such requirements, but we are prepared to give you PERSONAL assistance. As a few Christ mas suggestions we mention . Brown = Odom Drag Co. i_tro:£TS, Grwftu. Telephone and Find Out! ArM was ®* e wea^er rcpor^ W-4, wp| What is the market price ■ ffija of cotton S jfi| Has my team left town m !s there any freight for ¥ j Do you want to buy (r p . ',7ncn 13 the meeting • The telephone answers these ques tions ior thousands of Farmers every day. It will do this and more for you. The cost of a telephone on your Farm is small; the saving is great. Our free booklet tells you all about j it. Write for it today. Address Farmers Line Department SOUTHERN BELL TELEPHONE |#j & TELEGRAPH COMPANY 59 South Pryor St„ Atlanta. Gjl Seaboard Air Line SCHEDULE. \eave Lyons—6 28 a. m. I 5.81 p. m. \ For Savannah, Ga., and Points Beyond. 10.04 a. m. ) For Helena, Cordele, Americue, Mont -7.40 p. m. \ gomery, and points beyond. For information and reservations, call on nearest Ticket Agent, Seaboard Air Line, or write R. H. Stansell, A. G. P. A., C B. Ryan. G. P. A., Portsmouth, Va. ’Savannah, Ga. TAYLOR SAW MILLS LEAD I to Simplicity, Capacity, Durability, None better % „! m, Huy Mnooa Made Machinery and •▼old \ fxcoaaive Freights and tong waits for Repair! S™ and Gasoline Engines SPSp " Portable & Stationary Boilers Complete Ginning, Sawing and Shingle Outfits Pump*, Tank*, T owert, loafing, Acetylene Ligbting Plants 1 "I W dW'Hf! dliljll l EVERYTHING IN MACHINERY AND SUPPLIES MAU.ARY MACHINERY Co., 3^^j‘ I THE I. Y.) N S PRO- R’CSF, JANUARY 6 lbll. THE COLORADO DESERT. How Sound Carries and the Way Mi rages Come and Go. Talk about wireless telephones! ! The Colorado desert goes science one better in that line. According to travelers in that neck of sand , and sagebrush, you can dispense I with any kind of telephone, with or without wires, at least up to a cer tain distance. Two men a mile apart can carry on a conversation in an ordinary tone of voice, particularly if there happens to be a small hill behind each, writes Harvey Ilall Kessler in the Travel Magazine. The prevail ing silence is so intense that it might be called deafening, i Perhaps, after all, the weirdest among many strange features of the desert is the mirage. We have camped perhaps and gone to bed early in the evening with the ther mometer registering not far below the hundred mark. We awake, shivering with cold beneath our blankets, and look toward the east. There is the slightest suggestion of light in the 6ky there, which as we watch grows slowly in strength. A grayish haze marks the horizon’s edge, which stands out snore sharply at one point, from which broad, pale rays creep up and out high above in the sky. These again slowly fade as a point of brilliant light appears at their base. This point grows to a half circle, then breaks and runs along the sky line in a surging, golden lake. Upon the shores of this lake cities spring up, towers, spires and solid blocks. These fade into fields and forests and farming scenes — fields of golden grain, cattle stand ing in green alfalfa, sheets of wa ter. The mountains near the edge of the lake separate from their bases and float upward, topple over and stand on their heads, their un wieldy feet in air. Soon our lake begins to contract and collect into a big round ball of dazzling brilliance hung just above the horizon. Farms and forest dis appear. The mountains, as though abashed at being caught in such an unseemly attitude by the broad light of day, quickly resume their normal position, while all the stark landscape stiffens into unstirring en durance of the garish light and blazing heat of the desert sun. The mirage is gone like a bubble. Only the gray desert remains. Reasons For Being Indignant. There was something in the at mosphere which told him that things were not exactly the same. Silence followed soon after the usual greetings, but at length she spoke. “Are you aware, sir,” she began, “that one hand of the Bar tholdi statue measures sixteen feet five inches?” “So I have heard,” he nodded, happy to be addressed again. “The thickness of the head from ear to ear,” she pursued icily, “is ten feet.” “Yes.” “The nose is four feet six inches tong.” “That’s right.” “The mouth is three feet across.” “I believe so. Just imagine it.” “The waist thirty-five feet around.” “Y-yes. Why?” “Then will you kindly explain, sir,” she continued, “why you stated in the poem which you addressed to me that I reminded you of the God dess of Liberty ?” —Ladies’ Home Journal. It Was New to the Bishop. At an unusually large dinner par- . tv. where the guest of honor was an English bishop, the butler, an elder ly man, was obliged to bring in from a friend’s house an inexpe rienced lad to help him in the din- : ing room. The awkward helper an noyed the butler beyond endurance with questions as to his duties. He continued interminably until the butler, worn out and nervous, ( said ironically: “All you will need to do is to ' stand behind the bishop’s chair, and : whenever his lordship puts down j his glass you must reach over and , wipe his mouth with a napkin.” That silenced his assistant. But the young man actually took the or der seriously, and as soon as dinner began he stationed himself behind j the bishop, waited till his lordship j had drunk and put down his glass, j and then, as deliberately as his j nervousness would permit, he open ed out a large napkin and wiped the j dignified old gentleman’s mouth! : " ': : We Lead, Others Follow, j A motto with a meaning, and if the ° ♦ buyer will call we will explain the <> • t meaning. b | FRESH DRUGS and PATENT MEDICINES || t A line full and complete, and the | X prices are in line with the times. No b £ great profits are asked. Bring your " I ♦ prescriptions and try us. : TOILET ARTICLES, RUBBER GOODS, PERFUMES !! If X rhe very best offered anywhere. If b ; b you haven’t looked over the line, you : <► should do so. o i: :: Stationery, Cigars, Cigarettes and Tobacco. b b As well as everything else for the writer or the smoker. Ours is a complete b «► drug store, and we ask a share of the 11 trade. || THE I. E. AARON DRUG COMPART. || :: LYONS, GA. ♦ i Georgia and Florida Railway. AUGUSTA, GA.. TO MADISON, FLA. Double Daily Passenger Servic. Schedule Effective 12:01 A. M., Dec. 4th, 1910. No. 13 No. 7 No. 5 ~ No. 14 No. 6 N0.|12 Sund. Daily Daily Main Line—Augusta to Madison. Daily Daily Sund. only ex. Sun ex. Sun only P. M. P. M. A. M. Eastern Time. P. M. P. M. P.M. 345 445 940 Lv Augusta Ar 650 110 12 20 Central Time. 445 345 840 Lv Augusta Ar 550 12 10 11 20 620 710 11 10 “ Midville .Lv 301 857 827 620 720 11 10 Lv Midville Ar 255 857 827 700 816 11 50 Ar Swainsboro Lv 212 759 742 700 816 11 5 (l Lv Swainsboro Ar 212 759 742 945 945 11 55 Ar.. Vidalia Lv 12 55 620 625 10 05 10 00 1 15 Lv Vidalia .Ar 12 35 550 605 940 11 18 230 Ar Hazlehurst ... .Lv 11 28 438 451 940 11 18 230 Lv Hazlehurst Ar IT 28 438 451 10 50 12 35 405 Ar Douglas Lv 10 15 320 340 P. M. A. M. 455 Ar Willacoochee Lv 932A.M. P. M. 455 Lv Willacoochee ... Ar 932 540 Ar._ Nashville Lv 854 540 Lv Nashville Ar 854 647 Ar Valdosta vN 750 847 Lv Valdosta Ar 740 810 Ar— Madison ..Lv 620 j P. M A. M. Through daily train between Augusta and Madison. Double daily service between Augusta and Douglas, between Millen and Douglas, and between Hazelhurst ami Valdosta and Madison. tStops for meals. CONNECTIONS. At Augusta, with all lines diverging so the North, East and West; at Mid vills, with Central of Georgia Ry. ; at Swainsboro, with Wadlev Southern Ry. ; at Wesley, C. of G. Ry. ; at Vidalia, with S. A. L Ry., and Macon, Dublin & Savannah Railroad ; at Hazelhurst with Southern Ry. ; at Douglas with A. B. &A. R. R.; at Willacoochee withJA. C. L. R. R. ; at Valdosta with A. C. L. R. R., G. S. & F. Ry., and Valdosta, Moultrie & Western R. R, ; at Madison, with S. A. L. Ry. R. G. PARKS, C. H. GATTIS, Traveling Passenger Agt., Gen. Passenger Agt., Augusta, Ga. Augusta, Ga. ♦ + t + + + l l l 11. WOOD, Manager ! THE SOUTHERN HOTEL CAFE I <► .. <> 314 and 310 West Broad St. (Between Both Depots) b Near Beer and All Prohibition Drinks i: b Will be glad to serve all my old b ** < ► b friends and will fill all orders b b b sent by mail promptly. b ♦‘ < ► - Call and See Me When in the City. H. WOOD, b 314 and 316 West Broad Street, b b (Between Both Depots) SAVANNAH, GA. b DAVID WEITZ, Successor to B. Weitz, DEALER IN ALL KINDS OF SOFT DIMS. TOBACCOS CIGARS, ETC. f • 407 West Broad Street, SAVANNAH { I P. O. Bex 242. One block from 'Union Station Make our place your headquarters while iy‘ Cl^y-