Newspaper Page Text
>Ki ♦ £3 <“V> ♦ £ \ in- ♦
C
J C. HEARTSELL, Ed. and Pub.
VOL XII.
ELECTRIC ROADS.
Hie lime Coming When Motors
Wiii Supplant Mules,
Electricity to Solve the Prob¬
lem of Good Rural High¬
ways.
The time Is in sight, if not at hand,
when instead of driving a mule team
through the mud when he takes his
produce to market, the farmer in all
the more thickly populated states will
have a switch running to his barn
from an electric county road, and will
use his mules only to pull his private
cars to the road, where they will be
taken in tow by a trolley car or some
other device for applying electricity
as a motor.
Of course this will not come now.
It is not visionary or impractical, for
it could be done now if it did not cost
more than mule power on the average.
But In the healthy movement the bi¬
cyclers have started throughout the
entire country for good roads, the
farmers should keep this in sight, not
as a possibility, but as an absolute
certainty of the future.
All the farmers of the present may
not live to see it, but it will bo in
operation in favored localities before
the apple trees they planted last fall
are done bearing. They ought to get
ready for it now by making roadbeds
suitable for it, and they ought to dc-
teimine unalterably from the start
that the electric country road when it
does come shall be a counry highway
under the absolute control and
management of the counry.
It will not be long before electric
motor power will be cheaper than mule
power on any good macademized
country road. In grading roads that
are constructed now the grades should
be adapted as far as possible for the
future use of electricity, and the road¬
bed should be made wide enough for
both the electric track and tho wagon
way. If this is done the cost of put¬
ting in the plant for the electric motor,
when electricity is sufficiently
cheapened as a motor, will be mini¬
mized. With a good macadamized
road-bed built nojv to last, the labor
cost of putting in and operating elec-
tiie motors hereafter will not exceed,
if it equals, the labor cost of the an¬
nual working of dirt roads, including
that of constantly prying stalled teams
out of the mud.
There is some talk of trying the ex¬
periment of narrow-gauge steam roads
along the county roads, but, it is due
to insufficient information. It would
cost far too much, and steam, as a mo.
tor power, is as cheap now as it is like¬
ly to be, while electricity is sure to be
greatly cheapened.
While any experiment of electric
county roads tried now would be a
disastrous failure financially, it is bet¬
ter to get ready for electricity and to
wait for it than to try foolish experi¬
ments with steam. And the way to
get ready for electricity is to bo sure
that the control of the county roads
remains in and with the comity.—
[Louisville Courier Journal.
Chase and His Lost Clown.
Have you ever seen the Supreme
Court of the United States during one
of its sittings? Unlike judges in most
lower courts, the Supreme Court jus¬
tices wear black gowns, that are much
like the cossacks of church choristers.
Arrayed in these sombre black
gowns, the justices, a row
of seven or eight very large and
very learned men, present an appear¬
ance of official dignity that is most
striking.
The Supreme Court convenes at
twelve o’clock. One day Chief Justice
Chase was unable to find bis robe. He
searched every part of the robing-
rooin, and even lighted a match to go
deeper in his closet than usual in search
of the missing gown, because the day
was a dark and rainy one.
It wanted but a minute or two of
twelve, when the Chief Justice almost
beside himself with long searching,
appealed to Ben Wade, the famous
rough-and-ready Senator from Ohio,
who chanced to enter the room, to
help him find the lost gown.
Wade had just come in from out-of
doors, and so, thrusting his umbrella
under one of the settees to see if the
missing garment was there, lie fortu¬
nately fished it out. Holding it at
SPRING PLACE. MURRAY COUNTY. (JA. JUNE «8. 189rf.
arms length on tho end of his dripping
umbrella, he shouted: “Here, Chase
—here's your old shirt,”
The learned Chief Justice reached
his seat in the middle of the row just
as the clock struck the last stroke of
twelve, but the spectator from the
front would never have guessed that
the gown which clothed so much dig¬
nity bad been, ten seconds before,
dangling at the end of a very wet um¬
brella.— [Harper's Young People.
Toy Balloons and Pinwheels.
“B’loons?”
Picturesque, as all children of Italy
are, the vender was surrounded bv a
vari-colored nimbus of paper whirli¬
gigs and toy balloons. A huge bunch
of the latter he held attached to the
end of a slender stick, while some
hundreds of the former gyrated in
unison upon a sort of wooden cross
eight feet in height, supported per¬
pendicularly, It was on F street
corner.
“Fiveacent!” ho said to a Star
writer who paused to ask the price of
a pin wheel.
“How do you make them?” asked
tlie purchaser.
“Buya de papo two dollar fifty con
a ream,” replied the man simply.
•‘Getta de pape from New York, all
color—red, green, blue, yellow. Cut
up de pape and maku de pinwheel,
Maka one hundred in sixa hour. For
each pinwheel must be stick. Getta
de stick ten-eent a pound from cliair
factory. Sella dc pinwheel with a
stick fiveacent. BToonsl"
“Do you make you own baloons?”
“Si, senor. Me maka de b’loons.
Buya tho rubber hags from New York
—four dollar a gross. Blown deinup
with tin machine, tie with a thread
aud fixa on a stick. All for tou cent.
Leetle b’loons with wooda moutlia-
piecc, squawka when air come outa,
fiveacent. Costa two dollar fifty cent
a gross.”
“You must be making a fortune,”
“Me no maka mucha moil', senor;
but not so bad as fruita business.”
“You formerly kept a fruit stand?”
“Si, senor. Fruit and peanutta.”
“But there must bo a big profit on
peanuts.”
“Si, senor. Me maka de tnon’ on
de peanutta. But,” added the Italian,
his voice rising to a small shriek of
disgust, “alia de mou’ me make on de
peanutta me lose on de banan!”—
[Washington Star.
His Thumb Weighs a Found.
A Harlem young lady, religiously
inclined, applied for a class in Sun¬
day school a few weeks ago, and the
superintendent promptly placed her
in charge of that doubtful honor—the
Infant Class.
The new teacher went on pretty
well until she ventured on the thin ice
known as “general questioning.”
“Now,children,” she said, with that
extremely vivacious manner which is
popularly supposed to fascinate
young children, “what did Moses
do?”
The infant mind worked on the
problem for a few moments in
silence.
“Come, dears,” said the young
teacher, encouragingly, “some one
tell me' what Moses did.”
A very small boy on the fidgetty
back row seemed to be struggling
with a reply.
“What is it, Willie?” urged the
teacher encouragingly.
“Ilith thumb weighed a pound.”
“What?” asked the astonished
teacher.
“My mariner says so.”
“Says whal, Willie,” demanded the
perplexed teacher, while the class
stopped fidgetting and listened in¬
tently.
“She says every time Moses put*
liitli thumb on the scales it weighs a
pound. ”
“WTio is Moses, Willie?”
“He’th our butcher, mith.”—[New
York Tribune.
Some Time. Ago.
Studious Boy—Father, did you ever
study arithmetic?
Father (indignantly)—Of course I
studied arithmetic.
Studious Boy—Well, I can’t find the
cube root of—
Father (hastily)—It’s a long time
since I siudied it. — [Good News.
There are 660 Sunday papers pub¬
lished in this cointry alone.
“ TELL THE TRUTH ”
«?. W, WtWAORJFF. W. E. UiSBiftSt
ESTABLISHED 1866,
W. W. WOODRUFF & 00.
176 & 178 Gay Street, KNOXVILLE, TENN.
HARDWARE.
Cutlery, Mule Axes, Nails, Locks, Hinges, Tools, Horse and
Shoes, &c., &c.
AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS.
Genuine Oliver Chilled Plows, Syracuse Hillside Plows,
Brown's Double Shovel Plows, Cider Mills, Straw Cut¬
ters, Cradle Lawn Mowers, Corn Shellers, Hay Forks, Scythes,
and Snaths. Barbed Wire, &c., &c.
CONTRACTORS’ SUPPLIES.
Mattocks, Dynamite, Scrapers, Blasting Powder, Steel, Iron,Shovels, Picks.
smith Tools, Wheelbarrows, Sledge and &c. Drill Hammers, Black¬
AMMUNITION, SPORTING GOODS.
Fishing Rods, &c.
SPECIALTIES.
Sash, Circular Doors and Blinds, Rubber*and Leather Belting,
Screen Doors Saws, Window Glass, Fire-proof Safes, Wire
and Window Frames, Paper Bags, &c.
EVERYTHING ON WHEELS.
tain Buggies, Hacks, Phaetons, Carriages, Spring Wagons, Moun¬
Mitchell Farm Wagons, Two Wheel Carts
Send for Catalogue and prices.
Special attention given to orders by mail. We respect¬
fully solicit your patronage.
W. W. WOODRUFF & CO.
576 & 178 Cay Street, KNOXVILLE, TENN.
NEW AND BEAUTIFUL DESIGNS IN
Millinery Goods,
LATEST NOVELTIES IN FASHION!
Just Received at the Mlllnei y Store el
J. & J. B. GRAVES, No. 85, Hamilton Street,
Dalton, Georgia.
A new and elegant assortment of Milinery and Straw Goods.oonsUtlng of Straw
Bonnets and Ladies'and Children's Hats [trimmed and untrimmed] Neok
and Sash Ribbons, Velvet Ribbons, Neck Ties, Bonnet Silks, Satins
Velvets and Crapes, Plowors, Feathers,Ornaments Ac. Our goods
were bought of the largestaml bestiroporting Houses in Balti¬
more and New Yorx, and will be sold at very low
prioes for cash.
EVERY MAN
HIS OWN DOCTOR
By J. HAMILTON AYERS, M. I>.
A 600-page valuable Illustrated Book, contain¬
ing information pertaining to
disease of the human system, showing
how to treat and cure with simplest of
medicines. The book contains analysis
of courtship and marriage; rearing and
management of children, besides valu¬
able prescriptions, recipes, etc., with a
and a full complement of facts in mate¬
ria medica that everyone should know.
This most indispensable adjunct to
mailed, every well-regulated household will be
receipt of post-paid, price, SIXTY to any address on
CENTS. Address
ATLANTA PUBLISHING HOUSE.
116 Loyd St., ATLANTA, GA.
W and CASTINGS'
of Every Description
BOILERS
Guaranteed Steely
i ENGINES <
.
\ All Styles and Sizes.
MILLS
Highest Capacity.
Long Tools Experience
HAVE Best
Eowest Prices.
» WRITE FOR CATALOGUE.
|Manly Machine Co.,
>AND MACHINISTS, DALTON, GA.
The Grady Hospital has thrown open its
doors in A tlanta, Ga., for tho reception of
patients. This institution owes its establish¬
ment to a division of sentiment which
sprung up at the occasion of Henry VV.
Grady’s death as to the best, means of honor -
ing his memory. One idea was to erect a
statue of heroic size, expenditure which came to $30,(Hid. a suc¬
cessful issue at an of
The hospital was erected under the direction
of the city government, The wnich paid made $15,000 by
of its cost. remainder was up
citizens.
SI.OO a Year in Advance,
NO. 16.
S. MHSTKBST. W. M. CASS- J, H. KliJGU
Nouthern Stone & Monumental Co.,
manufacturer* of
Marble and Granite
StatUSry ' Mon “ 3 ' Headstones, Crosses and
Building Stone
Coping, Iron Fencing, town Furniture, Etc,
1116 MARKET ST r : : : CHATTANOOGA TENN.
JOHJVJNY
Will They Go? Well, I Should Say So.
Y"cu could not hold them with a Two Inch Rope.
Make a special visit to George Moore’s Big Store and
GET YOUK
Eyes on the Wonderful Bargains theie offered in Dry Goods
Hats, Shoes, Groceries, Hardware aud Tinware, and you will
without delay—Pull—not a
But your Pocket book and go home loaded down with bar¬
gains.
No time for me to consider cost or value.
My New Goods are piling in so fast I need more room.
Will you help meant! benefit yourself?
George Moore. Spring Place, Ga.
Cherokee Furniture
Have made another big induction
in Furniture and Carpets. Note
their prices:
All Wool Ingrain Carpets 52 to 58
cents per yard.
Union Carp< ts 32 to 48 cents per
yard.
Brussells Carpets 54 to 85 cents
per yard
We have over 100 peices ot Carpets and Matting
ju*t received from the big New York Auction sale
and can sell them cheaper than ever before. Our stock
of Furniture is more than complete and prices to suit
everyone. Undertaking and Embalming a specialty.
N. B. We appreciate and are thankful to our
Murray County friends and patrons for the liberal
share of their trade given in the past. Call and see us
no trouble to show goods. E H. Carman, Mang’r.
Dalton,
.3
7
REGULATE THE
STOMACH, LiVER and BOWELS,
AND -
PURIFY THE BLOOD.
A RELIABLE REMEDY FOR
Indigestion,Biliousness, Headache, Constipation, Dyspepsia, Chronic
Liver J roubles, Dysentery, Bad Complexion, Dizziness, Offensive
Breath, and all disorders of the Stomach, Liver and Bowels.
Ripans Tabules contain nothing injurious to the most delicate constitu¬
tion. Pleasant to take, safe, effectual. Give immediate relief. Sold by
druggists. A trial bottle sent by mail on receipt of 15 cents. Address
THE RIPANS CHEMICAL CO., 10 Spruce Street, New York.