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>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.