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Glove Calf, Button, $l,to $1.50,
Felt Slippers are very comfortable.
For Men and Ladies.
MACCOT, GEORGIA,
X am better prepared tban ever to supply your wants iu
WOOBEWARE,
WJmgmm implements
therefore I sell as
. The Kind Voice.
There is no power of love so
hard to keep as a kind voice y but
it is hard to get it and keep it in
the right tone. One must start
in youth, and be on the watch
night and day, while at work and
while at play, to get and keep a
voice which shall speak at all
times the thought of a kind heart
JJjgBiit this is the time when a
sharp voice is more apt to be ac
quired. You often hear boys and
girls say words at play with a
quick sharp tone, almost like the
snap of a whip. If any of them
get vexed you hear a voice which
sounds as if it were made up of a
snarl, a whine and a bark.
Such a voice often speaks worse
than the heart feels. It shows
more ill will in tone than in
words’. It is often in mirth that
one gets a voice or a tone which is
sharp, and which sticks to him
through life, and stirs up ill will
and grief, and falls, like a drop of
gall, on the listener. Some peo
ple have a sharp home voice for
use, and keep their best voice for
those they meet elsewhere. We
would say to all girls and boys,
“Use your best voice at home.”
Watch it by day as a pearl of
great price," for it will be. worth
more to you in the days to come
than the best pearl hid in the sea.
A kind voice is a lark’s song to
heart and home. It is to the heart
what light is to the eye.
Blessed Are The Poor.
Blessed are the poor, for they
are not harried by the yellow jour
nals. But let any thing occur
with reference to a rich person
and it is all printed in sensation
al papers. No secret or sorrow,
or misfortune, is too sacred to be
dished up for the delecatio'n of the
purient. Mr. Rockefeller’s daugh
ter had an affection of the ear.
Immediately there were pictures
of her, diagrams of her ear and of
’the deceased part, pictures of her
father, her mother, their home,
etc. Mr. Armour’s infant grand
daughter was afflicted with a hip-
joint dsiease, and an operation
was deemed necessary. Immedi
ately the pictures were brought in
to display with diagrams of the
child’s anatomy, portraits of the
mother and father, pictures of
the operating table, house, the
doctor, etc- And so it goes. Ab
solutely nothing escapes the re
porter and the artist of the yellow
journals when a rich person is
concerned; not even <the details of
the advent of the little stranger
who toay inherit-the fortune. It
is all intensely disgusting to peo
ple of gentle breeding.—Ex.
The annual statistics show the
following* totals for the United
States only: Disasters, 15,265, in
crease over 1899, 8,490; killed by
railroad accidents, 4,109, increase,
557; general marine disasters, 2,719,
increase, 499; lynchings, 115, in
crease, 9; hangings, 119, decrease
12; murders, 8,275, increase, 2,050:
suicides, 6,755, increase, 1,406; fire
losses, $159,250,223, increase, $8,-
712,858; embezzlements, $4,660,134,
increase, $2,441,761; donations and
bequests to institutions of all kinds,
$62,461,304, increase, $17,288,652.
It Girdles the Globe.
The fame of Bucklen’s Arnica
Salve, as the best in the world,
extends round the earth. It’s the
one perfect healer of cuts, corns,
burns, bruises, sores, scalds, boils,
ulcers, felons, aches, pains and all
skin eruptions. Only infallible
pile cure. 25c. a box at Holtz-
claw’s Drugstore.
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An old criminal was once asked
what was the first step that led to
his ruih, when he answered: “The
first step was cheating an editor out
of two years’ subscription. When I
had done that, the devil had such a
grip on me that I could not shake
him off.—Exchange.
The merited reputation for cur
ing piles, sores and skin diseases
acquired by DeWitt’s Witch Hazel
Salve has led to the making of
worthless counterfeits. Be sure to
get only DeWitt’s Salve. Holtz-
claw’s Drugstore.
:
Wisconsin has been a state fifty-
{three years; nevertheless her first
lative governor was sworn into of
fice a few days ago.
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USEFUL SNOW.
But For It Much of the Earth Woult
Be Lilttle Better Than a Desert.
If all the condensed moisture of the
atmosphere were to fall as rain and
none of it as snow, ’hundreds of thou
sands of square miles of the earth's
surface now yielding bountiful crops
would be little better tban a desert.
The tremendous economic gain tor the
world at large which results from the
difference between snow and rain is
seldom realized by the inhabitants of
fertile and well watered lowlands.
It is in the extensive regions where Ir
rigation is a prime necessity in agricul
ture that the specialises of the snow
come chiefly into view. All through
the winter the snow is falling upon the
high mountains and packing Itself
firmly Into the ravines. Thus in na
ture’s great icehouse a supply of mois
ture is stored up for the following sum
mer.
All through the warm months the
hardened snowbanks are melting grad
ually. In trickling streams they stead
ily feed the rivers, which as they flow
through the valleys are utilized for ir
rigation. If this moisture fell as rain,
it would almost immediately wash
down through the rivers, which would
hardly be fed at all in the summer,
when the crops most needed water.
These facts are so well known as to
be commonplace in the Salt Lake val
ley and in the subarid regions of the
west generally. They are not so well
understood in New Jersey or Ohio,
where snow Is sometimes a pictur
esque, sometimes a disagreeable, fea
ture of winter.
In all parts of the country the notion
prevails that the snow is of great vqlue
as a fertilizer. Scientists, however, are
inclined to attach less importance to its
service in soil nutrition—for some re
gions which have no snow are exceed
ingly fertile—than to its worth as a
blanket during the months of high
winds. It prevents the bloving off of
the finely pulverized richness of the
top soil. This, although little perceiv
ed, would often be A very great loss.
In nature’s every form there is mean
ing.—Youth’s Companion.
There Was a Mistake.
“I think,” he began as he halted a
pedestrian, “I think I made a mistake
with the cabman who drove me to the
Corcoran Art gallery. I am quite sure
I gave him a $10 bill, but he must have
mistaken it for a $2 bill.”
“And you, hope to find him again?”
asked the man of the stranger to the
city.
“Why, yes, I have hopes.”
“Well, you are about as green as they
make ’em. That cabman deliberately
swindled you out of many dollars.”
“I can hardly believe it He looked
so honest and truthful that I—I”—
“That you ought to have asked him
to hold your watch and the rest of your
money! My dear old Josh from the
cornfields, let me say”—
At that minute a cab rattled up, and
the driver dismounted and said:
“See here, old man, there is a mis
take. You probably meant to give me
a $2 bill, and I thought it was one when
I gave you $1 in change.”
“But I think it was a ten, my friend.”
“No; it was a twenty, and I have
been driving about for half an hour to
find you and restore the money. Here
it is.”
“And what was it you were going to
say to your dear old Josh from the
cornfields?” asked the old man as he
turned to the wise person.
But the wise person was there no
longer. He was flying for a car as if
running for his life.—Washington Post.
Old Apothecaries and Doctors.
The offenses of apothecaries in the
middle ages were numerous and the
punishment in some cases a whipping.
The worst was the improper sale of
poisons—that Is to say, except when
not duly prescribed by a known physi
cian of reputation, and even then not
to put down in a register the name of
the doctor and person to whom such
prescription containing poison was de
livered, was punishable likewise. The
sale of poison for drugging fish was
prohibited and also that of inferior
drugs by any apothecary. To prescribe
himself (unless a doctor could not be
found) was an offense punishable by a
whipping, and all'preparations sold by
him had to be made up in the presence
of the doctor or of another apothecary.
A barber surgeon might only prescribe
for exterior applications “according to
surgery,” but we are not told what was
the " penalty in such a case.—Gentle
man’s Magazine.
Green lT0f Restful to the Eyefc
It seems as though cherished not!
were no sooner on an apparently firm
foundation than some inconsiderate
Iconoclast comes along and throws
them down. People have for many
years supposed that the color green
was restful to human eyes and* have
been referred to the green grass and
green foliage that nature has been so
prodigal with for the benefit of wearied
vision.
Now, according to a German profess
or of Berlin, nature wasn’t thinking
of human eyes when she made her pro
fuse verdant display and that her col
or scheme was carried out absolutely
regardless of the visual needs of hu
manity. \He says that green does not
protect the eye, and he denies that It
has any beneficial effects whatever.
He declares that green paper, green
shades, green glasses, green decora
tions and green umbrellas are all a
mistake and that by increasing the
green light we are simply provoking
a nervous disturbance.
He says that each of the colors tires
a different set of nerves of vision, and
therefore looking at one particular col
or saves one set of nerves at the ex
pense of another. The best method,
he says, is to dim all of the rays of
light by smoked or gray glasses, which
rest all of the optic nerves.—New York
Herald.
Safe Way to Watch Fights.
The colonel and I sat talking under a
shade tree in front of the town post-
office when a dogfight started down the
street
“Come on!” I said as I sprang up.
“Come this way/’ replied the colonel
as he seized my arm and drew me into
a doorway.
“But I want to see the dogfight,” I
protested.
“Yes, I reckon you do, but you also
want to keep clear of the shooting.”
“Why should there be any shooting? 1
“Because one dog has got to lick t’oth
er, and the owner of the licked dog
ain’t goto to let it rest that way. There
they go!”
Ten minutes later we stepped out, to
find one man lying on the ground with
two bullets in. him and some people
carrying away a second with half a
dozen.
“Dogfights are bewtiful affairs.” said
the colonel as we walked away, “but
the safest way to see one in Kentucky
is to wait till it’s all over and the dead
carried off.”—Chicago News.
Pat Money Aside.
Take 10 cents to the' nearest avail
able savings bank and deposit it to
your credit Keep it up until you have
a dollar.
Don’t wait to do this until you have a
situation. Do it now. If you have
change for car fare, walk.
This is the only way to save money.
If you wait until your salary is raised,
or until yon happen to have an errand
hear the savings bank, you may be
dead before you lay by a cent
There is only one way to save money.
That is to begin now.—New York
Journal.
A Little Short.
At one of the railway construction
works in Glasgow the other day a cler
gyman who takes a great interest in
the members of his flock engaged at
the cutting saw one of them entering a
drinking place. He hailed him, but
Pat simply looked and walked in.
Waiting till he came out, the reverend
gentleman accosted him thus, “Pat,
didn’t you hear me calling?”
“Yes, your ravrince, I did, but—but
I had only the price of one!” —Ex
change.
> Couldn't Do the Impossible.
No, the citizen would positively not
buy any of the hair restorer.
“Do you think you can make a mon
key of me?” he hissed, with asperity.
“Oh, not at all,” replied the vender
cheerfully. “We don’t pretend to be
able to restore the hair lost to the proc
ess of evolution!” V
An innocent bystander cracked a
faintsinile, but otherwise all was still.
—Detroit Journal.
An Odd Epitaph.
A visitor to a cemetery at South Ver
non, N. H., will find the following upon
a gravestone there:
Oh, be she went, and am she gone
And left poor I here all alone?
Oh, cruel fate, to be so blind
To take she ’fore and leave I ’hind!
Her can never come back to we,
But ns must surely go to she.
Sucli little pills as DeWitt’s Lit
tie Early Risers are very easily
taken, and they are. wonderfully
When threatened by pneumonia | effective in cleansing the liver and
or any other lung trouble, prompt-
relief is necessary, as it is danger
ous to delay. We would suggest
that One Minutei Gough Care be
;aken as soon as indications of hav
ing taken cold are noticed. It cares
quickly and its early use prevents
consumption. Holtzclaw’s Drug
store.
Word, of Caution.
“Never propose to a girl by/letter.”
**Why not?”-
“I did It once, and she stuck the let
ter in a book she was reading and lent
it to my other girl.”—Chicago Record.
bowels,
store.
H. M. Holtzclaw’s Drug-
For Infants and Children,
The Kind You Have Always Bought
Bears the
Signature of
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$2.50 to $3.00.
Eor Ladies, Peb. Grain Button, C. S. toe, $1.50.
Children’s School Shoes.
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anybody in Macon.
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