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WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 24, 1905, THE GAINESVILLE NEWfe. The recent combination of the Vanderbilt railroad interests and the Pennsylvania system makes one of the biggest combinations ever made in this country, which gives them a capitalization of $2,000,000,000 and a mileage of 80,000. HISTORIC HITCHING POST, DIdn'i Olaaie ills Wife. Wife—You don't seem to enjoy the dinner, dear.' Wbail’s the matter? Husband—I was wondering if there weren’t some typographical errors in that cookbook of yours. — Chicago News. One of fhe Familiar Landmarks of tlie Katlozml Capital. One of the oldest signs in Washing ton is the cast iron figure of a China man about three and a half -feet in height that stands in front of a livery stable on Sixth street northwest be tween Pennsylvania and Louisiana avenues. It has been there since 1862 young man and is one of the familiar landmarks for.” of the city, During the civil war Generals Grant telephoned you. McClellan, Hooker and -others who-j patronized this stable a great deal tied j An Exception, their steeds to this hitching post, and ! Jinks—Most things that are bought since then other distinguished person- go to the buyer, ages have had occasion to use this post during every presidential inauguration to the cellar, that has occurred since. Lincoln’s sec- exit, ond term. As a matter of fact, this much of Sixth street northwest, between Penn sylvania and Louisiana avenues, is a historic locality in more than one sense. It was on the corner of this street and Louisiana avenue that Gen- *'~al Robert E. Lee bade farewell to his ..-i commander, General Winfield . >tt, when the former withdrew from : ? Union ariny to join that of the ;5ifederacy. During the first two jc ars of the war General McClellan and others came here regularly to pur chase and inspect horses, it being at that time a sort of horse market.—Bal timore American. I DON’T yjS^MAKE A CHEIYUST’SnSSv yl/ SINK OF YOUR BODY Wf just because your liver is not working properly. rf It does not need the violence it gets when you V f pour drastic purgatives down your throat. Just adopt) the mild power theory and use P MOM’S LIVER PILLS JT^anoTONIC pellets The pills to gently touch, the liver, and start the bile in the right direction, and the‘pellets to tone the system, , so Nature’s work will tell. Booklets and samples free \ at all dealers, or complete treatment, Twenty-five J Doses, for 25c, Ji m. BROWN MFG^ CO. M NEW" YORK. AND GREENE VILLB, L TENN. A That’s all right; I’m the fellow who Tot Causes Night Alarm, ’’—New York Herald. .... , ,, , , ‘One rnsrht. mv brot her’s baby was taken with Crmio.” writes Mrs. T .C. Sni der, of Crittenden. Kv., “It seemed it would strangle before we could get a doctor, so we gave it Dr. King’s New Jenks—Yes, all except coal; that goes Discovery, which gave quick relief and -Kansas City Independ- permanently cured it. We always keep if in the house to protect onr chil dren from Group and Whooping Cough. It cured me of a chronic bronchial trouble that, no other remedy would relieve. ” Infallible for Coughs. Colds. Sometwns About a Historic gSuslUU , t # , g' ♦ronb’es.- «0c aort Race Course. BROWN'S bottles free at M. C. The Goodwood race course is quite * . -•' unique. It is a long way from a sta- ~ . . . , j. - . . . , Andrew Carnegie has purchased tion and is not near any town, says . • ^ / . / , the London Tatler. It is on a hill the f rnm * be ? ukR of Westminster a bn,id- top of which is shaped like a horse- ’ 11R ite in London, on Kark lane. shoe, the space between the two horns where he will erect a $5,000,000 being represented by a deep ravine, house. The course runs round the horseshoe, —— — the start being at the end of one A monument has been erected over horn and the finish at the end of the the graves of t.wentv-one soldiers who other. The result of this is that the fpl , in the last, battlefield with the Nez equestrians who on other courses con- triye to see both start and finish by Perees In,1,ar,s near the *earpaw the simple process of riding across mountains, Mont, twenty-five years while the race Is in progress cannot . ago. do so at Goodwood They must elect which they will see and remain there. On the other hand, the course is very easy to follow with glasses. The raqes as an institution are com paratively modern, but there must have been hunt races and matches on this course since the days of William III., when we hear of the Goodwood hunt as in existence. In 1800, howev- FAMOUS GOODWOOD C. A. DOZIER. Real Estate and Inn ance Agent. Office No, 1 State Bank Bni’fe Dunlap and Thompson INSURANCE AGENTS. Tlie Age of tlie Water Clock. As far back as 2636 B. C. a China man named Hwang Ti discovered the principle of the water clock, or “clep sydra.” It was a very crude instrument, chief ly for astronomical purposes, and was committed to the care of an officer known as the “clepsydra adjuster.” It consisted of two copper vessels, one above and one below, the former hav ing a hole in the bottom, through which the water percolated into the latter, where there was a float, the gradual rise of which indicated periods of time. Portable contrivances of this description were sometimes carried on horseback. Instruments constructed on the same principle were in use among the Chal deans and Egyptians at an early pe riod. The invention in western Asia was independent of that in the east, both being the result of similar wants. Clepsydras were subsequently formed of a series of vessels communicating by tubes passing through figures of dragons and other images, the whole being rendered yet more ornamental by floats held between the hands of genii. LIFE, ACCIDENT, AND SURETY BONDS. Senator Hoar celebrated his seventy six birthday at his home in Worcester, Mass., quietly on/last Fridav. He has been in public life since 1887, when he was elected United States senator. Sell, exchange and rent all ftl eal estate. Have in hand anyti on want in this line. Will make; our interest whether you want m r buv. Will insure your property ara Loss by fire in old reliable and pres paying companies j Thft Dahlonega Signal tells of a large mountain of coal which has bftfin discovered in Lumpkin coun ty, and it is pronounced to be ftqnal to the best Jellico coal. There is no te'ling what is hidden awav in the hills and mountains of Northeast Georgia. We already have some of the best paving gold mines in the South, an unlimited A quantity of the finest marble of the world is stored away in the hills of this section, and iron ore of very high grade has been discov ered in large quantities in many places. Who can fortell the future of Northeast Georgia? A Sad Disappointment. Ineffective liver medicine is a disap pointment, but you don’t want to purge, strain and break the glands of the stomach and bowe’s. DeWitt’s Little Early Risers never_ disappoint. They clean the system oF all poison and putridx matter and do it so gmitly that one erijovs the pleasant effects. They are a tonic to the liver. Cures biliousness, torpid liver and prevent fe ver. Robertson & Law. R. SMITH, \ A Walking Fern. Most ferns are confirmed travelers. New fern leaves grow out.from the un derground roots some distance away from the old plant. The average ob server scarcely notices this, but there is a native fern that steps off at so lively a pace that its odd habit has long furnished one of the unceasing entertainments of the woods. The walking fern often carpets ledges and tops of shaded rocks* The slender, tufted leaf fronds are singularly un- fernlike in appearance. They squirm about and “walk” by declining their taper tips to the soil and taking root there and growing. In time clusters of new leaf fronds spring from such rooted tips. By and by some of these, too, bite the earth and, taking root, start still other colonies, which in turn will continue the progress again and again. Naturally, with the lapse of time, the connection between the older tufts and the younger becomes broken, yet one sometimes finds series of three or four linked together, representing as many steps in the pretty ramble.— Country Life In America. Tlie Woodcock. The food of the woodcock consists of worms, leeches and grubs, which the bird seeks by probing with its bill the earth of such swamps as contain them. There are miles and miles of wet swamp lands among onr hills where the soil, composed of peat and de cayed leaf mold, is too cold and sour to hold worms. Into such swamps the woodcock never goes. The best wood cock ground is along the banks of woodland brooks that wind in and out through alder swamps, where the rich black mold is soft and full of worms and where the skunk cabbage and hel lebore grow thick and broad leafed. Such places are the woodcock’s dining rooms, and in them he leaves his sign manual, the oblong, almost triangular holes which dot each and every square foot of earth where a worm might pos sibly lurk.—Outing. The farmers throughout this section were considerably inter fered with last week week in gath ering their crops by the heavy rain8 that fell. The greater portion of the cotton is now open, and the crop will be very short. However, crops are are much better in this section than they are in some oth er parts of the state. Do You Trade • . - i At the Red Grocery If Not, Why Not? Here you will find all that’s freshest and best in tk fancy grocery L ne * We keep replenishing our stock sd. therefore, can fill your orders any time. Have yon tried oar offees and Teas ? We handle the celebrated Chase & Sanborn’s and Coffees—the best in the world. | What abont Canned Goods ? j Unless you buy the Royal Scarlet, you do not get tkj best. We are sole agents in Gainesville for these goo&| and you can only get them from us. j S Heinz’s Celebrated Pickles. THAT’S GOOD Tke Baggage Smasher's Wisdom. The other day an express wagon filled with trunks rattled up Broad way, and just opposite the postoffice a big Saratoga slid off and came crashing down on the car tracks. Sev eral people ran out from the sidewalk to rescue it, but the trunk proved to be empty, and there was little dam age done. “Now, if that had been full,” said one old gentleman to the ex pressman, “you’d have had a fine old time with it.” “Huh,” replied the bag gage charioteer scornfully, “full trunks don’t fall off by theirselves. You got to fling them off!”—New York Com mercial Advertiser. In on tlie Ground Floor. An ex-postmaster was one of a group in a city hall corridor recently engaged in discussing queer manifes tations of jealqusy on the part of young men in love, a dispatch in the morning pdpers having given rise to the conversation. He said that the most jealous man he ever had knowl edge of applied for a position in the postoffice. He brought such excellent recommendations that the postmaster was moved to wonder that the young fellow did not go into mercantile life. Pressed for a reason, he finally con fessed that he was giving up a better position J,n order that as an employee of the postoffice he might not only get his fiancee’s letters the sooner, but also might learn whether or not she re ceived mail from any other man.—Phil adelphia Times. _ Try them. In fact, we have ALL to eat, and we §|l it AT THE RIGHT PRICES. Can’t we do some business with yon? Telephone your orders, and same will have prompt attention. has been said by the mothers of many other boys and girls, re garding the wonderful curative and strengthening qualities of , From tt Cynic’s Dictionary. Crank—A person whose views are the opposite of our own. Egotist — A person who thinks as much of himself as other people do of themselves. lonor—That which people talk about *acjn they want to get out of doing jsaething they don’t want to do. Society—That which we lay the blame £ when anything goes wrong.—John Eliot in Lippincott’s. Routed tlie Enemy. In some of the London courts there are private dining rooms reserved for the exclusive use of the legal frater nity. Into one of these rooms one day there bustled a gaunt female who on being courteously approached by a junior counsel flatly declined to leave. Thereupon an uublushing Q. C. looked the lady in the face and expressed his mind. Still she did not budge. Coun selor Lockwood then intervened. “I do not think there is anything unseem ly in this lady’s presence,” quoth he. “She wears a gown and—yes, I’m pret ty sure that she also wears a wig.” The lady went.—London Tatler. Hasting, Neb. “Our little boy, Harry, had spasms for 3 years and we feared the disease would affect his mind. Though we doctored continually he grew worse and had ten spasms in one week. Our at tention was directed to Dr. Miles’Nerv ine and we began its use.' When he had taken the fourth bottle the spasms disappeared and he has not had one for five years. His health now is per fect." M&s. B. M. Tindall. Phone 131 Pare Blooded. Mrs. Bondclipper—Doctor, what do you think is the matter with me? Doctor—I am inclined to think that your blood is not pure. I’ll have to give you something to purify your blood. Mrs. Bondclipper . (haughtily)—You are probably not aware that I belong to a good old Norman family.—London Tit-Bits. : " Dr. Miles* Remedies are sold by all druggists on guarantee to benefit or money refunded. Dr. Milos Medical Co., Elkhart, Ind.