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MomrniNui* i Kirn of Mnnr Klua*.
Kcnipfd Horn For lints.
Wo Lad one cotton mill to spin the
warp. The people stood in line to get
a bunch of cotton for warp. The filling
was yarn, cottoig flax and tow. We
got our dyestuff from the forest, lt
was almost as bad ou timber as the
tanbnrk trade Is now. There was great
rivalry among the women to see who
rqulrtmad^of^ttou and linen called
a “Confederate” quilt.
Tlie clothing for every member of the
family was made from the raw ma
teriul carded, horn,'spun spun, woven, dyed and
made with thread.
The tow linen cloth bad one peculiar
Ity. It was a great stretcher. It was
’often exchanged for other things. A
man a«d his wife started to town with
cloth sufficient to get some articles. On
the w he remembered he needed a
gimlet also, lie told his wife. They
decided to tie the ends of the cloth
to two saplings, he to stretch a gim
let out of it.
I took great interest In the silk in
'
duetry. AVe fed toe worms ou muV
berry leaves, , 1 such , beautiful , .... silk
we did have. A bright stripe in a co.
ton dress made it very fine. A family
made gloves, beautiful silk mitts, with
bees embroidered on the back. Noth
Ing went to waste. The thorn trees
furnished us pins and hairpins. Our
millinery was our crowning effort
Hats were made of cotton thread cro¬
cheted, put on a block, stretched very
stiff and Ironed, then wired. We had
homemade dowers and nil kinds of ma¬
terial for trimming. A cloth frame
made stiff and covered with
cow’s horn was much admired, If
did look like a cocoanut cake.—Char
Jotte (N. G.) Observer.
Till* Slrenm ilnii* tip Hill.
One of the few instances of a
running up hill can be found in
county, Ga. Near toe top of a
tain is a spring, evidently a
and the water rushes from it with
ficient force to carry it up the side
a very steep hill for nourly half a
Reaching the crest, the water flows
to the east, and eventually finds
way to the Atlantic ocean. Of
It Is of the same nature ns a
but the spectacle of a stream of
flowing up a steep incline can
be found nowhere else In the
and appears even more
than the geysers of the Yellowstone.
Ovrrpnnflilciu'e.
It Is a dangerous point in any
career when he feels sure of his posi¬
tion or his fame. Overconfidence
file first sign of a decline, the
symptoms of deterioration. We do
best work when we are
for our position, when we are
with all our might to gain our
tion, to attain that which the
mugs for.—Success Magazine.
(i An Ice cream festival will
given at Powersville in the
school building Friday
June 5th. Commencing at
p. m. All are cordially invited
attend proceeds will be used
erecting a new church building.
Miss Kate McArthur is
ting in Macon the guest of he
brother, Mr George McArthur.
M;,ss Nora Rountree
tained in honor of Miss
Monday night the guests
Miss Clarence Houser and Mr
.David Coleman Strother
Miss Nan Jones of Savannah,
is visiting Mrs Geo P Greene.
Miss Ethel Williams enter¬
tained in honor of Miss Clarence
Houser’s guest Miss Whit¬
ing Tuesday at a spend the day
party.
The Epworth League spent a
most delighffil evening at Mrs I
N Royal’s last Friday. These
present were all the League
Rev J M Long’s Sunday school
•class gave a most delightful
Barbecue at the home of Mr
Frank Withoft on Tuesday.
HUMrtN MACHINERY.
TV" marvelous mechanical Invention*
u' today are body. but mere toys compared to
it*" human This is one machine
that must be chen constant and intelli¬
gent care. Once skditui permitted to run too
just f r without ahead. repair, the wreck is
GTUART’S BUCX3U AND J7NIPER
h-*s repaired mere ills, relieved
dwekeet Hie strain on weak tlton parts and completely
■ the cause i.".y other rnvjg»»
r-ling tsndi.il. It relie es kitlpcy tiis
c'sus, catarrh of the bi.uldcr, diabetes,
dropsy, gravel, he»d«\d:e, dyspepsia, pain
in ti e back and rifle, loss of appetite,
pcncral debility, nturaig'a, sleeplessness,
rhetunatifm and i-.-r- ouscess. STUART’S
BUOHU AND JUNIPER positively re
Ihvvs these diseases. At all stores. $1.00
,.r>er bottle. Write for free sample.
Stuoit ManwfacturinJ Co.,
At*«iu» G*.
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Methodist Church
\
Rev W 0 Stephens will preach
at the morning hour and Rev .T
C Solomon of Atlanta will repe¬
sent the Anti-Saloon League at
the evening hour.
T. G. Lang.
GEORGIA-Houston County
H. A. Mathews, guardian of E. Vas
tine Coryell, land belonging has applied for leave to
sell the to said ward: /
- 111 '* i» therefore to cite all persons
S^ille^Sof OrdinaVy ^ IW
, county and show cause, if any they
j mV e, why said application should not
, be granted. oliicial
; Witness my signature, this
June 1st, 1908.
i Sam T. HrasT, Ordinary.
! GEORGIA—Houston bounty.
f j J. T. Noble has applied for guardian
ship of J W. Oliver and Mary Oliver,
| minors and orphans of Clark and Addie
: Oliver, deceased.
1,118 » therefore to cite all persons
concerned to appear , 1 at the July term. !
i908> of tffe co t( ri , of Ordinary of said
ail d ghow cause, if any they
] } ia ye, why said application should not]
be granted, official
Witness rny signature this
June 1st, 1908.
\ m r i’. I f pa st, < Irdinary.
Letter to C. W. Withoft
Fort Valley.
Dear Sir: Some people geh
disappointed in painting; it
doesn’t come-out as they thought
it would.
C B Ddwards, of Edwards &
Broughton, printers, Raleigh, N
C painted his house Devoe three
years ago; he had used 30 gallons
paste paint before and bought 30
gallons Devoe. Had Id left.
Paste paint is extra-thick—
with'whitewash.
Mayor W W Carroll, Monticello
Florida, says; My painter said it
would take 35 gallons to paint my
house; it took 20 gallons Devoe.
His house is the best paint job in
town; and he says Devoe is the
whitest white of all white paints.
Jones & Rodgers bought Q
gallons Devoe to prime Mr Pratt’s
house at Merkel, Texas. It paint¬
ed two coats.
The reason for nobody guess¬
ing littleenough Devoe is: they
learned in a bad school: other
paints.
Yours tmlv
F. W. DEVOE & CO
New York,
P. S. Turner Hardware Co. sells
our paint.
Statement of the Condition of
The Exchange Bank,
Located at Fort Valley, Ga., at the
Close of Business May 14,1908.
RESOURCES:
Loans and Discounts - $111,920.19
Demand Loans and Cotton
Advances ..... 19,463.95
Overdrafts -- - 5,636 43
Furniture and Fixtures 2,174.77
Other Real Estate 510.00
Due from Banks and Bank¬
ers in the State 6,697.14
Due from Banks and Bank¬
ers in other States 4,957.54
Currency - - 3,724.00
Gold ... 1,847.50
Silver, Nickles and Pennies 4.569.76
Checks and Casli Items 1.487.87
Total - - - 162,989.15
LIABILITIES:
Capital Stock Paid in $ 50,000.00
Surplus Fund - )
Undivided Profits, less Cur- [
rent Expenses and Taxes ’ 4,028 44
Paid
Due to Banks and Bankers
in the State 71.79
Individual Deposits Subject
to Check 58,104.01
Time Certificates 26,076.57
Certified Checks • 708.34
Notes and Bills rediscounted 2,500.00
Bills payable, including
time certificates represent-.....
ing borrowed money 22.500 00
Total 162,989 15
Statk of Gf.okgia. )
County of Houston. S
Before me came C. E. Martin.
Cashier of The Exchange Bank, who
being duly sworn, says that the above
and foregoing statement is a true con¬
dition of said Bank, as ,shown by the
books of file in said Bank.
0. E. MARTIN, Cashier.
Sworn to and subscribed before me,
this 2d day of June. 1908.
J. C. McDonald.
Not.. Pub. Houston Co.. Ga.
Tin fruit cans with wax
strings for sealing. Only 60c
the doz. Strings -5c. The
Ten Cent Store.
BEGINNING A NOVEL.
HOW MANY FAMOUS AUTHORS HAVE
OPENED THEIR BOOKS.
ft*m• Start With Date*, Other* With
Scenery or Apoloule* — Flr»t Soa
tence IJaaally Tell* What the Am
thor 1* Wrltlnsr About.
1110 latter day author is nlways at
<T eut pains to open his novel wi
something special In the way of sen
satioual sentences, conversation or ex
c i amat j 0I1 xt is quaint to contrast
^itla tbese.thc simple, matter of fact
■“*«■«• with which most of the mas
terpieces of Action have opened.
To take our earliest (avarices first,
bow simple and unaffected Is the open
ing of “Robinson Crusoe.”
“I was born in the year 1032, in the
city of York - of a S° od fumll Y’” [t ruus -
Scott begins “Ivanhoe” with equal
simplicity:
“In the pleasant district of Merry
England which is watered by toe river
Don,” and so on.
“Westward Ho” opens with a sen
tence of quite the same kind:
"All who have traveled through * * *
North Devon * * * must needs know
the little white town of Bideford.”
‘‘Gulliver's Travels” leads off with:
' ; M.v father had a small estate in Not
tlnghamsbire. I was the third of five
sons.
Tiiese four works represent fairly
well youthful taste in literature, and
yet In neither case has the author found
It necessary to get excited and turn on
blue lightning in order,to attract his
readers.
Nearly always, however, we shell
find that the great author manages to
let you know pretty well In his flr*t
sentence exactly what he is going to
write about. Samuel Smiles introduces
os to “Self Help” as follows:
H i Heaven helps those who help them¬
selves’ is a web tried maxim, embody¬
ing in « small compass the results of
vast human experience.”
The “Vicar of Wakefield” gets at
once to the subject:
“I was ever of opinion that the hon¬
est man who married and brought up a
large family did mere service than he
who continued single and oniy talked
about population.”
Boswell splendidly and very modest¬
ly opened his monumental “Life of
Johnson:”
“To write the life of him who <*X
celled all mankind In writing the lives
of others * * * is an arduous and may
be reckoned In me a presumptuous
task. V
In a very quiet, unostentatious way
does Darwin begin that work which
was revolutionize scientific religious
thought, the "Origin of Species: M
o When on board H. M. S. Beagle as
a naturalist, I was much struck with
certain facts in the distribution of the
organic beings Inhabiting South Amer
lea. »»
The opening of the “Pilgrim’s Prog
reas ls. every one knows, as simple
as It is beautiful:
"As I walked through the wilderness
of this world I lighted on a certain
place whore was a den, and I laia me
down in that place to sleep. II
References to the weather are a very
popular form of opening a work of fic¬
tion, not only in toe case of the small
author who is so anxious to impress
upon you the fact that his first acenc
took place on a “fine day,” but alio
with great authors. For instance.
“Pendeuuis” starts off with:
“One fine morning In the full London
season. M
“Uncle Tom’s Obln” also opens on
weather, but not so cheerfully:
“Late in the afternoon of a chilly
day in February.”
For quaint openings we have that of
Thackeray's "The Newcomes:”
“A crow- who had flown away with a 1
cheese from a dairy window sate perch
ed ou a tree looking down at a great j
big frog in a pool underneath him.”
Anthony Hope is a master of charm
lug openings. In the “Prisoner of Zen
da” he at once leads the reader to ex¬
pect something In the following frag
meat of conversation:
“ ‘I wonder when In the world you are
going to do anything, Rudolf,’ said my
brother’s wife.”
“Ej^st Lynne” begins comfortably and
luxuriously:
“In an easy chair of the spacious and
handsome library of his town house sat
William, earl of Mount Severn. **
*« A Woman In White” has a sugges¬
tive opening:
“This Is a story of what a woman'*
patience can endure and what • man’*
resolution can achieve.”
Dickons’ openings are not the lea3«
charming features of Ms works. Two
of these may l»e given. “Bombey and
Son” explains itself in the first sen¬
tence:
“Dornbey sat in the corner of th«
darkened room in the great armchait
by the bedside, and Son lay tucked ut
In his little basket bedstead. ft
“Mar. in Cbuzzlewit” leads off with
♦he following curious statement:
"As no lady or gentleman with any
claim to polite breeding can possibly
sympathize with the Cbuzzlewit fam¬
ily without being first assured of tbe
extreme antiquity of the race, it la • j
great satisfaction to know that it la an- j
Uoubtediy descended in a direct fins
'dam and Eve.” I
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