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m 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*. _ 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 vmvmQBvM- r.« : ■r* / 'S "V : % i > • \f~~i • ^ «- t a/Us • S’ , 9 7 • ‘/J'l// 1 , I • £ ii jTigii § A M {■ a j • • £ V- r--' >- « ^ z 1 v. I 1 <3 % m • "mm ■a e»r/Sr. : ! * & VS-JE f t tx to k V' Oa 4 ♦j hila, v: W-4 * • May 15 1908. Dear Friend; yust U They have hired me down at the grocery. <r> What do you think I do? Jacob/? Everywhere they put my picture, each to a new one time, in the paper. My work is to tell every¬ body where to buy good t ' ft ft groceries. I like my place very.well because it is a good place where they treat one well. I They treat everone i well where I work, , Xf. -'TT 11 / because they carry good Vi j | I S-XtCorbefi. —~ - groceries and sell Copyright 1907, by Outcault Advertising Co .Cij*' them at the right price S , Your friend, JACOB. P. S. I work at W. K.Thweatt’s. TYBEE BY THE SEA GEORGIA’S GREATEST SEASIDE RESORT Offers the greatest attractions for Summer Outing, Fishing, Boating, Dancing;, Surf Bathing, Skating, Bowling, and many other forms of amusement. HOTEL TYBEE Under new management has been thereughly over= hauled, and refurnished and is new throughout. Splendid orchestra, Fine Artesian Water, Fresh Fish and other Sea Food. STUBBS & KEEN, Proprietors. Also The New Pulaski, Savannah. Q V. 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