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old Joe roared: “Gentlemen, one mo¬
ment’s quiet.” Then he began his
speech in his most dignified man¬
ner: “Gentlemen, the day of to-day
inaugurates a new era in the old
clothes business of this famous mar¬
ket. But before I go any further I
ask you to tell me upon your word
and honor, whether you are satisfied
with this market or not?”
Replies of all kinds came from
everywhere, and for a few moments
there was a terrible shouting and
laughing. Old Joe calmly waited
until quiet had been restored and
then said: “1 notice that you are not,
and why haven’t you been satisfied?
Because you have not had the proper
goods. The goods are now here. The
American concern which I represent
tells you through me, nay, even more,
it shows you through me. I ask you
to give me your attention. . >
He took the first coat he could get
from a bundle in front of him, put it
on, and turned slowly around in front
of his audience.
“Gentlemen, English goods is
English goods, and I say nothing
against it. I only ask you—is that a
fit? Does that coat fit me? Do you
like the collar? I have very little
time—sixteen shillings and six pence.
Don’t crowd, please, all will be
served, for we have 40,000 suits in
stock »»
An hour later old Joe had cleaned
out Nathaniel's stock, bought two
other stores and the next morning
the “Great American Second-Hand
Clothing Company” began business
on a large scale.
At all docks special longshoremen
were engaged who, standing in con¬
spicuous places, showed their com¬
panions elegant suits and over¬
coats which they bought from the
concern, and in front of all the big
factories at Eastend and Whitechapel
were special ’buses waiting on Satur¬
day nights which carried the working
men that had just been paid off di¬
rectly into old Joe’s arm, and through
all the streets of London there
marched every day in Indian file ele¬
gantly dressed men carrying big pos¬
ters with the inscription: This Is
How You May Look If You Buy Your
Clothes From the Great Central
American Second-Hand Company, 114
Iloundsditch, E. C."
And to-day old Joe sits in his mag¬
nificent office in Oxford street and has
eight directors and a special cable
code In which he communicates with
the branch offices at New York, Brus¬
sels and Paris. He lias married a
real lady and receives kings on his
yacht, and when anybody speaks of
Ills arrival in London, of. Nathaniel
Weihrauch, and the bogus dollar, he
replies in the most amiable way:
“I beg your pardon, sir, you are
mistaken; that happened not to me,
but to my grandfather."—Philadel¬
phia Bulletin.
AN INTERESTING RELIC.
Jackson’s Farewell Address, in Which
He Predicted Civil War.
Daniel W. Thornton, a Chicago
railroad man, has in his possession an
interesting relic in the shape of a
copy of General Andrew Jackson’s
farewell address to the people on his
retirement from the Presidency of the
United States. The address is com¬
posed of about 11,000 words and was
delivered March 3, 1837. There were
originally fourteen copies printed in
black type on white satin, but only
one of the copies remains, that one
being Mr. Thornton’s.
Mr. Thornton was in this city re¬
cently visiting friends, and while here
exhibited tile relic and told of liow
it came to be in his possession. His
father, who was Charles G. Thorn¬
ton, a Canton, Ohio, printer, at the
time the address was made, set up
the type for the fourteen copies and
was presented with one of them.
When he died, in 1887, his son came
into possession of it and has carried
it as a keepsake since. The copy is
remarkably well preserved and the
owner several times has been offered
large sums of money for it.
There was another copy in the pos¬
session of a Canton editor, but about
two years ago liis home burned and
the satin relic with it.
In the address General Jackson
warns his auditors against a civil war.
He states that disputes will ultimate¬
ly cause a severance of friendly rela¬
tions between the States, and the
trouble will only be settled by combat
on the field of battle and with fire
and sword. The Civil War followed
twenty-four years after the farewell
address.
The speaker also denounced the
banking system of the time, saying
that great danger would result from
a few men controlling the currency
and thus acting injuriously upon the
interests of the others; that they
were exercising an unjust proportion
of influence.—Cincinnati Enquirer.
Pause and Reflect.
< • If two-thirds of the girls who go
on the stage would go to the kitchen
instead,” says the Birmingham Age
Herald, “there would be a whole lot
more happiness jn this world.” Think
it over, brother. How would yuu
li’.fV to- haVe’V’cftir dinner cooked by
the average chorus girl?
TIIE DEMAND PERILOUS.
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Give mo of thy delight! 4
Tiring Thy nil wildest thy wreathed laughter bring; bright
music
Of Rinilea to bless and mock my sight;
Thy Thy gladness merriest music sing!
Thy need is my for triumphing, toil and fight—
Give joy ray of thy delight!
me
Give me of thy despair!
My Thy sorrow’s poisoned wine;
tins thv salt, cup of wormwood dare,
T'or tny bread 1 make my prayer;
Tears are more deeply thine
Than laughter, and thy deeps are mine,
Though Give Shame and l’ain inhabit there—
ine of thy despair!
—Homer E, Woodbridge, in McClure's
Magazine.
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With a bogus silver dollar and the
firm intention to conquer England
by American intelligence, old Joe
from Newport, Ky., arrived one
morning in London. After having
sold the false dollar to an Irishman
at the depot, for three shillings, he
treated himself to some breakfast
and two glasses of whisky, got his
shoes shined and started out to do
business.
What kind of business he was to
take up and for whom he was to do
it did not Interest him very much,
as there were more details which
would easily arrange themselves. He
didn't ask anybody to give him any
Information about the streets of the
city, but simply followed the enor¬
mous crowd of people that poured
across the London bridge into the
city. He walked even faster than
the clerks who were afraid of being
late, combed his hair while he was
running, read two morning papers,
nodded in a friendly way to the Bank
of England and the Exchange, and
thus at last reached that part of Lon¬
don inhabited for centuries by people
who know only one kind of business
and cne kind of smell, that of old
clot! a.
Here old Joe stopped and looked
about. He found himself In the open
market hall where for hundreds of
years has been the greatest trans¬
actions in old clothes in the whole
world. Arming tho walls were
booths full of clothes worn by the
last few generations of Londoners,
and whore thousands of Prince Al¬
bert coats, evening coats and tux¬
edoes, besides enormous bundles of
trousers, vests and business coats
wore done up by the hundred for
wholesale trade, There were whole
armies of worn out. shoes, shapeless
hats, quaint old umbrellas and canes,
neckties and underwear. In front of
tho booths were crowds of customers
and curiosity seekers.
Working men. sailors, clerks, buy¬
ers from the colonies, not to forget
the compact mass of loafers to be
found anywhere In London where
there is easy money to be made or
stolen. Trade was quite lively, but
ns the majority of the people were
foreigners very little was said, and
most talking was done by gestures
of hands and shrugs of shoulders.
1 Old Joe didn’t stop long to look
at this scene. After a moment’s
hesitation he turned to one of the
small stands in a dark corner where
Nathaniel WeUrrauch was sitting be¬
hind his modest stock, sad and melan¬
choly because the mass of people
passed by his place without as much
as giving it a look.
"I beg you, sir,” old Joe said,
touching his hat. “would you please
tell me where the old clothes bazaar
is?”
“The bazaar, why, old man, you
are right in the centre of it.”
“This!” old Joe cried, with an ex¬
pression of deep contempt, “do you
call this a bazaar? Why, it. can’t be
auything but a joke.”
“I admit that business is a little
dull to-day, but prices are not going
down. Are you looking for anything
In particular, in black, or maybe in
sporting suits?”
“Well, really, I don’t know. I
hadn’t thought of doing anything.
But what you will you take for your
whole stock?”
Nathaniel looked up in surprise.
“You are a wholesale dealer?”
*• Of course. One of the greatest
in the world. I’m president of the
Grand Central of America.”
The old dealer looked at him ad¬
miringly, put down some figures on
a slip of paper and bashfully whis¬
pered the price.
“I'll give you half of that,” Joe
replied, "cash down in an hour. All
right. And now I must go on. 11
And without saying another word
old Joe mounted a platform, took off
his coat and roared in a \jjdce that
was heard all over the place: “Gen¬
tlemen— • •
Everybody looked at him. The
dealers were disgusted, but the loaf¬
ers were delighted. All, however,
were anxious to see what was to come
next. Once- more came ' the shout:
“Gentlemen^”
.. aChe whole crowd CQinjpepcfcl -to
'edge cldsw to NKffrftaiel’s booth,'Ask¬
ing him all sorts of questions unUl
PERFECT HEALTH IS
MENTAL AND DENTAL.
Fletcher Says Eat What You
Want When You Want It, :i
Only Once a Week.
“One hundred and twenty years is’
the natural term of life.”
“Health, perfect health, is a men¬
tal and dental question.”
"The dentist stands at the gateway
of preventive medicine.”
“All discussion of health and ef¬
ficiency hark back to chewing. There
Is no other place for them to lead to.”
‘ Don’t count the chews or do any¬
thing to make eating a bore. Any¬
thing that detracts from the natural
enjoyment Is injurious.”
“Don’t eat by schedule or when
worried, especially when angry.”
“Fletcherism is opposed to excess
in any form, even in chewing.”
“Eat when you feel like it, and eat
what you want.”
“Fasting is nature’s universal rem¬
edy. I knew a man who had been
thrown on the scrap heap and could
hardly be pulled away. He fasted for
thirty-seven days and got rid of
Bright’s disease and other maladies
and even lost a wart.”
“Eating may be a religious function
or the sacrilegious abuse of sacred re
sponsibilities.”
These are some of the pointing fin
gers on the road to Wellville which
Horace Fletcher, at the Berkeley The¬
atre, held up to the League for Polit¬
ical Education in his discussion of
“Health and Efficiency.
Mr. Fletcher had been preceded by
Dr. William Gilbert Anderson, direc¬
tor of Yale University gymnasium,
who made the experiments on Fletch¬
er and his son-in-law, Dr. Vart Sam
eren, when it was discovered that the
man who at forty-five had been given
up by the doctors, at fifty-five could
beat the best athletes.
“Fletcher will tell you to chew
your food and Wiley will counsel you
to swallow it whole, as a dog does,”
said Dr. Anderson, “but the only
referee is the body.”
“I used to go to sleep,” said Fletch¬
er, “so hopeless that I wished I might
never wake up. I was deterred from
suicide only through the fear that I
might miss something pleasant on
this side of the Styx. The story of
my recuperation is the story of many
famous men and women. One you
already know Mrs. Humphrey
"Ward. A celebrated physician and a
prominent politician are also in the
list.”
The founder of Fletcherism recom¬
mended that a child should be trained
in the way it should chew from the
first moment that it demonstrated a
desire for food.
“Some nervous people,” he said,
“suffer by their great effort to do the
right thing in chewing. This is in
direct opposition to Fletcherism.
Eating should have no element of
tediousness. When do I eat? At the
Waldorf I eat anywhere between 11
a. m. and 6 p. m. Ordinarily I take
a bottle of milk, a small pitcher of
cream, some bread and butter and a
potato. I have gradually led away
from meat diet until I have acquired
a repulsion for it.”
Fletcher said he was obliged to
chew less now than at first because
the digestive secretions had grown
more active. He likewise insisted
that the perfectly normal body re¬
quired less sleep and that five hours
were ample for him under present
conditions. He never sleeps more
except when he is in Venice, at his
home and “indulging lazy habits.”
The speaker placed no limit on the
necessary fast. He thought the body
itself the best suggester in this re¬
gard. He spoke of Ills advanced youth
and instanced a man of 100 who from
10 a. m. until 9 p. m. had dictated a
story of 10,000 words of his scheme
of living, which neither fatigued him
nor required revision.—New York
World.
Island Exploration.
Objects that the early navigators
and explorers never dreamed of now
draw learned men to some of the re
mote oceanic islands, The Canter
bury Philosophic Institute, of New
Zealand, with the aid of the Govern¬
ment, is about to send an expedition
of investigators in terrestrial magne¬
tism, geology, botany and zoology to
the Auckland and Campbell islands,
which lie respectively 2 00 and 300
miles from the south coast of New
Zealand. The Auckland Islands have
no inhabitants. Among the objects
of the expedition is the collection of
evidence concerning the ancient ant¬
arctic continent, supposed to have
joined New Zealand to South Amer¬
ica on the one hand, and to Australia,
Mauritius, Madagascar and Africa on
the other.—Youth’s Companion.
A Cube Defined.
At a village school examination,
says the Youth's Companion, the
pupils were asked to define a cube.
On one of the papers the teacher
found, the following definition: “A
"amBa^d'uar-e-lofi'g.’ cujia is a figure that aid£hf if a -square wide.
same pjj
the top and*Jjflittya also.”
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