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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. t v s 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. i ■r ">• V ■it s l 1 0 . V? ip 41 is one i vl> W Vt/ vV'h 4/\t/ \t/' W W £ ')/ & w St/ St/ St/ m 3 m 3 'h m .»*• 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.” * ANTHOINES’ MACHINE WORKS + f A SKM i Is,*; » | *• «§ f. , Wh «« m - * *• . V; 1 "M tthi ip | V m m •B: - 1 : R m | Si * % {>:- >, if m H ■M ANTHO/NE’S MACHINE WORKS, Fort Valley, Ga. (0 a V' 2 lli&l FI r ji set f m LIVERYMAN. . I mmps-m SSeS^-'--* When in need of a good buggy or carriage with safe horses and polite drivers, phone 95. CHURCH STREET, NEAR STATION. J Interchangeable 1,000 Mile Individual Exchange Orders, $ao.oo:=Qood over entire Southern Railway System and 33 other carriers. Interchangeable 2,000 Mile Firm Exchange Orders, $4Q ; oo:»Good over entire Southern Railway System and 27 other carriers; for the separate journey of not more than 5 persons, members or employes of a firm or corporation. 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Our very complete stock includes Brick, Lime, Sand, Cement, Fiber Wall Plaster, Paris Plaster, Laths, Framing—rough or sized to order; Weatherboarding—several grades; Sheeting, Shingles, Prepared Roofing, Kiln Dried Flooring and Ceiling, the kind that don’t crack open—several grades; Doors— plain, and fancy glass front doors; Sash and Blinds— in usual sizes; Window Cords, Weights and Pulleys; Mantels, Columns, Balusters, Brackets, Mouldings, Wainscoting, Corner and Plinth Blocks; Turned and Sawed Work Made to Order; Door and Window Frames; Sherwin-Williams Paint, Oils and Varnishes; Guaranteed Roof Paint. IN FACT Evettytbins to Build iilitb Bring us a list of the material that you want, or a plan of the house you anticipate building, and let us convince you that our prices are right. Fort Valley Lumber Company. - +L -*» We have put in the latest improved Turning & Block Machine and are fitted up to get out round, square and octagon Balusters, Porch Spindles, Base and Corner Blocks. We also have a first-class Wood Lathe for all kinds of hand turning. We are prepared to get out all kinds of Dressed Lumber for buildings. Rough and Dress¬ ed Lumber, Flooring, Ceilin Or and Shingles on hand at all times. Don’t forget that we are still in the Repair Business of Engines, Boilers and other Machinery.