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Times of Change in
Mew York Society
£y Frederick Townsend Mar in.
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HE people who belong to society—I call it. that for want of
T a better name—must have something more than money;
they must have personal magnetism, tact, common sense.
They must have been sucessiul in some way.
* I will hold it against everybody that money today
counts for less in New York than in any other great city
! of the There world. are plenty of people who are not rich among those
who make up what is called society. They never lack for
Invitations, Rut they have tact, self-control, personal magnetism. They do
things. They are not afraid. They have opinions of their own. Monkey
dinners or moonlight bathing parties do not interest them.
New York i stoo colossal today to be ruled by mere money.
Society has been set-ridden long enough.
Twenty years ago the late Ward McAllister ruled New York society. The
ballroom was his life. The books and articles he wrote indicate that he never
thought of anything outside of dinner, dance or cotillon, The life of the out
side world did ont concern him in the least.
The day of bizarre entertainments has passed.
Why should we object to an actor in society? We are glad to meet a
novelist or a gallant soldier, a man who has invented something that will ben
«fit the human race. They are far more interesting people than those whose
only claim to distinction is a vast inherited wealth.
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0 i What the Sun Does to Us
I Ey Dr. Jiustin O'Malley.
VERYTHING proves that the white man degenerates in the
E tropics and sub-tropics. Now, the cause is to be found in
the ultra-spectral rays of sunlight. These rays injure or
destroy the animal cells—the body cells—unless these are
especially protected.
* * These ultra-spectral rays of the sunlight are the same
as X-rays, Becquerelle’e rays, Charpentier and Blondlot’s
rays, or the rays from radium, actinium and polonium. All
these latter rays will burn a man’s body very severely if
lie Is not protected against them by leather or lead. The first man to apply
X-rays to surgery in England was burned so badly that he has already lost
•one arm—will probablylose the other and has suffered intense pain for five
years.
Of course, the effect of the sun -rays is not so sudden or violent, for there
is loss power in them when they reach the human body than there is in these
other rays, But they are like the mills of the gods—working slowly, but with
certainty.
Man’s natural protection against the ultra-spectral sun rays is the skin
pigment. The man whose natural habitat is tropical has the prgper amount
of pigment to prevent the sun rays from injuring him. But the man of the
north has not enough to permit him to withstand the sun in the tropics and
the subtropics, so the rays enter through his skin, injure tiie nervous cells and
produce degeneration.
* The Argument Against
Federal Regulation
I By Ex-Attorney* General Harmon s
WO excuses are advanced for Federal intrusion into State
T affairs. One is that the States do too little and the other
is that some of them do too much in the way of railroad
and corporate regulation and other corrective measures.
There are not contradictory, as they might at first ap¬
X are public pear, harmful, because interference though there with may my the inherited be conduct both too and of little required business, and ideas too and much both both
lead me to fear the too much more than I fear the too
little. It is often harder to draw the line between useful regulation and
harmful meddling, and harder still to have that line respected when politics
unfortunately becomes involved with questions relating to business, and
public feeling is aroused. A great many things are none the less home
affairs because they may be or become remotely related to commerce
among the states, the regulation of which is granted exclusively to Con¬
gress. If the Federal authority should be extended over all these the
states would soon become mere regions. The pretext for such extension of
power is that railroads, telegraphs, etc., have brought about the commercial
unity of the states, But that is no reason at all, because such commercial
unity was the very object in view in framing the clause which gives to Con,
gress the exclusive power to regulate commerce among the states; and as
the clause accomplishes the purpose intended, why should anybody seek to
twist it out of shape by forced construction?
Notes From Kansas.
When you see a boy with curls and
a sash it is a very good sign that the
father doesn’t have his way in the
■house.
So many people go out to the ceme
' teries to steal flowers that a sign
should be put up to this effect; “No
admission except on business.”
The women can dress cooler in sum¬
mer than the men. but they can’t pump
up a bucket of cold water from the
cistern, douse tbeir heads in it, and
look better for it.
In getting acquainted with a mar¬
ried woman you will find she is pretty
apt to say; eai'ly in the acquaintance,
“I did not know a thing when I was
married.” What docs she mean?
If a girl lUnf* lives in the south end of
town, nod a violin, she manages
to take lessons from a teacher Jn the
extreme noHh^Avrt. It giv^a'Fftvr so
much greater«$BGf«nceTo cnrry’lier fid¬
dle through the street,—Atchison
Flobe.
A Sign.
“I didn't know four mother was
dangerously ill,’’ said the observant
neighbor.
“Why, she isn’t,” replied the dainty
daughter. “What made you think
that?”
“I saw you washing the dishes this
morning.”
And is it any wonder that they nev¬
er speak as they pass by?—Detroit
Free Press.
The Roomy Attic.
Radiantly lovely, she had come to
see the poor young poet in his attio
room. “The view is divine,” she said,
“but aren't you cramped for space?”
“Oh, no,” said he. “I get on nicely
now. But to tell you the truth, I was
deueedly crowded till they took off the |
wall paper.”—Judy.
General Booth's dream is a fleet of
Salvation Army steamers carrying the
army's emigrants across Uie#Atlantic.
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TURNIPS.
For early use 9eed of
should be sown as soon as the
can be prepared. Although
are frequently sown broadcast,
results are more certain by
one-half inch deep in rows one
Apart.—Indianapolis News.
POINTS IN GARDENING.
There is little danger of
the soil too rich for a vegetable
den.
The use of hand tools is
sary in the preparation of a seed hed
if the soil is worked at the
time.
The labor of hand weeding may
reduced to a minimum by planting in
freshly worked soil only, tilling
to the rows early in the season and
permitting no weeds to ripen
seed.
The use of a wheel hoe saves labor
in the care of a garden even when
much of the tillage is to be done with
a horse.—Weekly Witness.
BREEDING SWEET CORN.
Considerable tabular data are giv¬
en by the New Jersey Experiment
Station, showing the effect, as
cated by the Composition, of
sweet corn by the ear to row method.
Three plats were selected from the
first year’s planting, and analyses
made of a number of ears from each
row. These ears were allowed to
ripen, and were planted in the season
of 1907. The result again indicated
the tendency of certain individual
ears to transmit a high percentage of
sugar, and that this tendency pre¬
vails throughout the entire row
grown from such an ear.—American
Cultivator.
PINK RAMBLER ROSES.
The crimson rambler has suddenly
come into fashion abroad, and in all
the recent accounts of functions
London one reads of its being
ployed as a decorative bloom. It has
been a great favorite in this country
for some years, but the pink species
is now beginning to rival it.
Tn June and early July one sees it
all through the suburbs, says Town
and Country, and it has quite
the place of the honeysuckle, the
ginia creeper and other climbers
summer house and trellis covering.
Some years ago it was introduced
by the florists here as a potted
for Easter, the blooms being forced.
Before that time, both in
and France, it was considered as
rather an ordinary variety of
rose and was not held in high esteem.
A new rose, faint pink and single,
a climber and evidently a wild
in its native land, has been used
large quantities for decorative
poses. The blossom is quite
and feathery, but massed the
are most effective. The demand
pink flowers of any kind this
exceeds that of any other color.
ing the winter the Killarney rose
even the sterling favorite, the
can Beauty.
STRAWBERRY POINTERS.
When you get strawberry
don’t set them until you have
them by cutting the tip ends off
roots. Where the roots are cut
will callous, and from this point
feeders will start, and when the
ers start pumping moisture
with plant food, the plant’s
machinery is put into motion.
setting the plants spread the
fan-shape, put them straight
into the soil, press the soil
against the roots, leaving the
of the plant clear up above the
face.
Cultivate after each rain, just
soon as the soil will crumble. If
doesn't rain cultivate every eight
ten days, and keep a dust blanket
tween the rows and all around
plants in the row.
Remove the first runners if
any reason the mother plants are
growing vigorously; let the first
ners set If the mother plant says
her appearance and condition
talk.
Mulch immediately after the
freeze. In the spring part the
directly over the rows, just
enough for the plants to come
through.
Grow the plants either in the
ble hedgerow or in the twin
hedgerow.
Never pull any weeds; kill
before they are big enough to pull.
Just as soon as the plants are
out begin to cultivate.
Pinch off the fruit stems
buds open.—Indianapolis News.
A pajr of robins built a nest
hatched a family in the pocket of
old coat which had been left
on the wall of an unoccupied
at Lodsworth, England.
* ANTHOINES’ MACHINE WORKS *
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ANTHOINE S MACHINE WORKS,
Fort Valley, Ga.
Everything to Build With.
We have recently purchased the Harris Manufacturing
Company’s lumber plant and stock and will devote our
exclusive attention to the builders supply busines in the
future.
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
Frame's; Sherwin-Williams Paint, Oils and Varnishes;
Guaranteed Roof Paint.
IN FACT
Everything to Build lilitb.
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.
W. W. HAFER,
DENTIST,
Fort Valley,
Office over First National Bank,
C. Z. McArthur,
Dentist
FORT VALLEY, GA.
Office over Slappey’s Drug Store.
A. C. RILEY,
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW,
WRIGHT BUILDING,
Fort Valley, Ga.
Practice in all the courts. Money
loaned. Titles abstracted.
fire $ Life insurance
H. D. Skellie.
Office Phone No. 54.
FORT VALLEY, GA.
C. L. SHEPARD, t
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW,
Fort Valley, Ga.
Office Over First National Bank.
TONSORIAL ARTIST
For anything in the tonsorial line
don’t fail to call on
WILLIAMS
Next Door to Post Office.
Experienced all. workmen Everything and courteous at»
tention to up-to-dats.
HILBERT GIRL A SUICIDE.
Body Found at Chesterfield, Mass.,
With Revolver in the Hand.
Chesterfield, Mass.—The body of
Esther A. Hilbert, who disappeared
on September 13, was found in the
woods less than a mile from her
home. There was a bullet wound in
her head, and a revolver was clutched
in her right hand. I. is believed that
she killed herself,
Miss Hilber to vras >eceen
years cld, was abr it to eu Smith
CoL when sii t ? •? q -
The melon-choly days will seen be
passed and gone.
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, Ceiling
and Shingles on hand at all
times.
Don’t forget that we are still in
the Repair Business of Engines,
Boilers and other Machinery.
SAM LOO,
FIRST-CLASS LAUNDRY
FORT VALLEY, GA.
PRICE LIST.
Shirts, plain.............. 10c
Shirts, plain or puffed with
collar............ i 21-2c
Suits cleaned....... 50 & $1
Pants pressed........ 25c
; Collars............... 2 1-2
I Capes, collar or fancy 5c
Cuffs each per pair,.. 5c
Chemise............. 10c
Drawers............. 5c
Undershirts......... 5c
Socks, per pair..... 5c
Handkerchiefs........ 2 1-2
Handkerchiefs, silk.. . 5c
Shirts, night, plain... 10c
Coats...... ... 15'to 25c
Vests...... .... 15 to 20c
Pants...... ... .25 to35c
Towels..... ;2 1-2 to 5c
Table cloths .... 10 to 25
Sheets..... .7 1-2
Pillow cases, plain...... ..5c
Napkins.......... 2 l-2c
Bed spreads..... 15 to 25c
Blankets....... 25 to 50c
Lace Curtains.... . 20 to 25c
Ladies’ shirt waist .15 to 25c
Skirts........... 2<3 to 35c
While you are figuring out how
much money you might have made
by buying stocks at the low point,
warns the Indianapolis News, just re¬
call that about that time you were
telling the collector that he would
have to come around later, It may
comfort you.
Hanged to Tree by Mob.
George Clark, a negro, shot Con¬
stable W. H. Taylor, who attempted
to arrest him at Shero, Texas, and a
mob hanged the negro to a tree, leav¬
ing him for dead. Next morning he
was found to bo alive and was taken
to jail.
Samuel J. Ritchie Drops Dead.
Samuel J. Ritchie, niillio: £1 cap¬
italist, of Akron, Ohio, and discoverer
of rich nickel and copp r at
Sudbury, Canada, droop: dead in a
hotel in Charleston, W. \
! A man may be as broad he is
long and then be narrow.
! The beats as well as the beets come
in bunches.