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.• V * PUBLISHED IN THE INTEREST OF RELIGION, EDUCA TION, LITER A 7 URE AND GENERAL INTELLIGENCE . YOL. XX. Notice. I beg to advise that the ex amination for candidates for the office of County School Commissioner will be held by the Board of Education on Thursday, June 30th. 1910. The State School Commis sioner advises that the sub jects covered in this examina tion will be the same as "those for the teachers examination, and only those making eighty five per cent or more in the same shall offer themselves for this office, I beg to advise further that the Teachers’ Institute for this county will convene on Mon day, July 4th: I take pleas ure in announcing to you that the Board has again secured the services of Prof. J. W. Marion, of Cornelia, as ex pert. All resident teachers are Required to attend. lam expecting to have representa tives from the University and the State Normal School with ,us during the week. The public is cordially in vitea to attend these sessions * P and we would be glad for you to do so. C. L. Harris, C. S. C. Smith —Groover. Mrt. S. M. Smith, of Columbus. Ga., announces the marriage of her daughter. Mary, to Mr. Marshall E. Groover, of Cumming, Ga. The wedding took place Sept, 14th, 1909, and was kept secret until a few days ago. The marriage cer emony was performed at the resi dence of Mrs. F. M. Robertson, 172 Forrest avenue, Atlanta, Ga., by the Rev. Dr. Pendleton, pastor of the Christian church of this city.— Atlanta Constitution. The above is of local interest, as Mr. Groovsr was a salesman at G. F. Turner Co’s department store until recently, and met his bride while she was viasting in the city last season.—Gainesville News. Timely Advice. Stop grumbling. Get up two hours earlier in the morning, and begin to do something out of your regular profession. Mind your own business and with all your might let other people’s alone. Live within your means. Sell or give away youi dog, Smoke your cigar through an air stove. Eat with moderation, and. go to bed early. Talk less of your own peculiar gifts and virtues and more of those of your friends and neighbors. Be cheerful. Fulfill your promises. Pay your debts. Be yourself all you would see in others. Be good) and stop grumbling. Ctljc gkorman. SILVER CITY The farmers are getting along slcrer with their crops. Miss Ollie Pirkle has been vis iting her grandmethpr, Mrs Eliza beth Bannister. Mr and Mrs J J Childers visited the formers parents Mr and Mrs A E Childers last week, Messrs Willie and Grady Ban nister and Gny Sewell are at home from Clarksville where they have been attending school. Mr and Mrs P S Abbott was the guest of Mr M C Clark and fami ly Sunday. . Miss Addie Pruitt spent Sunday night with Misses Lizzie and Cora Bannister, We are sorry to say that Mr George Grizzle is on the sick list, we hope he will recover soon. Mr and Mrs R P Bannister spent Sunday and Sunday night in Pick ins Cos. Mr and Mrs T P Pirkle visited relatives near Dawsonville Sun day night. Mr and Mrs Jeff Bennett and daughters Gertrude and Vera visi ted Mr and Mrs Elmer Bannister last week. Mrs W E Hope who has been visiting Mr A J Logan has re turned home. Mr and Mrs Ed Hulsey were the guests of Mr W H Hulsey and and family Saturday night. Mr and Mrs W B Pruitt visited relatives in Dawson county Mon day, Chums. DAVES CREEK The farmers are making good use of this pretty weather. Mr and Mrs R B McWhorter spent Saturday night and Sunday with relatives in Buford. Miss Ethel Blacksiock spent Sunday afternoon with Misses Cora and Causie Gilbert, Several from here attended ser vices at Haw Creek Sunday, Mrs L D Anglia and family were the guests of Mr and Mrs J D Green recently. Oh yes : Sparty Kid I think 1 kijpw you, come again.; Miss Jewell Gilbert spent one day last week with her aunt Mrs Bertie Garner, of near Buford. Mrs Esther Gilbert and children spent Sunday afternoon with Mrs Viola Terry. Well as news is scarce this week I’ll skidoo. Honey Dew. ROUTE 6 Fighting grass is the order of the day in this part. Several from here attended the singing at Beaver Ruin Sunday p. m. Miss Vera Samples and brother Worley spent Sunday night with Mr and Mrs A L Hansard, Messrs T P Hulsey and H II GUMMING, GA. JUNE 24 1910. Hope, of th* 14th district, spent Sunday with Mr W L Hulsey on route 6, The many friends of Mrs Johnie Mullinax, who is in Atlanta for treatment, will be glad to know she is getting along fine. Mrs Lizzie Hansard is on the sick list this week, Mrs Emma Hansard visited Mr and Mrs Taylor Fowler Sunday p. m. Miss Vera Samples visited Miss Alma Samples Saturday Mrs Lou Crane visited Mrs Liz zie Hansard Sunday p. m, Two White Roses. ROUTE 7 Rev F T Williams preached an interesting sermon at Bethlehem Sunday. Mrs Fannie Hansard who has been very sick, we are glad to say is improving, Mt Dillard Holland and wife visited Mrs Augusta Monroe and children Saturday night and Sun day. There will be all day services at Bethlehem the first Sunday in July, there will be singing and Mr W W Mangum will preach at eleven o’clock, everybody is in vited to come, good- singers espec ially. 1 1 ;■ ' -v Miss Pauline Dodd who has been attending the special term of school for teachers at Cumming, has re turned home, Mr Alec Fowler reports a fine boy at his home. Mr and Mrs R P Thompson spent Sunday with Mr and Mrs Eddie Wright near Birmingham. Little Misses Fannie Mae and Annie Bell Wills, of Cumming spent the week-end with their grand-parents Mr and Mrs J S Hansard. Several from around here at tended the singing at Mr J M Sat terfield. and report a nice time. Say Red Bird wasn’t those peaches fine Sunday. Mr and Mrs Jim Sewell visited Mr and Mrs T A Treadaway Sun day. Jav Bird, Lovely Woman. This is the ladies! age. There is no mistaking that fact, and in spite of fate she is going to play no sec ond fiddle in the near future. The ladies, bless ‘em, can do anything now days but fish, and already they are wonderfully proficient in that art —as far as suckers are concern ed. The lady never says can’t ex cept when she means won’t, and when she says “I will,” you can bet your neck she is going to if she has to sell the family bible to do it. The woman of today is a dif ferent being from the woman of fifty ago. The shrinking, trembling, weeping heroines of Thackeray and Dickens have dis appeared, it is better that it is so. For my part, I prefer the Becky Sharps to the Amelia Sedleys. Not only has the woman of today shaken off those old time weak nesses, not only has she assumed a stern independence, which to some is well nigh disheartening, but she has made her determination known to the world, has waved it defi. nt ly in our faces in the shape of cer tain signs and symbols which have a tendency to add emphasis to her emancipation. A nothftr thing : A woman can go shopping and save at least a hundred dollars in spending fifty. Oh, indeed it is wonderful how much the average woman can save when she goes shopping. It is. really 1 She is so saving. She is so saving- She would gladly spend five dollars for the mere pleasure of saving fifty cents. Then she can make fancy work. It is simply wonderful what the average woman can do in that direction. She will embroider a doily for a church fair; using fifty cents worth of material, and at least a week’s solid labor and she will be delight ed when she hears that some gen erous purchaser bought it for 75 cents on account of the good cause, We hear a great deal of complaint from women about the poor wages paid, and the low value set on wo man’s work. But, my dear wo ..*m, -n ’§ yovt hvho have act the value on your When a wo man is willing to spend three months spare time in arder to save a few cents a yard by making her own carpet, is it any wonder that her labor is considered cheap. The Old Woman. Was it you, young man, we heard us ng those words when speaking to your mother. “The old wo man,” A nice phase to he using about the dear soul who kept her virgil over you 111 your infancy, kissed away yourteirs in child hood and remains your trusted friend in maturity. Is this all the love you have for the silver haired mother who bathed your scorching brow all through the long sleepless nights of affliction, when your brain was wild with burning fever? Is there no other term you can find for her whose love has followed you through every trial, tribulation and misfortune of your life? lias mother, through all these years uf labor, watching and waiting, been wasting her love on a worthless bunch of clay, who, in the rosy dawn of manhood has no other term more fitingthan “the old wo man” by which to address or speak of his mother? Mother, young man, is the sweetest name in all the world and should be held in reverence by every boy. The time is coming when her feeble hands will be folded, her watchful eyes closed and the lips once warm with mother’s love be cold, the fond heart whose anxious beatings once followed your wayward feet will be stilled forever. So while you can, call her mother : you will miss her when she’s gone. Remember what she has suffered for yon. When ever> friend has forsaken you, motner is as true as steel. And now that she is step by step going down life’s other tide, to n ar the water's edge and to step across, comfort her old age by speaking kindly and affectionately to her and make her feel that life was not lived in vain and all the toil with out recompense. Lead her gently through old age aud when you speak of her or to her do not style her as “the old woman,” but place a kiss upon her wrinkled brow and say “mother” and in a way repay her for the many heart aches she has suffered in your behalf. Sing to her softly, and see the light of love come to her eyes as she heats her boy say in tones which seem to her as gentle as the rustle of an angle’s wing, “Mother, I love you,” Memories Of The Past. Can anything be more pleasant in the busy hum-drum of after years, than to permit your mind to wander bock to the doys of school life, the sweet memories and inci dents that come up, the smiling faces and pleasant countenances; the old school house door, that has so often admitted you, swinging back and forth on its great hinge*; theory speaking forth el happy hours ; while at your side, srands the noble teacher who has watched your every move, and is as much interested in your snceew as yon are yourself. As theoe pleasant recollections come back to one. the eye is almost moistened as he realizes those days are gone for ever, and so manv who took part in those happy hour*, as well. As we sit ank contemplate that never again in this life will those days return, that the participants who so joyously together in the school room and play ground pledged loy alty and faith to the old school, and wnose memories are the most pleasant in our life, are scattered far and £wide, and some departed forever to their eternal home. When this is realized, sad. indeed, is the heart, and the swiftness with which the years pass by makes one understand that we are journeying toward the setting sun. A school boy’s composition on ‘The Editor,’ ran as follows : “The editor is one of the happiest beg gars in the world. He can go to the circus in the afternoon and evening without paying a farth ing, also inquests and hangings. He has free tickets to the theaters gets wedding [cake?) sent to him and sometimes gets licked, but not often, as he can take it back in the next sssue, which lie generally does. While other folks have to go to bed early, the editor c?n sit up every night and see all that it going on. No complaint is made about short measure when we have a peck of trouble. NO- 24