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a k3H * “SEE THE SIGN” WHEN NEEDIN a GLASSES COME TO CHATTANOOGA Locate us by the sign of the "EYE.” Ours is a complete manufacturing Optical plant. EYES EXAMINED nnd glaasos ground to order on name day. It don’t pay to have your eyes “trifled” with. You are safe in our hands. ..EASTMAN KODAKS.. AND FRESH SUPPLIES 13 E. Eight Street CHATTANOOGA, TENN, PROGRAM Masonic Odd Fellows Picnic to be Held at Lookout Hall Saturday, August 7th. 1. Music. 2. Prayer. 3. Music. 4. Welcome Address. 5. Music. 6. Address ou Masonry by Judge Moses Wright. 7. Music. X. Address on Odd Fellowship by Solicitor John W. Hale. 9. Music. 10. Dinner. 11. Masonic Address. 12. Music, 13. Odd Fellows Address by Hon. G. It. Hutchins. 14. Music. 15. Adjournment. MONTVALE. The meeting announced to commence nt Ebenczer next Sunday, hits boon postponed until the 4th Sunday. There will not bo any scr vices on next Sunday on account of oilier arrangements made by the pas tor, llev. 8. L. Williams. Mrs. Steve Anderson returned to her home a few days ago from quite an extended visit to her daughter, Mrs. Henry Robinson in Dirttown valley. Miss Rosy Barbour Is spending a few days with Mrs. Harlen Johnson of Trion. Quite a number of our young people attended a singing on Sand Mountain last Sunday. Mrs. Barbour spent last Saturday with Mrs. Jphnle Mills. Misses Huth and Eva Shropshire were pleasant guests of Mrs. 11. E. Dunwoody last Wednesday. There w ill bo an all day singing at the Free Water school house on the mountain Saturday before the 3rd Sunday . BIATE BIRD. TRANS Farmers are most through laying by m our valley. Edgar Hames was visiting at Ar iltucl.i e last Saturday and Sunday. Miss Lilia Keith has returned home after 'hree weeks’ visit to her broth ir. L. P. Keith. Mr J. A. Rush and daughters, Miss>s Annie and Bonnell, spent last week al Crystal Springs. tii'-s Mattie Keown Is on an ex tended visit to relatives here. W E. Ratliff and daughter, Mrs. Jennie Hall, of Alpine were visiting Mr. J. A. Rush and family Saturday. Mr. Grover Peterson, who has been tn Rome for several months, returned home Saturday. Mr. Burl Keown was up from Rome recently. School opened at Trans recently with very good attendance. Charles Ward made a businses trip to Dalton last week. Misses Bettie McClure and Jesse Wyatt were guests of Miss Cleo Rusli last Thursday. Miss Maude Peterson is spending this week at Coneord. The Traus baseball team went over to Naomi last Saturday to play ball, hut were defeated by the score of 10 to 3 in favor of Naomi Cecil Hunt is visiting home folks at Summerville. PAT. If you are all run down Foley's Kidney Remedy will help you. It strengthens the kidneys so they will eliminate the impurities from the blood that depress the nerves, and cause exhaustion. backache, rheuma tism. and urinary irregularities, that sap the vitality. Do not delay. Take Foley's Kidney Remedy at once, •old by alt druggists. HIS LESSON. It Taught Him Just What the Girl Wanted Him to Know. By ROBERT A. KNOWLES. (Copyright, 19». by Associated Literary Press] They sat upon the veranda side by aide, gazing silently into the soft May moonlight The air had the haunting sweetness that comes at evening from growing things in their freshness. It was still and dreamily peaceful, a time to soothe human restlessness and hu man pain. But It did not soothe Jane. She had teen sitting there so quietly nil even ing that It seemed to her she must jump from the chair, screaming at the top of her voice, In another minute. Under the light shawl she wore she twisted her hands together In an effort to control herself. Yet she continued to stare out at the moonlight as if to behold It were the one thing worth living for. Rodney was staring out nt t'.ie moon light. too, and enjoying It. He liked the stillness; he liked being able to keep silence; he liked to be sitting there beside Jane. If Rodney had loved her, Jane thought bitterly, he would at least have held her hand. But he did not love her; he only liked her because be had always known her nnd because she was the one girl with whom he could be perfectly natural. If he wished to be silent with her he was silent; he did not feel It necessary to make the ef fort to talk. Yet Jane felt sometimes that his dumbness was unendurable. If only be would speak. Evening aft er evening be came to sit with her In the same way. • Jane had always had hope until to night. A man who could sit beside a girl- a fairly pretty girl, too—on such a night and not make love to her was certainly as near being without a heart as man could be. Jane gave him up. And in giving him up she gave up also many of the dreams nnd of her longings, her youth. Slowly her eyes filled with tears. Slowly she forced back the tears and j swallowed the choking lump in her throat But sl.e could not keep back one racking sigh, nnd Rodney heard it. Ho rose instantly, reminded of the hour and apparently of her. "I must go,” he said, looking for his hat. Jane rose, too, witl. apparent calm. He looked forth nt the moonlight again, not nt her. wistfully. "It is wonderful," he said. ‘'Moon light like that always makes me forget myself. Good night. Jane." ‘‘Good-lpby." June answered strange ly. but he seemed not to notice. Iler father stood before the lamp rending n letter as she entered the house. He looked up nt her over his glnsses. "Rodney gone?" he asked. “Yes." Jane's tone was tense. "Anything tho matter?" ho inquired anxiously. She shook her head, with a hard lit tle laugh “Nothing at nil," she said. “This letter is from your Aunt Jane,” ho said. "She wants us to come to see her It has been nine years since she was hero—tho sumo year your mother died. I’ve never been to sec her since she went to Boston to live. But I am going now—we're going. Jane, what’s to hinder us from going tomorrow?” "Tomorrow?” Jane gasped. And to Boston! She turned pale with the sud denness of It all. By noon next day they had gone, bag nnd baggage. And that evening when Rodney came walking up in the moonlight he found unllghted win dows and a locked door. He sat down upon tho steps and waited. How strange It was! Jane bad not told him she was going away. He sat there wondering until Mrs. Clancy, who lived next door, came trundling her baby past on her way home. "That you. Rod?" she called in her sweet Irish voice. "Yes. Mrs. Clancy. Where are the folks that belong here?” “Why. don't you know? Hush, Ted dy, while mamma talks to the gentle man. They've gone to Boston—left at noon today. 1 can't tell you how long they Intend to be gone." To Boston! And without saying a word to him! Rodney could not speak, and after Mrs. Clancy had waited a moment for him to do so she went on with her baby, leaving him to figure it out by himself. Jane did not write to him from Bos ton. and he did not write to her be cause be did not know her address. And be would not ask for it from any one of the girls to whom he knew she was writing. But lie beard things about her—how she was going about with her fashionable aunt, having new clot lies made and enjoying herself gen erally. The hot summer dragged on slowly. Rodney grew thin and looked pale. He was working too hard, they said- "Cut it out. Rod." they told him cheerfully. “You've got money enough and are making more. Why do you want to kill yourself?” Rodney smiled pathetically and kept ou working. One day Edna Travers told him that she had just received Jane's picture and she looked "dandy." Jane had also written to say she "had three strings to her bow.” After that Rodney literally drooped. He began to walk past the house nnd. as lie grew more desperate, to sit upon the veranda in the chair where be had ■pent so many silent hours Jane's lit tle chair was beskle his, and he liked tn keep bis hand upon it. rocking it THE SUMMERVILLE NEWS THURSDAY, AUGUST 5, 1909. gently, while he thought of her. Some times be fell asleep sitting there, for it was hot weather, and night always found him tired. One night in August be came to the house late, as usual. It was still closed, dark, forbidding. But the mem ory of dear associations haunted it He stole up on the veranda behind the screening vines and sat down, with bls band on the arm of Jane’s little chair. When was she coming home? And would she come home free? It was most unlikely. Even though she had been sweet to him al ways it was evident that she had not cared for him. But if she had cared for him— Rodney, the practical, the un sentimental. fell a-dreaming. Present ly from the day dream he passed into an actual one of restless slumber. He dreamed that Jane sat in her own chair beside him in her white gown. And, waking suddenly, with a mighty start, he found that she did! For a moment he stared at her as at a ghost. Then her soft laugh and her voice set bis senses tingling. "Still asleep, Rod?” she asked. “Jane,” he said and leaned toward her, trying to find her hand—“ Jane, is it really you?” "Really and truly, Rod! When did you fall into the habit of sleeping on my veranda, sir?” “Jane!" “Answer my question, Rodney Holdsworth!” “Answer my question first, dear. Do you know what has happened to me while you have been away?” She shook her head, put her face close to his and told him that she did. "Did you leave anybody in Boston that you like better than you do me?” Rodney asked, very humbly. “No one, Rod.” “Then”—be dropped her band, which he bad been clinging to in a kind of desperation, and took her in bis arms— “you are still mine,” he sighed. “I guess it did you good to sit alone here all these evenings,” Jane said presently when she had been kissed to her heart's content. "It taught me to love and appreciate you, dearest,” Rodney said solemnly, holding her fast. Why Lightning Rods Are Pointed. The reason a lightning rod has a sharp point is because a fine point of fers no resistance to the discharge of electricity and in order that a cloud may be emptied of it noiselessly and harmlessly. The degree of resistance ! is in proportion to the surface of the object, if the rod were surmounted by a knob, for instance, the discharge would be violent. But many a light ning rod has received an electrical dis charge when the people in the build ing below were calmly unconscious of the face. Noncorrosive metal is used for the point of the roil, as corrosion makes resistance. The difference be tween a point and a ball is shown in discharging a battery. The full charge from a large battery would be re ceived quietly on a meta! point, while a moderate charge from a small one would explode violently on a ball. It is said that a full charge may be passed harmlessly through a person’s body if received on the point of a needle, whereas the same charge re ceived on a discharger, with a ball or knob on the end, would mean instant death. A Girl's Way. It was a sweltering summer after noon. Algernon sat in the hammock, and Claire occupied a wicker chair. She was very pretty, and Algernon was hopelessly in love with her. He was almost in despair as he sat look ing at her playing with bis heart, and he knew it “Oh, Claire!" he pleaded. "Why are you so cold?” “I am not, Algie,” she protested. “You are, Claire,” he Insisted. “And I say just as positively that I am not." "Claire, Claire!" he cried. “How can you say that when you know you have treated me like”— "Oh," she Interrupted, fanning her self lazily meanwhile, “I thought you were talking about the weather, Al gie.”—Lippincott's. Servants’ Accomplishments. A Brussels merchant advertised for a servant. One applicant pleased him. The terras and outings were arranged, when the girl asked. "Who washes the dishes?” Taken aback, the merchant asked her to repeat her question. The girl did so without turning a hair. "Madame washes the dishes, and I dry them.” replied the merchant. "Can you play the piano?" he asked. "No." was the reply. "Then 1 am afraid you will not suit,” said the merchant. The girl retired with a dignified air. With a politeness which is described as exquisite she turned to the merchant and said, "To morrow I shall take lessons at the con servatory. and as soon as I begin to make progress I will call again!” This story is certified as authentic.—Throne and Country. Their Size. Lawyer (to deaf witness)—Do you know the plaintiff’s pigs? Witness-Eh? Lawyer (raising his voice)—Do—you —know—plaintiff's pigs? Witness—Yes. Lawyer—How long have you known them? Witness—Eh? Lawyer (louder stilb—How long hare you known them? Witness—Foil 'em all last spring, lawyer Were they all alwut a size? Witness—Eh? Lawyer (rises on his feet petulantly and shakes his forefinger at the con clusion of each word at the witness)— Were—they- all—of—a - si»e ? ov 'em wor. ajui some ov ’em worn't.—Exchange. t . . There Must be Merit in the easiest selling Policies on the Market. When Placed they Insure Satisfied Policyholders who are Pleased to Continue as a Part of, and a Helping Factor in the Company’s Further Devel opment. The Rapid Growth Since Going on a Legal Reserve Basis and the Present Financial Strength of the STATE MUTUAL OF GEORGIA Testifies to this Fact. Organized as Legal Reserve Company under Georgia Laws September, 1905. Outstanding Insurance in Force Over $40,000,000 HERE IS RECORD OF PAST YEAR’S GROWTH: A June 30, 1908 June 30, 1909 Amount gained Percentage gained Admitted Assets $1,566,371.10 $2,337,57752 Legal Reserve 1,440.683.32 2,068,581.97 627,898.65 44% I Net Surplus 81,107.49 204,957 85 123,550.36 152% THE STATE MUTUAL has atttained a distinction in its field of operation for Progressiveness, Tem pered with sufficient amount of conservation to be conducive of a healthy growth and to insure the Safety of the interests of its policyholders. It stands pre-eminent among southern companies in size and substantiality. State Mutua] Policies are the Quintessence of the Best there is in Life Insurance. All Standard Policy Contracts are Issued, Including Four Different Guaranteed Dividend Policies which Provide for Liberal Returns in the Shape of Dividends to be Insured. During the Fast Year the State Mutual has Paid to Policy-holders in Dividends over $220,000.00 which is an Increase of 217 per cent over the Preceding year. Besides this it has, During the Same Period, Paid in Death Claims and other Payments to Policyholders $332,000.00 and at the same Time Gained in Surplus as shown above. Write for Particulars Concerning our Policies, and Cost for You. State Your Age. i STATE MUTUAL LIFE INSURANCE CO. W. M. JONES, Agent. C. R. PORTER, President. Lyerly Ga. Head Office: Rome, Ga. HE MADE HIS KICK, g The Man Who Had Long Ago Bough! an Eight Day Clock. “You don’t remember, 1 reckon,” ■ said the sour faced man, putting I his arms on the showcase, “that I i bought a clock of you twenty-five • years ago?” 1 “I certainly do not,” answered the elderly jeweler, I’ll take your word for it if you say you ; iTJd.” ■ “Well, I did. It was twenty-five . years ago last Monday.” i “Remember what you paid for it ?” “Yes. I paid you $10.” “Ever had to get it repaired ?” “No.” “It’s a pretty good clock,. then, isn’t it?” “Oh, yes. The clock’s all right, , but I’ve found out something hbout it that you didn’t tell me.” “So?” “Yes. When I bought it I asked you how often I’d have to wind it. You said once a week.” “Well?” “Well, I’ve just found out that it’ll go eight davs without wind ing.” “Certainly! Most clocks are eight day clocks. That’s to allow for your forgetting to wind it sometimes.” “I never forgot to wind it, sir. Regularly every Monday morning for twenty-five years I’ve wound that clock. That makes fifty-two times a year. If I had known it would go eight days I would have wound it on the eighth day, and 1 would have had to wind it only for ty-six times a year. It takes me about two minutes to wind it up. I’ve wasted twelve minutes every year on the thing. See! In twen ty-five years I’ve put in 300 min utes, or five hours, the half of a man’s working day, standing on a chair and winding up that blamed old clock when it didn’t need wind ing!” “Well,” said the stupefied jewel er. “what do v®u want to do about it?” “Nothing, sir. .1 only wanted you to know it, that’s all. When you sell an eight day ’clock to a man you ought to tell him it’s an eight day clock. Good day, sir!” Straightening himself up and pulling his hat brim down in front, he turned on his heel and stalked out of the store with the air of a man with a grouch who had freed his mind.—Chicago Tribune. No matter how long you have suf- | sered, Foley’s Kidney Remedy will help you. Mrs. S. L. Bowen. of! Wayne, W. Va.. writes: “I was a sufferer from kidney disease, so that at times I could not get out of bed. and when I did I could not stand I straight. I took Foley's Kidney Rem edy. One dollar bottle and part of I the second cured me entirely.” It ■ will cure you. Sold by all druggists. I THE WORD “SHIP.” From Digging Out the Tree Trunk For the Primitive Boat. There is no doubt of the evolu tion of our great modern ships from a floating log on which our earliest ancestors sat astride and with hands and pole navigated the small streams, and just as surely has our word “Ship” come from the first improvement of that prim itive craft. The etymology of the word tells us of the evolution of the craft. When the superior mind of oiir Aryan ancestors conceived the idea of hollowing out the floating log and thus decreasing its weight, adding to its buoyancy and better fitting it for their transportation, they had to find a word to express what they were doing, so they nat urally used a root that they under stood, which was “skap.” This root signified the idea of digging, hol lowing out and scraping. That is what they did to make their boats, and the “skap” became a noun to designate the boat. That root “skap” has lived and grown during the 10,000 years and more that have passed since it was first used to give a boat its name, and after the breaking up and di vision of the Aryan race it followed all of its broadly divided branches to their new homes to be used in all of their tongues. The Greeks have the root in their wmrd “skufes,” meaning a hollow cup, and the Latins have it in “scabere,” signifying to scrape. In those languages, as well as in Sanskrit, it is in many words of a similar signification. It came to the English through the Teutonic type, “skepa,” meaning a ship, or vessel, or what was hollowed out. In the middle English it was “schip,” and Chaucer used the plural, “shippes.” In the Anglo- Saxon it was “scip,” while the Ice lander made it “skip” and the Dane “skib.” The old high German had “seif” and the German “schiff.” So we see the change through the century of centuries has been slight, the same sound with the same signification having gone from father to son through all of the generations, giving us the same word when we speak of the Lusi tania as our Aryan ancestors used when they spoke of the floating log that they had hollowed by dig ging and scraping with stones and shells.—New York Herald. There never was a day that did uot bring its own opportunity for doing ■ good that never could have been done i before and never can be again.—W. H. ! Burleigh. . . It flows like electricity through I your veins: it does the work, if j you are wasting away, take Hollis- I ter's Rocky Mountain Tea. 35 cents. Tea or Tablets. | —Summervgilie Drug Co. 1 ♦ ♦ Central of Georgia Railway will sell ten-day tickets Summerville to Tybee and return, every Sat urday, May 27th to August 21st, 1909, inclusive, at rate of $12.00. Summer Excursion tickets will also be on sale to principal re sorts in the United States and Canada. For further information call on L. I*. Wood, Ticket Agent, or ad dress J. C. Haile, General Pas senger Agent, Savannah, Georgia. WESTON, Ocean-to-Ocean Walker, Said recently: “When you fed down and out, feel there is no use living, just take your bad thoughts with you and walk them off. Be fore you have walked a mile things will look rosier. Just try it.” Have you noticed the increase in walking of late in every community? Many attribute it to the comfort which Al len’s Foot-Ease, the antiseptic pow der to be shaken into the shoes, gives to the millions now using it. As Weston has said, ‘‘lt has real merit.” Impaired Digestion May not be all that is meant by dyspepsia now. but it will be if neglected. The uneasiness after eating, fits of nerv ous headache, sourness of the stomach, and disagreeable belching may not be very bad iow, out they will be if the stomach is suffered to grow weaker. Dyspepsia Is such a miserable disease .hat the tendency to it should be given early attention. This is completely over come by Hood's Sarsaparilla ' i- < renctheisiuewholedigestivesystem KiLL. ™e COUCH wd CURE the LUNCSg wi ™ Dr. King’s New Discovery i FOR Colo" s | AND ALL THROAT AMD LUNG TROUBLES. |: ’GUARANTEED SATISFACTORY? i OR MONET REFUNDED. ’■MIIIW EL.JIJL. IMnwi ■l'lllP—w ; ' 60 YEARS’ EXPERIENCE * jfi '* S; " V- £tJ ' L- » ■ tgJ . 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