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PEARSON TRIBUNE. PuhliHbed Weekly by Tribune Publishing Company. I!. T. ALLEN, Editor. Entered at the PoHtofllee in I'earHon, < .eotfcla, rk mall matter of the Hee.ond cUlkk. Huburlption erlee, SJ.OUa year In advance*. jSSW All hall to the American eaiile, Proud bird of freedom, all hall! Thy Hpotleaa name no man can Inveigle. Or put Halt on thy beautiful tail. "Lilierty Loan Bonds." Have you subscribed for one yel'l'lioy arc for sale on the installment plan The newspapers are calling for a “Sober Fourth'' of July. Guess il will be sober down here in “bone dry’’ (Seorgia. Vour “I'nele Samuel" will hear all your excuses patienll.s and thoroughly, and render his de eision deliberately. The home cannery is the most interesting and profitable to the consumer. They know its pro duels are absolutely clean and can he eaten wit h a relish. “The South should he the last section of Ihe country to worry over the question of food produe lion,” says the Americas Times Recorder, “but unless the farmers of Dixie make up to the real situa lion, there will he some tightening of belts before many months have passed." The Savannah News defines "sheep” to be a necessity and “dogs" a luxury, and adds that Georgia farmers had rather raise one luxury than a dozen lieeessi lies. Here’s hoping the gentle man from Hen Mill will succeed, at th next session of the legisla ture, in putting tin- luxury off the menu. “Surely the last word in German barbarity lias been reach cd,"says the Macon News, "when the bodies of her dead soldiers are boiled for the oil they contain and then converted into fertilizers. The admission comes from tier many herself, and the grewsotne enterprise is carried on b.\ private capital for t lie money there is in it With even product of Iho farm bringing top prices and federal money avaiable at bargain rates the boy or girl who leaves the farm for the town or city virtu ally exchanges wealth and hide pendenoo for a mighty uncertain prospect in the jostling crowd. Stick to the farm boys. You are better off than you would tie in the city.—llutler Herald. An exchange insists: "Newspapers are more valuable than over these days, and the advertiser finds it so when he tries them. There never was a time in American history when nowspaiioi's are as widely lead and scrupulously studied for bargains." The people are relying more than ever upon their local newspaper for the store news: they haven't time to spend an afternoon or a day hunting for what they want. The Savannah News complains at the "unsuccessful stabs" that have been made to pass an effect ive prohibition law, one where there would no quibbling or question ing. It says: "Sometime, some where there is going to lie a legis lature capable of acting on an issue in such manner than even the law years and the fHiliee w ill know what to do." That "some time” will be when the tieopfe stoji electing fanatics and fadists to the legislature, OPPORTUNITY. Many do with opportunity as children do at the seashore; they fill their little hands with sand, then let. the grains fall through one by one, till they are all gone Four things come not back; the spoken word; the sped arrow; the past life; and the neglected opportunity. Opportunity lias hair in front, behind she is bald; if you seize her by the forelock you may hold her, but if suffered to escape, not Jupiter himself can catch her again. Opportunities are the offers of (Jod, heaven gives us enough when it gives us op port unity. Oreat opportunities are generally the result of the wise improvement of small ones Wise men make more opportunities than they find. If you think your opportunities are not good enough you had better improve t hem. Remember you are respon sible for talents, for time and for opportunities; improve them as one that must give an account. Make hay while the sun shines, (lather roses while they bloom. As a general rule, I hose who have no opportunities despise small ones; and those who despise small opport unities never get large ones. Opportunity does not only do great work, but if not heeded is often most disastrous. A shipmaster once said, "It was my lot to fall in the ill-fated steamer, the Central America. The night was closing in, the sea rolling high; lint I hailed the crip pled steamer, and asked if they needed help. Tam in a sinking condition,’cried Captain Herndon. 'I will try,' I replied; but had you not better send your passen gets on board now?' 'Lay by me till morning,’ again said Captain Herndon. I tried to lay. by him; bid :i( night such was the licsivj roll of the sea I could not keep my position and never saw the steamer again. In an hour and a half after the captain said' Lay by me till morning,’ the vessel with its living freight, went down —the captain and crew and a great ma jority of passengers found a grave in the deep." There is so little time for oversqueauiishiiess at present that t lie opportunity slips away; the very period of life' at which a man chooses to venture if ever is so confined that it is no bad rule to preach up the neces sity, in such instances of a little violence done to (lie feelings and uf efforts made in defiance of strict and sober calculation and not pass one opportunity after aunt her. What may be done at any time will be done at no time. Take t iine while turte is, for t ime* w ill away say the Fnglisli, , When the fool has made up his mind, the market has gone by; Spanish. A little too late, much too late; Dutch. Some refuse roast meat, and afterwards long for the smoke of it: Italian. There is sometimes wanting only a stroke of fortune to discover numberless good or bad qualities which wAuld otherwise have been eternally concealed; as words written with a certain liquor appear only when brought near the tire. Accident does very little toward till' production of any great result in life. Though sometimes what is called a "happy hit” may be made by a bold venture the old and common highway of steady industry and application is the only safe road to travel. It is not accident that helps a man in the world, but purpose and persistent industry. These make a man sharp to discern opportunities and turn then to account. To the feeble the slug gisli and purposeless the happiest opportunities avail nothing —they are passed by and no meaning is seen in them. —Selected. DO I i NOW Send us the price of a year's subscription if you are in arrears. We Need the Money PEARSONTIU lit \E, M AY, 24 I HI 7 ELEVENTH DISTRICT PRESS MEETING The editor attended the Elev enth District Press Meeting at Quitman last Monday. Among the business transacted was the adoption of constitution and by laws and the election of officers in accordance with it: E, L. Turner, of the Valdosla Times, president; (’. li. L v. of the Brunswick News, vice president; Roy Daniel, of the Quitman Free Press, secretary -treasurer. After dinner, at Hotel Marie, the members had an hour in which to renew' ofd acquaintan ces and make new ones. The Tri bune man found Tom Powers, a friend of former days, but he was exceedingly busy, and there was no lingering to talk. He also call ed on his old printer standby, .1. Ephraim Ponder, called "Lph” for short, and “Sport” by character. Well lie iAviis a nice, new print shop, and keeps busy. Wo talked as he worked, as lie was very busy. Reconvening the meeting eon eluded the discussion of "cost systems" and decided t o make all Cf fort to install them in every shop in tin 1 district, and to put the busi ness on a more elevated plane. The next meeting will be at Jesup on the third Mondax in September. YOUTHFUL MARRIAGE A dispatch from \bbeville. dated May 21. says: "Miss Rosa Odom, of Abbeville, and Modic Rullard. a young farmer living south of town, were married yestor day morning. Young Bullard, ae eompanied by a friend, drove in town and got the young lady and and drove out to the Rev. <>. V. Fuller's and were married and gone before anyone knew anything about it. Mrs. Bullard is not quite fourteen years old yet." From the Tribune's point of view such marriages are crimes be fore (Jod and man. I udcrtliclaw this little girl could not contract marriage, and if sin* refuses to eon firm it after she arrives at four teen years of age. a train of trou bios is in store for her. The Ordinary who issued the license violated the law in so doing, if he was cognizant of the fact, and it was his business ' ' now. lie is forbidden to issue incase for tile marrige of a female under eighteen years of age without her parents' consent, and to a female under fourteen years of age not at all. The law makes it his business to inquire into such matters. Did tin' parents of the young girl know that this marriage was to lake place’ If so, they permit ted a great wrong against* their daughter, whom the law says is of too-tender years to enter into any such contract, and the consum mation of which inaj entail upon her lasting misery. It they didn't know it. then the young man com mitted a great wrong against t hem by enticing away their infant daughter. These kind of marriages are get ting to be 100 frequent; the Jaw relating to this ..matter adminis tered too lax: the grand juries should put a stop to it by prose ruling lilt' guilty. CLEAN MEN ARE NEEDED It is surprising what passed be tween the lip s of the average man. The profane language the obscene language the dirty talk that ex presses sooty ideas, the coarse jokes and the careless flippancy about sacred things should not be yet all of us are at times guilty of thoughtless utterances. llow lnueh better would men be if their tongues were as free from dirt when addressing their bro thers as when addressing their sisters, their mothers and their wives. The average man has one frame of mind for men and anoth er for women, and each has its vocabulary to express it meanings. We Want Your Business [,X - MORRIS DRUG COMPANY Business Cards DR. W. C. HAFFORD Practice Limited to Diseases of the Genito-Urninary System and Rectum. Office flours 9to 12 A. M. 2 to 4 P. M. 7 to 8 P. M. 4.10 BUNN BUILDING, Waycross, (ia. 1! T AU.I..N B. U. All. ALLEN & ALLEN ATTORNEYS AM) ( OCNHKI.OKS PEARSON, GEORCIA Practice in all the courts. State and Fe dera New Cotton Menace Appears. The pink boll worm, the most dread ed of all cotton pests, has appeared in Mexico. This is a relatively new plague and apparently had its origin in India. It readied Egypt something like eight years ago. The widespread demand for Egyptian cotton has made ii comparatively easy for the worm to travel to substantially nil of the cot on producing countries. The pink 1-all worm hibernates, in the larval ■■lute, in the cotton seed and because of this habit is readily carried to any quarter of the world by seed or raw cotton exportation. The worm is said to be spreading north towards the United States boundary. Analyzing Waters. Mineral waters are easily analyzed hy means of the spectroscope, ns shown hy M. Jacques Bardot, and this is likely to prove one of the best meth ods for this work. He sends a beam of light through the water to be an alyzed and thence through the spec troscope prism, In order to permit of examining the spectrum, this method revealing very minute traces of met als. He finds the most varied metals in different samples of mineral water, and even the rarest metals, such as germanium and gallium, which art very rarely found in nature. Sounded Too Belligerent. Seized with longing for the Phila delphia scrapple of his youth, Henry IV. Thornton, general manager of the Great Eastern railway, wrote from London to a friend at home and asked for some. He got no answer. When iiis hunger at last drove him to inves tigate, he found that the censor had refused to pass his letter because of tiie belligerent sound of the word New Spring Dry Goods That Will Set The Town Talking Come in and let us show vou our line of Serges, Gabardines, Whipcords, Wool and Silk Poplins, Shirtings, Pongees, Etc- LOW SHOES FOR THE FAMILY Our complete display presents the new Spring Styles in all leathers. Your style is here; and at just the prices you will want to pav. Call in and be convinced of true values for your money THE BOSTON STORE SST I a |ND if first-class goods, and courteous U treatment is any inducement we feel eonfiident that we will merit your patronage. We have recently procured the agenev for the famous REXAL PREPARATIONS And it makes no difference what what you may need in the way of a toilet or medical preparation you will find it here. ISf^OCERIES . Apron :*d|L Filled at Our Store c:: xsZ&YLi 3SU&& 12SSC Such are the groceries sold at this 'store. The delicate aroma of the coffee, the de licious taste of the butter— all the appetizing points of good sweet-—clean food are carefully preserved at this store. Give us a trial. THE PEARSON GROCERY COMPANY Phone No. 35 Autos For Hire T. KIRKLAND Dealer In Ice, Cool Drink*, Staple and Fancy Groceries, Fish, Etc. Country Produce Bought and Sold rn** PUBLIC DRAY FOR HIRE CTOTHING IN THE LATEST STYLES. 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