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THE WATSON MELON.
Seed grown for several years
and introduced by me is of
fered to the public in limited
quantities, as follows:
% lb., 35c; % lb., 65c; 1 lb.
$1.25.
Seed guaranteed pure and
from first hands. Address
W. A. WATSON, Thomson,
Georgia.
In offering this melon more exten
sively to the public I desire to give
its history. About eight years one of
my brother’s (Thomas E. Watson)
friends sent him a small package of
the seed and stated to him that he
called it the Watson melon. My
brother gave the seed to me, I planted
a few hills the first year and was so
greatly pleased with the melon that
I planted about two acres in them
the following year, the yield and sales
were so satisfactory that I discarded
all others,
I have been raising melons for mar
ket the past thirty years, and I con
sider the Watson melon the very best
that I ever saw in every respect. It
grows larger, under the same circum
stances, has fewer rotten ends, keeps
longer after getting ripe, is very solid,
for which reason it is a good shipper.
It is, in my opinion, the best melon
ever put on the market, with a deli
cious flavor that has no superior.
W. A. WATSON.
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THE WEEKLY JEFFERSONIAN
ATLANTA, GA.
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REAL ESTATE.
Those desiring to move to South
Georgia, the most prosperous section
of the state, can secure bargains in
city property, farm lands, saw mill or
terpentine sites, by writing to
C. C. TYLER,
Box 171, Moultrie* Ga.
MARY BAKER EDDY.
In Her Youth She Was a Graceful and
Striking Figure.
Mrs. Eddy was dainty, fragile and
early in developments, writes Geor
gine Milmine in McClure’s. Her baby
manners, in an age which enforced
the law that children should be seen
and not heard, were considered a lit
tle “forward.” She has kept her beau
ty all her life; apparently there was
not even an awkward age for her.
As a young woman she was slim, alert
and graceful. Os medium height, she
had a well formed figure which she
has not lost even in her old age. Her
feet and hands were exquisitely fash
ioned. Her features were regular and
refined —a delicately aquiline nose,
a rather long and pointed chin, a firm
mouth, and a high, broad forehead.
Her most striking beauty was her big
gray eyes. Deepset and overhung by
dark lashes, they had the gift of
emotional expression. ‘‘When she was
angry,” says an old neighbor, “they
became fairly black.” All her life
those eyes have had such an effect
upon their beholders that they may
justly be called an important factor
in her career. Her skin was clear
red and white, and her hair heavy
brown.
In this hair, as if the whole glory
of her beauty, she took the greatest
pride. She always dressed well and
kept more closely to the fashions than
was common in that rustic community,
Her schoolmates remember that, when
not more than 15 or 16, she introduced
the “French twist” in Tilton.
It was an age when languishing
manners were fashionable. As a lit
tle girl even Mary Baker adopted and
exaggerated that pose. Her behavior
was mincing and artificial, and by
contrast it stood out in that rather
rough and primitive community.
Strong in the memory of the old inhab
itants is her appearance at church.
She hardly ever entered until the rest
of the congregation were seated. Then
she tripped in, dressed a little conspic
uously, but always in taste —a picture
of fashionable beauty which made
strangers and visitors stare. These
traits lured the village boys, and at
church festivals all the young farm
ers w'ere at her feet.
BRYAN AND SOUTH CAROLINA.
(The Charleston News and Courier.)
If a torrential rushing toward Bryan
should be observed in a number of
states we would expect South Carolina,
politicians to round up a Bryan dele
gation out of the next state conven
tion, but at present we incline to think
that the name of Bryan has lost the
conjuring power it once had among
the masses of South Carolinians, and
that the Nebraskan bulks no larger to
their eyes than do a dozen other par
ty leaders, of whom Carmack of Ten
nessee is a fair example. If Bryan
has the South Carolina delegation next
year it will be because the rest of the
country is hungry for him, and Till
man, Latimer and others of our states
men wish to be in line with the
country.
CANNON DODGED.
(Florida Times-Union.)
Speaker Cannon believes in high pro
tection for others, but he stocked
his trunks with linen clothes while
in the tropics, and came home without
stoping at the custom house. A high
tariff for others is all right; when
the people first endorsed the Dingley
bill they were made to believe that
the foreigner paid the tax. Since then
they have not been able to shake off
the grip. And so, the curse, like
chickens, comes home to roost.
WATSON’S WEEkA< IzSONIAN.
OUR HISTORIC STRUCTURES.
(The Columbia State.)
The country is slowly but surely
awakening to the importance of pre
serving its historic structures, the
places around which so many legends
cling. Only a short time ago the New
Mexico legislature voted to turn over
the historic governor’s palace at Santa
Fe to the government bureau of
ethnology, instead of to the city for a
town hall. The Alamo stands as a liv
ing page of history to tell Americans
how Ciockett, Bonham, Travis, Bowie,
and their comrades died for their coun
try. Fort McHenry, by the light of
whose flashing cannon Francis Scott
Key wrote the national anthem, has
barely been saved from the disgrace
of being turned into a cattle shed.
Ihe cabin where Abraham Lincoln
was born will probably be pre
served by an association, and Arling
ton, the home of Lee, is now open as
a place for visitors to see, just as
is the little cottage on Mount Mc-
Gregor, where Grant died and the
mansion in Richmond which was the
home of the Confederacy’s president.
And the list might be extended at
length.
One of the latest buildings to which
interest has been attracted, because
of its historical value, is Old Falls
church in Fairfax county, Virginia,
which is closely associated with the
life of George Washington. Erected
in 1834, enlarged once and repaired
again, it is now falling into decay and
SIO,OOO will be needed to repair it, of
which sum $4,000 have been raised.
Washington and his father were ves
trymen in this church and he had
much to do with its first repair. Brad
dock’s troops encamped in the church
yard and in the Civil war it was in
the thick of the fray, and again in the
Spanish-American war a large portion
of our army was camped near it.
There are,’ possibly, scores of other
buildings in this country that are
worthy of preservation. All have their
traditions and associations, and they
should be treasured and guarded.
OUR TRADE WITH THE ORIENT.
(The Indianapolis News.)
If Japanese can run their ships for
less than other people and so make
lower rates than other people, they
will undoubtedly get the most to do.
At every port lowest cost of service
commands the most business. But
how would this Japanese condition in
the Pacific alter anything, and in what
way would it be a ‘‘serious handicap
to our trade”? Os our foreign trade
today none practically is carried in
American bottoms. How does that
touch our trade? If the Japanese are
willing to live on a lower scale of life
than others and do the drudgery of
sea-carrying more cheaply than oth
ers, what of it? It is so much our
gain. Wherever our merchants can
employ a ship at the cheapest cost
they are so much ahead. The trouble
with this contention is a mixing up
of ocean carriage with trade * * *
If we can deliver equal or better goods
cheaper than other countries, we shall
get the trade; carriage has nothing
to do with it. There is precious lit
tle sentimentality about trade. It is
“strictly business,” and the man that
sells cheapest will get it, just as the
ship that bids lowest will carry it.
ASKING TOO MUCH.
(The Philadelphia Record.)
We respectfully suggest to the pres
ident that he direct Cortelyou and Bliss
to publish a list of the campaign con
tributors of 1904, with the amounts
given by each. This would remove sus
picion—or confirm it.
WHITE RULE IN THE SOUTH. u
(The New Orleans Times-Democrat.)
This plan of white rule is working
well in the south today, and the ne
groes who behave themselves and are
working are enjoying a greater degree
of independence and prosperity than
they have ever known before or than
they enjoy or can possibly enjoy in a
country where a different plan is be
ing tried or different ideas prevail.
If the situation is not perfect in ail
respects, if the settlement is not as
complete, as final and as permanent
as it ought to be, it is because of the
pressure from the outside, the stirring
up of dissatisfaction and discord, the
proposition for new plans of radical
settlement, the calling of conventions
and conferences to reopen the ques
tion.
People who compare the Thaw trial
with English examples of swift jus
tice should not forget the Tichborne
case and the rank injustice wrought
by a crazy English judge on Mrs.
Maybrick.
Evidently Roosevelt did not agree
with Senator Cullom that “Harriman
should be in the penitentiary.” At
any rate he hasn’t yet ordered Attor
ney General Bonaparte to chase him
in that direction.
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Out catalogue ehowe a full line of Stovee and
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265-7 Decatur Street, Cor. Moor*,
ATLANTA, GA.
IDLEWILD PROLIFIC COTTON has
captured the south. Two bales per
acre sure. Seed limited. Price cheap
Selling fast. Home grown, guaran
teed garden and flower seeds, cheap.
Sole owners of Siberian Lettuce,
grows outdoors all winter. Planted
now brings 10c per head. Pkg. seed
10c. Write us. IDLEWILD FLORAL
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Dewberry’s Delight
Is a medicine that should be in every
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which is the proper time to aid nature.
If you will keep Dewberry’s Delight
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the waste matter from the system and
turn on the nerve force so the deter
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cent of all ills that are likely to at
tack the system. Sold by all drug
gists. Price 50c per bottle. If not
satisfied with results your druggist
will cheerfully refund your money.