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J. A. PERRY- Editor.
' v-Jf. A- TRIMBLE, Bufiness Manager.
J. HUGH McKAY, publisher.
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October 31, 1911, At the post office
March 8, 1879.
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eral Reserve Board.
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ing of
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POINTED PARAGRAPHS
However, it isn’t unlucky to find
fll) on Friday.
Success worth having never ar
rives unexpectedly.
At fifty a man hits forgotten fully
half the things he knew at twenty.
A busy person isn’t necessarily in
duBtrtous. Gossips are always busy.
Neighborly sympathy, aB a rule,
turns out to be ahoqt three-quarters
curiosity.
The world is filled with bluffers
( who show up badly on a showdown,
There is nothing natural about
some women except the foundation
i and framework.
Our neighbors can Rmell fried
onions farther than roast beef.
This would be n grand bid world if
men would pay their bets ub care
fully as they pay grudges.
Every candidate for village con
stable imagines that the country will
go to the-dogs if he isn’t elected.
A young man imagines during
courtship that he isn’t worthy of her,
but after marriage, he discovers his
mistake. ‘ i
Probably nothing makes a man bo
■weary as to. have his fool friends say
they hope his unfortunate speculation
will prove a good ' lesson.—Macon
Telegraph.
THE STRAGGLER
A certain Confederate private,
whose name might be Jim Buckelew,
was in the foremost lines at Peters-
\ burg, when the mine was exploded
under the Elliott salient, says the
Sunday Magazine. After he had
gone skyward a piece he returned
and fell in the crater, and later was
dug out from under several feet of
dirt, alive.
“I’m plum disgraced,” he confided
to the nurse in the hospital, “When
that mine went off, I was back from
the trench a bit Consequently, I was
'just goin’ up when the other fellows
was cornin’ down—and when I passed
’em every last one of ’em cussed me
and said: ‘Hey, you damned Btrag-
gler, you, why don’t you keep up with
the troop?"—Macon Telegraph.
MORE TUAN THREE ^CARTERS
OF A MILLION PEOPLE FOL
LOW AGRICULTURAL OC.
-CUPATIONS IN STATE
OF GEORGIA.
Charles Sumner tfnmJln. rtointl> .ap
pointed a member of the federal,re-r
serve board for two years, has been
assistant secretary of,the treasury In
charge of fiscal bureaus since last
February. Mr. Tlarolln had.,toed un
der consideration for some fine, but
It Is said the president desire)] Co
keep him la the treasury department
Seven mem hers i, make u» the:, board.
Including the secretary of the treasury
and the romptpolter like-carriqcy.
The five appointive meititter* will serve
respectively two. four, six, eight and
ten years. The purpose of the differ
ence In the terms of office is to divide
the membership Into classes.
A native of Boston apd Ofty-three
years of age, Mr. lluiuliu .bus bud a
large experience in financial affairs.
He was educated at Harvard ami was
graduated from the law school of that
university In 188U, beginning practice
tu Boston During the second admin
istration of President. Cleveland Mr.
Hamllfi served as ssslsinut secretary
of the treasury arid after leaving t#at
department in 1897 went to Japan as
special commissioner for this country.
In the same year be served in the
earns capacity at the convention of
Russia, Japan and the United States.
He also represented Uncle Mam In the
fur seal controversy with Great Brit
ain. Mr. Hamlin Is the anther of the
“Index Digest of Interstate Commerce
Laws’* and hM Written on many finan
cial subject*. Ho hafc been prominent
in politics and waa prominently men
tioned aa the Democratic Candidate
for governor q£ Massachusetts i n imo.
Head of Nava| Affaire Committee.
Perhaps no representative in con
gress has been moMvbosy than Lemu
el rblUlpe Padgett of Tennessee, chair
man of the house committee nit riuvsl
affairs, during the present session, ,
The naval affafhi cogim'lttee"bT khe
house hse a memltershlp of twenty-
one. fourteen,Democrats fiud.eeveu Re
publicans, the same as all the other
There are 1,160,126 persons in
Georgia that, work for a living, and
734,366 of them are employed upon
the farm, according to a report which
has just been issued by the United
States census hureuu. Of the persons
engaged in agricultural pursuits the
hulk of them are farm operators and
farm laborers. The farm operators
number 285,487, and 270,476 are
men and 14,771 are women. There
►are 438,091 farm laborers in the
state, and 248,566 are males and
195,330 females.
There are 301 dairy farmers in the
state, and they employ 546 laborers
.and 20 foremen. There are also 48
persons in the state whose principal
source of income is from stock rais
ing. The number of cowboys and
\sheep herders in this state is 53,
In the entire United States, there
are 71,580,270 persons over ten years
of age, and 38,167,336, or 63 per
cent of this number are engaged in
gainful occupations. Of the gain
fully occupied, 12,669,203, of 33 per
cent, are engaged 'in agriculture.
There are 5,865,000 farm operators in
! the nation, and they employ 5,975,000
laborers in the different trades.—
The Dawspn News.
NOTICE TO PUBLIC
1 will not pay for any merchandise,
hardware or groceries charged to me
unless by written or verbal order
from myself.
Yours, very truly,. > >
GEO. TRUITT.
Photo by American Pro** Association.
Independence for the Philippine Is
lands Is advocated by Congressman
William A. Jones of Virglulu, chairman
of trie house committee on Insular
affairs. The time lias arrived, argues
Mr. Jones, for the Filipinos to begin to
govern themselves, and be has present
ed a bill to congress embodying that
idea. Lie would huve the islanders
begin slowly in the task of self gov
ernment and favors a plan whereby
the islander* shall gradually come Into
complete Independence when they have
demonstrated the ability, to do ao. His
schema contemplates a Limited govern
ment of territorial character under the
supervision of the’ United Stages until
tbslr capacity' Is prhvdd. “For some
years W^lllapa Atklpson Jones big bean
known as “FlllpInoV Jones, a. nick tame
bestowed because of blfc adxocffqy of
Fllplno Independence. He has grown
up with the Philippine problems. He is
serving bis twelfth coneecUtlv^ term
In congress'- a longer term of continu
ous service than that of any other mem
ber of the house. To beglo with he
didn’t believe In the taking Of the
Philippine Islands, and so he became
a member of the first committee ever
named upon Insular affairs.
Representative Jones Is a nntlve of
Virginia, sixty-five years old and dur
ing the civil war was a student In the
Virginia Military Institute, serving as
occasion required as a cadet In the
defense of Richmond. After the war
he studied law at the University of Vir
ginia and was admitted to the bar. in
1890 be Went to' ctmgresa
Would Tax Woman Who Marry Titles,
Should the bill introduced Into con
gress by Representative Htanlejf K.
Bowdle of Ohio become a law the In
comes of American women who marry
titled foreigners will receive a hard
Jolt Mr. Bowdle proposes thnt when
ever any citizen of the United States
marries an alien bearing any title of
nobility ur aristocratic caste from any
XJUtiTKL F. rmam.
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important committees. The ranking
Republican member of the committee
Is Thomas S. Butler of Pennsylvania
Congressman Padgett Is a; native of
the state he represents, a lawyer* by
profea&iou and la in his fifty-ninth
year. He waa educated at Erskine col
lege, South Carolina, and began tha
practice of law in 1879 in Columbia,
Tenn., whore ho has always resided.
In 1894 he was a presidential elector.
Before being Bfnt to congress he serv
ed one terp In the Tennessee senate
He first went to Washington aa a na
tional legislator as a member of fill
Fifty-seventh congress and has sines
been regularly returned. He became
chairman of the naval affairs commit
tee when the Democrats secured con
trol of the bouse. / i t.. 1 .- > I j)
BTANUST K. BOWPUL
foreign government an internal rev
enue tax of 25 per cent shall be levied
annually against the ‘income of such a
citizen.
Commenting on his hill. Representa
tive Bowdle said:
“The rush for the ducal counter these
days is Immense, but my bill will serve
to put some of the ambitious Ameri
can women- of -fashion on the bargain
corfrrter. They will not command so
high a figure as European spas. Par
asitical titled idlers hanging around
Newport and foreign resorts will view
my H hill with grievous alarm.”
■The bill created much favorable com
ment in the house aud was treated
seriously. Belief wds expressed by
some members that should It come be
fore the house it would pass.
<: Mr. Bowdle Is serving his first term
In congress and is noted as the man
who beat Nicholas Longworth, aon-ln-
law of Colonel Roosevelt, at the last
congressional election.. He Is one of
the leading lawyers of Cincinnati. Be-1
fore studying law he served an ap
prenticeship in the machine phop* of
a big shipbuilding company at Phila
delphia. He ft a noted wit and bril-
Baht orator. He la forty-six years of
ag* and a Democrat ~ j
ROUND THE WORLD ~
Servian taller* work twelve hours
daily. ;.
Many Japanese farmers are emigrat
ing to Peru.
8t. Louis too has added twelve spec
imens of the simian tribe.
Brooklyn has completed a new sea
wall in Bay Uijjgc section.
German youths are now adopting the
American game of football.
Prague (Supplies coal either free or
lit reduced |>ri«-es to the poor.
Western Australian government now
tilunufiictufe* agricultural Implements.
French dairymen are experimenting
with cocoa shells as fodder for their
cattle. *
Barcelona, Spain, does a large busi
ness In the manufacture of paper
drinking cups.
Eleven miles of subwsys are being
considered to solve Liverpool's congest
ed traffic (trotitem.
Three Knst St. Louis girls, in a spell
ing bee. were tied for first place after
disposing of 3,500 words.
Professor F. A. I’errett says volcan
ic activity tn Japan will hereafter be
on a diminishing scale.
Columbus. O.. hns adopted a new
charter providing for nonpartisan bal
lot In municipal elections.
The production of kerosene at Ba-
fcum. Russia, has been steadily declin
ing for the last four years.
A great deposit of fuller’s earth has
been dlscovertgl on government prop
erty along the Pnnnma canal.
Ernest Riley of New York has nei
ther legs nor arms, yet he was arrested
the other day for being drunk.
Cleveland water rates may be raised
50 per cent next year because of ex
pense of operating filtration plants.
Jack pine trees planted ten years sgo
in tbe sand blits of Nebraska are sow
large enough to produce fe«r* .posts.' V "
Tbs price of, bread ia Ecuador hat
been greatly reduced by tbe hurtstllng
of German bread making machinery.
An Austrian government bureau has
officially estimated the populadop of
that country this year at almost 29.000.-
m , *, ...» I •
Agriculturists in Egypt have s»weed
ed in raising a new 'cotton, brown in
color Snd stronger than any hereto
fore produced there. - '
Philadelphia parcel post headquarters
will lie placed In a new eight story
building now being erected which will
he leased by tbe goVernment.
Several of the smaller islands of 'New
Zealand are without telegraphic com
munication with the mainland. A sub
stitute bus been found In carrier pi
geons.
A revival of Indigo growing is be
ing agitated In India, in view of the
reputed discovery of a process that will
enable It to he sold at a price that will
compote with synthetic indigo.
A ITntmanlsn apple orchard eight
years old will net the owner in an av
erage year from $200 to $300 an acre.
The increase of orchard area in' Tas
mania is at the rate of 2,000 acres a
year.
Whar experts declare to be a mag
nificent specimen of Titian's work has
befcn discovered in Count Ossillnskl's
gallery at Lemberg. Austria. It la a
portrait of Don Giovanni de Castro aDd
dates about 1516.
Dr. Samuel Bolt was so affected the
other day at tbe closing of Old Ma
riners' church in Catherine street.
New York, that he was unable to de
liver a farewell address. “tot silence
be my sermon.” he said.
While in Rome recently an Aber
deen tradesman, Mr. Sunderland, pur
chased from a hawker a statuette of a
Roman soldier five inches high'for 10
shillings. It was thought to be bronxe,
but examination now shows It to be
gold.
There are forty dally publications in
London. 183 dailies in the rest of the
kingdom, while British weekly and
monthly publications total 2,643 and
1.682, respectively. England, Includ
ing London, has 138 doily papers and
1,305 weekly.
The greatest tulip exhibit ever pos
sible anywhere outside Holland will
be a part of the national exhibit of
the Netherlands fit the Panama-Pacific
International exposition at San Fran
cisco in 1915- Two acres will be de
voted to beds of these flowers.
Tbe worst epidemic of trichinosis
ever known was caused by a butcher
of Hedersleben. In Baxony, making
sausages of an Infected pig and fall
ing to cook the sausages properly.
The sausages were eaten at a public
banquet. 300 people fell ill and 130
died.
Ranchers within and adjacent to tha
Fleers national forest, California, have
formed a co-operative association for
the prevention of foeeat fires. They
need to use fire In clearing land for
faming and will do It on a com
munity basis, with all members pres
ent to prevent the fire spreading.
During the season of 1913 a special
type of steel windmill fewer was
adopted as tjbe standard lookout tower
for forest fire lookout purposes. The
platform on top of the tower ia in
closed to protect the lookout from sun
and wind and is large enough to pro
vide room for -his bed and working
equipment
Survey has demonstrated the practi
cability of constructing a bridge on
the rocky reef called Adam’s bridge,
which connects the island of Ceylon
with the mainland of India. The dis
tance ia twenty-two miles, and an es
timate has been made giving the cost
of the work, which probably includes
a good deal of causeway, at about $4.-
OttWPO. ... •
Heart to Heart
Talks
By CHARLES N. LURIE
TIE ADDED THINGS.
For It la ■ thing v«ry po«*ibl« thnt n
man should be a very divine man snd yet
be altogether unknown. Thin thou must
ever be mindful of. ss of this also—that a
man's trua happlmwe doth consist In very
few things, sml that, although thou dost
despair that thou shalt ever be a good
either logician or naturalist, yet thou art
never the further off by it from being
either liberal or modest or charitable or
obedient unto God.—Marcus Aurelius.
Here we have, In the words of a
“pagan” philosopher— who was. never
theless, more Christian In many of his
teachings than some of those who ac
cepted the religion which he rejected—
another version of the Biblical “seek
ye the kingdom of God and all these
things shall be added unto you.”
For if living a life of liberality and
modesty and charitableness and obedi
ence unto God be not true Christianity,
how shall we define it? The Roman
emperor-philosopher had the true vi
sion.
Here is an exhortation not to forget
tbe higher things of life. He said a
man shall not lie a worse logician or
naturalist for following the rules of
true morality, but he might aB well
have said a good Jnwyer or physician
or sdldler or artificer In stone or wood.
There is room in all the relations of
life for "applied ethics.” Indeed, the
ttblcs that 1b not applied is worthless
and expends Itself in talk.
That it is possible, as Marcus Au
relius wrote, for a man to be “a very
divine man and yet be altogether un
known” is well attested by the world's
observation. Tennyson wrote:
WANT ADS.
FOR RENT—From September 1st,
centrally located cottage, 12'South.
Greenwood street. Modern conven
iences, large grounds. Price $20.00.
Phone 117, LaGrange. 14-21-28
FOR SALE—One horse, harness and
Columhus Pony Phaeton. Frank
P. Longley. 2t
FOR RENT—Two or three furnished
rooms, suitable for light housekeep
ing. All conveniences. 16 South
Greenwood street It
FOR RENT—Three connecting rooms,
furnished or unfurnished. Modern
conveniences. 3 blocks from square.
Broad street. Apply to Mrs. J. R.
Ware, Standing Rock, Ala. 2t
FOR SALE—A good family horse,
safe and will work anywhere—good
saddler. Apply Dr. H. R. Slack, tf
FOR RENT—Store house, 15 Green
ville street, now occupied by Allen’s
Garage. Possession given Septem
ber 5. Apply to J. P. Bennett, tf
FOR RENT—Three nice rooms for
light house keeping. 58 Park ave
nue. Applv at residence or to W.
R. Campbell.
tf
FOR SALE CHEAP.—144 acres land
with good improvements. Good
pastures well watered, 6 miles from
LaGrange. Cash or easy terms.
See or phone Walter Emory. tf
Howa’cr It be. H keen* to me
TU only noble t* be good.
KM been* are Den then coronet*
And simple faith then Norman blood.
Living a life of tree relationships to
ward others. In word snd deed and
thought, of refraining from infringing
on the rights of others, does not pre
clude strife for the prises of life. Do
not listen to those who tell yon that
success can only be gained by embark
ing on a career of commercial or pro
fessional piracy, preceded by making
all good principles and feelings "walk
the plank.”
It Is not true. And, if it were, such
“sn.'cess” would not be worth achiev
ing.
Our Languaga.
Although a little goose U called
By every one a gosling.
The Itnguiet* all would feel appalled
Tlo hear the young moose called mos-
ling.
And when your motorcar 1* stalled
And hoene by horaee must be hauled
The tire a little loose that “crawled”
- la never called a hurling
—Denver Newt
Nutty.
“I never saw a nuin so crazy over
asparagus a* my husband.” "la he?”
“Why. would you believe it. be want
ed to call the Ivaby A spa ragnst us.”—
Boston Transcript
FOR SALE—In Corinth, Ga., one. six
room dwelling situated on 6 acre
lot with barn and well, improved;
also 76 acres improved farm land
adjoining with two houses. W. P.
Arnold, Hogansville, Ga, tf
Mr. D. B. Evans, art timer of At
lanta, is at the Southern Female Col
lege repairing and tuning pianos for
the coining school year. ”
A limited number of- parties -in the
city can avail themselves of this op
portunity. Only , first-qlaas i work
solicited.. . tf-
YOU NEED HELP- in finding “help *
able and-fitted to do any work that
needs "to be done, : yet RIGHT
SELECTION counts for much, and
ttifefd made easier If yon Ore put
hi touch with as many applicants
as believe or hope that they can
r meet your requirements. A (“Help
wanted” ad assures this-
FOR SALE. LANDS—I have left for
sale, if taken before I return to
Florida for the winter, one ten-
acre tract, one five-acre tract, two
four-acre lots, and a half dozen
dozen smaller building lots—in the
Dunson Survey, situated north of
the LaGrange and Hogansville pub
lic road and the Dunson Mills, and
pear a public school.
Terms will be made satisfactory;
prices reasonable, and values will
not be disturbed by foreign wars;
but on the other hand will show a
gradual enhancement, which will
make the Investment pay better
than stocks, bonds or lnfitiey 'loaned
at good rate of interest.
You can make no mistake if you
buy now. Plat will be ahaiwn and
prices named on application.
.21-28 O. A. DUNSON
NOTICE
1 have sold my entire interest in the hardware store
known as the
HOGANSVILLE HARDWARE CO.
Hogansville, Ga.
to John W. Smith. He is to settle all debts due by said
firm and to receive' all money due said firm.
Yours very truly. ,, K
BEN HOGAN < »**■
Hogansville, Ga. 1 ' 1
Formerly Manager of the Hogansville Hardware Co.
-:For Sale:-
The 15 acres of land known
as the Lakeland Park pro
perty in East LaQrange, has
been sub-divided and 142
building lots for negro dwel-
ings will be offered for sale
about Sept. 15. Interested
parties, apply to
R. L RENDER
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LaGrange, Ga.
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