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1 HEAD’S EPICS
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HOWDY
HOWDY, FOLKS! It’s too late
to say Merry Christmas and a lit
tle to early to say Happy New
'/■ ear, but there ain’t no law
against a fellow saying Howdy
anytime he takes a, notion. The
folks down here at the office are
so nice and flatteringly tell Egg
head they wish he would write
aome Epics everytime he comes
home, and the poor nut ain't got
any more sense than to believe
they really want ’em, though we
are afraid people have forgotten
all about Epics and don’t want to
be reminded.
mu Besides, there’s nothing much
of especial interest to gab about
Football la over, it’s too cold for
baseball, and you folks don’t care
anything about basketball games
in Atlanta, about 739 of which
are scheduled to be committed
gFv''.
this week.
SOUTH SLIGHTED
THERE’S ONE subject of mu
tual interest, but it’s one day too
early to talk about it in detail.
Walter Camp’s official all-Ameri
can football team is for release
tomorrow. Of course we would not
take advantage of the magazine
that has paid a fabulous sum for
the Mlection and the newspapers
that cannot announce it until to
morrow, but we don’t believe Mr.
Camp would care if we talked
is about it in a round-about way.
NO SOUTHERNER was honor
ed with t berth on the expert’s
first team and only one landed on
the second. That one doea not rep
resent an institution in the state
of Georgia, so that wIH relieve
your mind to a certain extent If
you have kept up with Southern
grid players at all.
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THE TWO BEST
JUDGING FROM the concensus
of opinions of leading grid coabh
es and experts, Stuhldreher, Notre
Dame quarterback, and “Red »•
Grange, sensational Illinois half
hack, were the two outstanding
stars of the 1924 football cam
paign. The Notre Dame-Stanford
ft,
game to be played in California
on the first of the year will be a
most brilliant climax to the sea
son that ended too early as far
as we are concerned, and the
Peensylvania-California game will
be no slouch, either.
WHILE ON the subject of stars,
Wycoff, Wakefield, Propst, Jones,
Reese, Hubert and several others
W :• we know would have been con
sidered much more seriously if
the eastern critic had seen them
in action more.
IMPOSSIBLE TASK
THE JOB of picking an all
American team is a task that
can no longer be accomplished
■ Time was when Mr. Camp could
- pick three or four men from the
■
Big Three and have a team that
few could dispute. But with the
remarkable growth of the game
in recent years, a person has the
» whole United States to consider
and no experts agree, nor could
they be expected to.
A PERSONAL friends of Mr.
Camp told ns that he (Camp)
would tike to discontinue the M
lections, but it is a job he start
ed; is wished off on him and he
can’t get rid of it. But the man
didn’t say anything about Mr.
Camp spurning the huge pile of
jack he gets for making the se
lection.
5 ;; LOCAL ACTIVITIES
THE GRIFIN paper has been
coming to us regularly (some
what) and we have been noticing
the progress of the basketball
teams here. The climax of the
local season, of course, will be the
G. I. A. A. tournament here on
the 18th of February. You should
have been at the recent meeting
of the association in Atlanta.
About the only motion that was
Si carried unanimously was the one
to stage the tourney in Griffin.
And another town (much larger)
was bidding for it.
COACH TALIAFERRO and his
teams have made a splendid name
for themselves In the association
and it is up to the people of Grif
fin to live up to it.
JUST LOOK HERE
TWO GRIFFIN boys, Edward
White and Aney Walker, are play
ing some jam-up baseball in Hol
lywood, (no, Agnes, not filmland)
Florida, according to a clipping at
hand telling of a recent double
header between Hollywood and
Fulford,
“White, (pitching) won his
game by scoring the winning tally
in the ninth.” . . . “White's work
on the mound featured the game,
he striking out 16 men and al
lowiny only six hits,” the clipping
says in part.
THE OLD BOYS are at it
again. Aney caught both games
of the twin bill, but he did not
enjoy as much stardom as did
White that day.
MOTHER LOVE
EGGHEAD HADN’T been away
this last time but a couple of
months, which does not seem like
such a long time, at times,
then it does. There was no
band to meet him gt the station
and there was no parade through
the streets when he arrived,
ain’t you surprised ?—in fact
there wasn't much to greet him
except the monument dnd night
policemen.
BUT ARRIVING home some
thing after midnight and looking
over in one corner by the stove,
he saw his mother—sitting up
waiting for him. Her eyes were
red from lack of sleep, but she
was waiting just the same. Who
else in all this world would have
done as much?
WIRE CUT BY BOYS
BULLET KILLS THREE
Hamlet, N. C., Dec. 29.—Three
children of Mr. and Mrs. Pearl
Martin, of Hamlet, were electro
cuted at Roberdell, near here, late
today when they came into con
tact with a high power electric
transmission wire which fell to
the ground after being severed,
according to report reaching
here, by a bullet from a rifle fired
by the older of the three chil
dren.
The dead are Arthur Martin,
16; Ethel Martin, 11; and Willie
Martin, 9.
The three children left their
home here early today to visit
their grandparents at Roberdell.
According to reports, Arthur was
firing a rifle at a target when a
bullet struck the electric wire and
it fell to the ground, coming in
contact with the lad. Seeing his
plight, the younger brother and
sister tried to rescue him and they
also were electrocuted.
Explaining Bishop's Garb
That the modern bishop wears
tiie gurb he does only because It is
the relic of the days long ago when
a bishop had to ride about his
diocese in all manner of weather
In order to make the regular visits
to his very large flock ls a theory
advanced in England. The apron
Is a relic of the riding apron. It is
maintained, and the cords on the
hat were once hat cords to pro
tect against high winds, and the
a re a t M l..... 4 »
miliar in the garb of the equestrian.
A Chance to Prove It
Prisoner—Judge, I’m sorry 1 took
the money; hut, you know, the
more a man gets, tiie more he
wunts.
Judge—Well, you are going to
get ten years! How much more do
you want?
More Good Old Dishes
F OR those who enjoy pnstry the
delicious tartlets below will be
welcome:
Frangipani Tartlets.—Cook to
gether one pint of cream, two table
spoonfuls of flour, three maenroons
crushed, four tablespoonfuls of
powdered sugar, the grated peel of
half a lemon, a tablespoonful of
finely chopped citron, one tenspoon
ful of orange Juice. When the mix
ture has begun to thicken, stir In
carefully the yolks of three eggs;
fill small pans which have been
lined with rich pastry and sprinkle
the tops with finely chopped nl
tnonds. Bake a delicate lirown in n
moderate oven.
Molded Salmon, Cucumber Sauce.
--Remove the salmna from the can.
rinse with hot water, drain and
separate Into flakes. Bonk three
fourths of a rnblespoonful of gela
tin In two tnblespoonfuls of water,
dissolve over hot water and add one
cupful of cooked salad dressing
slowly: strain and add to the sal
mon. Fill a ring or individual molds
with the mixture and serve on let
tuce >•
TRY NEWS WANT ADS.
Nature*s Amends for
toll Token by Years
The crltlca huve always stumbled
a little over this final phase of su
preme genius. They used to think
that Michelangelo's last work was
unfinished. They still often think
thm what we must recognize in
such failure a manifestation of Is weakening lassitude,
energy, a
grasp of brain or hand. I am not
sure that there is not an element of
truth in such criticism, observes
Havelock Kills, In the Forum. Only
let us not forget that it is the mark
of high genius, less to (lisplay ulh
ab!« leUcally Than strength than to be
to use weakness to reach dl
vine ends. That power, it may
well,Mein to us, Is supremely vis
Ible In the typical last phase of the
highest genius. The artist has lost
also his early taste for such power,
But he has lost it only to attain a
wider and deeper and more sym
belle mastery of the world. He no
longer cares more than he has ever
before for Its essence, and he Is
consclous of that escence with a
delicacy of sensitive perception he
never before concerned .possessed. He Is no
longer with things; they
are receding from his view. As he
rises above thq earth, like Elijah In
his chariot of Are, he now sees It
only In the distance. Henceforth
he no longer deals with things. It
Is the soul of things that he brings
before us. That is why his latter
work fascinates us endlessly as,
slowly, after many years, enlighten
ed by the long course of our own
experience, we begin at last to «n
derstand what It means.
Goqd Stories Told of
Famous French Writer
Mnx QUeH, the famous French
satirist, joked to the end. When he
was lying on his deathbed, and
after the doctors had Informed him
that there was no hope, he wrote:
.. I fear tb,at I am doomed. The doc
tors give me a few months, but I
believe I shull last longer. At any
rate I shall try; for I’d rather wear
a hat than n halo. M
Max O’Rell, like all professional
men, was occasionally imposed on
with regard to hospitality, hostesses
Inviting him to an "at home” as a
guest and then expecting him to
perform, In other words to “tell a
few stories.”
Once when this happened, he left
the drawing room hurriedly and
went down to the hall, whence he
returned in a few minutes in a
state of great excitement, and ap
proaching his hostess whispered ag
itatedly Into her ear: "Madam,
what kind of people have you
here? The check you placed in
tuy overcoat pocket—m,v fee for to
night—has been stolen!” — San
Francisco Argonaut.
Wars of the Roses
The Wars of the Roses were a
series of sangfiinary contests for
the possession of the English
throne, waged by the adherents of
the houses of York and Lancaster,
whose badges were, the white and
red roses, respectively. The strug
gle, suys the Kansas Cfiy Star, com
menced with the battle of St. AI
ponses werejfc Hmlmor a 1 A, ®U ted in the
person of (afterward
Henry VII), wlfo in 1486 married
Ellzabeth of York, daughter of- Ed
ward IV. It is estimated that the
Wars of the Roses occasioned the
deaths of 12 princes of the blood,
200 nobles and 100,000 of the gentry
and common people of England.
Oldest Almanac
In (lie British museum is afl al
manac that Is 3,000 years old; it Is
supposed to be the oldest in the
world.
It is written like all other Egyp-.
tian manuscripts, on pnpyftns, and
was found on the mummy of an
Egyptian, who had treasured It ap
parently as something sacred, for it
1% of a strong religious character.
Under the days, which are written
in red Ink, there is n figure fol-J
lowed by three characters, signify
ing the probable state of the
weather.
It is not entire, hut it was evi
dently tor* cjenrly before its owner died.
Beyond establishing the
reign of Raineses the Great, it con
tains nothing else of anv value.
Doubloon Still Current
The doubloon, that famous coin
of romance, Is still in circulation.
Tiie Isabelle doubloon, worth $5,
still remains current in Cuba. Tiie
doubloon ls so called because, when
first coined, it was double the value
of a pistole—that ls, it was worth
¥8. The name was given Inter to a
double doubloon current in the
West Indies-.
Which readers of fiction nre fa
mlllnr, are also in circulation. They
ane simply Spanish dollars of eight
reals. A doubloon dated 1787
(here nre said to be only six of
that date In existence—sold not
long ago for ¥6,200.
All About Dogs and Cats
From a schoolboy's essay on dogs
and cats:
“The dog ls tiie commonest of all
nniniuls. Its legs fire four and one
tail of all sizes. Cats nre Very
common In all large towns and
streets, but dogs are more so.
There is only three wiser than the
dog. which ls ourselves, all mon
keys, and all elephants, • Don’t
tense cats, for firstly It is wrong
so to do and second cats have claws
which Is longer than people think.
Cats have nine lives, but which ls
seldom required In this country be
cause of Christianity. •V
Mercury Went Down
First Student—I asked proxy if I
would get my degree.
Second Student—What did he
say? First
Student—He froze me by
saying something about no degrees
below zero.
¥100,000 FIRE AT TAMPA
Tampa, Dec. 29.—(By the Asso
ciated Press)—Fire this morning
destroyed a warehouse here with
estimated loss of $100,000.
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Dates From Pagan Times
Halloween is a relic of pagan
times. In England the Influence
of Druldicnl ceremonies is evi
denced in the ancient Halloween
fires. Certuln of the customs
which used to prevail in England
were survivals of Pomona, the god
dess of fruit. Halloween ls culled
by this name because tiie festival
falls on the evening of October 31,
which ls the eve of vigil of All
Hallows, the festival of Ail Saints,
which falls on November 1.
Ready for a Rush
Film Star—What will you charge
to conduct my divorce?
Lawyer—If you’ll give me a mo
nopoly of your future divorces. I’ll
do this one for nothing!—Kasper
(Stockholm.) •
Pay Attention to Values
The man who insists on full value
for his dollar generally accumu
lates wealth. If more attention
were given to values, more men
would get rich. The relation of
price to value is the most Impor
tant study In economics.— Grit.
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GRIFFIN DAILY NEWS
Absence Was Absence
to This Timekeeper
The bow of a large construction
Job In western Canada was going
over accounts on pay day with the
new there tlmekeei>er, who , had been
only a week and was anxious
to make a good Impression. The
pay checks were regular enough ex
cept that one showed one hour less
thun the rest,
“Look here,” said the boss sus
piclously. ‘ I thought everybody put
In full time last week,
"AH except Abe Martin, the night
watchman,” the timekeeper un
swered. “Me was off duty one hour
Wednesday nighn”
“Man alive!” exclaimed the as
tonlshed boss. “That wos the night
Abe discovered the burglar setting
Are to the commissary building
after he had robbed the storekeep
«' r ’8 till. Why, didn’t you hear
about It? Everybody is calling Abe
a hero, and,” he whispered confl
dentially, “the ruilroad company is
talking about rewarding him hand
somely for what he did. If he hadn’t
captured the fellow, thousands of
dollars’ worth of supplies would
have gone up in smoke.”
“Yes, I know,” agreed the time
keeper. “I estimated the loss anti
Agured that It would have run into
ns much as this Job ls worth.”
“And Abe chased the fellow up
Into the hills," the boss continued.
“The fellow was desperate and took
two or three shots at Abe. They
struggled desperately before Abe
Anally overpowered him and forced
him back to camp. It was an hour
before he got him back, too.”
“Sure,” responded the tlmekeep
er triumphantly. “I docked(him for
the hour he was gone.”—Youth’s
Companion.
uneeran L/escribed n_____•» J as
Masterpiece of Nature
We call the cheetah the hunting
leopard, but leopard he certainly is
not. The leopard Is heavier, more
truly catlike. The cheetah is light
er in the body and mounted on ab
normally long legs. The cheetah
Is a catlike greyhound, No other
animal so oddly combines sugges
tions of such totally unrelated
groups as the cats and dogs. With
a body about four and one-half feet
in length and a tail half as long, the
cheetah stands about thirty inches
high at the shoulder and with his
long forearm and hocks reaching al
most down to the foot he Is built
exactly as jpan has tried to build
the greybduud during hundreds of
years.
ex ~
agree That
for a short distance the cheetah is
beyond comparison the fleetest crea
ture that trfeads the earth. It is a
masterpiece of nature. To the lion,
the tiger and the leopard it is what
the airplane is to the ocean liner,
the swift destroyer to the battle
ship.—London My Magazine.
\Jaa „d Kestitutton j.** -• »
There is on redprd one Edward
Hunt, who played a rather dirty
trick on his only son. It seems
that the old gentleman had
conscience still troubled him. When i
it came to dying lie decided h€;
would make some kind of restitu
tion, so he ordained that his twen
ty-one-year-old son, in order to fall
heir to his fortune, must hunt out
and marry the daughter of the other
man—that is, if the daughter exist
e d, and if not a daughter, then a
niece.
The young man did as he was
bidden in his father’s will and found
the daughter, but she was fifty-five
years old. He was a good sport,
however, and, with, the Woman will
ing, carried out his father’s wishes.
Old-Time Oratory
When in the house of commons
Sheridan made his famous speech
on the spoliation of the Begums of
Oude, he was offered, within 24
hours, £1,000 for the copyright.
Burke’s subsequent plea for the im
peachment of Warren Hastings had
even more dramatic effect, as we
tnay read in the pages of Macaulay.
“Handkerchiefs were pulled out.
smelling bottles were handed round,
hysterical sobs and screams were
heard, and Mrs. Sheridan was ear
ried ertit in a fit. »’
I That was in 1788. Orators and
their art—and some other tilings—
have changed since then.—New
York Herald-Tribune.
Boy Knew His Business
Mr. Peters brought a piece of
cloth home to have a suit made.
Tiie family examined the goods
spread ouf on tiie table, remarked
upon the fine quality and pattern.
Evt-nWIh-Rortabd-' ailed upon
to give his opinion of father's new
suit.
He turned tiie stuff on the wrong
side and began to examine it.
“Ronald,” said old Peters, that
is the wrong side, IkVw stupid you
are!’’
“Why stupid?” answered tiie boy.
"You bet It won’’ come to me until
it’s turned on the wrong side.”_
Exchange.
Carious Beliefs Held
by Trinidad Natives
it Port of Spain is the principal
city of the Island of Trinidad in
the West Indies and is the most
colorful and cosmopolitan city in
the world,” says an American citi
zen, who has returned to Ills na
tive land for a visit after an ab
sence of two years; according vto
the Detroit News. “The' streets
of Port of Spain,” he suys, "pre
sent the appearance of a strange
pageantry, so varied are the peo
ple. Strangest of all are the na
tive black people. Here you will
see nose rings and all sorts Of
weird styles lu hairdressing. They
are so fond of bracelets thut their
forearms, from wrist to elbow, are
completely covered with all sorts
of metal circlets. Nor ls It unusual
to see their lower limbs adorned in
the same fashion.
“All our servants are these black
people. They are excellent serv
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I ) ® rst Ii*. ) f ons are v f ry tryin £’ unless
£? , u ,iave a J 00<j sense of humor,
ey by *2? moon and stars In
j everything. „ They refuse any sort
?* undertaking unless the aspect
moon ls propitious They
1* 8< iJ? things ave _ , ? hot I '^ c and a tabo cold. pf pertaining None of
' v111, ,® nil f r any circumstances.
tbe r lmmi ® int0 bot J kfft and
, an the same day. They
»?.! ev i ! | th , at if re t *: iey r? , do y8, t l l? *f ythe tb f y
ala ® n th ! y reck0 , ® tllae and * are '
bwd *2.® „, le f ^ utl , 1,15811 ' re ' A,, By <ler tbe I ,rno ru n ,f ? es on tbey and
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they W !,nd say K by tha 1 , by the . n ,\ they ,M>n
' e ie “oon.
die.
North Pole Receives
Full _ „ Share of Heat „
The North pole, it is said, re
ceives more heat than the equator.
Of course, each hour of sunlight
brings more heat to the equator,
but the hours of sunlight each day
increase id number the farther one
fun 8 ls n °sMning T tKret teSSffiSS
S m ° re t eat ’ SayS the U t ° lt
News.
As one goes north the length 'of
the day increases more rapidly than
a eT° ta ronsM^ntre r although
JIfw creas hnAAi foniiiaS it h h
the heat per hour received at Win- win
nipeg, Canada, is less than at New
Orleans, the amount of heat re
IT~ d whv l8 in Sr jfl th/n t v r -wT„ L h n a i t ” neg
to frequen tly hotter
^or about five weeks
summer more heat per day is re
ceived from the sun on a square
mi'e in the arctic than at the equa
tor. If it wasn’t for the ice the
North pole would be as hot as the
equator. However, the winters at
the pole are long and n great deal
of cold is stored up in the ice mass.
This neutralizes the downpour of
heat from the summer sun.
Storks in Great Britain
A WeIgh la(1 f at .
tac j. e(] |, v lar „ e s - tork b^wn whic} was
h W been from
except in Kew gardens, There a
pair started housekeeping in the
year of King Edward’s corona
tion, and clearly copied the design
for their grotesque nest between
the two elm trees from a corona
tion bonfire. They met with a mul
titude of misfortunes, One year
a storklet fell from the nest and
broke its neck; in another year a
nestling was Slain by a barnacle
goose. A culminating disaster was
the drowning of an entire family
by a thunderstorm. When the
“storks’ mound” becomes a congest
ed district, superfluous . storklets
are exported to populate other dis
tricts.
Oysters Sold on Boughs
The traveler in the West Indies
lias the opportunity of viewing the
novel sight of gathering oysters
from trees. Around the harbors
and lagoons the mangrove trees
grow down .to the water’s edge.
Their branches droop until a part
of them is submerged. Oysters will
cling to any surface in the water
to which they can fasten them
selves, and as tiiere are few shelves
or stones along the shores the bi
valves attacli themselves to the
branches, When tiie natives go
oyster gathering they lean over the
side of tlie boat, find a branch to
which oysters are clinging, and cut
it off, and the bivalves are sold on
the tree.
Remembered by His Deeds
The little fishing town of Lossie
mouth pn the northern coast of
jj,:] centrdlne. This little known
saint, according to legendary his
tory, is said to have sojourned on
flint coast in 924. His home was a
cave, and It was Ills custom to per
ambulate tiie sands on stprmy
nights holding up a lantern to warn
mariners away from the Skerries.
Geraldine’s effigy, with the insignia
of the legend, is engraved on the
burgh seal, together with a ship
and the legend, "Per Noctem Lux,”
“Light by Night.”
Cutting the “Gordian Knot ’•
This expression lias Its origin in
the tale of Gordius, a Phrygian
peasant, owner of n yoke of oxen,
who became king. He dedicated his
car and oxen to Zeus, and the knot
of the yoke was tied so skillfully
that an oracle declared that whom
soever should unloose it would be
ruler of Asia. When Alexander,the
Great came to Gordlum lie cut" the
knot in two with his sword and ap
plied the prophecy to himself.
The New Era
“Why don’t yon let your grnnd
motlier kiss tin* baby any more?”
The dear old lady lias been
smoking so many cigarettes lately
that we are afraid she will teach
the baby bad habits."
Nothing to It
Mrs. Suburb—Your husband al
ways dresses so quietly.
Mrs. Next-Door—Oh, does he?
You ought to hear him when he
loses Ills collar stud 1
Monday, December 29, 1924.
Not the “Lumberjack 99
Dentist Had Thought
A certain dentist lived In Quebec
who charged his patients not by the
amount of work done, but by their
capacity to pay. lumberjacks
One day a crew of
came In from up the river with a
boom of logs from the timber re
gions of the North. One of the men
suffered from toothache and con
sulted the dentist. After making an
extraction the dentist regarded the
logger for a moment and then, when
the bearded man from the woods
commenced to feel for his change,
he asked him what he did for a
living.
“Oh, I usually work around n
mill,” was the reply.
“Then your charge will be 50
cents,” said the dentist.
The logger hauled from his pocket
a huge wad of currency of stagger
ing denominations and commenced
to finger the bills. The dentist was
amazed.
“I thought you said you worked
around a mill.” he said, as he rum
maged in his cash drawer for
change.
*< Well, so I do,” said the logger
calmly. I own the mill.
The dentist subsequently learned
that the "poor logger” that he had
treated for 00 cents’was John Ru
dolphus Booth, one of the richest
men in Canada and outstanding
lumber magnates of the continent.
—Forbes Magazine.
Reached From Gravq^
to Deliver Rebukes
The following is an excerpt from
the will of a Wail Street man, which
was probated in the New York
coa To £ s: m.v wife, I leave her lover
and the knowledge that i wasn’t
th fCmf Ion TleareThe
1 ? yS ^, pleasure
- «,L nif,=
Jre ho mil- ihth?,t fsb e
was a ndne He ''us.»n was t is taken. ken
„ T y Ive $100,
.w. „ h it The only
SS^StSS S hUSb ° nd
Snffrem mf
regularly for the past ten years.
'^"chaufffur ftawfn ptirnTJe^
I iMve my
( ‘ ar8 ' He alm ost ruined them and I
want h,m t0 have the satisfaction
fl n i g hinjr the 1oh ^
Vnv i ^
^ve^mon in with him T^nce Tf
”PfffV d ° ^ bU8ln * SS ’’
The Cup of Paris
Paris, the great gay city, Is con
tained within a cup, says a writer
in the Continental edition of the
London Daily Mail. You may dis
cover ij one day perhaps from a
pleasant roof garden and be sud
denly surprised to find the city so
definitely contained. Wherever you
will look there at last appear the
soft green hills peeping so serenely
down upqji the welter of life in the
city below. You may even see the
trees on the hills, so near are they.
We used to think the city was so
big and spread so far, and the
Place de la Concorde, what a
mighty space it was! There even
now we see the dome of Pantheon,
the towers of-Notre Dame, the sud
den smoky shoot of the Eiffel tower.
Gigantic things we used to think
them. But now how easily they are
held in the cup of the’ laughing
hills!
Drowned Out Conscience
The preacher had told Uncle Ben
that in moments of temptation he
must listen to the still, small voice
of conscience. And Uncle Ben, in
the conduct of his second-linnii
store, tried hard to obey the injunp" )
tion.
But when Mirandy Jones in 7 a
moment of unguurded enthusiasm,
offered him $5 for a calico dress
for which lie hadn't expected to get
more than ¥1.44, he couldn’t with
stand If.
“Ah fell,” he confessed to the
preacher afterward. “All couldn’t
help it.” 4
“Didn’t you listen to the voice of
conscience?” asked the minister.
“Ah listened hard,” was the an
swer, “but honest, Ah couldn’t hear
nutliin’ f<V the sound of the cash
register.”
Words That Work Hard
There are words it is almost im
possible to avoid using, however
carefully we may try to do so.
It is said that a quarter of the
task of expressing oneself In tiie
English language is borne by nine
words—and, lie, have, it, or, tiie, to,
will and you. It is also asserted
that these nine, with 34 other words,
form half ..the w ords......the ,- averag
talker uses in ordinary conversa
tion.
The additional 34 words are ns
follows: About, all, as, at, but,
can, come, day, dear, for, get, go,
hear, if, in, me, piueh, not, on, say,
she, so, that, these they, this,,
though, time; we, with, write, your,
tier, and one.
Loaded Shells Spelled
Doom ofShot Towers
Until the loaded shotgun shell
was developed shot was sold to the
jobbing trade throughout the en
tire country packed in bags, widen
in turn were purchased by the man
having a muzzle-loading shotgun,
who wits obliged to reload his gun
with powder and shot whenever
the gun was tired at game or tar
get, says the Detroit News. The
loaded shot shell and the breech
loading shotgun sounded the death
knell of the old type of shot tower.
The business of the ammunition
concerns manufacturing shot shells
grew by leaps and bounds so that
the shot consumption of the coun
try centered at the points where
these shot shells were manufac
tured, notably in New England,
and in the course of events these
ammunition concerns began, to man
ufacture their own shot, thus com
pletely destroying the business of
the many shot towers located'
throughout the country.
Picturesque Whitby Abbey
Other of the ruined churches of
Englnnd have a more picturesque
magnificence, hut none a more an
cient fame Ilian Whitby abbey,
Henri Pickard writes in the Cin
cinnati Enquirer. There the first
rude poetry of England was writ
ten more than twelve centuries
ago. There, earlier still, was held
the synod which decided that the
British church should keep Easter
at the same time as the rest of
Christendom, a choice which meant
that Christendom should be united,
and Britain remain within the in
fluence of the civilization of Italy
and Gaul. But the modern travel
er who climbs the many steps
which lead from the river to what
was “high Whitby’s cloistered pile
has seen nothing of the Abbey of
St. Hilda. In the ruins on the hill
there was no fragment older than
Plantagenet times. But discover
ies of great interest have now been
made.
Only an Antique
Leonla, a colored maid, had a
taste for lofty Ideas and tile high
sounding words. One of mem
bers of the family in which she
served was a tail elderly lady of
imposing figure and fine carriage.
One day after Leonla had ror
perhaps the hundredth time ex
pressed to the lady her great ad
miration for her handsome figure
the object of her praises exclaimed:
Why do you say so much about
my appearance. Leonla? I am only
an antique.”----- ----------
“What is that?” asked Leonia In
astonishment.
The lady explained to her.
“Well,” Leonia burst forth, “if
that is what you are now, yon
shorely is a powerful indication of
what you lias been.”—Youth’s Com
panion.
In Something of a Hurry
Every trade lias its stock of well
known yarns, but occasionally a
new one does occur, only, alas, in
time to heeome a classic, A cer
tain holding w^H-known forth newspaper to man
was a group of -
writers, among whom was n rather
famous novelist. The journalist
was saying that he had recently
been engaged in revising the obitu
aries held in readiness by his pa
per. Turning to the novelist, he
added jocosely: I’ve just been
writing you up.”
But the novelist, apparently, had
not been following very closely,
and waking up with a start, he
asked eagerly: “When ls it going
to be published?”
Franklin and Masonry
The first American newspaper
item concerning a lodge of Free
masons in the western hemisphere,
ac ding to a recently published
book, “The Beginning of Freema
sonry in America,” appeared in the
Philadelphia Gazette for December
8, 1730. This paper was published
by Benjamin Franklin.
Oddly enough, sa>s the Detroit
News, the item consisted of am al
leged exposure of Freemasonry
which had been circulated for some
time in Englnnd. Franklin after
ward became a Mason and held toe
position of grand master of the
province of Pennsylvania.
Atmosphere
”Yoo.^seein to keep the bell on
the typewriter jingling.
“I’m writing a sleighing song for
- Christmas magazine. ^— Louis
ville Courier-Journal.
Thirty-two million acres of
wooded land have been discovered
in the uninhabited wilds of Chile.
* •o 9 5 7h*
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