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V’ - 1 HEAD’S EPICS - 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. . 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. ' 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. , 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 _____ ant8 .... u l tlle ... , r many t“hoos «ud su 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 ’ 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* 6 • Gold AGREAT HOLIDAY OFFER There are at least 500 mattresses in Griffin and commun ity that need renovating and rebuilding. Now is the time to have your work done at a great re duction.! Until JANUARY 10, 1925 we will furnish a splendid new tick and rebuild your mattress for $ 4.95 Regular price, $5.50. We will call for and deliver mat tresses in the city at this price. In the country, mattresses will have to be delivered to us at the price. This offer is not good after January 10. So bring in your mattresses or call us at once and avoid the rush. Our work and material are well kpown. And we will put out the same high' class work with our absolute guarantee of satisfaction. MAUNEY MATTRESS CO. 120 Slaton Ave. Griffin, Ga., Phone 938