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Progress.
VOL XXII NO 45
VIENNA, GA. THURSDAY, JUNE 23 1904
TERMS *1 A YEAR CASH
OF INTEREST TO WOMEN.
TENDENCY TO OVERDO
Lottcr No. 18 of a series of 20.
Copy righted 1904 by Christine Herrick.
The growing interest in athletios
aud outdoor Bports has brought
certain ovils in its train. One of
the most apparent of these is exoess.
No one who has bestowed any
study upon physical training aud
its rosults has anf doubt that it has
beeu of incalculable advantage to
most of those who have practised it.
None the less, when we hear of a
oaso of over training which has
•ended in break down there arc never
iaoking critics to arise and oondemn
physical ouiture. The fault lies,
however, in the strenusness ot the
individual, not in the praetioe of
athletics or in vigorous exeroise.
As a nation we go at things ton
hard. ,Welaok a sense of proportion.
' When we stop a thing we stop it all
at once. Take, for instance, the
case of the average college boy who
has made a figure in the athletics of
his class and institution. What
doeB he do when he has graduated?
How does he set about conserving
thC strength he has accumulate! by
his training?
Well, since he leaves college at
the beginning of the Summer, ho
may possibly keep up golf and tennis
and rowing and swimming during
the warm weather. The chances
are against his doing anything in
the way of systematic training. If
*he goes into an office it is more thin,
likely that he drops nearly everything
in the way of gymnasium praotioe
or vigorous physical exeroise. He
spends his dayt at a desk, or it may
he behind a counter. All the
Wined musoles are allowed to grow
flabby. The over-stimulated heart
shows the result of the lack of
exorcise. The man begins to break
down and the dootors diagnose bis
case as “athlete's heart.”
Everyone knows instances of this
kind of tiling of children who have
been injured by too much exercise,
of boys who nave hurt themselves
at an early stage of the proceedings.
I speak as though it wore only the
men who did this sort of thing, but
we women know oetter. We reoog-
nue the faot that in our enthusiasm
lies both our strength and our
weakness, Without it wo could
never accomplish all that falls to
the lot of the woman who marries
and has a home and ohildren to look
after. But this very enthusiasm
leads us to under estimate our powers
aud over-work our capabilities.
We need to preach moderation to
ourselves quite as tnuoh as to our
children.
For a moment leave the men to
themselves and look at the other
side of the family. See the girl
who is so absorbed in her tennis or
golf championship or her canoeing
that she is in danger of injuring
herself by undue attention to one
thing. The injury will not be
physical alone, but will affeot her
mental attitude as 'well. She will
grow one-sided, and unsymmet>-'cal
This is the girl who should be
introduced to domestio matters.
Her mother should do all possible
to make her daughter feel that
woman’s home training is as impor
tant as physical ouiture. She should
strive to interest the girl in all that
goes to make housekeeping and
home-making important. The girl
shonld have her lessons m the
ohemistry of food as woll as in
cookery, should know something of
domestic sanitation aB well as of
washing dishes. Once she is infeoteil
with enthusiasm in this, direction
she will be better able to strike
balance between indoor occupations
and out door sports.
While the mother is doing this,
she. too, must not overlook the
chance she hns for her own sym
metrical development. If the girl
nee Is to be taught the importance of
indoor pursuits, so the mothey needs
to Icaru what there is tor her in
active physical exercise. Probably
she, belonging to an earlier genera
tion which did not see the advantages
of athletic sports, has been too much
given to staying at home or going
SAM JONES
The following Bcntenoes are
taken from Rev. Sam P Jones letter
Saturday’s Atlanta Journal,
written from Cotoosa Spring:
I think I am all right except my
baok. 1 may start to New York
next week to put myself under a
first class bacteriologist, for 1 am
sure most of my trouble is now
looated in my-baok.
1 am tryinft to keep up with the
political procession and I am more
and more inclined to the opinion
that Bryan is going to give the
Democrats a great deal of trouble
at St. Louis. Bryan is perfectly
willing to die for his conviction,
and the people are perfectly willing
for him to die.
Bryan ought to have been born a
woman and then made ohief orator
ot a woman’s olub'and given an
opportunity to lalk himself to
death.
Teddy can afford to spend ten
dollars in enoouraging Bryan to
where he does one dollar in corralinsr
his own party.
Bryan says that he is mors inter
ested in platform and principle than
he is in a candidate, that the plat
form must be in harmony with the
St. Louis and Kansas Oity platforms
and if that is true, then I am
favor ot nominating Bryan again
and letting him run, for there is no
uso in running anybody else on that
platform.
The Democrats have tried a talker
in the two last campaigns and, it
well enough for them now to try
silent man, a non-talker.
A tellow never regrets something
that he didn't say,
The Demoorats have more to fear
from Bryan than they have from
Roosevelt.
If they are beat in the coming
race, Bryan will beat them and not
Roosevelt.
I have read with some interest of
the organized labor troubles at
Cripple Creek, Col. Theic you
nave the union' laborism gone to
seed. • •
Labor unions flictato and demand.
FROM WASHINGTON
The air resounds with the first
muttering! of the November Storm
SPANISH WAR SOLDIBS
An not of Congress of 1898.
MS until U. ohief p.t.on.g. of DU *»«■««“ “ April tat, pt»«W«™
• v . . ~ for extra compensation for those
campaign betakes him to Oyster Bay offloors and J who onlUted Jn tho
t w i <><*» ^ m *•
Spanish War. and for those who
applied for enliBtmont and were
somewhat earlier than usual, for he
is thoroughly tired of trying to
bring harmony oat of disoord and
he does not enjoy life so well since
he voluntarily put a restraint upon
his own speeon-making. To let
day after day and week after week
pass without irrigating the arid
country with tha fountains of his
speech is very trying to him. Like
Hobson sympathising with the
people of Alabama for not clcotiug
him, the President suffers keenly in
behalf of those who oannot hoar
him. But the oarapaign is on and
he remembers that for saying five
words too muoh Zaoharias was
cohdemed to forty weeks silenoo.
PEOPLE ARE HOGGISH
Whenever there is a pnblio dinner
announced in these woods you can
depend on getting something to eat
if you are present. The housewives
go to lots of trouble to prepare for
suoh occasions and they never fall
short of a good dinner.
But these dinners are generally
atteuded by another class of people
who aro disposed to be a bit hoggiBh.
rejected.
1st. Those offioers and men who
enlisted in the Georgia regiments *
and artillery oompanies will receive
pay for the period between tho date
of assembly at tho rendezvous and
the date they were mastered in tho
Uhited States service.
2d. Those who wore rojooted
willreoeiyo pay from date of as
sembly to date of rejection and
aotnul transportation.
This extra compensation will be
allowed, although the offioers and
men have already been paid for tho
same time.
No information exoept tho reoords
is needed as to those mustered in.
There are no records of those who
were rojooted, ana it will be neces
sary for overy one wno was rejeoted.
to write and give me tne following
information:
1st. Name ho gave when he
attempted to join.
2d. Company or regiment he
attempted to join.
8d. Place where he was examined,
and surgeon who examined him,
time between the date ho agreed to
Thoy throw away as muoh rations
as they eat. They get their hands . enlist and the dato he was rejeoted.
fall, bit* off a little and drop the
rest to the ground. This was
demonstrated at a'big rtinner we
How many days?
4tb. The aotual cost 'of trans
portation from his homo to place he
atteuded a fow Suudays ago whore l WM examined and baok to hishome.
the ground was so nearly covered H « P MI >ent Post Office
with fragments that one coHld oddres.
hardly walk that way without It is exceedingly important that I
stepping on pieoes of meats cake and have this information at tho oarliost
pies and lots of things purely wasted
The people who make suoh a
destructive waste ot provisions aro
not those who furnish it and they
arc not appreciative of what is done
for them. They would bo displeased
if they, were not fed, aud they act
the, hog if they are. Sucli people
ought to be put in a floored pen and
fed in a trough.
by too frequent indulgence in tho , , . „ , , t
joys of the swimming pool, of men °" 1 " nly " T“T. °* lU % hei ; j ^eu they are aogmatie, then they
and women who have overdone in 01 ,l s ' na ‘ 101 " 11 0 omestic oi !are dictatorial, and then the Ihingj
» , I social duties. Now is her chance i i,. l8 „ ona i 0 see( i Drink lemon in cc in hot water an
golt or tennis or basket ball or hela I , , , . , ■ b I ■
or track athletics In nearly ( , V01 . V ; ^ kaini .something ol-the joy there Labor has a perfect right to quit “5,11 f before cacii meal-.a good lot
instance the trouble may ' he traced | '*}" ' vhcn * h “ ^ is , in gG °' 1 1 '«8 job; employers have a perfect it-without, any sugar,
to the same source-—a lack of appro- | 1 rl ™‘ J1 sh ° dGC8 " wt t0 ]>'>ght to discharge an employe if <; l; „. D Morgan', a nephew of J P
oi.ation of the object of sports of i S rtlfor louui8 ’ " he «»> llivat $ they see fit, and right at this imi.it
any kind. -They arc to be viewed! th ° 5? ,lt ° f l » kl “8; ilo »8 "'•‘lies,--- the whole thing ought to end.
not leisurely strolls, but bard, rapid
walks, that rend her home tired, but
in a glow.
The same rule of faith and prac
tice should be followed by tho man
of the house with his boys. When
his son leaves college or school and
ilfOgs the actin’ physical snorts, the
father slmulu see io that the lad
Iocs not immerse himself in business
as a moans,--not an end, lle'rc and
there is found some one for whom
it is worth while to train or play for
a championship. But’ in tho far
larger proportion of cases the
playing or the riding is to be taken
as a means of physical development
and improvement of health. And j
this object is defeated if cue yields j
t to the temptation to excess. i
# , r . , ’ , , , j to the injury oj his health.
I £018 temptation would not have
to be reckoned with «o much if the. j
S counsel of tho iraiueV would he |
1 heeded. The physical director in
B tho college or school or the gym-
p Diisiurii knows bettor than to put
pupils to hard work at once. lie
begins with them gently aud make.-;
them exeroise “for form” before
he puts them on the track. lie
-discourages over vigorous beginnings The Georgia legislature met
knowing that a. rapid beginning ; yesterday for a session of 50 days,
means lost time later ou. It is the j
oager amateur who does not under- j hope some good legislator
stand his own strength and weakness, | introduce a pill to repeal the
who makes trouble lor himself by j private hanging act in Georgia. If
. going at work or play with an cuergy | hangings must be, let them be
that is bound to exhaust his powers '■ public.
Whenever labor says I won Vwork
and nobody else shall, then you
have anarchy with the devil sitting
on top. ~
The Perry Home Journal is
opposed, to local legislation by the
general assembly without a vote of
the people effei led. The law now
Morgan has man ic 1 a Japanese lady
and brought her to America.
Seventy-seven per cent of tho
women and blit 02 per cent of the
men taking the civil service exam
ination are able to pass it.
No matter how bright and 'sun
shiny me day, it will appear dark
and gloomy lo the map who looks
at every thing through blue glasses
possible timo.
By tho authority of tho Governor
of Georgia, I will callcot and dis
burse th; amount due under this
Act.
Those interested will address all
co in m u n icat io ns to tho undersigned*
C. G. TANES, (Jcdiirtown, Ga.
FOR NEW COUNTIES
Many Georgia towns are anxious
to have now counties established
around them, of which ihoy may
become, tlie county seats.
Governor Terrell will, it is under
stood, deal with th’s subject in his
forthcoming message to the general
assembly, and -will recommend a
change in the state constitution
which will permit an increase in tho
present number of counties, which
is 137. The number of counties is,
at present, limited to those now in
existence, but reasons have arisen to
make tho establishment of new
counties desirable, particularly in
the southern part of tho state where
some counties are so largo that many
The national convention is. in
s '.-'inn in Chicago and President
Roosevelt seems to he the central
figure. lie has carefully planned
his nomination and is ruling the [bills, or - majee it general
convention to his own liking. ' entire state.
Tho .burning of the picnic vessel
provides, that a uotice ’must hep » East river, New York, last week j armors , )avo l0 ,| nve fronJ 2 o to 30
published in a newspaper and po-tod : goes down in history as the'greatest | m ,i eS) sometiincs farther, to reach
at the courthouse door. But that destruction of human life’that has j the county seat,
is not a voice of the people at all, ever oocurcd on tho American Among the towns which aro
and the Home Journal is right on ! continent. The Iroquois theatre a " xi0u " to become the'tSountykti^ft
wanting a vote from the county or lire in Chi ergo last, December was |
distant so effected by such local
Thi? Middle Georgia
said a few weeks ago that tne large
number of burrs on the pine trees
county, Tifton in iierrie.i county,
one of the worst up to tbat v lime,-j Ashburn in, Worth county, .lazle-
for the in which several hundred lives were | hurst i* Appling county, Millon,
lost. In the General Slocum boat whicl is lowed in Burke, Screven,
disaster more than 1000 wore lost. M Emanuel counties, Villa Riot in
, T . . , , Carrol 1, and Winder, winch is part
Lp to lnesday noon 770 bodies had i •„ j. tok < oll| |iart in Gwinnett and
man who : boon recovered andyOOmpre missing. ; p art j. n Walton county.
Tho boat caught lire out on the water In some instances, it.is said good
with a large picnic party on board.
indicated a large corn crop this year ( Of the 1,000 people on board, about
was speaking prophetically. The one fourth were saved by be*ng
corn crop bids fair to break the 1 picked up by small boats or swint-
rccord.---Yaldosta Times. f mmg to the shore.
reason exists why new counties
should lie created, and an effort will
be made lo have the legislature pass
a constitutional amendment which
will permit of changes iu this
respect.—Atianta Constitution.