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HITS POOLPLAYEHS
Important Decision of the
Supreme Court.
ON A DECISIONOF FITE’S
Pool Playing Paid for by Loser of
Game, is Betting and Mis
demeanor, Says Court,
According to an opinion handed
down by the supreme court of
Georgia Saturday morning, it is a
violation of the state law relative
to gaming for two or more persons
to play pool or biliards with the
understanding that the loser is to
pay for the use of the tables. The
decision is the seventh one hand
ed down in the United Sfhtes re
lating to the subject, three of them
holding such a performance to be
legal and four holding it to be
gaming.
In the event the officers of the
law in Georgia take advantage of
the decision, it will be within the
power of the authorities to close
every pool and billiard parlor and
bowling alley in Georgia, as m?uy
of them operate upon the plan
whereby the losers pay for the
game.
The case which t brought forth
the decision from the highest court
in Georgia came down from Car
tersville, Bartow county, on a bill
of exceptions.
Willis Hopkins, Mose Reed and
Creek Kincaid were indicted by
the grand jury of Bartow county
for playing and betting "together
for money or other things of value
at a pool table.” It was charged
they played on a table belonging
to Henry Kay the same being
located in the city of Cartersville.
Hopkins was arraigned before
Judge A. W. Fite, of the Cherokee
circuit, in t .e superior court of
Bartow county. He entered a plea
of not guilty, and it was not shown
at the that any of the men haz
arded a cent of money on the out
come. It was established, how
ever, that the loser of the game
paid for the use of the table on
which they had played.
Hopkins was found guilty of a
misdeameanor. He excepted to
the finding, and the case was
brought to the supreme court.
Justice Fish wrote the opinion,
and the entire bench concurred,
‘‘Playing pool,” holds the court,
•“under the agreement among the
players that the one losing the
game shall pay for the use of the
table, is betting at a pool table
within the meaning of the penal
code No. 401, providing that, “If
any person shall bet . ...at
any pool table, he'shall be guilty
of a misdemeanor.” The fact that
the state imposes a specific tax on
the keeper of a pool table does not
affect the question.”
Blue Racer the Swiftest Snake.
'‘The swiftest snake I have ever
known is the ‘blue racer,’ as we
used to call the reptile in the Ar
kansas foothills, and, I want to
tell you, tilts particular snake can
travel like a blue streak.” said a
man from Arkansas.
‘ The fact is, the name ‘blue ra
cer’ was given to the snake because
of the member's fleetness. I have
seen ‘blue racers’ dart across the
road at such a rapid pace that you
would only see a mere suggestion
of blue, and if you did not happen
to know the snake and its habits
you would not know what it was,
You could not possibly get the
idea that it was a snake you had
seen flash through the dust of the
couutry road unless you knew
something of the ‘blue racer.-’
Just what speed the snake makes
Ido not know, but it is a rapid
pace. The rattlesnake is supposed
to have good speed, and as a mat
ter of fact the rattkr can whiz
along at a pretty swift gait. But
the rattlesnake is not in it with
the biue racer.”-—New Orleans
Times-Democrat.
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the women of America is attracting
the attention of many of our leading
scientists, and thinking people gener
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f Jlirs Jar a Wi /son
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beyond question that Lydia E. Pink
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remedy of great merit, otherwise it
could not produce such marvelous re
sults among sick and ailing women.
Dear Mrs. Pinkham:—
“ About nine months ago I was a great suf
ferer with womb trouble, which caused me
severe pain extreme nervousness and fre
quent headaches, from which the doctor
failed to relieve me. I tried Lydia E. Pink
ham’s Vegetable Comj>ound, and within a
short time felt better, and after taking five
bottles of it I was entirely cured. I therefore
heartily recommend your Compound as a
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periods regular and without pain ; and what
a blessing it is to find such a remedy after so
many doctors fail to help you. lam pleased
to recommend it to all suffering women.”—
Mrs. Sara Wilson, 31 East 3d Street, Cincin
nati, Ohio.
If you hare suppressed or painful
menstruation, weakness of the stom
ach, indigestion, bloating, leucorrhoea,
flooding, nervous prostration, dizzi
ness, faintness, "don't-care” and
" want-to-be-left-alone ” feeling, ex
citability, backache or the blues, these
are sure indications of female weak
ness, some derangement of the uterus
or ovarian trouble. In such cases there
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E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound.
The Gentle Cynic.
It’s hard to be a "good fellow”
and a model husband, too.
The less a man has to say, the
greater is his reputation for wis
dom.
A floating debt is a poor thing
to keep a man’s head above water.
It doesn’t take - a headstrong fel
low to butt in.
Charity begins at home, but re
form begins with our neighbors.
The trouble with an idle rumor
is that it is always so industrious.
The winds of adversity have
caused many a love match to flick
er out.
We can forget half we hear and
not lose much.
Idleness kills more people than
work.
Some people have a lot of good
in them, but the trouble is they
don’t let it out.
An optimist is a man who is
married and glad of it.
The truthful man always catches
the smallest fish.
Love is a thing people write
novels and plays about.
A jealous woman is almost as
bad as one that isn’t.
Some people who marry in haste
repent at leisure, aud some repent
immediately.
If Adam Jiadn’t liked apples
what a different sort of world this
would be!
The quick results of Acid Itou
Mifteyal in the cure of Dyspepsia,
Indigestion ami bowel trouble nave
struck thousands with wonder. Heals
cuts, burns, old sores and all skin
diseases readily.
Trade A-l M mark on every bot
tle. Sold by Druggists.
Five Gaits for a Horse .
Some horses are only trained to
three gaits—the trot and canter,
and the natural slow’ walk —the
“fiat foot” walk, as it is called.
The majority of them, however,
are put through the more complete
education necessary for five gaits—
the step-aud pace, rack or single
foot, the trot, canter and "flat
foot” walk. Naturally, the five
gaited horses 'bring a great deal
higher price than those that havv.
only the more common three gaits.
A good five-gaited horse costs
about as much as a first class large
American automobile.—Country
Life in America.
3 ISOS CURE FOR
25 CTS
CURES WHERE ALL ELSE FAILS
Best Coegh Syrup. Tastes Good.
Use in time. Sold by druggists.
CONSUMPTION
KUSSIA’S FUTILE BLUFF.
The tzar’s Fighters Cannot Stand the Pres
sure Much Longer.
’’ln the slang of the day,” says
the Augusta Chronicle, "which
may not yet have invaded diplo
matic circles, but is certainly ac
cepted in almost all other relations
of life, Russia is ‘putting up’ a
maguificent ‘bluff,’ one that is
worthy of the palmiest days of her
statesmanship, which has been
rather noted in 'the past for its
depth and unreliability. This, of
course, is a mere matter of opinion,
but when one comes to look the
situation carefully over it is diffi
cult to reach any other.”
For the space of a year, the
Chronicle continues, during which
the record of Japanese success ran
unbroken, we were told that the
czar’s chief of staff and the czar's
commander in chief were pur
suing a deep laid scheme. That
the empire had been taken by sur
prise when the Japanese made
their impetuous onslaught, but
that while outnumbered and out
generaled in the beginning, Rus
sia would take her own time, and
select her own spot for fighting
the decisive engagement with an
army deliberately organized and
brought together for that purpose
—i. e., the crushing, once and for
all time, of their foeman. These
plans were carried out, and Muk
den was the result.
It looks as if Russia had to run
to the end of her tether. The god
of battles has decreed that she shall
be soundly thrashed by Japan, and
that little nation is doing it to the
queen’s taste. While the thrash
ing is in progress all the civilized
world is looking on with much
pleasure.
It would have been a great ca
lamity if Russia had succeeded in
whipping Japan. The plucky little
Jap neyer for one moment enter
tained the idea that he would be
whipped, however. The soldiers
of the Mikado’s kingdom went into
this fight with the firm conviction
that Russia would be driven out
of Manchuria, and out of Man
churia they intend to drive Rus
sia. This self-evident truth Rus
sia has known for a long time, but
will not admit it even yet.
The war in the east is evidently
fast nearing its end. In just a few
weeks more some nation, at the in
stance of Russia, will step in and
call time.
About Rheumatism.
There are few diseases that inflict
more torture thau rheumatism and
there is probably no disease for
which such a varied and useless lot
of remedies have been suggested. To
say that it can be cured is, therefore,
a bold statement to make, but Chaim
berlain’s Pain Halm, which enjoys
an extensive sale, has met with great
success in the treatment of this
disease. One application of Pain
Balm will relieve the pain, aud
hundreds of sufferers haye testified
to permanent cures by Its use. Why
suffer when Pain Baffin affords such
quick relief and costs but a trifle?
For sale by Greene Drug Cos., aud
M. F. Word.
Beginnings of Clubs.
The first club of modern Eng
land seems to have been the circle
at the Mermaid that Sir Walter
Raleigh founded and Shakespeare
| joined. But in the seventeenth
! century clubs began to spring up
like mushrooms. There was the
Calves’ Head club, whose mem
bers met and dined off calves’ heads,
to show their contempt for the
decapitated Charles I. Then came
the Kit-Kat club, which, accord
ing to Addison, took its name
from a muttou pie. One Christo
pher Kat, a pastry-cook, of Shire
lane, was a distinguished con
structor of muttou pies, and his
productions were called Kit-Kats.
The club meeting in his house and
eating his pies acquired the pies’
name for its o>.vn, London Tele
graph.
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A doftranteed Core For Piles.
Itching, Blind; Bleeding or pro
truding Piles. Druggists refund
money if Pazo Ointment fails to
] cure any case.no mattter of how
long standing, in 6to 14 days. First
application gives Case and rest. 50c
If your druggsst hasn’t it send 50c in
stamps, and it will be forwarded post
paid by Paris Medicine Cos., St Lou
is, Mo.
CASTOHIA,
Bears tts /) Tha Kind You Have Always Bough
Signature V/ \/} . *
of
25 CTS.
I Truths that Strike Home
§ Tour grocer is honest and—if he cares to do so—can tell
3 you that he knows very little about the bulk coffee he
I sells you. How oan he know, where it originally came from,
how it was blended — OT With What
B —or when roasted? If you buy your
JIB coffee loose by the pound, how can
you expect purity and uniform quality!
§1 LION COFFEE, LEADER OF
ALL PACKAGE COFFEES, Is ot
I necessity uniform in quality,
strength and 11avor. For OVEB A
1 1 QUARTEB OF A CENTURY, LION COFFEE
I has been the standard collee In
I millions ol homes.
I LION COFFEE c carefully packed
I at our factories, and until opened In
yoor home, has no chance ot being adnl-
Derated. or of coming tn contact with dost,
dirt.germs,or unclean hands.
In each package of LION COFFEE you get OflO full
8™ OUnd of Pure Coffee. Insist upon getting the genuine,
jion head on every package.)
(Save the Lion-heads for valuable premiums.)
SOLD BY GROCERS EVERYWHERE
WOOLBON SPICE CO., Toledo, Ohio.
Remedy Against Old Age.
Curdled milk of a special kind,
prepared only on a Bulgarian
recipe, is now supposed to be a
reineby against growing old. M.
Xavier Dybovski has made a
communication on the subject to
the Academy of Medicine. The
substance is called yaghurt, and
can now be obtained in tins in
Paris. It is supposed to be death
to all the inimical bacteria in the
intestines, while those friendly
microbes to which Prof. Metch
nikoff pins his faith positively
adore it. Hence the property of
yaghurt, to prolong human life to
what is its normal span-a century
or so. The substance looks very
like ordinary cream cheese gone
bad and tastes similarly. The
solid portion is mixed with a white,
thin liquid which is exceedingly
sour. People who wish to live to
a hundred breakfast off yaghurt
exclusively.-(London Telegraph.)
“Young man,” said the old
merchant fcterdly, "I caught vou
kissing the typewriter when I re
turned to the office this morning.
What have you to say sir?”
“Why,” replied the bright clerk,
"you told me to attend to all your
duties in your absence.” —Phil-
adelphia Leader.
SEED
TIME
73$e experienced farmer
has learned that some
grains require far differ
ent soil than others;
some crops need differ
ent handling than others.
He knows that a great
deal depends upon right
planting at the right
time, and that the soil
must be kept enriched.
No use of complaining
in summer about a mis
take made in the spring.
Decide before the seed
is planted.
best time to reme
dy wasting conditions in
the human body is be
fore the evil is too deep
rooted. At the first evi
dence of loss of flesh
Scott’s Emulsion
should be taken imme
diately. There is noth
ing that will repair
wasted tissue more
quickly or replace lost
flesh more abundantly
than Scott’s Emulsion.
It nourishes and builds
up the body when ordi
nary foods absolutely
fail.
We 'it’ll! send you a sample free.
Be sure that this
dpyA X picture in the form
YjwMjV of a label is on the
jfeSffSk wrapper of every
bot d e Emulsion
fNOJ SCOTT®
SrffS/l BOW N E
V CHEMISTS
’ 'IV u Up 3 409 Pearl Street
, P*- NEW YORK
% 50c. and $1;
all druggists
No Canary Reed Wanted.
Delegate McGuire, of Oklahoma,
has on his desk an unique request
for seed. It comes from a resident
of the Territory, who writes in this
wise:
"My wife wants packages of
flower seeds and garden seeds.
Please send the same to her. Don’t
send her any canary seed. That
might make her want to sing, and
the Lord knows I have trouble
enough with her on that score.” —
Washington Post.
THE RIGHT NAME IS DkWITT.
DeWitt’s Witch Hazel Salve cools,
soothes and heals cuts, burns, boils,
bruises, piles and all skin diseases.
K. E. Zickefoose, Adolph, W. Va.
says: "My little daughter had white
swelling so bad that piece after piece
of bone worked out of her leg. De-
Witt’s Witch Hazel Salve cured her.”
It is the most wonderful healing
salve in the world. Beware of count
erfeits. Sold by Young Bros.
M rs. Chatters —"What do you
think ? I dreamed last night that
I was at a box party, and—”
Mr. Chatters—“Ah, that ex
plains why you were talking so
loud in your sleep.” —Philadelphia
Press.
Always Liberal to Churches.
Every church will be given a liberal
quantity of L. & M. paint. Call for
it.
4 gallons Longman & Martinez
L. & M, Paint mixed with three
gallons linseed oil, will paint a house.
W. B. Barr, Charleston, W. Ya.
writes, “Painted Frankenburg block
with L. fe M. stands out as though
varnished.”
Wears and covers like gold.
Don’t pay $1 50 a gallon for linseed
oil, which you do in ready fr-use
paint.
Buy oil fresh from the barrel at
GO cents per gallon .and mix it with
L. & M.
It makes paint cost about $1.20 per
gallon. Sold by Lumpkind Bros.
Mrs. Peck, contemptuously—
" What are you anyhow; a man or
a mouse?”
Henry Peck, bitterly—"A man,
my dear. If I were a mouse I’d
have you up on that table yelling
for help right now.” —Cleveland
Leader.
SBB.OO Pacific Coast.
Tickets 011 sale daily from Chicago
March Ist to May 15th via the Chicago,
Union Pacific & North-Western Line.
Correspondingly low rates from all
points. Daily and personally con
ducted excursions through without
change to San Francisco, Los Angeles,
and Portland, only $7.00 for double
berth. Full particulars oh application
to W. B. Kniskern, P. T. M., C. & N.
W. Ky., Chicago.
"I had’t been introduced to him
five minutes before he began to
ralk ‘society’
"And you didn’t like fhat, eh?”
"Of course I did. l( a man’s an
idiot I like to know it right away.’’
—Catholic Standard and Times,
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A Chattanooga Briiggist’s Statement.
Kobet. J. Miller, Proprietor of the
Read House Drqg Store of Chattaji
oogiq Teijn f\w*ites: “ThereJs Wore
merit in r oley s Honey and rar than
in any other cough svrup. The palls
for it multiply wonderfully !ttnd we
sell more of it than all other cough
syrups combined.” Greene Drqg Cos.
: —P-:: ■ 1 '. I
Mistress--1 undestand you stood
for a \vhole| hour in the doorway
last night talking to the policeman,
Biddy?
Biddy—Shure, you wouldn’t
have me stand there for an hour
and say nothing, ma’am?—London
Titbits. oq , ■ ,
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Petition for Charter-
Bartow Countv.
i o the Superior Court of said coimtv
petition of G, W. Buquo h
H. Buquo ol Dickoo fcorijtv staf*- of
Tennessee ands J Hnmm At u ae °*
county t ,*tate n ofT^& e h t o?“ ,lton
i. Petitioners desire to be incornorateH
and made a body politic under
name and style ot Qer tte
"DIXIE BARREL WORKS”
lor a term of twenty (20) years u -m
the privilege of renewal for a like ter.!*
i t the end of that time. The object f
said incorporation is pecuniarv gain to
its stockholders to be made by conduct
ing some one or more or all ot the
nesses hereinafter specified. USl *
11. The particular business to i„
carried on by said corporation is so.
one or more or all of the following T
said corporation may at its optiof.
determine: UIl >
(A) The buying, selling, rentim,
leasing or owing of any and every k "j
ot timber, timber lands and lumV'.
mther cut or uucut, or sawed or m '
sawed. u '•
(B) The manufacturing, buying
ing, or selling of shingles, boards, floor ’
ing weather boarding and any and vn
otiier sorts of J umber, including barrel
staves, barrel heads, barrel hoops , i
any and all other sort ol material us.‘ '
or which may be used in the manufa,"
ture of barrels.
(C) The erection, operation and uiait
ten a nee o 1 any establishment of a,
kind or laetory necessary or proper 1, .
the manufacture or utilization, directlv
or indirectly,of any of the raw material
or manutactured products irom anv At
said raw materials hereinbefore men
tioned, or of any raw material obtained
Irom any property now or hereafter
owned or leased, possessed or enioverl
by said corporation. '
(D) The buying, improving, renting
leasing, owning and selling ot realestaLe
of all sorts for itsell or for others,
(E) The loaning and borrowing „t
money and the purchase, sales, by poih.
ecation of stocks, bonds, debenture!
notes, ana other securities issued ly
any person natural or artificial, to the
same extent as might be done by a
natural person.
11l
Petitioners pray lor said corporation
tiie following additional rights and
powers:
(1) To sue and be sued; to have ami
use a common seal; to make bv-laws
binding upon its members, stockhold
ers and officers and agents not incon
sistent with the laws ol this state or the
laws of the United States; to altar,
amend and rescind the same, and to
procure such amendmentoi this char
ter as may be authorized by vote of
holders of two-thirds ol its capital stock
and to receive donations by gift or will
(2) To make, sell, pledge, hypothe
cate, alien and conyey (or either or am
two or more jointly) kny or all of ilk
rights, assets, properties and franchises
and to unite, merge or consolidate with,
and to buy and sell and to bold and
own and vote the stock of any other
corporation or corporations.
3 To borrow money and’ to issue
notes, drafts, bills of exchange, bonds
and debentures, to secure the. same by
mortgage,pledge, hypothecation, deed
or other conveyance, either absolutely
or in trust, of any of its rights, privi
leges, franchises, powers or properties
at such time and on sueli terms as said
corporation by a vote of a majority of
its directors may- deem best,
(4) To issue capital stock at any time
or times, in any sum or sums, within
the limit hereinafter prayed to be al
lowed and to deliver any of its capital
stock or bonds (or the securities or
stock of other corporations owned by
this corporation) either for cash, or di
rectly in payment of any rights, privi
leges, franchises, or for the bonds, or
stock of any corporation, in or out of
the state oi Georgia, or for property of
any kind (without the necessity ot
first selling its own stock or bonds or
other securities for casn and then with
that cash buying said other securities
or properties); with the further right
to receive property of any kind tn pay
ment of subscription to its capital
stock on such terms and at such valua
tion as a majority of the corporators or
directors may fix; the valuation so put
on such property to be conclusive ou
all persons in the absence of actual
fraud on the part of such corporators or
directors, the presumption being in
lax or of such conclusiveness; this
right of receiving property in payment
ol 11s capitol stock to vest in the cor
porators upon the organization of the
corporation, and in the directors after
its organization; to endorse or guaran
tee the payment of the interest or prin
cipal, or both, of any obligation of any
person, natural or artificial, when au
thorized thereto by a yote of the ma
jority of the directors of this corpora
tion.
tv
Petitioners futherpray:
(a) That the common capital stock of
said corporation be five thousand dol
lars ($5,000.00), divided into shares of
the par value of one hundred dollars
($100.00) each, with the privileged in
creasing the same at any time or times,
to any sum or sums, not exceeding in
the aggregate twenty-five thousand
dollars ($25,000). which may be agreed
to by the holders of a majority of the
common capital stock of said corpora
tion; in all stockholders meetings a
stockholder being entitled to one vote
for each share ol stock
<b) That ten per cent of the capital
stock be, as it will be. paid in either in
property or cash, or partly in each (as
may be fixed by the corporators) before
said corporation shall commence to ex
ercise any of the priyileges herein pray
ed for.
(c) That no personal liability shall
attach to any stockholder of said cor
poration alter the payment bv him to
said corporation either in property
(valued as hereinbefore set forth) or in
cash, or partly in each, of all his sub
scription to said capital stock.
(and) That such corporation have all
other aud further rignts, powers and
privileges incident to corporations of
like character under the lawsof Georgia
or the United States, or which may be
in any way conducive to the interest
of saiji.corporation; ana that said cor
poration be empowered to possess any
right, and exercise any power, aud per
form any act or beneficial
o the fuildkt enjoyment orthis or ether
rights or powers, or conducive to the
success of any of its corporate under
takings; and that the right of the State
<?f Georgia to withdraw the franchises
herein prayed for be expressly nega
tived.
Y r
The principal office and place of busi
ness of said corporation shall be in Car
tersvilLe, Bartow'Oounly, Georgia, with
the right and power to said corporation
to establish aud maintain branch of
fices, and to coipmeuce and conduct
arfy 9ite, or more ol its businesses, at
any other place or places within or
without the limits of the State of Geor
gia; which powers are expressly p ay
ed.
JOHN W. A PAUL P. AKIN,
, P.etiljoner’p A ttoruevs.
Filed in (Merit's Office, Bartow Su
p rior Court, this March 30th, 1905.
. )V,. O. WALTON,
■(Merit Superior Court.
Bartow County, Ga.
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M anted —Experienced Organizers (or an up-to
date Fraternal Order that pa.ve while you live.
IdOeral InilHepmentH with yearly ooptracts. No
membership Tee nud easy to work. Adders*
Benevolent Knight*. Box 144. Meridian, Miss.