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AND JURY DRAWN TO SERVE
AT SEPTEMBER TERM 1916
Elijah Grantham H F Brown
Arthur Vickers G J Meeks
W H Merritt ' P E Moore
J E Lott Younpie Vicker.Sr
J F Overstreet W T Royal
J F Smith J H McKinnon
J L Shelton .) 1 Hatfield
L J Foreman J E Gaskin
Elijah Tanner Sr B Morris
H L Vickers D Kirkland
J L Parker A W Haddock
R G Kirkland S M Harrell
Daniel Roberts C W Meeks
Jno W Tanner A S McCollum
Jeff Kirkland N E Harrell
Petit Jury September Term 1916.
First Week.
Jno McKinnon Sol Sears
A R Lewis Wiley Smith
Dan Courson Joshua Pridgen
J. L. Sapp J A Davis
Warren Vickers W B courson
Henry Day C Jenson
J H Dent S G Logan
M Corbett A J Skinner
J J carter C C Smith
Mark Anderson c N Fielding
Henry Knowles E L Meeks
Wrn Vickers Willis Vickers
Jeff Lewis David Kirkland Jr
Jesse M Pafford Mose Griffin
G w Ving Martin C Corbett
J A Daughterly willis Smith
J L Bryant J M Paulk
J M Meeks H L carter
Wm Jowers L J Moore
W H Purvis J G Traynham
J cEllis c E Stevens
Jno Hursey Jas Sapp
D M Peterson A F Coffee
Jesse Meeks Noah Higgs
Second Week
J H Dorminey lI) Gillis (Nichols
Dan Fussell Perry Strickland
Tnos Wilcox W D Perkins
W E Clements Alfred Tanner
H. F. Sears Thos Daniels
Henry Manci) (Mora W H Tanner
Gaines Joiner Jno McCollum
J H Wooten Charlie Merritt
Dennis Tucker Staten Tanner
Willis Newbern J A Dykes
T D Thompson B F Oberry
W E Outlaw Junie Baker
Richard Vickers Aaran Byrd
I Z Dykes Tom S Corbett
C T Darley T J Smith
J W Brooker Wash Davis
W G Meekg F. h" Preston
D A Smith J W Pearson
R R Rich S M Murray
M C Purvis jesse McMillan Jr.
w N Davis M F Head
Dan nail J H King
John M Lott Sr E B Autry
j L Denton E LMoore (Nichols
No matter what Kind of prop
erty or where located. We will
get you all the money needed
without deiav. Wallace & Luke.
adv
■
Heavy, impure blood makes a mud
dy, pimply complexion, headaces, nau
seam indigestion. Thin blood makes
you weak, pale and sickly. For pure
blood, sound digestion use Burdock
Blood Bitters. If LOO at all stores.
A NEW CAR of American Wire
Fence at J. S. Lott’s. 33 ad-tf
’Tis with ease to ride on Ihe Uni
yersal Shock Absorber. Put on
your Ford at Stalvey’s specialty
station on Peterson avenue,
adv JimStalvey.
MONEY TO LOAN.
On improved farm property in Cof
fee County. Long terms, reasonable
rates of interest. We represent the old
and reliable firm of Howard M. Smith
& Co. Call on or write. —-J. MONROE
WILCOX & BRO., Douglas. Ga. 22tf
Are You a Woman ?
Take
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m SALE AT ALL DRI'GGIST>
F 4
Douglas Has Make Good
Douglas People will get the Benefit
There’s nobody in Douglas any
better known than Chief Stevens and
in giving his experience with Doan’s
Kidney Pills, for the benefit ol
Douglas kidney suffers, he has noth
ing whatever to gain.
W'hy experiment with unknown or
imination kidney remedies when you
have sach a good reason to try
Doan’s?
Profit by the test Chief Stevens
has made for you.
M. D. Stevens, chief of police, 625
Ethel St., Douglas, says: “For five
years I suffered with weak kidneys
and backache. 1 had a dull, con
stant pain across my loins and it was
so had at times that I could hardly j
do my work. 1 never felt like keep- j
ing at anything. 1 felt dull and
| languid and the kidney secretions
J were too frequent anil painful in
| passage. I also had dizzy spells and
headaches. I took doctors’ medicine
and ali kinds of kidney remedies,
but nothing helped me much.
Doan’s Kidney Pills, however cur
ed me.”
Price 50c at all dealers. Don’t sim
ply ask for a kidney remedy—get
Doan's Kidney Pills —the same that
cured Chief Stevens. Foster-Milbuin
Co., Props., Buffalo, N. Y. (adv)
For quick loans on improved
farm lands, at low rate of interest
and least expense, see F. W. Dart,
Douglas, Ga.
Renew your farm loans through
L. E. Heath and E. L. Tanner,
Douglas, Ga. Low interest and
quick delivery.
Desirable Farms For Sale
Parties who may desire to pur
chase a one or two horse farm of
good South Georgia land well situat
ed, prices moderate and terms easy
covering a nine vear period with
low rate of interest should call on
me at once at Chamber of Com
merce.
Melvin Tanner.
ALEX.THE GREAT
FAMOUS PLAYS
AND PLAYERS
By RANDOLPH ROSE
PERSONALLY, I
felt mighty sorry A N
when young Grover m
Cleveland Alexander A tW
failed to come through H /y J
as well as expected in J
that first game of the
world’s series last year.
Hi had had such a good
season with his I’hila
delphia team ami had , UNIKII ril llolsß
worked Ins head on lor
l’at Moran so willingly, that 1 just
couldn’t help feeling sympathetic.
When the Giant?- were in Chattanooga
barnstorming theii way north this
year, 1 asked "Red” Dooin alamt Alex.
Dooin, you’ll remember, used to catch
Alexan ler and was the manager of the
l’hillies ahead of Moran, anil naturally
Dooin had a lot of interest in the boy.
Dooin said that Alex, complained of
a rib that was either broken or out ol
place. At any rate it pained him and
impaired his usefulness. Alexander has
a heart of iron and 1 ladieve he would
have gone.better in the world’s series
than during the year if there hadn’t
beef) so much trouble.
Alexander likes hard work —he was
brought up on it. His parents settled
in Nebraska back in the times when
there were Indians there and it's a long
jump from the little hut miles from no
wliere that Alexander \v.a« born in, to
i the palatial hotels In which he now si ups
: with his team. 11 is wonderful physiqm
j is probably due to the hard work lie did
in his laiyhood days.
in these days when baseball magnates
are reputed to be paying $20,000 anil
even $30,000 for stars like Maiquard,
Raker and Collins, it is a pleasant relief
to the exchequer of the Philadelphia club
to realize that Alexander, the greatest
piteher of 1015. cost only $i ‘<o, be hav
ing been bought from Syracu.t of the
New 5 oik Stnti League foi ;,!iit sum in
1910 by the Phillies.
Alexander was born in St. Paul. Ne
| hraska, February -26. lssf. His first pro-
I tessional game was in 1900, when he
I heard of a chance 1 to pitch for a profes
! sional elub in Galesburg. Illinois, for
I expense's and a little over. Soon after
! that he came to the lime-light. The very
1 first vear with the Phillies he won twen
ty-eight games and has been the team's
most valuable man e\or since.
I
C O F.F EE COUNTY PR
*ii»i ■ l ij.l lilii
Al.l IRV l At Coffee County.
GERMAN LtGIONS
Successes In Northern France
and Galicia
TEUTON ROUT ON STRIPA
French P.reak German Line on Front
of Nearly Four Miles—Teuton Pris
oners (o Number of 1,000 and 3C
Machine Guns Captured.
French and Russian forces have
pained additional important successes
over the armies of the central powers
in northern France and Galicia, re
spectively.
A sustained attack over a front of
3% miles by the French against the
third German line north of the Somme
resulted in the capture of all the
trenches to a depth of from a third
to two-thirds of a mile. The line of
the victorious French advance extends
from Hardecourt to the Somme river
at Buscourt.
The village of Maurepas, which has
been the center of much severe fight
ing during the last few weeks, was
partly occupied by the the
same assault. German prisoners to
the number of 1,000 and 30 machine
guns were captured.
On the eastern front the Austro-
Germans have been forced to give up
the entire Stripa line from Tarnopol
to Buczacz, which they had held since
last winter. The capture of the Stripa
line by the Russians followed the tak
ing of several towns in the region of
Tarnopol.
The Russian success comes closely
on their turning of the flanks of the
Stripa positions in the north by the
capture of Brody and in the south by
the taking of Stanisiau. The advance
of General I.etchitzky continues south
of Stanisiau, towards Halicz and Lem
berg. On the Austro-Italian front the
Duke of Aosta continues > advance
south of Gorizia in the i rection of
Triest and his troops have occupied
Oppacchiazalla, six miles southwest
of Gorizia. The Austrians are put
ting up a strong defense against the
attempted Italian advance east of Go
rizia.
GIANT ZEPPELIN.
Germany Building Airship of Stu
pendous Proportions.
The giant Zeppelin transcontinental
air liners promised by Germany to
help her merchant submarines defeat
the purposes of the British blockade
is under construction near Lake Con
stance. Official information was re
ceived at Washington telling of the
giant aircraft.
The great passenger-carrying bal
loon is hundreds of feet longer than
the largest of the war Zeppelins,
which have been used in the bom
bardment of English and French coast
towns and the air raids on London
and Paris.
Inflated, the newest German prod
uct will be 787 feet n length, more
than one-seventh of a mile. The giant
airship is designed to carry a dead
weight of 88.000 pounds. This is the
equivalent of 580 persons of average
weight.
Work on the huge pasenger and
baggage-carrying machine is being
pushed as rapidly as possible. How
ever. the information cabled contained
no accurate estimate of the probable
time of the completion of the Zeppelin
that is designed to break the British
cordon about Germany and free Ger
man commerce.
GERMAN CASUALTIES.
Kaiser Reported to Have Lost 3.135,-
177 Men.
German casualties during July, ac
cording to a table compiled in London
from German casualty lists, totaled
122.540, bringing the grand total
since the commencement of the war
taken from the same source to 3,-
| 135.177.
Men killed or who died of wounds
during July numbered 21.196; those
who died of sickness, 2.062; missing,
15,334; severely wounded. 17,807;
wounded, 5,654: slightly wounded.
50.157.
The wounded remaining with their
units are given as 9,614.
According to these lists, since the
commencement of the war the men
killed or who have died of their
wounds total 735.866; died of sickness
48.534; prisoners. 157.075; missing.
199,642; severely wounded, 425,175;
bounded, 268.085; slightly wounded.
1.152,158; wounded remaining with
their units. 147.742.
The figures given do not include
naval casualties or losses to the colo
nial forces.
Hungary Sees Early Peace.
The general feeling in the capital
of Hungary is that the war will not
last through the coming winter. Thf
correspondent of the International
News Service has talked with eminent
men about the various political out
looks as well as with the man in the
street, and has found this opinion tf
be universal.
200 Killed in Air Raid.
Two hundred soldiers were killed
during the latest air raid of the Allies
over the German fortress of Metz, ac
cording to information received at The
Hague. The railway and some of the
forts were damaged.
GFI S P
FRANK TRUMBULL.
Chairman of tha Railway Ex.
•cutiva Advisory Committaa.
fillip?
PLANS LOR REFORM.
Revival of English Agricultural Life
After War.
One of the effects of the war will
be seen in a great revival of agricul
tural life in England and the United
Kingdom. The outbreak of the con
flict caught the British Isles depen
dent on foreign commerce for four
lifths of their food supply, barring
meat, of which between 60 and 70
per cent is produced at home.
The motto of a few years ago,
“Back to the Land,” thus has given
way to the slogan, “England Must
Feed Herself.” Lord Selborne, the
leader of the crusade, declares that
the attainment of this object is the
country's sacred duty, and he empha
sizes the point that the farmer can do
as much for the country as the soldier
in the trenches.
Plans for the great reform include
a number of important measures that
are to he put into effect at the earliest
possible moment.
GENERAL RAILWAY UNION.
German Employes Organize Into One
Big Body.
The General German Railway Men’s
Union, an orginization embracing all
ranks and classes of employees on
State and private railways, came into
existence recently.
The new orginization owes its birth
to the fact that the hundred thousand
railway men who have joined the col
ors since the beginning of the wai
have been replaced by employees from
other unions, such as engineers, metal
workers, transport workers, etc.
Having been released from their old
allegiances, the latter joined together
formally not only with the object of
maintaining their status as union men,
but for the purpose of constituting an
Important reinforcement of the rail
way men's union.
CALLS HOME GUARD.
Austro-Hungarian Armies Seriously
Crippled.
That the Austro-Hungarian armies
have been seriously crippled by their
losses <»n the Russian and Italian fron
tiers is evidenced by Vienna dispatch
es, which announce that Hungarian
landsturm forces of all years from
1885 to 1897, inclusive, have been
ordered to report for active service on
August 28.
Swiss experts estimate that tills
call will furnish the Austrian com
manders with reinforcements num
bering 275.000 men. These land
sturmers had been serving as home
guards.
AUSTRIANS CAPTURED.
Eight Hundred Taken by the Italians
East of Gorizia.
Further progress for the Italians
east of Gorizia and the capture of
Austro-Hungarian intrenchments were
reported by the Italian war office.
Eight hundred more Austro-Hun
garian prisoners have been captured.
The official statement says that
eastward of Nadlogem (hill No. 212)
Austro-Hungarian intrenchments were
pierced.
On the remainder of the front the
Austro-Hungarians made attacks, but
all were repulsed.
Censor Takes Money From Letter.
A le'ter sent by 1 he,Kwabian Asso
ciation of I .os Angeles. Cal., contain
ing a relief contribution of $250, has
just reached Stuttgart with the money
missing, says the Overseas News
Agency, it had been extracted by
the British censor.
On British Blacklist.
Lord Robert Cecil, of the Foreign
Office, announced in Commons that
the Department of Foreign Trade has
issued another blacklist containing
j the names <>f 443 South American
1 firms having German connections.
Russian Steamship Sunk.
Lloyds rep< rts the sinking of the
, Russian sic: n.sliip Kovda. 1,22.) tons
gross, rnd of the small Italian sailing
vow - Loreiff.c. Donati and San An
tonio.
SEAL OF OUR UNION
Uncle Sam’s Mark When He
Stamps Official Documents.
HISTORY OF ITS ADOPTION.
Franklin, Adams and Jefferson Were
the Men Appomted by John Hancock
to Prepare the Device For the Great
Seal of the United States.
The founders of our government did
nothing without careful deliberation
and we are told that the adoption of a
seal for the United States was as care
fully considered as the framing of the
Declaration of lnde[)endeiice. It was
adopted during the period of the Con
federacy. several years before tbeadop
tion of the constitution, but not till
after several years' deliberation.
On the 4th of July, 1776. after the
Declaration of Independence had been
finally acted upon. John Hancock, pres
ident of the congress, apitolnted Renja
min Franklin. John Adams and Thom
as Jefferson a committee “to prepare a
device for the great seal of the United
States of America.’’ A seal was not
needed for ornament or show, hut to
certify the official commissions soon to
be issued by tiie United States. The
committee took up the matter at once.
Each of the members of the commit
tee had some ideas of his own. and
they called it) an artist of Philadelphia
to help them formulate a design. This
artist was Pierre Sirnitierri. a patriotic
Swiss, who was doing some excellent
portrait painting in the then capital
city of the country.
The Swiss drew a design, which was
discussed by the committee, after
which each member suggested addi
tions or changes, which were incorpo
rated by Jefferson in a report made to
congress on Aug. 10. 1776. This report
was in heraldic language, describing
the shield, crest, dexter, legend, etc.
The following is an extract of this re
port:
“The great seal should cn one side
have the arms of the United State* of
America, which arms should be as fol
lows: Tbe shield lias six quarters—the
first an enameled rose, for England:
the second a thistle proper, for Scot
land: the third a harp, for Ireland:
the fourth a fleur-de-lis, for France;
the fifth the imperial eagle, for Ger
many: the sixth the crowned lion, for
Holland—pointing out the countries
from which the colonies have been
peopled.”
After describing other details, as the
Goddess of Liberty, tbe initial letters
of the colonies, etc., the report said,
“Crest, the eye of Providence in a
radiant triangle, whose glory extends
over the shield and beyond the fig
ures; motto. 'E Pluribus Unum.’”
For some reason or other congress
referred this device back to the com
mittee for Iwrtber report. Franklin
had proposed for a motto "Rebellion to
Tyrants Is Obedience to God.” Adams
proposed Hercules lenuing on a club,
while all tbe virtues and nearly all the
vices grouped about him In different
attitudes. His design would have been
a monstrosity and laughingstock. Jef
ferson's composite design simplified
matters, and it was he who suggested
the motto "E Pluribus Unum.”
This was in August, 1776. The war
soon absorbed the attention and noth
ing further was done about the seal
until March, 1771). when a committee
of three was appointed to consider and
report on the subject. This committee
reported in favor of a shield with thir
teen diagonal stripes, alternately red
and white, a constellation of thirteen
stars, a figure of Liberty and the motto
"Bello vel Pace Paratus” (“Ready for
war or for peace").
This report also was recommitted,
and it was nearly a year before the
matter came up again. Not to follow
through related discussions and re
jections of several designs, the present
seal was not adopted till June 20, 1782.
It was the worn of a young Ameri
can artist. William Barton by name,
who followed in many respects the de
sign submitted by Jefferson six years
before, but simplified it. He retained
the eagle, a bundle of arrows in one
talon and an olive branch in the other;
the helmet with six bars or quarter
ings, signifying the six nationalities
from which the country had been main
l.v peopled, and the motto "E Pluribus
Unum." wbicb survived all the discus
sions.
The designer said, "The motto al
ludes to the Union.” He added in his
explanation, "The escutcheon is borne
on the breast of the American eagle,
without any other support, to denote
that tile United States of America
ought to rely on their own virtues.”
The different executive departments
of the government have each their own
seal, but every commission signed by
the president is stamped with the great
seal of the United States, which is kept
in the state department.—Washington
Post.
Changing It a Bit.
"Are you going to Mrs. Tyresum-
Clymer’s dinner?”
"No I have a subsequent engage
ment”
“A subsequent engagement?”
"Yes. One that I made as soon as 1
heard that Mrs. Tyresum-Clymer was
going to give a dinner.”—Puck.
T roublous.
Billy—ln days of old the gallant used
to kiss his lady's hand. Milly— What
a bother to have to take off one's glove!
Philadelphia Record.
Fear Is conquered not by fleeing, but
bv boldly facing every danger and
, fighting
JACKSON’S INAUGURATION.
Unwelcomed by Adam*, but the Paople
Made Things’ Pretty Lively.
It was on Feb. 11. the day the elec
toral votes were counted, that Jackson
arrived in Washington and took up his
residence at Gadshys. an inn famous
in stage couching days. He declined
to call upou President Adams, imply
ing that he could not bring himself to
touch the hand of a man who had at
tained office through unworthy means.*
He busied himself with the office seek-*
ers. who rushed to \\ ashington in in
credible numbers, likewise avoiding
Adams to flock around tbe power that
was to be. Adams, resenting this
breach of etiquette, took no official or
social notice of his successor and left
tlie city on tlie 3d of March, neither
he nor any member of his cabinet re
maining to welcome Jackson to office.
On the morning of March 4 ttiose
fortunate to secure a commanding po
sition on Capitol hill looked down upon
Pennsylvania avenue alive with carts
and carriages full of women and chil
dren, their male escorts walking be
side them. At last a small company
of men was seen marching compactly
through this crowd up the middle of
the avenue, one tall figure holding his
hat. while the wind played through his
willful gray locks. There was some
thing military in the sight, something
most unmilitafy in the rabble of peo
ple shouting themselves hoarse in ac
claim of the spare, erect figure. It
was an expression of popular will anil
popular trust that gripped the heart
and sent an ache to the throats even of
those who feared the “Tennessee bar- -
barian” and his host
After taking the oath of office Jack
son returned to the White House on
horseback, followed indiscriminately
by white and black, rich and poor,
men. women and children, who swarm
ed over the lawn and through the
rooms of the executive mansion, where
no police provision had been made for
such an onslaught The courageous
old warrior was forced that day to do
what he seldom did. He retreated
and sought refuge in his old quarters
at Gadsby's. Current rumor had It
that a quantity of china and cut glass
to the value of several thousand dol
lars was broken in an attempt to get
refreshments to the multitude, autl
finally great tubs of punch were car
ried out in front of the house, hut that
“hogsheads would not have been
enough.”—Helen Nieolay in Century.
BOILING WATER.
It Is Not Always Hot and Sometime*
May Be Barely Heated.
If you scald yourself with the tea
kettle you are apt to think that boiling
water is a pretty hot proposition. But
boiling water is not always very hot
water, and this is the way it happens.
When water bolls ordinarily it is be
cause great heat has separated the tiny
particles of the water, forcing upward
and outward in lively bubbles the air
which is contained In them. This is
done in spite of the downward pres
sure of the atmosphere. After the wa
ter ha* become hot enough to boil it
can get no hotter, because the air es
capes as fast as it is sufficiently heated
to do so.
There are places on the earth where
the pressure of the atmosphere upon
the water is so slight that it requires
hilt little heat to push apart the par
ticles and set free the air bubbles
which are confined in the water. so it
begins to boil before it becomes very
hot. It ought hardly to he called cold
water, perhaps, hut It is certainly far
from being as hot as ordinarily boil
ing water. This state of things is
found on all high mountain tops, as the
atmosphere grows weaker and its pres
sure less ns one ascends.
A man traveling at a great elevation
in the Andes mountains put some po
tatoes in a pot of water over a hot fire.
The water began to boil almost im
mediately, hut the potatoes did not
cook. All the afternoon and all the
night the water bubbled and boiled, but
still the potatoes were not cooked. The
boiling water was not hot enough.
Humbled Arrogance.
“That did me more good than any
thing that has happened in a long
time.”
“What did’”
“The Green’s new car broke down
right in front of our house, and I had
the pleasure of sitting in our front
window and watching Green and his
whole family work for an hour trying
to get it started again.”—Detroit Free
Press.
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Her Saddest Hour.
“A woman’s saddest hour.” said the
amateur poet, “is that in which she
finds her first gray hair.”
“Not necessarily.” his wife replied.
“It may tie the hour it) wffiicb she
learns that the man she jilted when
she met the failure whom she married
has become a millionaire.” —Life.
A Slight Omission.
A recruit being ordered aloft in a
military balloon hesitated in obeying
and complained to his captain. "Please,
sir, in my oath of allegiance 1 swore
to be true and faithful on land and
water, but there was nothing said
about air.”—Boston Transcript
His Motive.
Pillows—l never realized till three
years ago why Dobson was always
preaching patience. Bolsters—What
made you realize it then? Pillows —I
lent him $lO.-New York Globe.
Fans In Japan.
Fans are in universal use in Japan,
i Even the Japanese servant girl has a
flat fan made of rough paper to blow
the charcoal fires with or to use a* u
I dustpan