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FRED MASHBURN QUITE
SICK IN CHICAGO.
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From Elberton Star.
Rev. J. 11. Mashburn received
messages last night and this morn
ing telling of the very serious ill
ness of his son, Fred Mashburn at
a hospital in Chicago. He is suf
fering from pneumonia and the
doctors expected the crisis to be
reached today. He is about 35
years old and unmarried. He is
auditor at fine of the big hotels of
Chicago and lias been for several
years past. His .brother, Will
Mashburn, of Cincinnati, is at his
bedside, and Mrs. <’. F. Herndon,
<f Elberton, his sister, will leave
today. Many friends of the fam
ily, as well as of the sick young
man who spent several years of
bis boyhood in Elberton, hope to
hear that he is better.
A message was received this af
lernoon stating that Mr. Mashburn
died at 9 o’clock this morning.
His body will be brought to Elber
ton for burial. It will probably
arrive here Sunday afternoon.
DR. HARDMAN LANDS AN
EIGHT POUND TROUT
From Commerce News.
Dr. L. <l. Hardman is spending
o period on bis south Georgia and
Florida farms, resting and fishing.
< >ne of his farms borders on Lake
Park, some ten miles out from Val
dosta. and in that lake fish are lar.
ge and plentiful. Ilis other large
farm is out some ten miles from
Valdosta and lies partly in Geor
gia and partly in Florida. On this
farm there are some ten large
lakes, the largest covering fifteen
acres. While boating and fishing
on this large lake a few days ago,
the doctor threw bis line and bung
a huge fish. It taxed the streng
th of the doctor to pull the fish to
lhe boat. Finally after cutting
all sorts of didoes the fish was
brought to the boat when the doc
tor thrust his hand into it’s gills
and landed the fish in the boat,
li weighed eight pounds and fur
nished a fine meal for ten persons.
DR. .T. G. ELDER
Prominent Physician Passed
Away On Wednesday;
To Be Buried at Galilee
Today.
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c From Jaclrson Herald.
On Wednesday morning at 4 o’
clock, t the home of Mr. (!. W.
Guffin, the soul of Dr. J. G. Elder
returned to the God who gave it.
Dr Elder’s health had been
serioesly impaired for several
months. On December 23rd, Dr.
S. J. Smith was called to Dr. El
der’s home at Clermont, Hall
county, to attend him, and a few
days later he was brought to the
home of his sister, Mrs. G. W. Guf
fin, Route 2, to be learer the phy
sician. But his condition was
such that the disease would not
yield to medical skill, and he con
tinued to grow worse. On Satur
day night lie became critically ill.
and his wife and children were
summoned from Clermont to his
bedside, and he passed away on
Tuesday morning.
Dr. Elder was born and reared
in Jackson county, and for many
years practiced his profession in
Jeffersin. Five years ago, he
moved to Clermont, where lie has
since resided. He was 54 years
of age. In young manhood lie
was married to Miss Emma Segars,
a grand daughter of the late Mr.
and Mrs. Ira Eetts. His widow
and eight children survive him.
Alsb. the following brothers and
sisters, Messrs. George, Nathan,
Dave, Phillip and Sidney Elder,
Mrs. G. \V. Guffin, and Mrs. Flani
gan of Auburn.
Dr. Elder was rated as a physi
cian of exceptional knowledge and
skill, and was a man beloved for
his splendid traits of character.
His large number of friends and
patrons are grieved over his un
timely death, and much sympathy
is extended the family.
11 is body xvill be interred today,
Thursday, at 11a. in., at Gallilee
ihureh with Masonic honors.
WEDDING BELLS
Freeman—Shields
On Sunday at noon, in Jefferson,
Mr. It. 11. Shields and Miss Ola
Freeman were united in marriage,
Judge W. W. Dickson performing
the ceremony, The young cou
)le left immediately over the
Gainesville Midland for Atlanta,
where thhey spent their honey
noon.
The bride is the charming young
laughter of Mrs. Levi Freeman,
and the bridegroom is the son of
Mr. and Mrs. Gam Shields. Both
are popular among their acquaint
ances, and begin their wedded life
with prospects of bright and hap
>y future.
THREE BITTEN BY MAD DOG
ARE ALL TAKING TREAT
MENT.
From Walton Tribune
Last Saturday a week ago, the
wo small children of Mr. Charley
Barclay, of near Campton, were
1 itten by a mad dog and on Mon
lay following Mr. F. O. Darby was
bitten by the same dog. After he
had been bitten Mr. Darby gave
the dog a severe kick, from which
it died the next day.
Dr. J. W. Smith happened along
shortly afterwards and suggested
that he had better cut the dog’s
head off and send it to the State
Board of llealh for extmination.
This was done and a letter prompt
ly came hack to the effect that the
canine had hydrophobia, treat
ment for the two children and Mr.
Darby being sent at the same time.
Since that time Mr. Darby and
the two children have been tak
ng the treatment regularly and
ire getting along nicely.
SIS GOT DRUNK.
Banks County Journal.
A cow, belonging to Mr. Bunk
Presley, was rambling among the
hills of Banks when she eaine upon
some still beer. The cow drank
all she could hold, got dizzy and
ell from a cliff breaking her neck.
Autolng for Wolves.
The motorcycle threatens to out
rival the broncho as an Instrument of
locomotion ou Western ranches and
cuttle ranges. According to the Illus
trated World, cowboys are using It
for rounding up cattle, driving In stray
animals. Inspecting long lines of
fences and other such work. By all
odds the most remarkable pnrpoee for
which the motorcycle is employed,
however. Is that of chasing coyotes.
Such a machine, If the terrain be not
too difficult can easily overtake one of
tlame little gray wolves, tiring the
boost down to a point where It can no
longer turn and dodge successfully.
Then It Is simply a matter of a whirl
of the lariat, and the vlcions brute,
with a few quick spurts of the motor
cycle Is choked to death. —i'ktludel-
phia Public Ledger.
She Knew.
The girls lu the seventh gnule all
wore large hair bows made of beau
tiful, bright tissue paper. They were
not only inexpensive but so pretty
that they were declared a great suc
cess until one day it rained and the
bows faded all over the little owners’
hair. Then great was the lamenting.
One of the boys looked from the
girls with their spotted red and blue
and purple hair to two spinster teach
ers In the ilfty-year-old class. “1 don’t
know as they’re so badly off.” he re
marked to the teacher who was young
and pretty and with a strong sense
of humor, “I'd rather be faded on ac
count of having beaus than to be on
account of not having them.”
Then teacher smiled. She too had
preferences. —Indianapolis News.
Belt Full of Sea Lion Scalps.
As the sea lion is regarded as the
worst enemy of the salmon, the state
of Washington pays a bounty of s2.;>o
on every sea lion scalp and t ecentlj
William Hunter, who devotes his en
tire time to hunting sea lions, collect
ed jsxso for 882. scalps whlcl 1 < ga
ered during the season. This man is
also paid by the salmon fisheries for
his efforts to rid the waters of the
seu lions, lie Is known ns the “king
of the sea lion hunters.”
TITE BARROW TIMES, WINDER, GEORGIA
THE TRUTH ABOUT THE
“BLUE LAWS.”
By Rev. L. Wilkie Collins.
The subject of the Sunday laws
is causing more discussion today
than at any time in the history of
our country For some time there
has btjen an agitation for the re-
peal of some of our Sunday laws.
\nd now comes reform waves, col
ling for laws that will prevent the
operation of railroad trains, the
publishing of Sunday papers, and
the prevention of Sunday baseball
and picture shows. One side de
nounces these laws as an attack
upon our liberties. The other
side says that if we do not protect
our American Sabbath, we will
have such conditions of vice and
Godlessness that our nation will
be doomed. Who is right and
what is the American Sabbath
In all fairness I am going to try
and answer that question.
Our forefathers disagreed on
many things, but, being mostly of
the same race and faith, there was
one question on which they invari
ably agreed.
From Washington to Lincoln,
they conceived these United States
to be under the providential care
of the Almighty God, and they
never dreamed of any law of the
land which was not founded on
the law of God and which rever
enced the Sabbath day. They all
thought of it as a day of rest, when
men might lay aside their other
duties and repair to the house of
worship, where they might meas
ure their lives by the standards of
Almighty God. It was not until
foreign immigration from South-
Europe filled our northern cities
with men of different mould, that
anything else was thought of as
the law of America. The result
of that law was a fullfillment of
the promise that the Sabbath
keeping nations should “Ride on
the high places of the earth.’’
What nation has prospered like
America, or lias had so many evi
dences of God’s favor? The truth
is, that in keeping this law, the
citizens of the United States have
developed reverence, sobriety,
thrift and integrity. It produced
a* generation of men of the sort
that God delights to honor. It is
no wonder that De Locqueville
told his countrymen, upon a re
turn from a visit to this country,
‘France must have the American
sabbath, or she is doomed.”
The Wide-Open Sunday.
To the Christian citizen this bat
le is our Verdun. If we lose the
dmstian Sabbath, we might as
.veil change ears for Sodom and
Tom or rah. The law-abiding citi
zen remembers that in other lands
where men have lost respect for
he law of God they have had lit
tle respect for the law of the na
tion. Ask any of the hoys who
have been to France, what they
think of continental morals and
continental life. And yet some
of us are pleading for the license
of the continental Sunday which
was the direct cause of their de
cadence, their impurity, and their
unrest. The unpardonable sin is
to shut God out of the life and a
very effective method of doing
that would be to shut God out of
the life of the nation for seven
days a week. Neither peace nor
prosperity, nor any good thing
would survive. The immigrant
who is clamoring for the conti
nental Sunday ought to be sen-
encetl to spend the balance of his
life there. He came away to es
cape it’s poverty, it’s misery and
it’s crime. And yet he wants to
bring the same deluge down upon
us.
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In Labrador, ns in Greenland, it is
whipped over the Ice with a thong loop
attached to a wooden handle. It cud
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terrific force by means of this instru
ment.
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