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? r*- •* ’.T , rv A 7* 0)T? A T^" JLJLLJLj X juiXi. * JL -Ci. ■*■■ xxXl_^ The South’s cl anest an J newsiest daily news= paper I' j' h .hI I • lv x it tn da.\. I- ——— " JOHN TEMPLE GRAVES, Editor. Publisher h pr*** , rvM l ‘ ieus<>d wire service— Hearst Syndi cate Service—Hpe-’iiil writers and .-orre pon lents— \ uthoritative and relia ble market report and sporting rv ws —N T > whisky or unclean medical adver. t tiseroenis printed. A NEWSPAPER FOR EVERY HOHE. .a— SPECIAL SUBSCRIPTION OFFER TO JAN UARY st, iqoß. We are enabled fo • the next thirty days to offer The Georgian and I lie Jacksonian To January ist, 1908 for only $2.50 This offer begins April 15th and ends May 15th, 1907. Send your order and money now to Th“ Jacksonian. Positive 1 y do BubtfC’riutions on thin combination < fTer afw r May loth. 190/ DO IT NOW! THE ORDEfiL BT NRE A Hindoo Ceremony That Puzzles ths Uninitiated. WALK OVER GLOWING COALS. Participants In tho Mystifying Spcc:&cio Play With tho Fiery tm- I be is aa Children Play With Sand I and Emarga Unharmed. i 1 once witnessed a most remarkable iordeal by lire at Delia res, India. It won held on the grounds of a villa on (the outskirts of the city, and among lus were some of the most prominent ■ueu and women of odieiul and social life ia Dritlsk India. Army and navy officers touched elbows with French •avauts. all more than glad to accept an Invitation that might at least offer (Opportunity either to catch some clew toward solving the mystery of the In dian lire ordeal or else catch the priest ly performers in a nice trap at consum mate and age long deception, success fully worked among a superst.tloua and overcrcdulous people like the Hin doos. Seats had been arranged for our par ty out on the spacious lawn, where u trench had been dug sixteen feet long, •lx feet wide and four feet deep. The lire in the trench was lighted before moon, but the ordeal Itself was not to come off until after sunset. The treuch was tilled with kindling wood and logs •nd was set allrc by the attendants, (who kept up a blaze as hot as a blast (furnace all day Ion.?, until the trench Iby sunset was llMini three feet deep 'Willi a compact, glowing bed of red bot coals. We wore escorted to our seats at about G:.'so, uud we wore not inclined to question the reality of that fire from the moment we sat down within twelve ffeet of If. Whatever else might be ifruud or hypnotism In this Indian tire lordeal, we could not for a moment doubt the realism of that scorching dient that made our eyes smart and Igrow bloodshot. We, who lmd' come to iscoff and doubt, were soon realizing that the managers of the Benares tiro dr deal had already gained 7 b points out of 100 In favor of their honesty and of their power over the mighty element of tire, that figures so largely in orien tal philosophy as one of the three or four primal elements of the physical universe. A great commotion and babel of (.voices soon proclaimed tho coming of the procession of priests, headed by the arch priest Brahmapoots, carrying a huge ludian sword, followed by tho ►two minor priests who were destined to walk unharmed through that yard thick fiery bed. scintillating in tho In creasing darkness and lighting up the dark faces of the hundreds of gaping ►Hindoos standing behind us. While wo Europeans and Americans, always 'hypercritical and given to scientific re •enroll, were awaiting the coming of ithe moment when our 7b per cent of credulitK was either to be shattered or rounded out to the fullness of a com pleted and abiding faith in Hindoo control and mastery of the devouring elemetTt of fire. our''Hindoo fellow on lookers. on tlie other hand, wore antici pitting the ordo:il with nil the simplic ity of credulous children. Ours was an almost terrifying heart tension, and we almost wished that we were not Occi dent:! I skeptics, always bent on doubt liiv- things of an extraordinary nature. The priests marched about the trench chanting and performing mystic Incan tations. carrying along a glass reliqu ary. or shrine. In which was seen the Image of the god Siva, who. In the Hindoo religious system, is one of the trinity and !■; worshiped as the de stroyer. Brahma being the creator and Vishnu the preserver of tho universe. We i’<) not know to tills day what those priests si! Id as they perambulated about that fiery trench, but we do know wh.at soon followed, for, at the end of the Incantation, the two candi dates for the ordeal plunged Into the redhot coals and walked ankle deep flu* v.ho'e length of the trench, back ward and forward, time and time a "it In. They played with that scintil lating. glowing fire as children play with the sands of Coronado beach, kicking It with their feet and stooping down to pick up handfuls of the glow ing coals, tossing them In the air. to be blown by the rising evening breeze all over our heads and our easily lu flnmnutble clothing. We were really afraid. No doubt about those sparks and live, falling coals! When the two priests had walked up and down alone through that fiery trench tin-cat hod and miscorched, then the whole Hindoo throng seemed to suddenly catch th spirit of their priests, and. sure of their conquest over the power of fire, they began plunging Into the treuch. Old men and young children walked through that fiery fur nace. forward and backward, and when they had tired of this "playing with fire" they came out ns they had entered, not a hair or a garment scorched, not even the soles of their feet blistered. Only males are allowed to go through the lire ordeal. Never yet has any scientific theory explained the power of the Siva wor shipers over fire. We ourselves were absolutely convinced that trickery was not to be considered as an explanation of what we had witnessed.—l.os Ange les Times. A Caddie’s Cadenza. Lady Golfer (to would be caddie)— Tint what do you know about the game? Gan you make a teo. for in stance? The Would Be Caddie—Can I m <>.-e— Why. In my young days, lidy, 1 used ter do It that well they called mem the tor.caddy.—Loudon Sketch. Wasn’t Sure. “Remember," said the lawyer, “you have undertaken to toll nothing but the truth." “I’ll do my best.” answered the ex pert witness, “but I won’t know how far I have succeeded until I’m through with the cross examination.”—Wash ington Star. The Doubt. Borrows—By the way, Knox, did 1 leave my umbrella at your office yes terday? Knox—You left an umbrella, but I don’t know whether it was yours or not.—Exchange. ODD WAYS OF FOETS. Tennyoon, Artistically Fastidious, Was a Personal Sloven. There la a sort of Idea in the public mind that the poet is what scientists call a ••fixed genius,” that every poet is the exact counterpart of every other poet. There is probably no class of men In the world—if class it can be called whose members differ more widely in personality. Pope, for instance, was a miser Drydeu, Sedley, Rochester and Shelley seemed to have no use for money and “splashed it about Ln the most Insane fashion. Shakespeare was a keen man of bn: : ; Ills 1 m:itemporaries. Mar love an 1 Massinger, did not leave enor.'-h to have their bodies decently buried. Coming down to modern times, Ten nyson was artistically the most deli cate and fastidious of men. A mis placed comma, an epithet which was not Hie perfection of expression, gave him nights of insomnia. Yet he was perhaps the most utterly careless man of his generation regard ing his personal appearance. Had he not benn carefully watched by Ids de voted wife/he would have been quite content to wear a suit of clothes until it dropped off him bit by bit in obedi ence to the law of gravitation. A great admirer of Tennyson once described bis first mooting with the great poet. It occurred at a roadside public house In the Isle of Wight. The late laureate was seated by the kitchen fire, with a short black clay pipe be tween Ida lips, burning grease spots out o." r, pair of check trousers with the point of a redhot poker. It was probably Tennvson’s “faculty of.silence” which helped him to secure the friendship of the greatest talker— In both senses of the phrase— o? bis generation. Thomas Carlyle. Carlyle had occasional fits of silence, and lie and Tennyson would sit on on positc shies of the hearth for six hours at a stretch without exchanging as many words. At the cvniration of snr>h a period of silent intercommunication Carlyle would knock tlic ashes out cf his last n'pe and remark with e-cry symptom of the keenest intellectual satisfaction. “Aye. Alf-eil, mon, we’ve had a glori ous nlohC” Tennvson’s great and friendly rival. Ttrowning. was ns different from him in his personal peculiarities as he was in point of genius. He always looked as if he had just been turned out of a bandbox. Ten nyson was one of the most silent of men. Browning one of the most ebul lient and loquacious. Tennyson was pessimistic and somewhat morose. Browning was always bursting with optimism and expnnsiveness.—Chicago Inter Ocean. • ANCIENT ARMIES. Ten thousand horse and 100,000 foot fell on the futal field of Issus. The army of Artaxerxes before the battle of Ounaxa amounted to about 1,200.000. An army of Cambyses, 50.000 strong, was burled in the desert sands of Afri ca by a south wind. A short time after the taking of Ba bylon the forces of Cyrus consisted of GOO.(XX) foot. 120,000 horse and 2.000 chariots armed with scythes. Ninas, the Assyrian king, about 220 B. C.. led against the Bactrlana his army, consisting of 1,700.000 foot sol diers. 200.000 horse and *IO.OOO chariots armed with scythes. When Xerxes arrived at Thermop ylae his land and sea forces amounted to 2.(541,010. exclusive of servants, ou lmchs. women, sutlers, etc.. In all num bering 5,283.220. So say Herodotus. Plutarch and Isocrates. Why Paper Cui3. Have you ever cut yourself with a piece of paper? The edge of a piece of glazed paper looks much like that of a knife under the microscope. Of course the little teeth have not the strength of steel, but If the edge of the paper is drawn swiftly over the finger without much pressure that peculiar property of matter called Inertia comes Into play, and the tender teeth will cut the flesh before they are broken. The same prop erty it Is which allows a candle to be shot through a one inch plank or per mits a bullet to pass through a pane of glass without shattering it, leaving only a clean, round hole.—C. H. Claudy in St. Nicholas. Lincoln and a Suit of Clothes. On one occasion a judge was ill and, l>eing unable to sit in a case, delegated Liueoln to hear the matter. The ac count of a guardian was in question. He had paid S2S for a suit of clothes for his ward and Justified it on the ground that it was a necessary ex pense. Lincoln held against the guard ian on the ground that it was an ex travagant expenditure and in passing on tho case stated that he had never in his life owned a suit of clothes that I —-~t eoc Religious liberty was granted to the Huguenots in France in 1502 and was followed by the massacre of Bt Bar tholomew in 1572. WOMEN OF HOLLAND. 1 Dutcn Feminine Costumes Are Coo Complex For Words. The women’s costume is a trifle too complex for verbal description, as feminine belongings usually are, but the white lace cap which covers the head from eyebrows to nape of neck and from ear to ear, curving out in rounded wings on each side of her cheeks, is always a conspicuous and inevitable portion of a woman’s attire. It may possibly be that on Sunday this rap is a trifle whiter or stlffer or daintier than on week days, but the difference is not very apparent. The ladies assure us there is a vast difference in the quality of the net and Ike amount of handiwork employed, but the leus made no special note of that. In shape and outline the camera finds great distinction between these caps and those of Katwyk or Markon or Bois le Due, but between Sunday and Monday eap3 in Volendam it re cords none whatever. Fpr the rest of the costume feminine Holland asks above all things apparently a very flat, narrow chest surmounting enormous hips, and Volendam is no exception to this fashion rule. The invariable black “best waist” of the elder women i.; usually brightened by a square yoke cf lighter color and material, and the dark apron or overskirt is topped by six inches or more of gay plaid or bright colored band worn over an un derskirt of dull blue striped or black material and uncountable petticoats. About the throat a collar formed of many rows of heavy dark red coral Leads is fastened by huge silver clasps, miff the number of rows, the size aud quality of the beads are matters for feminine pride. Long hair is not the glory of women in Holland, save per haps at Marken. It is usually hidden and at Volendam is cut quite close and entirely covered by a tight fitting thick black silk cap concealed beneath the snowy white lace. The younger girls, from the tiniest toddler to the young meisje, old enough to wed, wear dress es and caps the exact counterpart of their grave mothers, no less full of skirt or narrow of chest, but much gayer in color. A group of tiny maid ens in a stiff breeze on the dike resem bles uotliing more than a swarm of butterflies.—Florence Craig Albrecht in Scribner’s. POINTED PARAGRAPHS. No small noise sounds as bad as that made by squeaky shoes. Lift any little woman’s thumb and you will find a man under it. How few people are as polite to their friends as they are to strangers! People seem to begrudge a preacher everything he gets except his vacation. The child that is ruled by love and the child that has its own way live at the same house. If you were a mind reader you would learn a lot of unpleasant things which now you can only surmise. , The man who prides himself on being a “great observer of little things” can usually be relied upon for a few un pleasant remarks. Soon after a boy ceases to credit his father with being the smartest man on earth he Imagines his father should consult him on all doubtful issues.— Atchison Globe. Inflection. The wife of an army officer at a western post recently had occasion to visit a small neighboring town to do some shopping at what is called the general store. She was much enter tained by the variety and antiquity of the stock of goods, and as she passed out her eyes were attracted by a pile of mottoes, elaborately lettered and or nately framed, the upper one being the Scriptural passage, “Walk In love.” As she paused the clerk, a dapper young man of more affability than ad vantages, stepped forward with the remark: “Them are the latest things In mottoes. This top one is swell to put over a young lady’s door—‘Walk in, love.’ ”—Llppineott’s. The Outdoor Boy. Let the boy learn to hit the bright spot with a rifle, and if war comes he can hit the button on the coat of an enemy the first shot and does not have to be taught to shoot over again after he enlists. If he is familiar with guns, boats, water and the wild woods, he will be handy anywhere, and you can't lose him. Any boy who has got a fa ther who won’t do the right thing by him and give him a chance to love the woods and the water and the free, clean air that God serves free, when you get far enough away from man’s city can come along with me some time, and I will show him how to have the time of his life.—Outer’s Book. He’ll Get the Girl. Tommy Rattles was turned down when he asked Elsie’s father for his consent. The old man said that Tom my was a good boy, but lacked per sistency. What Is Tommy going to do about it? He goes to the old man and asks him for his daughter three evenings every week.—Cleveland Plain Dealer. Tax P (a c*v<?rs Notice* 2nd Round. Will be at the following named places on dates given below, forth* purpose of receiving State and County tax returns. TANARUS, B. Bell’s Store April 22 in forenoon. Kinard’s store, Apr 22nd in the afternoon. Elgin, Hammond’s store, April 22nd iii the forenoon. Indian Spgs, Apr. 23rd in the afternoon. Cork, April 24th in the forenoon. Flovilla, “ “ “ afternoon. Dodsons store apr 25 forenoon. Stark, April 25th in the afternoon. Worthville, Apri 1 26 in the forenoon. Fincherville. “ “ afternoon. Jenkinsdburg, “ 29th all day. In Jackson every Saturday till books close . G. E. Mc.Michael, Tax Receiver. SOUTHERN RAILWAY SCHEDULE FOR JACKSON. Local lAssengor trains pass th > Depot, at the times mentioned below. NORTH BOUND. No 17 6 41 A No .7 9 :57A. M No. 15 2:82P. M, No. 9 8:48 •• SOUTHBOUND. No 18 9 58 P M. No. 16 7:38 A. M No. 8 3:08 P. M No 10 8:08 ‘ SEMI-MUNICIPAL OWNERSHIP/ Partnerships Between Cities and Com panies Are Bad. Whenever in these days an electric light company is unfortunate enough to have a street lighting contract expire in a city where the municipal owner ship of the street lighting plant has been agitated there sometimes comes forth out of the chaos of ideas as i > how the municipal ownership busbies? should be handled some proposition from a private company which pur ports to have the welfare of the city rather than any private gain at heart. This company, with great love for the commonwealth, either real or as sumed, usually comes forward with a proposition for a kind of “semi-munici pal ownership,” the company to per form the work of lighting the city for, a number of years at a good round sum and at the end of the contract the lighting plant to be turned over to the city free of cost and payment for the plant to be made out of the regular monthly payments of the city for its lighting, such monthly payments being Invariably a good round sum per lamp. Now, such propositions as this may be made in good faith by a company of public spirited but misguided citizens who really wish to serve the city, and there are usually some respectable names connected with an enterprise of this kind when it is launched. How ever, there is usually an African some where in the woodpile or at least a strong possibility that there will be one before the game is through. It seems remarkable that any munic ipality in this day and generation can be deluded into the belief that any such scheme of semi-municipal owner ship can compare for a minute with a good, straight, short contract at rea sonable rates with a corporation al ready ln the lighting field. After all, a redeeming feature to this scheme is that at the end of a term of years it is fairly certain to bring home forcibly to a municipality the depreciation due to advance ln the art as well as the de preciation caused by wear and tear.— Electrical World. ITS INFLUENCE ON BRIBERY. Municipal Ownership Would Mfrfy but Not Abolish It. One of the truest statements made by advocates of municipal ownership is that it would put an end to bribery of city officials by public service cor porations. It certainly would wher ever that is practiced. But it wouldn’t put an end to bribeable officials, and unless the city should manufacture its own engines, machinery, street cars, electric lamps and other supplies the quality and price of these would be largely regulated by such officials. Every one who is familiar with the school trade knows that orders for school books and supplies are in many, cities obtainable only by crossing the palms of members of school boards with a liberal supply of gold and that a change of textbooks is ordered merely because of these itch ing palms. Municipal ownership will not change human nature, and venal officials can hold up manufacturing companies just as easily and profitably as they can lighting and traction companies. Did* it ever occur to you that a corporation isn’t anxious to get rid of its money, that way? But when it comes to a holdup almost any one will give up the “long green” to “public servants” who are zealous, not for the public welfare, -but for their private purse, i - *4 The letter “1” was not commonly dot ted until the fourteenth century. The first dotted “1” is found in a manu script dated 1327. .