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Everybody, That’s Anybody, Reads The Jacksonian. They May Not Take It, But They Borrow Their Neighbor’s VOLUME 26. OF W. R. VICKERS. Funeral services were hej# over the remains of Mr. W R. Vickers at San dy Creek Church|Sunday evening Rev. Andrew Goodrum conducting services Mr. Vickers died of congestive chill, and was sick but a short while. He leaves a wife and seven children to mourn his departure. HAROLD MALLET AND OTIS DALL AWAY FOR VACATION. Harold Maliett and Otis Ball, two of Jackson’s rising young business tnen. will leave Friday night of this week for Jamestown, New York, Bot ton, Buffalo, Niagara Falls, and wind ing up with a stay at Saratoga Springs N. Y. for a week. We know that wheiever they go, they will im press the people 01 the swiftness of things south of the Mason and Dixon line. Antiquity of Tea Smoking. “With your tea cigarettes,” said the antiquary sternly, “you young ladies think yourselves very modern and de jcadent. But look here.” He took from a portfolio a French print of the seventeenth century that Portrayed two men, with cumbrous \ipes, charging the same from a box •c China tea. [“This show’s you,” the old man said, the antiquity of tea smoking. It was common .thing in France 200 years Blegnt mentions it, and Grand 'Aussay in his ‘Histoire de la Vie rivee des Francais’ describes it in de- ail. An old vice, a dead vice—for the i french found that tea smoking racked I he nerves—how’ very, very foolish you %{irls are to have revived it.” —New Or- I (leans Times-Democrat. Orphans. ■ Two of the young friends of Bishop Wi'berforce of Oxford gave the au- Ijlhorities of the university so much ifrouble that they won the nicknames <of Hophni and Phinehas. I One day, says T. 11. S. Eseott In “So !<fiety In the Country House,” they jpvere lounging about the hall at Cud- Hesdon palace, singing the Lutheran gpefrain, “The devil is dead,” when the ."bishop suddenly appeared. ■ He walked very gently up to them mn d in his most caressing manner, placing one hand on each head, said in m consolatory tone: ■“tAlas, poor orphans!” P Two Hundred Species of Roses. P There are 200 species of roses in ex istence, though perhaps not more than fifty clearly defined families. Of these families only two are of American birth. There are thousands of varie ties, however, and of these our enter prising rose growers have contributed by Jar the largest proportion. The -eagerly sought black rose is still un produced, though a New York florist has a dark rod one which in some lights has the appearance of black vel vet.—Kansas City Journal. , Made Him Hop. Hiram Hardapple What made Cirandpap Wheatly jump ton feet and forget his rheumatics when the circus iparade passed? Was he afraid of the -elephants? Zeke Crawfoot —No. He heard the steam calliope and thought it was one of those automobiles with the new fangled whistles.—Chicago News. Human Nature. “Why are guests so habitually dis contented?” asked the landlord. ‘They’re not really discontented,” an swered clerk. “They merely want to a favorable impression about are used to at home.”- L Washington Star. f. he Hymn He Didn’t Want. V U ug man who was to be mar \ church to a Miss Way, after a p of fosr years, privately re the choir not to open the serv ing. “This is the Way I long LL” ban minister during his dls- Sabbath said, "In each blade <ere is a sermon." The fol v j one of his flock diseovered .pan pushing a lawn mower garden and paused to say, •son, I’m glad to see you <r sermons short” THE JACKSONIAN. SOME PERTINENT QUESTIONS TO THE CITY GOVERNMENT. To the Council Members: The Mass-meeting called for Mon day of this week were informed by the city officials of Jackson that they had con raeted a debt of $1,000.00 for which they have not the iiyney to l'quidate the cliim. xhey asked fer indructions in the premises. Under the law can they contract such a debt without subjecting themselves to a personal liability? Should they have not called for instructions from the citizens who are to pay off this debt before it was contracted? It looks to be a business, legal, fairand right eous tiling for them to have consulted those who are to pay it, before the debt was contracted. Tom and Jerry has been contending that our city charter was being ignorsd and now this looks like a confirmation of his charge. Now I have tried to be a law abiding citizen of the town and have taken no hand in the wrangle that has been going on, but I want to sav to the men who represent us on the council that you make bad matters worse every time you disregard the charter of the town and ignore the law. Suppose we try to come together and settle our wrangle? Many of us have all we own at stake and it is plain to any one that we can never hope to se the town of Jackson lake a forward step till we all pull together. Each, the Meti odist and Baptist, church have just tried to have a religeous revival but we all know it was a failure. The failure was not < hargab'e to the pas tor. No town can boast of such pious, loyal and true Christian gentlemen as we find in brothers S. P. Wiggins and C. W. Willingham, We must get together and every man must be willing to carry his part of the tax debt of the town. Now any one know that the tax assessment is not equally laid, but I do r.ot think this difference was made inten tionally by the tax assessors. The tax assessment published, so eveaybody could see the difference, would, in my humble opinion, cause much more dissatisfaction than now exist*. If we can ever get taxes to be equally carried by the rich and the poor man in Jackson all our dif ferences wiil adjust themselves. Now I do not write this to be kick ing, but it is written hoping to get our people together. Now, Messrs Well, Carmichael, Ham. Carmichael and.Gresham are you willing to do your part in bringing about a settle ment of our differences? Are you willing for all to pay their equal share of the town debt and their property to be assessed for its true market val ue? Now you have said you ignored Tom and Jerry but how can you ig* noro an humble tax-payer, though poor, like me? Have we, the poorer than you and unfortunate, if poverty is a misfor tune, not a right to ask that you an swer our complaint? You may war.t our votes next election, but how can you expect them if you pay no atten tion to our class? We have voted for you now hear our petition. This 20th June 1907. Truly One of Jackson’s Poor Citizens. Atmospheric Warmth. The sun does pot impart heat to the atmosphere directly. If it did, it would he nearly as warm on the top of a high mountain as it is at the sea level. Its rays warm the earth, and the earth ra diates or throws off the heat thus re ceived into the surrounding air. The density of the a !r near the earth’s sur face prevents the heat from escaping into space. Hie rarity of the air at high altitudes / permits It to escape. That is why rtiountaiu peaks are tooth ed in perpetual ice and snow, while the temperature jat the foot of the moun tain may be <Juhe warm. JACKSON, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, June 21st 1907. MRS. 0. W. BROOKS DIES. Mrs. Daniel W. Brooks, and the daughter of J. F. Lane died la9t Sat. a. m. and was buried Sunday after n6on at Fellowship church in Towa liga district. Mrs. Brooks was living, at the time of her death, in Iron Sprtngs district*. She was lovtd by all who knew her and in her death the community loos es a good and true woman. She was sick only a few days. She leaves two little babies —a boy and girl. Paeumonia caused her death. Judge Frank Curry says of her: •‘My business relations with her hus band has thrown me with Jthe family much for the last four years. I have eaten at her table and watched her under the trials of home (life and motherhood and T can truthfully say she was as good and gentl6 a woman as I ever knew. I have never seen her even fretted, but always modest gentle and kind. Never heard her speak ill of anyone in all my acquain tances with her. She was exceeding ly motherly and the day before she died she caught with a mothers anxi ous look the cries of her baby in an adjoining room. I have no doubt of her abode with Jesus* and the angels.” 0.. June 15th 1907, Mrs. Minnie Brooks, nee Lane, departed this life. She was in the bloom of young wo manhood, being 2?} years old. She is rurvived by her parents, two sisters, one brother, her husband and two small children, beside a number of relatives and friends to mourn her death. Though wo cannot understand why one so young and useful should be taken yet we must trust in God, for He doelh all things well. t To those who loved her best arid whose grief is hardest to bear we would say strive to meet her beyond the pearly gates. She was a noble wo man and her place cannot he fiilled. “She was good as she was fair, None, none on earth above her; As pure in thoughts as angels are, To know her was to love her.” A Friend. Let No One Boast. Nevertheless, let no one boast. Just as every man, though'lie be the great est genius, has very definite limitations In someone sphere of knowledge, and thus attests his common origin with the essentially perverse and stupid mass of mankind, so also has every man something in his nature which Is positively evil. Even the best—nay, the noblest—character will sometimes sur prise us by traits of depravity, as though it were to acknowledge hls kinship with the human race, in which villainy—nay, cruelty—is to be found in that degree.—Schopenhauer. The Whole Show. When Bubinstein was traveling through the United States upon a con cert tour it chanced that Bamurn's cir cus followed exactly the same route chosen by the great Russian. On one occasion when the train was filled with snake charmers, acrobats, clowns and the like the guard, noticing perhaps Rubinstein’s remarkable appearanco. asked him, “Do you belong to the show?” Turning his leonine head witli a savake shake, Rubinstein fiercely growled out, “Sir, I am the show!” Aids to Humanity. No women have done more for -hu manity and for the individual than the eld maid reformer and the old maid aunt. There Is none to whom we owe a deeper debt of gratitude and none whom we could not hotter spare, says a writer in the Cosmopolitan, for he sure of tills, God sends old maids into the world to do the work that the rest of us leave undone. Congenial Employment. The high prize of life, the crowning fortune of man, is to be lx>m to some pursuit which finds him in employ ment and happiness, whether it be to make baskets or broadswords or canals or statues or songs.—Emerson. REV. S.P. WIGGINS, WIFE AND BABY ENJOY COUNTRY VISITS. Rev. S. P. Wiggins, wife and Tig ner visited this week, the homes of J. M. Ball, P. R. Watkins and Miss Puss Patterson. They were rovally entertained and report a most pleas ant trip. HON. FRANK S. ETHRIOGE ORATOR OF OCCASION. Hon. Frank S. Etheridge speufc Wednesday of this week at Waycross. The B. Y. P. U. was in convention at that place and Mr. Etheridge was on the program for a speech. Jackson is often honored by our worthy and progressive citizen, Mr. Etheridge, in the capacity as a speaker. He tells the Jacksonian that he had a delight ful time. The Goat’s Change of Faith. Near n small Baptist church not far out of thii city there lives an old Irish man who keeps a goat. One day, find ing the church door open, the goat wandered inside and browsed around among cushions and hooks, much to the detriment of those articles. The pastor chanced to catch the animal at his mischief and lost no time in going to the owner to complain. “You will have to keep that goat tied up.” began the minister. “lie went into my church just now and”— But we was allowed to proceed no further. The old Irishman held up both hands in amazement. “Wint into your church, did he? Thin I can’t be responsible for him no more, th’ ongrateful baste. If that goat has turned I*ft)testant 1 wash me hands of him.”—New York Times. A Rebuff For Dr. Johnson. Dr. Johnson called one morning on Benjamin West to converse with him on American uffairs. After some time Mr. West said that lie had a young American (Gilbert Stuart) living with him, from whom he might derive some information, and Introduced Stuart. The conversation continued (Stuart be ing thus invited to take a part in it), when the doctor ofcy (jjod to Mr. West that the young m: h ..poke very good English and, turning to Stuart, rudely asked him where he had learned it. Stuart very promptly replied: “Sir, I can better tell you where I did not learn it. It was not from your diction ary.” An Egg In a Bottle. A chemist hus discovered a simple means of getting an egg (with un broken shell) Into a bottle of, say, the ordinary kind, used for ginger ale. All you have to do is to soak a boiled egg In vinegar for three days. The shell becomes so soft that it can easily be forced through the narrow aperture of the bottle. And once It is Inside If It is soaked In water for a little while the eggshell resumes its original hard ness—and there you are! He Told Her. A good highland minister was en deavoring to steer a boat load of city young ladies to a landing place. A squall was bursting. The steering was difficult. One of the girls annoyed him by jumping up and calling anxiously, “Oh, where are we going to?” "If you do not sit down and keep still, my young leddy,” said the minister pilot succinctly, “that will verra greatly de pend on how you were brought up.”— Dundee Advertiser. Good Advice. Go on in all simplicity. Do not be so anxious to wlu a quiet mind, and it will be all the quieter. Do not ex amine so closely into the progress of your own soul. Do”not crave so much to he perfect, hut let your spiritual life be formed by your duties and by the actions which are called forth by circumstances.—Francis de Sales. Performed a Miracle. Her Husband (angrily)—l was a fool when I married you. Ills Wife—Aren’t you a fool still? “No; I am not.” “Then you should congratulate me upon my success us a reformer.” — Spare Moments. The two deepest water wells in the world arc those at Budnpost and St. Louis. The former Ls 3,180 feet; the latter, 3.810 feet. SINGING AT MOORE’S CHAPEL To the Singing Public : There will be a singing at Moore’s Chapel on the 4th Sunday afternoon beginning at 2:110o’clock. All lovers of music are cordially invited. W. T. CawthoN. e FIFTH SUNDAY SINGING AT FINCHERVILLE CALLED OFF. We are requested to announce that the all day singing that was announ* ced for Fincherville on the sth Sun day in this month has been called off on account of failure to support same by some of the Church Members. "T. B. A.’a Poem." " Thomns Bailey Aldrich was fond of retelling that anecdote of his. own boy ish daring which appears In his “Ponk apog Papers,” to the effect that upon, first entering James T. Fields’ office in the Old Corner Bookstore his eyes foil' upon that kindly editor and publisher's memorandum hook, open upon the ta ble. Mr. Fields was absent for the moment, and the youthful poet could not help noticing the Impressive list of agenda: “Don’t forget to mail R. W. E. hls contract,” “Don’t forget O. W. H.’s proofs,” etc., whereupon the “young Milton,” who certainly deserved to succeed In his profession, wrote upon the memorandum book, “Don’t forget to accept T. B. A.’s poem,” and disappeared. The poem was accepted, paid for and, truest kindness of all, as Mr. Aldrich assorted, was never print ed. But the resourceful youth never lost his deferential attitude toward the bearers of those famous initialed names that had once preceded hls own.—At lantic. Spoke Too Soon. The other day a stranger thus ad dressed a passenger coming out of the Union station: “You will excuse me, sir, but isn’t this’’— The passenger, without waiting for the other to finish, responded: “Your umbrella? Weil, I presume it is, sir. You will allow me to explain that I picked it up on coming out of the train Just now. I have great pleas ure in restoring it to the rightful owi er.” The stranger expressed his thanks and quickly made off. A few minutes later the same stran ger, with a brand new umbrella tucked carefully under his arm, asked another Individual the same question ho had •Intended to ask the man who handed him the umbrella. “You will excuse me, sir, but isn’t this the nearest way to Fifth avenue?” —Kansas City Independent. "The Almighty Dollar." A recent headline, “ltule of the Dol lar,” has suggested the inquiry, Who originated the familiar phrase “the almighty dollar?" it was Washington Irving in “The Creole Village,” which he published in 1837. The phrase be came so popular and excited so much controversy in consequence of a doubt whether the adjective was Irreverent that its author had to explain eighteen years later that he had intended “no Irreverence, even to the dollar, which he Is well aware is becoming dally more and more an object of worship.” “Dollar” is certainly one of the world’s great words now, and it is difficult to realize that it only means “valleyer,” the “thaler” having been named after the Joachlmstbal, In Bohemia, in whose valley it was first coined in the six teenth century.—London Chronicle. Buicide as Experiment. A wealthy young man named Lean dro Improta after taking refreshment at a cafe in Naples called for pen and ink and wrote a numltcr of notes and letters. He then quietly took out a small revolver and shot himself in the breast One of the letters found in his pocket runs: To the Curious Public—ln this century it is Impossible voluntarily to leave this world without great efforts being made on the part of newspapers and curious people to discover the cause of the deed. In my case I wished to study metempsychosis at close quarters. Is that not a fine Idea? So much has been written on the subject, and It pleases me to discover Instead of talking. So I determined to die and see whether I shall be reborn in the form of some animal. It would be delightful to return to this world as a lion or a rat. This Is why I wanted to die. ADDIO. NUMBER 25