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VOLUME 26.
REUNION OF THE WALTHALL
I FAMILY JULY 19TH.
jfr The annual homecoming of the
•children of Capt. F. L. Walthall was
on Friday of Last week. Those pres
ent were
Gapt. and Mrs. F. L. Walthall
Mrs. It. S, Leguinn and 2 children.
Dubach La.
Mrs. Mamie Garner, 1 child Brook
aide Ala. Mr. J. H. Pope, 2 chil
dren Worthville. Dr. and Mrs. F.
E. Walthall., Atlanta. Miss Ethel
Walthall, Dubach La. L. E. Wal
thall, Atlanta. Mr. and Mrs. Will-
Gibson, Jackson.
Mrs. Mamie Garner and little son
left Saturday Morning for Tannille
and other points in South Georgia.
Mrs. Leguinn was not present at
the reunion dincer Friday morning on
account of getting left in Atlanta,
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S’ Curious Place Names.
Chicago is an Indian word, meaning
CWild onion or skunk weed. Chesa
peake is also Indian and is variously
interpreted ns highly salted water,
great waters or country on a great
river. Chautauqua is also an Indian
word and has had several interpreta
tions, as a foggy place, a bag tied in
the middle (referring to the shape of
the lake), a place where a child was
washed away, where the fish are tak
en out, place of easy death or, finally,
place where one was lost. Des Moines
is usually supposed to refer only to the
Trappist monks, and it is also connect
ed with an Indian word meaning the
road. Niagara is an Indian word, sig
nifying across the strait or at the neck.
Shenandoah is Indian and means the
jgprucy stream or a river flowing along
side of high hills. Massachusetts
P means near the great hills or the hill
[shaped like an arrowhead or, again, the
It'lue hills. Mississippi means great
lfcrater or gathering in of all the wa
llers or an almost endless river spread
|®ut.— Leslie’s Weekly.
Playthings of Ancient Children.
jHThe most primitive toy is the doll.
dates back to prehistoric times and
B found In every part of the world,
one would naturally expect to
Shd. A child, seeing its mother nurs
ing other younger children, would iml
fpate the example with an improvised
■fell. Toy weapons, again, are older
than history. Many of the other toys
at present in use date from the earli
est times of which we have any rec
ord. In tho tombs of the ancient Egyp
tians, along with painted dolls having
movable limbs, have been found mar
bles, leather covered balls, elastic balls
and marionettes moved by strings.
'Ancient Greek tombs furnish clay
dolls, toy horses and wooden carts
and ships. In the Louvre there are
Borne Greco-Roman dolls of terracotta
.With movable joints fastened by wires.
Greek babies had rattles. Greek boys
played with whipping tops. So did the
4 tv ancient Rome.
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THE JACKSONIAN.
SUNDAY SCHOOL CONVENTION
INDEFINITELY POSPONED.
After conferring with several of
the Sunday Schools over the country
the committee, appointed to arrange
a program for the Annual Celebration
have decided that on account of the
reyival meetings and Singing Schools
to be hi Id at the various churches, it
will De impracticable to undertake it
at this time. Therefore the celebra
tion which was to have been held, at
Indian Spring Camp ground Friday
before Ist Sunday in August, has
been called off. Sunday School Su
perintendents and officers will please
take notice.
J. H. Mills, Pres.
R. L, Carter, Secy.
The Ocean Liner Stewardess.
It appeal’s that some stewardesses
on the best liners running between
Liverpool and New York make from
£2O to £3O per month. The average tip
varies from 10 shillings to the modest
half crown, although occasionally five
pound notes change hands. “It is quite
true/' says a stewardess in a London
paper, “that ladieS are not nearly so
gen err.us as gentlemen. I worked like
a slave one trip, night and day, want
ing upon an exacting millionaire’s wife
and children, but they left tho ship
without giving me even ‘Thank you.’
I know one stewardess, though, who
received £25 as a tip from one of the
Vanderbilts, who had his servant
standing by him with a satchel of sov
ereigns, from which all the stewards
and other attendants received some
thing. The most generous peojle arc
military and civil officers homeward
bound from India. Sometimes a rich
gentleman passenger falls in love with
a stewardess and marries her. But
fortunes from tips are rarely made, al
though a comfortable competency i3
frequently secured in this way.”
Caesar and the Rubicon.
The Rubicon, a small river separat
ing Italy proper from Cisalpine Gaul
or Italy north of the Alps, was the
southern boundary of Caesar’s prov
ince, and he was forbidden to cross it
at the head of an army. Caesar was
one of several who aspired to the lead
ership of Roman affairs. Greater than
fhem all and conscious of the fact that
lie was being plotted against by the
politicians of the capital, he came to
the boundary stream with his army,
thought the matter over, exclaimed at
the end of his cogitations, “The die is
cast,” plunged in and crossed, and so
inaugurated the civil war which was
to make him imperator and the "fore
most man of all the world.”—New York
American.
Neither Still Nor Small.
“When you do something you know
Is wrong, doesn’t a still, small voice
keep reminding you of it eternally?”
“A still, small voice! I guess you
tiever met my wife, did you?"—Hous
ton Post.
JACKSON, GEORGIA. FRIDAY, July 26th 1907.
MARRIAGE OF MR. SIDNEY
WATKINS TO MISS
PEARL MADDOX.
Mr. Sidney Watkins, popular car
rier on No. 1. and Miss Pearl Maddox
both of Jackson were married Sunday
at the home of the brides mother.
The ceremony was performed by
Judge Ham. May many years and a
full share of happiness be their poi
tion.
SERIOUS SHOOTING AFFAIR
AT INDIAN SPRING.
Will Staples was shot and danger
ously wounded |at Indian Spring
Wednesday night bv a man by tre
naan of Marshall, Both lived near
Indian Spring.
iriah Church Bella.
It was about the time of St. Pat
rick, In the fifth century, that bells
began to be adopted In the Christian
church, though their use in other di
rections was long anterior to Chris
tianity, as Mr. Laynrd records having
found some in the palace of Nimroud.
The first Christian hells, like Patrick’s,
weighed only a few ounces and from
that day gradually increased till the
greatest weight was reached at Mos
cow with 198 ton* of beautifully en
riched work, a strange contrast to the
humble “Clog-an-eadhachta Patraic,”
or “bell of Patrick’s well,” sometimes
referred to as the bell of Armagh, with
its diminutive dimensions of six inches 1
high by five inches broad, four inches
deep, made of thin sheets of hammer
ed iron, bent into a Jour sided form,
fastened with rivets and brazed or
bronzed. This hell Is at once the most
authentic and the oldest Irish relic of
Christian metal work that has de
scended to us, writes W. J. Fennell in
the Belfast Gazette, and is mentioned
in tho “Annals” under the date of 552.
The Puffed Out Chest.
“The puffed out chest is a delusion
which has succumbed to scientific
knowledge of the human body,” said a
drill officer. “It came into existence
purely for show reasons or from false
analogy. It was seen that men deep
in the chest were strong men, and the
old drill sergeants probably imagined
that by making men throw' out their
chests they would make them strong,
as well as make them look strong,
which is a complete mistake. Insteud
of strengthening a man, puffing his
chest tends to weaken him, ns it
throws a strain upon the heart. We
now tell men to he sure and not puff
out their chests. If you puff out your
chest and do dumbbell exercise you
are to hold the breath. That strains
the heart. Any exercise that prevents
breathing freely is bad. Knotted mus
cles are also wrong. You see a man
with Immense chest muscles and per
haps you think he Is really an Ideally
trained man, but such muscles simply
bind the chest and tie the heart down.”
—Header Magazine.
A Catch Question.
Of Bishop Short, who held the see of
St. Asaph, many curious stories are
told. Occasionally he put questions to
candidates for ordination that appar
netly had no connection with the dis
charge of their parochial duties. They
tested probably their wit or tact, two
necessary qualifications to public men,
but nothing more. One such question
proposed by the bishop was the fol
lowing: “Which has the greatest num
ber of legs, a cat or no cat?”
As might be expected, this created a
titter, but the bishop would not take a
laugh as the answer, and consequently
he repeated the question and desired
someone to solve the problem. At last
one of the candidates, smiling, said, “I
should thiuk, my lord, a cat.”
"No,” retorted the bishop; “there you
are wrong, for a cat lias four legs, and
no cat has fiVe.”— London Telegraph.
Still a Dream.
Dolly —Molly Wolcott told me a
month ago that her new gown was
going to is; a dream. Polly—Well, that
is all it is so far. Her husband won’t
give her the money for it—Somerville
Journal.
A rash man provokes trouble, but
when the trouble comes is no match
for it.—Chinese Proverb.
The world knows nothing of its
greatest men.—Van Arte velde.
DEATH OF LITTLE NIGGER
WHILE PLAYING WITH PISTOL
Butts Counties popular coroner,
C. G. Britt, That same Britt, was
called to Fincherville Monday 22nd
inst. to hold inquest over the dead
body of Elder Carr (col.) It seems
that the parents of the little nigger,
who was only six years old had gone
to the held and left him to mind a
smaller child and while plundering a
rpund got hold of a pistol and shot
himself. The cororurs jury rendered
a verdict of Death from a pistol shot
in his own hands and the same was an
accident. Thus we see the pistol is
a bad thing to have in the house;
how much more so when carried a
round in your hip pocket.
The Raven.
Many birds seek the protection which
the presence of man affords against
furred and feathered foes when the
breeding season approaches. Not so
the raven. Its distrust of us Is pro
found, and its nest is placed in some
wild spot far out of reach of our pos
sible attack or succor. But there are
other enemies. I know of a pair that
built on the side of a projecting crag
high up on the cliffs of Itathllne Island.
Some fierce peregrine falcons occupied
the other side of the crag, and when
one day their eggs were taken by an
adventurous collector they, sharing the
popular opinion of a raven’s blackness,
concluded that their neighbors were
the offenders and wreaked their grief
and vengeance upon them. When, on
their return from a foraging exj>edi
tion, the falcons found their nest de
spoiled they’ were seen to hold a con
sultation, and after much deliberation
they suddenly arose and both in one
accord flew at the ravens’ nest and
sacked it, tearing it in their rage and
indignation until not one stick was left
upon another.—London Standard.
The Sun, the Moon and the Tides.
Most persons suppose that the moon
alone is responsible for the phenome
non of tides, but the attraction of the
sun Is also an important factor. Of
course the distance of tho sun from the
earth is unthinkably greater than that
of the moon, but Its mass is so enor
mous that it has a considerable tide pro
ducing influence. The force which the
sun exerts Is th* sume on both sides of
the earth at the same time, the tide
producing force of the great orb being
about four-tenths that of the moon. At
the time of both new and full moons
the “wane spheroids produced by both
the sun and the moon have their axes
coincident” —that is to say, the two
great orbs unite their energies on the
fluids of our planet, and as a result the
tides are higher than the average for
the remaining portions of the month.
These are the “spring tides.” The
“neap tides” come In the time of the
moon’s first and third quarter and arts
not ns great ns the average, because
the moon and the sun are each working
in opposition to the other.
THE COTTON JOURNAL OF ATLANTA, GA.
offers one year’e subscription and a SI,OOO Accident Insurance Policy for one year with no due*
no: aasoKßmentti for only Si.so.
Th<: Cotton Journal is the only cotton farm journal published. It fills a position of its own
and bas taken the leading place in every county in the cotton belt. It gives the cotton grower
and his family something to think about aside from the humdrum of routir e duties. Every is sue
contains valuable crop news and data, besiden a gtnersi discussion of cotton news from all parts
of the world by its editor, liarvie Jordan, President of the Souther* Colton Association.
The publishers of The Cotton Journal have prone to treat expense to secure these Accident
policies for its roauers. It proposes to have the bitruest circulat ion of any agricultural journal
in the world. To this end they make this marvelous offer of a I.imited Accident Policy for 91,000
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For Loss Of Both Feet, by actual and complete severance at or above the ankle- 1,000.00
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DAATH OF MRS. OUTHOUSE
OCCURRED FRIDAY JULY 20,
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On Friday 20th occurred the death
of Mrs. J. W. Outhouse at her home
in Jackson. Mrs Outhouse had been
ill for quite a while and her death was
not a surprise to her friends. Mr.
and Mrs, Outhouse came from Min*
nissota about twenty years ago, and
at once won the esteem of all who
knew them. Mrs. Outhouse leaves a
husband and two cnildren to mourn
her departure.
LOEB THEWHISKEY DEALER
ARRESTED SATURDAY.
Loeb the whiskey drummer was
arrested last Saturday morning by
marshall McNair, charged with tak
ing orders for whiskey. While it Is
very improbable that this slick duck
will ever be caught, yet it shows that
a real desire exists on the part of the
city government to get at this party.
IS THE ELECTRIC RAIL ROAD
AN ASSURED FACT?
The Inter Urban rail road
from GrifTin to Monticello
begins to look like an as
sured fact. A syndicate has purchas
ed all the water power facilities from
Pittmans ferry to the junction of
South, Yellow and Alcovie rivers, and
decl are their intentions
to develop same. This will
develop almost unlimited
possibilities in the way of mechanical
sower, which may be used for run
ning the electric cars, running Pep
perton Cotton Mills, lighting the
towns along the way &c.
The road has been surveyed direct
ly through Jackson and if Jackson
suffers the road to be built otherwise
than through Jackson she will lose
the opportunity of her life.
Now let the interprising citizens of
Jackson get busy and secure the road
for our town, for inind you, If this
road misses us it will be a case of op
portunity knocking at our door and
we are not at home.
' The Compromise.
Asoum—Have Henpeck and his wife
settled their differences about their vis
iting cards? Newltt—Oh, yes; they've
compromised on “Mr. and Mrs. Marla
Henpeck.”—Philadelphia Press.
Most of us are guilty of sins of omls
plon because they involve less effort
than the other kind.
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