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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, ! 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. Georgia School A of Technology ||! U|F!FTEEEK FREE SCHOLARSHIPS ASSIGNED TO EACH 1' h§7 , \ \ M Write tt once regarding thi3 t. ;ortunlty. 1 S. TpHE GEORGIA SCHOOL OF TECHNOLOGY is better \ j j equipped and organized in all its departments kl A fin B, than ever before. Advanced courses in Meehan- jf| _j I f’l J MB leal, Electrical, Textile, Mining, and Civil Engineering, I "A / #_! Hp Engineering Chemistry, and Chemistry. Extensive I it I I K and new equipment of Shop, Mill, Laboratories, etc. IMI I / p Library and new Chemical Laboratory. Demand ill/ I j ■ypr School’s graduates much greater than the supply. I/If / raext session begins Sept 25. 3 //>/ ?- *■ *° r Illustrated catalogue and information address SII if | K.G.MATHESON,A.K.,LL.^.,President, gj W 11.I 1 . II i mum hi ii A ii a 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 to every subscriber to this newspaper who will pay a year in advance. The Policy pays as follows: For Loss of Life $1,000.00 For Loss of Both Eyes, meaning entire and permanent loss of the sight of both eyes 1,000.00 For Loss of Both Hands, by actual and complete eevcrance at or above the wrists 1,000.00 For Loss Of Both Feet, by actual and complete severance at or above the ankle- 1,000.00 For Loss of One Hand and One Foot, for actual and complete severance at or above the v/rist and ankle 1,000.00 For Loss of One Hand, by actual and complete severance at or above the wrist 2.50.00 For Loss of One Foot, h>7 actual and complete severance at or above the ankle -- 2.10.00 For loss of One Eye, mcc.nlmg enti re arid permanent loss of the sight of one eye IOOjOO (" V you will suoecri x: a one", ve will give you a year’s subscription to both papers, in addition give you an ACCIDENT FOLiCY FOR 31, C(K? fully paid for one year, without any dues or asacsHrccnts of kind. The policy covers a wile rrtige of rinks, including death or injury on railroad train and other public conveyances, elevators, trolley cars, etc.; clso accidents on the high ro.id from r. .iog or drivioi'. automobiles, horsci, burning buildings, drowning, bicy* cle accidents, etc. 37 50 A WEEK IF DiSABLCf* wi.l be paid for a number of weeks If you ared.sableci in any way described in thepobey. Vo-.t can ha ve'.he paper and policy seat to* different aduresr.es if you dCairo. Subscriptions taken * this office. Pri:e for The Cotton I uournal and the Insurance Policy $1 fiO . DAATH OF MRS. OUTHOUSE OCCURRED FRIDAY JULY 20, ***• >-* 4 i 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. NUMBER 30