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IVOLUME 26.
CONCERT GIVEN BY
VIDALIA CONCERT BAND.
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The Vidalia Concert Band rendered
a musical program Wednesday even
ing, but on account of the want of
proper equipments at the Auditorium
♦hey did not attempt their full show,
and in consequence the program was
rendered free. Prof. E, L. Ray for
merly of Jackson, and well known to
Butts Cos., people is Manager of the
Oompany.
t j Ostriches Are Poor Sailors.
S“Ostrifches are terrible creatures to
have aboard ship in a storm,” said a
sailor. “Knocked about by the waves,
they fall and break their legs. We once
carried eight superb ostriches. They
were good sailors. Their sea appetites
were fine. But two days from port a
nasty gale overtook us. And then it
was pitiful to see those ostriches. The
ship's lurches and ducks knocked them
off their pins, sent them rolling back
and forth, to and fro, wildly, help
lessly. Imagine a dozen ostriches, now
on their feet, then—bang—on their
backs, their long legs in the air, rolling
every which way. What you’d expect
to happen happened, of course. Their
legs broke. You could hear above the
storm the sharp crack of the splitting
bone. Of those eight fine ostriches
only two reached port alive.”
Books Written In Jail.
Jail seems to be a good place in which
to write books. Literary men surpass
■themselves there. John Bunyan wrote
“Pilgrim’s Progress” in jail*. Cervantes
wrote “Dox Quixote” in prison. Defoe
laid the plans for “Ro'binson Crusoe”
during a term of confinement imposed
on him for the writing of a pamphlet
called “The Shortest Way With the
Dissenters” Leigh Hunt wrote “Rim
ini” in jail. Sir Walter Ra-leigh dur
ing his fourteen years’ imprisonment
In the Tower of London wrote ids ex
cellent “History of the World.” Silvio
Pellieo and Tasso both did their best
work in jail.
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Fs>od and Digestion.
One of the biggest mistakes about
food which people make is to forget
that the true value of food to anybody
is the measure of its digestibility. Half
a pound of cheese Is vastly more nour
ishing, as regards its mere composi
tion, than half a pound of beef; but
while the beef will be easily digested,
and thus be of vast service to us, the
cheese is put out of court altogether
for ordinary folks by reason of its in
digestibility. We should bear this rule
in mind when we hear people compar
ing one food with another in respect of
their chemical value.
A Careful Official.
“Some years ago.” remarked a physi
cian, “when the people in the south
feared that an epidemic of yellow
fever would spread from Cuba to this
country the health board officer of a
certain southern city was so careful
to keep out the infection that he gave
orders to disinfect all telegrams re
ceived from Havana.”
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THE JACKSONIAN.
MASS MEETING AT
COURT HOUSE SAT.
F. B. OUTHOUSE RE-ENTERS
L’B’R BUSINESS IN JACKSON.
The many friends of Frank Out
house will find him again with The
Jacksou Lumber Cos., he having pur
chased the interest of Mr. McElvaney
in that concern.
Snakes as War Weapons.
When Hannibal, the great Cartha
ginian, was fighting Eumenes of Per
gamos with a fleet of very’ inferior
strength he hit upon an artifice which
would scarcely be sanctioned by the
laws of what we are pleased to call
civilized warfare. He discovered by
means of a bogus message under a flag
of truce on which ship the king was.
He then caused poisonous snakes to be
inclosed in earthen jars. These he dis
tributed among several ships and or
dered them to close up on the king’s
galley. In the melee that followed
the jars were flung on to the deck. The
curious bombs were greeted at first
with ridicule, which soon chi nged to
panic when the nature of their contents
made itself manifest. The galley was
extricated from the fight as soon as
possible, and the captains of the others,
believing that the king had taken flight,
followed suit, with the result that Han
nibal gained a complete victory*
Cats as Retrievers.
“It is claimed,” said a Chicago an
tiquary, “tlipt cats may be trained as
retrievers—trained to swim to your
slain birds and bring them back to
you in their mouths. The thing sounds
incredible, but look here.”
He held up the photograph of an
ancient Egyptian painting. Men with
spears rode on the Nile. In some of
the boats large cats sat on their
haunches in the stern, while toward
others several cats swam with dead
birds lit their mouths.
“This picture,” said the antiquary,
“proves that the Egyptians used cats
for hunting dogs. If they, why not
we? The original of the picture is In
the British museum, where there are
also several pieces of carving that dis
play the cat In the role of a retriever.”
The German and the Fatherland.
A German always remains a German.
He respects and loves his fatherland,
although isolated and separated from it
by boundless oceans and vast conti
nents. A German heart always re
mains true to the country where it first
commenced to beat until it Is silenced
by death. Asa rule, to which there are
few exceptions, a man who is loyal to
the country of his birth will be loyal to
the country of his adoption.—Dr. Nicho
las Senn.
According to Prescott, the money of
the Aztecs and the kindred nations con
sisted of quills filled with gold dust
and bags of chocolate grains.
JACKSON, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, AUG. 9 '907.
Effort Will Be Made To
Entice R. R. To Come
To Jackson.
The citizens of Butts County and
Jackson are cordially invited to at
tend a mass meeting at the court
house at 5 .80 o’clock Saturday after
noon.
Mr. Massie, Pres’ of Bibb Power
Company and other projectors of the
electric R. R. will be present to dis
cuss the matter. Every interested
citizen invited to be present.
special selioTsWyoung
MEN
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At .Jackson Baptist Church Sunday
evenings, 7 :45p. na. •
August 11; “A young man a few
nights out from home.”
August 18: *‘A young man in a
strange land.”
August 25: "The young man Je
sus.”
You are invited.
C. T.Williagham,
Acting Pastor.
SUNDAY CAMPIMEETING,
We hope our friends, and the pub
lic generally will not crowd our cars
on Sundays during Campmeeting.
We can haul you to the Camp
Meeting and return with safety and
: with pleasure.
I But the crowds that ride back and
j forth between the Camp Ground and
' the Spring make it unpleasant.
When the platforms and footboards
i are full it is dangerous.
We hope our friends will help us
out of so much Sunday work.
W. F. Smith.
Our Lost Sense.
One of the greatest discoveries of
physiology is that we once had six
senses. What the lost sense was no
one knows, and probably no one will
ever know, but that our forefathers
possessed it there is no doubt, for
the remains of that part of the brain
in which it resided are still to be seen
in any one of us. These remains
are simply a small and now perfectly
useless little mass of brain substance
called the pituitary body. It consists
of two tiny little oval lobes joined
together and lying in a little cavity
of the skull, strangely named the sella
turcica and situated over and behind
the nose. It is quite possible that it
may have enabled our forefathers to
see in the dark before lamps and can
dles were invented, or it may have
placed them In communion with ghosts
and fairies, or It may have been an
organ that enabled them to go home
lu a bee line when they lost their way
In the primeval forests. On the other
hand, it is possible that it was a bad
substitute for vision or smell or hear
ing and died out when the improved
sense organ developed.
Mirrors as Detectives.
“It is not solely to please the lady
patrons,” said an Interior decorator,
‘‘that mirrors so abound in shops. They
serve another and more important pur
pose. They help detect shoplifters.
If you should study the various watch
ers in the employ of big retail stores
you would find that they don’t watch
the patrons directly. They look at
their reflections in the mirrors. Of
course their watching done that way is
unperceived. The shoplifter glances at
the watcher, sees that his back Is to
her and secretes a pair of silk stock
ings In her shirt waist. The next mo
ment she feels an unfriendly and ter
rifying tap on her shoulder, and the
watcher, who has caught her by the
mirror’s aid, bids her sternly to ac
company him to the office.”- New York
Press.
DEATH OF MR. A. H.
TREADWELL AUGUST 6.
The death of Mr. A. H. Treadwsll
occured at his home near Indian
Spring, Tuesday Aug. G, and he was
buried at Mt. Vernon Wednesday.
The cause of death washeurt disease.
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Perpetual Motion Cranks.
In the days of the Mayflower the
first perpetual motion inventors took
out their patents for "Engines which
being put in order will cause and niain
teyne their owu moclons with continu
ance and without any borrowed force
of man, horse, wind, river or brooke,”
and In the last century they have ap
plied for about 000 patents which are
based chiefly on the force of gravity,
loss of equilibrium, specific gravity of
floats and weiglrts Immersed in water
or other liquid, accession of receptacles
inflated with air or gas under water,
compression and subsequent expansion
of gases and of the surface tension of
liquids. So sanguiuely hopeful are
these Ingenious designers that in many
cases they provide brakes to stop their
machines if necessary or to prevent
any dangerous increase of speed. The
care and thought expended on the prin
ciple and detail of many of the inven
tions demonstrate that many men of
mental ability cling to the Idea that
perpetual motion is possible and that
they themselves are successfully solv
ing the problem.
How to Shoot a Rattler.
The writer once saw an Indian kill
a rattlesnake in a very peculiar man
ner. The rattler was about ten feet
from the Indian, who wns resting the
rifle on his knee, apparently taking aim.
Whenever he moved the weapon a few
inches the snake would move around
and get exactly in line with it. Then,
to show how the thing was done, the
Indian moved about the snake in a cir
cle, and the reptile moved as if its tail
were* on a pivot, always keeping Its
head- and body in line with the gun.
The* Indian then agreed to bandage his
eyes and shoot the snake in the mouth.
The writer bandaged the Indian’s eyes,
and, holding the gun by his side at
arm’s length, the latter pulled the trig
ger, and the ball entered the snake’s
mouth and passed the whole length of
Its body. “How do you take*alm?” was
the query. “The snake, he takes aim,”
was the reply. We have talked with
an old hunter on this proposition, and
he claims that a rattlesnake will al
ways range directly In line with a guu
or stick pointed, at it.—Exchange.
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contains valuable crop news and data, besides a general discussion of cotton news from all parts
of tbe world by its editor, Harvie Jordan, President of the Southern Cotton Association.
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NUMBER 32
FARMER’S EDUCATIONAL AND
CO-OPERATIVE UNION MEET.
To the farmers and citizens of Butts
and adjoining Counties; The Farmers
Educational and Co-operation Union
of this County will have a rally on
Tuesday August 18th. Public speak*
ing at 10 o’clock a. m. We envitS
you all to come out to the speaking,
as we hope to have good speaking,
and ask your co-operation.
The speaking will be at MallettS
Spring one mile north east of Jack*
son. All that can, come, and bring
a well filled basket, as it will be a
basket dinner.
J. M. Gaston, Pres.
Where Hat Straw Come* From.
In Italy to raise straw employed in
making hats the wheat is sown as
thickly as possible In order that the
growth of the plant may be impover
ished as well as to produce a thin
stulk having toward the end from the
last knot the lightest and longest
straw. The wheat blooms at the be
ginning of June and is pulled up by
the roots by hand when the grain is
half developed. If allowed to remain
in the ground n longer time the straw
would become brittle. About five doz
en uprooted branches the size of the
compass of two bands are firmly tied
together into little sheaves and stowed
qway In bnrns. Then the -straw is
again spreud out to catch the heavy
summer dews and to bleach In the sun.
After additional bleaching the straw
1 put Into small bundles and classified.
Finally It Is cut close übove the first
joint from the toil and again tied up
In small Mindies containing about six
ty stalks each and delivered to women
in almost every private dwelling of
the poorer classes.
John Was Huffed.
In the olden time a woman In the
north of Scotland went to visit her
husband, who was condemned to be
hanged upon the following day. The
man began to give his Inst Instructions
to his wife preparatory to bidding her
farewell, when all at once she broke in
on the conversation and exclaimed,,
“By the bye, John, whnur will I plant
the tuttles tills year?” The unfor
tunate men, as may be imagined, grewr
exceedingly indignant at the indiffer**
once of his wife and exclaimed angri*
ly: “What need I care whaur ye plant
them? I’m no likely to need ouy o’
them.” “Ilech,” replied the woman,
turning to the warder, with a wag of
the head, “poor John’s huffed because
lie’s gaun to be bunged In the morn!”
and marched out of the cell.