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THE JOURNAL.
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COCHRAN, GA.
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There are unpleasanter things In
this world than a surfeited coal bin.
This Is a great little country, and
*e have the census figures to prove it.
It is said that a new United States
•gun is the most powerful. Surely;
why not?
A Brazilian revolt has come to be
*about as serious as a hunting season
■ln this country.
, A Maryland man wants a divorce
because he is afraid of his wife. But
iwho of us isn’t?
' Under a new law it is a crime to
treat in Tacoma. Tacoma must be
the original tightwad town.
A woman gets a plare as a wire
less operator because the C. Q. D.
heroes are said to be lazy.
They are planning to keep tab on
the people who have domestic
troubles. Just as if that would stop
them!
An advertisement says that every
[home should have a talking machine.
(Evidently the man who wrote it is not'
•married.
( A man in Michigan dislocated his
Jaw by laughing over his wife's joke.'
The reverse never would or could'
have happened.
A Philadelphia man committed sul-,
iclde with a safety razor, but so far we
haven't heard of a woman cutting her
£orns with one.
*- If last summer’s geranium pot were
'not so heavy it might be covered with;
jvelvet and thus become a very stylish’
jhat for your daughter.
What did Woodrow Wilson mean
'when lie told the governors assembled'
in Louisville that they had come to
Kentucky for “stimulation?”
1 A Minnesota man, just as the un
dertaker was about to embalm him,
eat up and cried: “Hello, Bill!” Such
conduct is almost indecorous.
When the Ohio river takes a notion
to fill up and go on a prolonged spree
there Is nothing to do but stand back
and let the old thing have its way.
A St. Louis man lias invented a
soundless soup spoon. Tills notable
addition to the elegancies of society
may be followed in time by the knife
less pie.
Is it Worth while to designate the
exact status of the person who mor
alizes on the blessings of poverty and
does nothing to relievo the curse of
poverty?
Now that the long hatpin is being
assailed by hostile legislators, out
raged femininity will probably take to
wearing machetes or snickersnees in
public places.
A New Jersey girl advertises that
she will not marry any of her acquaint
ances but wants a stranger for a hus
band. Doesn't she even want to be In
troduced to him first?
The man charged with cruelty by
hts wife on the ground that he made
her shave him, is no doubt an inno
cent martyr, if the facts were known.
Probably he was merely adopting this
means of inflicting a penance upon
himself. That he enjoyed the opera
tion is inconceivable.
The otherwise safe and sane citi
zens of Massachusetts have just fin
ished a three-year-old pool game.
Poolomania, although not violent or
idangerous to the innocent bystanders,
•Is well nigh Incurable. Its one re
deeming feature is that the victims
labor under the Illusion that t.iey are
enjoying themselves.
The New Jersey mayor who was
horsewhipped by an irritated lady ap
peared before the grand jury to have
her Indicted for "unladylike” beha
vior. If she had been content with
a tongue lashing he would probably
have conceded her the privilege of
her sex. but her rudeness in using a
horsewhip in addition hurt liis feel
ings too much for meek endurance.
Dr. Lydston asserts that grafting is
caused by a germ which makes its pri
mary bite when you get very much oc
cupied with your paper as the conduc
tor comes along for the fare. On that
theory the pay-as-you-enter ear should
act as a sterilizer for that particular
microbe. At all events, if the bug can
be suppressed the vital question is
whether it will cure the more violent
cases that take the form of getting on
the inside of railroad contracts and re
organization schemes.
Somebody has.invented a substitute
for the hobble skirt, the new arrange
ment being alleged to be just as hid
eous, but less dangerous. However,
•the element of danger is what makes
ithe hobble skirt interesting.
A gallant New York court holds that
a girl cannot be made to give up en
gagement gifts after, the engagement
Is broken. The cupidity of a man tri
umphs over even his self-eoneeit if it
requires a court decision to convince
fiim that it requires all the gifts she
bas to console the'fair one for his loss
54-40
OR FIGHT
WE are starting some
thing next week that
you can’t afford to miss.
It is the best thing that
ever appeared in this
community—-something
that will interest and en
trance. It is a beautiful
romantic. story treating
upon a historical fact —
the annexation of the
great scope of country
stretching from Texas
to Oregon.
“There is scarcely any
cause in which a woman
is not engaged in some
way fomenting the suit.”
And this is the interest
ing fact with which Em
erson Hough has featur
ed his great story of
54-40 OR FIGHT
There is not a dull mo
ment in this story.” Those
who like romance are
more than paid for their
time in reading it. Those
who like adventure will
find pleasurable pursuit
these wintry evenings in
reading this great story.
Those who stud\ and ad
mire the great qualities
that have made our men
of history will immensely
enjoy the shrewdness,
tact and diplomacy of
John C. Calhoun as he
carries to successful com -
pletion a great political
achievement through his
handling of women.
Watch For It
Read It Enjoy It
V '5 ‘The first chapter of this story
•appears in this paper next week and
will continue weekly until complet
ed. We have purchased exclusive
rights and readers of this paper will
be assured that it cannot be found in
any other paper circulating in this
community.
SEE DS FOR M
mm work.
REAPPORTIONMENT BILL
NOW BEFORE CONGRESS
NOT A STATE WILL LOSE A REP
RESENTATIVE IF THE CRUM
PACKER BILL PASSES.
WILL BE 433 MEMBERS
Georgia, Florida, Alabama and Lou
isana Will Each Gain a
• Member.
Washington.—Under the congres
sional reapportionment bill introduc
ed by Representative Crumpaeker of
Indiana, chairman of the committee
of census, Georgia is given twelve rep
resentatives, a gain of one.
If this bill, which is designed so
that no state will lose a representa
tive, is enacted into law, the house
will be increased from 391 to 433 mem
bers.
Idaho and Maine are the two lag
gard states, which are sought to be
taken care of by the Republicans.
The bill was referred immediately
to the census committee, where the
entire subject will be taken up.
The apportionment of the member
ship of the house among the various
states under the proposed arrange
ment will be as follows:
Alabama 10, Arkansas 7, California
11, Colorado 4, Connecticut 5, Dela
ware 1, Florida 4, Georgia 12, Idaho
2, Illinois 27, Indiana 12, lowa 11, Kan
sas 8, Kentucky 11, Ixiuisiana 8, Maine
4. Maryland 8, Massachusetts 16, Mich
igan 13. Minnesota 10, Mississippi 8,
Missouri IS, Montana 2, Nebraska 6,
Nevada 1, New Hampshire 2, New Jer
sey 12, New York 43, North Carolina
10, North Dakota 3, Ohio 22, Oklaho
ma 8, Oregon 3, Pennsylvania 36,
Rhode Island 3, South Carolina 7,
South Dakota 3, Tennessee 10, Texas
18, Utah 2, Vermont 2, Virginia 10,
Washington 3, West Virginia 6, Wis
consin 11, Wyoming 1.
This represents an increase over the
present membership in the house as
follows: Alabama, Colorado, Florida,
Georgia, Idaho, Louisiana, Michigan,
Minnesota, Montana, North Dakota,
Ohio, Oregon, Rhode Island, South Da
kota, Utah and West Virginia, one
each; Illinois, Massachusetts, New
Jersey, Texas and Washington, two
each; California and Oklahoma, three
each; Pennsylvania, four; New York,
six.
A majority ,of the members of the
committee Relieve this plan of appor
tionment will prevail.
FOSS IS INAUGURATED.
Democratic Governor of Massachu
setts Sworn In.
Boston.—Eugene N. Foss assumed
the office of governor of Masaschu
satts.
The inaugural ceremonies, before a
joint convention of the senate and
house, were in the nature of a Deino-
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EUGENE FOSS
Governor of Massachusetts
cratie celebration, for Mr. Foss is the
first governor of the party since 1905
and the third in 18 years. Governor
Foss also made another record by de
livering an inaugural address that was
the shortest and plainest in the mem
ory of the oldest office holders be
neath the gilded dome.
Newspaper Dynamiters indicted.
Los Angeles, Cal.—The grand jury
in the Los Angeles Times explosion
case returned twenty-two indictments.
All of the indictments charge mur
der in connection with that crime. It
is not likely that the names of any
af the indicted will be made public
until after the arrests have been
made. It is believed a large number
of San Franciscans have been indict
ed. Wholesale murder, the outcome
of a dynamite plot, is understood to
be the charge set forth in all the in
dictments.
Bugs to Kill Orange Pest.
Boston.—The British steamer Invo
rica, which arrived from Calcutta, has
in her cargo, boxes containing thou
sands of bugs from the Orient. They
are parasites to be’ used against in
sects infesting orange groves. ■*.-
$2,000 . Paper Money' BurnSd.
ilacon, Ga.’—Two thousand dollars
in paper money was burned in a
fire which destroyed the store of J.
P. Noble. Noble had the money se
curely hidden away. It was burned to
ashes.
II eorgia News
\\ ashington.—The census burea
gave out the following figures for
Covington: Covington, 1910, 2,667;
1900, 2,062.
Pembroke. —This county still has
the’ youngest grandfather, aged only
thirty-four. Many other parts of the
.country have tried to find a younger
one, but the lowest age so far is thir
ty-six. We even have a colored
grandmother at thirty-three. No race
suicide in this country.
Fort Gaines. —Col. C. V. Morris of
Fort Gaines is the oldest man in the'
Southern states who is actively engag
ed in business. His ninetieth birth
day comes early in January. He is a
keen business man and as chipper
as a youth of sixty.
Athens.—My. E. D. Sledge of Ath
ens is raising a fund to buy a farm:
for Joseph Stone, the twelve-year-old.
boy who won the prize in Georgia in;
the corn-growing contest. He raised'
102 bushels on an acre of rented land.:
Nearly 47,000 boys, all in tne South,*
engaged in the contests.
Macon. —Macon is without a doubt
the dryest city in the state, for the
prohibition law is receiving its first*
fair test, in that it is being strictly
applied. The enforcement is partic-;
ipated in by the county, as well as
municipal officers.
Macon.—The new state law fixing
a tax on dogs has netted the county
treasury $716, for that many canines
have been paid for to the county
treasury.
Rome.—-The last $2,500 of Floyd
county's bridge bonds was paid and
Floyd i 3 now absolutely out of debt
of any description. It has $40,000 in
bank, and is one of the few deotless
countes n the South.
Athens —A prospective benedict,
who could not remember his fiance’s
last name, presented himself before
Ordinary S. B. Wingfield for a mar
riage license. The young man knew
the girl's first name perfectly, but
could not understand the importance
of knowing her last name, since she
was about to change it anyhow. Mr.
•Wingfield insisted and the young man,
after a trip home, returned with the
young woman’s last name written on
a slip of paper.
Thomasville. —Congressman S. .A.
Roddenbery has donated fifty acres of
land to the Odd Fellows to be used
for building an Odd Fellows’ Orphans’
Home. A few days ago the secretary
o£ the Orphans’ Home committee wrote
to members of the Thomasville lodge
of Odu Fellows asking what could be
offered as an inducement to have such
a home located here. So that with the
land which Congressman Roddenber
ry has so generously offered it is now
thought the home will be built.
Franklin. —A sensation was created
here when it was rumored that Pin
kerton men were at work on the rob
bery of the Heard County bank, which
occurred December 1, and that an
rests would likely be made. The de
tectives were employed to investigate
the robbery by the company, which
carried the bank's burglary insurance;
It is stated that $7,500 of the banks
cash were looted.
Millwood. —W. B! James of near Mat
nor, in this county, reported recently*
the record haul of rattlesnakes. Ac
cording to the account told by James,
while on his way to this place with,
a load of cotton, he passed and kllledi
over forty rattlers. He had a num
ber of rattles to back up his story. .
Statesboro.—The farmers are kill
ing pork and saving the remnants of:
cotton. There never has been a time,
in the history of Bulloch county w hen 1
things looked better from the stand-!
point of the man behind the plow. ;
Americus.—A good indication of the'
extent to which the farmers of this'
section of the state have taken up:
diversification was the recent sale in'
Americus of six thousand bales of
home-grown hay. This*is by no means'
the full crop raised in this neighbor
hood.
Montezuma. —The fertility of Macon
county soil was demonstrated here re
cently when D. F. Douglas, principal
of the colored school of this place,
brought to town a handsome lot of
magnificent celery which he had rais
ed on his own farm in this county.
It is not at all improbable that the
raising of celery on a large scale
may be taken up by the farmers in :
this section, as it has been proven
that the soil and climate are well suit
ed to its cultivation.
Statesboro. —The steamer Elien,
owned by W. R. Dart of Brunswick
and B. B. Gray of Gray’s Mill, went
down in the Satilla river and is com
pletely submerged. None of the crew
were drowned.
Milledgeville.—H. Sid Jones, private
secretary to Dr. L. M. Jones, super
intendent of the state sanitarium at.
Milledgeville, has resigned. He will,
move to Montezuma, where he will
engage in the practice of law.
Trenton.—The dog tax law is very
(unpopular in Dade, and the represen
tative for that county in the general
(assembly will be petitioned to use nis
(influence to have the law repealed,
j Cedartown.—Commissioners of Polk
•county will order an election in a
snort time for the. citizens to vote
on issuing oonds for the purpose of
improving roads.
Cedartown. —A tract of mineral land
of 400 acres in Polk county, belong
ing to the Stephen Noble estate, has
been sold to the Pulaski Iron compa
ny of Pulaski, Vcv, for $252)00 cash.
BUFFERED FIVE YEAR 3. |
Joints Stiff and Ankles Badly SwolleL
Mrs. L. Skaggs, Louisa, Ky., sayjkt
‘Tor five years my kidneys acted irreH
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and scanty. I was nervous, restless
and felt constantly
tired out. Dropsi
cal swellings ap
fir peared in my ankles
came stiff. Back-i
ache made life mis
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\ vSjfflHiY-''’ other remedies with-1
'SSI ’ * out relief, I began
taking Doan's Kidney Pills and con
tinued with them until cured. Tims
has proven my cure permanent.”
Remember the name—Doan’s.
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Ever notice what poor care other
people take of their health?
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