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THE JOURNAL. Published Weekly. COCHRAN, GA. fc!V" - 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- \ mm 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 ularly and secretions were palnfuF 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 erable. After using . \ 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. For sale by all dealers. 50 cents at box. Foster-Mllburn Co., Buffalo, N. y. Don’t make the mistake’of claiming you never make one. .Itch Cared In 30 Minutes by XVoolford n BanltaryLotlon.Never fails. At druggists.- Ever notice what poor care other people take of their health? FREE ADVICE TO WOMEN IVomen suffering from any form ofi Illness are invited to promptly com municate with Mrs. Pinkham at Lynn, (Mass. All letters are received, opened, read and answered by women. A wo-! man can freely talk er - U/>, ness to a woman;- V Tn. tHI \ V thus has been es- I / wll tablished this con- II II fid enco between! hi L Mrs. Pinkham and In) the women of; America which has* never been broken.. 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