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Journal
r *ed May 23rd, 1908, at the
l Post-office at Coohra.i, «Ga., as
J Second Class Mail Matter
PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY
(Tift (Horljratt Jlubltslt'mg (£o.
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T. L. BAIL:: Y, E&l*or.
H. E. BAILEY, L..Aa-.;s> Big:,
SUBSCRIPTION PRiCx y.JVj PEat YE At
The Christmas edition of the Macon
News, issued December sth, was a
large and creditable edition, compris
jng forty-four pages of crisp news
and interesting advertising matter.
Macon’s two dailies are certainly
potent factors in the development and
general uplift of our progressive Cen
tral City.
We have often been asked why wc
do not take a partisan stand in rt.nl
politics. If our friends will show us
wherein we can contribute to the
moral, social, industrial 01 commer
cial welfare of our town and vicinity
by thus doing, we will seriously con
sider the proposition.
We have convictions of our own,
and wc always have a decided pref
erence for certain gubernatorial can
didates or other state house officers;
nevertheless, wc re (d Iso that as far
as the material welfare ot OUT par
ticular community is concerned, it
makes lit! 1 • difference who is govern
or for v.e well Know that whoever lie
is ho will he n a wan of
intelligence end p. democrat, and
Georgia hat* never jet had a governor
of whom she was ashamed, or who
was incompetent to conduct the af
fairs of state.
There may come a time in the polit
ical affairs of our state, the sequence
of which may seriously effect the con
dition of our society; should such
circumstances arrive, and we are still
in the newspaper business, we sin
cerely hope we will have the back
bone to stand up for the right, as we
see it, and battle for it regardless of
circumstances; but being only one
dominant party in Georgia, and the
representatives of that party sup
posed at least to stand bn the same
platform, the scramble for nomina
ions is absolutely ridiculous in the
extreme, and the misrepresentations,
abuse and personal recriminations of
the opposing candidates arc usually
a disgrace to decency and makes the
est and strongest element of our so
j>«yfcy loth to enter the political arena
’ Show us where “two blade :of ires
••an be grown where there was on!;,
>ne before;” show us wherein the
mderful resources of puy country
"aii be better developed, where ve cai
resist you in the moral, social e.nd
nteHCCtual uplift of our community,
aid we will give you space in our lit
le paper and our time free of charge,
:nd we can do this with a conscience
css that we are doing something for
he welfare of our*community; but if
on desire us not only to magnify the
virtues of our particular candidate,
ut. minimize.the good qualities of his
pponent, exaggerating his faults and
escending to the low, dirty persona!
. ’ use characteristic of the “gutter
ilpe,” then you desire us to persut
course which, at this time and with
ur limited experience, we sincerely
aubt would fril to fulfill the true
unctions of a country newspaper.
Monts Carlo's PsUsion List.
Monte Carlo, the famous gambling
den of Fr.-nme, has probably the most j
•omarkabie pension list in tba world,
lea and we c i who absrtmely vein)
h:naselves at the casino a;e plowed
mall sums for the re ; of their ' : v, .
.'be pensions vary from »> frsn s to -I '■ j
nos a day. according to the a mourns j
o" at the tables, states tlie National
irgazlne. A Scotchman who lost
Pom $1,000,000 at roulette is said to
arrive $7 a dry. This gentleman re
ili : today ia a tiny villa at Nice
Ivi--y year the casino e;".many pays
ut ; >uio $15,000 in pensions.
The Facetious Farmer.
“I am an actor out of work Can
m give me employment on your
irai?"
“t can. But a day on a farm is no
xcn'.y minute sk**tvh."
understand that."
'*Ai! right. Vender is your room.
.Tiea you bear a horn toot about 4
m. that's your cue.”—Chicago News.
A Ncblr Sacrifice.
“I understand i’."it her father died
' i the insane asylum."
"Ye-, he did."
“That's too bad. too bad.”
“Oh. ! don't know. He accumulated
trii.'ton dollars before lie went in.”—
>etri.!t Fm» Press.
f nother Instants.
-Yfi ■:» men make' proverbs and fools
e,,,-,, " ebserved A
“That's so." agrees It. "By the way.
kn v.as ilie author of that one?"—
Cleveland Plain Healer.
I LEGALIZED NICKNAMES.
t“h«y Appeared In Official Record* In
Colonial Times.
Nicknames'are not likely to go out
of fashion so long as human nature
remains what it Is. Schoolboys will
nickname each other, collegians will
I nickname their professors, and sol
! dlers will speak of their commanders
, as “riell Fire Bill,” “Fighting Joe." or
; what noh,Jn these days, however, it
is not customary to spread such titles
upon official records, as was formerly
the habit, according to the archives
of several of our states.
In the Dutch records in 1044 we
have John I’ictersen, alias Friend
John. In the Newtown purchase from
the Indians, dated in IGSO. one of the
boundaries is “by a Dutchman’s land
called Vans the Boore,’’ and in the
Bushwick patent, dated Oct. 12, 1007,
one of the boundaries is “John the
Swede’s meadow.” In 1095, In the
Kings county records, a man is named
living at Gowanus as “Tunis the Fish
er."
The common council of New York
in 1091 ordered fish to be brought into
tii'- do !: "'Mr against the city hall
or (he house that Deng Mary former
ly livid in,” and in the same year an
or, - - r v. p, s pa-red “that Topknot Betty
and ! r e! ildren be provided for as
objects of charity.”
The explanation of this custom in
many cases was that the persons in
que.rti.on either had no family names
or had forgotten them, so that the use
of their generally accepted nicknames
became a necessity. So numerous
wore the Smiths living upon Long Is
land that it was thought necessary to
ols! inguish the various original fami
lies by some peculiar name. Tims we
have the Rock \ Smiths, the Blue
Smiths, the Bull Smiths and the
Weight Sintthg A — Ftnrper’B Weekly. I
HIRED NEWSPAPERS. *
A Custom In London In the Days Wheq
Price 3 Were High.
A London newspaper, the Dally
News, lias unearthed an interesting
document which goes back to the days
of dear newspapers, when these papers
were taken around to houses and hired
for so many hours at so much fill hour.
Tucked away, It says, In the leaves ol
an old guidebook to the Crystal palace,
dated 1854, has been found a little
printed leaflet, issued from Westertou’s
library and newspaper office, 20 St..
George’s place, Hyde Park. Corner,
making the following.announcement:
“Can be had from the office by 8
o’clock in the morning, to keep at 10
cents per copy, or lent to read for tlireo
hours at 25 cents or two hours for 18
cents per week. It can niao Vie sup
plied at 5 o’clock In the afternoon at
the reduced price of C cents per copy
or pasted into the country at $5 per
quarter, payable In advance."
Tn those days the Daily News had
been started only eight years under
the original editorship of Charles Dick
ens and was stiJJ published at 10 cents
a copy. Its editor at the timo was
William Weir, and Ilprrlet Mqrtinenti.
perhaps the first woman In England to
undertake regular journalistic ‘ work,
was one of iho writers of its leading
artlciys. _
TIIS system of hiring did not disap
pear quickly. Certainly down to the
year ISBO there were many households
In which the Times was still left on
the same terms, and it would lie dif
ficult to say when the system finally
died out.—Christian Science Monitor.
WASHINGTON'S ETIQUETTE. ■
fc Didn’t Do to Tail* Liberties With
Our First President.
President Washington never went to
longress on public business except In ft
rtagecoacU drawn by six cream colored,
horses. The coach was an objec; which
would excite the adniiruti-sa <>f the
throng't even now in our streets. It
-,vas built in the shape of a hemisphere,
and its pan:4s were adorned with Cu
pids sv.r.cuuded with flowers
fro"’. The coachman and positions
v/c :*t* arrayed in gorgeous oT
wb'te and Si :
Tiv t‘ otto ipHia GaTeiiiN .Vgovefo
liHid c.T'-tm ro. uir-D: ftWeAmi court
i; - ,- I r.-f (’■ « c:''"-o: sC-a < tiizonts.
1 Fro: ■ a p:<: phi wore V->r
!: :-,ted t<* lea /i .s Y.:uch ns it wtfa
\d. or. .1 in-- ,r hoy nhtnt.d i< -w •libbnt
;; ■ * 'Pt: ,'s . i '..• . and a ’’air
i ;• - • ■ Whs also tlev:,t«»i H»
j Mrs. A. ark - on. who was. .or.
| i.; t vefeiTcd ! > as Airs. Washing? n.
j tint as "the iiiuialile consort of our bo-
loved president.” When the pre .ducat |
rn.ulo his ..earuuoe at a ball cr a
public re a dais was croc!-! for (
hp.n. u. ' . hi. it he might stand apart j
from the :v. and Iho gu-.-sts or vis.
iiors bowed to him. ill solemn s'deuee. j
“Popuh!! -an simplicity" has only :
cone in later times. Very few persons
presumed to shake bauds with General |
Washington. Ore of his friends. Ouu
verneur Morris, rashly undertook for
a foolish wager to go up to him and
slap him on the shoulder, saying. "My
dear general. 1 am happy to see you so
well." At least there is a tradition to
that effect.
The moment fixed upon arrived, and
Mr. Morris, already half repenting of
his wager, went up to Washington,
placed his band upon his shoulder and
I uttered the proscribed words. Wash
| ington. as (he .story has it. stepped sud
! doniy bar k. fixed his gaze upon Morris
I for sever.!l moments with an angry
j fro n until fin* infer retreated abSish^
Jed mI •*.—;•>? r-fu.re in the erowil. No
| i trie:! a simi’ar exipert-
I i- - v',» Drees w“rt' more
•i • :"'■>■■■ ;•(•!*.• nj-od then f - • f
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THE OOHHRAY JOCUXAL, COOHRA.S, GEOBGfA.
We will Sell Our Entire °f Po-int at Cost
Come In and Get Ossr Prices Before Yow Buy
COCHRAN LUMBER CO.
A Draw.
“I round 50 cents this morning.” con
•fidetl.! iffimy.
“Fttuml a whole half dollar!" cried
his mother. '•How tine! What did you
do With it?"
'“•Fete Jones was along, so I gave him
half."
“Dear, generous boy! Did you do
tkirt cf your own accord?"
“Ye 'sura—well, we decided that
would be right."
“Jimmy! He didn't whip you ami
tui.ite you give up U.iif
"No. mamma, if he'd iirked me he'd
'a' had it uli. The s. rap was a draw.” ;
—Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Not Going Out
of Business!
In Order to have a New Floor
put in our Stove Department, we
want to Reduce Stack cf
Cock Stove and from NOW
until JANUARY, 1&, we allow
a Discount of
20 percent
On Our Line of Cook Stoves.
J. B. PEACOCK & CO.
Vigilant and Speedy.
“There’s nothing slow about .Tones.-
"1 goess you never loaned him mon
ey.”
"Oh. yes I have. That’s what made
me npeak that way. 1 ioanj»d him $lO
six months ago and 1 haven't been
able to catch him since." Boston
Transcript.
Force of Character.
"I thought your wife forbade yon t"
marry again when she died?"
"So she did. but now I'm going to
show her who is master in this house.’
—London Opinio^.
NOTICE!
Y taxes are now due. If not
paid c~i or before December 20 th, execution
will be issued promptly. No Exceptions.
j. E. COOK, Clerk & Treas.
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