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THE JOURNAL
PUBLISHED WEEKLY
COCHRAN. LA.
It's the bill, not the b!r<t on daugh
ter s hat, that interests dad !y.
A boy's idea of a negotiable asset ;
Is anything he can trade for a dog. ]
■What do astronomers and calendar
makers know about spring, anyway?
A pretzel is beautiful, not only in
Its shape but in its keeping qualities.
The bri.-ht colors of the bluebird
seem more popular with this season’s
spring girl
A member of the new French cab
inet is named Louis Klotz —yes, the
French cabinet.
Milwaukee now has a hatpin ordi
nance. Men are gradually coming
into their rights.
Nothing so disgusts an elderly
woman as a younger woman’s treat
ment of her baby.
An English servant remained with
the family for 70 years, probably be
ing too feeble to quit.
A hair fraud in New York involves
a large sum, and there ore others
that don’t involve so much.
The winter may have been unduly
mild, but it is to be said for it that it
was an easy one on the poor.
By the w’ay, has your wife begun
to offer those little suggestions about
a vacation trip next summer?
A collie failed to choose between
two putative owners in court, lamely
ending a most promising dog story.
if a minister wishes to do particu
larly effective work he should re
good-looking and remain unmarried.
Grand children, of Napoleon are re
ported to be living in Los Angeles.
Still, France isn't perturbed over the
fact.
To be abreast of the times letter
carriers should organize an artistic
revolt against parcel post impression
ism.
A magazine writer declares it is
easier to live on sls a week than on
$15,000 a year, but we wonder how he
knows.
Members of the militia can get high
grade siloes for $1.50 a pair. This is
another argument for equal rights to
women.
No nation addicted to baseball has
a war on hand, and no such nation
wants a war before the close of the
season.
There Is talk of wiping out New
York’s Chinatown. It took an earth
quake to accomplish this result in San
Francisco.
Tripping while trying to save his
bicycle, a Gothamite burned to death.
On account of pedal extremeties, so
to speak.
Talk Is not cheap after all. when it
is considered that it costs SIS per
minute to talk from New York to
San Francisco.
Vincent Astor is giving an example
to the rich young men who begin their
careers by sowing wild outs, In rais
ing tame ones.
In the competition among fashion
able young men to see who can raise
the smallest mustache there are a lot
of prize winners.
Nevada allows her criminals to
choose their own death means, but,
as yet nobody lias selected an over
dose of cream puffs.
The Cornell student, who lived on
SB cents a week and failed iu math
ematics, evidently had his own sys
tem of bookkeeping.
Some one of the office wits has said
that love being the quest, marriage
must be the conquest. Likewise, why
not divorce the inquest?
A newspaper writer says it is eas
ier to live on sls a week than $15,-
000 a year. And it's our bet that he's
never tried the latter.
Burglars got $250,000 worth of
jewelry from one New York Pawn
shop. Perhaps New Yorkers use such
places as storage vaults.
An eastern genius has invented a
machine to count bank notes from
a pile and register the total amount.
It is improbable, however, that an at
tempt will be made to cater to family
trade.
Boiled down, the average annual ex
penditure for stamps In the United
States is $2.00 per capita. We had
no idea that our correspondence was
so heavy.
A Chicago professor says that the
human race will some day be tooth
less. Those will be great days for
the canned soup industry.
Now it is reported that women are
tc adopt suspenders for their skirts.
Can man retain possesion of his badge
of authority much longer?
Canyons 0 /tb e
Southwest
FEATHtR RlVLfc AIANYON, CALIFORNIA
THE canyons of the southwest
are like people we may chance
to meet who do not impress
us particularly at first glance
as to either feature or person- 1
ality. Their beauty of character and
their great heurl interest are hidden j
from us on a superficial view. Even
from a short distance away most of
the canyons look like mere gouges
scooped out of the mountain sides, of
no great depth, nor of many possibili
ties in the way of variety, charm, or
beauty, of special interest, yet upon
an intimate acquaintance with them
they will reveal the fact that they
possess all of these attributes and
more. To traverse the lepgth of some
of them is a good day’s journey by
horseback or by team. Twenty or
thirty miles they may penetrate Into j
the very heart of the range. This fact
of the length of many of the can
yons Is a great surprise to the canyon
seeking novice, and even at times to
one more familiar with them. You
may enter a canyon with the assured
intention of penetrating to its end,
and you may entertain this idea for
some time as you plod on determined
ly, clambering over rocks, ledges and
fallen trees, and making your way
through brush and vines. After a
time you are sure that each turn in
the canyon will bring you to the de
sired goal, but as it does not, you
keep persistently on, knowing that
the next corner will be the last. Af
ter keeping up this more or less pleas
ant illusion for some time you will
begin to get somewhat weary, if you
are not in training for such climbs,
and if your time is not unlimited you
will find it running short, yet you dis
like to give up, as around the next
turn you may reach the mountain wall
that marks the end. To be perfectly
candid with yourself, however, you by
this time really have your doubts as
to the truth of your theory. So if
you have the usual experienctNof such
occasions, you finally turn back\>f»lj
some reluctance, a trifle of chagrin, j
and a little bewilderment at your lack
of understanding. You find it a long
way back, for you may have gone
many miles, that seemed hut a few,
in your eager quest.
Easy to Get Lost.
Each canyon has a character of its
own quite different from that of its
neighbors. They vary in appearance
quite as the human physiognomy va
ries. Though some of them may look
much like another, there is a marked
difference. Yet it is extremely easy
to get lost among them on a long
tramp during which you go into a
number of them, unless familiar with
their general topography. The con
stant variations in one’s course caused
by the various turnings of the canyon
are apt to confuse one and cause one
to lose his sense of direction.
Some of the larger canyons contain
more or less comparatively level
land, and frequently in such you will
find settlers who have their mountain
homes here, cultivate their few tilla
ble acres and make out a living in
the heart of the eternal hills. In such
places and in the lesser canyons the
bee rancher finds desirable location
for his busy bees, as quantities of
bloom of wild flower, sage and chap
arrel afford rich pasturage for the
tireless honey-makers. But it is the
uninhabited canyon that the nature
lover prefers, one giving no evidence
of man’s handiwork, one in its prime
val state, wild and unchanged. Such
a one is a mine of interest, with
treasures hidden behind every turn, to
be revealed as one advances deeper
into the heart of the range.
If you are a geologist, you will find
a great deal to interest you iq these
canyons. The erosive action of the
stream has revealed many a secret
"of rock and ledge and soil. Small
landslides have exposed the inner
structure of the earth that has lain
hidden for centuries perhaps. Curi
ous starta of rock in huge ledges
show' the terrible force and power of
the mighty upheaval that brought
them into being. Rocks of many
strange formations and of great va
riety of color are constantly met with.
If you are a mineralogist, you will
be interested in the various minerals
that the rocks and ledges contain, and
in the float that indicates hidden
veins of gold and other valuable min
erals such as are found In nearly all
sections of the southwest. If an ar
borist, the wonderful variety of tree
life will appeal strongly to you.
No Two Alike.
A duy in a canyon will give you but
a taste of its many interesting reva
latious and many days spent there
will not exhaust them. Remember,
however, that, there are very many
canyons in the great mountain ranges
and that no two are alike. What you
may expect, to find in one canyon you
may not find, but you will find It in
another, and, tfco, the canyons present
a somewhat different aspect at differ
ent times of the year, in the late
summer the stream may have dwin
dled considerably, having just passed
through the dry summer, but the ab
sence of its loud voice is made up by
the greater volume of bird Bong and
its more readily distinguishable notes.
In the spring the streams will be at
their best, the wild flowers the most
numerous, the evergreens will be
washed clean and the deciduous trees
w ill have on their spring dress of ten
der green. This la perhaps the best
time of the -year for a visit, yet du
ring all the other seasons the can
yons have their lure, their fascina
tions add their charms. The beauty
of the trees and shrubs, the wild flow
ers and the grasses, the joy of the
flowing, talking brook, with its falls
and its clear deep pools, the formation
and the stories ot the rocks and
ledges, the songs of the birds and per
chance an .nterview with that water
loving bird the water-ouzel, the most
interesting of the canyon birds, or a
a deer, or some other deni
ed ob the wild, come to the brook to
drinh/the beautiful lights of the dy
ing d\v, dazzlingly brilliant as they
creep iV> the canyon's sides leaving all
below in the purple twilight, all these
things alul many more present them
selves your enjoyment, and if
you are a f>ue lover of nature you will
fall in love with the canyon and all
its varied children, and you will want
to return to if when the first oppor
tunity presents itself.
Need for t)xygen Supply.
That there is less oxygen in the
rarefied air of celebrated mountain
health resorts than in any room with
clpsed windows, matter how
crowded with persons, was an unchal
lneged statement madA in the Times
by the English expert t-i ventilation.
Dr. Leonard Hill. The B.ttish Royal
society has just published a paper
supplementary to the report 0 n the
Anglo-American Pike’s Peak expedi
tion by Miss M. P. Fitzgerals, which
concludes with the statement that
“arterial blood contains considerably
more oxygen at high altitudes than
at sea level.’’ The ltmgs are better
ventilated, for one thing, but it la cer
tain, also, that the old theory that the
lungs should be plentifully supplied
with chemically pure air must b=» dis
carded. The little cell-like alvetn a t
the ends of the lung branches have a
special power of extracting oxygen,
[even while the supply of extracting
! oxygen in the air is deficient. Je-
I cretory power is increased at high al
tltudes, and the increase does not <ls
appear until a considerable time after
descent to sea level. *
Of Course.
“When I asked the lady to gimme
a little dinner she set the dorg 0 n
j me.’’
“Well, a feller as sensitive as
you are oughter have a social secre
tary to act as a sort of buffer.”
Costs Less Than a Two-Cent
Postage-Stamp
An average of less than a-cent and
a third a pair is paid for the use of all
our machines in making two-thirds of
the shoes produced in the United
States—assuming that all our ma
chines are used. The most that can
be paid for the use of all our ma
chines In making the highest-priced
shoes is less than 5% cents a pair.
The average royalty on all kinds of
shoes is less than 2 2-3 cents a pair.
From this we get onr sole return for
the manufacture and use of the ma
chines, for setting them up in facto
ries and keeping them in order. You
pay two cents for a postage stamp or
\a yeast-cake and five cents for a car
fare and don't miss it. Where do you
get more for your money than in buy
ing a machine-made shoe?
Write us and we will tell you all
about it. The United Shoe Machinery
Company, Boston, Mass. —Adv.
Thrifty Scot.
When Sir John Carr-was at Glas
gow-, in the year 1307, he was asked
by the magistrates to give his advice
concerning the inscription to be
placed on Nelson's monument, then
just completed. The knight recom
mended this brief record: “Glasgow to
Nelson.”
’’True,” said the others, “and as
there is the town of Nelson near us,
we might add, ’Glasgow to Nelson
nine miles,’ so that the column might
serve for the milestone and a monu
ment.”
HEAD FULL OF DANDRUFF
1802 Reynolds & 34th St., Savannah.
Ga. —“My head began to get sore and
all around the edges got white with
the disease until I was quite scared.
I thought all my hair would drop out.
It came out by handfuls, and my head
itched so I nearly scratched the skin
off. It was full of dandruff which
showed plainly in my hair. I also
had trouble with my hand. It peeled
every time I put it in water, and it
was so badly disfigured that every
body noticed it and asked me what it
was. It was red, and burned awfully.
"My mother tried several things but
they were unsuccessful, and it seemed
as if nothing did it any good until I
started to use Cuticura Soap and Oint
ment. It had lasted about four weeks,
but then it started getting well and
my hair stopped falling completely.
Now it is cured. My hair isfrow nice
and thick and is growing to a nice
length. 1 also used the Cuticura Soap
and Ointment for my hand and com
pletely cured it.” (Signed) Miss
Hattie M. Jones, Nov. 8, 1911.
Cuticura Soap and Ointment sold
throughout the world. Sample of each
free, with 32-p. Skin Book. Address
poet-card “Cuticura, Dept. L, Boston.”
Adv.
Peculiar Street Names.
Mexico is a country of picturesque
street and house names. In the capi
tal are streets bearing euch names as
"The Love of God Street, "The Holy
Ghost Street,” "Pass If You Can
Street," "Lost Child Street,” “Sad In
dian Street” and "Street of the Wood
Owls.”
For SI'XMRR HEADACHES
Hicks’ OAPITDINE is the best remedy
no matter what causes them—whether
from the beat, sitting in draughts, fever
ish condition, etc. 10c., 25c and 50c per
bottle at medicine stores. Adv.
His View.
“Do you believe that every man has
his price?"
“No. but I shouldn't be surprised if
every man wanted it.”
To Relieve (ho Tain of a Hum Inatantly
and take out all lutlamuiatlon inono day, apply the
wonderful, old reliable DR. PORTKK 8 ANTISKR
TIC IIKALING Oil* Relieves pain and heals at
the same time 26c. 50c, II.UO.
Detachable.
“Is her hair a crown of glory?”
“Yes, and every night she abdi
cates."—Town Topics.
There’s always some man around to
second any kind of a motion —except
a motion that looks like work.
SPECIAL TO WOMEN
Do you realize the fact that thousands
of women are now using
A Soluble Antiseptic Powder
as a remedy for mucous membrane af
fections, such as sore throat, nasal or
pelvic catarrh, inflammation or uleera
tion, caused by female ills? Women
who have been cured say “it is worth
its weight in gold.” Dissolve in water
and apply locally. For ten years the
Lydia E. Pinkliam Medicine Co. has
recommended Paxtine in their private
correspondence with women.
For all hygienic and toilet uses it has
no equal. Only 50c a large box at Drug
gists or sent postpaid on receipt of
price. The Paxton Toilet Co., Boston,
Mass.
Atlanta Directory
J.L. FILMS AND SUPPLIES
Kodaks
given prompt attention. Send for catalog.
Glenn Photo Stock Go. Atlanta, 6a.
“You break it —we make it
whole again, if it's metal”
Way, way cheaper than ito buy a new part.
e permanently reunite broken or cracked metal
articles of every description. Machine or auto
mobile parts, anything made of metal.
Send the parts to us, we return them as
strong or stronger than ever.
Atlanta Welding Company
,74 try Street Atlanta. Georsia
S.E.KISEZS
We praise the work of Washington,
For George is not ulive;
He had no faulls—no. no' not one!
Ah, George is not alive!
We glory in the deeds lie wrought.
The words he said, the thoughts he
thought—
We call him perfect, but we’d not
If he were still alive.
We think wltn awe of Jefferson,
For Thomas Isn't here;
Ah, what a splendid height he won—
Poor Thomas isn’t here!
With pride v.e name the detjts we owe
To this great man of long ago—
'Tts safe to say we wouldn't, though,
If Thomas were here.
You do your best, but win no praise—
Ah, well, keep striving on!
You still walk here in pleasant ways—
The great are always gone!
With all your might you try to climb—
Today no man deems you sublime—
Take heart! you, too, will die some time,
And then your day may dawn!
The Fire.
There was a clatter of hoofs and a
ringing of gongs, and then the brave
fire fighters hurriedly began drawing
out their lines of hose.
The captain of the crew shouted
through his megaphone, policemen
clubbed back people who tried to rush
through the lines, confusion was every
where, and the flames darted fiercely
from the windows of the burning
house, as if they had been the tongues
of huge, angry serpents. A ladder
was hastily laced against one of the
walls, and three of the firemen start
ed up, dragging a line of hose with
them. )
"Here!” jelled the captain through
his megaphone; “what are you doing?
Come down! Let the house go. There’s
four tons of coal in the basement.
Save that. Never mind the piano and
the jewelry.”
PA ON POESY.
BGeorgie, “what’s
the difference be
tween degenerate
poets and the oth
"The other kind
wash up every lit-
Her Own Idea.
“Your daughter,” said Mrs. Oldcas
tle after being conducted through the
newly finished wing of the magnifi
cent palace occupied by the Bulling
tons, "has such, a splendid vocabu
lary.”
“Do you think so?” her hostess re
plied. "Josiah wanted to get her one
of them escritoires, but I made up my
mind right at the start that a vocabu
lary would look better in a room fur
nished like hers is, even if it didn't
cost quite so much.”
Settled.
“Ah, Mrs. Golthwaite, I’m very glad
to know you. I think I have had the
pleasure of meeting your daughter.”
“My sister-in-law, very likely. I
have no daughter.”
“Ah, yes. How stupid of me. I was
just wondering how it could be pos
sible for you to have a daughter as—
as—if I may be permitted to say so—
as plain as she is.”
No Cause for Despair.
“Arthur,” said Mrs. Gallivant be
tween her sobs, “the cook came to me
today and said that either she or oui
dear baby would to leave this
house for good.”
"There, there, dear, don’t take it
so hard,” he said. “We can send little
Francis to your mother or mine, can’t
wer
Of Paramount Importance.
“Supposing,” he said, “that we real
ly could get to communicating with
Mars, what, in your opinion, is the
first thing we ought to say to the peo
ple on that planet?”
“Well," she replied, “we might ask
them if they have solved the servant
girl problem, and, if so, how.”
THOSE RHEUMATIC
TWINGES
Much oftherheu
matic pain that “L--
come? in damp,
changing weather is -
the work of uric
acid crystals. iJ&X \Vs-siiA
Needles couldn't .
cut, tear or hurt any jl sAap f
worse when the af- pf
fected muscle joint j /VLA
If such attacks are
marked with head- / jJ J
ache, backache, diz- Jbgfe
ziness and disturb
ances of the urine. UmhUjM
it’s time to help the u3tW% Ttii»
weakened kidneys
Doan's Kidney
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A New York Case
D. J. Donovan, Larebmont, N. Y., says: “My
right lug was so swollen it was twenty-four
inch*** around My bauk felt as If it were be
ing prodded with a hot iron. 1 had rundown
from 210 pounds to 150. I was steadily growing
worse, and had given up hope. 1 Improved rap
idly, however, under the use of Doan's Kidney
Pills. They cured mo entirely and 1 have since
gained4o pounds. '
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DOAN’S K^ L N L r
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Occasionally we meet a man who
acts as if he was living his life by
contract.
Suffer Little Children.
“He says he loves little children.”
“He ought to. He employs about
2.000 of them and they are making
him rich.”
If We Saw the Beyond.
Now I do not for a moment believe
that, if those mysterious portals were
flung wide, and we could see without
hindrance all the secrets of the great
beyond, we should necessarily be eith
er better or happier. On the contrary,
the probability is that, average hu
man nature being what it is, sacred
realities .would be degraded to the or
dinary levels of the human intercourse
in this world; iu our knowledge of life
we cannot rise above what we are.
What is wanted is a certain quality of
life itself which will carry with it the
assurance ot the nearness and sweet
ness of the best and highest in the
eternal kingdom of love.
Old Pie Shops Disappearing.
With the decline of the a la mode
beef shop in London one notes also
the disappearance of most of the old
fashioned pie shops, such as the fa
mous eel-pie shop in Fleet street that
the youthful fancy of the writer al
ways .associated with the story of
Sweeney Todd, “the demon barber."
The itinerant vender of sheep’s trot
ters has also almost disappeared, as
well as the seller of sandwiches at the
doors of theaters, while the peripatetic
pie has quite vanished from the
streets. In their place we have the
all-conquering but malodorous fried
fish shop, which has multiplied four
fold during the last twenty years.—
London Chronicle.
Marquess of Sligo in Indian Mutiny.
Lord Altamont, who through the
death of his aged father, the other
day, has become marquess of Sligo,
was through the Indian mutiny. His
father, who was in the Indian civil
service, was stationed at Bankipur
when the mutiny broke out.
Lord Sligo's wife and infant son,
seven months old, the new marquess,
were sent for safety to a piace which
was surrounded by rebels for a fort
night. The child, how ever, was safely
taken through the sepoy lines by a
faithful Indian nurse, who dyed his
skin as a ruse to pass him off as her
own sou. A long time passed before
the boy was restored to his anxious
parents, who meantime had to go
through a further siege at Monghyr.
The new marquess recently celebrated
his silver wedding. On the actual an
niversary day he had to be in Scot
land, but he sent his wife a telegram
w’ith the characteristic message,
“Twenty-five years without regret.”
FRIENDS HELP.
St. Paul Park Incident.
"After drinking coffee for breakfast
I always felt languid and dull, having
no ambition to get to my morning
duties. Then in about an hour or so
a weak, nervous derangement of the
heart and stomach w'ould come over
me with such force I would frequently
have to lie down.”
Tea is just as harmful, because it
contains caffeine, the same drug found
in coffee.
“At other times I had severe head
aches; stomach finally became affect
ed and digestion so impaired that I
had serious chronic dyspepsia and
constipation. A lady, for many years
State President of the W. C. T. U.,
told me she had been greatly ben
efited by quitting coffee and using
Postum; she was troubled for years
with asthma. She said it was no
cross to quit coffee when she found
she could have as delicious an
article as Postum.
* "Another lady who had been trou
bled with chronic dyspepsia for years,
found immediate relief on ceasing cof
fee and using Postum. Still another
friend told me that Postum was a
Godsend, her heart trouble having
been relieved after leaving off coffee
and taking on Postum.
“So many such cases came to my
notice that I concluded coffee was the
cause of my trouble and I quit and
took up Postum. I am more than
pleased to say that my days of trou
ble have disappeared. I am well and
happy.”
Look in pkgs. for the famous little
book, “The Road to Wellville.”
Ever read the above letter? A new
one appears from time to time. They
are genuine, true, and full of human
Interest.