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THE JOURNAL
PUBLISHED WEEKLY.
COCHRAN. GA
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The father of the trolley car 1b dead.
He left a large family.
Let us hope the sign painters will
not adopt the cubist art.
Currency reform can never make
money any more popular.
Philadelphia is trying to get up a
corner in baseball championships.
Headline says: ‘‘Aged 83 and Wants
a Wife; Owns a Buggy.” Also —is.
Sometimes a mere look at one’s
purse will reduce the vacation fever.
Possibly men are going to raise
whiskers just to make the women Jeal
ous.
"Without warning,” writes a re
porter, “the boom began to creak and
groan.”
There will be a terrible run for
serums when they begin to cure
wrinkles.
What will happen when a goat eats
one of those ultramodern explosive
golf balls?
A fortune of a million or so awaits
a man named Brown, lie ought to
be easy to find.
By a beneficent law of nature and
trade the watermelon is cheapest
when it is best.
In these days when a box is more or
less Indefinite, why not sell strawber
ries by the pound?
No doubt the generous baseball fans
are willing to give their share of the
rains to the farmers.
Philadelphia has a school for milk
men, but has to send its mayor else
where for an education.
The Sunday automobile fatality is
now as regular in Us occurrence as
the Sunday drowning.
Baseball 1b a popular sport In the
canal, zone, but Culebra cut continues
to do most of the sliding.
Men like to talk about their achieve
ments, while women are content to
talk about their neighbors.
A Danish Inventor has contrived war
machines to be covered by crops. This
will make plowing exciting.
The most fitting punishment for n
bigamist would be a sentence to live
with both his wives nt once.
Women are said to be wearing
socks, but doubtless what they blush
lngly ask ask for is half hose.
The world must be getting better.
The proprietor of a Chicago cafe ad
vertises the fact that he has no cab
aret.
A Denver man with a broken neck
Is attending to his business —which Is
not the watching of bulloon ascen
sions.
The alarm clock trade ought to
prosper if the police succeed in put
ting a silencer on the early morning
Iceman.
Save your old umbrellas. Some ge
nius has discovered that it is possi
ble to rob a bank with a fractured
umbrella lib.
Now Is the oppartunlty for the sci
entist who can develop a mosquito
that is as fastidious about biting us a
brook trout.
In defending a suit for separate
maintenance a man testified that his
wife always won at poker. The dou
ble significance of this is striking.
As to those counterfeit S2O bills In
circulation, you never have the slight
est trouble in remembering where you
got your 20s, do you?
It Is to be hoped that, the swatting
of the fly having been raised to the
dignity of a campaign, the usual lan
guage will not be used.
New York church has hired a doctor
and dentist to look after the health
and teeth of worshipers. How about
a tailor for the backsliders?
Another of those useless noises Is*
the language Indulged in by the av
erage baseball fan when the umpire
makes a decision that doesn’t please
him.
A Maryland farmer caught a black
snake in the act of swallowing a cast
Iron rabbit. That explains the disap
pearance of the cast Iron dogs and
deer.
Knickerbockers, such as the Yale
boys have adopted, will be a great re
lief If they provide escape from the
thralldom of keeping them pressed.
A Greek Island, submerged before
the Christian era, has recently come
to the surface. Perhaps this will
suggest diving real estate operations.
Acting In an erratic manner Is not
necessarily an indication that a man
Is in love. He may merely have been
prevented from going to the ball
game.
LIBERTY BEIL IN DANGERS
SINCE negotiations have already been
opened by the management of the
Panama exposition and commonwealth
of California with the city of Philadel
phia to obtain the Liberty Bell as one
of the exhibits for that occasion, and
since it seems that the crack in the
bell is extending, a definite settlement
of the question as to whether the relic
should be permitted to travel any more appears to
be about due, and just now, when the anniversary
of the nation’s independence is upon us, is a rea
sonable time for discussion of the matter.
Wilfred Jordan, curator of the Independence
Hall Museum, measured the second crack before
the bell’s last Journey and then measured it again
after its return. He found that it had increased
in length to a slight degree.
No one knows just when this second crack
occurred, and opinions differ; but compared to
the old crack it is of recent origin atfd is dis
tinctly visible. Mr. Jordan, however, was the first
to call attention to a long and almost invisible
extension of the second crack and finds that it
now reaches one-third way around the bell, from
the end of the old original fracture, which was
chiseled out in 1846 in an attempt to make the
bell sound properly.
Putting an end to the bell’s pilgrimages would
In no sense at all be due to a disinclination of
the people or councils of Philadelphia to allow the
west to view aud possess the sacred relic even
for a short time. Indeed Philadelphia would be
only too glad to send it, for since the bell has
already helped by its travels to lessen the sec
tional feelings between the north aud south, so it
would help unite the citizens of our republic who
live on the Atlantic seaboard with those who live
on the Pacific.
Little do either sections realize how intimately
the bell is connected with the consummation of
our nation, early political Ideals and with the
fondest of its impulses in Colonial days. Tills old
bronze relic not only helped to proclaim Inde
pendence, but for years before 1776 rang loud to
celebrate the hopes of the peop!— and rang low
to intone their woes!
Upon its sides is this Inscription:
"And proclaim liberty throughout all the land
unto all the inhabitants thereof.” —Lev. 25, 10. A
strange Providence indeed wrote that inscription
on its crown many years before its throbbing
clangors and melodious eloquence bad aught at
all to do with liberty!
Announcing proclamations of war and treaties
of peace; welcoming the arrival and bidding God
speed to departing notables; proclaiming some
accession of the English royal family to the
throne and the secession therefrom of the Ameri
can colonies! Its more customary use. however,
was to call the members of the assembly of Penn
sylvania together at the morning and afternoon
sessions and to announce the opening of the
courts.
Despite the fact that the Liberty Bell is one
of the most treasured of national relics, it is not
originally an American product, but a foreign im
portation; and imported from England, too, where
it was first cast according to the order given in
October, 1751, by the superintendents of the state
house of the Province of Pennsylvania—now Inde
pendence Hall.
Thomas Lester of White Chapel, London, cast
the bell, and by August, 1752, it arrived in Phila
delphia and was erected on trusses in the state
house yard. While being tolled and tested early
in September of the same year it was cracked by
the clapper, though by no unusually powerful
stroke. Concerning this accident, Isaac Morris
wrote, March 10, 1753:
“Though the news of our new bell cracking is
not very agreeable to us, we concluded to send it
back by Captain Budden. who had brought it from
London last August, but he could not take it on
board, upon which two ingenious workmen under
took to cast it here, and I am just now informed
they have this day opened the mould and have
got a good bell, which, I confess, pleases me very
much, that we should first venture upon and suc
ceed in the greatest bell cast, for aught I know,
iu English America. The mould was finished in
a very masterly manner, and the letters, I am
told, are better than (on) the old one. When we
broke up the metal our judges here generally
agreed it was too high and brittle, and cast sev
eral little bells out of it to try the sound and
strength, and fixed upon a mixture of an ounce
and a half of copper to the pound of the old bell,
and in this proportion we now have it.”
Herman Pass, from the Island of Malta, and
Jacob Stow, a son of Charles Stow, the doorkeep
er of the assembly, were the two ingenious work
men referred to in the above letter. After the
second casting of the bell it was again hung and
tested in the spring of 1753. More defects were
soon found, however. The American casters,
Pass and Stow, who were not bell founders by
trade at all, had put tod much copper iu the metal
so that Its sound was impaired. Disappointed
with that failurd and also nettled at the gibes of
their townsmen concerning it, they asked permis
sion to cast the bell a second time. Thomas Les
ter, the original maker of It, also offered his
services, but the authorities decided to allow
Pass and Stow to proceed again, and thus the
third and present casting was made, and again
the bell was raised; this time in the state house
steeple itself. That operation was completed by
the end of August of 1753, when the American
casters were paid £6O 13s. sd. for their labors.
Then began its chimes, August 27, 1753, when
•it called the assembly together, ringing out the
old. ringing in the new; sounding its melodies for
innumerable public and private events during
more than four-score of years.
The first individual for whom it rang was Frank
lin; sent “home to England” to ask redress for
the grievances of the colonies in February, 1757.
The bell echoed the hopes of the people’s hearts
and its melodious "Bon Voyage” sounded over the
Delaware as he sailed away.
When the planing and splitting mills were
closed and the manufacture of iron and steel prod
ucts was prohibited by acts of parliament in
Pennsylvania and the king’s arrow was affixed
upon pine trees and the trade of the colonies in
all parts of the world restrained, the bell was
again tolled to assemble the people in the state
house yard to protest against such outrages.
Thus did the bell, long before the Revolution,
become the beloved symbol of truth and freedom,
reinforcing with pugnacious and violent peals, the
cry of determined citizens, in the largest political
meeting held up to that time in the state house
yard, that none of the ship "Polly’s detestable
tea,” that had just been brought into the port,
should be funneled down their throats with par
liament duty mixed with it,”
When the port of Boston was closed in May,
1774, and the heart of the country was growing
heavier with its affliction, the bell was once more
carefully muffled and tolled in a solemn and pro
phetic manner, both to announce the closing ol
the port and, a little later, to call a meeting to
relieve suffering in Boston on account of the
restriction of its trade.
As the conflict with England approached th«
bell was rung more and more; its use became a
matter of course, aud then, on April 25, 1775,
just after the reports came to Philadelphia of the
Battle of Lexington, it rang wildly to assemble
8,000 people in the state house yard and to ia
spire their souls to a resolution pledging theii
all to the cause of liberty.
It rang also fo assemble the Continental con
gress to its daily sessions, both at Carpenter's
hall and Independence hall, and, finally, its crown
ing achievement, the one wild, defiant and joyful
ringing that, more than all the previous reverbera
tions it made, gave it the sacred name of ’’The
Liberty Bell,” occurred on July 8 (and not the
4th, as is generally believed), after the Declara
tion of Independence had been adopted.
This greatest of its jubilees called the citizens
together in the yard to hear read in the stentorian
tones of John Nixon the first public proclamation
of the Declaration, and never did the old wooden
rafters of the state house steeple rock and trem
ble with more sympathetic vibration than at this
time.
When returned to the old state house steeple
again one of its first uses was to ring upon the
announcement of the surrender of Lord Cornwal
lis, in October, 1781, and in the following month
to toll in welcoming Washington to the city. A
year and a half later it helped to proclaim the
treaty of peace with Great Britain, and in Decem
ber, 1799, it was muffled for the first time In many
years, though not to mourn for lost liberty or
over tyrannical deeds, but to lend its almost
hushed music to the funeral solemnities of Wash
ington himself.
IS IT RIGHT TO ADVERTISE COCA
COLA?
Men who play the wily game of poli
tics have discovered that the best way
to distract the attention of the public
from their own shortcomings is to
make a loud-mouthed sensational at
tack upon someone else As the cut
tie-fish eludes Its pursuer by clouding
the surrounding water with the con
tents of its ink sac, so the political ad
venturer takes advantage of the igno
rance and prejudices of the people to
escape from his indefensible position
by muddying the waters of public
opinion.
A case in point is the recent attack
made upon the religious press for
carrying Coca-Cola advertising. This
attack was made by a politician who
was supposed to be an expert in chem
istrv but who, having brought a suit
-gainst the Coca-Cola Company, was
humiliated by having to acknowledge*
that he could not qualify as an expert.
The court decided in favor of the Coca
tola Company as it was clearly shown
that the only essential difference be
tween Coca-Cola and coffee or tea is
that the former contains only about
half as much caffeine as the latter and.
that the flavor is different.
The question as to whether it Is right
to advertise Coca-Cola seems to resolve
itself therefore into the question as to
whether it is right to ad ertise coffee,
tea, chocolate, cocoa aud other bever
ages of the caffeine group.—Adv.
Oddest of Jails.
One of the oddest of jails is that at
Ciiffton, Graham county, Ariz., which
lies in one of the copper mining cen
ter= of the new state. This jail com
prises four large apartments hewn in
the side of a hill of solid quartz rock.
The entrance is situated in a boxlike
vestibule built of heavy masonry and
the gates have three sets of steel bars
At intervals in the rocky walls holes
to serve as windows have been blast
ed and in these apertures a series of
massive bars of steel has been fitted
firmly in the rock. The floor of this
rockbound jail is of cement. The
prisoners are confined wholly in the
larger apartments. - In certain places
the wah of quartz about the jail Is no
less than fifteeen feet in thickness. So
solid and heavy are the barriers to
this institution that no prisoner has
ever attempted escape. Harper's
Weekly.
No. SIXrSiXTY-SIX
This is a prescription prepared es
pecially for Malaria or Chills and
Fever. Five or six doses will break
any case, and if taken then as a tonic
the fever will not return. 25c. —Adv.
The people who complain that life
isn't worth living are the very ones
who do nothing to make it so.
DOES YOUR HEAD ACHE!
Try H!clc«* CAPUDINB. It’* liquid pleas
ant to take—effect* immediate —good to prevent.
Hick Headaches and Nervou* Headaches also.
Your money back if not satisfied. 10c., Hoc. and
bOc. at medicine stores. Adv.
Don’t poke fun at a girl. The first
thing you know she will get even by
marrying you.
The Best Hot B eat her Tonic
GROVE S TASTELESS chill TONIC enrfohog
the blood and builds up the whole system,
and It will wonderfully strengthen and for
tify you to withstand the depressing effect
of the hot summer. 50c. •
Some fellows would rather borrow
an umbrella than lay one by for a.
rainy day.
To Cure Tender and Receding Gums
Applv the wonderful, old reliable DR. POR
TER'S ANTISEPTIC HEALING OIL. 25c,
50c, SI.OO.
Virtue is Its own reward, but even
an angel may blow his own horn.
Feed the average woman on flattery
and she will get positively fat.
When a man gets full he is apt to
use a lot of empty words.
AILING WOMEN
OF HLE AGE
Mrs. Hilbert Tells of Her Dis
tressing Symptoms During
Change of Life and How
She Found Relief.
Fleetwood. Pa.—“Duringthe Change
of Life I was hardly able to be around
- at a!L I always had
a headache and I'
•• H was so dizzy and ner
f **” jn> : 4 v °us that I had no
• ‘ KJgjj rest at night. The
jljjf wT. f flashes of heat were
m so bad sometimes
] that I did not know
/v'* “One day a friend
me to taka
Lydia E. Pinkham’s
- _ - I Vegetable Com
pound and it made me a strong well wo
man. lam very thankful that I fol
lowed my friend’s advice and I shall
recommend it as long as I live. Before
I took the Compound I was always
sickly and now I have not had medicine
from a doctor for years. You may pub
lish my letter.”—Mrs. Edward B. Hil
bert, Fleetwood, Pa.
Such-warning symptoms as sense of
suffocation, hot flashes, headaches, back
aches, dread of impending evil, timidity,
sounds in the ears, palpitation of the
heart, sparks before the eyes, irregu
larities, constipation, variable appetite,
weakness and inquietude, and dizziness,
are promptly heeded by intelligent wo
men who are approaching the period in
life when woman’s great change may
be expected.
Ly.’ie E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Com
pound invigorates and strengthens the
female organism and builds up the weak
ened nervous system. It has carried,
many women safely through this crisis.