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VOLUME SIX Southern Railway Solicits Imigration Washington, I>. C. Septemlier 3, —An office of the land and Indus- j trial department of the Southern Railwnv ', Mobile and Ohio Rail road and Georgia Southern and, Florida Railway was estahli ~ d at! I tenver, t'olo., September Ist. with I v ‘ i 11. R. Buckey in charge with tie title of Traveling Agent. The open-i ing of the Denver office will extend the work of Southern Railway and affiliated lines in the solicitation of imigration and industries farther into the W estern State's and should prove of value to the entire South eastern States. Mr. Buekey is an experienced man, having assisted j in the preparation of exhibits of j the Southern products made by the Southern and affiliated lines at fairs in the North and West and is thoroughly conversant with condi tions in the Southeast and with the many attractions which this section offers to the homeseeker. Negro Commits Suicide 111 Health Causes Dave Williams To Shoot Himself. Dave Williams, a young negro about twenty-five years old, who Jived on C. B. and A. L. Adams’ farm on the east side of the river, e mmitted suicide last Wednesday by shooting himself through the head with a pistol. He had several days ago attempted to end his earthly existence by jumping in the Ocmulgee river and drowning and doubtless would have succeeded had it not been for some parties who happened to come along. Williams was a victim of tuber culosis and other troubles and des pondency over his condition is said to have been the cause of his act. — llawkinsville Dispatch & News. J. J. May Burned. Saturday at noon a gasoline iron which a negro employee of the City Pressing Club left burning while out at ainner, set fire to some doth on which it was resting. Messrs. Geeen Purser and J. J. May enter ed the building just as the iron ex ploded. Mr. Pu.ser’s h«.ir was slightly singed while Mr. May was badly burned about the face and hands. After the accident Mr. May’s wounds were dressed by Dr, Kelly who stated that the wounds, though painful, were not necessarily serious. That they were not serious ly burned was due to the fact that there was only a small amount of gasoline in the iron. 1 ®f )t Codfim Journal. COCHRAN, BLECKLEY COUNTY GEORGIA. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1913 INVITATION Please call and get that piece of Furniture you have been talking about all the year. You can find, the best Solid Oak Beds, Dressers add Wash Stands, also Art Squares, runks, Suit Cases, Go-Carts, Graphcpliones, Organs, Pianos, and many other nice things for home. Beware of Rome; History Repeats Itself We reproduce in another column of the Journal i n article headed “parental responsibility.’’ It is well that thoughtful men and wom en, who have the welfare of their children at heart to take notice. ■ It is a well known fact that for some reason or other the average man does not hold our women in as high esteem as formerly. We cannot say that womanstandard lias been elevated, although education is more universal and civilization is progressing at rapid paces. A wo man is arrested in a Sot.them City, j and subjected to a heavy line for j what the recorder termed her ap- j pea ranee on the public streets of the City in indecent apparel. Another I City ollieer of a Southern City calls on the ministers and good people of Ins City to aid him in keeping winnen of so called good families, oIT the street attired in improper clothing, stating if they would hack him up in this, he would see that the other class stayed off, while another Mayor discharged a woman who came up before him charged with a like offense, stating that the attiie was very becoming and that he rather liked it. Our women want to vote. They want to occupy the same positions as men in every avenue of life, so duly, commercially and p< • Jit i cully. While some of them are in strenous and militant pursuit of “their rights’’ they leave trie child -eti at home to take care of them selves or in charge of some irre sponsib'e cook or nurse, while they are out parading around attending suffnrage The other day j in a distant city, a man came home for his supper after a hard days work and found the children cry ing for supper and to he put to bed. He went out to search for his wife and found her on a street corner mounted on a dry goods box mak ing a speech in behalf of the vote foi women. That man “butted” into that meeting, and reminded his wife of conditions at home and liked to have been mobbed. The other day the Prime Minister of England was attacked by two husky suffragettes, while he was on the golf links. He jvas thrown to the ground and bruised up before he could be rescued by his stalwart daughter and a few other nearby friends. What kind of business is all of this anyway? Does it have any connection with the fact that there seems to he a tendency to wards the lowering of the high moral standard that our grand j southern women have always held | aloft? A standard that has always! been the inspiration of our chival- ) rou? men and the lied rock of our j southern ideals and civilization, j Rise up noble men and women* of ‘ Mr. J. P. Peacock Entertains Ball Club Mr. J. P. •'Peacock was host at a barbecue Friday night in compli ment to the base bull team and a few friends. The 1 cue” was pro nounced by all of the guests as the “best ever”. Besides the barbecue the spread was composed tf all the delicacies of the season. After the feast, Rev. Walker in well chosen words presented Mr. Clifford Lestei with checks from the ba-v hall team and admiring friends, (\\ . <>. Peacock, 11. 11. Patrick, \\ . 11. and J. I’. Peacock and P. C. Walker.) The affair formally closed the season of l'.M:> which proved to lie a very successful one under the supW vision*,f Mr. .1. P. Peacock assisted h.v Messrs. I . 11. Patrick and II C. Duggan. Mr. Peacock's guests included Messrs. W. < ). Peacock, W. H. Pea cork, I 11. Patrick, J. Walker K.C. Elder, Rev. P. Walker. Dr. Kelly, .1. (). .McCrary, W S. llugg, Joe Tavlor, Barney Hendricks, Jimmie Walker, Lewis Peacock. T. 11. IF eves, Clifford Lester, Fain Lester, Thus Hall, Harvey Asbell, 11. C. Duggan, Jim Cook, Guy Jackson, Walter Ard and Allie Taylor. our beloved South and kill this awful monster before he dutches the throats of our fair women and • Irags their unpointed standard down into the mire. Beware of Rome! Do not give history a chance to repeat itself. Rub er Goods! YES—Quality Rubber Goods YES—Complete Stock YES—We guarantee each piece. OUR PRICES \ x are rite, range from $ 1.00 to $4.00 on Fountain Syringes and Water Bottles. If it’s made of Rubber you’ll find it at Walter s Pharmacy The Rexall & Nyal Store Phone No. 9 Cochran, Ca. Jackson Furniture Company Ihree Marriages In One Day Cupid played an important role in and near Cochran last Sunday. Quite a romantic double marriage oceurcd at Greens Park in Cochran last Sunday morning, our popular minister Rev. P. C. Walker, tying the nuptial knots. The principals were Miss Ollic Poole and Mr, Austin Funderburk, Miss May Ingram and Mr, Charles (I nnislcy. Miss Poole is the daughter of our fellow citizen, Mr. W iley F. Poole, and sister to (lus and Chester Poole. She is an csteemable young lady and Mr. Funderburk did well to win her. Mr. Funderburk is an employee at flic (lotion mills, and is a good, ipiict, hard working young man. .Miss Ingram is quite a young girl having been a pupil in the Cochran lligh School last term. She is an amiable girl and has many friends in the younger set. She is only about lifted) or sixteen years old. Mr. Grimsley is also a cotton mill operative, is attentive to business and is sober and iodus t lions. Miss Ruth Scarbrough was mar ried to Mr. Walter Norris at Trail Branch church near Cochran last Sunday, an account of which is given in another column of the Journal. The Journal joins with their friends in wishing all of these brides and grooms much happiness and success. Cochran Public School Opened. Cochran Public school opened Monday morning with very encour aging prospects. The enrollment was larga and is now nearing the two hundred mark. Dr. Hall spoke for a few minutes of the very great School advantages that w r e enjoy, and the improve ments wc need in laboratory equip ment for the seientilic courses. We would emphasize this need since we must do some, of this work to make our place in the first group of accredited sell iols. The Methodist minister, Rev. Lester, spoke at length, and with eloquence of the wonderful resour ces of our Southland and their di rect relation to education. lie was enthusiastic over the subject of his own choosing and inside an in spiring speech. Dr. Walker spoke next ernpha sizing the duty of the parents in cooperating with the teacher in school work and of the wonderful advantages afforded the boys and girls of today. I)r. Walker sees the boys and girls of Cochran the future men and women of the com munity and with just pride points to the beauty and manliness <>t these girls and hoys. His speech was well chosen. Mr. Mullispnir Honorable Mayor, spoke next, He is for Cochran lirst, last and all the time, and an ardent supporter of everything that makes for progress in every line. He is certainly the schoolman’s friend and everything that furthers educational interests. He grew reminiscent in his speech, and spoke of his own school days, when lie seemed to have learned well. Un lesson of obedience. The advice he gave to the pupils is good, vejy good; “Whitever you are told to do, do it.” Professor Trammel,our new prin cipal, expressed his appreciation of the cordial welcome Cochran gave the teachers, and tlien Professor Monts covered the whole situation with a well chosen talk. He con gratulated Cochran on her evidence of interest in matters educational, the splendid, well equipped build ing, the co-operation the whole town seems to accord the Superin tendent and the fine showing made at opening. He made mention of three things necessary for a success ful school; the child, ttie teacher and the parent. These were all in evidence and he looks forward to a successful year. Let us make our school the pride of our town. There are two hun dred and seventy five children of school age in the incorporate limits of the city and ample room in our school building to accomodate them all. Why are they not there? We would urge every parent who is not a patron of the school to become one at once and give his child its chance in life. Why Such Interest In Murder Cases? Dorothy Dix in Ilearst’s Sunday American gives a very plausible ex planation as to why the public takes such intense and you might say morbid interest in such cases as the Thaw murder case About this particular ease she says, “No other case in the whole history of the world has been written about, so much read about, and so much dis cussed as the Thaw case.” If all that has been printed about it were spread out upon the earth, it would blanket the United States Irom Canada to the Gulf, and from the Atlantic to the Pacific ocean. Now what causes this? Is it because the people generally like to read about murder and bloodshed. Not altogether. As a rule people like excitement. They like some thing out of the ordinary. They like mystery. This underlying interest in the Tha\v case is easily explained in many ways. For one thing, “it was a great human draiha that swept every chord of emotion.” It had in it love, jealuosy and bitter hate and revenge, every passion that sways the heart. Moreover, it went hack to the very foundation stone of romance, and told the tale in real life, that has been the basic idoi of every novel from Pam ela down to William Dean Howells, “and then” the tale had a back ground. “'l’lie Thaw millions gave a sort of aureate hack ground to the story. We like to hear of the doings of the rich and great and we like to read of millionaires’ affairs just as we prefer to persue novels in which the characters are (takes and duchesses rather than scrubwomen and longshoremen.” And so it goes. There was a mystery surrounding the Phagan case. A little factory girl, poor, hut beautiful had been murdered and perhaps outraged in defense of her -virtue. The supposed perpe trator was an intellegent and influ ential factory superintendent, her employee, in charge of the factory within whose dark and somber walls tne dastardly deed was committed. Innocence had been outraged,virtue trampled upon and murder com mitted. Every chord that arouses the indignation and resentment of an outraged public had been touched upon and the people arose as one man to catch and punish tne mur derer. You may talk about your laws and civilization, but whenever a man, white or black, puts their unholy hands on our white girls or women, to defile their purity, every impulse of the heart cries out for revenge and as much as mob laws are to he deplored it seems that in this day and time no moral suasion is effective and no iron doors are strong enough to keep back the seemingly irresistible tide of mob force when stirred to revenge, NUMBER 4