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THE CARROLL FREE PRESS, CARROLLTON, QA.
‘OYAHA’
Straw
Exclusively Knox
Exclusively Ours
Exclusively Yours
You’ll not meet yourself at
every turn in this new Oyatua
yateh,
Other stores mav have it
nextj|season, but Knox will
have a new one theu. '^
Next season any store is
welcome to our this season—
Kuox always gets
thing new.
TRAPPED THE TRAITOR.
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Knox Straws $4, $5
Other Straws $1, $3y
Carroll County Sunday School
Association
The thirty-sixth Annual Conven
tion of the Carroll County Sunday
School Association will be held, the
Lord willing, at the Methodist
Church Bowdon, Ga., on the fifth
Sabbath and Saturday before in
July, 1911.
Be sure to arrange to have your
Sunday School fullp represented at
this Convention. We hope and ex
pect to have the most pleasant and
profitable Convention in the history
Of our Association, The program
is being prepared and will published
later on.
Let us begin to pray, plan and
work for the success of this meeting,
in order that the Sunday School
cause may be revived and improved
throughout our entire connty.
We remain, your fellow- workers
in this cause,
Thomas W. Dimmock, President,
V. D, Whatley, Secretary
John T. Hixon, Ch. Ex. Committee.
Carrollton, Ga. June 1911.
Wathingten’s Clever Way of Meeting
a Case of Treachery.
Among the many anecdotes told
of Washington is one of how he
escaped capture at the hands of a
treacherous host, whom lie after
ward pardoned at the earnest plead
ing of the culprit’s family.
The American army was en
camped near West Point, when one
day their commander was invited
to visit a nearby mansion and dine
with an old gentleman at precisely
2 o’clock. Having been accustomed
to visit the family, he at first trust
ed this old man, but whispers got
about questioning his fidelity to the
patriot cause, which at last Wash
ington resolved to put to a test.
The host had been insistent as to
the hour for dinner and intimated
that a guard would not be necessary.
This somewhat aroused Washing
ton’s suspicion, so he decided to ar
rive at least an hour earlier than
the appointed time. The host sug
gested a walk on the piazza and by
his nervousness soon made it evi
dent to his guest that something
was wrong. Washington brought
CASTE IN INDIA.
the conversation around to the sub
ject of traitors, and he wondered at
the lack of principle that would
cause native born Americans to join
(lie enemy for a little glittering
gold. His fixed look as he made
these remarks made the traitor
quail, but now the sound of horses’
hoofs was hoard, and up rode a
company of dragoons in scarlet
coats.
‘‘What cavalry are these?” ex
claimed Washington. “What does
this mean?”
“A party of British light lrorse
sent for my protection,” answered
his host.
“British horse—to protect you
while I am your guest. What does
this mean, sir?”
The troops, now dismounting,
came toward the piazza, and the old
man, getting close to his guest, said,
“General, you are my prisoner.”
“I believe not,” said Washington.
“But, sir, 1 know that you are
mine! Arrest this traitor, officer!”
Not knowing what to make of 1
this turn of affairs, the hypocrite i
looked from Washington to the
troopers and then saw that they
were American cavalrymen whom
Washington had disguised in Brit
ish uniforms and who arrived
promptly at 1:45 in order to pro
tect their general and aid him to
test the truth or falseness of his
host.
Being conducted, a prisoner, to
the camp, the false friend after
ward confessed that he had been
bribed to deliver Washington to a
squadron of the enemy at 2 o’clock
on the day when the American com
mander was his visitor.—II. A. Og
den in St. Nicholas.
A Social Pall That Is an Impossible
Barrier to Progress.
First of all caste is a question of
birth, and there is no entry except
by birth. A worker in a coal mine
maj' become a part owner thereof,
and his daughter may marry a peer
and his grandson become a peer in
England. I can personally intro
duce the reader to dozens of still
uneducated clerks, stenographers,
mill hands, newsboys, and their
wives, widows, sisters and daugh
ters, whose millions seat them at
the dinner tables of the Brahman
class in America. But no millions
will enable the low caste Hindu to
marry into a Brahman family or
even to touch the hand or throw his
shadow on the food of a Brahman
in India.
If a man is excommunicated by
his caste fellows in India no one of
the caste will eat with him, accept
water from his hands or marry him.
Ilis own wife will not touch him or
speak with him. He is dead to his
family. The barber even will not
shave him or cut his hay 1 or his toe
nails. i
There is no legislation, no police,
no trial in the courts, no adjust
ment of land revenue or land ten
ure, no meeting of municipal or
district councils, no appointment to
office, small or great; no handling
of any community in t ime of plague
or famine, no hygienic precautions
or sanitary arrangements, into
which does not enter this question
of caste to complicate, to make dif
ficult and perhaps to foil, the most
reasonable and necessary work of
the administrator. A Brahman
clerk lias been known to distribute
legal documents by throwing them
down at the end of the village
street in which live his low caste
brethren. Letter carriers have
been known to refuse to enter the
houses of or to permit themselves
to come into personal contact with
those of lower status than them
selves.
If one could picture to oneself
social snobbery lifted into a fanat
ical religious faith it would be a
pale description of the iron subdi
visions of caste in India, but even
then simple as compared with the
meticulous intricacies of this social
pall. Hero is no patriotism and can
bo none in a country thus divided
against itself.—Price Collier in
Scribner’s.
GET IRGELA-UrZ - FOR THE
4 th of July
A
DAY OF RECREATION FOR ALL
Hear TOM HEFLIN, the noted orator from Ala
bama, on ‘‘American Citizenship.” He is one of the
South’s greatest orators Every man, woman and child
that can ride or walk should hear him.
HORSE RACING and BICYCLE RACING
THE FEATURE OF THE AFTERNOON.
heat More Extreme in North
Than South
We know you are bothered with
•flies, and consider a mighty good
Remedy for same, the purchase of
B5me of the Screen Doors and Win
dows, we have for sale. Of course
we deliver, Harris Hardware
Co. phone 28.
Lost Dog
About two weeks ago one of my
dogs strayed from my residence on
West Avenue, and I will pay a re
ward for his recovery. He is about
two years old, black and tan and has
a white streak under his neck and
breast. Finder notify
Paul F. Brown at the Free Press.
Instinct Stronger Than Will.
A curious story is told of Dar
win and snakes, lie used to go into
tlio London Zoological society’s gar
dens, Regent’s park, and, standing
by the glass case containing the
cobra do capello, put his forehead
against the glass while the cobra
struck out at him. The glass was
between them. Darwin’s mind was
perfectly cdnvinced as to the inabil
ity of the snake to harm him, yet he
would always dodge. Time after
time lie tried it, his will and reason
keeping him there, his instinct mak
ing him dodge. The instinct was
stronger than-both, will and reason.
Viait the Chautauqua in Carroll
ton June 11 to 18 gives you food for
thought for years to come— and it
will brush away those cobwebs
from your intellect.
The Hon. Geo. W. Harper said to
a Free Press man: ‘.Some parts of
my anatomy are swollen yet from
the good things heard last year at
the Chantauqua.
Th» Game of Drafts.
The origin of the game of drafts
is unknown. Paul de Mallet in his
treatise on drafts, written about
1G68, shows quite clearly that the
game, or its equivalent at least, is
depicted ou the Egyptian monu
ments. The game was certainly
known among the Greeks and Ro
mans of the earlier times, and
traces of drafts have unmistakably
been discovered in the writings of
other peoples of antiquity. The
game saw a great revival in Europe
during the sixteenth century.
.Escaped His Notice.
In the early days of the Hayes ad
ministration, when Mr. Evarts was
secretary of state, the members of
t he cabinet were discussing matters
in an informal way one morning
wlieil the president mentioned that
lie had made a few appointments
without consulting his official fam
ily, the appointees being personal
friends. All the places filled hap
pened to fall within the state de
partment. Secretary Evarts turned
to John Sherman and said, with a
twinkle in his eye, “I have often
heard and read about the western
reserve of Ohio, hut I must confess
that I have never seen any of it.”
KNACK
GET THE
of dusting for chicken lice—same a9
Millie has it. Notice she’s got a pack
age of Conkey’s Lice Powder? We'll sell
the same tc you on
guarantee.
You never used a bet
ter. Conkey’s Lice
Powder kills body lice,
not merely scaring,
chasing or stunning.
Itching, scratching,
lousy hens can’t make
twofit for you. Get a
25c pkg. (15 oz.) or a
GOcpkg. (48 oz.) Your
hens will pay for it.
We sell on guarantee-
money back if your fowls aren’t rid of
body lice after you try the Conkey way.
Precocious.
Harry was three years old and
very “old fashioned.” He was out
to tea for the first time and some
one said:
“Isn’t he like his father?”
“Yes,” said Harry seriously, “but
I’m more like mother in one
thing.”
“What is that, dear?”
“Why, mother and I don’t believe
in whipping children, hut father
does.”—Exchange.
A Common Color.
The elder Dumas once was wear
ing the ribbon of a certain order,
having recently been made a com
mandant, and an envious friend re
marked upon it. “My dear fellow,”
he said, “that cordon is a wretched
color! One would think it was your
woolen vest that was showing!”
“Oh, no, my dear D’E.,” replied
Duinas with a smile. “You’re mis
taken. It’s no.t a had color; it is ex
actly the shade of the sour grapes
in the fable.”
Public Offices For Sale.
In England in the time of George
II. if you wanted a place under the
government you could buy one.
The sum of £500 would get you a
comfortable berth in the victualing
office, for instance, where the per
quisites, pickings and bribes for
contracts made the service worth
having. Members of parliament,
who had the privilege of franking
letters, sometimes sold the right for
£300 a year.—London Telegraph.
There has always existed a com
mon but fallacious belief that the
South in summer is the hottest sec
tion of the country, and this not
withstanding the frequent epidemics
of sunstrokes, heat prostrations and
such like, reported at the North,
while such tilings are seldom heard
of in the South.
In an editorial in the Manufac-
turers’RecordEditor Edmonds makes
a study of the weather conditions
North and South and, in fact, all
over the country incidental to the
heat wave of the present week and
gives the verdict in favor of the
South as against both theNorth and
West. The weather bureau’s ther
mometer registered at Lewiston,
Maine, on Monday of this week 101
degrees, while the |maximum tein-
peratuie at Tampa, Florida,on the
same day was 82 degrees, a differ
ence of twenty-nine degrees in favor
of Tampa.
“Although the warm season is
longer in extreme South" Editor Ed
monds says, “than in the localities
further North that are annually af
flicted with the torrid conditions
such as recorded in the Northern
and Western sections of the country
during the past week, no such suf
fering has been endured by the in
habitants of the more fortunate
South where the temperatures are
more equable, and where a sea
breeze or a land breeze is generally
in evidence. Comparative tempa-
tures for the 18th and 12d instants,
the first day of this "hot spell” and
the last day available, further em
phasizes this fact as between the
Southern cities and the Northern and
Western cities noted”
The writer gives a tabulation in
which it is shown that while Tampa
had a natimum tempsrature Mty
lo of 82 uegrees, Philadelphia show
ed 90 degrees, Albany, N. Y., 86
degrees and Chicago 92 degrees.
On May 22d while the North and
West were sweltering in the intense
heat which carried the mercury
from 88 at Cleveland, 92 at Boston,
and 96 at Albany, up to 101 at
Lewiston, Maine, Tampa was enjoy
ing the delightful temperature of 82
at the maximum for the day .Charles
ton 78, Savannah 80, Jacksonville
92, and Macon 83.
The writer says that he “has spent
several seasons both summer and
winter in various cities of the South
ern States of the Atlantic and Gulf
coasts and has never experienced
any such temperatures there as are
at this moment being experienced
in these more Northern cities. Cool
ing breezes sweep over the land
from the Gulf or ocean, and in the
case of Florida, from both. More
over, cool nights can nearly always
be depended on, But the 96 de
grees and the 101 degree tempera
tures are only read about in the news
dispatches from the more Northern
cities. The fact that it is cooler in
the summer and warmer 'in winter
in the southern than in the northern
and western section of the country
may well be taken in consideration
by homeseekers and prospective set
tlers in that favored land.”
In conclusion the editor says that
“if you want to find the best climate
in America, winter and summer, go
South.”—Macon News.
get immediate relief fror
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fir. Siioop’s Ma£ie Oil
A Question of Precedence.
The nobleman, according to the
London Mail, was profoundly dis
pleased with a farmer whom he
thought wanting in proper respect.
“Are you aware,” he demanded
irately, “that my ancestors came
over with the Conqueror?”
“If they did,” the farmer calmly
replied, “I reckon they found mine
here when they corned.”
Plants That Hate Each Other.
Fancy two plants being so un
friendly that the mere neighbor
hood of one is death to the other!
Yet that is the ease with two well
known British plants. These are
the thistle and the rape. If the
field is infested with thistles, which
come up year after year and ruin
the crops, all you have to do is to
sow it with rape. The thistle will he
absolutely annihilated. — London
Standard.
LIGHTandGOOK
WITH
GAS
The Most Economical
in the world.
For Particulars See
IV. S. CAMPBELL
MODERN
Sanitary Plumbing
CARROLLTON.
GEORGIA
Nothing Omitted.
“Waiter,” called a diner at a local
club, “come here at once. Here’s a
hook and eye in tins salad!”
“Yesseh, ycsseli,” said the waiter,
grinning broadly. “Dat’s a palit of
do dressin’, sell!”—Cleveland Plain
Dealer.
The Chau auqua reading room
free to all- a place to write, a place
to rest, ice water and plenty of
reading matter. Everybody that
has magazines that should be passed
on wifi help some one by putting
them in the Chautauqua rest room,
Mr. Chas. W. Carlton, of Anniston
will visit our Chautauqua. He at-,
tended the one last year and says
Carrollton is one of the most pro-
grt ssive towns when it comes to good
atmosphere he ever saw.
W. W. Heckle of Atlanta, writes:
“I am coming to your Chautauqua
--save me a ticket-- Carrollton is a
town you can’t help but like, and be
sides your Chautauqua, I like the
way the people smile.
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