Newspaper Page Text
A splendid assortment of newest and tastiest type
styles and highest grade papers have just been in
stalled in our Jch Department.
Good Printing costs but little
poor work, and is much more
Let us figure with you on anything in the PRINT
ING line. We’ll do our level best to please you.
PHONE 141.
CAIRO, GA.
ing machines and other implements
were brought along. Every farmer
brought his team with him. Su
perintendents and overseers had
been appointed previously and the
work went on without a hitch. Af
ter just one hour’s work the job
was finished and the farmers went
back to their fields, leaving Iowa
the possessor of the finest piece of
long distance roadway in the west.
38 acres of land in less than one mile of Cairo.
20 acres of this covered with thick virgin pine
timber. Good part of balance cleared. Very de
sirable place for anyone wanting a small place
near town. For particulars, address
W. H. VANLANDINGHAM, Donalsonville, Ga.
That's what the best «d- 7
vertisers say of this paper.
WHY NOT MAKE IT SING A
SONG OP SIXPENCE OR
MORE FOR. YOU?
DO YOU WANT A
Talking Machine Free?
I have a proposition whereby any one can
put a $25.00 Graphaphone in his home, AB*
SOLUTELY FREE. All you have to do to get
this $25.00 Talking Machine Absolutely Free,
is to trade with me for a sum of $75 from now
until January 1, 1911. The smallest purchase
counts as well as the largest, and you buy
my goods at tae same prices and the lowest.'
I HAVE JUST RECEIVED
A MOST DESIRABLE STOCK OF
Dry Goods, Clothing, Shoes, Hats and Caps.
Also Ladies’ and Gent’s Furnishings and Ladies’ Ready-to-Wear Hats at the cheapest
prices. I am taking this method of inducing my patrons to come and look at my goods and bar
gains. THE GRAPHAPHONES are open for inspection. YOU ARE CORDIALLY
INVITED TO COME AND LISTEN TO THEM.
Yours truly,
ABE POLLER.
H=B==“'
Notice to Farmers.
We will have our two new English Gins for Long Cct :on in op
eration at Dyson’s Ginnery in Cairo for this season in two wesks.
We will pay
Special Attention to the Ginning
of your long cotton. Will also have Bagging and Twine.
COPPAGE & CARR.
For Job Printing see
BATTLE OF CLERICS
OVER A COMA
Curious Controversy That Thret-
ens to Disrupt the Church ol
England.
A curious controversy rages among
English churchmen, and so hitter
lias it become that statesmen have
been drawn into it, and it threat
ens to provoke a debate upon the
floor of the House of Commons,
says the Baltimore Sun. It has to
do not with the coronation oath nor
with any other important matter of
faith and creed, hut with the punc
tuation of the Lord’s Prayer.
.Should there lie a comma in the
sentence beginning, "Thy will be
done,” and, if so, where should it
go? In other words, which of the
following forms is correct?'
Thy will be done in earth as it is in
in heaven.
Or—
’Thy will he done, in eartli as it fs in
heaven.
Or—
Thy will be done in earth, as it is in
heaven.
To understand the controversy it
must be remembered that in Eng
land. the privilege of printing the
Bilile and fhe Book of Common
Prayer is a monopoly conferred by
undent statute upon the King’s
printer and the Oxford and Cam
bridge University Presses. In this
country any printer is free to
publish an editition of the Bible
jind to make any changes in the
text that he desires to make, but
not so among the English. A Lon
don Guttenberg who sought to in
vade the monopoly of the three
presses mentioned would see his Bi
bles seized and destroyed by the
police, and, in addition, he would
probably get six months in iail for
his pains. The idea is that the
monopoly safeguards the purity of
the sacred text.
Not long ago some one discovered,
in an English library, a manuscript
paayer book bearing date of 1662,
and soon afterward representatives
of the three presses met to examine
.this manuscript and to compare it
with the prayer book of \ today for
.the purpose of rectifying any errors
•or corruptions that the latter might
jeyeal. This work accomplished, a
iiew edition of the prayer book was
issued, and at once a number of
argus-eyed readers discovered that
a comma appeared, for the fust
time, in the passage mentioned
above. In previous editions there
has been no comma at all in the
sentence, but now there was one
after the word “done.”
Thus the row begun, with a loud
protest from Dr. H. C. Beeching, a
cannon of Westminster Abbey. Dr.
Beeching, protested that the comma
destroyed the traditional ryhtm of
the sentence and thus outraged ev
ery English Christia. Going fur
ther, he showed tfiat there was no
justification for it in the seventeenth
century manuscript that the repre
sentatives of the three presses ha .I
examined, for in Hint manuscript,
though a comma actually appeared
in the sentence, it was not after
“done,” but after “earth.” A
flood of letters denouncing and de
nouncing and defeiiding the invad
ing comma then began to appear in
the newspapers, and one Lord Hugh
Cecii, that tower of orthodoxy,
arose in the House of Commons and
demanded that Winston Churchill,
who, as Home Secretary, is the of
ficially the secular head of the An-
gelican Church, the sacrilege. Mr.
Churcuill gingerly sidestepped—and
so the controversy continues, wi:h
a great emission oj abuse and many
letters in the newspapers. The
foes of the comma threaten to take
the matter to the courts, and even
talk of beseiging Parliament with a
monster petition for redress, signed
by millions of the orthodox. And
meanwhile the friends of the com
ma defend it, alleging that it im
proves not only the rhythm, but
also the sense of the disputed pas
sage.
HOW THEY BUILD A
FINE ROAD IN IOWA
A good piece of road building was
completed in Iowa one day recently
when in the short space of one sin
gle hour a line of rond 380 miles in
length and stretching entirely across
the state of Iowa was put in the
most perfect condition of any road
west of the Mississippi river.
Weeks and months were spent in
properation for the work, but not a
pick or shovel was used until the
designated second was ticked off.
Then as if by magic 10,000 work
men swarmed out onto the roadway
and when they ceased work 60 min
utes later Iowa had one of the finest
long distance roads in the entire
west. And not the least interesting
thing in connection with the tre
mendous piece of work is the fact
that not a jnan of the entire 10,000
engaged on the work received one
cent of wages. Good will and pa
triotism alone is responsible for the
splendid showing.
Last winter the Iowa roads be
came so fearfully bad that traffic
was practically killed and farmers
were compelled simply to remain in
their homes. Finally the matter
became a political question and
both parties got behind the move
ment. Governor Carroll called a
good roads meeting at Des Moines
early last March and out of this
meeting was evolved the plan of a
river to river road stretching from
Council Bluffs on the Missouri riv
er to Davenport on the Mississippi,
a distance of 380 .miles straight
across the state from east to west.
“Make the river to river road as
near perfect as is possible to make
just common dirt,” was the sense
of the good roads convention.
Instead of appointing new com
mittees to handle the work the reg
ular republican and democratic
committees in each county through
which the road would pass were ap
pealed to. The chairman of the
committees of each party were ask
ed to get in the game and work, for
the road. Everybody agreed to do
so, and soon a rivalry was created
between republicans and democrats,
each to see which party would have
the most workmen on the job when
the time for work arrived.
When the appointed day arrived
the fanners were out in force. Hun
dreds and thousands of plows, picks,
shovels, scrapes, road drags, grad-
IT’S A BIRD