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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