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IN THE WORLD OF
SPORT .
Packy McFarland,Who Claims
Lightweight Title.
Now that Ad Wolgast has refused
to meet him Packy McFarland is
claiming the title. Packy said re'
Busybodies.
„ tw _ "I never siuv such a rubberneck.”
cently that he considered himself -the}' 5®" n S® r ®^ ;Mp8 ' •Gabble. ’Must because
mmOROUS QWPS
Conservation.
While we’re conserving coal and tree*
And waterfalls and things like these
I trust that congress will observe
Some other things wo might conserve—
Conserve the bliss of those that wed;
Conserve the hair upon my head;
Conserve the spinster’s fading face;
Conserve the kitten’s sprightly grace;
1 Conserve bur stomachs, now the prey
J Of some new diet fad each day;
Conserve our lassies and our lads
Fyom these new education fads;
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Conserve the faith In Santa Claus
Conserve this reveronce for laws;
Conserve the freshness of our youth,
Its faith In man. Its iove of truth;
Conservo the money spent on style,
The optimist’s confiding smile,
The paragrapher’s stock of Jokes,
The patience of a lot of folks!
And while this conservation tit
Is on some statesmen might admit
The suitability of shelves
And prudently conserve—themselves!
—Amos R. Wells In Puck,
A Moving Sermon.
“1 once bad n parishioner who was
a miser.” Hold an English clergyman.
“For this man’s benefit I preached one
Sunday a strong sermon on the neces
sity of charity, of phllanthropy-n ser
mon on the duty and joy of giving.
The miser, at whom I gazed often,
seemed Impressed. Next day I met
him on the street. ’Well. John/ I said,
’what did you think of yesterday’s ser
mon?’ ‘It moved me deeply, sir/ he
answered. ‘It brought home to me so
strongly the necessity of giving alms
that, honestly, sir. I’ve a great mind
to turn beggar/ ”—Dallas Herald.
only real, slmon pure champion light- [ doctor stopped at our house yes-
iweight boxer of the world and de
clared that any desiring to contest his
claim may apply In person at their
peril.
The only reason thnt his champion-
terday she wanted to know what the
matter was.”
“Yes,” replied Mrs. Nnybor. “I won
der how she’d like the rest of us to be
that eurlous about her. You know
ship claim Is not recognized, says Me- \doctor,- stopped at her house today
Farland. is a little matter of a couple i loo?"
of pounds In weight. His statement
goes Into details on this proposition
of weight.
"The weight question.” ho says,
“seems to he the bone of contention
with champions who wish to sidestep,
a challenge. The lightweight limit In
this country Is 133 pounds. Under my ;
agreement with Moran I made 135/
pounds without difficulty, and I am
now confident that I can fight at the
333 pound limit. Whnt is more, I am
'drilling to do so. I never have been
beaten, and I think this record counts
for something in support of my claim
that I am the legitimate champion.”
| Catcher Alnsmith’s Large Hands.
I Eddie Alnsmitb, the Washington
American young catcher who Is at
tracting so much attention by his bril
liant work and who bids fair to be the
sensation of the American league this
season, carries around with him the
largest pair of hands known to base-,
ball.
So big ore Alnsmlth’s bread hooks
that he cannot buy gloves to fit, and
during the cold days In Cambridge,
Mass., he Is forced to don mittens. •
The digits on Ainsmith’s throwing
bnnd are badly twisted and look like
branches of a gnarled oak, but he Is
not handicapped In the least and
claims that this misshapen bunch of
fives does not bother him in throwing
to bases.
It Is said that Frank Bowerman has
only to hold up both hands and one
may see the complete deaf and dumb
alphabet there. According to the vet
eran, Mike Kahoe, Alnsmlth’s hands
are almost twice the size of v Bower-
man’s, and the scout also declares that
1n two years the former will be the
greatest backstop known to organized
baseball.
“You don’t sny!
the matter there?"-
and Times.
I wonder what’s
-Catholic Standard
'A Guarantee.
“Now, one final point. Mr. Sellers."
said Sttggins. “I like your car, but
suppose It blows up ou me—will you
take it off niy hands?”
“We will If It comes down on your
hands, sir, with pleasure," returned the
affable agent:—Harper’s Weekly.
The Motor Enthusiast.. \
“A fi.itveral is a; most depressing
thing," said the Impressionable man.,
“Yes," replied Mr. Ghuggins. “It
makes me shudder to think thnt one
of these days I will have to travel that
far4n a horse drawn vehicle/’—Wash
ington Star.
Suggestions.
Cats don’t give free concerts. They
charge so much pur.
Suspect a woman with a sense of
humor or a man who weeps.
The funniest thing is a married man
paying money to hear a lecture.—To
ledo Blade.
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Made It Light.
Bacon—You say your wife made the
birthday cake herself?
Egbert—Yes, with her own hands:
"And was it light?"
i“Yes; when it had the candles on It
lighted, it was."—Yonkers Statesman.
I Krause Shows Old Form.
Unless all signs go wrong Connie
Mack has another pitching asset of
rare worth In Harry Krause, who two
years ago Iboked like the best .mounds-
man in the American league. He has
come back this year in the best form
of his life.
Ira Thomas says that Krause was
“too good” last year,' that he could put
a ball In a bat at. thirty feet and that
Is why his offerings were clubbed by
the enemy. This season he has added
a lazy floater, a sharp lnshoot, that
hops and then drops to his catcher;'
end he stood the first team, the world’s
champions, “on their ears" when they
tried to bang It In a practice game.
With Krause going in his old form,-
Wouldn’t Hurt.
The Editor—This obituary is entirely
too flattering for that confirmed old
reprobate.
• Reporter—1 know It. but now that
he’s gone It won’t hurt to give him a
little epltaffy.—Milwaukee Star.
. Language of Flowers.
“That spinster neighbor of yours has
not yet given up all hope.”
“How do you know7”
“Because I saw this morning that in
her ^garden she was sowing bachelor’s
buttons/’—Baltimore American.
: - df Course (tot.
“How ettn you let your Italian teach
er kiss you. Amalie?’
‘‘Well, mamma, you can’t expect me
to know enough Italian after only six
lessons-to forbid him!”—Washington
Times. , , -
Firsts In Japan,
' Cool'and capable in war, the Jap
anese,'despite centuries of famfl-
parity, appear to lose their heads
Bender, Coombs and Morgan peeling.j when fire starts. Confusion reigns
them across the size of a pea. It 14 , supreme. Connected with each fire
atation are large numbers of what
may b$ termed auxiliaries, who
going to be hard to stop Mr. McGlHI-
cuddy from taking another American
league pennant.
I _ I1BW UMINO,
I “What was that tiresome old ex-
jplorer talking about?” inquired the
j languid lady.
. “Progressive Patagonia.”
I “And how do you play it?”—
[Louisville Courier-Journal.
have really nothing to do with the
actual .task of extinguishing the
flames, hut whose duties consist in
appearing on the scene at the earli
est possible moment armed with
lanterns and in thereafter helping
to remove goods and chattels from
the buildings within the danger
jsone.
SOLDIERS OF THE SOUTH.
Character of the Rank and File of tha
Confederate Army.
A glance fit the personnel of the
Confederate army in the years
1861-5 will perhaps be instructive.
In its ranks are serving side by side
the sons of the plain farmer and the
sons of the groat landowners—the
southern aristocrat. Not a few of
the men who are carrying muskets
or serving ns troopers are classical
scholars, the flower of the southern
universities. In an interval of the
'suspension of hostilities ut the bat
tle of Cold Harbor a private soldier
lies on the ground poring over an
Arabic grammar—it is Crawford
H. Toy, who is destined to become
the famous professor of oriental
languages at Harvard university.
In one of the battles in tho val
ley of Virginia a volunteer aid of
General John B. Gordon is severely
wounded—it is Basil L. Gilder-
sleeve, who has left his professor’s
chair at tho University of Virginia
to servo in the field. He still lives,
wearing the laurel of distinction as
the greatest Grecian in the English
speaking world. At the siego of
Fort Donclson in 1862 one of the
heroic captains who yield up their
lives in the trenches is the Rev. Dab
ney 0. Harrison, who raised a com
pany in his own Virginia parish and
entered the army at its head. In
the southwest a lieutenant general
falls in battle—it is General Leoni
das Polk, who laid aside his bish
op’s robes to become a soldier in the
field - , having been educated to arms
at West Point.
It is a striking fact that when
Virginia threw in her lot with her
southern sisters in April, 1861,
practically the whole body of stu
dents at her state university, 515
out of 530 who were registered from
the southern states, enlisted in the
Confederate army. That army thus
represented the whole southern
people. It was a self levy en masse
of the male population in all save
certain mountain regions in Vir
ginia, North Carolina, Tennessee,
Alabama and Georgia.
One gets a possibly new and sur
prising conception of the character
of the rank and file of the southern
army in such incidents as the fol
lowing : Here are mock trials going
on in the moot court of a certain
artillery company, and the discus
sions are pronounced by a compe
tent authority/“brilliant and pow
erful.” Here jfs a group of privates
in a Maryland infantry regiment in
winter quarter huts near Fairfax,
Va., and among the subjects dis
cussed are these: Vattel and Phil-
more on international law; Hum
boldt’s works and travels; the Af
rican explorations of Barth; the in
fluence of climate on the human
features; the culture of cotton; the
laws relating to property. Here
are some Virginia privates in a
howitzer company solemnly officiat
ing at the burial of a tame crow,
and the exercises include an Eng
lish speech, a Latin oration and a
Greek ode!—Randolph H. McKim
in American Review of Reviews.
England’s Union Jack.
The original flag of England was
the banner of St. George (white
with a red cross). This in 1606
was incorporated with the banner
of Scotland (blue with a white diag
onal cross). This combination ob
tained the name of the “union
jack” in allusion to the union with
Scotland. This . arrangement con
tinued till the union with Ireland in
1801, when the banner of St. Pat
rick (white with a diagonal red
cross) was amalgamated with it and
forms the present union flag. It is
generally understood that the word
“jack” is a corruption of James.—
New York American.
Marinas and 8ailora.
Marines are really soldiers serv
ing on shipboard, and not sailors.
They are a part of the armament of
the ship, not a part of its crew.
The marine system began in tho
British navy about the year 1665,
when an order in council authorized
the raising of 1,200 soldiers for sea
service. The system, however, of
having soldiers exclusively for serv
ice at sea was not carried into ef
fect until 1698, when two marine
regiments were formed.
Color Question.
She—I suppose your new baby Is a
delicate pink.
He— \o; she's a robust yeller.—Spo
kane Spokesman-Review.
F. M. BRANNON, Pres. W. s. WIOHT, Vico Pros. Wh. SEARCY, Cashier. 3
CITIZENS BANK. 1
Cairo, - -Georgia. ! 1
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DEPOSITS.
TOTAL RESOURCES.
March 7, 1908 $ 123,000.00
M nrc f> 1909 126,000.00
March 7, 1910 106,000.00
March /, 1911 186,000.00
March 7, BIOS.
March 7. 1900.
March 7, 1910.
March 7, Bill.
$ 168,000.00
170,000.00
213,000.00
201,000,00
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W. T. CRAWPORD, President.
WALTER L. WIGHT, Cashier
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Vice Pres. \ B. H. POPE,
(J. N. MAXWELL
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Sheriff Safe
. GEORGIA—Grady County.
Will be sold at tne court house door
I in said county on the first Tuesday in
May, 1911, within the legal hours of
sale, to-wit: All the following real es-
On five yers tin. e, at low ojfcS”
rate of interest. Privilege t y . fronting on Pearce street 105 feet
ai >y time and f^c e o2”£iL"ffiK g “ h A e w4t
st.nn lnrprpsT. Said property levied on as the prop-
erty of L. A. Free, to satisfy an exe
cution issued by R. W. Ponder, Tax
Collector, of said county, on the 21st
day of December, 1910, for state and
county taxes for the year 1910.
This the 6th day of April, 1911.
R. L. Nicholson. Sheriff,
stop interest.
NO LONG DELAY,
NO RED TAPE.
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Best Terms offered by any
one ip the South. Will lend
about half the value improv
ed farm property.
Correspondence solicited.
R. C. Bell & Ira Carlisle
Attorneys-At-Law'
CAIRO, - - GEOiyGIA.
Dark Ages'.
The dark ages were so called
from the fact that for a thousand
years or so during the period .be
tween the fall of the Romah empire
and the revival of learning Europe
was in intellectual darkness. Learn
ing had practically disappeared
from the earth. Very few were
able to read or write. Pretty near
ly all knowledge of the arts and
sciences, of history and literature,
bad perished, and the almost uni
versal ignorance lay upon men like
a great cloud. The wisdom of the
paBt was locked up in Latin, which
was known only to the scholars, and
it was not until about 1453 (at the
fall of Constantinople) that the
Greeks began to enlighten the dark
ened mind of Europe.
One Thing She Held Fast.
A music teacher was giving a les
son to a talented but careless pupil
and was rapidly becoming impatient
with her. Finally, at a most com
plicated part of a difficult piece, the
pupil lifted her hands from the
J iano and made a wild dash for her
andkerchief to stop a threatened
sneeze. It was the last straw.
“Oh,” exclaimed the teacher,
thrusting her own handkerchief at
her, “was there ever such n girl?
You lose your position, you lose
your fingering, you lose your hand
kerchief—you lose everything!”
“Oh, no,” responded the pupil,
with a twinkle. “Not everything!
I haven’t lost my temper.”
The Easiest Way.
A sj/eam heating plant had been
installed in the house of the new
president of a small, conservative
college. The president, startled by
a'break in the steam pipes, went in
search of the college janitor. Be
ing unfamiliar with his new sur
roundings, he entered the library.
“Dr. S-and-so,” he inquired, his
breath coming in gasps, “how can I
find the-janitor ?”
“Well,” the librarian replied in a
slow drawl, “I find the surest way
is to send him a postal card.”—Ex
change. ...
GEORGIA—Grady County.
Whereas T. M.. VVhigham, administra
tor of K. E. W’hipham’s estate, repre
sents-to the court in his petition duly
hied and entered on record, that lie has
fu iy administered R. E. Wliigham’s es
tate. This is therefore to cite all persons
concerned, kindred and creditors, to
show cause if any they can, why said ad
ministrator should not be discharged
from his administration and receive let
ters of dismission on the first Monday in
May, 1911. This April 4, 1911.
P. H, Hbrrixq, Qrdinary.
717 Leave to Sell Land.
GEORGIA—Grady County.
. N °tice is hereby given that the under
signed has applied to the ordinary of
said county for leave to sell land belong
ing to the estate of Mrs. Idella Quick
for tho payment of debts and for distri
bution. Said application will be heard
at the regular term of the Court of Or-
dmary for said county to be held on the
first Monday m May, 1911. This April
3 ’ Jj ■ . . O. R. Quick,
Administrator upon estate of Idella
Quick.
Administrator’s Sale.
GEORGIA—Grady County.
By virtue of an order of tho Court ol
Ordinary of said county will be sold al
public outcry on the first Tuesday in
May, .1911, at the court house in said
county between the usual hours of salt
the following real estate in said county
to-wit: One town lot in Whigham, Ga.
bounded as follows. South by A. C J,
Ii. R. property, east by S. Harrell,north
by_a branch and to a point on west.
Terms cash. This April-3, 1911.
. W. G. ATautin,
Admr. of Jane Martin.
Letter of Dismission.
GEORGIA—Grady County.
, E -P- Richter, guardian of Miss Ven
A. Richter, has applied to me for a dis
charge from his guardianship of Misi
Vera A. Richter. This is, therefore, t(
notify all persons concerned to file thoii
objections, if any they have, on or be
fore the first Monday in May, next. els<
E - P. Richter will be discharged from liii
guardianship as applied for.
This April 3,. 1911.
P. H. HerrIKO. Ordinnry
Citation.
GEORGIA—Grady County.
To ali whom it may concern: Georg
Bird, having applied for letters of ad
ministration uppn the property of Mar
Jane Bird, late of said county, deceased
notice is hereby given that said applies
tion will be heard at my office at 11
o’clock, a. m. on the 1st dav of Mnv
1911. Thii 5th day of April, imi! *
P. H. Hkrrino, Ordinary.
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