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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; ■ 1 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. i. ■ 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 Wc call yonr especial attention to a comparative statement of our bus- 3 111088 lor tin* nnftt frrtlt* vnarc ' W 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 Each years business has shown a nice increase and'for this increase in business we are grateful to our friends. If you arc a customer of this bayk we thank you for your patronage in the past, and assure you that your ac count is always appreciated at THIS BANK. i . ^ y ou 111-0 not tt customer of this hank, open an account with ns and let us show you how wo make SATISFIED CUSTOMERS. . " 0 pay per cent, interest, compounded quarterly, on deposits in our savings department. rfWKWHlliinniWMIlHMWMIHWlHHIWHHHtlll W. T. CRAWPORD, President. WALTER L. WIGHT, Cashier »«* ( THOS. WIGHT, Vice Pres. \ B. H. POPE, (J. N. MAXWELL 1 J. N. MAXWELL FARMERS A MERCHANTS BANK Capital Stock $30,000 CAIRO, GA. 1 May We Serve You. , .■^|’ oro would lie no business for this bank, unless our business was con ducted for the benefit of our customers. It is the help that we are able to give you that helps us. Wo are usefnlf and helpful to all the people in this community and arc always waiting for u chance to serve you. The small depositor as well as tho larger depositor recoives the best of service. “Make Our Bank Your Bank. Bank.” * $100,000.00 TO LOAN 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. 9 9 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. Our experience gives us advantage of other We have the best machinery that experience" select or that money enn buy. We wfiTbegfadl thoprintlng problem. Wefe figure with you on .... „ sure that we can save you monoy. We handle n kinds of PRINTING. If you need anythin figure with us. QUALITY is our motto. THE PROGRESS, - - Cairo, Ga Give in your city taxes. The boo are-now open. B. M. Johnson, 39 If, Clerk and Treasurer,