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Grady County Progress
PUBLISHED WEEKLY. ..
CAIRO, GEORGIA.
SPOONING A FINE ART.
Spooning, by which Is meant that
form of affection described by tho sago
Noah Webster as "acting with dem
onstrative or foolish fondness,” has
been placed upon a solid and respon
sible basis In the Lynn high school.
Books on etiquette for tho young usu
ally deprecate spooning, or omit to
mention It at all, but in this high
school boys' and glrlB who desire to
spoon have merely to get a- permit
from their parents. To bo more ex
plicit, the principal of the school, ob
serving some mushy scenes In the cor
ridors of the building, recently an
nounced that public lovemaking must
stop; but he added that pupils desir
ing to spoon must bring a written per
mission from their parents. Spooning
thus Is reduced to a practical work
ing basis, says the Boston Globe. If
you produce the parental permit, pre
sumably you may spoon. So girls who
like spooning, and evidently there are
Borne In Lynn who do, must produce
thetr permit or go unloved. "Mam
ma, you haven't made me out a spoon
ing permit yet,” may be heard In the
homes of Mary, Margaret and Estelle,
while in another part of the city, Paul,
Henry and Oswald are saying, “Pa,
just sign this spooning permit, before
you' go downtown.” When the per
mits are issued and have been O. K.'d
by the principal, there will be an op
portunity for organized labor to estab
lish Spooners’ Union No. 1 in Lynn.
Every other nation except Great
Britain that has opera at all has it in
its native tongue-. France, Spain,
Italy, Germany and even Russia have
the masterpieces of music sung in
words intelligible to the people that
hear them. Only we that speak Eng
lish are content to listen to songs we
do not understand and to follow emo
tions that might bb well be rendered
in pantomime. Tlfe assertion that
English is not a singing language was
born either of ignorance or of impu
dence, says the New York World. Our
language contains some of the most
•beautiful songs In the world, and some
of the greatest of singers have delight
ed to render t£em. Any opera singer
could surely learn to sing English as
easily as Russian.
Tho first case of stealing an aero
plane occurred the other day at the
Puchem aerodrome at Munich. When
the pilot, Belat, arrived in the morn
ing he found that some one had brok
en into his hangar and that the mono
plane was missing. On inquiry he
found that several persons in the
neighborhood had heard the noise
of a motor about 2 o'clock in the
morning. Apparently some enterpris
ing pilot had flown away with the
machine. In the suburbs of Munich
policemen were kept busy scanning
the horizon in search of the flyer. Up
to the present the machine has not
been recovered.
For centuries before Marconi wire
less telegraph was known the mys
tery of Bwlft communication has puz
zled many civilized explorers of bar
barian regions. In the heart? of Afri
ca a missionary discovered the method
of hollowing a large gourd, which was
then dried, and round it was stretched
the skin of a kid,'hard and thin as
parchment. Beaten with a padded
drumstick this instrument gives a
sound which can be heard eight miles
away. And each village contains the
expert who can tap the message and
send it on.
The specialists In tuberculosis, re
porting to the French Academy of Sci
ences, declare that as long aB a man
retains one-Blxth of the lung capacity
with which he is endowed by nature,
his vitality remains unimpaired.
This is to be noted as encouragement
for victims of consumption. As long
as one-third of the original tract of the
lungs remains, there is a chance that
cicatrices may form and the wounds
of the disease may heal, and this one-
third will constitute lung capacity suf
ficient for the patient to do business
upon to the end of a long life.
If it is to become the fixed custom
for the women to burn their hats
when they gain the suffrage, a ques
tion arises which may affect mascu
line votes. Of course the burning of
hats Involves the purchase of new
hats. Will the tyrant man be allowed
to continue his time-honored custom
of drawing checks to pay for the new
hat, or will the newly enfranchised
citizens scorn that dependence, and
furnish the new millinery themselves?
S T. LOUIS, Mo.—A romance of the
circus sideshow reached its climax
here when Jack W. C. Barnett of Rox-
boro, N. C., twenty-one years old,
thirty-eight Inches high and weighing
thirty-rour pounds, got a license to
marry Miss Dorothy David Warfield
of St. Louis, nineteen years old, about
five feet eight inches in height and
weighing 130 pounds.
Mrs. II. L. Morris, seven feet four
Midget Weds Show Girl; Giantess Maid of Honor
inches tall, was matron of honor, and
her husband, a man or ordinary size,
was best man.’
Barnett had to be lifted upon a high
stool when he was called on to sign
the application for a license,, at the
city, hall. With the Btool beneath him,
he stood with his head about on a
level with that of his bride-to-be.
Barnett gets $76 a week and Miss
Warfield gets $30, they said. Mrs.
Morris is the "giantess" of the side
show and her husband Is a ticket
taker.
"Miss Warfield Joined the show at
Baltimore last April,” said Barnett,
“and two days later she was intro
duced to me by Mrs. Morris. It was
love at first sight on my part”
Miss Warfield said *she liked Bar
nett from the time she saw him, but
did not let him know.
Boy’s Pet Wildcat Puts Big Bulldog to Flight
K ANSAS City, Mo.—A wildcat is the
pet of William Miles, sixteen
yearB old, of 3516 Baltimore avenue.
The cat is three months old. It was
oaught by a brother of Miles who shot
its mother in Mexico and captured the
kitten and sent it to Kansas City.
Miles has a collar on the cat's neck
and when the weather is fine the cat
is brought from the cellar to the back
yard and hitched to a rope that leads
up to a wire across the yard. A ring
on the end of the rope travels along
the wire and gives the cat the range
Of the width of the.yard^
Not long ago a bulldog that had
whipped every other dog in the neigh
borhood discovered the wildcat in the
back yard of the Miles home.
"I was watching from the window
when that old bulldog put his front
paws up on the back fence and looked
over at my wildcat," said Miles.
“The bulldog looked at him for a
while, seeming to be thinking to him
self: ‘Well, there is a strange look
ing kind of a cat but I’ll bet a mil
lion dollars I can whip him.’ And
then he leaped over the fence and
made straight for the cat, growling
and showing fight My wildcat has
long front-legs and an enormous paw-
for his size and his claws are long
and sharp. He looked at the ap
proaching dog and crouched for him
and when he got cloBe enough he just
took one swipe at him and that bull
dog disappeared like a streak over the
fence.”
The wildcat is tame, except when he
is fed and then he becomes so wild
that the boy cannot go near him. He
growlB and shows fight while eating.
Those Peruna Testimonials
How Are They Obtained?
S, B. HARTMAN, M. D.
For a great
many years I
have been gath
ering statistics
as to the effects
of Peruna when
taken for ca
tarrhal de
rangements, I
have on hand
thousands of
unsolicited tes
timonials from
people in all
stations of life,
who claim that
after many
years futile at
tempts to rid
themselves of
chronio catarrh
Finds “Burglar” Raps Were Made by Newlyweds
C LEVELAND, Ohio.—C. E. Reeves,
East Seventy-first and Hough ave
nue, expected to find two desperate
yeggmen trying to gain entrance In
his house shortly before one o'clock
the other morning, when he heard two
persons tlp-toelng about his front
poroh and making curious rapplngs
on window and doors. Instead he
found a pair ot very new, very much
frightened and very cold and miser
able newlyweds.
They were Mr. and Mrs. Harry L.
Bowers, Mrs. Bowers having been
only a few short hours before Miss
Hope Joy, 680 Lucerne avenue.
Reeves, who had just come in from an
out-of-town trip, waB writing in his
dining room when he first heard the
mysterious sounds. He crept to the
door and peeked out, saw the shadows
of the two, but was afraid to let
then. in.
He hesitated, but finally got up
nerve enough to go to the door and
demand in a brave, manly voice,
"Who’s there?”
The reply came meekly and plain
tively from the bride and hoarsely
from the bridegroom:
“It’s us.” Reeves let them in.
They had been married at the home
of the bride's mother, and all new,
shin/ and. resplendent in their wed
ding clothes and happiness, entered
a taxicab and started on a honey
moon trip to Cincinnati Bowers,
--however, had made the mistake of try
ing to keep his wedding quiet.
The suitcase, the bridegroom’s hat,
eyeglasses and other particles of
wearing apparel were snatched, and
the pair felt themselves lucky when
the taxi got under way and left the
crowd. Their pursuers, however, fol
lowed in another automobile. The
machines went whizzing about the
city for more than two hours. Final
ly the wedding taxi got away and took
the exhausted and bedraggled newly
weds to Reeves’ home.
Mock Indian Duel Fatal to Boy, With Toy Pistol
P ITTSBURG, Pa.—During a mock
Indian duel with a toy pistol and a
flobert rifle as the weapons, Frank
Larkins, aged nine, a son of- James
Larkins of 2644 Spring alley, shot
In the head and instantly killed his
cousin, Francis Barr Boyle, aged
seven, a son of Edward Boyle of 2004
Penn avenue, the other afternoon.
The accident occurred at the honjp
of the children’s grandmother, -Mrs.
Bridget Egan, at 2313 Penn avenue,
rear. Young Larkins ran crying to
his home and told his father that he
had shot his cousin. The boy. was
taken to the Penn avenue police sta
tion, but was later released at the
request of Coronef Samuel C. Jami
son.-
Younk Larkins in relating the in
cident to Police Inspecor Bailey, said:
"Francis and I were playing in grand
ma’s bedroom when Francis found an
old gun. We didn’t know It was
loaded. Francis said we would play
Indian and have a duel, so he gave
me the gun and he took a pistol with
caps in it I stood up on the bed
and Francis shot at me .with his pis
tol. Then he told me to shoot again.
I pulled the trigger and"—the child
hsro broke down, crying bitterly. Re
suming again he said: "I saw
Francis fall on the floor and the blood
com- and then I ran home and told
papa.”
The rifle was owned by_Mrs. Egan’s
late husband and had been under
the 'md since his death, about nine
years ago. Mrs. Egan said that she
had forgotten that it was there. Short
ly after he had been taken to his
homo by his father, young Larkins
disappeared. He was found sitting on
the curbstone at Twenty-seventh
street and Penn avenue weeping.
by various forms of treatment they
have found complete relief by the
use of Peruna. These testimonials
have come to me unrequested, unso
licited, unrewarded in any way, di
rectly or indirectly. They have sim
ply been gleaned from my private cor
respondence with patients that have
been more or less under my treatment
or taking my remedies.
No remedy, official or unofficial, has
a greater accredited basis for the
claims we make for it than Peruna as
a remedy for catarrh.
I have never been opposed at any
time to the regulations offered by the
Pure Food and Drugs Act. I am not
now opposed to its provisions, but I
am opposed to the proposed amend
ments to give to a partisan board of
physicians the unqualified authority to
decide as to all therapeutic claims
which may be made for a proprietary
medicine. It is manifestly unjust to
refer such questions to a body of men
who are already convinced of the
worthlessness of . proprietary medi
cines. To give such a body of men
the unlimited authority to decide
whether our claims for Peruna are
valid or not is a manifest violation of
my constitutional rights.
My claims are based both on cred
itable theoretical grounds and upon
irrefutable statistics. But I am quite
willing to have our claims as to the
composition of Peruna properly and
thoroughly investigated, and If found
to be false a proper penalty should
be fixed. Or if I am making any
statements concerning disease, as to
the nature, symptoms er danger of
any disease, if I am making any such
statements as to unnecessarily fright
en the people by false assumptions, I
am willing to submit to any unbiased
tribunal or investigation.
Mrs. Alice Bogle, 803 Clinton St.,
Circleville, Ohio, writes: “I want to
inform you what Peruna has done
for me. I have been afflicted with ca
tarrh for several years. I have tried
different medicines and none seemed
to do me any good until I used Pe
runa. I have taken six bottles and
can praise it very highly for the good
it has done me. I algo find it of great
benefit to my children."
Peruna is for sale at all drug stores.
ASK YOUR DRUG
GIST FOR FREE PE
RUNA ALMANAC
FOR 1913.
ex-
Unusual.
“A candlemaker combines
tremes.”
“How so?”
“His business is both cereous and
light."
TERRIBLE ITCHING ON LIMBS
Glen Wilton, Va.—“Five years ago I
was in a terrible state of suffering
with blotches on my limbs, of the most
intense stinging and itching. I could
not rest day or night; the itching was.
so severe -that it waked me out of
sleep. I could never get a full night’s
rest. I actually scrubbed the very
flesh so severely that in a short time
the affected places were so sore I
could scarcely walk with any ease or
comfort. The places were a solid rais
ed up mass.. I would scratch the parts
until they would bleed. I tried home
remedies but got no good; the itching
Just kept on getting worse. I used
Borne salve which simply was no good
at all.
“I happened to see the Cuticura
Soap and Ointment advertisement and
wrote for a free sample. Almost like
magic I commenced getting relief. I
bought a 50c box’ of Cuticura Oint
ment and some Cuticura Soap and I
was entirely cured from a torment
that would be hard to describe."
(Signed) W. P. Wood, Mar. 9, 1912.
Cuticura Soap and Ointment sold
throughout the world. Sample of each
free, with 32-p. Skin Book. Address
post-card "Cuticura, Dept. L, Boston."
Adv.
NO LONGER SELECTS THE HAT
Hubby’s First and Last, Experience at
a Millinery Store, Was Alto
gether Too Costly.
Congressman Ralph W. Moss of In
diana did not care much for a hat his
wife wore. He finally spoke about it.
Mrs. Moss admitted that it was plain,
and, instead of taking exceptions to
her husband’s remark, invited him to-
accompany her the next time she
bought a hat.
"I can certainly pick out a better
one than that,” said Mr. Moss.
So they went to the store together,
Mrs. Moss said not a word as the
comely milliner displayed one beau
tiful bonnet after another. It was the
first time Mr. Moss had ever been in
a millinery store, but he appeared to
be at ease, and finally selected one of
the most joyful creations in the en
tire stock. Mrs. Moss looked well in
it. She was pleased.
“I’ll take that,” said the Hoosler
congressman. “How much is it?”
"Forty dollars,” said the pretty girl
without even a blink.
Mr. Moss saw blue stars, but luck
ily had just come from the bank
and was able to produce that much
in cash. Now he lets Mrs. Moss buy
her own hats and he does not com
plain about their being plain.—Judge.
Surprised Him.
There was a fellow who proposed to
all the girls just for fun. He; had no
idea of getting himself engaged, but
he enjoyed the preliminaries. So he
was disagreeably surprised once and
served him right.
“Miss Evelyn,” he said soulfuliy,
"do you think you could love me well
enough to be my wife?"
“Yes, darling,” she cried.
“Well—er—now I know where to
co’me in case I should want to marry.”
—Detroit Free Press.
Roses In Medicine.
Roses at. one time figured prom
inently in the pharmacopoeia. Pliny
gives 32 remedies compounded of
rose leaves and petals. Sufferers
from nervous complaints used to seek
relief by sleeping on rose pillows and
one Is told that Helogabalus used to
imbibe rose wine as a pick-me-up
after his periodical gormandizing
hours. The flower was also served
at table, both as a garnish, in the way
parsley is now used, and as a salad,
and rose water was largely used for
flavoring dishes. Roses, as food have
gone out of favor among western na
tions,’ but the Chinese still eat roBO
fritters.
Geography of Liquor.
Mayor Gaynor, discussing city gov
ernment’ in his wonted illuminating
and brilliant way, said in New York:
“We must not have one reform law
for the rich and another for the poor.
It is as bad for the millionaire to gam
ble in his club as for the laborer to
gamble in a-stuss joint. It is as bad
to become intoxicated on champagne
as on mixed ale.
“Too many reformers, so-called,
think that when a man is drunk on
Fifth avenue he is ill, and when a
man is ill on Third avenue he is
drunk.”
^Made a Complete Job.
“Mrs. Dungleford, has your husband
been cured of his cacoathes scriben-
di yet?”
“I—I think so; the surgeons took
that out when they removed his ver
miform appendix.”
I don’t want a woman to weigh me
in a balance; there are men enough
for that sort of work,—Oliver Wen
dell Holmes.
Substantial
Breakfast
Pleasure
in every package of
Post
Crisp, sweet bits of toasted
Indian Corn, to be served with
cream or milk.
Always
Ready to Eat
Direct From
Package—
Always Delicious.
Sold by Grocers every
where.
“The Memory Lingers”
Postum Cereal Co., Ltd.
Battle Creek, Mich.