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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.