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fiLI‘;:REr?S%NWESLEY'} EpiTORS AND PUBLISHERS
ALFRED Z. WESLEY, Business Manager,
FOREIGN AND
WAR NEWS ITEMIZED.
Tokio, March 9.—Japanese war ships
bombarded the forts at Talien Wan,
Port Dalny, on the night of March Bth
and then attacked Port Arthur.
It is believed here that there has
been a decisive naval engagement in
the vieinity of Vladivostok and tidings
of it are anxiously awaited. °
Seoul, March 9.—A party of nine
Russians seized the Korean telegraph
station at Yung-Wan to-day. '
It is reported that a fight has occur
red between Koreans and Russians on
the Korean side of the Tugan river.
London, March 2.—A special dispatch
from Paris announces that the French
steamer Cambodge, of 2,355 tons, which
left Rangoon February 17, for Coc':hin-‘
China and "'European pbrts, has been
wrecked in 4 storm off the coast of Co
chin-China.
The dispatch adds that it is believed
a hundred persons perishe? in the
wreck. : zg.
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WORK. ‘
Work is the greatest blessing in this
weary old world. How it takes us out of
ourselves and sets us in a large place
where we can see something besides our
petty cares and worries. It has been the
salvation of m{ny an unhappy woman or
many a tempt(:}‘l man. If we cannot have
the work we like, we can like the work
we have, and put into it our deepest in
terest and ouir best efforts.
I pity the man or the woman that has
10 useful work to do as much as I pity
those who are condemncd to hard and
unremitting :toi 1,
Work is a blessing, but hard labor is
one of the greatest evils of our time, If
everybody workei a little nobody would
have to work t)o much. Whenever a
man has a dollar 1e hasn’t earned, some
body has earned i dollar he hasn’t got.
If there's been a golden age behind us
there must be on: ahead of us, for time
goes in cycles and when things get very
bad a new day is Ilawning and a change
is due to take place It is the history of
all ages and natioms, and so here’s to the
good time coming.
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The leesburg Jownal has made its ap
pearance in the capial of Lee county. A.
Z. Wesley and M E. Tison, veteran
newspaper men, th: former a practical
printer of fifty year experience, are at
‘the head of the enteprise The Journal
is a small four-colurn, four-page sheet,
but giant oaks fron little acorns grow,
and we wish them success.—Americus
Press.
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The Russian solier receives $l.OO in
money and one galla of cheap booze, as
payment for one moith’s army,gervices.
The booze is supposec to make him feel
like he has monev tojurn and the $l.OO
is to buy more ooze,
THE LEE COUNTY JOURNAL
Leesburg, Georgia, Saturday, March 12, 1904.
WhatThe Savannah Press
' Says About
WM. R. HEARST.
“Against Mr, William R. Hearst the
Press has nothing to offer. He is a young
man of considerable energy and has al
ways supported the democratic nominee
in vew York city, in the state and in the
nation. ‘He was faithful to Mr, Bryan
in his two canvasses, and stood out for
Mr. McClellan when all the other papers
of New York went for Seth Low. He
deserves well of the pé.rty; in fact, is a
member of Congress. As a candidate for
president, however, he is probably out
classed at present, although he has warm
friends in New York and in the south
who are supporting him, It is said the
rrip of Mr. Bryan through the south was
really in the. Hearst imterest, Bryan,
however, declares that he is not advoca
ting any special candidate, but is simply
championing the idea represented by his
schoot of politics. The Hearst men in
Georgia. however, seem to be very active.
Our Atlanta correspondent this morning
predicts that they will control the dele
gation unless steps are taken by the
friends of the other candidates to prevent
this.action. The truth is that outside of
Mr. Cleveland there seems to “e no com
manding fighre 1 tHe st of “Aemcoratic
possibilities. The Hearst men are prob
ably better organized than the others just
at present.”’
A Georgia Girl, Reinsta
ted with increasec of.
Salary.
Congressman Charles Bartlett has won
the fight he has been waging in Congress
against the civil service commission, and
a Georgia girl, Miss Gertrude Whitaker,
of Milledgeville, is thereby reinstated in
her position in the census office.
Miss Whitaker is the daughter of J. C.
Whitaker, and one of the first graduates
of the Normal School at Milledgeville,
was given a position some months ago
in the census office, her work being in
the division which is taking the Phillip
pine Islands census. The position paid
$7OO per annum,
As soon as the civil service commission
heard of her appointment, an order was
issued removing her because she had not
passed the civil service examination,
Judge Bartlett, who contended that the
position was not under the civil service
rules, at once started upa fight to have
Miss Whitaker reinstated, He was back
ed up by the chief of the division, who
said Miss Whitaker had become so profi
cient the office could not do the work
without her.
A bill was introduced in Congress in
her behalf and finally passed, whereupon
the young lady was reinstated in her old
position with an increase of $3OO per an
num tacked on to her salary.
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Send in your name and one dollar.
YOUNG GIRL BURNED
TO DEATH.
Fannie Alexander, a 16-year old girll,
while makling coffee for her sick mother,
at Wyman street, Atlanta, on Tuesday
afternoon, received fatal burns from which
she died Wednesday morning in the
Grady hospital. Screaming with pain
the girl dashed from the house when her
clothing took fire, ran into the street, and
then, insane with pain, dashed to a water
hydrant. She could get no water and
she ran back iuto the house, falling un
conscious at the bedside of her mother-
Mrs. Alexander, though hardly able to
move from her couch, went to her daugh
ter's assistance, and she was badly burned.
- The body of the young girl was burned
almost to a crisp. A Grady hospital am
bulance made a hurried run and the girl
was carried to that institution where she
died Wednesday mornlng.
The young girl was the belle of the
Elsaé—May factory town, and her tragic
death has cast a gloom over the entire
community where she lived.— Atlanta
Journal, Mar. 10.
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What Is Whiskey Made
From.
Do you drink whiskey? Or do you
only think you drink whiskey, really im
bibing an unknown and unnameable de
-c;)ncoction ?
Whiskey was at first made from malted
grain, but it is altogether different now,
and embracing a number of different sub
stances whose combined effects on the
human system the scientists have not yet
thoroughly investigated. The Medical
Record, in a discussion of this subject,
remarks:
“Both the drug habit and the drink
habit loom large in the public eye at the
present time, Efforts are being con
stantly put forth to check these practices.
Spirit drinking may be said to be the
bane of the so-called Anglo-Saxon race,
for, after all, the drug habit is not nearly
so widespread, either in this country or
in Great Britain, as in certain parts of the
European continent. Of all the bevera
ges with which the inhabitants of the
United States and of Great Britain stu
pefy their brains and dull their intel
lects, whiskey appears to be the one
most in favor. Its consumption, espec
ially in England and Scotland, has in
creased enormously within recent years,
In fact, so disastrous have been the results
of the whiskey habit on the other side,
that special inquiries have been instituted
to investigate the matter exhaustively.
It has been pretty well established by
the learned doc:ors of the medical schools
that the use of alcoholic beverages of any
sort is detrimental to the health,’and no
one is disposed to quarrel with the state
ment that their consumption in excessive
quantities is ruinous to the.mental, moral
and physical powers. And yet, if there
are individuals wHo desire to play with
fire and drink spirits, they should at least
be able to get the kind of spirits they
ISSUED EVERY SATURDAY, VOL. VIIIL
AT ONE DOLLAR A YEAR. No. 35.
Steamboat Men Fighting
at Dublin, Georgia.
CAPT. WARD INJURED
DUBLIN, GA., March 9.—A bloody
fight took place yesterday between W.
‘W. Ward, captain of the steamboat
Rover, and A. B. Jones and son Bartow
Jones, of the Louisa steamboat. The
trouble originated through Jones slip
ping his boat in ahead of Ward's,
whose boat was already moored at the
wharf. Ward cursed Jones, and was
invited out to settle the matter, which
he deeclined. '
On meeting today on the river bank
A B. Jones and his 18-y@ar old"sen be-~
gan to beat Ward with sticks, Ward
then stuck Jones with his fist. Ward
had been struck seven times over the
head with the stick, gashing him up
fearfully. The injured man is being
attended by Drs, Stanley and Page, and
it is said warrants will be issued later.
It is said bad’ feeling has existed for
some time between the competing
lines.
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She Got the Wool,
“A young American girl, on her first
trip to Italy entered a shop in search
of black darning wool,"” says a writer
in Harper's Bazar. “She spoke no Ital
fan, the clerk spoke no English. She
pantomimed darning a hole and point
ed to her stocking. The clerk brought
white darning cotton. She showed
that ber stocking was black, and black
darning cotton was produced. But she
wanted wool. A long pause, then
‘Ba-a!" bleated the American girl. She
got the wool.”
A Natural Mistake,
“1 was just telling our friend here,
Molly, that it was storming on the day
of our marriage.” !
“Surely not, Hiram! The weather
was perfectly lovely!” -
“Well, well! I don’t know how I got
so mixed up about it—probably because
it’s been storming ever since!”—Atlanta
Constitution.
She Knew Her Dad,
Smithers—Do you know any one wio
has a horse to sell?
She—Yes; 1 suspect old Rrown bas.
Smithers—Why ?
She—Well, papa sold him one yester
day.—London Punch.
Sincerity is the basis of all true
friendship. Without sincerity it 13
like a ship without ballast.
Improvement on Nature,
Humble Admirer—Are the characters
in your book drawn from real life?
Haughty Author—Did you ever see
such interesting people In real life as
my characters?—Somerville Journal.
We would make fewer bulls in this
life ilf we had not so many wrong
steers.—Baltimore Armeriean.
want. When a man asks for whiskey he
shonld not bs given some mysterious con
coction of chemicals that looks whiskey
and tastes whiskey and is really made of
—there’s no telling what. Any kind of
adulteration should be strictly prohibited,
By far the safest way, however, to make
sure that you are drinking no adulteaated
whiskey is to drink no whiskey at all,