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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. e et 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. i ) > A A B SP— 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. e A Bt 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. i S i sesoi 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. i ot 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. e e e 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,