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“Stars and Stripes nailed to the
‘North Pole.” !
From out the Arctic darkness there
was flashed this message which stun
med the scientific world and thrilled
the heart of every layman, From the
coas: of Labrador, ‘robeft K. Peary
gave to the-world the news that he
had attained his goal in the far north,
‘while at the same moment in far off
Denmark Dr. Frederick A, Cook ofs
Brooklyn was being lionized by roy.
alty for the same“achievement, {
Andeniably Yankee grit has con
quéred the trozen north and there has
been created a coincidence such as
. the world may never see again. Two
‘Amgricans planted the flag of their
country im the land of ice which man
has sought to penetrate for four cen
turies, and eacn ignorant of the oth-1
er's conquest has nashed within a .pe
riod of five days & laconic message
of success to the waiting world,
First word of Peary’s suceess reach.
el New York in a dispatch to the
Associated Press, It contained the
bare announcement of his finding toe
polé Almost simultaneously he had
" sransmitted the news to London, At
the same time he similarly advised
the governor of Newfoundland,
Both the old and the*new world‘l
were thus apprised of his great
achievement practically at the saine ‘
moment, and the excitement which
follpwed attested to the high pitch of
intepest aroused over this chmax ot
man's perseverance, Newspaper ex
(hu were rushed trom the press and
those who read marveled at the twist
of the universe sgich nad snatched
Abe (ige mask trom "the north in\a
dpannbr so strange, 4
Copenhagen, Denmark.—Copenha
gen was electrified, by the rrégort ot
Commander Peary’s announcement
, that he had reactred the North Pole.
Dr, ,Cook was immensely interested
and said:
“That is gopd news. I hope Peary
‘did get to tne pole!" His observations
and reports on that region .will con
firm mine.” :
it is doubtful if history furnisheg a
more dramatic episdlle than the ‘breédk
ing of the news to Dr. Cook that
Peary had realized the -goal of his
lite's ambition, and repeated strug
gles, Dr, Cgok was seated at & din
ner surrounded by explorers \
Amid this scene a whisper went
around that Peary had planted the
Stars and Stripes at the pole, |
De. Cook did not permit the whis:
gers which came to his ears of Pea
xy's success to move him in the least.
He was surrounded by correspond
euts, who looked for some sign uf
emotion, but the explorer said, smil
iogly: :
*1 am glad.”
Asked if there was any probability
«af Peary's having found the tube con
taining his records, Dr. Cook re
plied:
“I hope so, but that is doubtful on
account of the drift.”
Dr. -Cook 'added: ”
. “Commander Peary reached the
;@ this year probably; ,while I was
"thte fast year. His route was sever
al hundred miles east of mine, We
are rivals, of course; but the pole is
big enough for two, ' °
“That two men got to the pole
along different paths,” continued the
explorer, “should furnish large addi
tions to 'scientific ‘tknowledge. Prob
ably ‘other parties will reach it in the
mext ten years since every explorer
is helped by the experiences’ of- his
predecesgors, jlist as. Sverdrun’'s ob
servations and reports were of im
measurable help to me. [ can say
mnothing .more without knowing fur
fthé{ details, ‘than that I am glad
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lfl NOT MOVE HOLY SEPULCHER.
Pius X Says Relic Belongs to Tradi
tion and History of Jerusalem,
‘Washington, D. C.—Mgr. Diomede:
Falconio, papal delegate to ‘the Unit
ed States who recently viisted Rome,
denied that Pope Pius X had set on
foot a movement to move the holy
sepulcher from Jerusalem to- Rome.
He further asserted that the pope
would be the very last person to con
~sent to the change.
His holiness on more than on oc
caston has placed himself on record
that the holy sepulcher is essentially
_a relic that belongs to the history and
_tradition of Jerusalem and that moy
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© SPORTS. |
ity sogiving. Blataweliht itk
world who wants a crack uv';a'fi*
Johwn'-_gm will be
ed if the Western clubs have dates
~enough, TUpon his arrival fa San
Francisco the othgr day, Johnson
stated that there was no one barred
in the heavyweight elimination stakes,
and that the mm’m the bet
ter he’d Hke it. idy he has sign
ed to meet Al Kaufman, Jim Barry
and, Stanley Ketchel, and he expects
to hook up with two more before the
day set for him to meet Ketchel,
which is October 12. Whether the
fight comes off or not, the westerners
will have seen %mt} of boxing by
the champion, The articles of the
Kaufman fight call for tem rounds,
and the decision is t 9 be a draw if
both men are on their feet at the
close of the fight. Johnson had a
taste of the referee business out west
‘and rather than risk his title with.
another limited bout he had the de
cision thing inserted. Marvin Hart
was handed a decision over him out
there some years ago that was a dis.
grace.. He hadn't one round in his
favor, but in, order to collect an old
derby the club owner had the decis
fon framed for Hart and he got it.
Those decisions never did and never
will do boxing any good. Johnson is
right and extremely fair in asking for,
‘a draw if both are on their feet at
the end. The sporting: writers out
there will judge the contest, and thelr
/decision will go. No one man who
'::;1 be reached will have a hand @
8, ; S o
The players in the Southern League
who will probably have trials im the
majors next season are: Pitcher Dick
son of Birmingham, New York Na
tionals; Shortstop Ellam of Birming
ham, Cincinnati; Second Baseman
Cranston. of Memphis, Boston Amer
icans; Pirst Baseman Daubert of
Memphis, Brooklyn; Cateher Casey of
Little Rock, Detroit; Outfielder Co
cash of Little Rock, New York Gi
ants; Pitcher Atkins of Atianta, Phil
adelphia Americans; Catcher McMur
ray of Atlanta, Chicago - Americans;
Pitcher Lively of Montgomery, Phila
delphia Americans; Pitcher Lelivelt
of Mobile, Detroit; Pitcher Bittroiff
of Mobile, ,Brooklyn; Catcher ‘Tonne
man of Nashville, Boston Americans;
Third Baseman Raftis of New Or
leans, Chicago Americans.
Although the fans of Columbia are
game to the core, to use the words of
President Banks, reports from that
town are to the effect this season
has- seen the club owners go down
in their pockets. One of the Chat
tanooga sport writers gas come for
ward with the proposition that At
lanta be given a franchise in the
South "Atlantic next year to probably
take the place of the South Carolina
town. There are many people who
think that Atlanta would well support
two ball clubs, = ;
Kid Elberfleld of the New York
American team is circulating a 'pe
tition among players and club owh
ers of the American League, "address
ed to President Taft, asking for the
pardon of Tom Taylor, the old time
diamond star, who is serving a life
sentence in the federal prison at At
lanta, Elberfield has enlisted the
services of Frank Chance, manager of
the Chicago ‘Cubs, who will look after
the National League's side eof the
case. 0
The recent exploits dbf Nat Cart
mell, the former crack sprinter of
the University of Pennsylvanl%, who
has been in England since last sum
mer, has caused considerable gossip
among the followers of athletics in
this country., When he went abroad
last year with the Olympic team Cart
mell was picked to win several short
distapce events, but he failed. Since
then he has improved wonderfully and
is now showing his heels to the Eng
lish cracks. Recently in a 200-meter
event he defeated Reggie Walker, the
South African speed marvel. Cart
mell is now competing in England as
a member of the Bichfield Harriers.
As far as competition in the United
States is concerned he has disqual
ified himself, as he has violated the
general rules of the American Ath
letic Union,
Harris G. Cope, a well known young
business man of Cartérsville, Ga.,
will coach the football team of Se
wanee University this season. Mr.
Cope was for years a member of the
Sewanee: Tiger football team and was
for several years an all-Southern
quarterback. He will be connected
with the team until after the clase
of 'the season on Thanksgiving Day.
Some Atlanta fans were talking
about the world's record for games
lost in a season. The title holder was
dn doubt until J. ' McSwain Woods,
formerly of Manning, S. C., set the
question ~at rest by producing- the
proud record of the Manning téam,
made in 1907, when in the South Car
olina State League, it lost 55 out of
‘6O games played, winding up with
the marvelous standing of .083.
A tennis league, composed of eight
of the largest tities of the country,
Is a project new under way among
the stars who played in the tri-state
tournament at Cincinnati. The sug
gestion was made by Dr. P. B. Hawk
of Philadelphia. The plan is to have
four cities in the east and four in
the west, Each section would play
for its own championship and then
there would be a grand final series
of matches between the city that won
the championship in the east and the
city that won the championship in the
west, The cities now being tenta
tively considered for the eastérn sec
tion are New York, Philadelphia,
Washington and Baltimore; and for
‘the western section, Olnow Chi
oago, Cleveland and St. Louwis.
i EROSRE e Ag o AL ;
partin '_{l* ce in : on |
James M. Smith, the mi plan
ter of Ogletherpe county. It is known
that negroes who made the charges
‘authorities irave been interviewed by
on the case is being secured. It is
quite w a visit wm&z paid Col
onel Smith’s plantation possibly
the sleuths will call 6n the colonel
himseif. Whether or not any action
against the Oglethorpe planter is tak
en will m«ma, on what the,
men from ington find out. 'l‘wrj
‘repgrt will be made to the depart
-5« justice and if the facts ascer
in®d warrant prosecution , orders
will be passed down the line to the
Atlanta office. \
. Governor Brown is in receipt of
another gourd. 'This time he has been
-favored by his friends in Habersham |
county, and on the handle of the
gourd is inseribed, “Habersham coun
ty., 1909.” One of the governor’s visi
tors a day or so ago told him that
the governmnor's gourd had made that
old-fashionéd drinking utensil the
thing in this county, He said that
the market for gourds was brisk and
‘that they had become quite the thing,
as a drinking vessel in the fashion
able society of his eommunitz. .
A case of pellagra, the vittim of
which claims never to have eaten
corn bread cr any corn products, has
been discovered in Atlanta, Mrs. Kate
‘Barto is the patient, and she is in
the last stages of the disease. Dr.
Frank Eskridge, who claims to have
treated many cases of the disease,
says he doubted his own diagnosis
and thought she might be a victim of
‘sprue,” a disease known to the trop
“ics, with symptoms resembling those
of pellegra. He called in a physician
who has had years cof :fi)ofienee, in
the tropics and found t hig orig
inal disgnosis was correct. “I am
convinced .now,” he sald, “that the di.-
sease does not come from musty corn
products.”
‘The second flight at Athens of the
aeroplane of Ben Epps and Zump
Huff was not as successful as the
first. The first attempt at flight the
machine left the ground about one
foot for a distance of fifty yeards, but.
at the second trial the aeropiane fail
ed to deave the ground. The attempt
at flic!t was witnessed by fully a
thousand people. The failure of the
macthine to x is attributed .to the
roughness ef the ground and the poor
start reeeived, Imstead.of having a
trackway prepared .along which the
machine could glide to its start, the
young men chose to make the start
on the plain hifllside which had mere
or less unevenness. The result was
the machine got no start and there
~was much lost motion. The twisting
~of the machine over the uneven
. ground caused one of the wheels to
"Bpread amd the machine was brought
. to'a*sudden stop. The young men will
hdve a trackway constructed at once
and will enlarge the propeller blades
of the machine. They were not in
the least dawmted by their failure and
“will try again in a few days.
Willfam H. Mitehell of Thomasville
must “serve twelve menths on the
chaingang. Govermor Brown reached
& cemclusion on the famous case, and
- anneounced that he would allow the
senfence of the court to stand undis
turbed, thus ignoring the recommen
daion of the prisen commissiom to
chamge the sentence of tweilve months
on the chaingang to a lfke period on
the state prisom farm at Milledgeville,
} Atlanta’s postoffice receipts for
August, 1909, are $70,691.02, an in
crease of $2,474.36 over the receipts
for the same period last year. This
means that unless something phenom
enal has happened im the Louisville
or New Orleans offices, Atlanta has
more than retained her proud position
which the July, 1909, figures gave her,
at the head of all the postefiices In‘
the south, The figures for July, 1909,
were $70,345,85, and:represented an
increase of $4,5610.28 over the receipts
, for the same period in 1908, i
Fire swept three stores on Broad
street in Rome causing a total dam:
age of $BO,OOO, fully cowered by insury
ance, The same section was vistted
by a $150,000 fire last January. }
That Major J. F. Henson, president
of the Cemtral of Georgia railread,
will file an answer to the suit for di
vorce instituted by kis wife, was pos
itively indicated. *“I will flle my an
swer to the petition for dfvorce with
the oourts,” saidl Major Hanson, after
saying that he did net care tc discuss
the matter. He had just been called
upon for a statemsent for publication.
Major - Hanson returned to Atlanta,
after a month’s vacation spent in the
west. It was during his absence that
Mrs., Hanson filed suit for tetal di
vorce, ¥ ;
Because no ene in Albany can open
its doors, the big manganese safe of
the Citizen’'s First National üban'gi
with a oash reserve of $30,000 in wold
and legal tender notes, is being ship
ped by fast express to Cincinnati =o
that the manufacturers can open the
big vaukk, The Serew door of the safe
refused to mewe when the wsual meth
ods of openimg the safe were tried on
it. Experts from the Cineinnati tae
tory were hurried to Albsny - and
worked on the safe unsuccessfully for
three or four days. A new safe was
hurriedly shipped from the factory,
and the one in which the.bank’s cash
is locked was expressed to Cincinnati,
where the door will be ground through
with emery wheels and the cash tak
en out. One of the offieials of the
bank went with the safe to Clacinnati
and to be present when it is ‘opened,
FINE MILLINERY i
AND NOTIONS . . '/
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Spring and. Summer Openi
¥ % ' S A B : A
- SEASON 1909.
THE LADIES OF LEE COUNTY ARE CORDIALLY INVITED TC
SPRING AND SUMMER OPENING.
FRIDAY AND SATURDAY, MARCH 26.27.
MY PATTERN HATS AND READY-TO-WEAR GOODS ARE B
TIFUL ‘CREATIONS OF MILLINERY ART CONFORMING TO HA
NY OF COLORS AND TO THE SEASON'S EXACTIONS. YOU !
BE PLEASED AT THEIR NEAT AND \ATTRACTIVE APPEARAN(
YOU WILL BE CORDIALLY WELCGMED AT ANY TIME CON
lENT FOR YOU .TO CALL. WITH MANY THANKS FOR PAST L|
AL PATRONAGE AND SOLICITING YOUR CONTINUED FAVOR
- YOURS TRULY,
MISS JENNIE FORD;
LEESBURG, |
NOTICE TO TEACHERS.
There will be an examination of
teachers for the public schools "June
18th and 19th, 1909, at the court
house, Leesburg, beginning at eight‘
o’clock. : }
tf R LONG, Co e Ou
" LEESBURG HIGH SCHOOL.
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G. M. Sparks, principal. AT
Mrs. H. L. Long, Jr., first asslfli
ant, ; |
Miss Tulip Johnson, second assist:
ant, B ,
J. R, Long, C. 8. C. i b ol
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How Is Your Liver?
- If your liver is right you feel well
all over. L. L. L. keeps it right.
~ DO YOU FEEL BADLY? -~ ~
If so your liver {s wrong you need
L. L. Ask your druggist about it.
M B;u, Ma’na.ger:—wants a good
hustling man to write' insurance in
this county for the Jefferson Stand
ard Life Insurance Co. Address 312
Emglish-American Building, Atlanta,
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- Don’t .write a bcok; but when
there’'s an ~addlt!on to your family,
or you go away or come back, enters
tain or do anything else that yow'd
like to know yourself if some one
olse did it, write it on this blank and
get it to us as soon as possible, not
latér than the day before this paper
is dated and we'll tell it to ewery one
in the county and a few hundred out
of it.
if this isn’t e’nough paper, use
more. You must sign your name.
Please Pablish the Following:
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o * Kindness to Animals. :
© ' A prisoner i one of the large con
viet prisons succeeded in taming a
large rat, which would come and eat
out of his hand. , .
“Why are you so fond of this rat,
my friend?” said the chaplain to him
while : visiting his cell, expecting to
receive an answer on which some use
ful advice could be built.
" “*Cause it once bit a warder,” said
the prisoner. : .
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~ COURT DIRECTORY.,
8. W. CIRCUIT.
Y. A. Littlejohn, judge. ;
J. T. Williams, solicitor gex
Convenes frst Mondays in 1]
November. ‘
City Court,
H. L. Long, Sr, judge,
W. G. Martin, solicitor,
~ Convenes fourth Wednesday |
imonth. ' ‘
Justice Court, 915th District,
. A. A Paul, J. P.
J. M. Hines, N, P. and e
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'J. F. Hines, bailiff. .
Tonvenes first Monday ir
month.‘ ;
{ BOARD, OF COUNTY COMMI
2 ERS.
" I P. Colke, chairman.
. W.. C. Laramore, Br. |
R..P. Johnson, :
-A. J. Powell, '
| N. M. Minchen. |
| CITY DIRECTORY.
,' Mayor—C. B. Martin.
| Couyncilmen—J. P. Callaway,
Pro Tem.; D. D. Hall, J. B. T}
B. Lee, H. C. Odom,
! A, 'W: Godwin, Clerk and '
{ rer. - s :
‘ James Salter, Marshal,
| ! -_—
| Eureka Lodge No. 247, F. ¢
M., A. W. Godwin, W. M.; 8. P,
ell, Secretary. Regular comn
“tion second and fourth Friday
in each month.
Visiting' brethren cordially !
jto attend. - -
|~ ' CHURGH DIRECTORY.
a 0 aptiet.
J. A. lvey, pastor.
. “Services second and fourth $
tn each month 11 o'clock a. m.
- Sunday school 10 -o’clock a.
. Methodist.
Rev. McMichael, ' pastor.
Services third }Sundl.y in
month 11 o'clock 'a. m. |
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Sunday school every Sunday
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