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The Lee Co. Journal ‘
OFFICIAL ORGAN OF 1 FE COUNTY
AND CITY OF LEESBURG
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FRIDAY, JUNE 9, 1922,
M
AN OPPORTUNITY TO HELP.
The editor has just received a
complimentary ticket to a theatrein
New York City. Now, if gome one
will come forward with the neces
sary tmnsportuliou and someone
e'se with the necessary expenses,
and if we cen get off from our vork
long enough, we will cons der the
matter. Now, don’t all come at
once.
RIGHT EDUCATION.
This« is truly the day of education
and poorindeed is the chance of any
boy or girl who comes to manhood
or womanhood without an education,
an insight into the laws of nature,
of morality and right and jadicious
living that will broaden their spheres
and enhance the work of their re
spective domains.
Every son, whatever may he his
expections as to fortune anl future,
ought to be so educated that he ean
superintend gome part of the com
plicated machinery of social life.
livery daughter should be so drilled
in logic and lore that ghe can answer
the claims of humanity, whether
those claims demand the work of
the hand, of the head or of the
heart.
JEFF DAVIS’ ANNIVERSARY.
Last Saturday, June 3rd, was the
114th auniversary of the birth of
Jefferson Davis, the great Southern
Chieftain, who swayed the scepter
over the Confederacy whose fall in
65 was o calamitous, and whose
jignoble treatment at the hands of
his captors shall ever remain a thorn
in the flesh of his people and a blot
on true Americanisui.
No greater American statesman
ever lived than Jefferson Davis and
the story will never grow old of the
war that he waged agaivst such
tremendous odds. Nolove of home
was ever greater than his that he
surrendered position and honor with
his eountry to take up arms for a
right as he saw and knew it, in the
defenso and for the perpetuation. of
homie and her ideals.
True, the chusm that was so great
and that was blasted out Ly the
civil war has bean in a manrver
bridged; the lines of demarcation
between the North and South are
snmpwlmt obliterated by time,
thought and the common causes for
which they have stood, side-by-side,
though even yet, Davis, whose
memory shall ever live in Dixie, is
not recognized for his true worth
nor for his service to the United
States.
Forget not this anniversary, enfold
to your hosome the memory of the
man and his deeds as you do those
of Washington, Jefferson and Ameri
ea’s other noblest sons, for truly he
was of us, was for ug and it is but
meet that we and our children
should pay homage unto him. |
Jefferson Dayis’ father, Samuel
Davis was a Georgian, a soldier of
the Revolution. He martied a South
Carolina lady and moved to 'l'odJl
county, Kentucky, where Jefl'erson‘
was born. Later they removed to
Mississippi, near Woodville then tni
beautiful Beauvoir on the gulf, where
Jefferson Davis spent his declining
years and which was donated for
and is yet used as a home for dis
abled and imfirm Confederate Vet
erans. |
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If you have not paid your sub
seription yet you had beiter do so
onee. " |
IN AND ABOUT THE CITY
The horn of plenty and the trump
of fame make a mighty pleasant duet,
Nell—"He 18 effeminate to his finger
tips.” Belle—" Manicures his own
oalls, eh 7"
The theatrical manager Isn't the
only fellow who spends all his money
to make a show, :
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It's a cinch to bear each other's
burdens. They are always so much
easler than our own,
We should all speak well of the
dead, but the widow who marries a
second time needn’t rub it in,
You never can tell, He who shouts
his patriotism from the housetops may
be the first to dodge his taxes.
Those who are born great are really
deserving of our sympathy, They miss
the satisfaction of telling how they
did it
The Cynical Bachelor observes that
the man who takes a post-graduate
course in love must pay hils tuition
fees in allmmony,
Blobbs—*All his life Harduppe has
been bullding alr castles.” Slobbs—
“And all his life he has been looking
for helresses to go with them.”
The misguided individual who first
advanced the theory that two can live
as cheaply as one Is responsible for
most of the unhappiness in this world.
—Philadelphia Ledger.
IDEALS
To promise rarely, and perform
faithfully,
To lve In the affections; not to
dwell in pride.
To value people above thoughts and
thoughts above things.
To mingle freely with all classes,
and thus to know mankind.
To choose hobbles with care and
pursue them with diligence.
To be gentle with those who serve,
since they are not free to resent.
To forswear luxuries, ever indulged
by shunting the cost onto others.
To avold arrogance, which corrodes
the man and estranges his fellows.
To be mastered by no habit or
prejudice, no triumph or misfortune,
1o curb the personal wants, which
expand easily but shrink with diffi
culty. :
To cultivate courtesy, which fosters
brotherhood and is the manner of the
heart,
To be just, man's supreme virtue,
which requires the best of head and
heart.—Robert McCurdy, in the Chi
cago Amerlean,
GEMS OF THOUGHT
Hell 1s full of good meanings and
wishings.—Herbert.
No woman {8 educated who is not
aqual to the successful management of
a family.—Belnap.
We are as near to heaven as we are
far from self, and far from the love
of a sinful world.—Rutherford.
You may depend upon it that he is
a good man whose intimate friends are
all good, and whose enemles are de
cidedly bad.
I'ew things are impracticable in
themselves; and it I 8 for want of ap
plication, rather than of means, that
men fail of success.—Rochefoucauld.
It seems to me we can never give up
longing and wishing while we are
thoroughly alive. There are certaln
things we feel to be beautiful and
good, and we must hunger after them.
~—George Ellot,
TRUTHS
The truth most required {is the
truth least liked.
A little commendation goes a long,
long way.
The greatest wretchedness Is to be
gullty without repentance.
When you obey your superior you
instruct your inferior in obedience.
The greatest \\Tsdoxln is to leave un
sald the wrong thing at the tempting
moment.
WISPS OF WISDOM
The sticker scldom gets stuck.
Charity begins at home, but don't let
it end there.
Every man is the architect of his
own fortune,
The blggest( fool is the man who
fools himself.
It's better to'!lose smilingly than to
win whiningly.
It is backbone ithat makes success,
and pot wishbone. \ -
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IHE LEE COUNTY JOURNAL, LEESBURG, GEORGIA
Turks Know Nothing of Modern
Business “Hustle.”
Coffee “as Is" Coffee Central Feature
of Hospitality—Grestings Marked
by Much Ceremony.
In the Levant coffee Is the central
feature of hospitality, the binding so- !
clal link, writes a correspondent from
Constantinople in the London l)nil,vl
Express. Its consumption partukes of |
a religious ceremony and the ritual is
strictly laid down, |
When you call on a Turkish officlal, |
or, Indeed, on any Turk you mlv:m(-oi
toward him Wwith a sweeping movement
of the right hand, touching your heart,
lips and brow, which he returns. He!
then takes you by the right hand and |
ushers you to the best armchalr on
his right where you settle for half a
moment : then, catehing his eye, you
holf rige; and repeat the sulute, in
cluding in it all the other occupants of
the room. Again a short pause, and
he asks after the state of your re
gpected health, “Praise be to God,”
you reply piously (meaning that you
are quite well, thank you). “And your
high excellency’s health?' “God be
praised,” he returns, and when you
have exhausted one another's families
there ensues another and longer pause,
He comes out of a profound medi
tation, as if a blindingly original idea
had attacked him. “Your high per
sonality drinks a coffee?”’ he inquires,
his hand hovering over the little bell
inseparable from a Turkish office
table. Yecu assent, and the bell is
struck. A servant enters, buttoning
up his coat in token of respect and
folding his hands over his stomach.
Every Turkish office, from the prime
minister's to the mudir's in an outly
ing village, has an authorized coffee
maker attached to it. His function
{g to lighten the dull round of daily
toil by mfhistering to very cultivated
palates.
Before he touches the coffee it has
hbeen slowly roasted in an inclined re
volving cylinder over an ash or char
coal fire, and then ground to a fine
powder; to insure absolute smoothuness
this powder is hammered on an anvil,
a most tuneful proceeding. This final
verfect quintessence of coffee is mixed
with the accurate quantity of sugar
specified, and the water added in the
“iprik” or “Jjezve,” which are two
names for the same little saucepan.
The jezve is pushed reverently among
the ashes, which are then fanned to
the required temperature, and the cof
foe is three times brought to the hoil
and three times cooled by the addition
of a few drops of water. Then once
more for luck, and it is poured into
little cups witheut handles, like the
glop-basin of a doll's tea set, placed
on a brass tray and offered to the
guest.
After all this you may get on with
your business, if you haven't forgot
ten what it was.
Lost and Found.
Umbrellas are lost and found fre
quently enough, but seldom is one the
means of helping one person to find
another. In his recent volume on book
collecting Mr. A, Ildward Newton says
that while he was at a hospital in
London he was anxious to have a cer
tain bookseller come and see him; he
tolls liow his umbrella helped to ful
fill his wish,
My uncle, he says, had never seen
Mr. Hutt, who kept a bookshop at
some distance from the hospltal, and
since he had been in London only
forty-eight hours he did not know his
way round and was s nervous as a
hen. I told him as well as T could
where the shop was, and he started
off. As he went I noticed that he was
carrying my umbrella, which has a
curious horn handle studded with
rotundheaded tacks,
He promptly lost his way, and an
tour later my friend, Mr. Hutt, who
was hurrying along the crowded
Strand, saw a man apparently looking
for some one or something and car
rying my umbrella! Calling my uncle
Iw name—he had heard me speak of
him—nhe asked if he could direct him
anywhere, My uncle was amazed and
conducted my friend, or rather was
conducted by him, to my bedside.—
Youth's Companion,
Rays From Human Hand.
A member of the faculty of the Uni
versity of Pennsylvania made X-ray
phetographis by means of secondary
radiations from his hand exposed to
the action of a Crookes tube, which
was so screened that its rays could not
directly reach the photographic plate.
Other things besides the hand, such as
pieces of wood, zince, and brass, were
found to possess a similar property of
being excited to the emission of invis
ible rays by the action of the tube.
On two occasions the investigator has
suffered frem inflammation of the eyes
and throat when sleeping in a room
where X-ray experiments had been
conducted, and he thinks the cause
may have been the secondary radia
tion from the air or the objects in the
room.
Foreigners in New York.
Of the 10,385,227 inhabitants of New
York state, 6,634,409 or 63.9 per cent,
are natives of that state, according to
an announcement of the census bureau
of the Department of Commerce. Less
than 1,000,000 of the population were
born in other states, while almost 3,-
000,000 were born in foreign countries.
The percentage of native Americans
in the state had increased from G 9.8
in 1910 to 72.8 in 1920, with an equal
reduction in the percentage of for
eign born residents.
Suppose the gulosh does go—lit wus
tou sensible to lust,
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These days keep the geography busy
following the flag.
M
Mother-in-law is the initiative and
referendumn or the recall, '
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The consumer isn't listening to the
hen's lay. He is listening for it. |
In ease they must use gas in ware
fare, let them choose laughing gas.
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A sentiment that artiticlal gas Is
a little high is no more than natural.
Those better relations Invited by Rus
sia had better take along their own
eats.
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Berlin thieves are even stealing
fences while over here they steal for
them,
You seldom find any old-fashioned
fellow longing for an old-fashioned
winter,
The trouble as usual about the beau
tiful snow is that it will not stay
that way.
As eggs come down, bacon goes up.
Is there never to be harmony in the
world again?
Our idea of the simon pure vege
tarian is the one who refuses to eat
animal crackers.
About once around in a revolving
one would make most anybody for the
open door policy.
The man who can really appreciate
the beautiful snow poem Is the man
who sells overshoes.
Many believe that to leave the fight
ing afreraft up there would be the
height of inconsistency.
The typist who wrote more than
50 words a minute may soon be able
to equal the talking record.
The auto trade should equip the
public with shock absorbers if it in
tends to keep on cutting prices,
Arousing public opinion in behalf
of the open door policy is a hard thing
to do until the weather gets warmer.
Insurance companies want to in
crease rates for theft, They say the
thieves are making too much mileage.
If a married man dreams he’s a bach
elor it's a sure sign he will meet with
a disappointment when he wakes up.
Among old-fashioned people there s
reasonable doubt whether cider will
taste good under the name of apple
Juice,
Clonorchiasis, an Oriental disease,
has appeared in the United States
and it certainly has an . expensive
sound, :
Great little nation, Switzerland.
Never worries about armies and nav
ies. Relies on her strongest weapon
—cheese, :
The reason So many women marry
before they reach the age of twenty
five is that it takes so long to reach
that age.
An opera singer says that no woman
is worth loving until she is thirty,
Maybe not; but how is one to tell when
she is thirty?
Another convicted man has turned
to the Bible. The trouble is that so
many of them wait until aftver con
viction to turn. |
It is discovered that American shoes
are cheaper abroad than at home,
They have to be, or they couldn’'t buy
them over there. |
Women have been driving men out
of coal mines, but we haven't heard
of the ladies preventing men from
working in diamond mines. I
Men and their wives have been
known to squabble over who wore the
trousers in that particular family, but
the knickers have settled that. l
The wireless telephone sermon di
rect from pulpit to the home is now
said to be entirely practicable, except
as to taking up the collection, !
P e 1
Every agriculiurist feels that he
has a fortune in prospect if he can
only get the mortgage paid off the old
place and turn it into golf links, ;
e e e e 1
A professor rises to defend the prac
tice of splitting infinitives and those
who do it probably will continue re
gardless of the ultimate decision. I
Still, a good many communists swore
by that faith as long as it appeared
possible to get anything out of it. They
were communists for revenue only.
Complaint is made that the old
fashioned, clinging type of woman has
gone out. Some of them still can be
found in the miscellaneous cafes, dane
ing.
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You cannot convince an egg con
sumer that the New York hen that
had its heart taken out by a surgeon
is the only hen right now that hasn't
a heart, I
King George V is said to have brok
en all records for elevations to the .
peerage. Perhaps he intends to ele
vate a 4 majority of the commoners, so
there will be no effective oppositiont
ALB-TIME MONARCHS “PIKERS'
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Ordinary Man Today Lives In Luxury
of Which They Cculd Have No
Conception,
Take away all our machinery and
steam and electrical power, and It
would require 3,000,000,000 hard-work
ing slaves to duplicate the work done
by Amerjcans, &
The use of power and machinery
gives to every man, woman and child
in our country the equivalent of 30
slaves,
This is figured out in the latest bul ‘
letin of the Smithsonian institution,
observes the Haverhill Gazette, |
Why envy the nobleman, back in
ancient Egypt or Bagdad, with 80|
slaves tolling for him?
He had swiftrunning slaves bring
him fish from the ocean and birds'
tongues from the mountains, .
Today, with a few dimes, you canl
get a tin can of shrimp brought from
Japan, a package of dates from Syria, 1
a bug of nuts from Brazil, sardines
from Norway. .
Your slaves—machinery and poweri
—bring them. |
For a few cents you can buy enough
matches to start 1,000 fires, When
the ancient nobleman’s fire was doused
by the rain, he shivered in the cold
until slaves made a blaze by friction
or brought firebrands from afar.
Plenty of old scttlers, now living,
can recall the days before matches,
when they ran & mile from the near
est neighbor's with a shovelful of
blazing coals.
Your real wealth is measured not in
money but in a number of things you
obtaln to eat and wear, the easc with
which you get them, the comforts and
conveniences of your home, methods
of transportation and amusement.
I{ is only a few centuries since cven
the richest kings had no sewers, run
ning water, rapid transportation or
any of the commonplace things that
hrighten the lives of all today.
Kach year adds to our comforts
and conveniences.
A few years ago only the richest
men in town had autos. Now there’s
an auto for every 12 Americans.
#Henry Ford is experimenting with
a mixture of glue, cotton and for
maidehyde. He expects to make a
powerful building material out of
these. If he succeeds, he'll stamp
flivvers out like doughnuts,
That scems like a dream. But it is
merely tvpical of the processes of
mass production that have g?\'vn,th(-
averaze person luxuries that were de
nied the kings of antiquity.
Measured in ancient standards, we
are all kings today, with the slaves of
electricity, steam and machinery toil
ing constantly for us. :
Ants Divided Into Castes.
Every colony of ants is diyided into
sharply defined ecastes. The largest,
as a rule, are the workers, which are
nearly the size of the queen ant, but
which lack the wings. The largest ants
commonly act as policemen or de
fenders of the colony, and in some
species their jaws are sufliciently pow
erful to crush seeds and the hard
parts of insects. In some colonies
where the workers are not needed or
are found to Le too expensive to rear
and maintain on account of their size
and appetites, they have been elim
inated, and the worker caste is repre
sented by the tiniest of the colony.
The queen ant may live from 12 to
17 years, and may produce offspring
up to the time of her death. Unlike
the queen bee, she is not hostile to
her offspring, and in some species the
queen daughters return to the ma
ternal colony after their marriage
flicht and take an active part in in
creasing its population. When a col
ony grows too large it may separate
into several, the queens emigrating
singly and taking with them a small
company of workers who form the
nucleus of the new nest,
Champions the Homely Man.
Do homely nten Imake best hus
bands?
The merits of the homely husband
were upheld by Judge Theodore J.
Richter, who has tied and untied hun
dreds of matrimonial knots.
The handsome man is more likely
to become a litigant in divorce pro
ceedings, not because his good looks
make him worse, but because they are
likely to make his wife jealous, he
said. Her jealousy leads to mistrust.
“The handsome man who is con
stantly nagged by a jealous wife finally
gets tired of protesting his innocence.
He may think that as long as his fidel
ity is questioned he might as well go
astray.
Judge Richter said that handsome
ness in a man is often a handicap.
Good looks make him conceited and
cause him to attach too much impor
tance to the incidentals of his person
ality rather than upon actual accom
plishment.—Detroit News.
Expanded Rubber for Insulation.
A new use for rubber has been dis
covered in a non-conductor of lhiecat for
cold storage pipes and chambers. The
work of experimenting with all possi
ble materials suggested for the pur.
pose has been conducted by the na
tional physical laboratory of London
and the best results obtained were
with rubber expanded by gas wicth a
highly cellular form. It has also the
advantage of being light. .
Nonobservant Traveler.
“I'd like to meet your friend. He,
must be an interesting person.” l
“Why so?”
“T understand he's been to Europe
a dozen times or more.” y ‘
“He doesn't know anything abou
Europe except taxi fares and hotel
charges. You cam get all that kinr"
of Information you need omt of a tom
{sts’ guide.”—Birmingham Age‘Hernldl
AROUND THE WORLD
Haitl has no navigable rivers,
Australin has no active volcanoes.
Coloinbla produces the finest emer
nlds, !
Holland has a cow to every inhab
itant, :
fimzll is as large as the whole of
Europe,
Uruguay will celebrate its centenary
in 1925.
Formosa has a world monopoly of
camphor,
Ceylon produces the world's finest
cinnamon,
Wales has the largest slate quarries
in the world.
Persia has no distilleries, breweries
or saloons.
The Fiji islands have almost no na
tive animals,
Palestine is about the size of the
state of Vermont.
Sweden is a land of enlightenment;
education is compulsory.
India has 80 cities, each with a popu
lation of more than 100,000.
Japan is so mountainous that only
about one-sixth of its land is culti
vated.
BEFORE CHRISTIAN ERA
Egyptian children played seesaw
4,000 years ago.
The earliest mention of shoes is on
Egyptian papyrus written aboit 2,200
8.0 .
The oldest known banknotes were is
sued in China 2,837 years before the
Christian era.
Students of ancient languages hiave
failed to discover in them any system
of punctuation.
The first lunar eclipse of which there
is record occurred March 19, 721 B.
C., according to Ptolemy.
The first mention of wheat i 8 in
Genesis 30:14 in the account of Jacob’s
sojourn with Laban in Mesopotamia.
“The Tale of Two Brothers,” by
Enna, written about 4,000 years ago, is
regarded as the world's oldest fairy
story. ~
Hair oil was used by the Egyptians
430 B. C. Dog's paws, asses’ hoofs
and dates, bolled in oil, comprised the
ingredients,
Glass was used by the Romans in
the time of Tiberius and the ruins of
Pompeii show windows of glass used
prior to the advent of Christ.
Ball games, which merely consisted
of throwing and catching a ball,
originated in Greece and were popular
with the nobility of anclent Rome.
LITTLE ONES FOR A CENT
Safety first. Sew up the hip pocket.
Hope doesn’t work as hard as am
bition.
Wages of sin never drain the sin
treasury dry.
Joy! When the new ailment appears
the old one disappears.
Speech was given us to conceal our
thoughts, especially slang. /
One can find out enough “things for
his own good” without being told.
If muslc prevents crime let us have
concerts continuous like the movies.
Uncormfortable it is to make an ex
cuse for yourself that you can’'t ac
cept.
When married couples quarrel fin
public it shows how profoundly they
enjoy quarreling.
How reckless the astronomers are in
exploding the doctrine that the stars
were created for the enjoyment of
man.—*“Rhoda Montade” in St, Louis
Globe-Democrat.
PITHY PARAGRAPHS,
The alarm clock usually catches a
fellow napping.
One need not be a botanist to recog
nize a blooming idiot.
Water on the brain is seldom due
tc a thirst for knowledge.
A fellow is certainly up in the alr
when a woman sweeps him off his
feet.
If they had to turn their own grind
stones fewer people would have axes
to grind.
Some soclety people prune their
genealogical trees by cutting off their
poor relations,
It is from the family jar one dis
covers . whether one has married &
peach or a lemon.—Boston Transeript.