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Things that ure done, thing that are made,
Short and snappy reading that’s true,
Places they go and things they do,
Get in on it, it’s in here for you,
The E litor mwde o business trip
to Americus Monday.
Mr Sam Hirschensohn wade a
business trip to Pelham this week.
Miss Jewel Wallace has returned
home from a visit to friends at
Mcßae.
666 cures Dengue Fever
Mr. and Mrs. E. P. Bassand ons
spent Sunday in Albany with
friends:
Mrs. Jim Meßride left this week
for an extended visit to her parénts
at Marianna Fla.
Rub-My-Tism, an antiseptic.
Miss Carvolyn Price is visiting in
Shellman as the guest of Mr. and
Mrs. J. O. Hammock.
- Mr. and Mrs. Frank Jaumes and
children, of Florida, spent seveial
days of this week here as the guests
of My. and Mrs. E. B. Martin. |
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Mr. G. A. Wallace, Clerk of the
Court, is in attendanee at the Con
vention of Country Officers in Sa
vannah, this week.
666 caves Malaria! Fever.
Mr. Wallace Forrester. who has
been attending Georgia Tech the
past term, is at home to spend his
Vau‘alion'__\vit,h his parents, Mr. and
Mrs. J..&. Forrester.
. Miss Evelyn Long, who has been
teaching «ediool at Dothan, Ala., the
past term, arnived hom? yesterdoy
to spend the vacation here with her
mother,. Mrs. W. H. Long.
Rub-My:-Tism for Rheumatism
‘Mr. E. B. ILee, Jr,, a student at
Georgia Tech, arrived home today
t) spend the summer vacation here
with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. L.
B.ijee-Sr. :
666 quickly relieves a cold.
“Mi. and Mrs. Elmer Harris and
children, of Memphis, Teun., are
gpending some time here with the
formers parents, Mr. and Mrs. 1.
A ][ill'l'i.‘k
Mr. Joe Crumbly who has been
attending a Dental College in Nash
“ville, Tenn., is spending Lis vaca
tion with his mother and oiher rela
tives, : :
‘. To prevent a cold take 666.
Mrs. J. H. Kirkpatrick and little
son, Jumes, are in Blakely, where
Mr Kirkpatrick went to be at the
bedside of her mother, who is quite
‘sick.
‘666 Cures Bilious Fever.
Misces Malttie Pearl. and Pauline
Wallace and Miss Blanch Lee have
returned from a pleasani visit of
.;:thvch days to friends and relatives
“;in Beuna Vista.
Miss Maggie Baldy, a former resi
dent of leesburg, but now of
Bowling Green, Kentucky, is visit
ing in the eity as the guest of Mrs.
Mary Buukley. She will spend
several weeks here.
666 Cures Chills and Fever.
LOST—Pocket book containing
$lO.OO, between Miss Evelyn Odoms
residence, and the Telephone Ex
change, Wednesday. Return to
Miss Odum znd receive reward. -
WEDDING LORE
Il on your wedding day, {ll most of
your life,
It is bad luck to break a dish or
#liss on your wedding day.
A feather from a canary bird worn
by the bride brings good luck.
Stumble on your wedding morn, and
you'll be a widow before a year.
It is lucky for the man and wife to
be born on the same day of the year,
It is bad luck to have a widow or
widower take part in a marriaze cere
mony.
Don’t touch a dishrag on your wed
ding day, or you will work hard all
your life,
If you agree on the seventh day of
your marriage you will agree on the
seventh year,
Preserve a piece of bread from the
wedding table and you will mever
starve, |
Add the number of letters in thes
first given name of the bride and of
the first given name of the groom to
gether, and if the number is odd, he
will die first; if even, the bride will
die first.
THIS IS NO JOKE
“L.ead others,” said the chain.
“Let me reflect,” said the mirror.
“Hold your tongue,” sald the shoe.
“Don’t hang around,” said the rope.
“Don’t give out,” said the battery.
“Well, T'll be dinged,” said the bell.
“I'm on the blink,” said the light.
“Be self-supporting,” sald the sus
penders. :
“Never give a blow-out,” said the
fuse,
“I'm right on the tick,” said the
watch,
“Well! Tl'll be swamped,” said the
canoe,
“Always keep cool,” sald the re
frigerator.
“Keep your secrets,” said the
'phone,
“Never get heated up,” sald the test
tube.
“}earn to sée through people,” sald
the X-ray.—Science and Invention.
“MEWSINGS”
Something to worry about: Try to
invent a fountain pen that won't foun
tain at the wrong time,
Why is it that the féllow with the
frayed pants and the dirty shirt al
ways has six sure winners before the
races start?
Knowledge of cne's ignorance is a
form of intelligence, and an acknowl
edging of that fact is almost an atone
ment for the condition.
1t may not be of much interest to
anybody, but we have come to the
conclusion that it is about time that
the prop was knocked out of ‘‘prop
aganda.”
Spunk makes you look realities in
the fact without blinking. It is the
only bridge that will lead you across
the chasm of failure into the land of
success.-——Arkansaw Thomas Cat.
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POPULAR SCIENCE
A new washboard has a removable
rubbing surface which may be replaced
as desired. ‘
The up-to-date butcher ghop has its
refrigerator combined with the counter.
Space and steps are saved.
A new traffic control system I 3
operated by clockwork mechanisin.
The “stop” or “go” sign is changed
mechanically at regular intervals.
When engineers have been boring
tunnels through the Alps they have
found rocks inside so hot that it has
been necessary to cool them with
water before the imen could continue
their work.
There is a tendency to increase the
weights of ralls. One hundred pounds
{s standard and many miles of 130-
pound rails have been laid. One lead
ing authorlty claims that there would
be a distinct economy in the use of
200-pound rails. = - -
THE LEE COUNTY JOURNAL, LEESBURG, GEORGIA
AS WE SEE IT.
FOR SALE.
~ (One of our subserilers came in
’and said he warted w advertise his
car for snle. So we looked it over
and this is what we found,)
**One Ford car. with a piston ring,
Two rear wheels, one front spring;
Has no fenders, seat made ot plank,
Burns lot of gas; hard to erank.
Carburetor busted, half way throngh,
Engine missing=hits on two,
Seven years old, eight next spring;
Has shock absorbers and everything,
Ten spokes missing, front axle hent
All tires punctured, torn and rent,
Lots of speed, hops like the deuce
Burng cither oil or tabacco juice,
Present owner can swear like sin
BUT--not equal to the emergency the car
puts him in,”’ Make us an offer,
Special to the married women—
Next month has five pay days,
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Indictinent Charge “"Gambling”’
In Cotton.—\We don’t use the cotton
here.
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The price «f gasoline up again.
Well, too many dopes are not goord
for you anyway.
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Rev. Drexley Fills Pulpit.—
Headlenes; We would like to see
this guy.
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What A Woman Can Do-—Head
lineg, We want {o know what it is
they can’t do?
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We have solved the mystery of
“bobbed hair,”—lt saves lots of
bathing.
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Our Devi! remarked the other day
that e was going to find him a
girf—One application at a time
girls.
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A few days back we saw an ariicle
headed, The Cost of Enforcing Pro
hibition. We have one thing o say
if the the government would go to
the cost of enforeivg it, we conld
buy a block of gum on Sunday
morning.
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We sometimes wish everybody
tould work for as good a man as we
do, we can truthfully say he ig the
best we have ever werked for, he
clways letsais work all we want to
and don’t ever say stop: (If this
don’t get us a raise we will quit try
ing )
BRG &b S
For Sale.
A good second hand open buggy
in gocd repair. Will sell =ame
cheap for cash.
V. A. CURTIS,
At Blacksmith Shop.
Road Tax Notice.
All parties subject to Road Tax
are hereby notified that same are
now due and that* I have been ap
pointed Road Tax Collector for the
Leesburg, Red Bone and Palmyra
Districts, Please settle same as
eatly as possible.
D. M. MELVIN,
Road Tax Collector.
FASY MONEY—in picture show
Ibusiness. Complete outfit, good a
new, seiling at sacerifice. Suited
for road work.—\W. T. Clnistopher,
Montezuma.
NOTICE TO FISHERMAN.,
Ail parties ave hereby notified that
't they are caught trappineg, ne’ting,
gizging cr dynamiting aay sireum
they will be Prosecuted to the fuilest
‘exwent of the iaw. Take notice and
\gnve:'q vourself accordingly.
D. N. MELVIN,
County Game Warder:.
l We want new Subseribers—let us
place. you-on our list—Be a booster
!and gubseribe for your hame paper.
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Excavations Show That Jericho
Was Well Defended.
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Remarkable Resemblance Between Its
Fortifications ang Those Discov.
ered by Schiliemann at Troy
Few excavations of recent times
have had results of more interesting
nature than those on the site of an
clent Jericho, which lles to the east
of Jerusalem and but a few miles north
of the Dead sea, They have revealed
that the Jews had every right to be
proud of their capture of the Canaan
itish fortress, which was most remark
able in its day for strength against
an attacking army, says the Cunarder,
Ten years ago there stood at a dis
tance of a mile and a half from the
modern Jericho a huge oval mound,
known as Tell es Sultan, about 400
yvards long by 180 yards at its greatest
breadth, and rising from 40 to 50 feet
above the level of the surrounding
plain, with a few smaller mounds
slumfing on the top. |,
Professor Sellin began work on this,
alded by the Austro-Hungarian gov
ernment, He unearthed a tremendous
surrounding wall and part of the inte
rior of the town, including the citadel
within the northern end of the oval.
The outer wall proved to consist of
thrree parts. The lowest section was
a solid natural rock foundation, with
a few feet of loam and gravel on it.
On this was built a stone wall about
16 feet high, the two lower courses
being of enormous blocks, in some
cases as large as 6 feet by 3, while In
the subsequent ones the stones grow
gradually less in size. The stone wall
itself also diminishes in thickness as
it ascends, being 8 feet gt its hase.
The top section is of mud brick which
reaches now to a height of about 8
feet, but may originally have bheen
considerably higher. Towers of mud
brick project at intervals around the
whole inclosure. |
Such a fortification must indeed
have been difficult to capture, especial
ly as in the central tler of the sall
the spaces between the blocks were
filled with smaller stones as a protec
tion against the besiegers’ tools. The’
builders were very skillful craftsmen.
Those who have examined both the
remains of Jericho and Troy find
strong resemblances between the walls
just described and those of the “sec
ond city” discovered hy Professor
Schiliemann at Troy, and it is sug
gested that the architects had some
thing in common or learned from the
same masters.
The citadel at Jericho is hardly less
interesting than the outer fortifica
tions. Its walls are built in much the
same way, but they are double, with
a space of 11 to 12 feet behind them.
Two towers rise at the two northern
angles, Within is “a perfect warren
of small houses,” with only a single
thoroughfare among them, as is the
case with many eastern bazaars of to
day. 'Fhese houses, of which one is
in a very fair state of preservation,’
soem to be later in date than the city
walls and to belong to the period after
the Jewish capture of the place. 1
The Canaanites, between the Sev
enth and Fourtecnth centuries B. C,
erected the walls and probably the
greater part, if not all, of the citadel;
but the Jews, while utilizing the shell,
remodeled the interior. |
A thorough examination of the finds,
however, deduced but little as to the
history of Jericho after its fall before
the army of Joshua. Two interesting
points came out—oné, that much
Egyptian pottery was in use; the oth
er, that under the floors of some of
the bouges were earthenware jars, con
taining the bodies of infants.
The sand which composed the
motind of Tel es Sultan has had an
excellent preservative effect, and now
that much of it has been cleared away
it 1s possible to realize vividly how
imposing a place Jericho must have
once looked from the plain for mile§
around. ‘
Shakespeare and Petrarch.
Printing had not been invented in
Petrarch’s day, and it was nearly a
hundred years later, in 1740, that a
very fine first edition was brought
out in Venice, in Roman letters on 180
leaves. One of these has just heen
sold in London for £270 ($1,350). His
torically interesting and of beautiful
workmanship as it is, it lacks the ar
tistic splendor of the fNuminated man
uscript set with miniatures, like pre
clous stones, which was sold for £7OO
($35,000) in the first Thompson-Yates
sale, belonging to an earlier century.
The interest of Petrarch is twofold.
He was not merely among the great
est luminaries of medieval lurope,
he was an inexhaustible mine for the
Jater genius of Shakespeare; and it
was upon the translations in English
and French of the Petrarchian sonnet
that Shakespeare modeled his own.
Grasshopper Feet,
Adult human beings are rarely seen
to skip and hop. It is, however, a
form of exercise in which children
are wont to indulge. Encouragement
of this form of exercise is olfered by
the novel invention of a woman, May
C. Southgate, of New York. It is a
pair of mechanical grasshoppers to
be worn on the feet. The grasshop
pers, of giant size, are put on like a
pair of shoes, and fastened by straps
and buckles to the child’'s feet. They
have legs of spring steel, terminating
in rings which lold rubber fect. A
child equipped with these grasshop
pers can hop, skip or jump much
quicker, while the rubber feet lessen
the shock of alighting.—Milwaukee
Sentlnel,
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