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Lee Co. Journal
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OFFICIAL ORGAN OF 1} E COUNTY
hy e AND CITY OF LEESBURG
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Published Every Friday
J. P. HORNE, Editor & Publisher
Entered at the Postuflice at
Leesbrug, Ga,, ns second
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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1922
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GENERAL OFFICES
NEW YORK AND CHICACO
MRANCHES IN ALL THE PRINCIFAL CITICS
BEAUTY AND ITS INFLUENCE
Take a pebble that lies in our
path. To nine men out of ten it i
a pebble, nothing more; but to the
tentlr man itis a world. -Ashe
gazes upon it his thoughts go back
to primeval ages, when o stillne:s
like that of death reigned throukgh
out epace until the spirit of God
moved upon the face of the waters
ang the impluse of life et in motion
all the atoms to form a world.
This tenth man looking on the
pebble, recalls that ite component
pafl.s enter into the composition of
the vast pyramids—mausoleums of
mummied kings, and relies of bar
baric grandeur. Or he sces the
rock in the wilderness smitten by
the rod of Moses and its cool waters
gushing forth to save and rolace the
thirsting children of Israel. Ie
‘wees the stately colums of Jerusalem,
the gorgeous palaces of Rowe, the
magnificent statues of the old World
all constructed from the same mat
erial as the little pebble.
Thinge are often beautiful to us
by association. Who has not known
and loved a Mary, a name sacred in
history and lovely in song? Pluck
an apple blossom from the ftree at
your door, There are gayer flowers,
but none dearer to memory. A 3
you look its delicate beauty and ins
hale its fragrance, the long, care
filled years drop away from you
like a mantle and you® are a child
again, sitting up on the branches of
the grarled old patriarch of the, @
chard, watehing the bees dip their
brown heads into the pink blossoms,
_There i 8 no attribute of uature so
refining and elevating in its tend
encies as that of beauty. Once
there was sent to one of our state
prisons a woman hardened through
a long career of wickedness, All
efforts to reform 'her had proved
vain. She scoffed at the prayers of
the chaplain and the counsel of the
good prison matron. One day, while
shie was being allowed to walk with
in the high-walled prison inclosure,
a little child, with a handfull of
wild flowers, was passing on the out
side. Seeing the womans face be
hind the iron bars of the gate. the
little one stopped, smiied wistfully
into the sullen eyes, and putting
her hand through the buars, offered
the prisioner a pure white daisy.
The woman took it and carried it
with her to her cell. Asshesatand
Jooked at it her fuce softened. The
hard lines about her mouth relaxed,
the sulleny look melted and tears
rolled down her cheeks. It was a
little thing, a wild daisy, but who
con tell what hidden springs it
touched, or what memories of bys
gone days of innocence it called up.
‘% Too often we are unmindful of
the wonderful mission of beauty,
and of how much itlies in the power
of each of us to add to the happiest
of others through its influence.
‘Have you a friend languishing on a
bed of pain? ~Send him the sweets
est flower in your garden. Is there
one next door whom - society has
frowned upon? Give her a cheer
ful word and a pleasant smile and
your ministrations of beauty will be
remembered by him who does not
forget even the ‘‘cup of cold water"
e
offered in his name.” ‘
‘Peach your little child to love and
cherigh all beautiful things. Tell
it that the same plastic hand mold=
ed the lilly’s cop thet formed (e
round world from which it .vpim-g.!_
'l‘euc’{ your daughters that the
‘adoring of a pure and lovely gpirit
are more beautiful than the
treasures of Golconda,
' Pyain your sonz tolove the handi
work of God, and to feel the beauty
of virtue and truth, Sueh teachings
enter into and mould the ¢haracter
into harmony with the fair tniverse,
The world is full of beauty! The
air is living with is spirit, and the
gea, Lhe mountains, the ;zr(-u{ field~
and the bigh, mysterious stars are
clothed with beauty, whose influence
is full of peace and joy.
FOR RENT.
250 Acres fine Cultivable
land, nice home, tenant hous
es and pastureg. One of the
hest farms fn Dougherty.
MKS. J. D. WOOTJEN,
Sylvester, Ga.*
BOND ELECTION.
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GEORGIA—LEE COUNTY.
To The Registered Qualified Voters
of Redbone School Distriet:
Notice is herelby given thit onthe
't‘.l‘.lth day of November 1922 an elee
ltiun wiil be held in the Redbone
School Distriet of Tee County, Geor
‘gin, at which will be submitied to
the "q-gistcrod qualificd voters of
eaid school district, the question
whether bonds shall be issued l'_\'l
said school distriet in the amount
of twelve thousand and five !mn\ln-d}
dollars ($12,500) for the purpese uf]
erecting and building and (-quippi:,gi
a school house in and for gaid scheol!
district. Said bonds to bear inm'—!
est at the rate of «ix per cent. pu.-i
annum, payable s«-mi-mzmmll_\-. on
the first day of January and Hn‘
first day of July in each year. F.q’«ll
honds fo be in denominations ol
five hundred dollars ($500) m';h,!
and the principal thereof to be paid
“as follows: : i
| Five hundred dollars (£500) puy
able on l\m first day of January in
cach year from the year 1926 to
1950 inclusive:
l Poles will be open at the rvegula
'vming place of the Redbone District
at 9 o'clock n.m, and elose at 3
o’clock p.m.
' Those desiving to vote in favor of
||l|is issue of said bonds will ('!u S 0
‘l)_\' casting ballots having written
or printed thereon the words,
“For School House” and those de
siring to vote against the issue of
bonds will do e by easting ballots
having written or printed thereon
Illm words ‘Against School House”'
' It is further ordered that notice
shall be signed by the vhfiirm:m of
of this Boawd i the County School
Superintendent, for wud in behalf
of the board; and that said oflicials
Iprocemls forthwith 1o have the s;n:;«-i
published and posted ax herein™ be
fore required agreeable to the )\l'n‘
lvision of the Code of Schoeol Laws
enacted by the General .-\ssmui»ly’
of this State, session 1919, . 4
| W.H. Lansford, Chairman,
| Board of Edueation I.ce County.
ATTEST: / l
8. J. Powell, County School Supt. |
| and Ex-ofti. Clerk Board of Rdu-!
~ cation, Lee County, Gecrgia. ,
'GEORGIA. Lee County. ‘
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¢ 1, 8. J. Powell, County Sciool!
Superintendent of said county, do'
hereby certify that the above and!
foregoing is a true and eorrect (‘u):_v%
(u( the order of the Board of Educa- :
tion of said county, as _the same
appears cn the wminutes of said
Board. ;
Given under mv hand. and seal
of office this the 27th day of Qct.
1922, - |
Signed: S.J. PONELL,
County Schoo! Superintenden
Lee County, Georgia. rj
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THE LEE COUNTY JOURNAL, LETSBURG, GRORGIA
CHINESE ‘MINISTER AS CUPID,
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Jesting Reimark Made by Wu Ting
Fang Led to the Union of*Twe
Loving Hearta,
Wn Ting Fang was, while minister
at Washington, attending the wedding
of the danub‘{nr of the chief justice
at that time. At the breakfast he
asked one of the bridesmalds when it
would be her turn to become a biide.
She modestly =aid that she did not
know, a% she had not yet had an of
fer, Turning to a gronp of young men,
Doctor.Wu Joenlarly remarked to one
of them, “This Is a Dbeautiful lady,
would .you not - like to marry her?’
He replied, “I should be most delight
ed to.” “Will you accept his offer?”
gald Doctor Wu to the bridesmaid.
She seemed slightly embarrassed and
said something to the effect that as
ghe did not know the gentleman she
could not give a definite answer.
Meoting the Chinese minister at an
“at homge” a few days later, she scold
ed him for his bluntness, and he ex«
cused himself by saying that he wa¢
actuated by the best of motives.
A few months afterward Wu re
celved an Invitatlon from the young
lady's parents to attend her marriage.
The bridegroom was the young man
who had figured In the unconventional
incident. To Wu’s agreeable surprise
the mother of the bride informed him
that it was he who had first brought
the young couple together, and both
bride and bridegroom heartily thanked
him for'his good oflices,
EXCITED WRATH OF DICKENS}
Great Writer, at His Best, Denounced
Public Hangings, Which Were |
Disgrace to English Law.
Charles Dickens, at the time of the
execution of Manning and his wife for
the murder of PPatrick O'€onnor, was
at his fullest power as a writer, In a
letter to the London Times he wrote:
“] belleve that a sight so inconceiv
ably awful as the wickedness and levi
ty of the immense crowd collected at
the execution this morning could be
fmagined by no man, and presented by
no Leathen land under the sun. The
horrors of the gibbet and the crime
which brought the wretched- murderers
to it faded in my mind before the
atrocious bearing, Yooks and language
of the assembled spectators. When I
came upon the scene at wmidnight the
shrillness of the cries and howls that
were raised from time to time, denot
ing that they came from a concourse
of hoys apd girls already assembled in
the best places, made my blood run
cold. When the two miserable crca
tures who attracted all this ghastly
sight about them were turned quiver
ing into the air, there was no more
emotion, no more pity, no more thought
that two immortal souls had gone to
judgment, no more restraint in any of
{he previous obscenities, than if the
name of Christ had never been heard
in this world, and there were no belief
among men but that they perish like
the beasts.” - ;
Lao-tsze Wrote Gospel of Taoism.
« Lao-tsze wrote the gospel of Taoism,
from whose pages an immense re
ligion grew up. laving been librarian
of a Chinese king, and having much
time for meditation, he came after
many years to the t‘nnclusion that hu
mility was the supreme virtue. Ie
resigned, and desired to hide in se
clusion. While passing through the
cate of the palace on his way to soll
‘tude the warder besought him: “You
are about to withdraw yourself grom
thes world. I pray you write me a
book before you go.”
Lao-tsze thereupon sat down and
wrote a book about half the size of,
St. Mark's gospel, He gave this to
the warder, passed through the gate
and no man knows where he died.
The little book Is thée gospel of Tao
ism, The word “Tao” means way—
mgn of destiny. The advice was that
men should become like little chil
dren and act without reflection.
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CHINESE NOW CLAIM HONOR
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Buddhist Priests Said to Have Discov
| ered Amerca Long Before
Day of Columbus. L
Legends common to the literature
of both Chiha and Japan relate that
about the year 499 Hwui Shan, a
Buddhist missionary, in company with
five brother priests, found a land
many miles to the eastward of China
which he ndamed Fusang. They sailed
along the Chinese coast to Kamchat
ka and thence along the Aleutian is
lands to Alaska. The description of
the peoples they found fits the Aleuts
and the Eskimos as they are today.
From Alaska, which they called
Great Han, they gailed along the coast
to Fusang. Hwual Shan describes the
dwellings made of blocks of sun-dried
mud, which housed many people, a
description which ‘fits the pueblos of
ancient America. He mentions a plant
used in making cordage and paper,
which afforded vegetable milk and
which yielded tender edible sprouts.
The maguey plant also answers this
description. =
He also describes a plant and its
fruit which is the species of cactus
commoniy known as the prickly pear.
I'rem the Chinese records, therefore,
Fusang was very like Mexico.
A few years ago the Thinese gov
erument directed its historian to make
a search of the imperial records, and
from them came the foregoing ac
count,”
SEEING POWER™ OF INSECTS
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Interecting Data Collected in Connec.
tion With Studies in Comparisen
' With the Human Eye.
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Very curious data have been collect
ed Iy rem}fd to the seeing powers of
Inseces, The hwmuan, eye in perfect
condition 18 able to see objects sepa
rately that are only one minute of are
apart, Put two objects, as, for In
stance, Two black circles, on a white
greund Just one inch apart and thén
place them at a distance of about
286% feet, As geen with the naked
eye the apparegt space between the
eircles will be”a minute of are, This
gpace Ig plainly the limit of detail vis
ible to the unassisted human eye,
Now it might be supposed that an
inseet, havifiz a compound eye, would
he able'to see more detall than we do;
in other words, could separate #all
objects cloger together., As a matter
of fact, owing to the small aperture of
the lenses composing the facets of the
eye, and the gpacing between the
facet§, Insects see less detail than
we do.
It has been calculated that a dragon
fly cannot see separately two objects
that are placed less than one degree
apart, In other words, to such an in
sect two €lver coing lying on a table
three inches apurt, and, viewed from a
distance exceeding 14% feet, woulgd
appear as a single object,
Bees and flies, according to the
snme ihvestigator, are still more lim
ited in their ability to see the detalls
of objects presented to their eyes. A
fly could see tiie two silver coins above
dcscribcd."so]»;:m!cly only at a dis
tance not exceeding about seven feet.
It has been remarked @s a conse
quence of this that we can see the de
tails on the antennae of a fly at a dis
tance of two feet or more better than
the fly itself can, thovugh they are but
the fraction of an inch from its eyes.
—Washington ftar,
PESSIMiSM NEVER IN ORDER
Present Time Always Just as Good 2
Time as Any, if Gne Will
but Censider.
_ Our age is bewailed as an age of In
troversion. Must- that needs be . evil?
We, it seems, are critical; we are em
barrassed with second thoughts; we
cannot enjoy anything for hankeriug
tgknow whercof the pleasure consists;
we are lined with eyes; we see with
our feet; the time is infected with
Hamlet’s unhappiness— |
, Sicklied o’er with the pale cast of
thought. \ .
Is it 5o bdd then? Sight is the last
thing to be pitied. Would we be blind?
Do we fear lest we should outsee na
ture and God, and drink truth dry?
I look upon the discontent of the liter
ary class as a mere amnouncemeit cf
the fact that they find themselves not
in the state of mind of*their fathers,
and regret the coming state as untried;
as a boy dreads the water before he
has learned that he can swim, If tliere
is any period one would desire to be
born in—is it not the age of Revolu
tion; when the old and the new stand
sidd by side, and admit of being com
pared; when the energies of all men
are searched by fear and by hope;
when the historic glories of the old
can be compensated by the rich possi
bilities of the new cra? This time,
like all times, is a very good one, if
we know what to do with it.—lalph
Waldo lEmerson,
; + Origin of Polika-Dot.
Silvered with the dust of decades is
the polka-dot pattern in men's scarfs.
[Fashions may appear and disappear,
but the polka-dot is peerless and dis
appearless. As regularly as suarise
and the seasons, this design brightens
windows and wearers, It is one-and
invisible with the fine art of dress
alike in America and England.
To the polka-dot is ascribed an odd
ancestry. Its name, of course, is de
rived freny the polka, an old-fashioned
round dance with three steps to the
measure., This dance, introduced in
Eurgpe by a Behemian, round abiout
1835‘ spread to the United States at
the time that Polk was a candidate for
the presidency. The polka-dot was
bracketed with Polk’s name by politi
cal admirers, nnd.pnlka:this and polka
that, from shirts to shoes, became a
bit of furore in meirchants’ windows,
SE R LAN e S
Wood Has Bad Reputation.
Elder is of- ill-omen since Judas,
they say, hanged himseif thereon, yet
it has the virtue of beauty in the days
of wild roses and honeysuckle. Eider
flower-water is good for complexions,
say rustic maids, and old-time farmers
claim for elderberry-wine that' it is
“a pretty tidy tipple.” .
Though the elder-wood is a danl.
weed-infested place, it is to the liking
of rabbits, that always seem to abound
there. ' : EP
*Such weoods cumber the ground, but
here and there the superstition holds
good that to cut or burn elder Is to
arouse the wrath of the trees’ dryad,
and so they are spaied. ¢
Grateful Son.
“My boy,” said the mi‘.liunnfi‘e lec
turing his son on the importance of
economy, “when 1 was® your age 1|
carrjied water for a gang of brick
layera.” =, :
“'m proud of you, father,” an
swered his offspring; “if it hadn't
peen for your pluck and perséverance
I might have had to do something of
that sort myself."—lrish World.
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Minutes of Commissioners _
Meeting Sept. Sth 1922
Meeting Sept. Sth
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GRORGIA—LEE COUNTY. ’ e
e oflice of Commiissioners of Roads and.- Revenues, Lee County, Georgia,
CAdter congidoration the following Lills an 1 acconnts were ordered pgids
IR E Howe, midse to conviet camp a 4 |«'l" bill rendeved ¢ 10 00
Blue-kihbon [wrnessSho, 1 doz hridles as pee bill rendered e 12.00
§ € Coxwell sherif coet Tor undry arvests ' ~ 54 50
I ons wdvanee on swne ' 60 00
- e e 4 5
' 0 450
G, Ala Power Co, power for Angust {for court house b 825
Albany Produce Co. Sundry invoices rendeced . - 0810
B F Powell, halding Ordivary's clection 4 00
D E Graham ¢ = i v : 200
A J Powell o ' o 200
O B Riyg " . Lt 200
E A lark . " s 400
J H Randall R b ' 200
R 3 Baskin, Sept salary s road guard 50 00
J W Costony”. ** i fys gt . : / 40 00
Roy scarbrough- ¢ truckman : 10060
J L Stalnaker s road ;in;ml 14 653
Arclie Frazier ** A i : TR 16 60
Uleveland Sununerford i o - 40 €O
J D Meßride, Sept sal!fl?y as warden ' v 100. GO N
W VW Cowart, Dirt for road work 600
J F ilines, Board Lill for prisquers : 235 00
T King, T C Conuniszion on tax retnrns for 1922 . 567 13
ta Ala PPower Co, power for Sept for jail : i
Glover Gro Cp. Inv 8-15-22 23 10
D M. Melvin Jr, beef for conviets as per bill %15
Stovall-Yeoman-Lyon Co. supplies for caimp as per bill rendered 107 94
[0 I’ Bags; motor parts and” repairs as per bill . 500
it P Bass, Twanber az bill rendered for bridges 109 89
D € Jones, 51400 by huy ! 54 00
I' R Lewis, four days service as cattic inspector 20 00
[.2e County Journal, adyertising as per bill rendered 27 00
1 Forrester, report to state Burean of Vital Statistics < z 00
Jll Randall ~ “%y “ L s - 500
'3 H Laramor ™ &.yit £ ; 850
Leesburg Auto Co mdtor parts and repaics | 12 15
N A Wade, 7845 Lay . . 74 52
' W AQCurtis, Llacksmith work Aug i 30 85
W 14 Tarpley, removing tree from road 9-5-22 2 00
W A Curtiy, making boolease G A Wallace : 5 250
Yai.cy Bros. Invoice 8-4-22 ; . ; : "63 60
Georgia Tamber Bldg Co. Lumber Iny 7-2-22- , A 9 00
standard Oil Co. Sundry Iny : \ 291 33
Ameriens Gro Co. Inv §-4-22 to date : - 76 3:
T O Tharp, Treas, cash jlems as per vou submitted 3 393 21
Leeshury Drug Co. Drugs for camp as per bill reud : 44 35
G A Wallace Clerk, Sexvice renas per hill i : 19 14
W G Martin, Aug salary as-city court Judge ; 125 00
O Westaghan 30 8 county ;»hysi:-fi‘am _ , 25 0V
R R Forrester ‘97 ¢ atty ‘@ 25 00
S ¥eoinaty -it 9 as agst to wardea - 7 ¢ 50 00
J J-Potrester - s anrelevk of Boagd :- . : 25 00
Ol addition to the above serips was issued on the Rreasurer to all paupers
appearing on the panper-dist. - There Le'ng no furthor business the .meeting was
adjourned pntil next regniar meciing day. Septeinber &, 1922 :
Sigred, J..J, FORRESTER, Clerk.
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LEESBURG, § 1 GEORGIA
/ Quick Action
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Lowest Commissions
Sce M. MeDONALD, Americus, Ga.
ATLANTA TRUST CO.
Atlanta, Georgia ;
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YULICe 10 Lilh
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* Tax Payers
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This is to Uoflify all nersons inter
ested that the books for the coileetion
of City taxes are now open and
must be paid beforc December 20th.
Al parties why hava net paid al
that time will have Fi. Fas. issued
ayainst them and the Marsnsll will
be instructed to levy. Phy your
‘aves now and save all coale,
Very Respeetiully, :
: R H. FQRRESTER,
Clerk and Treasurer.
G sl e s
g % %8 Tk
Hunting License, =
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The open season for cquirrels
speng October Ist and to be on the
ife side be sure and get your
icense, - You can get them at any
time. : i |
D. M. MELVIN,
Game Warden.
Lot
8 Cures Malaria, Chils
365 and Tever, Dengue or
+ Pikoms Peveroig o' v
|+ WARATID TO TRABE
| £ g
‘i[ have a second hand buggy in good
frepair that will trade for milk cow.
|' Bee W. A. Curtis at Blackemith
| Shop,_ #
1 FAS SHLE O TRADE
i 42 inch Mill Rock to sell cheap
Ifor cash or will trade for anything
i of equal value.
. W. A. CURTIS,
Lceshurg, Ga.
FULES FOR SALE
The Connnissiongrs of Lee county
!wi'l offer for sale; in front of the
Court house deoor, to thé highest
and best bidder for cash, on the first
Taesday in Décember, 3 mules as
the property of Lee county. If you
‘want to buy mules i) will pay you to
altend this sale. By order of coun
1y Commissioners. - :
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