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Black Magic of African Jungles
Still Practiced.
" Yoodoolsm 18 dead. The black magie
of African jungles long since was lald
away by sclence and education and
religion. It could not thrive In these
days of the alrplane and the radlo, Its
last stand was In the canebrakes and
the cotton patches of Louislana and
Mississippl, but the first flickering
electric lights in New Orleans decades
ago drove it away forever.
But, nevertheless, they'll tell you at
the place where sclence holds the most
undisputed sway, the hospital, there
are cases—. :
In the negro ward are brought. the
ground-up needles, the pebbles picked
up in the light of the new moon at the
crossroads, and the tongues of big
frogs bleached In red marked canvas
bags which are worn about the necks
of the patients. The doctors laugh and
the nurses scoff as they throw them
away.
Died on Schedule.
Bed No. 12 In the colored men's
ward of the Charity hospital died on
schedule time.
Late In the afternoon Bed 12 was
examined by the doctors. He appeared
to be getting bettter. Certainly, he
showed no dangerous symptoms.
But when the nurse passed a glass
of water over him to Bed 13, the man
in that bed refused it.
“It's got them things in lit, nurse”
declared Bed 13. :
The nurse held it up to the light.
Bed 12 and Bed 13 looked at each
other and grinned.
“There's nothing in this water, boy.”
“Yes, ma'am, you can't see nothing,”
sald Bed 18. “But there’s always
things In water passed over a man
that's going to be leaving soon.”
Set Time of Death.
“Boy's right,” Bed 12 murmured,
“Everything's going to be over to
night.”
The day nurse tpld the night nurse
about this matter at seven o'clock be
fore she hurried off to change clothes
for a movie.
In the early part of the night Bed
12 slept, but he awoke a little before
one o'clock.
“Everything’s going to be over In
five minutes,” sald Bed 12,
The nurse went back to her table In
the hall where the record of the mis
eries of her patients Is kept In words
such as a mechanical god might use.
She sat a few minutes wondering If
she should call the ward doctor out of
bed. She half decided to call him, but
she went back to the ward before go
ing to the telephone. Bed 12 was
dead.
Nurses Take Away Charms.
Psychology, explains the doctors,
and the nurses agree with an eager
“of course.” DBut the patients with
the rabbits' feet and the pebbles don't
care to argue the question.
Not long ago there was a negro
woman with pellagra, who called the
nurse to her bed and said she saw, the
angels coming for her. That woman
was getting better. There was every
reason to believe she was golng to get
well.
‘“They’'ll be here about three o'clock,”
sald the woman.
And at 8:05 she died.
Most llkely the bags with their
charms are the work of the devil, as
one of the sisters who are nurses put
it. And so they take them away from
the patlents and burn them. There
are pleadings sometimes, but usually
Just mumblings.
Siiver Coin In Onien.
It's not always at the hospital,
either. The other day & colored womn
an, who was remarkable for her white
skin, was murdered by her Chinese
lover, and since all her possessions
have been collected and searched In
settling the estate, which amounted to
more than $4,000. Her estate was
turned over to the public administra
tor, Thomas Nicholls, Among the ef
fects were found certain packages
that Indicated pretty strongly that the
woman had practiced voodoo rites—a
coconut emptied of its natural con
tents and filled with an evil-smelling
liquid—a silver dollar found within
the cut halves of an onion, and all
wrapped in pink silk rags that had
once been part of luxurious and coatly
garments.
Materla medica takes no stock in
frogs' tongues, but here is the case of
an old negro man brought to the Char
ity hospital by his employer:
“This fellow says he is going to die
next Tuesday,” sald the employer.
“See what you can do for him.”
The old negro was, so far as the
doctors could find out, mot a bit sick.
; But he dled when Tuesday came.
KILLS BIG BEAR TO SAVE DOG
Champion Hunter of Georgia Slays
300-Pound Bruin.
Another 300-pound bear has been
killed by Perry Barber of Waycross,
QG&., known as the champion bear killer
of Georgia.
Barber made his latest kill on Su
wannee creek, in the Okefenokee
swamp. He found the bear in the act
of killing one of his prize dogs, and
when trying to drive him away the
bear became enraged and attacked
Barber., Calling some friends, the
chase was taken up, and the bear soon
was overtaken and killed.
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Some Carry Electric Shock,
Others Live on Land.
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Izauk Walton's “Complgat Angler,”
that mellow masterplece of piscatory
erudition, must be rewritten, lor
even the placld world of the angler
has not escaped our common fate of
incrensing complexity. Fish that car
ry an clectrle shock, fish that live on
land and drown in water, fish that
pass their lives inside other fish, full
grown fish 80 small that ten thousand
of them muke a llght breakfast; fish,
in fact, whose terse, geientific de
geription recently by Dr. Albert Herre,
fish expert of the Philippine bureau
of sclence, before the Manila chamber
of commerce has made all accounts of
near-caught marvels of the finny tribe
appear pale and puny, are now as fa
millar to residents of Manila as are
subways, skyserapers, and automats
to New Yorkers,
Fich Shoots Deadly Poison.
A perfeetly transparent fish, with
gkimr like celluloid and its fins placed
where its head and tail should be,
probably the most unique fish In ex
jstence, 18 among the strange and
rare varieties found in Philippine
waters. Another curious fish looks
for all the world like a rock. Should
a human being step on it it squirts a
jet of deadly poison from its shell.
Expert fishermen enjoy meeting the
tanguingue, It is the gamest Philip
piie fish and a tartar when hooked.
Soldiers of Uncle Sam’s- forces sta
tioned in the islands dearly love the
sport afforded by this doughty war
rior, usually rewarding it with free
dom. 'The sea-horse, so-called be
cause Its head bears a remarkable re
semblance to that of a horse, is the
fish whose males carry the eggs in
thelr tails, hatch them, and bring up
the young.
Fish Carries Eggs in Its Mouth.
A climbing perch was recently
found in a flooded lot in the heart of
Manila. It was clinging to a tree,
four feet above the water., This fish
starts out in a single direction and
never alters it, climbing over ob
stacles and jumphv: three feet off the
ground and as far along it. A variety
of catfish found in Luzon carries its
eggs in its mouth. There are also
plenty of pompano, tuna, and lapu
lapu. The latter is a beautifully
colored fish, rivaling the butterfly and
humming-bird in its variegated mark
ings.
The tiger shark, or man-eating va
riety, another favorite play-fellow of
the soldiers, is an inhabitant of Ma
nila bay. Sharks 70 feet long and
thick In proportion are caught in the
waters of the Philippines. Few people
know that commercial cod liver oil is
really shark liver oil. It has also been
discovered recently that the liver of
the Philippine shark will yield a sub
stance used to manufacture the new
dlabetes cure, insulln,
Saw-Fish 22 Feet Long.
Ray fish that give an electric shock
are ‘common in the waters about Ma
nila. Huge barracuda, six feet or
more in length and more dangerous
to man than the shark, swim about in
Philippine waters. Inside the sea-cu
cumber, a varlety of jelly-fish, lives a
smaller fish similar to the sardine.
Sardines without number abound here
abouts, but residents import others,
there being no canneries In the is
lands. At Cebu recently a saw-fish 22
feet long was caught. With its great
tall it attacks schools of small fish,
flaying this way and that with deadly
effect.
A sword-fish, 20 feet in length, was
pulled out of Manila bay not long ago,
The sword of ancother sword-fish wag
found embedded in a copper-sheathed
block of wood, nine inches thick, giv
ing some notion of the force with
which this fish strikes. The find was
brought in to Manila by a corporal in
one of the infantry regiments there
and kept as a souvenir. A smaller
fish lves along the edges of the
numerous rivers of the Philippines
and never goes into the water. It
lives as long as its gills are kept
moist and has been known to exist
this way four or five days.
1,800 Varieties Found.
The dalag, a common Philippine
table fish, which frequents the rice
paddies, must have air in order to live
and drowns-miserably when p]u(‘ed in
water where it cannot come up readily
for its supply of oxygen. Another ls
land member of the finny tribe is the
botitl, which in time of danger blows
itself up with air or water until it as
sumes the shape of a toy balloon, then
flonts on the water's surface, simulat
ing death.
Of all the eighteen hundred varie
ties of fish in the Philippines the
smallest is the ipon, found only-in
Lake Buhi, in the province of Cama
rines Sur. When full grown it reaches
a length of one quarter of an inch.
Yet some of the largest whales ever
seen have come ashore in Philippine
waters, particularly in the vicinity of
Cebu.
Sues Town and Owner of Cow.
Suit for $50,000 damages has been
filed against the town of South Bris
tol, N. Y, and George Standish by
Charles P. Grasser of Rochester, Gras
ser's car hit a cow owned by Standish.
The man and his wife were hurled
from their car, Mrs. Grasser being
killed. : :
THE LEE COUNTY JOURNAL, LEESBURG, GEORGIA.
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Land in Nebraska Is Known as
“1733” as It Is That Dis
tance From Either Side, _
The center of the United States 1s
going to be cut up Into small units
and sold, |
The center of the country Is the
“1738 ranch” just west of Kearney,
Neb., It 18 ealled “1753 ranch” because
it 1s just 1,783 miles from New York
city and just 1,733 miles from San
Francigsco. The farmiouse on the
ranch is the east-and-west center of
the United States, All coast-to-coast
automoblle tourists on the Lincoln
highway pass right in front of the
deer. And transcontinental passen- !
gers on the Union Pacific railroad
pass alongside the ranch for a mile or
two. l
There are 1,400 acres of fine land In '
the ranch and the entire tract is to be
cut into 40-acre farms and sold. Ne- '
braska is beginning to see, and to be- !
lieve that a fariner can make Justt
about as much money on a small body ‘
of land where he can do all the work |
himself as he can make on a big farm !
where he has to hire most of the work |
done, '
At present the “1733" belongs to a l
hotel syndicate and is being used to
produce butter, eggs and poultry for
the different hotel units. But the chain
is going out of business and it has
been decided to subdivide the big |
ranch and sell it off in small tracts, |
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Springs, Colo., who climbed Grand
Teton, 13,747 feet high, the most difli
cult peak in the United States. 'The
top of Grand Teton has only been
reached four times in history and Miss
Davis is the first woman to make the
climb. She made the climb as a rep
resentative of the Colorado Mountain
club and was accompanied by Prof,
Albert Ellingwood, of Lake lorest
college, Lake Forest, 111, a famous
mountain climber.
WARSHIPS VISIT SWEDEN
Nation Has Been Host to Numerous
Navies Recently.
Sweden has been host to more naval
visitors from foreign countries during
six weeks this summer than ever be
fore within so short a period, and the
people look on these courteous atten
tlons as a sign of growing interest in
the country's trade and political posi
tion in the north of Europe.
Ten countries in all have sent war
vessels to Sweden, and ten different
ports, including Stockholm, Gqthen
burg and Malmo,; have been visited.
The United States cruiser Pitts
burgh recently left Stockholm, where
its officers participated in the me
morial services for the late President
Harding. The United States battle
ship North Dakota also was in Swedish
waters this summer.
TURKISH GIRLS HIT VAMPS
Declare Russian Women Are Too
Good Looking.
There are too many attractive Rus
sian refugees on the Turkish marriage
market to suit local fair ones, it ap
pears. For a petition has been sol!
emnly signed, sealed and sent to the
government of the grand national as
sembly at Angora demanding the ex
pulsion of all foreign women under
forty years of age.
The petitioners alleged that since
the arrival of the refugees a Turkish
girl cannot win or buy a husband with
any hope of keeping him. The Rus
sians are all too good looking, or have
too many jewels, or possess the charm |
of novelty. Consequently, the Turk
ish giris want their government to cut
off the importaticn and deport the
Yolga “vamps.”
PROVIDE FOR HIS MEMORIAL
Steel Maker Leaves $lOO,OOO for Shaft
at Washington. 1
Creation of a memorial in his honor |
at the American university at Wash
ington, D. C., is provided in the will of
the late Gordon Battele, stee! manu
facturer, probated at Columbus, 0.,
$lOO,OOO of the estate, valued at $l,-
500,000, being set aside for the me
morial,
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FLASHLIGHTS
Debt is a funnel, with the large end
towards you.
Oftentimes the man who loses hiß
head hasn’t lost much,
It’s easy enough to be cheerful with
the other fellow's troubles.
If lung power were wisdom we know
some men who'd never lose an argu
ment,
It doesn’t take a wife long to dis-.
cover that there's a lot of the baby left
in a grown-up man,
Misery loves company, but we're not.
sure that the company is pleased with
the tale of woe.
If work were always easy and pleas
ant ability would be out looking for
something irksome and difficult to do.
We don’t know anything about it
but we imagine that the husband of
a rich wife has a lot to contend with.
The worst thought about failure lé
that we are sure it wouldn’t happen
if we could have the same chance over
again,
Now and then we wonder if the
grouch really accomplishes anything
worth while with the time he saves by
being disagreeable.
There will always be a market for
automobiles, so long as everybody con
tinues to look forward to the day
when he will have one of his own.
APROPOS OF NOTHING
Cultivate hunger and appetite will
take care of itself,
Trivial bad habits are usually a
form of safety valve,
Worry sometimes becomes so dom!-
pating that one would almost welcome
disaster,
When a dog lays his head In your
lap, it is his way of putting an armn
around you.
There are excitable thermometers.
and like all of the excituble, they are
unreliable,
If you let a 4 boy alone who Is fond
of his first job, he will work himself
nearly to death.
As to auto-suggestion, tf it works
with extreme deliberation, at any rate,
it doesn’t cost much,
Adam started the practice of get
ting a new fall suit, because the
autumn leaves were so much prettier.
It is hateful to put one's *“heel on
the neck of the oppressor,” but not 80,
much as to have the oppressor’s heel
on yours. |
Advertising?
If it is resulte you want
you should tise this
paper. It circulates in
the majority of hemes
in the community and
has always been con
& sidered
Newspaper
The grown-ups
gbaut it, the dmdt!uqm:‘;
forit, and the whole fam
ily reads it from cover to
cover. }'héy will read
r » you place
{fwbdmn them In the
prope; medium,
CHICKENS! CHICKENS!
THOROUGHBRED WHITE LEGHORNS
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I am offering for sale the entire stock of poultry ofi
the Leezsburg Poultry Farm at the following prices: 1
8-Months-old Pullets at . _._§1.60
1-Xroll Bons Mt iI AE
All Cocks and Cockerels at_ . __...__851.25
I must despose of these chickens at once so if you
are interested now is the time to buy chickens and at
the right prices.
LEESBURG POULTRY FARM,
J. W. FOUCHE, MGR.
EEREEEIES. ... o henatalalanini o, o RERIURSEN
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i CHICAGO, ILL., DECEMBER 1.8, 1923. I
l On account éf the above mentioned exhibit excur-1
sion tickets will be on sale to the public November 29 to
December 2, 1923, inclusive. Final limit December 11.
lFare and onc half for the round trip. | : |
For total fares, schedules, sleeping car réservations,
letc., apply to nearest ticket agent. '_ % .
CENTRAL OF GEORGIA RAILWAY
5 THE RIGHT WAY
SALE OF LAND
STATE OF GEORGIA,
COUNTY OF LEE.
i TUnder and by virtue of the power
of sale vested in the undersigned by
deed made and delivered to him by
J. A. Lipsey, by J. W. Lyon, his at
‘torney in fact, dated January 18th,
1922, and recorded in the office of
the Clerk of the Superior Court of
!Lee County, Georgia, in Deed Book
“N,” folios 405-6, on January 19th,
1922, the undersigned as the legal
holder and owner of all remedies and
powers and rights contained in said
deed will sell at public outery to the
| highest bidder for cash on the First
i Tuesday in December, 1923, before
the courthouse door at Leesburg, Lee
County, Georgia, between the legal
hours of sheriff’s sales the following
described property, to-wit:
The whole of lot of land Two
{ Hundred, Thirty-eight (238), con
i taining Two Hundred, Two and one
half (202%) acres, more or less;
the East one-half of lot of land Num
‘ber Two Hundred, Thirty-seven
(237), containing One Hundred,
One and one-fourth (101%) acres,
more or less. All of said lands situ-i
ate, lying and being in the Thir
iteenth (13th) District of Les Couz-!
{ty Georgia, and aggregating Three
{ Hundred, Three and three-fourths
(303% ) acres, more or less, and be-’
ing more particularly described in |
}the said loan deed to which refer-l
ence is hereby made. l
Said lands will be sold as the prop
erty of the estate of J. A. Lipsey,
deceased, to pay the indebtedness re
ferred to in said deed, to-wit: One
principal note for the sum of $l,-
000.00, dated January 18th, 1922,
and maturing ninety (90) days aft
er date, on which said note there has
been a payment of $500.00 on the
principal besides interest leav
ing a balance due as of this
date of $500.00 .principal, be-|
sides $63.52 interest, making a total
indebtedness in default at this time
of $563.52, for which the said lands
will be sold to pay, besides all the
expenses and costs of this proceed
ing. Said note being made and de
livered to the undersigned by the
said J. A. Lipsey, by J. W. Lyon,
his attorney in fact. Default having
been made by the said J. A. Lip
sey and by the estate of J. A. Lipsey,
deceased, in the payment of said in- !
debtedness, and the same romainifig’
unpaid and demand jfhaving been
'made for the payment of the same,
!the power of sale contained in said
@deed has become operative. The
?proceeds of said sale will be applil'x:i
first to the payment of said indebt
edness and all costs and expenses of
this proceeding, u% the balance, if
any, paid to the estate of J. A. Lip
sey, deceased. A deed will be made
to the purchaser at said sale as pro
vided by the loan deed.
This 2rd day of November, 1823.
R. E. L. SPENCE,
Lippitt & Burt, Attorneys,
: Albany, Georgia.
GEORGIA—Lee County.
To All Whom It May Concern.
J. I Kayllor having, in proper
form applied to me for Permanent
Letter of Administration on the
estate of W. . Kaylor, late of said
County, this is to eite all and singu
lar the ecreditors and next of kin
of said W. I. Kaylor to be and ap
pear at my office within the time al
lowed by law, and show ecause, if
any they ean, why permanent ad
ministration should not be granted
to said J. I. Kaylor, on said W. L
Kaylor estate. /
Witnesse my hand and official sig
nature, this sth day of November,
1928, i
H. L. LONG, SR., Ordinary. .
FOR SALE
‘FOR RENT
405 acres in Lee County, Georgia
8 miles South from Leslie. 800
acres in cultivation; 9 tenant houses,
barns, etc. Also 83681 aeros in Lee
County, Ga., 8 .4 miles from Chehaw,
125 acres cleared; three houses,
barns, ete.
We sell on ten years time, or
rent reasonably.
Farmers Land Lean and Title
Company, Albany, Ga.
STREET TAX' NOTICE
Street tax for the year 1928 is
now due and must be paid to the
City Marshal at once. The streg
tax for this year is $5.00. Ple ;
se¢ me and settle sate at once. ~
. D. G MERCER, City Marghal.. __