THE LEE COUNTY JOURNAL $1.50 A Year in Advance Happy With Her . . Christmas Gifts By ELEANOR KING - : ‘ ¥ ulch'dos < . beat me home : ngs tonight.” " Training for ten minutes. Opera My, but some folks are slow,” she sald | © lgughingly. “Where have you been, - Mary?” | “ “It's a rather long story,” replied 't Mary; a<' She einaved her wraps, hang: ing them in the one and only little clothes closet'therboarding house room afforded. This was already filled to the bursting point, needless to add. “Do you' remember my speaking of a Miss Youpg?™ ; Esther nodded in asseat. . . “I met her when I was a stenog rapher at the settlement house, you' know. She tells me she is still in thai work, I think it so queer that ] should meet her:like this after our con: versation last might. Now, Miss Esther, 1 am coming to the point, .You recol leet saying-that you were so blue be cause it was almost. Christmas and you had-no home to go to, no money to glve} to. make; somie. one happy, and you. couldn't g6.to. see George because you?; badn’t, the ralivoad fare! Well"—and| Mary pauséd for breath—*“now, here is your ‘chance te show how much you meant ail this. * Mrs. Young was telling me her troubles.” ¢ “Oh, Mary, how awful!” and Esther burst out laughing as she threw:her 2o arms about Mary ‘ e and gave her a bR fl hug. “You old ,\:- ,“‘ o .‘vn;,.‘\\ 2 dQfll’ " % A\ § = “She sald,” pro- A d»i ceeded Mary, as s < T though nothing "N % had happened, ¥ ig g “she was giving- a |y [ # big entertainment » 4,1//‘ for her settlement Iy W 7 - folks. Christmas fi@ MW eve. She was hav e Y ) | ing a hard - time ‘\'\ \\: \\‘!‘l l getting artists. It A \ seems that there NN .r:\\\'{\'l\ o are. so many of| | “ p these things going e on that there aren’t artists enongh to supply the de mand. Now you know.” “Yes, she wants me to sing, I sup-' pose, but IL-am horribly out of prac tice. I—" 2 > . “Oh, hush! I never knew it to fail. That is what they all start out with, I took the liberty to tell her you would be glad to do it, so—" ‘ “Y surely will do my best. I will be gin to practice this very night. I will see Mrs. Young tomorrow about the songs she wants me to sing. Do you suppose George would come down to hear me sing, and then maybe stay over for Christmas?”’ = It was the night of the entertain-! ment and the girls were putting the fin: jshine touches to their dressing when Esther suddenly broke the silence. “Y think it is so quevr that I didn’t receive any answer trom George. He might at least have told me he| couldn’t come.” Everything was excitement and noise in the large“hall of the settle ment house, where people of all na tlomalities were crowding in. The pro gram began at the hour stated. Be fore long Esther heard her name an nounced and stepped onto the plat form with her pianist. I Gazing at the audience, while she awaited the pianist, her wandering] glance fell upon a familiar face. It could not be, but yet, in recognition, he l smiled. It was George! “The old dear,” and then, in the‘ same breath, she murmured, "Oh,l God, I thank thee for the power of 'breath, the desire to live with which | jyou have invested me, and, dear Lord, ‘for George!” She threw back her head with an exalted air. George was going to hear her sing. She must do more than her best. . Never did she sing with such spirit and vigor. She seemed truly inspired. Her cup of joy was full. The burst of applause which met her ears showed the thorough appreciation of her audl ‘ence for her efforts. . She couldn’t get to George fast| endugh after the entertainment. Meet- | ;%, they both seemed perfectly obuvi-! ofis of the crowds about them as he gathered her in his arms. ' “#Esther, you were simply divine, Your yofce was wonderful. I never heard you sing like that before.” Some one tapped him on-the arm. It was Mary. “But, George,” said Esther, wriggling out of his grasp, realizing that they ‘Wwere . ereating . quite a scene, “Why: didn’t you tell me you were coming?” “Didn't'you get my telegram with all the good news in ‘it? Well, listen, then,” George said, excitedly. " brought my boss along. He has heard so much about your volce—Mr. Wil- Jiamson, meet Miss Esther Hislop and her friend, Miss Mary Roner, Mr. Wil liamson. He is very interested in your voice—in fact, he has a proposition to put before you.” " ‘mether slippéd her arm about Mary and put her other arm through George’s. She needed support. ' “My idea was this,” began Mr. Wil “ Hamsaon.. “for me fo s,enfldzoq.g_co_ IN°-L COTTON SHIPPED ~ INU.S. VESSELS ! WASHINGTON, Dae. 23.—For. eign flag vessels carried less than ‘half of the cotton exports from Gulf ports in November, although less than two years ago they moved 90 per cent of this trade, according to figures compiled by the Shipping Board, of 541,186 bales exported from these ports to Europe last month, 298,921 were transported in Shipping Board. vessels, 236,617 in foreign bottoms and 3,648 in pri . Commenting on the figures, Fred erick I. Thomposn, commissioncr from the Gulf section, declared in a statement that “no clearer demon stration can be afforded to the es sential necessity for the preservation of Shipping Board operation from the Gulf as a protection to the Southern cotton planter.” : “This rule,” he added, “appies in equel force to every American pro ducer and every American manufac turer from all the seaboard outlest on the Atlfintic, Pacific or Gulf, and is illustrative of 2 moment when cer-,.! tain interests are seeking to nullify the operation of ships by the Ship ping Board, which if successful‘ would have gthe invitable result of re-establishing a foreign controllcdfi transportation monopoly on the seas.” TO OUR READERS, | As it is the custome of all coun try weeklies to take Christmas off and spend- the time away from work and worry, we are only printing a small amount of news this week, but promise you a better paper next weeck when the entire force will be back on the job. The Editor. MICKIE SAYS— HEM | FOLKS, LISSEWY - LET OUR COMMERCIAL |PRINYMG DEPARYMENY DO NOLR WORK! WE WANE ; - ONMIY O PRICER WA FAWR ONE AND ONLY ONE WWO OF : WORNK v+ “THE BESY pu 89 W ‘\;s\\&* ; i SST i) 1/fi W) C} LA ’ -, ,',,f. : .‘\b \§\\ N B 22N 0o 4 5 o % /. & B et 4 SUGuFot CARRYING IT TOO FAR A . 47 2 n\ e : @ £X Sl ff Y A \ " EBBY/ el A b v A | a 0 rre R o v ) , B s N\ . o ; . g g ’ “ “Tt was So sweet of you to bring‘ me' these kisses for Christmaa” . “I expected .you'd stund under the mistlates when I gave them to you.” l O A S SRR, T , , 1 Tork for training Yor a year or so; 001 ing -pear my vlace of husiness. vmy! ~v.;.u sepurt orten 8s 10 your progress.” | wAnd I will be near George, t 00," ithought Esther. But, aloud, she said, T will have to take Mary. She is my ‘lnspiration elways. I eouldn’t do with jout her.” ‘ ! wThen” proceeded Mr. Willlamson “I want to send you abroad and finish you off as an opera singer.” | “All out!” shouted the janitor, rather peevishly. ; =Come up to the house,” Esther pu' iD *This is so wonderful, I want tc talk it over some more. George, isp’{ it wonderful? We will be in New York together. ' Ob, what a glorious Christ mas!” (©, 1923, Western Newspaper Union.) { b | LEESBURG, LEE COUNTY GEORGIA, FRIDAY DECEMBER 28, 1923 LOCAL NEWS. Mr. 'Guy Stovall, of Oakeechobee Fla., spent several days of this week in Leesburg with friends and rela ;tives. ‘ Mr J. W. Lyons and Mr. Geo. D. Moreland arc spending several days in Florida prospecting. | Messrs. Billy and Frank Stovall left yesterday for Oakeechobee, Fla., where they have accepted a position. Mr. and Mrs. Arthur I. Hodges spent several days of this week in Columbus with the formers mother. Mr. Winn Godwin is at home from Mississippi to spend the holidyas with his parents, -Mr., and Mrs. A. W. Godwin. Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Rutland and son, Joe, left yesterday for Atlanta where they will make their future home. We regret very much to give them up as citizens but wish them much success in their new home. Miss Bertha Cahnon who is teach ing in the High School at Toccoa, is at home spending the Holidays with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Can non. ' ! Mrs. Mable King, of Atlanta, is spending some time in Leesburg as the guest of relatives, \ Mr. and Mrs. Tison King is spend ing the Holidays in Leesburg with Irelatives. | Mr. and Mrs. Mell- Stewart, of Louisville, Ga., spent several days of 'this week here with the latters par )ents, Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Godwin. } Dr. Goff will preach here Sunday ‘morning at the Presbyterian church ‘and everybody is cordially invited to come out and hear him, he is from lAmericus‘. , t Mr. Fred Forrester, of Atlanta, is spending the Holdiyas in Leesburg ’with friends and relatives. The many friends of Mr. T. R. Bass are glad to see him about the streets again after being confined lto his bed for several weeks. LB A B B S T SRS 59 52 0 o SRR lmw&mm-«mmm . We are in a position _' to give all —Job jP o ® ) < , Prompt and Careful ~ Attention Incividuality in your lztter heads and other printed maiter is helpful to your business. We are ready at all times to give you the benefit of our experience. TR IR AT ST Arother Efficiercy Tect. 1¢ vou wish to set your friends an 2fticiency test, ask them to write down In fizures, twelve thousand, twelve hundred and twelve. They will jot down 12 at once—then puzzle for a moment-—and then realize that there is a catch in it, The figures thatg zhould be written down are 13,212, Wonderiui Nile Dams. — Through the woirk of British en ginecrs it is possible to regulate within a few feet the amount of water that shall flow down the Nile bed; floods are unknown; so is that terrible state of affairs when there isn’t enough water, ‘ A T Me Camave Fiendp Then. Another Biing ta fyvey of Pharunchly ughter wap Gmk he am . gflm g&nm 63 12 5e e e Presents Were at the Wrong Door By CHRISTOPHER G. HAZARD Postman's HO can tell Mistake Resulted W “hat 18 on . the other slde in a Happy of a door? Churistmas for the 'l'his oné fronted on Peters Families @ pleasant street = and seemed to in vite one into a happy home. Its plate said that P, Peters lived there, and the door mat said “Welcome.,” But Mrs. Peters and the children would have been rather dismayed that winter day had visitors rung the door bell, for things were not guite all right with the. Peters family. The cuckoo, from his perch in the clock, announced the hours with his customary cheerfulness and polite bow, but failed to dissipate the atmosphere of gloom that seemed to fill the house like a fog. The voice in the kitchen, ordinarily of a jolly character, had sunk into a minor key and sent out a sort of S. O. S. message in the words of the old song: “Moon run down to de settin’ ob de sun And de sun refuse to shine.” The sunset in the Peters’ home had been caused by the cutting off of their p o supply train B /CUE 22,95 Three months had LA S F=r@¥ passed without [QR ST] word or remit ¥ ‘(l,&:3_:_‘*‘“‘ tance from the (/K’g:’% ‘ head of the fam ‘./,J.fi._;,.._,__g.gg ily. ‘This added Va 4 EHEREER] the perils of pov y%’ %;-zlé"ll.—_l._l:'% erty to the pains [,)A‘” 9 of absence and | {fil// made the Ohrist ';‘g/ “ mas outlook de- Wwh ¢ )| ‘cidedly shady. t*, \ NIL, [ ) Young Peters add ) \lli\\’//fl ed to his mother’s \ ) 4 anxiety by re- Mond! A marking that. his U @ dad’s business trip T must have been hit by a submarine or something, whil¢ his sister intensified the 'situation by wondering aloud if they would ever see him again. Both of these auguries, so unsuited to Christmas Eve, were Interrupted, however, by the arrival of the parcel postman and the deposit of an im mense and promising package, bear ing in large letters a direction to Mrs. P. Peters. With no clue as to the gender the family naturally concluded the various and valuable assortment that was revealed to Investigation to be an evidence of fatherly consider ation and the advance agent of the returning traveler. Joy came out with all the other things, and cheer took the place of chagrin. j I'arther up the street and behind a door bearing the name of Paul Peters there was anether household that was not as sunny as it should have been. A letter had come—but a bundle had failed to come, The letter-a program of delight, the bundle a disappoint ment. Uncle Joshua had known thelr wants by a marvelous instinct, but where wag the bundle? Alas! the oth er things were as nothing for the lack of it and Christmas morning dawned upon discontent. But before the morning had quite disappeared Fred came rushing in with the news that he had seen that Peters boy in the next block with a sled bearing the same name a 8 the one men tioned by Uncle Joshua. “I didn’t know there was a Peters boy in the next block,” said his mother; “I'll go down and see if they can tell us any thing about our bundle,” They could, and the mystery was very easlly solved by the explanation of the postman at the wrong door, making a very pardonable mistake, An explanation that led indeed to a redistribution of gifts and also to a discovery of relationshipg, for the Pe ters’ families found each other out, as less than a block apart in family ties and friendliness. A discovery that wasg the very best Christmas gift that they could have had and which led them to think that the wrong door was all right after all. It proved a way out for the P. Pe terses and a way in for the Paul Pe tersed until Pa Peters of the first part put in an appearance through it in time for New Year's with such an account o? himself and his adventures as proved highly satisfactory to all the combined hopes and plans of all the Peterses. .(©. 1923, Western Newspaper Unlon() Helpful Thought for Today. What you must do at first through force of e¢haracter you will later be gble to do through force of habit.~— ®ostou Transcript. ; GROW WHERE ONLY ONE GREW BEFORE “Gotting things in this life” he said as he passed the cigars, “is only a matter of using the old bean. These cigars are not such bad smokes-— but I ceouldn’t afford as many of them as I do, if it weren't for Uncle Henry. "“Just before last Christmas I met him on the street and he invited me in a drug store to have a smoke., 1 was asked to name my brand., It was on the tip of my tongue to men tion these, but with a rare flash of genius T named a cigar that sells for a quarter. ; “Uncle wasn't fazed a bit, and came across. ‘ou’ve good taste,’ said he ‘I smoke these myself.’ “At Chrictmas I receive da pres ent of a box of 100 of them from him, and here is where the old bean really worked. I took the box back and exchanged it for five boxes of these.” GET BEHIND YOUR TEACHER. Now that the holidays are over, the children have had a restful and happy vacation from school work, the parents have dedicated them selves anew to the kind of “peace on earth” which makes for a better world for their children, and we have Al settled down to a term of enthus astic accomplishment, isn’t it a good time for parents and school trustees to show their appreciation of the work of the teacher? Next to the parents no one is so interested in the children’s welfare, so devoted to their general growth and develop ment as well a stheir school educa tions as the teacher. Her work will be far more effective if the children know that the parents and trustees believe in her, trust her judgment, and back her up in her ideals and her decisions. She will be happisr as well as more effcetive in doing it if the appreciation that is in the the hearts of the people of the com munity finds expression otcasionally in words, in occasional hospitalities extended, and in other small acts.of consideration. Get behind your teacher. Birde in the Dark, Not. a few birds practically rear their nestlings in the davk, says the Anmerican lorestry Magazine, Well known examples of this are seen in sand-marting and kingfishers—blrds that dig, or gerape out, long burrows m banks, an¢ ‘ay their eggs at the fartl\xer end of themn. Objected to Palring. - . The first known instance of palring In the congress of the United States &as in 1840. John Quincy Adamns pre ‘pared a resolution declaring that It violated the ecomstitution, an express rule of the house, and the duties of poth partles. The resolution was never voted upon and the practice be came very common., all the necwsy happen- | iligs that come to your sttention to this office. i¢ will be appreciated for every piece of news will make the paper more intercsting for you ss well as others. We want and with your help will print gl 4 y v ?e’ THE REWS - 4 TRO WRRDE A LN T Darken Fish Bowi. On the outside of your goldfish bowl sa'nt the bottom and about two inches above the bottom in dark green paint. This adds greatly to the comfort of your pets. They will not gwim So wildly but seek the bottomn and rest. Very pretty castles can be built of rough pebbles, and cement (choosing g cemecnt that wili not be affected by vater) projections, nooks #nd tunnels will be appreciated by the fish. Boys and girvis, too, will find making them a pleasure, VOLUME TWENTY-FIVE Pay Them to Ride With Drive ers to Divert Suspicion, Say Dry Agents. NEW" YORK,—That women are hivred to ride with the drives of limousines carrying liquor landed on the Long Island and New Jersey coasts to divert suspicion from the bootleggers was charged at local pro hibition headquarters, The seizure of two limousines with liquor aboard by state troopers in New Jersey was reported here. In one of the cars was a young woman who admitted, the prohibition agents said, that she had been paid $25 to accompany the chauffeur to lull suspicion. Release Dupe. The woman said she was Miss Nan Woods of Atlantic City. She was arrested with Samuel Lampe of Bal timore near Hammonton. The troop ers reported that they would twenty cases of liquor in the car. Lampe is alleged to have admitted that when he bought the liquor he expressed fears that he would be caught by trooper or prohibition agents on the White Horse Pike. The bootlegger suggested that the pres ence of a young woman in the car would enable him to travel without attracting attention. According to the troopers, Miss Wood agreed to ride with Lampe as far as Collings young woman were held in $l,OOO wood for $25. The driver and the bail for the grand jury by United States Commissioner Iszard at At lantic City. Many women in cities peddle whiskey on their ¢wn account. CARD OF THANKS. We wish to extend our utmost ap preciation for the kindness and sym pathy shown us in the recent illness and death of our brother and father and for the many beautiful floral of« ferings. May God’s richest blessings rest with you all. ~Mrs. D. P. Coogle, Mr. and Mrs. Dan Kleckley. Mr. and Mrs. A. N. English, Mr. and Mrs. Mack English, Miss Vallie Kleckley. TOOKE-ROBINSON A marriage of interest to their many friends was that of Miss Janie Tooke and Mr. Thomas Christie Robinson on Saturday evening at seven o’clock at the Baptist Pastor ium in Montezuma, the Rev. Fred Smith performing the ceremony. Miss Tooke is the second daughter of Mr. and Mre. R. E. Tooke, and is loved by all who know her while Mr. Robinson is a man of splendid quali ties and holds a very responsible position with the Montezuma Manu facturing Co. After a weeks stay in Florida they will be at home to their mgny friends in Montezuma. Truste as Anclent as Pyramida, Like many other things supposed to be entirely modern, trustg are by ne means new features of life. They are, indeed, at least as ancient as the pyra mids. It appears that the earliest form of trngt was the cornering of foodstuffs by monarchg and their pgents. Assyrian records 7,000 or 8,000 years old give aecounts of these monopolistic transactions by tyran nical rulers. Good Plot Everything. A plot, after all, is a design to whfh everything elss must he subordinatéd if the reader’'s attentlon is to be en ticed and enthralled. Rude life may not conform to this design, and the peychologist may despise it, yet therg is no such thing as a good novel thag has not a good plot.—Francis Hacketty l | - No X-Ray for Birde. Dr. Peckerwood knows just wher@ to operate. He needs no X-ray of gtethoscope to determine the seat of the trouble, says the Amepican Fore estry magagine, In summer he m&y hear the borer working in the w% but in winter, when both inse¢ts an® trees are frozen, when there 18 no pede aibility of any sound to guide him, theg tree deetor always operates just whef® the hibernating, motionless insects ¥y 3nugly hidden in their cells. ¢ : A Holy Tryst. As mapy people are aware, most of the oldér streets in Montreal arh aamed after saints, male and femalg. A progressive Yankee has a typlcfl American drug store at the corner two of these streets, and last summer he put the following sign in his wine dow: “Meet your girl here for an ices eream soda, This is where St. Thomas neets St. Genevieve.”—Harper's Mag Izine, ¢ 4
