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rian Brain is the Oddest of
'Mechanisms.
Human brains are the stiangr-st,
iirdest pieces of mechanism! No
to are alike, no rule governs all,
id every man thinks at a dil'fer-
it speed. The speed of the hu
tan bjain depends entiiely upon
he person and the condition of
tat person at certain times, Re-
Donses to thought vary in speed
om a mile a minute to twenty
et a second, under normal con-
tions, yet at times the telegraph-
service from the brain to the or-
ns of the body is interrupted
’ v, 'ommunicatton is established
’*er rest or sleep.
nder Brewton has discov-
to have ideas at will. If
o remember something
«pped your mind, either
tin or hair.g your head low.
~r still, in extreme cases,stand
on your head.
Dr. Bruton, after one particular
hard day’s work, was compelled to
finish an important mec’ical treat
ise. He sat down, with pen and
paper ready—when his brain quit
work. Not an idea would come,
nor could he write a word,
“My brain is the same as yester-
’ay,” he thought. “It worked
/ell then, whv not now? It must
'e because my circulation is bad
■rause of weariness.”
le studied the problem for some
: and came to the conclusion
, if the cerebal circulation was
oA- *bat there was no mental
le must create the circu-
f the blood would not
brain he would force it
i he put his head down
le and the ideas began
once. After ten min-
..nought he had enough
start the article, so he
. his head again—but the
flowed away. He finished
eatise by resting his head
1 the table and writing,
ile it requires some time for
gan to respond to the order
brain, the speed of thought
s much faster,
nohltz discovered that a
. wave travels a mile of
na minute, while Hersch
J that a touch was recog-
oy the brain and responded
jne-tenth of a second,
f. Donders, perhaps the
*st authority and experiment-
learned that the brain ac-
responding to one of the
is 75-1000 of a second. Of
>-iooo of a second is con-
I by the act of recognition
j-iooo to responding,
the great brains have their
-ities and their weaknesses,
ig from unconscious brain
Dr. Johnson,!(the great
opher, was terribly afraid of
and with all his philosophy
not overcome the horror and
not permit death to be
•>ed in his presence; also he
stitious. He would not
oom with his left foot
and if by accident he
irst step with his left
pped backward in sud-
and entered with his
i
aesar, to whom the mu
/reat battler, was sweet,
at the sound of thunder
^ cellars under his house
where he flight escape the sound.
Queen Elizabeth, one of the most
fearless of women, trembled like a
leaf at the sound of it and changed
color at the same word. Marshal
Saxe, a hero of many battles,
screamed and fled at the sight 'of
a cat, while l’eter the Great would
not cross a bridge unless it was
absolutely necessary and then
crossed in terrible alarm, being
weak and sick afterward from ter
ror.
One great American general,
recovering from a severe illness,
tound that he had entirely lost the
power to speak or write proper
names or any substantive, but his
memory supplied him with adjec
tives readily. He overcame his
difficulty by designating anyone of
whom he wished to speak of by
calling him by his size, the color of
his hair or eyes, or by his physi
cal peculiarities.—Chicago Tri
bune.
Extending Small Railroads.
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obtainable.
It is a tact that the farmer is the
stone upon which our national
prosperity is built.
It would be logical, therefore, to
expect that every newspaper in the
land would be the sincere friend of
the farmer.
In this expectation we are woe
fully disappointed. It is painfully
true that the majority of the promi
nent daily papeis of the couptry
are not the friends of the farmer,
and the reason is easily found.
These papers have too many pa
trons whose sentiments are an
tagonistic to the farmers, and the
modern daily paper is in its edi
torial columns, as a rule, but a ro
flection of the views of the Busi
ness Department.
These papers try to hedge by
safe generalizations and compli
mentary phrases, but when a prac
tical question comes up, where to
take the side of the farmer might
alienate an advertiser, they are
either silent as the grave, or open
ly hostile.
We have had a recent illustra
tion. Nothing is more harmful to
the farmer than future speculation
in farm products, and yet when the
Boykin bill for the suppression of
future gambling in Georgia was
pending in the legislature only two
daily papers in all Georgia showed
the slightest favor to the measure.
The Macon News was outspokenly
for the bill; the Atlanta News
suginted at it favorably, and if any
other daily paper gave it counte
nance, we failed to find it, though
searching diligently for such men
tion.
And why? Because the gamb
ling bouses were advertisers. This
is the plain and simple truth. The
average daily papers prate qf vir
tue and make cesspools of their
advertising columns for money.
The average daily paper would
calmly see the whole country de
bauched, demoralized and bank
rupted, if the debauchers and
bankrupters were liberal adver
tisers. If this is not being sub
sidized, we do not know what it
can be called
No one prates more loudly of
the proprieties than the daily press,
but their advertising columns are
open to any filth and rascality that
will pay a good price. And-they
pay the price, in loss of the public
respect, in a steadily declining in
fluence, and in that still, small
voice, which tells them daily what
hypocrisy is.
The country press yet has con
victions and stands for them, but
the convictims of the great ma
jority of the city dailies are meas
ured by the cash box.
Painful though it be to say it,
nevertheless it is true, a majority
of the Southern daily press is dis
loyal to our people and their inter
ests and loyal to outside specula
tive capitalistic influences.
This is Toryism, as rank and as
dangerous as that which nearly
wrecked our infant nation in the
days of ’76, and just as deserving
pf condign punishment as was
meted out to the Toryism of ’76
by our outraged forefathers,—Cot
ton Journal.
Easy won, poorly kept.
We have pointed out more than
(Mice in these columns that the de
velopment in railroads in this sec
tion is one of the most notable fea
tures of the growth and progress
of the South.
It has been shown that there is
almost a famine in pig iron, so
great is the demand for structural
iron throughout this section and
the demand for rails alone would
largely account for this fact. These
lines are to be used in developing
and handling the output of indus
tries such as coal mining, lumber
ing, phosphate mining, the gath
ering of naval stores, etc.
T h e Manufacturers’ Record
points out that there is scarcely a
state in the South in which the
building of small lines is not in
progress in a number of localities.
In the mountains of Virginia,
West Virginia, Kentucky and
Tennessee much of the construc
tion of small lines is done by the
trunk roads as feeders, although
not a few independent pieces of
work are underway. In the states
named a large proportion of this
new building is on account of coal,
although lumbering figures in the
situation to some extent. Farther
south, in North Carolina, South
Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Ala
bama, Mississippi and even be
yond in Arkansas and Louisiana,
the development of timber land
and the products therefrom is
mainly responsible for the build
ing of many short railroads. This
type of construction is particular
ly active just now throughout
! these states and how useful it be
comes in tin* later development of
' the country is now shown by the
utilization of several small lines in
Georgia, by means of connections
in making a through route from
Augusta to the Gulf of Mexico.
Continuing, the Manufacturers’
Record says: “The activity of
this variety of railroad work is in
dicated by the reports of new in
corporations received by the Man
ufacturers’ Record, hardly a day
passing without one or more com
panies being chartered to build
such lines. But.it does not always
happen that the tirst building of
one of these lumber roads, or even
of coal lines,is of small extent. For
instance, the Goodyear line in
Mississippi, a lumber road, is to
be one hundred miles long from
the beginning, construction for
that amount of track being already
under way, in addition to the
trackage of the line previously
built and which was purchased to
form the nucleus of this railroad.
On the other hand, the Tidewater
Railroad, which will Ik* over four
hundred miles long in Virginia
and West Virginia, is an example
of what an influence coal mining
may have upon the developing of a
new line.
“The construction of small lines
of railroads promises to continue
indefinitely throughout the entire
Kouth, the riches of the country
in both mines and forests being so
great that none can now see the
end of their development.”—The
Georgian.
Congressional Committee to
Democratic Voters.
To All Democratic Voters:
If there ever was a time in the
history of the Democratic party
for the manifestation of loyalty
and patriotism on the part of its
members, it is right now.
If we are to win a victory and
elect a President two years hence,
we must first elect a House of
Representatives this tall. A Demo
cratic House can and will investi
gate every department of the Gov
ernment. With all of them honey
combed by “graft,” the edges of
which, only, have been touched by
recent exposure and prosecutions,
there will be a revelation of rotten
ness that will astound the
country and create a demand for a
Democratic administration to
clean the Government workshop.
To win the House we need
money to defray legitimate ex
penses and get out our vote. We
have no protected monopolies from
which to draw to fill our coffers, as
they do those of the Republican
party. We must, therefore, ap
peal to loyal Democrats for con
tributions.
Will you send us #1.00 at once,
and in return for this we will send
you copies of our campaign litera
ture as issued by the Committee.
You will have the thanks of the
entire Democratic party, for your
favorable response to our request.
Address all remittances to
J. M. Gkiggs, Chairman,
Munsey Bldg., Washington, D. C.
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Regulating Railroads.
The Canadians have gone a long
j way ahead of this country in regu
lating railroads, the Canadian
commmission having been granted
all the power necessary to prevent
! unjust discrimination or extortion
ate rates. One of the great re
forms the Canadians have accom-
| plished is the prevention of stock
watering, so that the people shall
not be made to pay tribute on
J bogus stock, as the people of the
United States are compelled to do.
Our Hardmans, and Morgans and
Vanderbilts, and Cassatts, and the
i other manipulators that have is
sued fictitious stock from their
Wall street dens, must las made to
I disgorge. The railroad question,
; like the trust and tariff issue, will
! never be settled until justice is
done and we have only just enter
ed the opening wedge on^ regulat
ing the great highways of the na
tion.«-Ex. \ “r*-
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Rusting out is not resting.
Of all the wavs and means of
healing the sick and weary, the
one that surely appeals most warm
ly to the human understanding is
the Mirth Cure recently advocated
by a French physician. And real
ly this method is not so novel a
thing, for it is thousands of years
since the great King of Israel de
clared that a merry heart doeth
good like a medicine, while Shake
speare speaks of “that merriment
which lengthens life”—not the life
of the merry-maker alone, but of
all who brush his garments. Every
one who is sick wishes to be well,
and ail who are weary desire rest.
Science and medicine and surgical
skill must do their part; common
sense and patience and care must
of necessity be exercised; disease
and weakness must be combated
by more than ordinary forces, but
honest mirth cures many a care,
and a merry companion is the one
we want to go with us hand-in-
hand. “There is nothing worth the
wear of winter save the laughter
and love of friends.”
Watch the effect of a cheery,
smiling visitor in the sick-room. It
is like the sunshine let in—only
better, because there is nothing,
even in the warmth of the glorious
light of the sun, that equals the
helpful human touch. It is through
lips and hands and mirthful minis
trations that the Divine ministers
to suffering humanity Everyone
of us who carries a smile and a
merry word of comfort to the
needy is a physician duly author
ized and comrniss'oned to practice,
arid the invalid who dispenses
cheer, instead of gloom, is the one
who stands the fairest chance of
recovery. I do not know just what
course the French physician would
pursue, but we may be very sure
that his physic would be given in
pleasant doses.
Ilo you know that laughter is a
good thing? Let us have more of
lit among ourselves and in the
home. The father who does not
make merry with his children
misses half of life, and mother who
has no patience with innocent j
hilarity needs to be taught a les
son. The person who never ex
periences what it is to “double up,
with laughter” over a good joke,;
or the fireside that does not ripple J
round with mirthful fun lacks the
essential elements of living. Let j
us laugh more, not the silly giggle, I
which speaks the vacant mind, but ;
the merry, spontaneous laugh that
is sincere and contagious. Do nut
be afraid to, open the house door
to, the KfhgTifMirtb.Tor.with hipi
comes Health and happiness, aed'
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Tradition says that “Toots are Lorn, not made.”^ ^
There are lots of people who believe they can write'| (lj
poetry, and many who don’t know they can, hut * "
could if they tried.
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Some poetry comes by inspiration, hut those whominenil
have achieved success know that hard work is th
basis of the best verse. It took Gray nine years tv* bring
write his masterpiece of elegance, the “Elegy in sand are
Country Churchyard. jousump-
Jt may be hard work for you to write a poeiu, bii'I lu * H,,<1
surely it is worth your w.hije to try. You may think , '* l ' ve '*
Jittle of your effort, hut it may win you the prize. , ,Q °r e
Somebody will get it. Why not you? haters
We know that a poem-writing contest is rather odd lll .' l| t H l |
and extraordinary, and that is just the reason we
have chosen it as a means to advertise our magazine,
“The Mocking Bird.” This is our offer: For thr ork Cl,y ’
best poem written about or to that prince of Souther/ 0 New
songsters for whom our magazine is named, we will
pay the writer a prize of $10 ; for the second best, $5* f . rt) (
Write today for conditions of contest to sketobn
itud to
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-Southern
Misses Frances and Mae Her
ring, of Newnan, and Miss May
Belle Williams, of Macon,are visit
ing Miss Gladvs Kirk ai' her home,
E‘*t Fiqe street.-r-Sonday
Journal. I
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face valne of all policies will be
paid. For information and terms,
call on or write ,to J. W. Will
coxon, agent for Coweta and
roll fouiituM, Newnan, Ga.