Newspaper Page Text
VOLUME I.
LEON ROUGE IN HIS NONSINKABLE SUIT
— ""f<r' sansar
3111
. / .: Ji
^jMg> ‘^f
{ Wrb 4 ^y .Jb> -< • ."-W f
z ~ WT H K *
.^'- SKk /RM '■ ML '-.’b.' "••■ ■ '
~ / wb ■OMWMBwQSfe?. : k
" - /< * > ; ^r
i ; ® ® is - ।
§S ’ ' y%3&!s&szS3BsßxS®wS™S&%ffls&&S&a%w:™
X7^ —<W* S§§g=s?2%2ZO
LEON ROUGE has invented a nonslnkable suit of tissue cloth which has created great interest wherever he ex
hibits it. He thinks the outfit will be especially suitable for aviators, steamboat passengers and motorboat
enthusiasts.
VESSEL DRIFTS FAR
Japanese Fishing Smack Driven
Off Course by Storm.
Five Men Are Picked Up by United
States Immigration Inspectors
After Being at Sea for
Three Months.
San Diego, Cal.—A story vying with
Homer’s famous tale of the wandering
of Odysseus Is that told by five Jap
anese fishermen picked up by the
United States immigration inspectors
in southern California. The men were
captured on the road from Encintas to
Escondido. Their clothing was in
rags and they themselves were weary
and famished. They were taken to jail
and there, through an interpreter, told
the history of more than three months
of wandering, beginning with a ty
phoon off the coast of Japan and end
ing with shipwreck near San Diego.
Last May the men put to sea in
their little 50-foot, three-masted fish
ing junk Symiyoshi Maru (Good Luck
Boat) from Yokohama. They were
headed for Hakodate, 500 miles to the
northward, on a fishing trip. The first
day out all went well, but on the next
day a typhoon came up. The junk,
unable to make headway, was forced
to run before the wind and was driven
1,000- miles to the southward. When
the wind subsided the boat was found
to be badly damaged and the steering
gear demolished, making her unman
ageable.
There was nothing for ft but to drift
and sail as best they might, trusting
to their good fortune to bring them
safe to port. The first land they
sighted was Honolulu, but the wind
changed as they neared that port and
they were driven 100 miles farther
south. They sent distress signals, but
no ships passed to notice them.
A crude compass, such as Is used by
the primitive sailors of the Japanese
islands, was their only means of dis
covering their heading. Two weeks
out their supply of water was ex
hausted and they were Just beginning
to suffer the agonies of thirst when a
tropical rainstorm burst Rushing on
deck they placed buckets to catch the
fall and secured enough for a few
days, renewing the supply from time
to time in the same manner.
SEEKS SANCTUARY; IS SEIZED
Condemned to Death, Convict Is Pur
sued Into Cathedral of Veszprlm
In Hungary.
Vienna. —During the celebration of
tnass in the Cathedral of Veszprlm, in
Hungary, a man in convict’s clothes
burst into the cathedral and, rushing
up the aisle, attempted to conceal
himself behind the high altar. He
was followed by a prison warden with
rifle and fixed bayonet Mass was
suspended while the warden chased
the convict round and round the high
altar and finally captured him. The
refugee was Vendelen Makkos, under
sentence of death for the murder of
a pawnbroker. He had jumped from
one train to another while being es
corted from Budapest a few weeks
ago, but was recaptured. Later he es
caped through a prison window and
made for the cathedral, apparently
with the idea of obtaining sanctuary.
The most unsatisfactory person in
the world is the girl who can't play
without her music-
NUMBER 5.
»
It was not long afterward when
। their food gave out In the extremi
ties of hunger they ate the spare sails,
composed of grass matting, and their
straw, sandals. Down across the
equator they sailed, past the Christ
mas islands and then northward again,
toward Central America. Then they
were blown out to sea again, just as
they sighted land.
More than a month ago they passed
the Galapagos islands, fast in the grip
of the wind. Aimlessly they drifted
up the coast of the continent, nearly
always within sight of land, until they
finally went ashore 30 miles north of
San Diego, ending their journey of
1 more than 7,000 miles.
The five Orientals gave their names
as Yas Kamesaburo Yoshida (captain),
Takamassu Kono, Zuzldu Shimizu, Ka
mekickl Worsakl and Shaikanosuke
Kono. They are being held in jail
here until orders are received from
Washington for their return home.
They have been visited by hundreds,
crowds beginning to arrive as soon as
the story of their strange adventures
was learned.
RURAL ACTORS ARE TALENTED
Humble Thespians In P’oland Depict
Stories With Realism on
the Stage.
Warsaw, Poland.—There has been a
surprising Increase in the number of
peasant theaters, which are making
their appearance in every part of
Poland. These institutions are run al
most entirely by the peasants and are
made to pay. Only pieces dealing with
their own life are attempted and the
result is most realistic, especially as
the Pole has a strong dramatic in
stinct.
Any hall In a village does for a
theater, as the scenery is of the most
primitive kind. What carries convic
tion is the entirely natural way in
which the actors and actresses play
their parts. For the foreigner they
give a far deeper Insight into national
life than all the pieces produced in
the larger cities.
The actors mostly train themselves,
choosing one of the cleverest men in
the village to coach them, and they
bring with them a whiff of the stable
and the cowhouse, which other man
agers have tried to introduce into
their plays.
Czarina Alarmed By Cat
__________
Screams of Herself and Lady In
Waiting Bring Guards of
the Palace.
Peterhof, Russia. —People here still
' are laughing at Imperial adventures
the night before the Czar met the
German Emperor. The imperial fam-
1 ily went to bed early to get up fresh
for the cruise into the Gulf of Finland.
1 At midnight fearful screams came
from the Czarina’s room, which is im
mediately next to that of the Czar,
' who sleeps with an adjutant, and is
, guarded by six soldiers and an officer
quartered in the ante-room. The Czar
and the guard rushed into the Czar
ina’s room and found her In a terrible
fright An assassin was somewhere In
the room; both she and the lady In
wafting, who sleeps on a mattress
stretched near the bed, heard him
moving about
In a few seconds the room was
filled with soldiers, who blocked all
exits and had orders to shoot down
any one who trftj ft gt) la or out
ibe gulletin
Irwinton, wilkinson county, Georgia, Friday, august 23, 1912.
BOY REGAINS HIS EYESIGHT
Youth in Wilmington, Del., After Four
teen Weeks' Blindness,
Can Now See.
. Wilmington, Del. —Following an ac
cident by tripping over a carpet in the
1 kitchen of his home, George W. Mor
' g.ji, Jr., aged twenty-one years, of
■ East Thirteenth street, who 14 weeks
ago became totally blind, has had his
1 eyestight restored.
Morgan 11 years ago was hit in the
1 eye when a small boy hurled a stone.
1 Since that time he has been afflicted
1 with eye trouble. Last September he
wert to Baltimore to the St, Josepn s
’ hospital and while there worked in
' the Maryland Workshop for the Blind.
' Fourteen weeks ago he became sud
denly totally blind while sitting in his
boarding house.
KILLS SELF WITH DYNAMITE
1 _____
Foreman of Logging Camp at Nelson
Island, B. C., Lies on Explosive
and Sets It Off.
Vancouver, B. C.—Chris Dunn, fore
man in a logging camp on Nelson
Island, a short distance up the coast,
blew himself to pieces with four
* sticks of dynamite.
Dunn had been suffering a great
deal from a leg which was broken a
year ago. He also brooded over the
loss of a friend, killed in a dynamite
accident two weeks ago.
At daylight he arose and went out
to the top of a cliff. There he lay
down on four sticks of dynamite and
set them off. His body was hurled
sixty feet down the bank.
Dunn was 35 years old. He lived In
Seattle until three years ago.
FINGER SEVERED BY RING
Spectator Watching Ball Game at
Springfield. 0., From Tree Loses
Digit in Fall.
Springfield, O. —Excited by a home
run smash in a baseball game which
he was watching from a seat in a tree,
Ernest Rich lost his balance and fell.
As he shot toward the ground Rich
clutched at a limb. A ring he was
wearing on the third finger of his left
hand caught. Rich was suspended for
several minutes, struggling desperate
ly to free himself, until a sudden jerk
threw all his weight on the ring and
tore the finger off.
*
, Every corner of the apartment was
searched in vain. Suddenly a noise
came from a cupboard in a distant
corner and the Czarina grew hyster-
| ical.
। Several soldiers, headed by their
> officers, surrounded the cupboard door
. with drawn swords and called upon
i the hidden assassin to disarm. Dead
. silence reigned as the captain heroic
i ally opened the door.
Out jumped a hugh black cat The
, Czar, suddenly relieved, laughed
i heartily and all followed suit except
• the Czarina, who was too confused to
' do anything.
> Rockefeller Gets Tanned.
i Cleveland.—John D. Rockefeller has
acquired his annual coat of tan. He
। appeared In church with his face burn
ed to a rich nut brown.
New York.—Sleepy Billy, a water
moccasin at the Aquarium, has broken
his ten moths’ fast by devouring twice
his own length in killie fish.
THE BEGINNING OF
A GREATER CAREER
The Yesterday, Today and
Tomorrow of Our Career
During the yesterday of our busi
ness career, we anticipated the desire
of the people of this section of the
State, for an up-to-date store, with
modern ideas and modern business
principles. To this end we have
worked, we have spared neither mon
ey nor labor.
On July Ist, the old firm, under the
laws of Georgia, was formed into a
corporation, with Mr. W. S. Myrick,
who has been with the old firm since
its organization, as President and
Manager. Mr. T. H. Caraker, the
capable manager of the Shoe Depart
ment, Vice President, and Mr. J. W.
Daniels, former Manager of the
Clothing Department, as Secretary and
Treasurer.
This is a step forward. It has been done
that we might better serve you, that we might
make shopping more pleasant and congenial
for you in the future than it has been in the
past, also that the men who have worked to
help build up this great business, might be
identified with the firm.
Today we open the doors ot a great depart
ment Store to you that is at your service and
is up-to-date and progressive in every respect.
The tomorrow of our business career shall
keep pace with the strides of the most mod
ern and Progressive Stores in the Country.
The W. S. Myrick Co
(Incorporated)
Milledgeville, Georgia
Everything For Everyone to
Wear
$1.002A YEAR.
