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VOLUME 11.
PEACE ADVOCATES PLAN COLOSSAL CELEBRATION
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Representatives of Great Britain, Belgium, Canada and the United States who met in Washington to make
preparations for celebrating the centennial anniversary of the signing of the treaty of Ghent, which brought the
war of 1812 to an end, and the centenary of peace among the English-speaking nations. Mayor Gaynor of New
York is seen in the center of the picture; on his left is Lord Weardale, one of the English representatives, and
to the right of the picture is Andrew Carnegie with uncovered head.
CURE FOR INEBRIATE
Indiana Town’s Apparatus Ex
pected to Succeed.
Many Methods 'Are Tried—Western
Judges Have Adopted Novel Plans
In Dealing With the Chronic
Drunkard.
New York. —Cleveland's "Golden
Bule” treatment of men and women
Who have transgressed the law in an
inconsequental way has been improved
upon apparently by the late municipal
innovation of Elwood, Ind. "The city
has established a fumigating appara
tus.and alt.prisoners on the tramp or
plain drunk.variety are passed'through
the various “cogs" of the machine.
When ’they are released they exude
. after the manner of those who have
■been confined in hospitals for weeks
and carry out with them the scent of
carbolic acid and various other mix
tures. It is expected that the odor
will reveal the fact of arrest and
arouse the shame of the offender.
Various expedients have been adopt
ed in the past, both curative and pre
ventive, in connection with men and
women put in cells over night for
minor offenses. Originally “$lO or ten
days” was held to be the very last,
best word in penalty infliction. Then
folks pointed out that the poor man
hadn’t $lO to spare in most cases and
if he was sent to jail for ten days be
cause he couldn’t pay that his family
suffered through his idleness and he
might lose his employment altogether.
Suspended sentence was then tried
in a number of cities and this seemed
in a great measure —when coupled
with a sharp lecture—to approximate
what was the best thing to do with
the minor transgressor. Now and then
a western city magistrate would try
a cure of his own. The cure would be
concededly an original one no matter
if it did not always prove efficacious.
One judge sentenced an offender to
scrub out half a dozen cells every
night for a week after he had finished
his daily occupation outside the sta
tion house. Another judge in one of
the Pacific coast cities sentenced a
mail guilty of public intoxication twice
a month or a two months’ attendance
at meetings of the Woman’s Christian
Temperance Union. He was the only
PROUD OF 60 YEARS’ CRIME
“Never Worked a Day and Never
- Will.” Says Old Vagrant Ar
rested In London.
London. —“I have never done an
honest day’s work in my life, and
don’t intend to start now,” said George
Wells to a detective after being com
mitted for trial.
"I have been a thief all through my
life of sixty years, and since I start
ed, four months is the longest time 1
have been free.” He was sentenced
to five years’ preventive detention at
the London sessions, twenty-three con
victions, which entailed thirty years
In prison, being proved against him.
SAVED BY BOY OF TWELVE
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Heroic Rescue From Drowning Mhde
by an Alabama Lad—Swims Out
in Gulf of Mexico.
' Tampa, Fla. —At Sarasota twelve
-yea T-old Frank Abbott of Birming
ham, Ala., qualified for a Carnegie
medal when he swam out into the
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man present at several of these meet
ings and he did not like his corrective
medicine at all, but he had to swallow
It.
Still another magistrate gave a
chronic inebriate the alternative of
thirty days in jail or buying and dis
tributing a dozen temperance advocacy
tracts every day for thirty days at
specified addresses, where it. could be
proved he had not called if he neg
lected the task. With the delivery of
each tract he was obliged to repeat
the words: “Wine is a mocker; strong
drink is raging. Look not upon the
wine when it is red, for at last it
blteth like an adder.” The cure was
tried after its first administration up
on several of the "chronics” and never
failed to work from six months to a
year of reform.
BOY KING STANDS BY KIN
Nine Year Old Son of Italian King
Is Champion of Montenegro
Ruler.
Rome. —A valiant champion of lit
tle Montenegro is Prince Humbert,
the nine-year-old son of King Victor
of Italy. Prince Humbert does not
approve at all his father’s attitude
toward Montenegro in the Balkan
war, and learned with dismay that
Italy was in thorough accord with the
other powers in demanding that the
Montenegrins evacuate Scutari.
A few days ago Prince Humbert was
"playing war” with his sisters in the
royal nursery. The king was an
amused spectator of the game. Prince
Humbert was the Montenegrin leader
and he "killed off” all the Turks —his
Bisters in the game. Turning to his
father, the little prince demanded
to be sent to Cettinje.
“Why?” asked the king.
The prince thought for a moment
and remembered that his mother
and grandfather were Montenegrins.
"Well,” he replied, “I think you
ought to be there fighting, but as you
are not, I suppose I ought to go to
grandpapa and show him that we are
on his side. Why are you not with
him?”
“You see Italy Is still fighting Trip
oli and I am required here,” replied
the king.
“But suppose you were not re-
Gulf of Mexico and rescued R. W.
Grinton, a real estate dealer. Mr.
Grinton, who could not swim, • had
donned a life-preserver and was pad
dling about in shallow water. Caught
in an undertow, he was swept out into
the gulf. He called for help. Young
Abbott alone of those on shore could
swim, and he struck out bravely to
save his friend. Grinton was only
semi-conscious when Abbott reached
him. The lad managed to bring him
ashore.
UNIQUE WILL IS CONTESTED
One Daughter of Cigarmaker Says
Father Was of Unsound Mind
at the Time.
New York. —Louis Ash, a cigarma
ker who died recently, provided in his
will that if his daughters could not
agree on the equal division of his li
brary the books should be weighed
and thus equally apportioned. The
odd provision Is one cited by Mrs.
Amanda Chase, who, declaring her
father was not of sound mind, is con
testing a codicil to the will which
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IRWINTON, WILKINSON COUNTY, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, MAY 30, 1913.
quired here,” asked the little critic,
"would you go to Montenegro?”
- King Victor hesitated, and chose his
words with care.
"No, I don't think so,” he said
finally.
Prince Humbert shouldered his toy
gun and shook his head.
“I think it is very wrong of you.”
he said emphatically. "I am going to
practice so that I can kill all of
grandpapa’s enemies. They’re all
Turks, anyway."
TO PROBE FAKIR MYSTERIES
Andrew Carnegie Finances Expedition
That Will Seek to Uncover Many
Unknown Feats.
Berlin. — Andrew Carnegie has
financed a small party of investiga
tors who will investigate the mysteries
of levitation in Egypt and possibly
India under the supervision of Profes
sor Schwidtal of Posen.
The young savant has made a com
prehensive study of the methods em
ployed by the fakirs and magicians of
Egypt in performing their various
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feats of magic. A special investigation
will be made to ascertain as to the
manner in which the fakirs reach the
ecstatic state which the fakirs attain
and which is said to enable them to
perform their wonderful mysteries.
The results of the expedition will be
reported to the University of Berlin.
gives $35,000 to Mrs. Nathalie May,
another daughter, cutting off Mra
Chase.
Kisses Dead Victim's Lips.
Washburn, N. D. —When W. T. An
derson, former clerk in the First Na
tional bank, charged with the murder
of F. E. Funk, cashier of the institu
tion, entered the room where the body
of the dead banker lay, he fell on his
knees beside the bier, threw his arms
about the body and kissed the dead
man’s lips, imploring him to come
back and help him out of his present
trouble. Anderson denies his gullL
Premonition Saved His Life.
Schuylkill Haven, Pa. —John Devon,
a carpenter employed at the car shops
had a narrow escape from death while
at work. He was under a car sup
ported by stilts when he had a pre
monition that the car was going to
fall. He worked a while longer and
finally crawled out, unable to over
come the feeling of fear. A moment
later the stilts gave way and the cai
fell
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