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VOLUME 11. NUMBER 47.
ALL THAT WAS LEFT OF THE ZEPPELIN “L-2”
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This is the first photograph taken of the German Zeppelin Airship “L-2” after the terrible explosion which
wrecked it 900 feet in the air and killed its 20 passengers.
LOVE NOTES TO JANE ADDAMS
Man Arrested in New Orleans, Who
for Two Years Has Sent
Her Missives.
Chicago,—Miss Jane Addams, known
internationally because of her socla
logical activities, allowed it to be
come known that she has been re
ceiving letters for two years from a
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Miss Jane Addams.
man who signs himself Henry Leun
ker. The man was arrested at Miss
Addams' request at New Orleans. Miss
Addams said she had never seen the
man, but that she was convinced that
he was mentally unsound.
WOMAN’S HAIRPIN SAVES HER
Bullet Fired at Girl Deflected by
Bit of Metal in Her
Hair.
Newark, N. J. —A hairpin saved the
life of Mrs. Sarah Jones, twenty-three
years old, of 670 North Sixth street,
who was shot in a quarrel with Charles
Kessler, alias Seeley, aged twenty, a
boarder. The bullet was deflected,
lodging close under the skin close to
the right ear. It was extracted in the
City hospital.
Mrs. Grace Patterson, mother of
Mrs. Jones, told the police she was
talking with her daughter when Kess
ler came into the room and picked a
quarrel, in which he showed he was
jealous of the daughter.
Kessler is alleged to have drawn a
revolver. Screaming, Mrs. Jones start
ed to run from the room. Kessler is
said to have fired at her. The bullet
struck the hairpin. The boarder ran
from the house, but was caught by a
patrolman.
The police say Kessler had trouble
in Philadelphia because of a shooting
affray. He denies this and also denies
he was in Mrs. Jones’ home at the
time she was shot.
WARFARE OF OTHER DAYS
OufMlßln Lecture by Professor
Oelbrueck of Berlin
University.
Londort—-AVarfare of other days
-was desctihßi in a fascinating lecture
on “Number# in History," recently at
the UniversW college by Prof. Hans
Delbrueck, wofessor of history at
the University of Berlin.
Professor Delbrueck said the first
point to which in any history of war
they had to detect attention was the
number of the warriors. It was a rec
ognized fact that Moltke displayed
great genius in 1970 when he directed
a monstrous mass of his troops from
one center, drew them up abreast and
made them act together in battle.
To direct such a mass unitedly was.
even with railways, roads, telegraphs
and a general staff, an exceedingly dif
ficult task.
Armies, however, demanded not
only to be moved, but also to be fed,
and even for this side of campaigning
later war history, such as the pro
visioning of Bazaine's army in Metz,
Midi#
00 LITTLEJOING
Verbomania a Most Dangerous
and Insidious Disease.
Preventive Measures Urged for Mal
ady Most Frequently Found Among
the Feminine Sex—View of
Russian Writer.
New York. —Verbomania isn’t a new
disease —in fact, it is ancient —but its
terrible dangers to society are just
beginning to be realized, says Ossip
Lourie, a Russian writer, in an ar
ticle ranking excessive talking as a
dangerous disease and a menace to
civilization.
Civilization is responsible for it, In
•his opinion, and nothing but a strenu
ous regime to enforce temporary
silences on those afflicted can stop its
dreaded' ravages. And he urges hu
manity to inaugurate a campaign
against verbosity just as It wages war
against tuberculosis and against ex
cessive alcoholism.
Progress is decidedly hlhdered, he
goes on to say, by this prevalent vice,
and he urges the immediate attention
of the teacher and the minister and
the doctor. According to his theory,
human language developed from signs
into articulate speech and then was
fixed by writing. Then people, like
the pianists who can render difficult
compositions without thinking about
them, acquire the power to talk with
out thinking about what they were
saying. So words become possible
without ideas in the mind of the
speaker.
It it were impossible to speak with
out thinking, Mr. Lourie insists that
the greater part of mankind would
grow dumb in a few years. For far
from being creatures that think “men
are nothing but animated talking ma
chines.” They carry within them
selves the principal of verbal move
ment, which is determined by a power
over which they have no control.
When the words become divorced
from the idea talking becomes patho
logical, a disease for a man’s intelli
gence is not measured by the number
of words he speaks, but according to
his power of comprehension. Idiots
frequently express themselves with
great facility, while men of genius
are often able to talk in only the most
poverty-stricken terms.
Verbomania, he insists, affects num
bers of people who are in other re
spects quite normal and whose mal
ady does not prevent them, unfortu
nately, from taking part in the regular
business of every-day life. Among
its victims he counts leaders of sects
and of political parties, and also habit
ual gossips, whom he places in the
same class as dipsomaniacs.
gave us measures of which we could
make use for older times.
Herodotus related that 5,100,000
men was the strength of the army of
Xerxes. If that were true one might
calculate that the last men could only
have left Susa beyond the Tigris
when the first arrived before Ther
mopylae. The plain of Marathon was
so small that 50 years ago a Prussian
staff officer who visited it wrote with
some astonishment that a Prussian
brigade would scarcely have room
there for exercises.
PREACHER NETS FISH, FINED
Judge, Out of Respect for Minister’s
Calling, Reduces SIOO Penalty,
However.
Virginia, Minn.—Rev. K. E. Forsell,
teacher in a Minneapolis business col
lege, was arrested at Dunham lake,
between Virginia and buluth, charged
with netting fish.' The warden seized
his fish and a 100-foot gill net. He
was fined SIOO and costs, but S9O wag
remitted because he was a clergy
man.
IRWINTON, WILKINSON COUNTY, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, NOLEMBER 21, 1913.
These verbomaniacs become moral
weaklings, and their disease becomes
associated with all kinds of vanity,
slander, calumny and perjury. It is
more frequently found among women
than men, and it spreads more rapidly
among the southern races.
M. Lourie urges preventive reme
dies for family, school and general so
cial use. Don’t let a child pronounce
a word until he knows its meaning,
don’t let him talk rapidly and force
him to remain alone for at least one
Lour a day. And for professional and
incurable talkers he recommends
longer treatments of silence.
There is an absolute need for places
where gossips and social wrecks of
various descriptions can pick them
selves up. Otherwise there is infinite
future woe and disaster which will be
world-wide.
SHOCK FOR OLD COIN MARKET
Roman Laborer Unearths Huge Quan
tities of Ancient Money, Buried
2,500 Years.
Rome. —There was a bad slumn in
the market for old coins, which has
been very active, owing to the inter*
est taken by King Victor Emmanuel.
In digging a trench here for a sewer,
a laborer struck and broke a large
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King Victor Emmanuel.
clay pot. A stream of coins poured out.
He filled his pockets and ran away, but
was caught.
Altogether there were 7,600 coins of
the early consular period, dating back
about 2,500 years, and all well pre
served.
Girls Change Hair Dressing Style.
Jamaica, N. Y. —Following the ad
vice of their principal that they wear
their hair so they can hear their les
sons, all girl pupils in the local
high school changed their style of
coiffure in a single day.
WALKS 360 MILES TO “PEN”
“Buck” Patterson Finally Admitted to
Five-Year Term After Error
in Court Routine.
Little Rock. —An error in the court
routine caused Buck Patterson to
walk 360 miles to begin his sentence
to five years in the penitentiary here
for manslaughter. Patterson, fifty
six, was convicted at Russellville, 180
miles from here. He had always
borne a good reputation, and upon his
request was allowed to make the trip
alone.
He rode to Little Rock, but when
he reached the State prison, was told
his commitment papers had not ar
rived. Penniless, he walked back to
Russellville, secured the papers and
then walked back to Little Rock, cov
ering ttys distance in a week. Some
thing was wrong with the papers,
however, and admittance was refused.
Patterson had a lawyer friend start
legal proceedings, but was admitted
to the prison before the case was
called.
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