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THE MURRAY NEWS
Published weekly st Spring place, l.eorgia. by
th? Murray News Publishing Company, and de¬
voted to tile interest?of Murray Countv
KnCored at the post office at Spring Place, aa.
• as st’cand-etaHs matter, and issued every Friday.
Official Organ of City and County
SuhKcription, $1.00 per year; six months, 60c;
three* mouths, *i5c,
.1. KD. JOHNSON, EDITOR.
The yellow fever situation
in New Orleans, despite the
hopeful view taken by the
authorities, is grave indeed.
Hon. Gordon Lee and
Judge Gus Fite have both
been in the city this week and
no one has been slighted in
the way of a pleasant look
and a happy smile. They are
in the race for congress to
stay and you may look for
something warm.
John Wanamaker, former
postmaster general > enter
tamed Booker T. Washing¬
ton at dinner the other day.
M rs. Barclay Warburton,
Wanamaker’s daughter was
his escort. You will ojpea
sionly see gentlemen of his
color in dining rooms of the
south, but when you do he
invariably has a tin waiter in
his hand and a towel over
his shoulder—the only lit
place tor him. But we can’t
blame the nigger, He feels
good of course to get to eat
“in de big house”, but it does
look like as many white peo¬
ple as there are in this world
that such people as the Wan
nmakers could find somebody
to associate with without hav¬
ing to invite negroes to help
them out.
JUDGE flTE URGED TO RUN.
It now looks like Judge
Fite will certainly enter the
race for congress, and if he
dues he will made things live¬
ly in the old Seventh district.
His friends are enthusiastic
for him and say that he will
win hands down; be this as it
may, we look for lively times
if Judge Fite should enter the
race. In a conversation with
Judge Fite today about con¬
gressional politics he said, “I
am being strongly urged
throughout the district to
make the race for congress,
and I have about made up
my mind to do so, but the el¬
ection is a long time off, and
1 think it rather ealry to get
up too much political excite¬
ment. Besides I am very
busy in my courts and have
but little time to talk or think
about politics, but will let you
hear from me as soon as my
courts are over. I was kept
out of the race the last time
by a political deal, which 1
then suspected, but of which
I'had no definite information.
I will have plenty of time now
to canvass the district and
meet the people face to facg,
which I intend doing should
I enter the race. The Hon.
Gordon Lee is even now can¬
vassing the district actively,
seeing “the men who con¬
trol”, being well supplied
with free railroad passes and
having a private secretary to
do his writing, which he is
having published throughout
the district. If 1 should en¬
ter the race I shall ask the
executive committee to give
us a late primary, not earlier
than the first of August, so as
to give all candidates an
portunity to get around, I
will see to it that snap judge¬
ment is not taken against Mr.
Lee, as it was against the
Hon. R. Everett. The bur¬
den of Mr. Lee’s argument
is that he ought to have a
second term but he seems to
forget the part he took in de¬
feating Mr. Everett, There
were no good reasons tor de¬
feating Mr. Everett, but there
are many why Mr.Lee should
not be reelected, There is
no comparison between the
two gentlemen in point of
ability and, besides, M r. Ev¬
erett was nominated fairly and
squarely and should have
been reelected without oppo¬
sition ; but this cannot be said
of Mr. Lee. It don’t lie
within his mouth to claim a
second term either as a mat¬
ter of right or precedent.
Was Wasting Away.
“I had been troubled with kid¬
ney disease for the last Five
years,” writes Robert R. Watts,
of Salem, Mo. “I lost flesh and
never felt well and doctered with
loading physicians and tried all
remedies suggested without re¬
lief. Finally I tried Foley’s Kid¬
ney (Jure and less than two bot¬
tles completely cured me and I
am now sound and well.” Dur¬
ing the summer kidney irregu¬
larities are often caused by ex¬
cessive drinking or being over¬
heated. Attend to the kidneys
at once by using Foley’s Kidney
(Jure. For sale by 8. II. Kelly.
Kipling’s Wolf Boy.
From T. I”b. Weekly.
It seems that an original of
Mr. Kipling’s Mowgli lias been
discovered, Mrs. Harriet Fran¬
ces, an American lady, is said by
a contemporary to have seen him,
at the age of 20 , at the English
Church Mission, Agra, in 1875.
This lady described the strange
wolf boy in a book of travels
which was privately printed some
years ago. At the age of 8 he
had been rescued from a wolf’s
den. He had been seen crawling
about on all fours in the compa¬
ny of a she-vvolf. In the early
days of his captivity he howled
like a wolf, would only eat raw
meat and continued to move a
bout on his hands and feet. It
took years of infinite patience on
the part of his manager to teach
him the few words he was able to
articulate when she saw him.
At that time he still made his
wants known mainly by gestures
and ejaculations, and his lower
jaw was constantly moving, lie
had a wild look still, but was
not “disagreeably ugly,” had
become “quite tame” and ap¬
peared “kindly disposed.”
Was in Poor Health for Years.
Ira W. Kelly, of Mansfield, Fa.
writes: “1 was in poor health
for two years, suffering from kid¬
ney and bladder trouble, and
spent considerable money con¬
sulting physicians without ob¬
taining any marked benefit, but
wascured by Foley’s Kidney Cure
and I desire to add my testimo¬
ny that it may be the cause of
restoring the health of others.”
Refuse substitutes. For sale by
S. H. Kelly. *
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MOUNT ZION ZEPHYRS
Health of the community is
very good at present.
Miss Sallie Holland spent Sun¬
day night with Miss Victoria
Moreland.
Frank Peeples, his wife and
charming daughter, Miss Etta,
spent Sunday afternoon visiting
at the home of Will Martin.
Jim Willbanks, of Ft. Moun¬
tain, spent Monday with John
Holland at this place.
Mark Willbanks dined with
friends in this vicinity recently.
Bill Duncan and wife and two
daughters are up from Lindale,
spending a short visit with Mt.
Zion friends and relatives.
Mjgg Eunice Duncan was a
g ue gt of Miss Mary Ueeples the
past week. VEKBtNA.
THE MURRAY NEWS, FRIDAY.'AUGUST IS, 1005
IN THE BASQUE COUNTRY.
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Of the strange scenes and customs of
the Basque country a traveler writes:
“I was struck by the way the women
walked and can-led themselves. A fat
old woman with a huge tray on her
head walked along at a swinging pace,
shouting her wares meanwhile at the
top of her voice. I saw a woman car
rying on her head flrftt of all a large
tray of fruit (its size can be imagined
when I tell you that it was afterward ;
her stall). On the top of this were a
basket of washing and a big umbrella
to be used to cover the stall. Then in
her left hand she carried a supple
mentaiy stall, and by the other she
led a little child which could Just reach
the mother’s hand by holding Sts own
up as high as it could stretch.
‘‘I was waiting once at a little way
side Inn In the village oflVsealn when
I saw an old lady, followed by two j
great fat white pigs. They dll three
waddled over to the village pump, and j j
then, procuring some water in a pail,
the old lady proceeded to wash her |
charges Hhe cleaned them most ns- j
slduously eyes, ears, tail, back, hind
quarters and feet. ]
“There is a dignity of carriage about |
all the women in this country. 1 fan
cied it might he due to the fact that 1 |
formerly, before the ’Code Napoleon’
came Into operation, the law obliged
the firstborn, whether boy or girl, to.
inherit the patrimony and continue the
head of the family, the husband taking
the wife’s name when the inheritor was
a woman, thus giving the woman a
perfect equality from her birth. The
matrons are not less beautiful than the
younger women.
“Quite unlike any other language Is
that of the Basques. Although when
hearing the people talk a Spanish sound
seems to be occasionally emitted, it Is
not really at all like Spanish. I was
amused to find that ‘no’ Is ‘ess’ la
Basque, and when 1 asked what ‘yes’
,was I thought ut first the answer was
but,’ which would Ilirve been very curi¬
ous. but it turned out to be ‘ba,’ with
the ‘b’ softly pronounced.”
A PERFUME THAT SMELLS,
The Awful Odor That Conic* From
Pure Attar of Hone*.
The perfumer look from his desk a
small flask of copper.
“In flasks like this attar of roses
comes to us,” he said. “Attar of roses
Is worth from .$10 to $25 an ounce, ac¬
cording to the market. Tills flask is
empty now, but In it a little odor still
lingers.”
The visitor smiled delightedly. He
had never smelt pure attar of roses be¬
fore. Now he unscrewed the stopper
and, ('losing Ills eyes, with an ecstatic
look he applied hla nostrils to the flask.
But only for an Instant. Then ho
threw back his head, twisting 1ns
features Into a grimace of disgust, and
he exclaimed;
“Garbage! Bone yards! Ohio fac¬
tories V\
The perfumer laughed.
“All essential oils smell like that.” he
said. “Yet uo good perfume can he
rnnde without them.”
He took from a shelf a cut glass jar
tilled with a thick, yellowish oil that
looked like petroleum partly refined.
"In this jar,” ho said, “there tiro forty
ounces of pure attar of roses worth
over $500. You know how the attar
smells alone. Now watch me make a
rich perfume by adding things to ltf
Ho put a few drops of the attar Into
a vial. He filled the vial with spirits
of musk, another of orris, then one of
neroll, one of rose, of violet, of orange,
of vanilla, and, finally, the oil of cloves
and bergamot.
"There," he said, “smell that. Isn’t
it exquisite?”
“Exquisite!” said the visitor.
“Well, without its foundation of the
malodorous and costly attar of roses it
wouldn’t smell any better than a pinto
of soup.”.....New York Herald.
As n Clinchvr.
“I’m not so particular about speed,
but I must have n gentle horse," re¬
peated Mr. Green. "My wife wants
to drive, you see. Will you warrant
this horse to be safe?”
“Certainly,” said the dealer reassur¬
ingly. “He’s a regular lady’s horse.”
“You are sure he’s not afraid of any¬
thing?” asked Mr. Green anxiously
nmi for the tenth time.
The dealer assumed an air of reflec¬
tion.
“Well, there is one thing.that he lias
always appeared to be afraid of ever
since 1 got him." he admitted con¬
scientiously. "It seems as if he’s
scared to death for fear some one
might say ‘Whoa!’ and he not bear it."
Ancient llrldse Superstition.
A primitive notion existed among the
Romans nud other races that ft bridge
was an offense and injury to the river
god, as it saved people from being
drowned while fording or swimming
across and robbed the deity of « certain
number of victims which were his due.
For many centuries to Romo propitia
tory offerings of human victims were
made every year to the Tiber. Men
and women were drowned by being
bound and flung from the wooden Sub
lielan bridge, which, til! nearly the end
of the republican period, was the one
and only bridge across the Tiber in
Rome.
Authorship ns « Profession,
Nobody should write who is not firm
ly possessed of the idea that he lias a
vocation for literature and is* not will
ing to endure the penalties of art for
j the who sake writes of serving in that an spirit art. makes If a person a 11 v
lng he earns it. If he makes a fortune
he deserves it.-New York Times.
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A dwarf sees farther than the giant
when he has the giant’s shoulder to
mount—Coleridge,
THE DOCTOR KNOWS.
".* 11 '• " !U5 -ixrszzr"' !ate tlu ' 'lector s patients ha 1
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e 'Oicr passed away or were mend ug.
nu, l tie was sitting viit.i a number or
acquaintances in a corner of the ,
clul ' room. *
" It 8 !l strenuous lire we ea ,
droned the man of medicine, with the
<?rirn side tumi d uppermost ns a rule,
*»ut now and then we get a laugh out
of lt a lau S !l " illj the iid on, of
course; We can’t afford to show were
amused. I often wonder, he went on
gently, -why some of you chaps ever
send for a physician. V,u don t tell .
him the truth once In twenty times,
You’re in a hml way at* you re sorry.
und to bear yon talk Id think jo
mouths w.re cold storage boxes for
butter. You suspect that lobster or a
rl< ’h sauce you ate dn> before yester- ,
f hiy Is ut the bottom of the trou lie
You know what s curled you up, am (
you’re frightened out of a years
growth for fear 111 'earn. i
“Accordingly, instead of taking me
lnt 9 Y° llr confidence, you tell me an
Impossible story. And If I cross ex
amine you closely and hedge you In
vou l1 reluctantJy admit that you ve
• smoked
been somewhat Indiscreet. You
font cigars Thursday and took six
drinks. Doeant It ever occur to you
that I know by your flutters that you
»™*«» from breakfast to bed and
took- sixteen drinks and six more for
8°od measure ■' dote
“H I were ailments to believe you and describe j
you for y .ur as yon
them you’d never get well. Now and
then 1 have to give you strychnine and
nitroglycerin to restore the action of
the heart, and to listen to you I might .
conclude that you’d had too much pink j
ice at a children’s party.
“As I hinted, we what doctors do get do some it j j
fun out of it, but you
haven’t, for? YVo always were not taken always the best doctors, care we of j
and we’re not fools.”— j I
ourselves,
Providence Journal.
FEATHERED GLUTTONS.
Some Very Greedy Birds That Are
Trememlou* Feeder*.
rifispite the fact that "the appetift j
of a bird” has become a common phrase j
for light eating, investigations show ;
that birds are tremendous feeders. The !
diet of the average calculated kestrel*<a small at 1,000 Eu j
ropean hawk) is j j
mice a month, to say nothing of insects
ami worms. The burn owl Is as vora- j
,-lous as the kestrel. An investigator,
after caging one of these birds, gave It :
seven mleo ouo after the other. The ]
Urst six immediately disappeared, each |
with a gobble and a gulp, and the owl j
iid its very best to treat the seventh
:n a like manner. Limitations of ab
Jomtnul capacity, however, prevented,
wid though the gobble came off the !
gulp did n°t, so that for twenty into ;
ales or so the tail of the seventh mouse ;
dangled from the corner of the bird's j
beak. body, But in and due three* course hours it swallowed later the j j
the
pangs of hunger reasserted themselves i
and the owl ate four more mice.
Four pounds would be a heavy weight birds, j j
for ft heron. Yet one of tlioso
which was trapped In England, dis
gwged twu recently swallowed trout,
one of which weighed two pounds nud
the other oue nud u half pounds. An¬
other captured had contrived'to put
away three trout averaging three-quar¬
ters of a pound apiece, although ft was
only four months old, and another/had
dined upon seven small trout, together
with a mouse and a thrush.
Among the greediest birds are wood
pigeons, which will continue to gulp
down food until their crops are almost
at the bursting point. T’rom ouc of
these birds, shot as it was returning
from a raid In the fields, no fewer than ;
800 grains of wheat were taken. An- i
other had contrived to cram down no |
fewer than 000 peas. A third was eu- 1
flea coring 1o sustain nature with 180 j j
beech nuts and a fourth with sixty
acorns.
Creating; the Fashion*.
YVho sets the fashions? Sometimes
an original idea emanates from a hum
hle workwoman, and after fusjon in
the brain and improvements and sug¬
gestions given by the great autocrat it
emerges. Minerva-like, to full panoply.
complete and victorious. Numbers of
diligent seekers, a horde of assistants.
voluminous nates, sketches, ideas, are
pressed into the service. Artists lend |
their willing services, while the sarto
rial adept 'combines, exaggerates, al¬
ters old modes, culling, like the bee. *
flowers of fancy here and there until j
the bright vision of beauty is realized
and the forthcoming styles are decided j
on. London Graphic.
Costly rojTenponde»e<*, havej
“1 see that a letter supposed to
been written by Henry VIII. has jttsr I
brought $2,000."
“That’s nothing. A letter of mine ,
just brought $10,003.’’
“Indeed?”
“Yes; to ;i girl who sued me for
breach of promise.”—Louisville Com
rier-Jouraal.
The Separation,
Mrs. Grogan—-Keegan an’ bis wife
had a fierce scrap. Mrs. Hogan-—An’
did they separate? Mrs. Grogan- Thev
did, but Keegan was most dead before
tk’ cops could get th’ twisters on Mrs.
Keegan an’ separate thimt-Poek.
Paving tfee Way*.
“Hus Harold asked your father to
8‘ v0 consent ?
"‘ lo told father ,:ist night that he bad
iaatle 111 a teal estate deal, so 1
suppose he s Asking him on the instail
pian.”-Mihvaukee Journal.
No man is matriculated to the art 'of
life till be has been well tempted.—
George Eliot.
1
ee II Fitting Clothing
is not an Accident
“Knowing how” is one of the prime elements in the
construction of good fitting Clothing.
We buy'from manufacturers who not only know
how but who have made a reputation manufacturing reli¬
able Clothing and who are very careful to sustain their
reputation. >
We are agehts for B. Stern & Son, Custom 1 allors,
Warnamaker & Brown, Custom Tailors. Fechheimer &
Fichel. and "Faultless” Ready-to»wear Suits.
•Many choice things to show you in
Black Thibbets
Unfinished Worsteds
Granites, Clay Worsteds
Cassimers, Wool Crash, etc.
It is a pleasure to show yon our Clothing and quite
easy to fit you in a stylish Suit if you would like one.
$5.00 to $20.00
Strong line $7.50 to $15.00
Dutchess Trousers *
for those who like the very best in pants.
Work Styels - . . . $1.00 to $3.50
Dress Styles . . . . $2.00 to $6.00
MCWILLIAMS BROTHERS/
THE STEP OF FAITH
That is what you fane wnen you give yotfr prescriptions to
a druggist to be Filled. You should have confidence in the
store as a store of character. Otir store has a very HIGH
CHARACTER for
Reliability
That is the i Iiief ei d we have worked for. Prescriptions
are intrusted, to us nsuch great numbers, no doubt because
of 1ln' character which ut r Acre- enjoys among the doctors
and the public
Our Aim
has always jbden and wij} continue to be, to please our cus¬
tomers : first, by dispensing only the vkky jskst of every¬
thing and secondly, by handling ail business entrusted to
us iu a satisfactory manner i We want business and are
ready with prompt- and courteous service to greet all people
in that good old, Lonest way distinguished as sincerity and
plain dealing. * accurate.
As dispensers we a re reliable. In dispensing we are that
Remember we v. ant your busi.iess and remember, too,
it is good when it comes from
The Hightower Drug Co.,
Wholesale and Ratail Dealers in Drugs, Medicines,
and physicians’ supj dies, Dalton, Ga.
Is the on¬
ly remedy
absolutely caring
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