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Taken for the
Family
By DOROTHY DOUGLAS
(ft) 1021, by McClure Nfv.ipi.nr ,'jnilu
Etliel couldn’t stand it any longer.
Six 1 simply must ask soiucoik.- to toko
u unapshot of her and tier loo'liff to
gotlK-r.
The Albany Day Line boat was
sailing between the great Dill- that
glorify the Hudson, and behind
stretched the wonderful silver ribbon
or water. Ethel and bet brother,
Ben, hud taken numerous pictures of
each other as a foreground to the
magnificent scenery, hut not one did
they have together.
"I don’t see why some brilliant per
son doesn’t invent a long string de
vice of some kind so that two people
can take their own pictures together.”
“Nutty as usual,” commented her
brother unfeelingly, hut nevertheless
very, very proud of Ids proximity to
Ethel. She was by far the loveliest
and most attractive girl on the Rob
ert Fulton or any other ship, he
thought.
"I ajn going to ask someone to snap
us off,” Ethel suddenly decided. “1
don’t see any reason why I shouldn’t.
1 am quite sure either of us would he
glad to do it for anyone else.” Her
eyes were already casting about for a
victim, preferably one with a camera,
had there were plenty of them, there
on the upper deck.
"You’ll pick up with some stranger
Just once too often,” Ben warned her.
But Ids sister’s eyes had already
found their victim. He had u camera
ami was even then snapping the trail
of the ship, mountains, silver ribbon
end all. His suit was of well-cut
tweed and his figure of sturdy propor
tions.
“If you will do fool stunts," hissed
Hen ns she was moving uway on this
mission, “let on you’re my wife. T
don’t want any strange man thinking
he can take advantage of your ud
i Vances.”
A brilliant smile rewarded him.
“Sometimes, dear," Ethel informed
him, "you have u curious amount of
/I
I <n
He Watched Hei>.
sense," she looked over her shoulder
nt him, “for one so young.”
Ben was perhaps eighteen months
younger than Ethel.
He watched her while she began her
conversation with the strange young
man, watched that same stranger
freeze suddenly, then as swiftly melt
when lie heard Ethel’s simple request.
“My husband and I do so want to
send one picture hack to our families
In which we are Dotli visible —I won
der if you would mind very much Just
snapping us oft?”
Ben knew exactly what Ethel’s eves
would he like as they thing their won
derful ruys Into the stranger’s own,
nnd he quaked for the stranger. Ben
was too familiar with the luivoe Ids
sister was wont to leave in her wake.
Tom Warren went to the slaughter
like a lamb to the fold. His smile
was boyish and Ben liked him.
She brought him over and the two
men shook hands as any two well
born men would under the circum
stances. Warren's keen look at Ben
and Ethel told him much. Ben's was
merely appraising and admiring.
“My wife is a bit nutty when we are
away on these jaunts,” Ben said by
way of making conversation uml also
In a way apologizing for Ethel’s un
conventionality and absolving himself
from blame.
Warren laughed as he took the
camera from Ethel’s hands, and the
glance he cast her showed entire dis
agreement with Ben’s verdict.
“There’s a line view now." he sug
gested, "if you will just stand out
there by the railing.” He focused the
camera, watching more for a certain
pose and expression in the girl than
the scenery or Bon. He took three,
then asked if he might try one or two
with his own camera.
Ethel and Ben exchanged glances
but mutually consented.
"I shall return the compliment—if
I may,” Ethel said with a slight blush.
"You have no one to take your pic
ture and you might want to send one
to your wife.”
Ben positively gasped at his sister’s
unveiled curiosity as to Warren’s state
in the matrimonial Held.
‘•‘Not yet arrived," Warren told her,
and Ethel had the grace to blush
again.
They finished taking pictures and it
eats Ben, much to Ethel’s surprise,
considering Iter brother’s reserve, who
suggested that they descend to the
queer little coffee room two decks be
low.
“The idea is good,” laughed Warren,
“whether we need it or not.”
They made a Jolly trio, the sup
pose! man and wife and 'Tom Warren.
When they exchanged addresses
with the promise to send snapshots to
each other there was elation in the
heart of Warren.
It was then that Ethel had the sur
prise of her life.
“You must come op and have din
ner with us—and bring the photos,”
Ben had said, and Tom Warren need
ed no second bidding.
"But Ben,” Ethel warned, when they
lmd parted with their new-found
friend, "you know nothing about him
and —”
“I like him better than most of
your swains.”
“You forget, dearie, that we are
husband and wife. Mr. Warren will
have to he told.”
Ben laughed sheepishly.
“Mr. Warren has been told. He
slipped it to me when 1 asked Him to
dinner. Said we hadn’t put anything
over ori him—something about same
kind of long, black eyelashes and
same contour to face—rather a slam
on me, I should say.”
Ethel laughed at his brotherly re
mark. “I almost believe you are turn
ing matchmaker.”
“You believe right. That fellow
looks to me as If he could keep you
in order—you are getting beyond me.”
He grinned at. Her. “Boor booh was
howled right over at the start —any
one could see that.”
Ethel blushed holly and Ben patted
her on the shoulder. “Never mind,
sis—l am glad for once you picked up
With a stranger-like him."
“So am I,” admitted Ethel.
OFFERINGS TO SAVAGE GODS
Human Sacrifices in Sacred Grov«s a
Part of the Dreadful Old
Druidica! Religion.
The old Druid religion was a dread
ful one in many aspects, and no phase
of it was more evil than the cere
monies that were conducted In the
sacred grove Just outside the walls
of Marseilles, France. The trees were
oaks, and no human hand hud laid at:
ere to :!:o forest since the creation of
it. As a result the underbrush had
grown up and the trees themselves
had so interlaced limbs and leaves
that the Interior of the grove was al
most as dark as If it were perpetual
night, as no ray of sun could pene
trate to Us heart. A slime-covered
creek twisted about among the trees,
its waters an inky blackness and it
is said that no four-footed animal
eould live in the grove or any bird
perch on tlie trees.
Deep in the heart of the grove,
reached only by a secret and twisted
path, the Druid stones were set up,
ghastly graj* piles with flat tops, so
that the bodies of the men, women
and children to he sacrificed could
be laid nude and helpless upon them.
The priests, with stone knives,
would disembowel the screaming
victims or would slowly cut their
throats, chanting prayers as the
death gurgle echoed in the grim
forest. There was not a tree In the
depths of the forest thut was not
stained with tile blood of human be
ings. Maidens were preferred to any
other form of sacrifice, and the
more beauty one had the more she
was thought to be acceptable to the
unnamed gods.
Status of Japanese Women.
Under Japanese law a woman, upon
contracting marriage, becomes incom
petent, like a minor, says Julian Sweet
In McClure’s. A wife cannot transfer
her own real estate, bring an action at
law, or even accept or reject a legacy
or a gift, without the consent of her
husband. According to cite law of
Japan a widow cannot succeed her
husband as head of the family if she
have u child who can take the succes
sion. In matters of inheritance an
elder sister gives place to a younger
son.
ltt one respect tne Japanese divorce
laws are more enlightened than those
of America. A husband and wife who
agree in wishing a divorce ntey easily
obtain it by stating the fact to the
court.
Not Yet Acquainted.
Not all telephone delays and annoy
ances may he charged lo the central
operators. A young woman recently
rang up her fiance at his office and
said:
“Is this Beckman 30746?”
"I don’t know," replied the duenna
of the switchboard. “I’ve only been
here a week.” —New York Evening
Post.
Book Fiends.
St. I.ouis is going to have a “buy
a book” week.
The “borrow a book" fiends never
have to put on any extraordinary
events to remind them of their spe
cialty. They’d count the week lost
that did not see at least one hook be
longing to somebody else added to
their collection. —Detroit Free I’ress.
PEARSON TRIBUNE, PEARSON. GEORGIA, FEBRUARY 11. 1921
“ANARCHIST Oft
DREAMER.” SAY
COMMISSIONERS
Facts of Vital Interest to
Everybody in Georgia
National Association of
Railway & Utilities Com
missioners War ns
Against Radicals
The National Association of Rail
way and Utilities Commissioners met
in Washington, D. C., November fith
I'J2O.
This association is made up of rep
resentative men from each of forty-five
states; these men are selected by the
people of these states to study the
operations of public utilities and to
regulate their rates and practices.
They are not interested in the cor
porations which they control, but they
represent the public, and speak al
ways in the interest of the public
welfare. They have giver, many
years of stud, to the problems of the
various corporations which under their
regulation furnish the street rail
way, gas and electric light and power
service to the public of the United
States, and by reason of their ex
perience they are qualified, better
than any other men of the nation, to
speak with authority as to what is
best for the public interest. The Rail
road Commission of Georgia is one
of the members of the Association
and was represented at the meeting.
The following quotations are from
the report of the Committee of this
Association on Public Ownership and
operation, and are of interest to ev
ery Georgian:
“The qiut.on of private ownership
with regulation us against pnblu
ownership without reg tlation shoula
no longer be considered by intelligent
investigator;: mi open question.
“If the real facts mi ht bo ascertain
ed and the same test applied to the
publicly-owned and operated utility
as is applied by re •>!.• bodi -s t<
the privately owned and operated
utility, the genera! result will apply
in all instances.
“It seem.; r< marl:able, that any sane
man noth a l.rowb d< 7 of the increase
in all costs of living should think or
expert that nntUity corporations
might be an exception to the genera
rule. No reasonable man has thought
so.
“The operation of these genera!
lav/s has again produced the politi
cal agitator who has sought and is
seeking to make political capital out
of pr< enl rv ■ iti•-... We all know
him and we all understand his mo
tive:.”
“It stands to reason that no busi
ness cute n i <« d. pendent upon the
varying changes of political thought
can he ope rat: d by the public in as
efficient, methodic..l and careful a
manner c ■ can a similar business en
terprise managed hy a body of men
who have their capital invested there,
in or \ „•> n present those who have
inverted their fortunes therein."
“There are two classes of people
oppos- I to private ownership with
Government re relation.”
"On is math , pof the classes of the
Communist, the ararrhict and all
ath 1 who fid'ow the dicers and va
rious go roue viol vagarics r-ith
which thej ,v, k to supplant, our con
stitutional go"crv.mc, !. The other
general c!a % s is the dreamer, the vi
sionary who deals in ideals not facts.
"Destroy private ownership with
public regulation and the next step
is government owner hip and govern
ment opr; tion. Win n that time
comes, if it does, our system of gov
ernment will have changed to meet
it."
Would Load Georgia With Debt
To add any comment to these strong
words from the Association of Rail
way and Utility Commissioners of
forty-five states seems like sacrilege,
but you are reminded that the Muni
cipal League of Georgia is dominated
by James L. Key, Marion M. Jack
son and John J. Eagan, all members
of and inspired by the Public Owner
ship League of Amercia, a Chicago
organisation of radical Socialists, and
that these agitators who are howling
about wat< r power development and
low rates for street car, gas and elec
tric service, are the agents in Geor
gia of a political organization seeking
to destroy our democratic form of
Government and they are brazen
enough to ask that many generations
of Georgians he loaded with debt and
taxes to enable them to begin their
operations. They want the Legisla
ture to vote them hundreds of mil
lions of the State’s money so that
they may make an experiment in
public ownership of private business,
which experiment has failed wherever
tried.
Raid Treasury for Politicians
They want Georgia to place its
credit for hundreds of millions of dol
lars in the hands of the three leaders
of the Municipal League of Georgia,
men who have no knowledge of the
business of public utilities, and who
simply want to raid the treasury of
Georgia and with it build a political
machine at the expense of the peo
nU
WINTER RESORT FARES
Season 1920-21.
Winter excursion tickets on sale
to winter resorts in the Southeast
aed to resorts in Arizona and Texas
daily October 1. 1920, to April 30,
1920, inclusive; final return limit
May 31. 1921.
Stop-overs allowed at all stations
on either going or return trip, or
both, within the final limit of
ticket, upon application to con
ductor.
For full information as to rates,
schedules, etc., apply to nearest
Agent or l’assenger Representative.
Central of Georgia Railway
F. J. ROBINSON.
General l’assenger Agent.
A Record and
Pledge.
The report of the officers at the annual meeting
was a record showing that this institution is meet
ing the banking needs of all patrons and friends.
But records are made to break. So for 1921 we
pledge a greater and better service based on wider
experience, broader knowledge and expanding use
fulness to the community.
We wish our patrons and friends a New Year
made happy by a realization of cherished hopes.
We want the account and companionship of new
and congenial customers. Come with us and your
patronage will prove mutually helpful.
Pearson Banking Company,
PEARSON, - GEORGIA.
CLOSING OUT SALE!
I have decided to go out of the Dry
joods business.
I am still closing out my Stock at Cost
and below. Everything Cash.
Now is the time to lay up a Supply,
Cheap at my expense.
HRST COME, FIRST SERVED.
H. L. LANKFORD
Start the New Year Right!
TRAVEL AND SHIP VIA
GEORGIA & FLORID/I RAILWAY
Quick and Convenient Schedules
"Through the Land oi Opportunity"
HIGH CLASS PASSENGER SERVICE.
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Promntness-Efficiency-Courtesy
D. F. KIRKLAND, W. H. LEAHY,
General Manager. Gen. Pass. Agent
TO THE PUBLIC!
I beg to announce to the public that I have moved
to the Sutton building, where I have larger quarters,
and am better prepared to serve you in Cleaning,
Dyeing, Mending and Pressing your clothes and mak
ing them look as good as new clothes. 1 endeavor to
give entire sr tisfaction to my customers.
Yours to serve you promptly,
29-1 m. LEWIS SPEED.
PEARSON SHOE HOSPITAL.
Say, bring all of your
OLD SICK SHOES
And have them made well and good as new. Best
materials used in all work.
SHOP IN REAR COX BARBER SHOP.
Petition for Incorporation.
STATE OF GEORGlA—Atkinson County.
To the Superior Court of said County.
The petition of J. E. Gaskins, and B. G. Ober
ry. of Atkinson county, and William Car
ver, M. F. Brice and K. L. Tanner, of Coffee
county, respectfully shows:
1.
They desire for themselves, their associates
and successors, to be incorparated under the
laws of Georgia, under the style and name of
WILLACOOCHEE LUMBER COMPANY
2.
The capital stock of said corporation shall
Ik- Fifty Thousand ($50,000.00) Dollars, divided
Into five hundred (500; shares of common
stock of the par value of One Hundred iSlOO.OO)
Dollars per share, with the privilege of In
creasing or decreasing the same as hereinaf
ter provided.
3.
Twenty-seven Thousand >27.000.00) Dollars,
and over Fifty mu per cent., of said capital
stock, has already been paid in, in cash and
property at a fair and agreed valuation.
4.
The term for which )>etltioners desire to be
incorporated is twenty (20) years, with the
privilege to said corporation of renewing the
charter beyond that time upon a majority vote
ol all the then outstanding stock and with
like privilege to said corporation of discon
tinuing, liquidating and winding up its said
business and affairs at any time upon a ma
jority vote of all the then outstanding stock:
arid petitioners desire that said corporation
may have the power and authority to apply
for and accept amendments to Its charter in
either form or substance at any time, upon a
majority vote of all the then outstanding
stock.
5.
Petitioners ask that said corporation be au
thorized to receive in payment of stock sub
scriptions not only cash but also such real
°r personal property at a fair and reasonable
valuation, as may be necessary or useful in
the operation of said business, or as to the
corporation may seem mete and proper.
6.
1 he object of the said proposed corporation
is pecuniary gain and profit for its stock
holders.
I he particular business to be carried on by
said corporation Is the manufacturing and
si lling of all or any articles which can be
manufactured from trees, timber, wood or
othi r products, and to that end. to own, con
struct. acquire, maintain, operate and con
duct any number of sawmills, shingle mills,
planing mills, dry kilns, skldders, tram roads,
franchises or other kinds of roads: such ma
chinery. appliances, vehicles, and other
i lii nus needful, necessary or desirable in or
iU >ui ••aid business: to buy, acquire, own,
hold. ba r. sell and dispose of real estate,
Mm tier, i s. trees, wood either manufactured
f not manufaetured: or such other property
said corporation may deem necessary or
■ lesiralde: to operate in connection therewith
- ich mercantile business as It may deem
r .per; to engage in and operate either at Its
principal oilier or elsewhere in < leoigla or in
my other States, lumber yards or brokerage
■' nu - lor the purpose of buying and selling
manufactured lumber, timber, crossties, logs,
rees. poles or an> and all other classes and
kinds of timber and property which the cor
poration may desire to engage In. also to en
age in and conduct all other kinds and
' of business whatsoever, whether spe
cai . stated herein or not. which similar
orp rations under the laws of Georgia are
luthori/ed to engage in conduct or operate,
nui . . in rad;, i any and all other things
a hatsover, which are authorized by the laws
dGii.rcia by similar corporations; the right
i ) buy and soil its own stock, and hold the
>iock so purchased, either as treasury stock
r to cancel and retire the same; to contract
md be contracted with, to create indebted
nest and issue bonds and other obligations
md to secure the same by mortgage, deed of
: rust, loan deed, or other liens on its own
property: Including the right of transfer and
onveyance of its franchise, and the right to
tcqulre and lease personal property of all de
scriptions whatsoever; the right to sue and
a sued: to plead and to be impleaded; to
iiavi and use a common seal; the right to
.dopt :in * and all necessary rules, regulations
md by-laws fo conducting its business: the
i_ht tii apply for and carry insurance, either
mdemnity. accident, fire or other kinds, for
.nd in behalf of its property, agents, officers
•r employees; the right, to own and operate
ill necessary tram roads in the conduct of Its
business, with the privilege of leasing, hold
ing purchasing or owning any and all neces
sary locomotives, steel or iron rails, cars,
rucks and Fl other equipment needful In the
viaduct of its business, and generally to have
pill power and authority to do any and all
• tther things which may be necessary or inci
b nt to the carrying on of all business specifi
cally set forth above, or which It may herein
after engage in; with the right to establish,
own, maintain and operate branch businesses
->r offh-es. within the state of < ieorgia or any
other state of the United states.
Petitioners desire the privilege of Increas
ing the capital stock of said corporation from
lime to time, at any regular or call meeting
f the stockholders by a majority vote of all
: ne then outstanding stock to an amount not
. speeding Two Hundred'thousand (t20U.000.00)
Dollars, and in like manner to reduce the
capital stock from time to time upon a like
majority v ote of all the then outstanding stock
to an amount not less than Twenty-five Thou
>and Dollars, and cancel or retire
>ame. or hold the stock in the treasury to be
reissued from time to time by a like majori
vote of all the then outstanding stock.
9.
The principal office and place of business o
-aid corporation is to be in the town of Willa
eoochee, Atkinson county. Georgia.
Whekefokf. Petitioners pray that they
may be made a body corporate under the
name and style of " W.lUcoochee Lumber Com
| pany,” with the foregoing powers and privi
leges and all other powers and privileges ex
j tended to or are usual with like corporations
under the laws of this state.
This the 10th day of .January. 1921.
L. E. HEATH,
Attorney for Petitioners.
Fiied In office this the 12th day of .January
FJ2I. Wii.kY M. Sumner,
rierk Superior Court Atkinson county, Ga.
Clerk’s Certificate of Filing.
| STATE OF GK< HtGIA-Atkinson County.
!. \\ ilex M. Sumner. Clerk of the Superior
i‘ ' sri <>f Atkinson county, Georgia, hereby
I certify that the foregoing is a true and correct
t « a v of the application for charter, filed by
petitioners in tla. above styled matter, as the
: wmc appears of file in this office.
This the 12th day of January. 1921.
WILEY M. SUMNER,
t lerk Superior Court. Atkinson county. Ga.
Official Newspaper.
; GEORGlA—Atkinson County,
i To whom it may concern: The undersign
ed officials—Ordinary, sheriff and Clerk—
l hereby designate the Pearson Tribune, a
: newspaper published in Pearson. Georgia! to
i be the official newspaper of said county dur-
I ing our ensuing term of office.
J. Wesley Roberts. Ordinary
Wiley M. semner, Clerk.
; 36-4 1. Elisha D. Leggett, sheriff.
