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The Pelham Journal.
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In JVlemory of Little
Bessie Cranford.
On June 2Srd, 1908, God in
His infinite wisdom saw fit to
take from our midst little Bessie
Cranford, the daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. W. B. Cranford, Mitchell
county, Georgia. She was ju3t
entering the joyousaess of child¬
hood days, her earthly pilgrimage
being only G short years.
3be was laid to rest in Mt. Ebal
cemetery to await the resurrection
Morning, the funeral services be¬
ing conducted by Rev. S. 0.
Thomas.
All is well with dear little
Bessie, for all her sorrow and pain
is turned into supernal joy.
What a comfort it is to the sor¬
rowing and fond parents to know
this. We praise our God in the
midst of earthly sorrow for having
made such a sweet little girl, and
for taking her when she was as
the first fruitf so early ripe for
heaven, which 9he aB a little
angel now enjoys.
Bessie was a sweet child; to
know her was to love her. And
she was a favorite with her teach¬
er and plav-niates.
Weep not, fond parents,
for she is now
Safe in the arms of Jesus,
Safe on his loving breast,
There by His love o’ershaded
Sweetly her soul shall rest.
Written by her teacher.
L. M. R.
KESTLER CITIZEN
DIES IN ARKANSAS.
Z. T. Webb Passed Away
Saturday at Hot Springs
Remains Brought Home
From Wednesday’s Albany Herald.
Kestler, Ga., July 8.—Z. T.
Webb, one of the pioneer citizens
of our community, died at Hot
Springs, Ark., last Saturday
morning of Bright’s disease, and
his remains were brought back
here Monday for interment.
Mr. Webb had been in failing
health for some time, but didn’t
realize that his condition was
growing serious till about two
weeks ago, when lie left for Hot
Springs, where he hoped to be
cured of his malady, but shortly
after reaching that point death
ensued.
Mr. Webb was an upright citi¬
zen; a devout and consistent
member of the Methodist church,
in which,church lie had been su¬
perintendent of the Sabbath
school for twenty years, and was
closely identified with every in¬
terest that had for its object the
uplifting of this community.
He is survived by two brothers
and one sister, Mr. W. J. Webb of
this place, Mr. Giles Webb of
Cuthbert, Ga., and Mrs. W. R.
McClain of Pelham, Ga., and by
a wife and nine children, among
whom are Mr, J, D. Haddock and
Mrs. J. F. Easters of this place.
The funeral exercises were con¬
ducted from the Methodist church
by the pastor, Rev. E. M. Overby.
The interment took place in the
old family burning grounds near
Damascus.
Mr. Hugh James went up to
Albany Friday.
Superior Court Jury List.
The following is u list of tlm
Grand and Traverse Jurors, which
is to s tvo at the July Adjourned
Term of Mitchell Superior Court
to be held on the third Monday
in July 1908.
ORA XT) JURORS.
S. C. Boynton, A. B Joiner,
I>. V. Thompson, T. H. Dekle,
D. M. Rogers, J. J. Mize,
T. O. Battle, J. C. Wilson.
T. R. Bennett, J. W. Beck,
D. L. Turner, J. L. Hand,
\V. A. West, J. J), Cochran,
T. J. Cross, J. G. High,
T. A. Maxwell, S. J. Pool,
W. M. Cook, A. G. DeWitfc,
J. A. Lewis, 1J. M. Mitchell,
J. B. Palmer, E. V. Fair cloth,
G. F. Cranford, R. L. Goodson,
C. C. Fink lea, J. J. Martin,
T. L. Wilder, W. W. Bennett,
TRAVERSE JURORS.
W. E. Shephard Wyatt Adams,
J. N. Wildes, X. E. Hayes,
W. W. Stephens, Pat (1 rey,
N. B. Davis, L. F. Grey,
C. Davis, J. P. Standland,
W. C. I). Joiner, J. C. Davis,
F. D. Hudson, R. W. Davis,
D. B. Turner, C. J. Mathews,
C. F. Akridge, C. G. Lott,
C. A. Sloan, O. B. Twifcty,
A. R. Patric, J. A. Cochran,
W. A. Bennett, Geo. P. Palmer.
R. T. Cochran, L. S. Ivey,
J. A. Ball, J. A. Hays,
T. F. Davis, I). B. Holton,
E. B. Mullens, W. D. Marshall,
J. B. Mulford, Jonah Palmer,
A. J. Green, C. E. Taylor,
Rev. Harris to Preach.
Rev. J. A. Harris 'of Macon,
Ga., will preach at the East Pel¬
ham Baptist church at 11 o’clock
Sunday July 19. Every one in¬
vited.
Respectfully,
Rev. S. N. Atkins.
Miss Annie Everett spent last
night in Camilla.
Mr. Sam Everett of Camilla
was in the city today.
A Theater Dialogue.
The curtain had fallen on the first
act at a Broadway theater when a
man, correctly attired and apparently
of refinement, leaned toward a woman
occupying a seat directly in front of
him—a woman who had naturally re¬
moved her hat, but whose hair was
arranged In the extreme of fashion,
aided by “boughten” puffs.
“I beg your pardon, madam,” said
the man in an audible whisper, ‘‘but if
you would remove your hair and sub¬
stitute your hat 1 believe I would be
able to see something more of the
stage." *
The woman didn't scream. She
didn’t even faint. She merely turned
around and replied:
“Jack, if you weren’t my brother
I'd slap your face.”—New York Globe
Her Little Confidence Game.
“We’re playing railroad train.” she
said as she pulled her father's papei
away, “and I’m the conductor. Tick
ets, please.”
He took a card from his pocket and
handed it to her. She looked at it in
tently for a minute and then handed It
back. “That was issued yesterday.”
she said, “and isn’t good today. You’ll
’■eve to pay cash or get off the train.”
lie gave her a dime. He knew he
had been “worked,” but what else
vould he do?
Pitched It.
A boy was asked what Moses did
with the tabernacle in the wilderness
when the people murmured.
He replied, “He chucked it away.”
When asked to explain he read the
seventh verse of the thirty-third chap¬
ter of Exodus, “And Moses took the
tabernacle and pitched It without the
camp, afar off from the camp.”—Liver¬
pool Mercury.
Night Rates For a Horse.
“Hicks, the hotel man, has a new
echeme. He serves Welsh rabbit free
to his guests evenings.”
“What’s his idea?”
“Well, they have nightmare, and
then he charges them for the use of
one horse.”—Boston Transcript.
Conceit.
Conceit is that attitude of the mind
which convinces a man that if be had
only lived soon enough he would have
been the author of the Bible.—Detroit
Free Press.
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The Realistic Actor.
“Does lie believe in realism?”
“Yes. But he carries It to excess.
In the second scene he Is severely
wounded, and he has a doctor issue
bulletins between the acts.”—Louls
rille Courier-Journal.
Hot Retort.
The Writer—Ah, laugh at me if
you will, but I will write of you in my
journal that which will make you
sick! The Artist — Everything that
m’sieur writes makes me sick.—Life.
What ripens fast does not last—
Shakespeare.
A Long Dance.
The longest dance on record is prob¬
ably that of William Kemp, an actor
of some celebrity In the reign of Queen
Elizabeth. He was a comedian and
danced ail the way from London to
Norwich.
He was attended by a taborer, a
servant and an overseer, and It was
doubtless a good thing for him that
there were no omnibuses or police then,
for they would probably have imposed
more impediments in the way of his
progress than did the country people.
He started “with several presents of
groats and c rooked sixpences for luck,
find, laden with these, he danced to
Stratford with c^Jt rest.
rising Subsequently to jjte went in peqplo, for early and.
though rf sprain of. the
hip which lie received, he danced it
well again, to the delight of the crowd
which accompanied him, some 200 in
number.
When he leached Norwich he had to
dance in and out of the city twice,
for his overseer missed him in the
crowd and made him do the distance
over again to avoid any possibility of
error.— London Graphic.
Live Mule, Dead Boar.
An odd hunting adventure recently
befell a British officer in India. He
was mounted on a fleet mule and was
running down a wild boar, Intending
to lance it, when the animal turned,
bit the mule’s leg and then flpd again.
The mule screamed savagely, and in a
minute she had deposited the officer
on the ground. Then, kicking out
vigorously five or six times, as if to
see that her legs tfere all right, she
started after the unfortunate pig at
lightning speed, with fury in her eyes
and vengeance in the crook of her
ears. The race was not long, and the
wild boar soon realized that he had
exasperated a relentless enemy. He
was soon winded, and the mule, com¬
ing up with him, caught hi^i by the
backbone with her teeth, clinched it
and threw him to the ground and
then, before be could rise, kicked him
so viciously that he was a dead boar
in less tban no time. Then the mule
returned to her master and gave utter¬
ance to a “heehaw” of triumph.
Between Supper and Breakfast.
Many persons, says a well known
doctor, though not actually sick, keep
below par in strength and general
tone, and he is of the opinion that
fasting during the long interval be¬
tween supper and breakfast, and espe¬
cially the complete emptiness of the
stomach during sleep, adds greatly to
the amount of emaciation, sleepless¬
ness and general weakness we so often
meet. It is logical to believe that the
supply of nourishment should be some¬
what continuous, especially in those
who are below par, if we would coun¬
teract their emaciation and lower de¬
gree of vitality, and as bodily exer¬
cise is suspended during sleep, with
wear and tear correspondingly dimin¬
ished, while digestion, assimilation and
nutritive activity continue as usual,
the food furnished during this period
adds more than is destroyed, and in¬
creased weight and improved general
vigor are the results—London Globe.
The Game of Bowls.
Although bowls is an ancient Brit¬
ish game, it is still popular, says an
English writer. It is played on a
smooth, level piece of greensward, gen¬
erally about forty yards long, surround¬
ed by a trench about six inches deep.
Edinburgh is believed to have the lar¬
gest bowling greens. In that city there
are numerous clubs, each with its own
separate bowling green. There Is a fine
bowling green at Magathy, near Shef¬
field. This green has existed since 1681.
The game Is the same as that played
by Sir Francis Drake In 1572. Bowls
can be traced as far back as the twelfth
century. Formerly the game was un¬
lawful, but the restriction has been re¬
moved.
Strappes—Five pouuds for a bonnetl
Madam, it is a crime!
Mrs. S,—Well, the crime will be on
my own head.—Loudon Globe.
Gettysburg.
The verified figures for the killed
and wounded of the Revolutionary
war, the war of 1812 and the Mexican
war are as follows: Revolutionary
war, 10,630; war of 1812, 5,613; Mexi¬
can war, 4,977. Total for three wars,
21,420. The killed and wounded at the
battle of Gettysburg, Union and Con¬
federate, were 40,322, not quite twice
the combined losses of the three for¬
mer wars.—New York American.
Annoying th* Passengers.
'mere rived '— in- ./f the
_ ruTJ
southern states,”~ a military nian,
“a railroad that was notorious for its
slowness. This line was so slow that
the people took to lampooning It in the
press. Thus one Memorial day a
planter wrote to the Rapier, the lead¬
ing paper of his district:
"The Editor of the Rapier:
"Dear Sir—Is there no way to put a
stop to begging along the line of the rail¬
road? For Instance, yesterday an aged
veteran with a wooden leg kept pace with
the afternoon express all the way from
Paint Rock to Nola Chucky and annoyed
the passengers exceedingly, going from
one open window to another with his im¬
portunate solicitations.
"VOX POPULI.”
—Washington Star.
Half of the Pleasure.
The youngest girl of a Baltimore
family wais recently much distressed
at dessert to discover that there was
ice cream for dinner.
"Oh, papa,” exclaimed the young¬
ster reproachfully, “why didn’t they
tell me this morning that we were go¬
ing to have ice cream?”
“What difference would that have
made?”
“Lots!” sighed the child. “I could
have expected it all day.”—Lipplncott’s
Magazine.
Wanted a Pusher.
“What did the new neighbors come
to borrow now?”
“They wanted the lawn mower.”
“Is that all?”
“That was all they spoke about, but
I think from the way they stood
around they would like to have bor¬
rowed my husband to run it.”—Nash¬
ville American.
Apothecary’s Weight.
"I’m sure,” whispered the gossip,
“that Mr. Pillsbury, the druggist,
takes a dram occasionally.”
“Yes,” replied the bright girl, “I be
lieve he has no scruples in that diree
rection.”—Philadelphia Press.
A Keen Business Man.
Noah landed on Ararat
“Fine,” he cried—“a mountain and
seashore resort in one!”
Herewith he started to build a sum¬
mer hotel.—New York Sun.
Far Fields Are Greener.
A boy always brags of what he will
do when he’s a man.
And when he becomes a man he al-;
ways * boasts *_ of ... what ’ * he did when he
was a boy.—Pick-Me-Up. (
News One Year Old.
Very lonely is the life of an agent at
a Hudson bay trading post. All means
of entertaining himself are carefully
economized. A story is told of an
agent who received every year a com¬
plete year's issue of a daily paper
with his annual supplies of food, am¬
munition and clothing. Instead of
reading the latest paper first and has¬
tening through the file, he began at the
beginning and had a year old newspa
per on his breakfast table every morn
ing, even dampening the paper t» give
it an appeartmee of newness.
In this way he kept up his supply of
news, always a year old, until the
next annual consignment arrived.—
London Answers.
Great Thoughts of the Ancients.
“Plato,” said Socrates, “you have ob
served, 1 doubt not, that we have two
ears and two eyes.”
“Now that you mention it,” quoth
Plato, “I have.”
“And but one tongue.”
“Quite so.”
“Herein nature doth teach us tha
we should hear and see twice as much
as we talk. Is it not so?”
“But, my master,” objected Plato
“we have two nostrils and only one
mouth. Must we therefore smell ev
erything twice before we eat once?”
“Plato,” irritably rejoined Socrates,
“anybody can make a flippant com
t that will knock the juice out of
wisest saying a philosopher can
pull off. I wish you’d cut it out.”
On preparing the stuff for publica¬
tion, therefore, Plato prudently cut out
his flippant comment.—Chicago Trib¬
une.
Browning In the Kitchen.
This really happened at a meeting
of clubwomen at Topeka, Kan.: This
club had a new member who was said
to be so literary that she knew under
just what head to find anything in the
encyclopedia, but she had so far never
been on the club programme. Re¬
cently a member who was to have
had a paper on Browning was absent,
and the chairman got up and said,
“As Mrs. Blank is absent, I will ask
our new member to talk on the sub¬
ject.” There was a flutter. Now the
fc ambers would really hear an intel¬
lectual treat. The new member arose
and began, “While I did not expect
to speak on the subject this afternoon
and must confess to being a little rusty
on it, not having done my own cooking
for a number of years, I will say that
for pies and cakes I like a hot, brisk
fire and for beans a slow, steady one.”
—Topeka Journal.
Editor (in daily office)—Say, Buck,
have you read my last editorial?
“I hope so,” was the crusty reply.—
Minnehaha.
Ornithological Weddings.
There was a poetic appropriateness
In two recent weddings which were
celebrated in London in which Mr.
Bird led Miss Linnet to the altar and
Mr. Wren was linked to Miss Nightin¬
gale.
Although It is seldom that one comes
across two of these “ornithological”
weddings in one day, they are by no
means uncommon.
Not long ago a church near Dublin
was the scene of an interesting mar¬
in which a Mr. Crowe was united
to a Miss Crowe by the Rev. Canon
eaco f* c ^ the wedding march being
l by Mr. Rook. Much more re¬
however, was a match
set Edinburgh in a flutter some
since. The bride was Miss Hen¬
Peacock, and the bridegroom was
Sparrow. The Rev. Mr. Daw
the marriage ceremony;
Hawk officiated as best man
Miss Larkins as principal brides¬
while the marriage lines were
by John Crow, session cleric.
"It is worthy of further remark.”
a reporter, “that the sexton’s
is Raven, one of the pew openers
a Gull, and the assistant sexton is a
Laycock.”—London Sun.