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The Pelham Journal.
Entered December 3rd, 1902, at Pelham, Ca
as second. class mail matter, under act of Con
Kress of March 3rd, 1X79.
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It Inis been announced that
William It. Hearst of New York
will*be in Georgia next week to
make four speeches for Yancey
Carter, the candidate for the
Independence League for Gover¬
nor, and that John temple
Graves will soofi tollow and stump
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A movement has begun in At¬
lanta looking to the enforcement
of the prohibition law. It is
claimed that the so called “near
beer” that is being sold is noth¬
ing more nor less than ordinary
lager beer, and prosecutions have
commenced against some of the
manufacturers and agents of the
brewing companies.
It is announced that agents
representing the Carnegie Schwab
interests have secured options on
large tracts of ore lands in north
Georgia, and that a big steel mill
will be erected for the manufact¬
ure of the product.
The five year contract made by
the state for school books expires
this year, and new contracts will
be made for another period of
five years. It is probable that
some of the books that were
adopted and have been in use du¬
ring the present contract will bo
abandoned and new ones adopted
Wherever a new adoption is ma le
it necessitates the purchase of new
books in the common schools of
the state.
Thomas E. Watson is making a
hard fight to capture the elec¬
toral vote of Georgia. He is
stumping the state in the interest
of his candidacy. An effort is
being made by some of his fol¬
lowers to have him come to Pel¬
ham some time soon.
The tax digest of Grady county
shows a decrease in the tax re¬
turns of that county of $370,000.
from last year’s returns. The
shrinkage is attributed by the
Cairo Messenger in part to the
panic, but largely to the system
of returning taxes in that county.
THE PELHAM JOURNAL, FRIDAY, AUGUST 21. 1908.
The city of Meigs is in
tion with the Atlantic Coast
Railroad regarding a ditch
the city dug draining a pond on
the railroad right of way.
railroad has obtained an
ion in the United States
to restrain the city from
action. The matter will be
some time soon.
The prohibition law of
is still under fire in the courts.
suit pending upon the petition
certain brewers in the
States Court, makes a
declaration that the law is
constitutional, because it
public worship by
with the use of communion
The suit attacks the law
upon the ground that it was
Assembly and upon the
that it is in violation of the
Constitution because it
with that provision which pro¬
vides for the support of
through the tax on liquors.
The Launderers have been in
session at Savannah this week
This “Cleanliness League” as it
is called, is making demand for a
lower rate on shipments of laun¬
dry by the railroad.
The tax returns of Coffee Conn
ty show a decrease of $400,000
No explanation is given for tin
slump.
The service pension bill which
was passed by the last legislature
will go to the people for approval
or rejection without the signature
of the Governor. Governor
Smith would have vetoed the bill
on the ground that there were not
sufficient funds in the treasury to
meet the demand provided f r
therein, but on investigation it
was found that he bad no authori¬
ty to veto a Constitutional
amendment. For this reason,
the governor passes the measure
up to the people without his sig¬
nature.
Judge Bush Conducts
The Methodist Services.
In the absence of the pastor,
Rev. C. \V. Carry, the services at
the Methodist Church Sunday
morning were conducted by Judge
I. A. Bush.
Judge Bush is one of the most
prominent laymen of the church
in this section of the state. He
chose as his subject “Is Life
Worth Living”, and delivered a
strong and forceful discourse,
showing the value aud
of the righteous life.
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Feast of the Garlands.
In several of the more remote Swiss
cantons there is held what is known
as the “feast of the garlands.” The
marriageable maidens assemble at sun¬
set, sing, dance and make merry. Each
wears a chaplet of flowers on her fore¬
head and carries a nosegay tied with
bright colored ribbon in her hands.
If a lad is attracted by a maid be
plucks a flower from her bunch. She
pretends not to notice, hut when the
merrymaking breaks up at dawn she
will, if she reciprocates his feelings,
tie the entire bouquet by the ribbon
to the handle of the door of the cabin
wherein he resides or alternatively
fling it through the open casement of
his bedchamber.
Converted by Medicine.
A woman missionary who was also
a doctor had a curious experience in
Burma, where upon her arrival she
found a village community dying off
like flies with cholera. She made a
house to house inspection, administer¬
ed a specific and, having broken the
hack of the malady, left behind her
several bottles of the medicine to be
used during her absence. Upon her
return the head man cheered her heart
by the greeting: “Teacher, we have
come over to your side. The medicine
did us so much good that we have ac¬
cepted your God.” He led her to his
house and into the apartment sacred'
to his worship. There, arrayed upon
the shelf, were the medicine bottles,
and he, with all his household, instant¬
ly bowed down and prayed to them
with thankful and contrite hearts.—
Dundee Advertiser.
Sunday Gchccl Gems.
Stories of strange and amusing an¬
swers given to examination questions
arc frequently told, hut we do not so
often sec recorded the equally surpris¬
ing answers given by children in Sun¬
day schools, and yet they are frequent¬
ly original enough.
A teacher, wishing to turn the young
idea toward the mission field, asked,
“Wliat are good men called who leave
their homes and go to foreign lands to
teach the heathen?”
“Prodigal sons,” was the prompt aud
triumphant reply.
A class of bojts when asked, “What
were the ten plagues?” answered with
more fervor than gallantry. “The ten
virgins, sir.”—Westminster Gazette.
How the Turks Keep Time.
There is one custom at least in the
Ottoman dominions in Europe that
causes foreign visitors a great deal of
trouble and confusion. This is the
Turkish system of reckoning time. A
Turk hokls that (he day begins exactly
at sunset, and accordingly at that time
he sets his clocks and watches at the
hour of twelve.
In view of the fact that the sun has
the same habits in presiding over
Turkey that it exercises with refer¬
ence to other localities, it follows that
this system of reckoning time requires
setting the clocks every day. It ap¬
pears that a watch that could run for
weeks without gaining or losing a
minute would be of no special value to
a Turk.—New York Tribune.
Kuicker—The dreams of avarice must
be very modest.
Bocker—Yes; so many things are said
to surpass them.—New York Sun.
Ear Wagging.
Only animals with long and drooping
ears are able to wag them. A rabbit,
for instance, can do what it likes with
its ear, dropping one or both and lay¬
ing them flat along its back when
dashing through thick cover. Hares
are still more brisk in ear movements.
But short eared beasts, like weasels
and stoats, are unable to wag their
ears in any degree, although they have
enough ear to wag if they had the
power.
Accurate.
“See here, landlord,” said an angry
tenant after he had signed the contract
for a year, “this house is full of sewer
gas.”
“Yes, that's what I told you.”
“Told me?”
“Yes. You asked me Jf there was
gas in every room, and I said there
Tvas.”—London Answers. |
His Right Hand.
“My husband,” said the fair bride,
“says I am his right hand.”
“I hope,” rejoined her mother, “that
he isn’t like that man who never lets
his right hand know what his left
hand does.”—Chicago News.
Easy to Suit.
Mrs. Eastend—You’ll not find me dif¬
ficult to suit, Nora. Nora (the new
maid)—I’m sure not, ma’am; I saw
husband as I came In, ma’am.—
Observer.