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4. WANTED! Five Thousand Customers to move our entire stock of hea\\\ r Groceries in the next 60 days. Pelham Mercantile Com pan Phone 2. Free Delivery. Pelham, Qa. mm* The Pelham Journal. Entered December 3rd, at J'elliani, Ca as second.class mail matter, under act of Con tress of March 3rd, 187H. Published Evey Friday, Term of Subscription. One Year - - - - - - - $1.00 Six Months * - - - - - 50^. Three Months...... 25?. How Georgia Disposes of Convicts Under New Law. (Atlanta Georgian.) Under the terms of the new convict law adopted by the gen¬ eral assembly Saturday morning, the 2,400 misdemeanor convicts and the 2,000 felony convicts which the state has to handle are disposed of as follows: The counties are forced to maintain and work the misde ■ mcatrcnr*>^-|r?Vi-cto, no<■ h_ . oou^Ay taking the number it convicts The counties are allowed to buy or lease farms upon which both the misdemeanor and telony con¬ victs may be worked in order to raise supplies for the road work it may be engaged upon. Counties desiring to work their quota of felony convicts upon the roads must notify the prisou commission not later than Feb¬ ruary 10, 1909, and annually thereafter before that date. Af¬ ter this first distribution is made to counties desiring to work their quota, then counties desiring more may apply to the commiss¬ ion and shall have them without cost, except that an equal amount of convict labor is to be returned to counties furnishing the con¬ victs when those counties are ready to work their roads. Two or more counties may com¬ bine into districts and work their convietB together, alternating in the use of the gangs. The prison commission, when in funds, is to organize and equip road gangs for working roads in counties not able to maintain their own gangs. Municipilties are to be allowed to hire any number of convicts they desire, at $100 per year each. The prison commission may, with the consent of the governor, buy or lease for five years addi¬ tional farms upon which to work convicts. Each state institution may have the use of fifty convicts when it desires them. If any felony convicts remain after these plans have been ex¬ hausted the governor and the commission may dispose of them (felony convicts only) as they thiuk the best interest of the state demands, for a period of not more than one year after March 31, and to no individual or corporation interested iu the THE PELHAM JOURNAL, FRIDAY,- SEPT- ?$, 1908- AN EVENING WITH ROBERT LOVEMAN. Thursday Night, Odtober l^t. Delightful Program of RHYME, MUSIC and REMINISCENCE. Mr. Loveman is making a tour of the south, and this is an op¬ portunity of hearing The Southern poet in his own verses, and poems by Riley, and others of the music makers. No lecture, but a happy and intellectual feast of good things, gleaned from the happy hills of Song and Poesy. Under the auspices of THE WOMANS’ CLUB. Remember the date OCTOBER the First. Admission, 50 cents for aduHs, 25 cents for the youthful, and 15 cents for children under 12 yejmm of age. The young folks will enjoy this entertainment as well as the gro iwu-ups aji Mx. ^jo Riley’s veman tel Is all ■'•bout, Mr. Whitcomb Pi •?, f How Pomp stole deui breeches to be baptized in, I want to be a brakemau, go!lee, The Coffee like your Mother used to make, etc. etc. Come out and bring every one of the family. At The School Auditorium. Proceeds will be donated to the Library. amount of labor a convict may perform per day. The commission is made a bureau of information for road ouildmg, and four road super visiors are provided to aid the counties in road work. Recognized Him. Blinks after inviting his friend Jinks, who has ^)ust returned from abroad, to dinner is telling him what a fine mem¬ ory bis little son Bobby has. “And do you suppose he will remem¬ ber me?” said Jinks. “Remember you? Why, he remem¬ bers every face that he ever saw.” An hour later they enter the house, and after Jinks has shaken hands with Mrs. Jinks he calls Bobby over to him. “And do you remember me, my little man?” “Course I do. You’re the same feller that pa brought home last summer, and ma was so wild about it that she didn’t speak to pa for a whole week."—Lon¬ don Express. Too Sudden. “Before I consent to let you have my daughter,” said the square jawed cap¬ tain of industry, “I want you to an¬ swer a question. What would you do if I were to give you half a million?” After the coroner had viewed the re¬ mains and decided that death was due to heart failure, caused by a sudden shock, the old man lit another cigar and murmured, “That’s worth trying again some time.” Arabs Outlive Eskimos. While it may be true that the white man loses in intellectual and bodily power in the tropics. Dr. Luigi Sambon maintains as a result of researches that the average Arab lives twenty-five years longer than the average Eski¬ mo, that the coast people of South America are longer lived than the mountain people, that old age is much commoner in the southern countries of Europe than in the northern countries and that Spain, with a population smaller by 9.000,000. has 401 centena¬ rians to England's 146. Heavy Betting. Not a tithe of the betting takes place on the turf nowadays that existed in what is known as the “Hastings era." The plunging that took place on Her¬ mit’s Derby has never been equaled in the annals of the race. The Mar¬ quis of Hastings lost over $500,000 and Lord Stamford almost as much. Sir Joseph Hawley lost over $250,000 in one bet through backing his horse, The Palmer, against Hermit, for that amount w r ith the owner of the latter. When Hermit was knocked down to Mr. Chaplin as a yearling at the El itham stud auction for $5,000, Mr. C. (J. Merry bought the very next lot led Into the sale ring for a similar sum. This horse he christened Marksman. He backed his purchase against that of Mr. Chaplin with that gentleman for $50,000 in the blue ribbon of 1857, and he lost his wager by the narrow mar¬ gin of a neck. About Your Luggage. "What slovenly luggage!” And the traveled man fixed on\his untraveled j friend an amused frown. “Slovenly luggage doesn’t matter here in the United States," he said, “for It is nev¬ er with us, but abroad your luggage will be as much a part of you as your hat or boots. It will ride on cabs with you; it will enter hotels with you; it will surround you in the railway sta¬ tions as you await your trains. Abroad people go in for smart and expensive luggage with the same pride as for fine clothes. Their kit bags and boxes of leather are polished for every journey like a pair of brown shoes. The brass work of their costly trunks is bur¬ nished till it shines like fresh gold. Abroad with that four dollar trunk *nd that gray canvas telescope valise you’ll be as much ashamed of yourself, my boy, as though you had a red patch on the seat of your trousers.” There was a good deal of sound hu¬ man nature in the unexpected reply of the dying old woman to her min¬ ister’s leading question. “Here, at the end of a long life, which of the Lord's mercies are you most thankful for?” Her eyes brightened as she answered, “My victuals.”—Argonaut. Mr. “Bud” White who is sched¬ uled to speak in favor of disfran¬ chisement at Harmony to-night have been invited to divide time with Mr. N. B. Davis who cham¬ pions the opposite side. Wood’s Liver Medicine in liquid form for malaria, chills and fever, regulates the liver, kidneys and blad¬ der, brings quick relief to bilious¬ ness, sick-headaehe, constipation. Pleasant to take. The $ 1.00 bottle contains 2)4 times the quantity of the 50c. size. First dose brings re¬ lief. Sold by Consolidated Clothing & Drug Co. We Announce Our Fall Opening FOR T ♦ Wednesday and Thursday ❖ <s> Sept. 30 Oct 1. $ - $ <* ♦ $ The 5> army of customers of 4> $ 3> the One Price Store through= «> out Southwest Georgia will find <*> <$> our 1908 opening for the Fall <$> the most interesting & season in <?> 4> the history $ of this establish= ❖ <e> ment. *•> •V Our Millinery Department will show greater variety in style, and a much larger num= ber of models than have ever been offered in the past, and the showing of ladies’ Ready=to= Wear will eclipse anything to I ■ be seen in Southwest Georgia. Remember, this is a de= partment store, and every de= partment figures in next week’s opening. ROSENBERG BROS. ALBANY, GA. t Messers L. P. Tucker ai d J. J. Blanton are attending a District Meeting of the Odd Fellows at Adel. It holds its sessions today and tomorrow. They go as dele¬ gates from the Pelham Lodge. They Take The Kinks Out. “I have used Dr. King’s New Life Pills for many years, with increasing satisfaction. They take the kinks out of stomach, liver and bowels, without fuss or friction,” says N. H. Brow'n, of Pittsfield, Vt. Guaran¬ teed satisfactory at Hill & King’s drug store. 25c.