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FOUR FUNERALS AT
AMERICUS.
Death Claims a Number
of Prominent Citizens
of That Town.
Americua, Ga., October 19.—
Three Confederate veterans, Cap¬
tain Wm. A. Cobb, Judge Amos
C Speer and 0. M. Feagiu, were
buried here this afternoon, indi
.caUpo t.l d passing of the
o|7 at Ail were of .*iced
in yeaffs, Judge Speer being nearly
eighty, and all were esteemed as
citizens.
Judge Speer was for thirty-two
years judge of the court of ordi¬
nary and tax receiver of Sumter
county Captain Cobb com
and d ins company in the Ninth
(,i m- • throughout the civil war
.dr Feagin was for many years
c- *i ui- o', i with the Central Rail
vs,iy i iffitvs hers anu was esteemed
highly, his funeral being cou
< uot.ed with Masonic houors.
This afternoon another death
w as that of Miss Mida Chappell,
an aged lady, which followed a
surgical operation yesterday. She
was a sister of the mother of Mrs.
Frank Stanton, of Atlanta, and
Allen E. Chappell, of Macon.
To those afflicted with kidney and
iladder trouble, backache, rheuma¬
tism, Pineules for the Kidneys brings
•elief in the first dose. Hundreds of
jeople today testify to their remark¬
able healing and tome properties.
10 days’ trial $1.00. They purify the
blood. Sold by Consolidated Cloth
mg & Drug Co
C*9 c. c.
For Chills, Fever, Cold and
La Gripp. Guaranteed.
25 cents at all Drugfists.
Diacouraging.
Little Mollle bad hastily undressed
and jumped Into bed without saying
her prayers.
“Why, dearest," said her nurse,
“aren’t you going to say your prayers
tonight, especially when you have had
a new baby brother brought to the
house today?”
“No, I ain’t,” said Mollle. “And that
baby brother’s just the trouble.”
“But why?” asked the nurse. “Don’t
you like your baby brother?”
“What’s the use?” queried the little
girl. “I’ve been prayin’ for a little
sister every night for six months, and
Bobbie he only began askin’ for a lit¬
tle brother yesterday, and he got his
right off.’’—Harper’s Weekly.
THE PELHAM JOURNAL, FRIDAY, QCT. 16, 1908.
A Novel Claim.
A claim once made on the explorer
Cameron In the neighborhood of Ga¬
boon, Africa, shows the peculiar work¬
ings of the native African’s mind.
Some of Cameron’s possessions proved
unduly attractive to a native, and he
determined on transferring the owner¬
ship to himself. He accordingly paid
another native $200 to procure for him
the coveted goods. The assistant took
the money and did his best to earn It,
but Mr. Cameron had perversely lock¬
ed up the very articles that the fel¬
low’s employer had set his heart upon.
The man could not carry out his bar¬
gain, and neither did he feel that he
could part with, the money. Therefore
he ran off with It What more logical
than that the man who was the loser
by $200 should expect the explorer to
make the loss good? This he assuredly
did expect He went to Mr. Cameron
and told him the story, demanding In
the first place the $200 which he
(Cameron) by locking up his goods had
compelled the complainant to lose and,
secondly, the aotual pride of the goods
themselves, which but for these arbi¬
trary measures would now have been
in his possession. It Is not stated that
bis expectations were realized.
*4- Not Stamped.
Once, when the renowned Mrs. Sld
dons was playing in the Theater Roy¬
al, Dublin, she, as Lady Macbeth,
came to that part where a drum should
sound and she exclaims: “A drum! A
drum! Macbeth doth come!”
There was some difficulty or neglect
in obtaining the necessary Instrument,
and to her amazement a trumpet
sounded.
She immediately saw how absurd It
would be to say “drum” while the well
known sound of the trumpet met the
ears of the vast audience. So she
said: “A trumpet! A trumpet!” then
stopped short, not knowing how to
rhyme It, when a voice from the gal¬
lery called out. “Macbeth doth stump
It!" at which the bouse broke out
Into one peal of laughter and applause,
and the tragedienne advanced to the
footlights and bowed her acknowledg¬
ment for the relief.
Dogs as Dowries.
Everywhere Is the dog the friend of
man, but in Manchuria he Is more
strictly the friend of woman. There
the dowry of a young woman does not
consist of haTd cash, as In Europe, but
In a certain number of sleek dogs with
thick fur or silken hair. The girl’s
status may almost be guessed by her
wedding portion of dogs. If she receive
six, she Is poor; If a dozen, her parents!
are In easy circumstances, and If
twelve dozen it may be taken that she
.•omes from a rich family. They are
carefully fattened for their savory
flesh, and their skins after death be¬
come coverlets, pelisses, vests for hunt¬
ers or bedside carpets which scarcely
ever wear out. Even to Its fur the de¬
votion of the dog Is warm and lasting.
“A man lives and learns,” remarked
the husband, with some bitterness.
“Well, the school of experience does
not bar co-eds.” retorted his wife.
Misplaced Sympathy.
“Strike one!” bawled the umpire.
“Strike two!”
Intense excitement prevailed.
A third time the batsman of the vis¬
iting team sawed the empty air.
“Striker out!” hoarsely cried the um¬
pire.
Instantly a wildly enthusiastic cheer
burst from 25,000 throats. Hats flew
up In the air, women waved their
handkerchiefs, madly excited men
slapped one another on the back, meg¬
aphones roared and general pandemo¬
nium prevailed.
“Oh, what a pity!” piped the lovely
blond In the grand stand. “He didn’t
get to hit it at all. did he?”
The masculine rooter who had paid
75 cents for the seat she occupied
merely looked at her. but said nothing.
With only the English language in
which to express himself, he couldn’t
do anything else.—Chicago Tribune.
Equal to the Occasion.
Couut Tolstoy’s anecdote of the abash¬
ed Moscow hangman who hid from the
artist and would not consent to sit to
him recalls many illustrations of the
natural repugnance with which such
functionaries are regarded. An amus¬
ing example is given In Dean Ramsay’s
“Reminiscences.” A certain Stirling
laird had annoyed his clergymen by
dllatorlness in paying his teinds, or
tithe, and was admonished that he
must pay up at the proper time. Next
term the money arrived punctually,
but tjie minister thought he recognized
the messenger, who proved to be the
hangman of Stirling, sent by the laird
as an affront to the minister. But the
minister was equal to the occasion.
He wrote this receipt: “Received from
Mr. -by the hands of the hangman
of Stirling, his doer” (agent or man of
business), “the sum of-.”
—London Chronicle
Very Simple.
The mathematical professor became
engaged to a charming girl, and one
day they made an excursion into the
country with several friends. The girl
picked a daisy and, looking roguishly
at her fiance, began to pull off the pet¬
als saving, “He loves me not; he loves
f ^
j That Is needless trouble you are,
qivllig should yourself,” said the the petals professor. of the
“You count up
flower, and If the total Is an uneven
number the answer will be In the neg¬
ative; If an even number, in the affirm¬
ative.”
Miniatures.
Tiny portrait paintings are called
miniatures, and It is the general be¬
lief that little paintings of this kind
are so called because of their small¬
ness, the resemblance to “minor” be¬
ing seductively obvious. It is purely
an accident, however.
The real etymological parent of “min¬
iature” is “minium,” a red pigment
This was habitually used In the illumi¬
nation of manuscripts in mediaeval
times, but because such pictures were
usually executed on a reduced scale
the word “miniature” came to be ap¬
plied to small portraits.
Nowadays a word that really means
something done in red has come to
mean simply something done on a
small scale.—London Chronicle.
The Essential Feature.
A Philadelphia capitalist In whose
gallery examples of the painter Sar¬
gent’s best works are to be found told
this Sargent story;
“A millionaire of coarse extraction
went to Mr. Sargent's Tite street stu¬
dio and had his portrait done.
“When the portrait was finished the
millionaire looked at It closely and
then said, with a frown:
“'Not bad, Mr. Sargent; not at all
bad, but you’ve left out one most es¬
sential feature.’
“Mr. Sargent bit his lip to hide a
smile.
“ ‘Excuse me. sir,’ he said, ’but I
thought you wouldn’t care to have the
—er—er—warts reproduced.’
“The millionaire, purple with rage,
shouted:
“ 'Confound it, sir, I’m talking about
the diamond rings and pin, not the
warts!’ ’’—Rochester Herald.
Cured of Discontent.
“I never complained,” once said
Sa’di, the poet “of my condition but
on a single occasion, when my feet
were bare and I had no money to buy
shoes, but I saw a man without feet
and became instantly contented with
my lot”
Being asked from whom he learned
his philosophy. Sa’di replied, “From
the blind, because they never advance
a step until they have tried the
ground.”
“They asked me,” Sa’di writes in
the Gulistan, “ ‘Of whom didst thou
learn manners?’ I replied: ‘From the
unmannerly. Whatever I saw them do
which I disapproved of, that I abstain¬
ed from doing.’ ”
American Humor.
American humor exists, it dlstin
gulshes the national character. It per
meates all our affairs. It is not ot
aboriginal descent. It was not brought
from England or Holland by the fa¬
thers. Its saving grace was lacking
under Puritan rule. The humor of
Diedrich Knickerbocker is all the
more taking because of the absence of
all sense of humor in the sub ects of
his chronicle. If our humor came over
from Erin in the first rush of immi¬
gration it was quickly adapted to its
new environment. It was modified
and changed by new circumstances
and conditions, geographical, ethnolog
leal, atmospheric. Wherever It came
from it is a boon which saves us from
a lot of needless trouble and worry.—
New York Times.
THERE’S NO OTHER
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STORE IN ALBANY
Where Men, Women and Children
Can Buy Anything and Everything
That*s Made to Wear.
It is the only store in South-west Georgia
of which this is true.
It is the only store in Albany where a lady
can buy every material for any kind of a dress,
and have it made up without leaving the
establishment.
It is the only store in Albany that can sup a
ply an entire family, from Infants to Octogen*
arians, with an entire wardrobe.
It is Albany’s leading Department Store,
and every department is a complete store
within itself. Consider for a moment what
these departments are:
Dry Goods, Fancy Dress Goods, Notions,
Ladies and Children’s Ready-to-wear,
Millinery, Dressmaking, Shoes for Men,
Women and Children, Men’s Fine Cloth¬
ing, Men’s and Children’s Hats, Gents’
Furnishings. Then, there are the depart¬
ments of Carpets, Rugs and Mattings,
Trunks and Traveling Bags, House Fur¬
nishings, Toilet Articles, etc.
All these things are worth remembering
when you go or send to Albany for anything
that’s made to wear.
ROSENBERG BROS.
Albany, Ga.
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A Doubtful Future.
“Biggins has developed a habit or
saying rude and sarcastic things.”
“Yes,” answered Miss Cayenne. “I
am waiting to see whether he is goieg
to be recognized as a great bore or a
social lion.”—Washington Star.
Not Modesty.
Blox—Bimberly is exceedingly mod¬
est, isn’t he? Knox—I hadn’t noticed
it. Blox—Well, he never talks about
himself. Knox—Oh, that Isn’t mod¬
esty. It’s discretion.— Chicago News.
A Winner.
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