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Miller County Liberal
PUGLISHED WEEKLY.
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COLQUITT, GA.
HUNTING WORK IN SUMMER.
A graduate of the University of
Minnesota has asked the New York
Post and the Chicago Tribune to air
his reasons why commencement
should be held In the fall Instead of I
In June. He left school in June with
such honors as Phi Beta Kappa dang
ling from his sheepskin, but, like Daw
son, 'll, says he has found no work
yet. He blisters the paper with a
scorching argument that summer is
not the psychological time to find em
ployment. But suppose this young
man had been released from the class- 1
room and campus along In September
and had to trail the jobless route for
the following six months, would he
not, along about the holidays, deplore
a bleak world’s unkind worldllness?
Would he not prefer to be knee deep
In summer, when, If he had to remain
Idle, he could at least retain a degree
of physical comfort? The trouble
with too many of these present-day
graduates is that tney emerge from
the dear old alma mater thinking
destiny has a greater career carved
out than is really In store for them;
they are not willing to begin at the
bottom, says the Indianapolis Star.
Scholastic training is the greatest as
set a young man can carry as he
strikes out for himself, but with it he
must have the determination to begin
with little things it lie hopes ultimate
ly to reaqh greater things. A college
degree Is not always a passport to the
presidency of a big Industrial corpora
tion, though it is oftentimes a condi
tion precedent.
Following the store robbery and
shooting of a policeman in Cleveland
by a boy, inflamed by stories of Wild
West life and highwaymen, a council
man of that city has Introduced an
ordinance prohibiting the sale of
trashy and Immoral books to the
youth. There should be such legisla
tion In every city, says the Ohio State
Journal. We spend millions to edu
cate a boy right; why not do some
thing to keep him from being educated
wrong? We have laws to prevent peo
ple from poisoning their bodies; why
not a regulation to restrain them from
poisoning their minds? To give a boy
a book that will make a highwayman
of him is a black offense that should
not be permitted. It is an attack on
-»"i»tv that society should not tol
’ll a H ?en. We should
I - great d.al more excited upon the
» estlon of keeping harmful books
away from them. Ordinances are need
ed for this purpose. There Is a vast
amount of bad citizenship made by
bad books, and there are stacks of bad
boys.
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It is a base libel on the American ■
hen to charge that she could lay bout I
twice as many eggs as she does fcVer-y [
year, and is therefore slothful. It is :
unbelievable that the American Poul
try association is responsible for this I
reflection on her powers. The truth i
is, the hen’s egg output is automatic,
being regulated by the treatment her ’
owners give her. On a proper diet, I
which includes shell-making material,
she works with great diligence, ac- ■
cording to her breed. If she Is expect- I
• ed tc pick up a living about the barn- I
yard and to keep herself warm In ex
posed winter quarters, her tally nat
urally suffers. The hen Is a gold mine
only when her owner co-operates with
her.
The new minister of war In Franc®,
M. Alessimy, is growing unpopular
/with the French officers. Taking an
Illustrious American exemplar, he has I
issued an order that the examination
for promotion to generalship shall In
elude severe physical tests, and an
other by which corps commanders are
to report officers who are unfit to take
the field. Any one who has seen an
army review in Paris, say July 14,
and observed the fat generals jpltlng
like jelly in their saddles, will 1 sym
pathize with M. Messimy's efforts.
Every dweller in tropical or semi
tropical countries khows that windows
and doors should be closed in the early
hours of the morning, and not opened
* again until sunset it the house is to be
. kept reasonably cool throughout the;
\ day. They are opened widely enough 1
\to the breezes of the night, but dark
Xlinds and closed shutters are the se
<V:t of keeping the temperature low.
However, one can never convince an
Elgllshman of this fact unless he also
has seen its demonstration abroad.
An rfiteresting sight in London is
one of the great periodical sales of
raw ski.g and furs held at a fur
warehousifn the city. The magnitude
of the trai, and the vast amount of
money invOved would surprise any
one who visitj one o f these sales for
the first time At the premises tn
Great Queen s eet one can wander
from floor to flolr pjjed with thou
sands upon thous\p s st skins until
one begins- to wotX where all the
creatures they once lived.
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THE navigation of the air! How
the very idea of it thrills! To
rise above the earth and flit
from city to city and from con
tinent to continent! To travel
free and untrammeled as do the birds!
’ This has been the dream of mankind
, for ages.
’ | Impossible of accomplishment? Do
1 j not be too sure. Tremendous strides
toward this splendid, this alluring
' goal have been made within the past
i three years. Already have daring
- men of the air pierced the blue vault
, of heaven to astonishing altitudes, al
, j ready have they dashed from metrop
■ oils to metropolis with a speed rival
' ing the fastest express train, already
. have they leaped oyer mountain
'or*, I V}i'”se'ranite r, ;iafYons.‘^ r ' :Xi ’ i ~
res:, is '.o be as great during t„e next
three years, then, indeed, will marvels
have been accomplished beyond any
thing of which today we permit our
selves tc dream.
Much depends upon the attitude and
activity of those daring and ingenious
l men who already have elevated the
| science of aviation from the purely
i experimental and speculative to some
j thing at least approaching the prac
■ tical. If their talents and the talents
i of such scientific men as now are or
j hereafter may be attracted to the
problem of aerial flight are devoted
I to the making of aviation more nearly
safe and therefore more useful,
rather than toward outdoing the mar
velous records already made in alti
| tude, distance, speed and duration,
I then will the world be the gainer and
I travel and commerce be helped
| through this new means of communi
i cation.
Safety! That is now the thing to be
aimed at. Not till a full measure of
it is reached can the ednquest of the
air really be claimed or aviation be
lifted from the spectacular to the
utilitarian.
Considering what has already been
accomplished in aerial navigation, is
I it too much to say that even greater
I discoveries will be made and applied
lin the near future? Where shall we
1 place the limit upon an age which
: has produced a machine that talks
I and sings, which propels loaded cars
up and down hill by means of an in
visible fluid, which takes protographs
through solid substances, which has
Instant communication by wire be
tween the most widely separated con
tinents, which has made conversation
possible between New York and
Chicago and which thinks nothing of
sending wireles messages from land
to vessels of miles away at
sea? After all, is a certain and safe
passenger and freight service through
the air more improbable to our near
future than was the automobile and
the electric express train to the future
of the man of the ox-cart and the
pole propelled flatboat?
The Drifting Balloon.
The balloon is the elder brothher
of the aeroplane and its discovery was
the cause of fully as great a sensation.
Compared, however, with the later air
craft, it is very simple and its possi
bilities are limited
To Stephen and Joseph Montgolfier
belong the distinction of making the
first; balloon. They were papermakers
of Annonay, France, and they experi
mented for years before they succeed
ed in causing a silk bag to rise to the
ceiling of their workshop. The first
men to make a balloon ascension were
Pilatre des Rosiers and the Marquis
d’Arlandes. They went up from Paris
on November 21, 1783 .and remained
aloft 25 minutes.
The efforts to construct an airship
subject to control has been a long and
persistent one» but the necessarily j
enormous bulk of gas balloons has
been a discouraging obstacle. Such
a tremendous surface presented to the
wind more than offsets the power of
the rudder to control, except in a com
parative calm, and the Invariable dis
aster which has overtaken the most
elaborate and expensive attempts—
those of Count Zeppelin of Germany—
presumably will discourage further ef
fort along this line and concentrate
inventive genius upon the aeroplane.
The dirigible balloon, however, is by
no means a complete failure.
The ordinary balloon retains the
pear-shape of the original, but the
dirigible is elongated or cigar-shaped
and braced along the sides to give it
stability. The control is gained from
■udder extending from the sus
fruitless attempt to ' reach tb'e nor&'j ’
pole and later to cross the Atlantic
we.-e among the interesting but gigatf
tic failures of the dirigible balloon. /
The Flying Machine. i
Genuine aerial navigation, or in/e- I
pet dent flight as distinguished from
aimless floating in the air, really had j
its birth when men abandoned the |
haiioon idea and sought to nimic the '
birds. Otto Lilienthal in Germany, I
Hiram Maxim in England and Samuel
P. Langley in the United Sties ex
perimented and constructed machines
with planes and wings and judders,
but their success was inconsilerable,
for their machines were either too
heavy or too frail.
Different inventors constructed
winged machines, large and small,
light and .heavy, but the most they ac
complished were short and uncertain
flights or glides from elevated starting
places. Finally in 1903 Octave Chanute
began to attract attention with bls
long glides among the sand dunes in
the vicinity of Chicago, but his ma
chine had no motive power and was
never anything more than a play
thing.
In Dayton, 0., two brothers named I
Wright, bicycle repairers, had been j
experimenting with planes. Chanute I
turned over to them all his ideas and I
they helped much in solving the prob
lem of equilibrium. In 1903 the
Wrights took a machine to Kitty
Hawk, N. C., and on December 17,
after several trials and carrying Wil
bur Wright, it left the rails on which
it gained its momentum and flew 852
feet in 59 seconds—the first actual
flight by man in an aeroplane.
Since then the Wrights have re
mained prominent In the work of air
navigation and their names must al
ways take front rank in any history of
aerial flight.
It would require many columns
merely tb mention the marvels per- j
formed by nearly 3,000 aviators who |
have flown during the past three years, I
Record after record has been broken, i
wonder has piled on wonder with be- |
wildering swiftness, until today the
people are not surprised at any feat |
which the birdmen may perform. Dur- I
ing this brief period the progress has
been truly staggering and the last 12
months have been richer in achieve
ment than any preceding similar pe
riod. Such names as Santos-Dumont,
Glenn H. Curtiss, Charles K. Hamil
ton, Louis Paulhan, James C. (Bud)
Mars, Grahame-White, Walter Brook
ins, Hubert Latham, Louis Bleriot,
Count Jacques de Lesseps, Stewart
Rolls, John B. Moissant, J. Armstrong
Drexel, Eugene B. Ely, Alfred. Le
Blanc, Louis Delagrange, Henry Farn
ham, J. A. D. McCurdy, Eugene La
febvre, Clifford Harmon, Ralph John
stone, Archie Hoxsey, Lincoln Beachey,
Harry A. Atwood and a host of others
are familiar to all.
• Distance to these birdmen is limited
only by the amount of fuel they can
carry.
BIG zVIL’S HJHffl
Rock kne of Uncle Sam's Na
ial Monuments.
Glgant'otone Rises Upward 1,250
Feerom the Plain and
I Landmark Visible for
Many Mlles.
Denv Colo. —Under the act "for
the prrvatlon of American an
tiquitie the United States govern
ment I become custodian of many
remarle attractions, which have
been uped under the head of na
tional muments, and none of these
Is mojvonderful than the llttle
known'evil’s Tower, in northern
Wyom!
Thevvil’s Tower Is a glgautlc
rock, 1,1 feet high, rising sheer from
the ’levplain. No doubt It is the
product long ages of wind and wa
ter erot. It can be seen for hun
dreds oliles on all sides, as It is in
a plalnsuntry. The rock wcytld be
remarile even If It were in a bro
ken arugged country, but rising as
it doerom the open prairie, and
standillike a lone sentinel amid the
vast arrJlent plains, its weird ef
fect iecalculably heightened.
The oux, Cheyennes and Crows,
who tie the country surrounding
the Dl’s Tower, their hunting
ground early days, have many leg
ends mt this strange rock. In
later ye, when the venturesome
white n began to push across the
northeriflains, they utilized the
Devil’s wer as a guide post. The
landma''loomlng up on the prairie,
served enlighten many an emi
grant ro his whereabouts.
Undrfhe act of 1906, giving the
goverrmt the right tb set aside all
such ulral curiosities for the bene
fit of t people, the Devil’s Tower
was onof the first national monu
ments -ated. The Devil’s Tower
monumt consists of about 1,000
acres, a preserves for all time this
landmar The tower is In charge of
the neait general land office, which
is at Clenne. Probably it will be
many y’s before the Devil’s Tower
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1 The Devil's Tower.
18 geurally visited. At present it is j ,
man .. ‘files from a railroad and few ,
peopl. v l slt nin the course o£ a year. ,
Thos. who make the trip, which is
usua done from the little northern -
Wyo ng town of Sundance, feel '
amp repaid' for their visit.
As ne approaches the Devil’s Tow
er fcii amazement and awe increase.
It si-i'n 6 incredible that any forces of i
natur could have carved the solitary
nwnu nent that rears its head so far :
abort ££le b rown plains. The sides of
the t wer rlse sheer from the ground, |
j its 6 des of limestone being fluted, i
givlnl an almost organ-like appear
ance The rock presents the same ap- j
pearance from every side, and to scale j
it se«ms to be an impossibility. It is
said cliat a few years a S° a man and
womP 1 successfully negotiated the as
-4 cent of the Devil’s Tower, but they |
wer9 compelled to drive iron spikes
in the face of the cliff and mount by
such artificial aids. To ascend the ;
tower without the use of some such
mea] is would be an impossibility. :
It is not unlikely that, in the course i
of a y ear or two tbe government wjll '
send an official expedition to the top
o f tpe Devil’s Tower monument, and
that; stairways and ladders to the sum- | 1
m lt' be constructed. Surveys 1
havi > been made and it is not impos-1 *
sibi 3 t° build a series of ladders and .
I stai rways by which the venturesome j
nja J reach the top of the rock.
q- he Indian legends concerning the
Det H’ a Tower are many. The plain
triU’ es a " regarded the rock with su
nJstitious awe and the medicine men
i T Tribed its construction to the pow
ri I of darkness. Probably this view
hi f been echoed by the white men in
c y istening the rock the Devil’s Tower.
Indian legends -add not a little to
th, 3 interest surrounding the Devil's
T c wer. Occasionally the rock is vis-
Ite d by Indians from adjoining reser
vafitlons, the Crows and Cheyennes be
infe located about 200 miles westward,
w Lile the Sioux stop at the tower
lery year on their way from their
encies in the Dakotas to attend the
ow Indian fair at Crow agency. Red
jn and white united in regarding
e great rock with awe, and pioneers
io remember the inspiring sight as
ey crossed the plains, are glad that
e government has preserved this
eat natural monument for the bene
of posterity.
Home Bun
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STREETS ALL TOO NARROW
Properly Laid Out, They Should Be
Parkways, Lined With Trees and
Masses of Shrubbery.
When shall we get down to a sensi
ble system of wide streets and ave
nues and obtain parkways of sufficient
width so that we may avoid straight
lines of trees and have real parkways
filled with groups of trees and masses
of shrubbery? Some of the streets of
towns and villages thickly planted to
tall, strict-growing trees, afford one
no broader views than obtainable hi
a deep canyon. There is no question
but we plant street trees too thickly
and too often gain, after a lapse of
years, a roofless tunnel of green. Such
streets shut out lovely rural views,
mountain views or coastal outlooks
that should constitute the chief attrac
tion to the district. Street planting,
like garden planting, should always be
done with the outlook in view, the dis
tant prospect of earth, sky, mountain,
or sea. With wide parkways we may
have our walks in long, sweeping,
slight but graceful curves passing first
to the right and then to the left of
trees clumps or shrubbery. They
would then be narrow parks or park
ings, We would in this manner over
coifle the harsh, monotonous street
lines, and both driver and pedestrian
be treated to an ever-changing scene
instead of living tenpin alleys. AU res
idence cites abutting would be en
hanced in value if we follow'ed this
natural method of street planting,
never an exact duplication to be found
in any single mile of it. Then, indeed,
would art prevail.
MUST HAVE NATURAL BEAUTY
Frequently Meadows in Parks, That
Might Be Made Attractice,
Are Spoiled.
The designer of a park should as-
I sign proper places for sundry things
i for a variety of purposes and must
I meet many limitations and practical
; requirements always with the beauty
j of the whole as well as of the parts
in mind as the prime consideration.
For instance, if a meadow is .to be
provided as a prominent landscape
i feature because of its usefulness for
strolling ard for field sports, it must
1 constantly be borne In mind that
I beaut* o' a meadow consists in its
Its breadin is broken by conspicuous
drives and walks, its simplicity Is
r lined by flower beds, its greensward
Is injured by excessive tramping or
by short-cut paths being allowed to be
worn in it and its naturalness is de
| stroyed by grading it to a flatness not
characteristic of the surrounding topo
i graphy ,or by harsh obvious artificial
! turf terraces, or by planting regular
! rows of trees along its borders.
Attractive Villages.
Writing of the necessity for neat
ness in private premises as a requisite
for attractive villages, William Mor
ris says:
“Still more is this necessary, clean
liness and decency everywhere, in the
cottage as w’ell as in the palace; the
lack of that is a serious piece of man
ners for us to correct; that lack and
all the inequalities of life, and the
heaped-up thoughtlessness and disor
-1 der of so many centuries that cause
I it; and as yet it Is only a very few
; men W'ho have begun to think about a
1 remedy for it in its widest range.”—
1 Green’s Fruit Grower.
Who He Was.
Brainerd H. Warner, a big real es
l tate operator of Washington, gave a
j reception not long ago and invited to
the function many of the city's most
| prominent men. Late in the evening
|he approached his friend, Rudolph
; Kauffmann, with this plaint:
“Rudolph, who is that distinguished
looking chap over there by the door?
I ought to speak to him; but I can’t
recall his name, although I've seen
him often.” ®
“Go right ahead and speak to him.”
said Mr. Kauffmann. “It will be all
right. He’s the caterer’s head wait
er.” —The Sunday Magazine.
Arbor Day Planting.
Planting in city parks on Arbor day
should be stopped, for it is worse than
useless and is always frowned upon
by our park superintendents and prac
tical plantsmen. Our school groupds
?re fit subjects for the enthusiasm of
Arbor day planters, for here trees are
always needed and this work should
be confined to juvenile audiences, dor
seldom is Arbor day planting properly
done. —Exchange.
London's Great Fur Sales.
An interesting sight in London is
one of the great periodical sales of
raw skins and furs held at a fur ware
house in the city. The magnitude of
the trade and the vast amount of
money Involved would surprise any
one who visited one of these sales for
the first time. At .the premises In
Great Queen street one can wander
from floor to floor piled with thou
sands upon thousands of skins until
one begins to wonder where all th<
creatures they once clothed lived.
WHEN CUPID WAS OFF DUTY
Lover’s Bad Cold That Led to Moat
Unfortunate Misunderstand
ing With Girl.
Sweet was the lass, low was the
gas; it was the evening she expected
him to put across the big question.
He did not look well. Something
seemed to be troubling him. He tried
to say something, but the words stuck
in his throat, and the girl, noticing
this, turned the gas even lower.
Suddenly he turned to her and
cried, “I’m a dub!”
"No," she said, fondly. "You don’t
appreciate yourself as well as some
others do, perhaps. Tee hee!”
"Yes,” he persisted stubbornly, "I’m
a dub!”
"No,” she maintained.
"Yes,” he almost shouted, 'Tm a
dub!"
She was a sensible girl, and so, real
izing that he ought to know best, she
thanked him kindly for warning her
In time and handed him his hat. It
was only after the door slammed be
hind him forever that she realized the
awful truth.
He had contracted a nasty cold,
and what he had been trying to say
was, "I’m in love!”
SILENCE IS GOLDEN.
Mrs. Roley—Poor dear, he hasn’t
■ said a word for three weeks.
Dr. Bull-Frog—-Well, you don’t want
him to croak, do you?—Exchange.
His Christmas Check.
Al Ryan, the hospitable flint glass
worker of Lockport, N. Y., and former
j ly organizer of the Socialist local at
' that place, was being congratulated
I by the boys at the glass factory,
j "Yes,” said Al, “my uncle out in
j Tiffin is mighty good to me. The day
before Christmas he sent me a check
for SIOO just as a little Christmas
gift."
After the usual congratulatory com
ments had been duly made all around,
Al added;
"Yes, he certainly is a fine old fel
low. In the postscript of his letter
iggjiittning the check, he said: .
Fcheck cashed,tm ‘ s “°
Lneed a pair of shoes.'" —The Coming
Nation.
Unfortunate Man.
A tourist in the mountains of Ten
nessee once had dinner w-itu a queru
lous old mountaineer ’ who yarfiea
about hard times for 15 minutes at a
stretch. “Why, man," said the tour
ist, "you ought to be able to make
lots of money shipping green corn to
the northern market.” “Yes, sorter,
was the sullen reply. “You have the
land, I suppose, and can get the
seed.” "Yes, I guess so." “Then why
don’t you go into the speculation?
"No use, stranger," sadly replied the
cracker; “the old woman is too l a zy
to do the plowin’ and plantin’-”
Suburban Sobriquets.
Everybody else had lived in the
Bummer colony long enough to name
his home for whatever tree or shrub
grew most abundantly in the front or
back yards. Up and'down the road
were cottages labeled the Elms, the
Wistaria, the Lilacs, and so on through
the horticultural guide book. The
newcomer had no name for her house,
but after studying the tactics for a
week she took a survey of the prem-
I ises and thenceforward dated her cor
' respondence the Rhubarbs.
FOOD AGAIN
’ A Mighty Important Subject to Every
one.
A Boston lady talks entertainingly
of food and the changes that can be
made in health by some knowledge on
that line. She says:
“An injury to my spine in early wom
anhood left me subject to severe sick
headaches which would last three or
four days at a time, and a violent
■course of drugging brought on consti
pation with all the ills that follow.
"My appetite was always light and
uncertain and many kinds of food dis
tressed me.
"I began to eat Grape-Nuts food two
or three years ago, because I liked the
taste of it, and I kept on because I
soon found it was doing me good.
“I eat it regularly at breakfast, fre
quently at luncheon, and again before
going to bed —and have no trouble in
‘sleeping on it.’ It has relieved my con
stipation, my headaches have practi
cally ceased, and I am in better physi
cal condition at the age of 63 than I
was at 40.
"I give Grape-Nuts credit for restor
ing my health, it not saving my life,
and you can make no claim for it too
strong for me to endorse.” Name
given by Postum Co., Battle Creek
Mich.
Read the little book, “The Road to
Wellville,” in pkgs. “There’s a reason."
Ever read the above
one appears from time to 1
are genuine, true, and full of Human
Interest.