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Miller County Liberal
PUGLiSHED WEEKLY.
COLQUITT. GA.
ARE THE STARS FADING?
The opening of the present theatri
cal season is accompanied by the
proclamation of a new principle. For
20 years or more the star has been
the idol of the public and the god or
managers. Mighty was the wage ot
this divinity. The star system seemed
permanent. But last season was one or
the most trying that theater managers
have ever weathered. Scarcely one
has not curtailed his enterprises, says
the New York Sun. Theatrical invest
ment is on a much less extensive
scale than it was 12 months ago. Ex
treme conservatism marks the busi
ness this fall. Managers are search |
ing for suggestions as to the best
means of putting their affairs on a
solid basis. One result of this inves
tigation is the assertion that it would
probably be much better for the the
aters if there were fewer stars or
none at all. The reasons for this de
cision seem sound, at all events sound
er to reasonable laymen than the I
causes of the sudden promotion ot I
every blue-eyed ingenue to the rank
Ql a star. Managers have decided
that the theatrical celebrity they
make holds them afterward in tyran
nical grasp. They must eventually
accede to all the conditions these play
ers may impose. Thus by deliberately
creating a star they are raising up a
force that will eventually be Inimical ,
to them.
Grindell Matthews, a young Eng
lish engineer, is believed by his friends |
to be on the verge of giving to the I
world a wireless telephone with which |
conversations may be carried oh
across the Atlantic. It may not be
come public, as the British govern
ment may seek to acquire the sole
right to It, preserving the secret, and ,
retaining it for use in war. All that
is known concerning the apparatus is
that it is in a box so small that one
may easily carry it about. Instru- I
ments may be tuned so that they will
transmit only to others tuned in the I
same key. A man might telephone to j
his wife while she is out shopping ;
Tests have been made in which the ;
interposition of brick and iron walls
was shown to be no barrier. Nothing
seems too wonderful in the way of In- ;
vention—especially where electricity '
is concerned; so nobody will be great- 1 |
ly surprised 11 Matthews' Invention ,
fulfills its promise. i
Jhe N'-w _Yprk populace Is apt to ; 1
smile with pitying superiority when it ,
hears a Cockney drop his "h's." it j
forgets that it is equally culpable in |
regard to another letter of the sinhn-1
bet, "r.” How it does shy at “r.” '
When the letter is not dropped en
tirely it becomes "ol," as in "goir •
for girl, or “woild” for world. What ;
is being done in our public schools |
to correct this bad habit and others ;
equally bad? The Cockney language
is not a thing of beauty or a delight
to the ear, but positively we are de
veloping an argot here that is much
worse; a monstrous, hybrid form ot ;
speech, devoid at once ot grace and
music. Let our school commission
ers look to it!
When a man holds up his fellow
man at the point of a gun and relieves
him of his belongings, it is called
highway robbery. When a nation
does the same thing it is called war.
What the world needs is an interna
tional police force.
When a man sues a girl for the
money he spent in courting her, it
behooves the girl to enter a counter
suit for the gas that was burned dur
ing the sessions in the parlor.
An Ohio man fainted after be had
played a piano continuously for twen
tyseven hours. We haven't heard
what happened to the people who
were compelled to listen
A Chicago man jumped from the
third story of a burning hotel, but the
kind that jump a bill on the first floor
In the silent night arc the kind the
hotelkeepers don't like.
One of the esteemed missionaries
tells us that China will one day domi
nate the world. Think, brethren, ot
being forced to eat all one’s meals in
a Chinese restaurant!
A telephone girl in Portugal gave
warning of a royalist attack and
quelled a revolt, proving herself a
first-class information operator.
The freshman and sophomore med
ics are rather rough in their rushes,
but after they graduate they win mu
tilate with more finesse.
Chasing a monoplane with automo
biles is a merry sport at which not
even the fairy tales of our childhood
hinted.
A Boston clergyman advocates the
teaching of love-making in the schools
That's where it begins, usually.
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NEW YORK.—Robbing immigrants
and emigrants has long been a rec
ognized industry around the docks of
New York and proprietors of lodging
houses have been taking money away
from these people coming and going.
Two laws recently became operative
by which lodging house keepers will
be compelled to give the arriving and
departing persons of foreign birth
something like the equivalent for
money received.
Foreigners arrive all the year
around, but those who depart for a
visit to the old country generally be
gin coming to New York about Octo
ber 1 and continue coming until the
Christmas holidays. Then the steer
age begins to bring them back, and by
March nearly all are again in this
country and ready to go to work.
Under the old system, runners for
the lodging houses boarded the steam
ers and went through the steerage pas-
Picture Unites a Brother and Sisk
AURORA, ILL.—John Stanton of Au
rora and his missing sister, Mrs.
G. W. Waters of Philadelphia, whom
he has not seen tor 20 years, have been
reunited through a moving picture film,
and the Aurora man has gone to make
his future home with his relative.
Mrs. Waters is an actress who paid
her last visit to her brother almost
a quarter of a century ago when she
was appearing at the Park theater in
Brooklyn. Correspondence finally was
dropped and Mr. Stanton waited year
after year for some word from the
woman. Recently his attention was
called to a theater poster in Aurora
and the striking resemblance between
the woman and his long-lost sister
caused him to buy a ticket for the per
formance.
As the drama was cast on the screen
he recognized the nurse to the young
heroine in the drama as his sister. He
sought out the manager, obtained the
address of the film company, and ulti
mately located her in Philadelphia. He
recently returned from a ten weeks’
1 visit'and goes back to pass the remain
i der of his life at her home.
Stanton, who is 73 years old, was
I born in New York and served in the
1 navy during the Civil war at the Brook
i lyn navy yards. After the war he
Pastor Quits Pulpit to Be Expressman
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CHICAGO. —Rev. Henry M. McDowell 1
has preached his last sermon at the
j Woodlawn Park Congregational church, i
He resigned because certain members '
j ot' the church objected to his action in 1
1 donning overalls and working as an
: express messenger at $lB a week to •
augment his salary of $l2O a month
from the church.
That manual labor lowered the dig
nity of the pastor, was the objection
made by the members of the church,
and according to friends of the pastor,
" while they were unable to have him
ousted from the pulpit, they made
i things so unpleasant for him that he
resigned.
The pastor's resignation and the dis
[ closure of the actions of the members
' who forced it, has caused so much in
" dignation toward them on the part of
; other members of the church that they
' have withdrawn their memberships.
Corn Fed Catfish Latest From Kanses
TOPEKA, Kan.—Ever hear of a corn
fed, pedigreed catfish? Kansas has
I some and is going to have more,
j Prof. L. L. Dyche, curator of the Nat
i urai History museum of the State
university and state fish and game
; warden, has undertaken to improve ;
the breed of catfish by the methods j
; employed by expert breeders in im
; proved hogs, cattle, sheep and chick
' ens and the methods advised by so
’ ciologists to improve the human race
1 —careful selection of mates. ’
At the state fish hatchery at Pratt
I they are growing corn-fed catfish
■ that are as much of an improvement
| over the ordinary catfish, just by feed
j ing alone, as the catfish is better than
l a buffalo as far as food value is con
j cerned. The corn-fed Kansas steer
and hog bring the highest prices in the
markets.
“We have one small pond at the
catchery that is flooded and lined with
cement,” said Prof. Dyche. "After the
spawning season is over and the little
fish are old enough that they don’t
need the mother's care, we take the
big ones out of the spawning pends
and put them into this cement pond,
where we can feed them and they can-
sengers looking for victims. No r «
ter what country the arriving • Y
grant came from, there was some n
ner to talk to him in his native" n
guage.
When the boat had docked Hie > u»
ners led their victims to some I g
ing house, where they were made 1-
come as long as they had money, it
s often happened that an Immigi it
- bound for some inland town and >
’ vided with a railway ticket would '»
; detained in New York as long as if
had money and then loaded on a '.<Tt
to go hungry to his destination.
who go back to the “old country’ll?
i the fall* on a visit are not so
Agents of the lodging houses, hot?
ever, meet western trains, sometim j
riding several hours out from Net
York, in search of customers. Perso if
thus obtained as patrons for a lods
ing house were furnished every opiW
tunity to see New York while w:™|
ing for the steamer and a good m. r
of them were out of money w in
sailing time came. ‘I
Under the new laws the runners e
no longer allowed to board boats K
swarm around the docks soliciting f ■'
ronage and every lodging house kee •
has to furnish a bond for the 1
treatment of his patrons.
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moved west and became a farmer. A
few years ago he moved to Aunra
The Stantons have been of a dramatb
tendency and most of them have lee’,
actors and actresses. Mrs. Watert ha
been on the stage for 46 years an< ex
pects to remain there the rest of her
life. Stanton's nephew, Barry O’beal,
is stage maanger for a film company,
while Mrs. O'Neal writes many of rtlelr
picture dramas.
This is the second time that a mov
ing picture film has been the meins
of bringing together separated rsia
tives. Two years ago a moving lie
ture in Goshen, Ind., showed an os
trich farm. Suddenly a woman
audience cried out and swoot .
She had recognized a boy leadn£ at
ostrich in the picture as her so: ,wh
had run away with a circus a year c
more before. Communication w th the
company which made the film resulted
in the boy being restored to bls mother.
The objectors were members of two ;
families, the heads of which were trus
tees of the church.
“The Master I have been serving for
20 years as a pastor was a carpenter,"
said Rev. Mr. McDowell. “It did not
lower his dignity to do manual labor,
and I do not think he would object to
my being an express messenger so I
could pay my honest debts.
“It was impossible for me to keed
my family on the $1,440 a year I rel
ceived from the church. I have sij!
children. Each of them contributes ti j
the church, yet none of them wal I
earning money. Each of them atteni
ed the church suppers and socials, par
ing at them out of my salary.
“Then came serious illness, and, lait
spring, I found myself $250 in deb..
Casting about for means of payin'
this sum, and certain that I could nit
pay It out of my salary, I found that I
could add $lB a week to my incone
by becoming an express messenger. I
consulted with one of the trustees aid
he told me it would be all right for ne
to accept. I did accept, and my doitg
so raised a storm of protest. Finajy
it became so unpleasant that ratter
than continue the difficulty, I decided
to stop the trouble by resigning.”
' not eat the little ones. The wolt
I trouble we have in a fish hatcher/ls
• the old fish eating young ones.
“In this cement pond we put, au«ng
, other varieties, a large number ofjat
■ fish. Bass eat live food, frogs, Ish,
: worms, snakes and such, while the
• crappie and catfish live chiefly on •'teg
etables. Every day we put chopped
cornmeal and cornbread into that p,nd
for the catfish. We put little goldish
| and small carp into it for the lass.
The crappie eat corn and other -ege
tables and if he gets real hungry he
will eat carp or beef, liver or grasthop
-1 pers.
“We have catfish in other jondf
that are not fed on corn and we have
been eating both the corn-fed artfist
and those that are not corn fed ant
• there is all the difference In the work
in the flavor of the two.”
GRAVE OF RICHARD GATLING
Remains of Inventor of Famous Gun
Rest in Crown Hill Cemetery,
Indianapolis.
Indianapolis, Ind.—Amid the fra
grance of grass and flowers and
capped by a beautiful monument the
mortal remains of Dr. Richard Gat
ling, inventor of the famous Gatling
gun, lie it. Crown Hill cemetery. But
few people in this part of the state
know that in that western corner of
the cemetery back of the chapel is the
last resting place of the man who gave
to the powers the powerful medium
of authority, the deadly Gatling.
Richard Gatling made a fortune out
of the gun and died poor. “Like all
inventors,” said Attorney John E. Dun
can, "Dr. Gatling had nothing when he
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ed, although he amassed a fortune ;
lom his gun..” Mr. Duncan is a .
ephew of the inventor. His mother
: id Mrs. Gatling were sisters.
Dr. Gatling came to Indianapolis
v hen a young man. He invented the
first wheat drill, after which he en
tered the real estate business, dealing
II western lands. It was after the
war he invented his gun. An unsuc- I
kessful effort was made by local men |
'to form a company and sell stock to ‘
manufacture the gun. Finally Gatling i
got the Colt people at Hartford, Conn., j
jp manufacture the instrument. This ;
tod; Gatling to Hartford. Later he I
traveled through Europe and the pow- |
ers took up the gun immediately. It j
proved its worth afterwards, particu
larly in the Boer war.
Galling died in New York city about
three years ago. His remains were
brought to Indianapolis and the monu
, ment was erected by his only living ;
! child, Richard H. Gatling, a New York
j city mortgage broker. Gatling was
I born in North Carolina.
H!°TC n C TENNESSEE HOUSE
Re ar >e Old-Fashioned and Crude-
Cc ucted Building That Has
i * ;d Five Generations.
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Ku .will- Tenn.—The remarkable
hots- iho in the accompanying 11- i
uatra on i- one of the most historic !
I ’.otnldiiigs in East Tennessee. It was
i Built about 1735. It Is a two-story, i
|four-roomed building made entirely ot I
fine timber, sawed by hand with the
old-fashioned whip saw, and the nails '
made by hand. The frame work is ;
made very strong, the corner post be
ing twelve-inch pine beams put to
gether with large pine pins, the en
tire frame is put together with pine
pins. Between every wall it Is filled
with brick and mortar laid in brick
building style.
There is one especlally ( 'iarge room,
which was used in colonial days for
dwelling, church, court house and
some of the old time singing schools
was taught in it. During the Civil war
its occupants was driven from it by
the northern soldiers and was used by
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Built in 1735.
them for a camp. Its white plastered
walls was left almost black, and its
surroundings all left in a very dilapi
dated condition, but when its occu
pants returned after all danger of war
was over it was soon repaired and is
well preserved in spite of all the hard
’ ships, and has been handed down from
: one generation to another until at the
j present time the fifth one is living
In it.
Hunting Rats, Finds $2,000.
Rockford, Ill.—While hunting for
rats in the cellar of a house to which
he moved, Albert Raymond of Syca
more, unearthed a pickle jar contain
ing $1,600 in currency and S4OO in sil
ver. The house was formerly the
home ot Richard Brown, a recluse,
who died years ago, Raymond shared
his find with Harry Brown, who owns
the house.
’lron Jawed” Woman Falls.
' Mount Vernon, Ill.—Mme. Erose,
ihlle doing the iron jaw act, fell from
t\e top of the big tent here receiving
juries that are believed to be fataF
Tie rope which held the strap broke
cuslng the accident
SCIENCE OF CITY BUILDING
Many Cities Desert the Topsy Method
of Expansion and Begin to
Reach Out.
There are certain cities, big and
| small, that are deserting the Topsy
method of just growing, says Harper’s
j Weekly. They are being gently and
i persistently pushed along toward
I greatness. To use an invidious meta-
I phor, they are picking factories from
! their less wakeful neighbors and
I planting them In their own towns;
they are causing the transfer of hun
dreds of millions of dollars’ worth of
business from the somnolent cities
and, in this time of reforms, are
boasting of their remarkable progress
in population.
The way the thing is done may be
aptly illustrated by the manner in
which Poughkeepsie obtained an auto
mobile factory. The secretary read
in a newspaper that an Italian com
pany was thinking of locating a fac
tory in this country. Without waiting
for the owners to have a chance to
look the country over and decide for
themselves, the secretary pounced
upon them and talked Poughkeepsie,
talked it hard and convincingly. He
invited them to come up and see the
place, and when he got them took
them all over the town and showed
them the schools and churches, the
parks and workingmen’s houses, told
them about the railroad facilities and
rates. Then he took them to the very
spot that he had picked out in ad
vance where they could build. He
pictured the factory to them, pointed
to the homes their men would live in,
told them how low the taxes were and
how healthful was the air. When
they went away the visitors had ev
ery good point about Poughkeepsie
throbbing in their heads in 100 differ
ent forms, and consequently they
straightway came back and built
their factory in Poughkeepsie.
MAKE WASTE PLACES BLOOM
Railway Station Garden Is Latest
Move Toward the City
Beautiful.
During the last few years a new
kind of garden has come into being in
the shape of the railway station gar
den. It is tended by members of the
staff, and is usually a picture of neat
ness, abd often oi-ueauty m wen.
small, tidy beds, or long narrow bor
ders edged with white stones, are
often glorious masses of color, with
out one jarring note. At dome country
stations the name of the place is I
worked out in flowers or small shrubs, I
and should the traveler by chance fall j
into conversation with the presiding j
genius of the garden he will find that |
a remark on the nattiness and pretti
ness of the scheme of decoration will ;
be much appreciated. In their season, '
' roses —usually red or white or yellow ,
I Ramblers—bloom luxuriantly at many I
I a wayside stopping place and trans- i
form the station itself into a "thing
I of beauty."—London Globe.
South America’s Worst Brigands.
1 made many expeditions from Po- I
tosi into the surrounding country, i
I writes W. Hilton-Simpson in the Wide I
World. The Indians here are the no
torious Aimara, likewise descendants
of the Incas, and the worst brigands '
in South America. Their principal oe- !
cupation is murder and theft, and un
til quite recently they sacrificed their
prisoners to the gods, and then par
took of their flesh. As regards sav
agery, they easily excel all other I
| tribes. The sacrificial victim was not i
, merely butchered, as happens in most
I similar cases; he was bound, and then
I the flesh was torn off his living body I
I and eaten by men, women and chil-
I dren. If, in the process of being tor
i tured, as much as a moan escaped his
I lips, the bones of the victim were
I thrown away; but If, on the contrary,
he was stoic enough to be silent, the
: bones were collected and set up on a
I pile of rocks to be worshiped. It is
| still within the memory of living man
that human meat was sold among the I
Aimara.
Plant Street Trees.
Plant a tree. The expense is small. I
The subsequent attention is not large.
, Once started, the tree helps itself as
scarcely anything else of moment to
:us ever does. It grows while we sleep.
It drinks the sunshine and compounds
. its own food out of the refuse gases
of the air and the watery solutions of
l the soil. Out of these inert, inattrac-
I five, barely recognizable substances
by a miracle of transformation there
comes forth that thing of life and beau
ty, which is also a thing of tangible
money value—a tree.
Improving.
Bligglns like to hear himself talk."
"Is that all you have against him?”s
"Could anything be worse?"
"Certainly. Bligglns used to like to
hear himself sing."
Umpire's Joy.
So he claims to be the only per
fectly impartial umpire in the game'.'
On what does he base the claim?”
He says he’s always abused by
.both sides instead of by only one.”
SHE
SUFFERED
FIVE YEARS
Finally Cured by Lydia E. Pink
ham’s Vegetable Compound.
Erie, Pa. “I suffered for five years
from female troubles and at last was
almost helpless. I
went to three doc
tors and they did
me no good, so my
sister advised me to
try Lydia E. Pink
ham’s Vegetable
Compound, and
when I had taken
only two bottles I
could see a big
change, so I took
six bottles and I am
now strong and well
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again. I don’t know how to express
my thanks for the good it has done mo
and I hope all suffering women will
give Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetablo
Compound a trial. It was worth its
weight in gold.”—Mrs. J. P. Endlich.
B. E. I). No. 7, Erie, Pa.
Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Com
pound, made from native roots and
herbs, contains no narcotic or harm
ful drugs, and to-day holds the record
for the largest number of actual cures
of female diseases we know of, and
thousands of voluntary testimonials
are on file in the Pinkham laboratory
at Lynn, Mass., from women who have
been cured from almost every form of
female complaints, such as inflamma
tion, ulceration, displacements, fibroid
tumors, irregularities, periodic pains,
backache, indigestion and nervous
prostration. Every suffering woman
owes it to herself to give Lydia E. Pink
ham’s Vegetable Compound a trial.
If you want special ad vice write
Mrs.Pinkham, Lynn, Mass., for it.
It is free and always helpful.
It Is by no means sufficient to make
an auditor grin with laughter.
Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets regulate
and invigorate stomach, liver and bowels.
Sugar-coated, tiny granules. Easy to take
as candy.
Right Place.
"Henry may be a bad student, but
at least he Is consistent.”
"In what way?”
“I caught him swearing over his
profane history.”
Easy to Understand.
When Senator John E. Hessin and
daughter of Manhattan were doing
Europe and Asia last summer, says the
Kansas City Journal, they took a 'mo
tor boat ride on the Sea of Galilee.
In the party was a New York minis
ter. When the party had finished the
the amount of the bill. The boatman
told him It was exorbitant.
“I din readily understand why
Christ talked on the water here,” said
the miiister.
No More Room.
The railway carriage was crowded,
but a very fat old gentleman who sat
by the window calmly ignored the
ominous looks of the passengers for
taking up so much room.
A boy selling buns poked his head
in at the window and inquired:
“Buns, sir?”
The old gentleman was slightly deaf,
and, not noticing the buns, thought
the boy wanted a seat in the already
packed carriage; so he remarked:
“Full up, my boy! No more room
inside!”
A roar of laughter followed his re
ply, and the old gentleman innocent
ly wondered as to the cause of their
merriment.—London Tit-Bits.
RED.
It’s the Red Blood Corpuscles That
Proper Food Makes.
An Ohio woman says Grape-Nuts
food gave her good red blood and re
stored the roses of youth to a com
plexion that had been muddy and
blotchy. She says:
“For 10 years I had stomach trouble
which produced a breaking out on my
face. The doctors gave it a long Latin
name, but their medicines failed to
cure it. Along with this I had fre
quent headaches, nervousness and us
ually pain in my stomach after m«ils.
“I got disgusted with the drwfcs,
stopped them and coffee off short, and
quit eating everything but fruit and
Grape-Nuts, with Postum for my table
beverage.
“The headaches, stomach trouble,
a,nd nervous weakness disappeared al
most like magic, which showed that
when the cause was removed and
/good food and drink used nature was
/ ready to help.
“My blood was purified and my com
! plexion became like a young girls,
while my weight was Increased from
90 to 120 pounds in a few months—-
! good, solid firm flesh, where it used
>to be soft and flabby.
i “I .recommended Grape-Nuts and
tyostum to one of my friends, who was
al filleted as I had been. She followed
way advice and in a short time was re
sitored to complete health and in about
a months her weight increased from
1100 to 148 pounds.
I “Our doctor, observing the effect of
Carape-Nuts and Postum in our cases,
declared, the other day, that he would
hlreafter prescribe these food prod
uclts for gastritis." Name given by
Potstum Co., Battle Creek. Mich.
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