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Miller County Liberal
PUGLISHED WEEKLY.
COLQUITT. GA.
ACHIEVEMENTS IN IGNORANCE.
Geenral Barry’s report concerning
the deficient education of many can
didates examined for admission to
West Point Military Academy is In
teresting from more than one point of
view. These young men were not ta
ken at hazard from the mass of their
fellows, nor were they merely young
men of average ability Each of them
had been selected and chosen as a
nominee for a cadetship Each of
them had presumably prepared for the
examination he knew awaited him
says the New York World. Yet many
of them disclosed a degree of ignor
ance concerning history and literaa
ture that could hardly be surpassed
among illiterates. One of these as
pirants for West Point stated that
Lee and Stonewall Jackson had fought
at Princeton and Trenton, another
that the battle of Waterloo was fougtit
between “Nepolican" and "Welling
ford." Os Mason and Dixon's line it
was said it "divides Maryland from
Georgia ” Among the "most import
ant writers of the nineteenth century"
were included "Eller Wheeler Wilcox.
Elbert Huggard, .Vick London and
Dorothy Dix.” These young men are
graduates of American schools. To
them have been open from their boy
toed all the advantages of public li
braries and an incessant and well
nigh countless stream of magazines
and newspapers. They surely are not
dull boys nor unambitious. Their ig
norance, therefore, is as discreditable
to their teachers as to themselves.
The idea of reclaiming Russian
swamp lands is not new. Like many
other valuable ideas it sprang up in
the fertile mind of Peter the Great,
who built bls capital In a swamp, be
cause it was the only place he could
find affording access to the sea Peter
selected the Holmogori district in the
province of Archangel for raising
Dutch cattle because he noticed the
resemblance between the grass of
Holland and that of the Holmogori !
district It Is now pointed out that
nt small expense the vast swamps in
the province of Archangel can be
turned Into lands covered with the
Holmogori grass, and that after a few
years a large portion of it will be fit
for raising cereals and vegetables A
systematic reclamation movement is
now planned by the Russian depart
ment, of agric"'* l ’"’
the British consul at Munich, who
notes the symptoms in altered trade
methods, the greater use of advertis- ;
ing by business houses and the growth
of luxury and restlessness in private
life, says the New York World. But
what will strike Americans them-
Eelves as the best evidence of Ameri
can tendencies in Germany is con
tallied in the mounting cost of living
in Germany and in the imperial chan
cellor's suggestion that it must be ac
cepted as part of the new conditions
Geologists are claiming that the
greatest underground river in the
■world Hows from the Rocky moun
tains underneath Naw Mexico and
Texas, emptying itself In the Gulf of
Mexico. This river is thought to be
In places several mih s wide, and it is
believed that it feeds rivers that llow
upon the surface. The artesian well
belt of Texas is pointed to as the up
lifting of the water from this river,
often from eight hundred feet below.
A Chicago man who was arrested
for kissing a girl made a plea for
mercy by explaining that he was so
badly under the influence of intoxi
cants that he didn't know whether he
■was kissing a girl or a horse. The
judge, being unwilling to accept in
toxication as an excuse, fined the of
fender $25 and costs. Things are not
as they used to be.
Massachusetts is preparing to put
in force a law which will compel the
retirement of state employees on age
limit, but with a pension. Inasmuch
as part of the pension fund is to be
obtained from enforced contributions
from these employees, based on cer
tain percentages of their salaries,
there cannot be so much objection to
tie plan as there might otherwise be
Music is said to increase a cow's
output of milk, but farmers who sub
ject their cows to phonograph concerts
are lacking in the milk of human kind
ness.
New York officials prohibit flying on
Sunday, but Newport authorities place
no restriction whatever on the high
flying game.
Another American heiress has de
cided to cut herself adrift from her
noble spouse, bpt the market price '»!
dukes and earls Is as high as ever.
The size of women's hats appear to
Increase as the sense of woman s Im
portance grows.
Plan 100-Story Building for Gotham
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NEW YORK. —At the recent meet
ing of the National association of
Building Owners and Managers in
Cleveland, 0.. the statement was !
made that skyscrapers over 30 stories t
in height are monuments of useless- i
ness. To show the absurdity of the |
statement George T. Mortimer, vice-]
! president of the United States Realty
' and Improvement company, of New
York, stated that there are now in his
office plans for a 100-story building.
He claims that from an engineering 1
standpoint the plans are practical and ■
there is no reason why the building I
could not be constructed.
A few years ago, when it was be- j
lieved the building code would be I
amended to prevent the erection of [
i buildings highed than 20 stories, the '
I Equitable Life Insurance company |
filed plans for a 60-story building, but :
that was little more than a dream of j
tin late Paul Morton, then president
j of the company.
When the Metropolitan tower was
built two years ago it was thought
Aged Churchman Charged With Arson
Newark, n. j.—eihs Appleby, of.
Old Bridge, N. J., 60 years old,
I deacon in the Baptist church, wealthy
I and well known, was recently ar-
J rested on a charge of arson. Action i
comes after an inquiry of six years,
in which the whole county of Middle- !
I sex has been terrorised by incendiary j
I fires. During the reign of terror mur- |
tier followed arson. The specific ac
cusation is made by an insurance com- .
pany in the case of the Inirning of !
the home of Mrs. Jessie Brown on ’
August 31. In six years the residents I
of Old Bridge have been strangely i
murdered and more than a dozen fires i
occurred
Six years ago Mrs. Jane Wright, an
octogenarian, was found dead in bed
•j<- morning in her house, where she
’ •’lone, across from he Baptist
v.hiYh. Appleby J.s. £f, ,
' the authv.nies T*b find the murderer, l
but the case baffled the cleverest de
tectives. One of those who threat
; ened to bring the murderer to justice
1 was George Whiteman Jr., son of the
keeper of the Rooster Inn, two miles
from Old Bridge. A few days later
young Whiteman and his father were
murdered in the inn, both having been
shot by some unknown assailant.
Pretty Girl Thief Gets S6OO by Rusd
z>'- J" SFECToa AKO
Si.* "I YOu ARE T ®
"“fAAzA J Give he the
Y'Xsj I | CASH FROM
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PHILADELPHIA, Pa.-—What the po- ■
lice declare to be one of the bold- !
est and most carefully planned rob- i
bevies perpetrated here in recent
years was committed by a beautiful :
21-year-old girl, who, impersonating
an inspector in the John Wanamaker i
store, collected S6OO in cash from five i
cashiers. That the girl did not sue- |
ceed in getting away witli several i
thousand dollars was due to the young I
woman cashier in the suit and cloak
department, who refused to turn over ;
the day's proceeds to the “inspector." i
The only clew to the girl’s identity
that the store detectives have found
is the signature she used in signinir
receipts for the money she collected.
On each of the five receipts turned
over to tlie cashiers she signed in a
bold, firm hand the initials “M. R. C."
That the robbery was carefully
Ccwboy Shopper Is One Real Spender
KANSAS CITY. Mo—When the fop I
of the Bar-Circle-X and the Bar
Y ranches comes up to the city to
buy his winter wardrobe, about the
' same time his more effete brother, the !
fop of the towns, goes to St. Louis. I
Chicago or New York to lay in his I
; winter wardrobe, bo there is little i
chance of them meeting and compar- |
ing notes. With his supercilious air. I
I the effete one might look in scorn I
upon his sun-tanned confrere, while
i the bronco-bustin’ dude of the south-
I west undoubtedly would break into a
I guffaw if he saw the other in a Prince
: Albert coat and top hat. So perhaps
‘ it is well that each makes his annual
I eastern migration about the same
time of the year. For the difference
between them, at bottom, is very
small, after all.
When the one comes back with his
new fall suit and his fuzzy hat and I
his spats and gloves and all the rest j
of it he probably will think he has J
been something of a spender. He
probably would be surprised to know
that the other would look upon him |
| the limit in height had been reached.
That structure ->f 49 stories, towers
700 feet above the ground. But at. the
present time a 55-story building is in
course of construction which, when
completetd, will be 760 feet high. So
it will be seen that the 100-story
building, like the 100-foot boat, is
really not a dream but actually in
sight as a practical realization.
According to Mr. Mortime., the erec
tion of a 100-story building will not
I offer any more serious engineering
■ problems than are to be found m put
i ting up one of 45 or 50 stories. The
I foundations will not have to be any
j deeper, for the solid rock below the
surface of Manhattan would support
a 500-story building if it were possi-,
ble to build one.
The building, of course, will be of
1 steel construction, more than 40.000
tons being required, not to mention
| 22.500.000 common brick. 2,700.000
| face brick, 60,000 cubic, feet of Indiana,
j limestone, 6,000 cubic feet of granite!
i and 9,000 tons of ornamental terra!
| cotta. The outer materials are in .
i equally stupendous quantities. For in-1
| stance, 1,350.000 square feet of parti j
! tion tile will be needed, 2,400,000 feetl
, of pine boards for floor covering. 6,901 t
windows, 18,000 square feet of glai -I
and 810.000 pounds of windc I
weights. Ninety elevators will/
housed in it.
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A few weeks later a laborer wh
i was thought to have some knowledg-J
of the crime was found murdered it I
the road on the outskirts of Oil 1
Bridge. The murder of the labor ti
was followed by the finding of till ]
body, in a deserted part of the townll
of Thomas Collins, a prominent clt.’ ft
zen of Old Bridge, who had made tl.
statement that lie would spend evet
cent he possessed to bring the mu
derer to justice.
i Vah.eS'! viie o. 'f'/et.ho?-
I ers and the townspeople hud detc i
fives working. So baffling was these
ries of crimes that two well-kmwn
detective agencies gave up the writ
It was a private detective, ample e, !
by an insurance company, that fin 11. 1
placed the blame at the door of-ih<
Baptist church elder. The Applbj
family is one of the best known it
j New Jersey.
planned is evidenced by the fact tiiq
the gir l preceded the regular inspect
tor. who daily collects the cash, bvi
but a few minutes. So Close was her!
calculation that while she was getting!
cash from one cashier the regular in ;
specter was collecting from a cash]
register only a few feet away. She
; told the cashier that the regular in-'
l spector had been discharged and she!
would in future make daily colle<-,
! tions.
Without a word the cashier turned
over about SSO in bills of small de
nominations, which the collector put
i in a small tin box—a duplicate of
| the one carried by the regular inspec
| tor. The same performance was re
i peated at one of the counters on the
i main floor.
Emboldened by her success, the gir'
made her way to the suit and cloak!
i department, but the cashier there be
. came suspicious and refused to turn
over the day’s cash, which amounted'
to more than $4,000. The girl did not
remonstrate, but saying she would
take along the schedule of the day's
business went to another counter on
the same floor and was successful in
making collections.
YtHESE ’£Re '
/ eastern guys
{ r CN ' T KNt’W
| ' WhAT A REAL
■ . Z ooxs UKE J
I ■ -——
;as a cheap sport, a piker, a T-wad.
j who didn't know how to turn good
money loose when he had it. For
your cowboy dude is the original
turner-loose of money when it comes
to buying adornments. He will spend
S4O for a pair of boots, $lO for a pair
of gloves. S2O for a hat and $75 for «
saddle without turning a hair.
Through all the lonesome days and
nights when l.e is "out on the range'
he is thinking of the trip he will take
i to Kansas City the first time he gett
; a chance. And when finally he does
j drift into town, he goes right ovei
; to Blank’s and buys his outfit before
! he starts to take in the town, sample
I the brands of wet goods or hunt up
I a poker game.
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Os CfAfO CA/yyfJ/V
OME three hundred and
eighty miles west of Albu
querque, N. M., on the main
line of the railroad is situ j
ated the little city of Wil-
fea,«S'
Hams, Ariz. The place received its |
I prosaic name from the noted pioneer
/scout, Bill Williams, who lies buried at
[ the foot of Bill Williams mountain
I nearby. The city has a picturesque 10l
l cation, 6,750 feet above sea level, and
is at the junction of tin- Grand Can
non railroad which leads to the won
'rful erosion, some 60 miles north.
''The Grand canyon is acknowledged
o be incomparably the world’s grand
est natural wonder. Within the gigan
tic stretch of the canyon, varying
I from five to twelve miles in width,
■ ihe Colorado river and its tributaries
ind their ways for over 200 miles.
Host of the walls of the canyon rise
iio the incredible height of 5,000 to
, kOOO feet, and display every variety
iof curving ridge and ravine, of fell
I precipice and rocky gorge.
; I , 'ully 100 tourists, en route to Cali
i fornla, daily switch off here for a view
iof the Titan of Chasms—the most
i gigantic example of erosion on the
| globe. The marble and gigantic walls
| of this stupendous water-worn trench
■ are from 1,000 to 6,500 feet high, often 1
I very precipitous and perpendicular, ,
sculptured into wildly fantastic forms \
brilliantly tinted in deep red an ■
yellow, brown and gray, purple an !
black. The canyon is about 240 miles
long; and, through the rocky gorge,
! the work of centuries, the turbulent
ni. 1 afips .y
pands—a tortuous ribbon of silver.
vliose boundaries of objects, though
rigantic in size, are lost to sight in the
lagnificent environments.
Scene of Splendor.
In some places these huge cliffs fair
ly overhang the water, and the boat
man, looking upward, can see but a
narrow strip of blue sky. Frequently
clouds gather over the top of the
gorge, and one floats along in dark
ness. From the rim above, the rush
ing and the whitening of the waters
below may be seen, but the distance is
so great that no sound is ever heard
Stolid, indeed, is he who can front the
awful scene and view its unearthly .
splendor of color and form without !
iquaking. This labyrinth of immense j
{architectural forms is endlessly varied
-■in design, fretted with ornamental de
vices, festooned with lace-like webs
formed from talus from the upper cliffs
and painted with every color known to
the- palette in pure transparent tones
of marvelous delicacy.
Never was a picture more har
monious; never a flower more ex
quisitely beautiful. The Grand canyon
country is not only the hugest, but the
most varied and instructive specimen
of earth building and destruction on
the globe. Nowhere else on earth is
there such an example of deep gnaw
ing waters or of water high-carving.
New York may boast of its Niagara;
California, its Yosemite; Kentucky, its
Mammoth Cave; Virginia, its Natural
Bridge, and Wyoming, its geysers—all
wonderfully elaborate and grand in
their way, but here, in an altitudinous
mesa, is a chasm that would hide them
all and then be but partially decorated, |
much less filled
Wonders of Chalcedony Park.
While the Grand canyons are the I
greatest, they are by no means the |
only objects of interest in this land of I
wonders. Witli its castle domes, thumb
buttes and solitary sugar-loaf peaks;
its mesas of bare rock, beds of ashes
or leagues of yellow and vermilion
sands, Arizona abounds in the strange
and the wonderful. Chalcedony park,
in Apache county, covers 2,000 acres,
amid a vast desert of sandstone and I
lava, with the /fragments of thousands
of gigantic pines’ and cedars brought
by flood or glacier and changed by
nature's chemistry into brilliant min
. erals of exquisite colors. At intervals,
one sees on every side gulches torn
out of the solid rock by the ceaseless
grinding of flint on flint, exposing
broken logs of every conceivable
length and size, in all shapes and
colors imaginable. Throw over all the
blazing rays of the southern sun and
iyou are surrounded with jewels, miles
land miles of them, so brilliant as ‘o
Idazzle the eyes and make Aladdin's
.fabled cave a rushlight in comparison.
jOnyx, chalcedony, carnelian, jasper.
I agate and every variety of delicately
veined marble, with masses of tur
quoise, of garnet, of rose quartz, of
topaz, of emerald—all bewilder and
surprise the beholder.
And this is not all In many locali-
| ties along the shelving terraces of the
’ mountains, under beetling projections
lof t? stiata are to be seen the most
' clt.' ’ <>f the quaint cliff dwellings.
■ Into several compartments by
|.< mi uted walls. The Tonto basin has
the largest natural bridge in the
world, being 200 feet high, 600 feet
wide, an arch six feet thick, with an
orchu d on its top and miles of stalac- ■
tite caves under its abutments. Here
Is the famous yucca plant, growing as
a tree, the fruit of which the Indians
and Mexicans use for food, its stems
for soap, and from the leaves make i
horse blankets, ropes, twine, nets,
I hats, shoes and mattresses. Here, too,
is the wonderful Fish-hook cactus,
hat, during the moist season, stores
up a large quantity of water and
when the top is removed and a hol
low is made by scooping out some of
he soft inner part, immediately tills
with cool, refreshing water, thus be
ing the means of saving many lives.
The Gila Monster.
In this sun-scorched land is the
argest and only poisonous lizard in
America —the Gila monster. It often i
attains a length of three feet and in !
appearance is very repulsive, being !
covered with scales. The general :
color is black, marked with yellowish ’
Interspaces. The tail is cylindrical I
and clumsy and the movements of the !
j animal are like those of the young I
I alligator. Its bite, though not alvjtys i
fatal, is very dangerous, paraly Wig I
the acti<€* "-riown w r ;
the Gila
from whi</ v . .
fndivitlllSls and to zoological societies.
Near Phoenix is the largest 'ostrich
ranch in America. A veritable os-
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Pompeii Pillar.
trick village is laid out in the re
claimed desert lands, the main and \
side streets being all named and I
numbered. Most of the propagation
iis done by incubation. When hatched
they are almost as large as full grown j
chickens, and at six mouths they are .
six feet high. When the ostriches are j
about four years old they are muted;
and, if left to themselves, the hen
I bird will deposit eggs at the rate of ‘
> one a day for a month in succession ;
I in a nest hollowed out of the sand.
I The ostrich hen sits on the eggs by ■
I day and the male bird at night.
One of the most pleasing natural
curiosities of Arizona is the pool of ,
water known as Montezuma's well, i
It is situated 15 miles northeast of
the old abandoned military post of
I Camp Verde. The well is 250 feet in
| diameter and the clear, pure water is j
I about sixty feet below the surface of ,
' the surrounding country. The pool has
a uniform depth of 80 feet of water ;
except in one place, apparently about j
six feet square, where the sounding- •
line went down 500 feet without i
touching bottom. The sides of the '
well are honeycombed with caves and ,
tunnels, permitting sightseers to de
scend to the water’s edge.
Johnny’s Triumph.
A teacher in one of our public
schools, after laboriously and exhaust
ively explaining to her pupils the
meaning of the word "Income”—told
little Johnny to go to the blackboard,
write a sentence containing the new
word, and read it aloud to the school.
And Johnny, his freckled face fairly
raiiant with the pride of his newly
acquired knowledge, marched to the
board, and after considerable tongue
chewing evolved:
i In come a cat!”—Mack’s Monthly
MARRIED AND
UNMARRIED
LADIES
Will Find Some Useful Advice in
the Words of Mrs. Jay McGee
cf Stephenville.
Stephenville, Tex.—"For nine years,”
says Mrs. Jay McGee, of this place, "I
suffered from womanly troubles. I
had terrible headaches and pains In
my back, etc.
My husband suggested Cardui to
me, but I did not think anything would
do me any good.
It seemed as if I would die, I suf
fered so! At last, I consented to try
; Cardui, and it seemed to help me,
right away. I was interested, and con
tinued its use..
The full treatment not only helped
me, but it cured me.
It will do the same for all sick and
suffering girls or women—both mar
ried and unmarried.
I will always praise Cardui highly,
for it has been, the means of saving
my life and giving me good health.”
Halt' a century of success, with thou
sands of cures, similar to the one de
scribed above, amply prove Cardui’s
. real, scientific, medicinal merit.
Being purely vegetable, Cardui can
bo taken safely by young and old, and
can do nothing but good. Its action
is very gentle, and without any bad
I after-effects.
Why not benefit by the experience
of others? Try it, today.
N. 13.—Write to: l.adleH’ Advisory
Der-t.. Clialtttnoogrn Medicine Co., Clint
taaoorn* Tenn., for Special liiHlrHt 1 -
<iont«, and G4-paße book, “Home Treat
ment for Women,” sent in plain wrnp
per, on request.
SUCCESSFUL COLLECTOR.
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Collector Suremark —Not on yer
life; everybody here knows I kin
plunk the buil’s-eye nine shots out ot
ten!
A POLICEMAN’S EXPERIENCE.
Suffered for Years From Chronic Kid
ney Trouble.
Walter J. Stanton, 1139 Pear St.,
’ Camden, N. J., says:
"Kidney trouble
bothered me for 15
years. If I stooped,
sll:ir P twinges shot
tllrou "h nl - v back and
I 4-S A it was ,iard ,or nl ° to
I j' ’’ ' \ arise. I was treated
I by several doctors,
I'7 01,0 a specialist, but.
1 I 4 ' ’I; not receive relief.
I 'I. i'-i : Finally I began using
'iPi A ) 1)011,1 s K| dr.ey Pills
I,n(i soon uotic T ed inr
( . 1 provement. I con-
a tinned until the trou
ble entirely disap
peared."
L’ J kjj “When Your Back
|. A I® Lame, Remember
f " e ame —DOAN’S.’’
5 ® c ’ a " s,ores - P ° 3 ’
i-yjs ter-Milburn Co., Bus-
falo, N. Y.
Adam Bede on Pittsburg.
Pittsburg patriots twisted their
: faces awry at a Smoketown pun de
livered by former Congressman Bede
of Minnesota.
Bede put it over in the climax of a
! sparkling speech at a chamber of
i commerce banquet.
After telling how dearly he loved
i old Pittsburg and her fine old people,
her rich people and her toilers, he
said;
"I like Pittsburg because if I ever
I get tired of the town I can wash it
off.”
In High Life.
“So the Filptons have separated?”
“Yes.”
, “ r 'o you know any of the particu
! lars?”
"She keeps the poodle.”
i For FiRIHrtlE .U <k»' CAPt’WINE
Whether from Colds, Heat, Stomach or
Nervous Troubles, Capudine will relieve you.
It’s liquid- pieasant to take—acts immedi
ately. Try it. 10c., 25c., aud 50 cents at drug
stores.
No man will have any trouble about
understanding as much of the Bible
as he is willing to live.
To strive at all involves a victory
achieved over sloth, inertness and in
difference. —Dickens.
Dr. Pierce’s Pleasant Pellets regulate
and invigorate stomach, liver and boweis.
Sugar-coated, tiny granules, easy to take
as candy.
The man who is enviotrt of evildo
ers will soon be one himself.