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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 ...<■ X W 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 ON J U2_J —u-T-L-jry x -~—T—C- 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. V / v'-’ C l! J ■ 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. W TPFnIiT, ® .. > .•A I’< ; . ■ ■ 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- v - - J i ; " WOW. JHr t ■<_ i ' ■ 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. ti J 5 j \ r UiY I / niul Ji ra If) y ! have vnuhi out here. 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.