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The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1907-02-08
Georgia Cuttings
CurtaiIed Items of Interest
Gathered at Random.
Tmo Postmasters Arrested.

Postof3ce Inspector Williams at
Nashville, Tenn, has received notice
Of the arrest of John A. Thompson,
postmaster at Covena, Ga, and AS
sisrant Postmaster A. Thomas OF M
nez, ia, charged Njth enlightenment
Of money order funds
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1907-02-08
WILL BE eOOo CASH THROWN AWAY.
Cost OF Investigation of Brownsville Affair
Nav Be Over $4,000

Nav Be Over $4,000
The senate committee on military
affairs is beginning TO realize the diff.
ficulties in the way of securing wit.
aesses for the Brownsville inquiry.
The discharged soldiers are scattered
from Maine to California
Most of them are without funds and
the government must advance the
money for their fare to Washington te
testify. One member oil the commit.
tee predicted the Investigation would
cost more than $4,000
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1907-02-08
School Fund Apporticned.

The appOrtionment of the 1907 state
school fund has been completed 0y
State School Commissioner w. b. Mer-
rift for the various counties of Geor-
gia, with the exception of a few coun-
ties which nave failed to send in their
reports. The basis Of this years ap-
portionment is twelve cents more per
pupil and the largest apportionment
ever made. The apportionment is
$253 per pupil Of school age.
The apportionment as issued by the
counties does not refer to the local
school systems Fulton county, for III
stance, will receive $18,347. IS, but all
of this amount goes to the schools out.
side of Atlanta The local schools
draw $57,704.24 from the apportion-
ment made by the city Of Atlanta.
Following the announcement of tue
apportionment Commissioner W. B.
Merritt announced the appointments
to the local school systems, most of
which are in the cities and towns Of
the state and under local jurisdiction.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1907-02-08
DIVORCE FORtsIALLLO BY OLATH.
New Orleans Millionaire Dies SuddeaIy in
Iankton, South OskOts.

George II. Meyers, a multi-million-
aire Of New Orleans, died in Yankton,
South Dakota, Friday On his person
was found Standard Oil STOCKS valued
at $1,000, 900.
Meyers arrived in Yankton nearly
six months ago with the intention Of
securing a divorce from his wife. He
still lacked one week before he would
have become a citizen of the state,
when his divorce petition would have
been filed.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1907-02-08
ODESSA JEWS IN PANIC.

RevoIutiOnists ia Russian City threaten
Another Bloody Massacre.
The elements of the population of
Odessa, Russia, who are opposed TO
the Jews are renewing their efforts to
organize an anti-Jewish attack, and as
a result, the people Of Odessa, Of
whom about one-th,rd are Jews, are
in state bordering on panic.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1907-02-08
Kick on Railroad commlssar

Kick on Railroad commissary
Has a state railroad the right to
operate a commissary train and do
a general grocery business along lis
line?
This rather unique point has been
brought before the railroad commits
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1907-02-08

sion by N. H. Bass, a merchant OF Law
endar, Floyd county Mr. Bass com
planned that the Central railroad WAS
operating a commissary train, selling
supplies to its employees, deductiug
the amount from their salaries on pay
days.
The complaint says that this is in
turing the merchants of Lavendar and
otner points along the road in two
ways-one by taking from them legiti-
mate business and the other by load
ing bay debts on them when they
credit some employees of the Central
The commission acid that it was not
a matter with which it could deal, and
that Mr.. Bass proper recourse would
be the courts. It is the first time
this point has ever been raised.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1907-02-08
An Extensive Land Deal.

One of the largest deeds ever re-
corded in Barlow county was filed for
record at Gainesville a few days ago.
The instrument conveys 49,769 acres
of land from the Georgia Iron and
Coal Company to the Georgia Steel
Company
The property concerned in the
above deed is known as the Joel Hurt
properties, and includes some of the
finest mineral lands in North GeOr-
gia and parts Of Alabama.
1t was sold through Joel Hurt, Of
Atlanta few months ago, for a
consideration of m0e than 100000.
OF the lands described in the deed
there are 1879 acres in Barlow
county, 2S,679 in Dade, 1920 in Chero-
kee, 2,205 in Catoosa, $50 in Walker
and S,G36 in Jackson county, Alabama
Brunswick 'Longshoremen Strike.
Six hundred negro longslforemen,
members of the Brunswick union of
the International LongshOremen and
Dock Laborers, went out on a strike
Saturday evening.
The local union requested an in
crease in wages averaging Is to SO IL
per cent. which was refused
The employers have issued state
ment, giving their reasons for re-
sisting the demand.
Stevedores who work in the holds,
now paid 25 cents per hour demand
30 cents; pullers, or men on the ship,
now paid 20 cents, demand Is cents;
and porters, the men who are outside
laborers handling the cargoes to the
vessel, now paid Is cents, demand
20 cents.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1907-02-08
Loan company eoes to wall.

Loan Company Goes to wall.
A bill in equity was filed few
days ago in the superior court at At
lanta against the Georgia Redemption
and Loan Company, alleging insoiven-
cy Of company and mis-management
of assets, and praying the appoint
ment of a receiver Judge Pendleton
named Eugene r. Black receiver.
The Georgia Redemption and Loan
Company, with offices in the Pruden-
tial building, in Atlanta, has been do
ing a large investment security bust
ness in the South for the last ten
years. M. T. LaHatte, former coun-
Gilman and alderman, is president of
the concern, and NJ NJ. Turner sec
rotary.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1907-02-08
Drove Negroes from County.

Governor Terrell has received two
petitions from citizens of Banks and
Habersham county asking for re-
wards for the apprehension Of the par
ties guilty of forcing three negroes,
Frank Grant, Henry Scism and Mar
shah Davenport. to leave their homes
in fear of bodily harm.
II is charged that the parties who
terrorized the negroes went to their
homes and fired into them. The
negroes, who were said to be honest
and law-abiding, fed from. their
homes. The petition is presented ny
Ordinary NJ. Franklin, and other Off
Gals of Habersham county, seconded
by Mayor George w. Grant and the
city council of Alto The governor
has written for full particulars.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1907-02-08

State Sunday School Association.
The executive committee of the
Georgia Sunday School Association
met in Macon the past week Mem
bers Of the committee from Augusta,
Atlanta, Macon and Fairfax were
present and expressed qualification at
the progress Of the work during the
present year. The committee were
also much pleased With the prospects,
indicating greater succelj in the year
to follow than ever before in the
associations history An invitation
was received from the churches of
Marietta asking the association to hold
its thirty-third annual convention in
that beautiful little city This invi-
tation was unanimously accepted, AMI
the dates we're fixed for March 12, 10
and IA.
Al this convention special attention
will be given to department work
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1907-10-03
PRIMITIVE ANCHORS.


There appear to be two ideas which
have led up to- the invention of the
modern anchor-first, that of attach
ing the vessel by means of rope
or chain to weight sufficiently heavy
to keep the vessel from moving when
the weight has sunk to the bottom of
the sea, and, second, that of using a
hook instead of or in addition to the
weight, so as to catch in the bottom.
The English word anchor is practical
~ the same as the Latin ancora and
the Greek angkura, meaning 'that
which has an angle" from the root
ank, bent.
The earliest anchors made on the
hook principle probably only had one
fuke instead of two. In the Sussex
Archaeil, Coll" there is an illustration
Of what has been surmised to be an
anchor made out of the natural forked
branch of a tree. 1t was found with
an ancient British canoe at Burpham
Sussex. There is in the British muse
um an interesting leaden anchor with
two f1ukes bearing a Greek inscrip-
ton. It's date is about so 3. c., and it
was found off the coast of Cyrene.
The invention of the anchor with
two flukes is attributed by PausaniuS
to Midas, by Pliny to Eupalamas and
by Strabo to Anacharsis. Diodorus
Siculus states that the first anchors
were wooden tubes filed with lead
while another classical writer says
that before the Introduction of metal
anchors Jumps of stone with hole
through the middle for the attach
ment of the cable were used.
The form of the anchors used by
the Greeks and Romans is well known
from representations on Trajan's col
umn and in the catacombS at Rome
as an early Christian symbol. This
form does not seem to have changed
materially for quite thousand years,
as is shown by the Bayeux tapestry.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1907-10-03
The AIlioator's Sleep.

A man who passed himself off as
an animal keeper at a zoo had one
spring an experience with an ALI
gator which cost the concern dear.
The alligator had not awakenet.
from his winter nap when the keep
er appeared on. the scene at the
park. He could not understand
why the saurian slept and thought
it was sick. He punched the ALI
gator and tried in many ways to
wake it up. He also noticed that
the creature did not eat. Finally,
growing desperate for fear that he
would have a death on his hands,
the keeper bought ten pounds of
beef, pried open the saurian's huge
jaws and poked the meat down his
throat with a fence rail. A few
days later the thick skinned crea-
ture died. The keeper later ex-
planned that he did not know that
alligators slept in the winter and
did not eat anything during their
long maps.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1907-10-03
HoIxrood,s Chanel ROYAL.


Those who lament the results of
much of the so called restoration In
our ancient buildings will not be
sorry to know that Holyrood's Chap
ell Royal is to be left untouched, for
with that crumbling pile are bound
up many historical memories. In
that chapel the beginnings of Anglo
Scottish union were made when at
the altar there James ~. was unit
ed to Margaret Tudor, the "mar-
rage of the thistle and the rose"
There Queen Mary was twice mat
ed-to Darnley first and afterward
to Boutwell,. Hollywood palace, as
we know it now, was mostly the
handiwork of Charles IFS crafts
men. James III. turned the Chapel
Royal into a Roinish building. In
deed, he wished to restore Hollywood
entirely to its original monastic
purposes. But he reckoned without
the dour Scots temperament, and
the vestments and ornaments were
ruthlessly torn from the chapel and
burned by an Edinburgh mob
London Chronicle.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1907-10-03
CONSUMPTION.
The Proper Way Of Treating This In
sidious Disease.

One of the earliest signs of con-
sumption is a loss of strength and
flesh, and this should always arouse
suspicion in the case Of a young man
or woman when there is no other
evident cause for it. In addition to
the gradual evacuation, there will
usually be found a rapid pulse,
shortness of breath, anaemia, as
shown by pale lips and extreme
whiteness Of the eyes, poor appe-
tite and indigestion. There may be
feyerishness in the afternoon, to-
gctAer with a hacking cough and
Sometimes a little splitting Of blood,
bit this is more commonly sign
which appears in the later stages.
The two mainstays of the person
threatened with or actually suffer
ing from consumption are fresh air
ard a generous diet. In no disease
should the injunction to ''throw
physic to the dogs" be so faithfully
obeyed.
If possible, the consumptive
should sleep actually in the open
air, on a balcony sheltered from
the north and east winds, but if this
cannot be done the windows of the
bedroom should be kept wide open
at night, and the bed should be so
placed that it is bathed in the air
entering from without. The pa
tients often fear this will give them
colds or increase the cough, but it
does just the opposite. Of course
the sleeper should be well protect
q, with hood in very cold wealth
er and warm sleeping robe so as
not to become chilled if the bed
clothes are accidentally displaced.
The daytime should be passed in
the open air. The patient, if weak
ness or fever keeps him from
walking, should sit all day on q
porch or by an open window on the
sunny side of the house and should
practice full, deep breathing for a
few minutes at time frequently.
The diet should be as nutritious
as it is possible to make it. Eggs
and milk should be the standbys,
with a good allowance of meat and
also of fat if fat can be digested.
Care must be taken not to upset the
stomach, for much depends upon
good digestion, but patient living
in the open air day and night will
be astonished at the quantity OF
food he can eat and assimilate.
Fever at any part of the day is a
sign to avoid fatiguing exercise.
The bowels must be kept in proper
condition. Youths Companion.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1907-10-03
A TERRIBLE BIG TROUT.
He Was Cunning and Hard Casc,
Too, Was This Fish.


We were camping in northern Wis
conSin, and one evening after our sup
per of black bass and bacon we lay
under the pine trees smoking and tell
ing fish stories in which it was always
the 'bigger bass that got away The
guide listened with the gravity of a
man who knew all about fish stories,
and finally he knocked the ashes from
his pipe and told us a story.
'Once long ago." he said. there was
terrible big trout up in Smiths
pool. Every fellow who fished in the
pool had hooked him one time OF an
other, but he always got away, bit off
the snood or something.
81 tried to catch him myself dozen
times. One day | was sitting by the
pool when, splash, young robin
fiuttered out of the nest on limb
above the pool into the water below.
In a minute there was rush, CLEAN
of yellow, and the old trout had
thrown himself clear out of the water
and had swallowed the young robin
whole.
"What did l do? Well, I climbed
that tree in short order, got another
one of those young robins, baited my
hook with it and threw it lin just as
lightly as | could. In a minute. there
was another rush, another CLEAN of
yellow, and again the old trout jump
ed clear out of the water as he swal-
lowed the robin, and In minute more
I had him hooked. LII
'It was lucky wasn't fishing with
any of this newfangled rigging these
boys use and that wasn't bothered
with a reel 10 look after, or I would
have lost him sure. AS it was it took
me devil of time to get him out. X
Good to eat? Great Scott! We
didn't try to eat him. He was so full
of hooks we sold him for old iron.
you know"
That ended our fish stories for that
night, j. A. in Chicago Tribune.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1907-10-03
The Girls Were Still One Ahead.

A young and bashful professor was
frequently embarrassed by jokes his
girl pupils would play on him. These
jokes were SO frequent that he decided
to punish the next perpetrators, and
the result of this decision was that two
girls were detained an hour after school
and made to work some difficult prob
lens as punishment.
1T was the custom to answer the roll
call with quotations, so the following
morning, when Miss AS name was
called, she rose and. looking straight in
the professors eye, repeated, with
all thy faults / love thee STILL" while
Miss BIS quotation was, THE hours |
spend with thee, dear heart, are as a
string Of pearls to me."-Ladies' Home
Journal.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1907-10-03
Respect at Last.

"Briefeigh is, l think, one of the
greatest lawyers in this state"
''Why, heard you say once that you
didn't consider him any good
"Oh, that was years ago. He USED
to give me pointers on legal matters
without charging me anything because
we happened to have offices adjoining
each other. Recently he has been
charging me a stiff price every time
l have gone to him for advice. Chi
cago Record Herald.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1907-10-03
Very Much Heavier.

Church-At recent church fair
in England one Of the means used
for increasing the receipts was a
guessing contest As to the weight OF
the pastor.
Gotham-Before or after?
Church-Before or after what?
Gotham-Before or after preach
ing.
Church-What difference would
that make?
Gotham-A good deal. Some pas
tors are much heavier when preach
ing.--Ycnkers Statesman.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1907-10-03
q Lono I MINDED.

ct takes you a pretty long while to
shave yourself, doesn't it?'
mot so very long. | can shave my
self quicker than my old barber could"
81 don't believe it,
'It's a fact. You see. he stammers
terribly Philadelphia Press.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1907-10-03

Studying how to help and benefit 9TH
ers will build up your own fortune
Baltimore American.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1907-10-03

1t is what you are not looking for
that gives the spice Of variety to life
Detroit News.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1907-03-20
w. C. T. U. Meetings.

A psrlor meeting was held at the home
of Mrs. Suie NJ. Sharpe, superintendent
of this department, Friday afternoon,
Dec. 4, 1906. Mrs Ella Wenk read her
report of the State Convention, to which
she was delegate from Tionests Union.
Quite large number listened to this in
teresting report, and all must have gained
inspiration from it. Mrs. Sharpe served
refreshments at the close OF the meeting.
The subject for The meeting held on
Jan. %, 1907, was Narcotics, and Mrs.
Jas. Haslet conducted short program,
which was especially directed to the evils
arising from the cigarette habit.
On Feb. 18th, Mrs. Marie Hopkins led
an interesting meeting, the subject being
the department of Mercy, of which she is
superintendent. Mrs. Hopkins reported
having organized large Band of Mercy
in the public schools of Tionesta.
The annual due social held at the
pleasant home of the treasurer. Mrs. S.
d. Irwin, Friday evening, Feb. l5, was
we'll attended and much enjoyed. Re-
freshments served by Mrs. Irwin, and a
'cake contest in which all took part,
were pleasant features oil the evening IS
entertainment
On Feb. 26th Mrs. Jennie Agnew, who
is in charge of the Soldiers and Sailors
Work, presented an interesting program.
Subiec, the Canteen.
By special invitation the w. c. T. U.
met at the home of one OF its charter
members, Mrs. Jos. Dale, Tuesday
evening, March 18th. The subject was
Literature, Mrs. Martha Derickson, su-
perintendent. This was particularly
helpful meeting. Mrs. Neill, of Brad
ford, was present and talked in the inter
est of Medical Temperance. At the close
of the meeting the society was delight
fully entertained by Mrs. Dale and Mrs
Devices. Delicious refreshments were
served.
Nearly all of these meetings were pre-
sided over by our faithful president, Mrs
Martha Derickson. PRESS SUPT.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1907-03-20
State Pension Bill.

Senator Cochrane, Democrat, OF Ly-
coming county, introduced bill to pen
sion Pennsylvania veterans of the civil
war and it passed the senate by a vote of
AZ to1.
The bill affects those persons who were
at the time of enlistment residents and
continue to be residents OF the state, and
only these.
The amount is specified as follows:
To those who served for one year or
less, So per month.
To those who served more than one
year, and not more than two years, $3.50
per month,
To those who served over two years,
$40 per month.
All applications for pensions shall be
made to the auditor general and the right
to such pensions shall be finally deter
mined by the auditor general.
Section 5-The pension to be granted
shall begin on January lst. 1898, and
shall be payable quarterly thereafter on
the first days of April, July, October and
January of each year.
Section 6-The necessary blanks for ap-
plicstion and proof for pensions under
this act shall be furnished by the auditor
general.
Section 1.-THE sum of 81, 100000 or so
much thereof as may be necessary, be,
and the same is hereby specifically APP
propriated for the purposes of paying the
pensions created hereby.
Should the above bill become law, it
will provide pension in addition to that
which is now received by the old veter-
ans from the national government. 1t is
entirely independent of, ard not a sub
stitute for, the national pension law.
Similar legislation has been on the
statute books of Massachusetts, and Maine
for several years, but what prospect the
hill has for passage at this session is diff
cult to say.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1907-03-20

SOME of the members ofthe Legislature
are itching to vote big appropriation for
new executive mansion at Harrisburg
one that will match the capitol. The pres
ent gubernatorial dwelling is very re-
spectable one, and a Governor who is fit for
his job will feel just as comfortable there
as in a guided palace. The White House
at Washington is an old fashioned affair,
with small window psnes aud wooden
floors. We love it because it has been
the official residence of all our Presidents
from Thomas Jefferson to Theodore
Roosevelt. There is too much ofs tenden-
in these days OF plethoric prosperity to
luxuriate in marble halls. What we
want is little more sentiment and lit
tie less magnificence.-Punxy Spirit.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1907-03-20
Pretty Thin Coffee.

During one of George Graham Vests
campaign tours in the early nlneties it
was necessary for him to soiourn over
night in the town of St Charles. The
best hostelry the place afforded was
poor enough. and mt breakfast Vest
was especially put out by the stuff that
was placed before him for coffee After
having sampled the beverage Vest, with
a frown. called for the proprietor.
When that individual appeared the
senator asked. with wave of his hand
toward the offending liquid smoking
innocently before him. "Sir. what is
this stuff?" Coffee" meekly replied
the proprietor somewhat taken aback.
Coffee" repeated Vest in fine scorn.
"My friend, | could insert coffee bean
in my mouth, dive into the Missouri
river swim to the town of Alton. ILL.,,
and I'll guarantee that one could bail
up mich better coffee than this. sir,
over ,he entire router'
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1907-03-20
Administrators Sale of
Real Estate.

Pursuant to an order of the Orphans
Court of Forest County, Pennsylvania,
there will he sold at public sale, on the
premises, in Kingsley Township, in said
County, on
SATURDAY, THE BOTH DAY OF
MARCH, A. ID. 1907,
the following described real estate, late of
Elizabeth j. Putlienburg, deceased, to-wit:
All that certain piece, parcel or lot of
land situated in Kellettville, Kingsley
Township, Forest Comfy and State Of
Pennsylvania. bounded and described as
follows: Beginning at post on atwenty
foot alley; thence along line of land of G.
Bauer, North fifty-eight degrees West,
one hundred (lO0l feet to post i'll line of
lands of Mrs. Mary a. Toby; thence
along said Mrs. Mary A. Toby land.
North fifty degrees East, tifty-three (5S)
feet to post thence by land of w. A.
Kribbs, South fifty eight degrees East.
eigbty-three (S3) feet to post on line of
said twenty foot alley; thence along said
alley. South thirty-two degrees West,
fifty (50) feet to the place of beginning;
containing four thousand five hundred
seventy-five (4575) square feet of land be
the same more or less.
Sale to commence at Q O'Clock p. m.
Conditions made known at sale, by
G. Y. DETAR, Administrator.
March 4, 1907.