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The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1907-12-20

and whatever you do there will come
to you ever and often a dream of his
first leap into the air, of the Juggling
line and of his body at your feet, and
indistinct behind it all will lie the
sparkling water, and the forest and
the blue sky.
In the dead of winter you will of
sudden hear the soft splash of the
bass rising to your fly; you will feel
the sudden tautness of the line, and
the snow outside your window will
melt into a summer landscape. When
you are busiest there will come to you
the song of the reel and the smell of
pine and fir and balsam. That is the
magic of the Media Mon-nuh-she-gan.
had meant to laugh. But as | fol
lowed without conscious volition
Jacks outburst of imagery, some
elemental emotion, long forgotten,
stirred within me and / seemed to see
as he saw and feel when he felt.
And how will you recognize the
Magic Bass when you have caught
him, if he so greatly resembles other
bass?" asked respectfully, even Gag
erly.
You will know" answered Jack
slowly, because he will seem to you
to be the most beautiful object you
have ever SEEN"
II am not a fisherman" | said
grave@y and without scorn. But /
know something of men, and the in
fuence must be strong that will move
large man so easily. / am tempted
to go with YOU"
Jack stuck out his hand.
TITS a promise, DOCTOR" was all he
said.
There are many men who are born
with the magic of Nature in their
hearts, who grow up from childhood
unconsciously believing that Heaven
is place of lakes and brooks, of hills
and forests There are others who
gradually or suddenly attain to that
sense after years of narrow life and
cramped ideals l was of the latter.
What a marvellous summer it was!
Onward we padded, through lake and
Slitdiu anu idhG again. IllAOuSh lOebhA
ing rapids where the trees hung dark
ly over and through smiling rivers
where the sun shone brightly on the
meadowy shore. Through pleasant
summer heat that once seemed unen-
durable, exuting in the storm that
once seemed awful-ever onward pur.
suing the Magic Bass. And when at
last we were fome again with the
color of Indians and hearts of great
content | said to Jack:
Well, old fellow, we didn't get our
Magic Bass, after all The ones we
did get were so beautiful that almost
forgot to look for him. But next
spring we will so again and l think
we will find him. Here's to the win
ter! May it pass speedily"
Jack was silent for a long time.
Then with a smile:
nuh-she-gan, DOCTOR" he said.-The
Outing Magazine.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1907-12-20
win Open School January 8.

The trustees of the fourth district az
ricultural and mechanical school, at a
meeting in Carrollton, ordered that the
treasurer of the school collect all un.
paid subscriptions and solicit further
contributions to pay the debts con-
traoted in behalf of the school It
is ordered by the trustees that the con
tractors proceed to complete the build
ings without delay
1t satisfactorily appearing that the
people of Carroll county are determin.
ed to comply with their contract to
complete the school building and, hav,
ing confidence in their ability to com
ply with their obligation, it was or
dered by the trustees that the school
be opened on January 6, 1908.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1907-12-20
Enqland's Loss in Chemistry.

Prof Lunge of Zurich, lecturing at
the Royal Institution, reminded us that
when the nations were awaking GA the
dawn of industrialism England had a
long lead. Inorganic chemical in
dustry was developed in Great Bri-
tain up to the middle of last century
Ia a greater extent than in any other
country by men like the Muspratts,
Tenant, Gossage, Dunlop, Chance and
others" In those days German and
Swiss chemists like Lunge came to
England to learn-such men, for in
stance. as Caro-, PAUL., Peter Griess,
and Ludwig Mond. Some of them
stayed here, much to our own and
their advantage. Curiously enough,
as Or. Lunge pointed out, some of the
great advances were made it this
country by men outside the profess
sion" Walter Weldon, reforIner Of
the chlorine industry, was Journal
list: Henry Bessemer, brass founder;
Sidney Gilchrist Thomas, clerk in the
War Office. But it was a mistake to
imagine that science did not count
a mistake that has cost us many, many
millions.-London Telegraph.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1907-12-20
GEORGIA Property Tied Up.

Commissioner Hudson has returned
from jamestown, where he superin-
tended the packing Of the Georgia ex,,
hibit and tried to wind up the states.
affairs there.
All of the state buildings are now
tied-up in a Iaborers' lien on the whole
exposition property. The employees Of
the exposition are trying to recover.
wages due them. 1t is hardly proba~
bic that the state buildings can be
held, as they belong to the states, and
the land upon which they rest is held
under a 90-day option from December
first.
But the whole matter is in court now
and until an adjustment is reached
Georgia cannot sell it's building, which
was modelled after Bulloeh hall, the
home of President Roosevelts mother.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1907-12-20
THE
MAGIC BASS

BY Paul H. Woodruff.

1t was along in the latter part of
March that | dropped in on Jack one
evening and found him inspecting a
short, flimsy looking fsh-pole.
You must have 1t bad" / observed,
''to so fishing in March, with the ice
not all out yet"
Jack looked at me in mild astonish-
ment.
why, I'm not going fishing" he re-
piled, cant you know. Bass sea-
son don't open til the 18th of May.
I'm just looking over my tackle bit,
TO be sure everything is ship-shape.
"ln fact" he added, Il may confess
that | will probably do the same thing
every day from now till the season
opens"
"Well, | suppose you have nothing
else to do with yourself, was my
scornful comment. ITS pity, Jack,
that you haven't got a mans work to
do, to make you remember you're not
a kid. How a grown, one hundred
and eighty pound man can spend val
liable hours-yes, days in trying to
fool and capture by strategy little
four-pound fish that he don't need is
beyond me. But to idle away the
best of the year in gazing at the tools
he uses to delude and ensnare the
Shiny objects is--wel, the limit"
so you call fom-pound bass lit
tie, do you? Shows you know nothing
about it, Pretty long remark for you,
though, DOCTOR" said Jack, with
grin.
That's the trouble with Jack When
you get him with an unanswerable ar
gument he grins, One might as well
allow him his view of things, for he
will take it anyway.
"Well Jack" l resumed in a less in
dignant one, Il will concede that you
enjoy it, But should see the point
more clearly if you fishermen were
adding anything to the worlds store
of knowledge. If you were discover
ing new species of FISH, or ways of
propagating them scientifically l
might be interested"
Se are adding to the worlds store
of simplicity, and contentment, and
right living" he replied seriously.
but you bring something to my mind
that | am very curious about. Per
haps won would catalogue it as sci
entific discovery
"The Indians call it Media Mon-nuh-
she-gan, WHICH translated means
Magic Bass. He is said to be much
like other black bass in appearance.
But his peculiar attributes are these:
He must be caught by casting,
with a surface bait, so that you can
see him rise to it. He may be taken
in running water where the clear cur
rent foams over messy powders and
through gurgling sunlit shadows;
or in the silent pools where the forest
hangs darkly over the stream. He may
be taken at some still lakes grassy
marge where the water lilies build
him a green and white and golden
canopy; or in the open places when
the west winds magic turns the
CLASSY surface into silver.
But wherever you find him you
will see that Nature rules supreme.
And whether in brawling stream or
quiet pool, in some peaceful llied bay
or just beneath the rippled broad ex-
panse, where the wild beauty of the
spot makes your heart beat faster,
there may you find the Magic Bass.
And this is his magic: That when
you have fought him inch by inch
and have looked upon him as he lay
exhausted in your landing net, you
are his forever. For wherever you go
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1907-12-20
Bad Vineaars Tabooed.

Vinegars made out of acids and
chemicals must vamoose from Geor
gia. Commissioner of Agriculture T..
G. Hudson has issued summons to %.
retail grocers of Atlanta, Macon, Sa-
vannah and Brunswick, who are charg-
ed with selling adulterated and mis-
branded vinegars.
Samples were secured by State.
Chemist McCandless, who made the.
analysis. Not a trace of apple vine
gar was found in twenty-three Of the.
thirty three samples tested.
In his report to the commission, DR..
McCandless says that the vinegars re-
ported contained acids injurious to
health. One apple grower has written
the department that these adultera-
lions have practically driven apple,
vinegar out of the market and have
done serious injury to the apple-rais-
ing industry.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1907-12-20

with the exception of Niagara and the
result of the surveys seems to bear
out these contentious.
In a distance of 35 miles the river
falls 365 feet, affording mighty en-
ergv that is estimated to be considera-
bly over 100000 horsepower. Most of
this power is owned by the Columbus
Power company, a corporation backed.
by S350,O0O of New England capital
and the surveyors who have just COM
pleted their tedious task were In the
employ of this company.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1907-12-20
Is Up to Roosevelt.


A Washington dispatch says: The
threatened removal of Postmistresses
Mrs. Mary Melton at Conyers and Mrs.
Hattie F. Gilmer at Toccoa has had
a far-reaching effect. 1t has brought
about a change of program in the post
Office department.
The action of President Roosevelt in
sending for Postmaster General Meyer
following the visit of Colonel Living,
ston to the white house is taken to
mean that the president will turn down
Mr. Hitchcock. The latter will prob
ably still make nominations and chang
es, but these will be scrutinized and
revised carefully by the postmaster
general before being passed on to the
president.
If any more postmasters or postrnis-
tresses are to be put out, and that is
not improbable, the president proposes
70 see that they are superseded by
Taft men and not Cortelyou workers.
That is the crux of the whole mat,
ter. The fight for delegates to the
national convention is on in earnest.
Mr.. Hitchcock is one Of Mr.. Cortel-
you's most active lieutenants, while
MIR, Meyer, the postmaster general, is
friendly to Mr.. Taft.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1907-12-20
A Victim Of cIrcumstanoe.

Husband (reading) Yesterday there
died in the Quarter Popincourt a man
beloved and respected by all who knew
him. He was model husband. and
during the forty-three years of his
married life never went out any eve
ing
Mother-in-law-Do you hear that?
Married forty-three years and had
never been out one evening. No clubs.
no pals
Husband COMMUNICABLE did not
even go out in the day, as he was par
alyzed.-Bon Vivant.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1907-12-20
Dangerous Counterfeit Tens.

What is considered by bankers and
secret service operators to be the most
dangerous counterfeit bill since the
famous $500 note several years ago,
has turned up in Atlanta and as a re-
suit there is considerable activity
among officials of the governments
treasury department.
This dangerous counterfeit is ten
dollar bill of the series 1901, check
letter "a" and is known as the "Buf-
falo Bill" SO far five of them have
been discovered in Atlanta and Sc
cret service officials are of the opin-
ion that a dangerous band of crooks
is operating in this section of the
country.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1907-12-20
River Survey Completed

After having been almost confirm.
ously engaged for nearly two years
surveyors have completed the work
of making a survey of the great water
power of the Chattahoochee river he.
tween Columbus and West Point II
has been declared that this is the
largest waterpower in the country
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1907-12-20
A Maqnate's Woes.

my daughter" stated the naughty
millionaire, lis receiving attention
from one Of my bookkeeprs."
DOUBTLESS you are perturbed about
it."
Eyes; hate to let my $4,000 bull
dog bite $500 clerk. Washington
Herald.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1907-12-20
Georgia Cuttings
Curtailed Items of Interest
Gathered at Random.

The committee of the whole of the
Savannah city council fixed the locker
club license at $500. The liquor license
at Savannah has been $500 year. It
is said there will be number Of
locker clubs organized in Savannah
after January Some are i'll process
of organization now.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1907-12-20
HER PROPOSALS.

Lulu-"Have you had any proposals
this SUMMER"
Evelyn-"S Seventeen"
Lulu-"Good gracious! haven't
met as many men as that"
Evelyn-"No? They were all from
the same man"-London Opinion.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1907-12-20
Suspected Safe Blowers Arrested.

Suspected of being professional safe
crackers and accused Of dynamiting
the safe in the Bank of Sharon, two
neatly dressed young white men, Civ
ing their names as ]. P. Eaker, who
says he is a Southern railway conduc-
tor, and George Baston, a saw mill
man, were taken to Atlanta by Sheriff
w. Y. Edwards of Taliaferro county
and locked in the police station there.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1907-12-20

Migratory massage is applied to the
treatment of catarrhal deafness by
means of a new apparatus resembling
Tie ear piece of a telephone receiver,
and quite surprising results are
claimed. For good hearing it is neces-
sary that vibrations be transmitted
freely from the ear drum through a
chain of little bones or ossicles. In ca
tarrhal deafness the bones are stiff
ened by mucus, and the new appara-
tus transmits the vibrations in spite of
the stiffening, both giving present hear
ing and tending to restore normal ac-
ton. Little diaphragms acted on by
electromagnetic transmit the wave
motion to the ear.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1907-12-20
Defined.

Papa, what is an optimism"
Oh. most any man on his way to q
Houston Post.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1907-12-20

The lead" Of very cheap pencil is
often nothing but coke.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1907-12-20

The founder is said to deposit 1000.
100000 eggs in the course of a year.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1907-12-20

There is a blowing well near Ray
mondville, Texas county, Mo. This
well, which is on a hill, was drilled
in 1899 to a depth of 1877 feet. Soft
water was struck at the bottom and
rose seven feet in the we'll In dry
time, especially in the winter, the well
becomes dry In drilling it a cave three
feet high was struck at a depth of 100
feet. When the well is dry, if there
is a long prevailing wind from the
north, current of air rushes from the
pipe strong enough to blow the cap
from the tubing.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1907-12-20

Pimento, a dark colored berry, is the
size of pea with the remains of the
calyx attached, and possesses an oodr
and favor resembling a mixture of Gin.
namon, cloves and nutmegs, from
which fact it derives the name of all
spice. While an inferior variety grows
in Mexico, and parts of Central and
South America, Jamaica is the only
country in the world from which pi-
mento is exported
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1907-12-20

By means of a new invention school
children in Germany are being taught
how to swim before they enter the wa
ter. The apparatus, which is described
by popular mechanics, consists of a
broad sling placed under the chest and
narrow band for each ankle, allow
ing free movement of the arms and
legs. The leg sings are balanced on
weights and pulleys to allow COM
pensating motion.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1907-12-20

DR.. Koch, the celebrated German sci
enlist, who has been over Is months
in Central Africa studying sleeping
sickness, has achieved such widespread
fame that the tribesmen regard him as
a wizard. In one large village near
Lake Victoria, where DR.. Koch, with
his assistants, went, the chief erected
commodfous huts, treated the white
visitors as deities and even paid rever-
ence to the instruments.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1907-12-20

The American Museum Of Natural
History, New York City, has received
from Egypt 81 cases of rare fossils,
about 600 specimens in all, comprising
forms new to science, exceedingly wall
liable fossils of the ancestral elephant
and of an extraordinary beast, the ar
sinoitherium, which is not closely re-
lated to any living form or any extinct
group. 1t is conservatively estimated
by biologists that these animals exist
ed more than million years ago.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1907-12-20
- zsszs==I <
4HEA4SQENCEDH9

Experiments made by German sclen-
lists show that butter keeps best when
preserved with from 3 to 5 percent OF
salt If the proportion of salt is high
er than that the results are less salts
factory.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1907-12-20

In 1891 Eros, a planetoid, will ap-
proach the earth within one-sixth part
Of the suns mean distance, and the
fault will rest with astronomers OF
that day if they do not succeed in de-
termining the solar parallax within
one ten-thousandth part Of its amount.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-08-25

horse and Joined US, ARE you not-?"
He made a motion as of putting on
handouts.
Not yet" I said shortly. There is
no evidence of murder against any one.
am going down to look for it. Now,
then, Mr.. Sterling, stand by to lower
me, please, and let it be very slowly"
Fitting the slip knot under my arm
pits / waited till Sterling had taken
his place at the windlass, and then
swung myself over the brink. 1 had a
box of wax vestas in my hand, and lit
them in succession as 1 sank lower and
lower into the gloomy depths. The
shaft was very narrow, and all marks
on the decaying brick work were
plainly visible, even by the light of
my feeble illuminant, but there was
no sign of any great disturbance till
had reached point forty feet down.
There my match showed me several
blanks on both sides of the well, the
gaps in the walls cleaning red at the
moss grown edges, as though the
bricks had been recently broke by vio-
lence, and had been hurled into the
abyss below.
Thirty feet lower l touched ground,
and slipped out of the knotted rope
There was no water, but the bottom
was covered with a couple of inches
of Shiny mud, so stiff in consistency
that footprints would have shown
plainly. None such were visible. Here
and there the broken bricks displaced
from above lay smothered in the ooze
Keeping my own feet firmly planted
in their original position so as not to
create false trail, l lit a fresh match
and looked for other traces. The fame
had nearly burned to my fingers when
I caught sight of a brown paper parcel
imbedded in the mud, and so similar
in color that 1t had escaped my first
observation.
Throwing aside the match, and care
full not TO light another. 1 CROPPED in the
darkness for the package. and, having
secured il, glanced intuitively upward
Far above me, seen as through the
wrong end of telescope, the heads of
Radford Shone and Martin were cram
ing over the brink. But 1 knew that
down there In the inky blackness of
the neither pit l was invisible to them,
and it was the work of a few seconds
to undo the parcel and stow the con-
tents in my various pockets. Then
after last look round by the light of
another match, l shouted the word to
haul me up.
Shone eyed me curiously as 1 topped
the parapet and scrambled to solid
ground. I am no adept at hiding my
emotions, and something in my face
may have presaged important discov-
cries. 1t was. however. TO Harold
Sterling. hopping his brow after his
exertions, that I turned.
IT am very sorry. Mr.. Sterling, but
for the present I must ask you 10 con-
slider yourself detained on suspicion"
l said. Il need hardly say that hope
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-08-25

there will be some explanation-after
we have seen her grace.
The young mans features hardened;
in ten seconds he seemed to have grown
as many years older.
You don't mention the charge" he
said, in a voice cold and stern, but
without tremor. rs it theft or muir
der?"
For the present there is no charge,
but you are detained on suspicion of
receiving the Duchess of GrantOn's
rubies," / replied.
VERY well, Foster. Have it your
own way" he SAID in a milder tone,
after reading the friendly sympathy in
my eyes. Il will go quietly with you.
That is the correct phrase, l believe"
Radford Shone's indefatigable histO-
rian had pulled out a notebook and
was writing busily in it as we all
moved off toward the abbey. Shone
himself ranged up alongside me, and
with a wary eye for the suspect, from
whom my bulky form separated him.
You seem to have worked wonders
below there in establishing the correct
ness of my contentious" he whispered.
Confirmed all my deductions, eh?"
Il have confirmed one of them"
answered, without troubling to lower
my voice.
"Ah, then you have as good as con-
firmed them all. The murder charge
will follow as night follows day. But
you are not communicative, after the
valuable assistance 1 have given
you"
Il haven't much wind for communi-
cations after going down that WELL"
replied abruptly.
Shone fell back and Joined Martin,
and heard him use the phrase Off
cial Jealousy" as if he were debating
a new line for his literary advisers
chronicle.
Our way from the orchard led us by
a flight of stone steps to a broad ter
race. where a plainly dressed but sweet
looking girl was walking with two lit
tie maids of and 8. Till this trouble
arose I had not known her by name,
but only by sight as the governess at
the abbey.
She grew pale on seeing the little
procession with its spTinkling Of police
uniforms, but she slightly quickened
her pace, stepping firmly enough to
meet us.
What is it. Harold >" she said.
Have the police believed that
wretched lie2''
1T seems so: am in the anomalous
position of being detained on suspicion
without being actually in custody. !"
Sterling replied. with a queer laugh
Gas the result of LuDin's testimony
TO Mr.. Radford Shone?' the girl pro-
ceeded. shifting her steadfast gaze
from her lover to me,
Entirely as a result of that" ]
made answer. And I regret to have
ITO place me in the same anomalous
position as Mr.. Sterling?" Miss Per-
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-08-25

piled. ct is my duty to view the body
and go over the ground as soon as pos
sible, but 1 shall be glad to hear the
opinion you have formed. The duchess
limited"
Mr.. Radford Shone checked me with
a wave Of his long, bony hand.
THE duchessI" he snorted Her
grace is the most impossible client I
have ever had. She employs me, sir,
to recover her rubies, and then, when
I am on the point of adding another to
my long list Of achievements, She