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The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1908-01-10

And he, my DR.. Lavender, who
cannot hear the music which his
nature Graves because the homeless
must be cared for, nor keep in touch
with current theological thoughts be-
cause the bodies of the starving ones
are worth more than all the costly
books in Christendom-- he, who loves
us all, and whom some of us love,
knows that others of us want (ah,
no; wish, rather!) a younger man;
and he is going to resign; and "they"
are going to accept his resignation.
Yet ever shall he go with me into
the silent spaces day by day, where,
away from this dusty world, the clear,
strong wind blows the cobwebs from
ones character; and into that glor-
ious, fragrant sunlight, where, freed
for a moment from the rush and
drudgery of living, one really lives.
Atlantic Monthly.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1908-01-10
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Lost Again.

"Hear about the hard luck story
of Dad Moulton, the Stamford train
err" inquired one alumnus of anoth-
er, coming back from the big game.
"No; what happened?"
"Wel, Dad, you know used to be a
professional foot racer. Went all over
the world when in his athletic prime,
sprinting for money against all COM
ers. They say he won 26S races,
never was beaten but twice in his
career. One of the fellows that beat.
Dad met later in another race and
outran him. Dad was after the other
fellow for a long while to get re-
turn race. But the fellow beat Dad
again"
"How was that?"
'Died before Dad got another crack
a. him. San Francisco Chronicle.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1908-01-10
WHEN BROADWAY WAS "A COM
TRY ROAD.

No rushing cars, nor tramping feet
Disturbed the peaceful summer da.s
That sbone as now upon the street
That knows our busy, noisy ways
And blushing girls and awkward iaSY
:Strolled slowly home. and cattle lowed
As fell the purple twilight haze.
When Broadway was a country road.
No tailored handles. trim and neat;
No damsels Of the latest craze
OF form and fashion; no conceit
To catch the fancy or amaze
No BUILDINGS met the slyward gaze:
Nor myriad lights that mighty glowed
To set the midnight hour ablaze--
When Broadway was country road.
Then SHADY lanes with blossoms sweet
Led gently down to quiet bays
Or to the sheltered hedged retreat
Some falling mansion now betrays.
The stage-coach here no longer pays
Its daily call, nor farmers goad
Their oxen. as in olden days.
When Broadway was a country road.
Little indeed TO meet the praise
OF modern times the picture showed.
And vet the fancy fondly strays
To Broadway as country road.
Charles Coleman Stoddard, in Broadwa.
Magazine.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1908-01-10

the Harveys were careless with the
gifts, I'm sure am not to NlGme. =
Lucille said mother, 3olemnly.
those dishes were In fra gnents when
they arrived at the Harveys. You
put them in the box without any
packing and. of course, they were
broken. How could you be so heed
less?"
Its very unkind of you to speak
so Grossly to me when went to this
stupid wedding just to please you and
father" / said, beginning to cry.
There, there. dear" returned
mother ''I'm afraid was a little
harsh, for was so disappointed that
there wasn't any present from US dis
played. But / didn't mean to be
cross, dear. So don't cry any more.
1t makes me unhappy, Lucille"
For mothers sake dried my eyes
and tried to be cheerful. When got
home took out the handbag and
looked at it and felt glad that
had selected such handsome one.
Little accessories Of that kind add so
much to the elegance Of a street cos
tune. My old one is almost shabby
and I should have had to ask father
for money to buy new handbag If
it hadn't been for my forethought in
sending Georgia the painted china.
am always pleased when l can save
father any extra expense. Chicago
News.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1908-01-10
Pies paralyxed Him.

Because he. was unable to curb his
relish for pie Charles 3. Knowlton,
seventy-tiiree years old, who was
noted for his strength III pulling open
balky doors of iron safes, died yes
terday of paralysis at his home, 10
Washington avenue, Brooklyn.
HE admired my pies for thirty
years before we were married, said
the widow last night, "and he was
just as fond Of them afterwards"
Knowlton was also greatly devoted
to outdoor sports. He recently re-
turned from vacation at Deposit, M.
r., where he played baseball, walked
many miles every day and drove in q
sulky behind fast horse. His doc
tor vainly warned him that pie and
cake formed a poor diet for man Of
his age who took so much exercise.
Knowlton only smiled. The paralysis
resulted from gastritis. New York
World.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1908-01-10
TWO OLD FRIENDS.
SoliIoquy Over Tobacco Pouch and
q Minister.

SOliIoquy Over a Tobacco Pouch and
q Minister.
l need a new tobacco pouch; we
need a new minister-so they say.
A younger man, our minister is old;
so is my pouch, and worn with SER
vicS-hard, constant, daily, humble
service; 1T is frayed at the edges;
so is he All old, good men are.
And we must have new ones, that
when we display them other people
will not think either that we are out
of fashion or that we are too poor
to get what we ought to have.
1t has worn we'll, my pouch; it
was a good one when l got it, well
made, strong, serviceable, good to
look at; so was he. 1t is good to
look at still, think; certainly not
beautiful, but surely friendly, at the
very least; and though its buckskin
covering is torn and ragged it serves
it's purpose perfectly, and it will ex-
pand now as we'll as ever to carry
all that / may need; and his great
heart finds room for all our troubles.
But my wife tells me it is dis
graceful to carry such wornout
thing about, and, being bit absent
minded, l generally fail to notice who
may be by to criticise when fill my
pipe. Men understand; the dear wife
dosen't-though she does not want
a new minister, thank Cod And
in few days my unwillingness to see
her really distressed will send me to
the .tobacconist's for new pouch,
though / promise you it shall be a
duplicate Of the old rs nearly as may
be; and I will carry it and use it, and
/ shall grow to love it; and when it
is old l shall love it best. But
meanwhile, the one have, quite
good, dear, kindly and accustomed,
that must go. 1t shall not be thrown
away, for keep them all in drawer
of my Office desk and when the
spring comes and / go into the
mountains for a little while to fish
for trout, it is always the old ones,
the worn and patient ones, the
friendly ones, that go with me.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1908-01-10
The Word Etiquette.

The very high sounding word Of
etiquette had very humble origin
for etiquette meant simply label.
It received its present slgnifcation
from the fact that Scotch gardener
who laid out the grounds at Versailles
for Louis XIV was much annoyed at
the courtiers walking over his newly
made paths and at length had labels
placed to indicate where they might
pass. At first these labels were not
attended to, but a hint from high
quarters that in future the walks Of
the courtiers must be within the eth
quette' or labels were promptly att
tended to. To keep within the eth
auette became the correct thing The
meaning of the phrase was afterward
wldened.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1908-01-10
PINK AND PURPLE THOUGHTS.
Demonstrated by Certain Experiments
Of Professor Gates.

Plunging his arm into a jar filled
with water to the point of overflow
ing and keeping his position without
moving, Professor Elmer Gates, of
the Laboratory of Psychology at
Washington, directed his thinking
to the arm. The blood soon entered
the arm in such quantities, declares
a writer ia Current Literature, as
to enlarge it and cause the water
in the Jar to overflow.
BY directing his thoughts to his
arm for certain length of time
daily for many days he permanently
increased both its size and strength.
He even instructed others to produce
the same effects on various bodily or
gans, thus demonstrating, it is con-
tended, the accuracy of the state
ment that muscle can be developed
by proper course of thinking as
well as by exercise.
Professor Gates, moreover, has
shown what is called the causative
character of thinking in long series
VI OADS4 kAl1CAJOs 11C Los 1Ouuu IudL
change of the mental state changed
the chemical character of the per-
spiration.
When treated with the same chemi-
cal reagent the perspiration of all
angry man showed one color, that
Of man in grief another, and so on
through the long list of emotions
Each mental state persistently ex-
hibited its own peculiar result every
time the experiment was repeated.
Each kind of thinking, by causing
changes in glandular or visceral ac-
tivity, produced different chemical
substances, which were being thrown
out of the system in the perspiration.
When the breath of Professor
Gates subject was passed through
tube cooled with Ice so as to con-
dense liquid resulted. He kept the
man breathing through the tube, but
made him angry.
Five minutes afterward a sediment
appeared in the tube, indicating the
presence there of a new substance,
which had been produced by the
changed physical action caused by a
change of the mental condition.
Anger gave brownish substance,
sorrow gray, remorse pink, and so
on. The results showed, as in the
experiments with the perspiration,
that each kind of thinking produced
its own peculiar substance, which the
system was trying to expel.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1908-01-10
ENGLAND DISPUTES OVER AUTHORS RANK.
British Museums Choice 81 Nineteen Best
ArOuses Stron8 Protests. !. !. !.
yhackeray Not included Dickens Left 0 Too and His Admirers
Object Sashes the Official List

A question perhaps even more din
cult Of solution than that of What
are the hundred best bookS?" has
been raised by the authorities of the
British Museum, writes the London
correspondent of the New York
Times. IN the reading room of that
institution, which has just been re-
opened to the public after being
closed for a lengthy period Of re-
pairs and renovations, there are
nineteen panels (there are twenty
really, but one is occupied by a
clock), on each of which has been
painted the name of a great English
writer. 1t was no easy task to select
nineteen names as the greatest and
most representative in English litera-
ture. This is how the trustees full
filled the task:
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1908-01-10
Al WHISPER THEORY
BY CHAMP CLARK.
Missouri Representative Cites
Two Boards, One Minis and the
Other Eleven Feet.

X y
Some fellow recently made the
statement that he knew man who
had beard seven feet long. That's
no beard at all. said Champ Clark.
Congressman from Missouri, and he
wrote letter to the Washington
Post. telling about a man In Pike
County who had beard as Is
beard. The public not being FULLY
satisfied, the Congressman from Pike
has come on to Washington TWO
weeks earlier tnan he intended, to
see about 1t.
He gave out an interview on the
subject, and II any one further ques-
tions that Missouri produces the
greatest whiskers in the world, tho
matter will be brought up In Conz
gress and special Investigation
asked for. 8SsgsS
Judge Elijah Gates" said Mr..
Clark, has beard nine feet and 9
half long. He lives in my county,
Just a few miles from my house, and
/ know him very we'll Eut his
whiskers are not any special curiosity
because there is a man few niles
further down the road who has
beard eleven and half feet long.
This mans name is Valentine Tap-
ley. know him very we'll.
"A curious thing about these fel-
lows, and that makes me tbifK a
mans character cen be told by his.
whiskers Now, Elijah Gates Is
pugnacious kind of fellow, not a
scrapper or brawler, you UNDER
stand, but of a stubborn type Of man.
His whiskers are right stiff, like
horses name. But Valentine Tap
ley, his are soft as silk, and Tapley
is mild hammered and thoroughly
agreeable. one Of those unanimous
sort OF fellows. --s4s.-ss''sassI
"Of course, those fellows do not
wear their boards down all the time.
They couldn't do it without tying
knot in them like a horses tail. But
they wear EN- inside their vests in
: silk bags. Old man Tapley takes
his out once or twice a year for the
benefit Of his neighbors. old man
Elijah Gates takes his out, too, but
only to comb it, He has one Of these
sugar-tree combs made for 1t and
he combs 1t with that"
Mr.. Clark has no suggestion Of a
hirsute adornment on his classic face
No one is, therefore, able to read his
character from his beard. II he had
one, though, it would probably mot
be soft and silken like Valentine Tap
ley's, for Mr. Clark Is not unani-.
nous. II 4. tsrA-s.vss iSsSsss sssS
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1908-01-10
Plant Like a Camel.

a%sAa3AA Plant Like Camel. sssAssS
The nearest thing to a camel
among plants is curious specimen
of the cucumber family which bears
the name Of the Ibervlllea sonorae.
This plant, like the camel, is a native
Of the desert, and 1t has to SO without
water longer than the animal.
AS the rainy season in the desert
comes only once year nature pros
vides the /. s. with a reservoir to-
store up enough moisture to last It
between times, The organ in which
the water Is stored Is located at the
base Of the stem 1t is covered WITH g.
sort OF macintosh envelope, through
which the water can neither escape
nor evaporate. .efa %s-.--1-.
The water holder rests on the sand
throughout the entire period OF
drought, but when the rain comes 1t
springs into activity.-San Francisco
Chronicle.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1908-01-10
Laid ON the fable

The Richmond Times-Dispatch and
tie Montgomery Advertiser are dis
cussing pie in their editorial col
umns. but the Kentucky plan of dis.
cussing it on the dinner table IS vast.
~ more satisfactory.-Louisville Cou.
rier-Journal.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1908-01-10
Editor Defies Superstition.

Defying superstition. the Herald,
of Slatington, Pa, began publication
as weekly on Friday, September 10.
The first copy was taken from the
press at thirteen minutes before S
o'clock, in the presence of thirteen
witnesses.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1908-01-10

OF course this selection does not
meet with universal commentator.
Equally, of course, the omission of
Thackeray and Dickens was at once
noted and objected to by that section
of the public whose acquaintance with
English literature probably goes no
further than a certain familiarity
with names. One of the trustees had
to explain that the official view was
that fiction occupied less exalted
place in the hierarchy of literature
than other branches and was Of a
more recent growth Scott (whose
name is included in the list) had
other claims besides being a great
novelist, whereas the fame of Dick
ems and Thackeray rested almost en-
tirely upon their novels.
Lord Avebury (Sir John Lub-
bock) is trustee of the British Mu-
scum. In an interview he said he
was equally responsible with his fell
low-trustees for the selection made,
and he gave an interesting opinion
on the list as a whole.
II had some little doubt about
Caxton," said Lord Avebury, not as
to the great services he had rendered
to literature, but as to whether he
was quite representative of English
literature in the same sense as the
other great writer's. And in the same
way, with reference to Tindale, had
little doubt, not in any way from
undertaking what he had done, but
I thought that his great services were
perhaps hardly services to literature.
On the whole, however, l think there
is great deal to be said for includ-
ing their names, and that otherwise
it is a very good selection"
In reply to a question as to
whether he would have included
Dickens and Thackeray if there had
been room, Lord Avebury said: IF
you ask whether, supposing there
had been twenty-one panels instead
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1908-01-10

of nineteen, Dickens and Thackeray
should have been included, should
have rather doubt about it, but
would not like to say which two
names / should have selected without
giving the matter greater considera-
ton"
Sidney Lee, the editor Of the Die
tionary of National Biography, said
THE list Of names is interesting.
1t is inevitable that few which one
would like to see there should be
omitted. / think room might we'll
have been found for
Dryden
johnson
Burke
Burns
I wonder what Carlyle and Macaulay
would say about the preference Of
themselves to Dryden and Johnson.
fully admit the difficulty Of deter
mining whom to omit from the ex-
listing list in order to make room for
my four suggestions. However, re-
luctantly, should DO inclined to
sa'tinc y roo,.a ', 'ss-sSss,.&s sss'
Addison
Carlyle
I * Browning.
George Bernard Shaw unhesitat-
ingly corrected a printed list. He
began by knocking out Spenser, Then
he deleted Locke and Addison, and
supplied one name-that Of Bunyan
lin place of the three. He thought
Fielding better choice than Pope,
and would have preferred Blake or
Shelly to Wordsworth. He erased
Tennyson and Browning, and. adj
vanced Ruskin, Dickens and Butler
presumably the Butler of "Hudi-
bras"). .e-rsx- sss0r,'-'AtsT--tssslaiips4
Some of his corrections are char.
acteristic. So is his comment:
II hastily correct the more out
rageous omissions. When you have
only nineteen windows it is ridicu-
lous to waste them on genteel third
rate minds like Addison, Wordsworth
and Tennyson, while Bunyan, Blake
and Shelly are being crowded out"
Frederic Harrison said: Admit
ting the difficulty of screwing British
literary worthless into nineteen holes,
the salient omissions seem to me to
be:
Hume, the greatest Of our phil
osophers, and
Fielding, the greatest of our nov
elists.
And what will Scots say to a list
which contains Browning and not
Burns?
"And what will Irishmen say to a
list which contains Addison, and not
Goldsmith?
'Are there no spaces for Thack-
cray, Dickens, or Johnson, Gray and
Richardson"
Herbert Trench and Edmund Gosse
commended the selection made by the
trustees, and SO, to certain extent.
did Hall Game. .v,iass.s ~ ~ .Rss
..,es .,.vrv.., VA II .assA
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1908-01-10

Berlin has a greater number OF
policemen, per capita, than any other
city. ,.,.-.. .,----4--~----
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-08-10
Make Your Milk Dishes
With Whole Milk.

You don't get the whole milk when
you buy from the milkman. The rea-
son is this:
Milk that stands awhile separates.
The butter fat rises and the solids fall
SO you get all the butter fat only when
served from the top of the can.
Thus you are surprised, when you
first cook with Van Camps, at the deli
cious favor it gives to a milk dish. You
wonder, what we have added-what we
have done-to make the milk seem SO
good.
We have added nothing at all. Van
Camps is simply the whole, rich milk,
just as it comes from the COW. You get
all of the butter fat, all of the solids
You never get them all in raw milk.
That favor belongs to your cook
ing. You will get it every time in milk
dishes made with Van Camps.
We issue Cook Book-free 1t
tells how to make all sorts of milk dish
es. and gives the whole cost of each.
Ask, us to send it. to you.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-08-10
GOES $4,000 MILES TO WED.
Chemist Undertakes Journey t
Make Flemish Girl His Bride.

MOBILE Ala. August 1O.-En route to
New York on a 12,OOO-mile journey to wed
a pretty girl of holland. Adtaelma Co
bins a chemist employed on one of tine
sugar plantations of the Hawaiian Is
lands. passed through Mobile yesterday
MIR, Cobins has been travelling for nearly
a month.
Mr. Cobins left his home In the Meth
eriands eight years ago TO practice his
profession. Before starting he won the
affections Of a Flemish girl. the daughter
of a beet sugar factory proprietor II
was agreed between them that. as soon
as Mr. Cobins was able he would return
and marry his fiance in Holland.
The young woman's father objected 10
having his daughter go SO far away as
Hawaii, and proposed that his future SON.
in-law settle down in the mother country.
Cobins did not care to lose fortune and
declined the offer of lucrative position
with his girls father. The father was
finally won over. and has consented to
have his daughter make the long journey
to the Antipodes.
When they return to their bungalow In
Honolulu. Cobins will have Travelled %
600 miles.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-08-10
GOOD TINE FOR LITTLE FOLK
EXCURSIONS AND FORTNIGHT
OUTING GIVEN CHILDREN.
Trip to Annapolis on Trolley Cars
and on Chesapeake Bay
on Steamer.

Through the generosity of hundreds OF
citizens. numerous organizations and
companies and individual philanthropists
of the city, the children of the poor OF
the city have enjoyed many outings and
excursions this summer. They have been
taken from the hot pavements and dusty
city streets to green, shady lawns or
pleasant wildwoods, where there were no
wagons to run over them, no windows 10
break and no restraint to their play.
To the crusade for model city mas
been added, II is declared, crusade for
happy and healthy children. -.
With the first bloom of summer. the cru
zens Of the city dug deep into tneir pock-
cts for money to provide for outings last
ing fortnight for hundreds of little tots
and tired mothers at Camp Good Will.
among the Rock Creek hills. Organ1za-
lions of various kinds have taken the
little people as their guests on excursions
to nearby resorts for day OF run ana
frolic in fresh air. and many similar treats
are promised before the seasons close.
On the latest excursion. these little chill
dren of the poor were guests or the
Washington: Baltimore and d,u AnnapG ,ts
railway. Five hundred children, with
some mammas and big sisters and Teddy
bears for good measure, filled special
train OF five cars as fine as would be pro-
vided for presidential party.
At Annapolis the youngsters boarded
the Emma Giles. Miss Giles Is steam
boat belonging to the COLCHESTER Com
pany, and she varied her regular routine
SO as to give the children an outing on
the bay.
Each child took luncheon along-mostly
In a pasteboard shoe box. The railway
treated to ice cream. Later. on. when
the steamer was making her usual land
tngs at Contee's wharf. in Rhode river.
John Collision. sent aboard peaches apples
and plums. and there was another pass
around. with DR.. Clarence Weaver on
hand, at the railways instructions. to see
that no little person was made i'll.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-08-10
For Children.

When immigrant babies arrive in
New York they are fed on Van Camps
Milk Their food is prescribed by ply
sicians-by men who know the dangers
that Turk in raw milk.
Two-thirds the mortality of children
is due simply to germs in milk.
Raw milk, like raw meat, is All unfit
food There is too much danger of germ
Infection
Let your children drink Van
Camps. They will come to love the
slight almond flavor, due to sterilization.
For that flavor means that the milk is
pure Not germ of any kind-harm-
less or harmful-exists in Van Camps
Milk.
Van Camps Milk comes in S and 10
cent cans-at your grocer's. The first
can will convince you. After that, get
the discount allowed when you purchase
by the case. Then you'll have it always
on hand.
Produced in five states, by the
dairies of the Van Camp Packing Co.,
indianapolis, Ind.