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The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1908-07-03
When sealps Were in Demand.

The scalping of enemies seems to
have been practice rather uncom-
mon in America up to the advent of
the European According to a state
ment by George Friederici in the An
nual of the Smithsonian Institution,
1t was the whites who really popu-
larized this engaging pursuit.
The white man not only offered
prizes of money for scalps, establish
ing a regular market for them, but
furnished knives suitable for the pur-
pose-vastly more efficient than the
knives of shell, of stone and of fish
tooth which had been up to that time
the best obtainable by the untutored
aboriglnes.
AS far back as 1887 the Puritans
of New England tsealping being as
yet unknown in that part of the coun-
try) offered bounties for the heads of
hostile Indians, large numbers of
which were brought in and duly paid
for. Forty years later the colony of
Connecticut advertised for both
heads and scalpS and in July, 1875,
the heroine" Hannah Dustin re-
ceiyed $3.50 and many expressions
of thanks" for eight scalps which she
had taken with her own hands, two
of them being those OF women and
six of children.
Subsequently, when in the last de-
cade of the seventeenth century the
English fought the French. both sides
sought and paid for scalps. In 1855
Gen. Braddoek guaranteed his sol
diers and Indians s26 for every tro-
ply of the kind taken from the enc
my; and later Gov. Penn, of Pennsyl-
vania, offered S134 for every scalp
Of an Indian warrior and $50 for that
OF every slain sQuaw.-T The Indians
Friend.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1908-07-03
Inviting a Terror.

The sooner the college yell is in
troduced into England the better it
will be for the youth of the land. In
Wales they have it, and see how
Wales always beats all opponents at
football. This is the CHEEKY shout of
the Aberystwyth students when their
men are engaged in any athletic con-
test: Hip, hip, hurrah! Hip, hip,
hurrah, Hip, hip. hurrah! Boom!!
Warra!.. Ishmabi. Ishmabi.! Kee-
zle, Keezle, Wagga, Wagga! Keezle,
Wagga,! Ishmabi,i Keezle, Waggal
Boom! Wa, Raj! Techz!!,!" Now,
that is something like a yell. One
can see at glance that it contains,
at any rate, some of the elements
which so to make up yell. 1t would
inspire q caterpillar.-London Glche,
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1908-07-03
WISE WORDS.

Trouble soon pines away and dies
if neglected.
Many homely woman has posed
as beauty specialist.
1t is possible to acquire a round
sum in square deal
Woman's tears and a dogs limp are
not always what they seem.
1t doesn't do much good to talk to
the average man for his own good.
1t isn't necessary to egg hen on
when she wants to sit.
Even the wise barber isn't always
able to put you next.
After praying for what you want
get busy and do little hustling.
A man who yells at the top of his
voice seldom wins an argument.
If you have a good friend don't try
to convert him into a good thing.
A woman's mo" doesn't mean yes
when she says it to the wrong man.
The tongue of gossip never grows
rusty.
Most of the things we do for fun
are anything but funny.
It's easier to be college graduate
than it is to earn a living.
And it's sometimes easier to earn a
living than it is to get it.
Be careful when it comes to lend
ing money or borrowing trouble.
Some people are as misery with
truth as others are with money.
Women who take antilean remedies
try to make the most of themselves.
The man who is really wiser than
his wife acts as if be thought other
wise.
Lots of men are unable to reform
because they haven't the necessary
material
No. Alonzo, a girl isn't necessarily
manicurist just because she likes to
hold hands.
No poverty-stricken aristocrat ever
considers plutocrat heiress too rich
for his blood.
Somehow the average girl just
can't help loving young man whom
her mother doesn't like.
There is something wrong with the
girl who would rather read about
lovemaking in novel than try it
herself.
Every time young man sees a
pretty girl purse her lips he wonders
if there is anything in the purse for
him.-From Pointed Paragraphs,
an the Chicago News.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1908-07-03

mendcus tension. We are nerved like
the strings of violin, and the wone
der to me is that there are not more
broken strings.
This tension reaches to every de
partment of life and pathetically, to
the children on our streets, in our
homes. in the shops and the schools
They live at the same tension as
their parents: they study too hard, too
concentratedly, and after the hours of
study their sports are all keyed to
the same tone. We eat highly spiced
foods. even among the most common
Mace The rush and the roar of the
CITY. the mum and hustle of life take
hold of childhood even as of maturity.
Brigadier Lamb pulled open draw.
pr in his desk and showed a loaded
revolver. 1T was left with me by
a young fellow who came to me in
DESPERATION, out Of work and out of
patience with waiting for work. he
said "The greatest trouble we have
is is keep them contented while they
wait for an opportunity. Another
cause Of suicide among people Of ma
ture and youthful years is the drug
habit. There are so many people
walking about in an insane condition
as the result of drugs it is a wonder
that there are not more suicides
but I think that the strain of mod
ern life causes most of them This
was brought forcibly 10 me the other
day when reading the Sterry tragedy.
"A week ago Sunday preached
at the Presbyterian Church at Orange
In the audience l noticed one sweet
faced old man who seemed greatly
moved by what 1 said. Tears were
in his eyes most of the time while
talked. That man was the elder
Sterry,. soon to die at the hands Of
his son, who then killed himself.
More sanity, more repose in the
lives of cur Young people and our
selves seems to be the cure There
are hundreds of cases that come to
me every month that could be class
ed as persons who have reached the
last turn of desperation-and / remem-
Der but enc aged man among them.
At police headquarters it was said
that of the many suicides among
youthful people-nany of them under
age-in the last few years, almost
two-thirds could be traced to hard
times.
The statistics of violent deaths in
the State Of New York, kept at Al
bany, show that in 1907 there were
9,G25 violent deaths, Of which 1907
were suicides. OF this number, the
New York Board of Health officials
think small percentage were Of
young children-tnat is, between ten
and fifteen years.-New York World.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1908-07-03
Miserable London SIums
BY VANCE THOMPSON.

A group of dirty fellows stands at
the street corner. against the back
ground of public house. You see
that in New York and you see it In
London, but you do not see it any
where save in the Anglo-Saxon world.
The German and the Latin idle, but
only those of our breed loaf, in
gloomy fellowship, at street corners.
These fellows of Brick Lane are typi-
cal of the race. Their hands are in
their pockets. Their caps are pulled
down over their eyes Their Shout
ders are hunched up. They are mean
and sullen and wicked. A bold girl.
passes. Her hair is in curl papers;
her boots are broken; her skirt drags
muddy. Under her arm is a bundle
of coats covered with black linen
cloth, which she has just finished ma
Ginning for the Sweater" One of
the loafers lifts his head, showing a
sallow face face like bad dream
and drawls an insult at the girl
earn, we petty-larcenists! she
says, and goes her way.
An old woman in cap and apron
comes from the public house; she is
bent and weakened; she carries a
wretehed little thing that seems to
belong to the human species, an idiot,
almost bald, that rattles sort of
wooden ball, filled with nuts or peb-
bles. A man crosses the road. Like
oil 4Isl rfI1 h - 4
the Londoner big and tall and whole
some in the West; here the English
men are little and warped and stunt
ed-no bigger than the Jews. This
little man slouches along; his coat is
foul with mud and grease; a dirty
brown neckerchief hides his lack of
shirt; his trousers are trodden rags
about his heels; he is swallowed by
the black mouth of lodging house.
Go you in after him. There are half
thousand such places where you
may get four-penn'o rth of sleep.
Through a stone hall you come into
the living room, where at night the
men sleep ON the benches At one
side an iron sink with dripping fau-
Get. Beyond, the dormitory, filed
with beds, where adults and children
sleep together. A woman squats on
the floor, weaving the mats she
hawks from door to door. Now and
then she calls one of the children over
to her and cuffs it; probably her
own. The man who has just come in
tells her of his luck" 1t has been
bloody bad, he says, and he sits at a
table and eats fried fish out of yell
low paper AS it grows later the LODI
gers come in by one and two. Some
are well on in drink and happy. To-
bacco smoke, the smell of food and
beer, rancid odor of stale humanity
cloud the air At the fire the women
quarrel for room to toast herrings.-
From "The Pent and Haddled East, :"
in the Outing Magazine
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1908-07-03
OPPORTUNITIES REPLY.

They 40 me wrong who say come no
more,
When once | knock and fail to lind
you in;
For every day stand outside your door,
And bid sou wake and rise to fight and
win.
Weep not for precious chances passed
away.
Weep not for golden ages on the wane;
Zach night burn the records of the day
At sunrise every soul is born again.
Laugh like boy at splendors that have
fed;
10 vanished Joys be blind, and deaf and
dumb:
My judgments seal the dead past with its
dead
But never bind moment vet to come.
Walter Medone, in Home Magazine.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1908-07-03
sLIFE TOO STRENUOUS
J FOR THE YOUNG
aECENT INSTANCES OF
YOUTHFUL SUICIDE


Ruin Anderson. Mount Carmel, H.,
eight, by carbolic acid.
John Serleck, thirteen, 1857 Fulton
avenue, Bronx, attempted suicide
by hanging.
Five young girls of Bristol. Va, at
tempted suicide by poison.
Frank W. Miller, twenty. student at
University of Pennsylvania, hang
ed himself.
Frank Wieszmerzki, twenty-one, Chi
cage, suicide because he didn't
have money to buy sweetheart
candy.
Stella Dartze!l. sixteen years, of Pitts
burg, by shooting.
George Coriell, Morristown, n J.,
cut throat because her illness
caused mother worry.
Freddie Ross, Passaic. \. j., sixteen,
shot himself because he couldn't
skate.
Mary Murphy twenty, Of Worcester,
Mass, hanged herself.
Charles Rebel, Tamaqua, Pa, seven
teen, hanged himself because rep
rimanded.
Clifford vernola, ten, Mount Yer
non, O., hanged himself because
a young cousin had committed
suicide
The fact shat suicide by boys and
girls between the ages of ten and
nineteen increased nearly 10 per cent.
between 1900 and 1907 in thirty-scven
cities in America Of over 100000 popu-
lation was no surprise to BrigadieI
Alexander Lamb, in charge of the
Salvation Army Anti-Suicide Bureau
IN Fourteenth street, when he was
given the figures compiled by the
Chicago Bureau of Statistics.
Il think that it is quite possible.
he said. q have noticed in the daily
press and in our own work quite an
increase of suicides AM attempted
suicides, or intentions of suicide. in
the last seven years-and especially
among youthful persons.
Since Major Nice, who was in
charge of our bureau here has been
in the hospital as the result of the
strain of his work, have been tenn
porarily in charge, and destitute cases
are sent to me. OF course l do not
ask man or a, woman, or a young
child, if they have reached the point
Of desperation where they mediate
suicide, but by their manner they
make it more than certain and in
some cases even declare definitely
that it is their intention. l have in
mind young boy-an artist-who
came to me after he had bought the
poison to end his life with We
helped him and recently he came il
here and showed me letter from Z
very prominent woman for whom he
had painted a beautiful miniature,
recommending his work to a friend.
That boy is on his feet and saved.
Il think that perhaps the increase
of suicide among children-of which
New York has not recently had an
epidemic though there appears to be
an increase-is due TO the fast life
that we live. / do not mean of neces-
sity a wicked life, but We live at ire
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1908-07-03

The losses by fire in the United
States this year are already greater
than in the corresponding period Of
1907 and the conhagration at Chelsea
added largely to the total. The fire
losses in the United States, insists
the Wall Street Journal, involve a
waste that assumes the proportion of
a national disaster, and inasmuch as
most of the waste is preventable it
can be described by no less harsh a
term than criminal" In the last
three years the losses by fire in the
United States have amounted to $780,,
600 600. This year, even before the
Chelsea fire the average loss a day
was nearly 100000, and if this aver
age is kept up through the rest of the
year the total loss by fire during 1908
will amount to over $2OO,OO0,00O
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1908-07-03

A railway through the mountains
north Of the Adriatic Sea. construct
ed by the Austrian government to build
up the trade of Trieste, though only
$50 miles long, has 679 bridges and
viaducts. 1t also runs through forty.
nine tunnels.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1908-07-03

zee, an authority must be technical
else she is no authority, and even now
am only giving you the various
heads. OF course, under each there
are many side branches of fibbing
which need not go into. OF them
all the tarradfddle is the most inter-
esting. To this class belong latchkey
wit told as ones original story;
other peoples stories adopted by the
teller as his own, tales that one inn
proves on each time one tells them,
etc. Only those of some imaginative
powers can tell a successful tarradid-
die. The idle story, or the other
hand. just slips out befre you know
it. You didn't mean to tell it. You
wonder why on earth you ever told it,
and then you dismiss it from your
mind as being not worth worrying
over The whopper is the kind that a
small boy tells to escape punishment.
1t is usually detected, or he is told on
by a truthful brother or sister who
are not ayerse to seeing him get his
just dues.
The lie indirect isn't exactly told.
1t consists in dead. hard silence
when somebody is saying something
unkind about somebody else which
you know is not true, and yet you
haven't courage enough to defend the
absent 1t is cowardly sort. Most
of our sins of omission are, don't you
think so?" She smiled bewilderingly
on the reporter, who was willing to
swear that he thought anything she
wished him to think.
Then, there's the lie direct. Well,
to be personal this is not for publ
cation, you know, that is the kind I
told, and it didn't harm anybody but
myself, so what was the use-but we
needn't go into that now. The mali
cious lie is the only one that's abso-
lutely inexcusable You tell it with
intent to hurt, to injure, and you
leave il to work its own deadly poi
son. There, l believe that's ALL"
The reporter drew a long breath.
II say, he said, slowly, they ought
to offer YOU chair in woman's col
lege. l hadn't an idea there was so
much to the good about lying"
Mercy! do / look like a school
marm?" pouted Mrs. Sapphira Her
teeth are like pearls.
by iove. no." cried the reporter.
For the moment l was thinking of
you as an intelligence and not a
woman"
Mrs. Sapphire seemed scarcely mol
lifted.
II say, I'd like awfully to see your
picture in that new spring hat, fat
tered the reporter
Mrs. Sapphire smiled indulgently.
"I'll go and get it-but you must
promise not to put it in the paper.
Please"
well, -shall-see. - Phila.
delphia Ledger.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1908-07-03

Brigadier-General Barry, command
ing the Army of Cuban Pacifcation.
has been granted leave of absence for
one month, with permission to visit
the United States.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1908-07-03

Capital invested in Canadian factor
les is 1884,, 100000, gain of Sc per-.
cent. in five years. Factory workers
increased - per cent, and wages paid
4S per cent
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1908-02-20
ELECT OFFICERS.

The Manitowoc Retail Merchants AS
soclation held meeting at the city hall
Tuesday evening and elected the follow
ing officers:
President, p. A. Miller
Vice Pres Jos. Mlada.
Secretary, Henry Clusen.
Treasurer, Henry Tendick.
Trustees, Aug. Schuette, Norman Tor
rison The attendance at the meeting
was quite large. 1t was the consensus
of opinion that the association has been
too dormant the past year and that moth
ing had been accomplished for the bust
ness interests of the city. An effort
will be made to have the members take
a more active interest in the assoc alton
the coming year. The newly elected
president is hustler and he is deter.
mined to push things.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1908-02-20
A Piano at a Nominal Price.

Chicagos largest music house, Lyon
q Healy, announces Clearing Sale of
Pianos. Several hundred splendid in
struments are offered without reserve
until all are sold. In this stock are a
number of Steinway and Weber pianos
aud new and second hand pianos, includ.
ing instruments OF the following we'll.
known makes; Lyon u Healy, Hunting
ton, Vose, Knabe, Washburn, Fisher,
Kimball, Chickering, etc, etc. In up.
right pianos neat instruments at Sl20
$40, $3.50, Sl65, $3.50, $500 and upwards.
This is an opportunity that will not oc.
cur again. Any piano not proving en-.
tirely satisfactory may be returned at
their expense. Address Lyon & Iiealy
10 Adams Street, Chicago. Distance is
no obstacle, for in proportion to the say.
ing to be made the freight charges are
insignificant. Any banker will assure
you of the entire responsibility OF Lyon
81 Healy, and their record of A years
for honorable dealing Write today SO
as to avoid disappointment
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1908-02-20
AN ILLUSTRATED LECTURE.

The next and concluding number of
the V M. G. A. entertainment course
will be an illustrated lecture, The Life
Savers by Hon Arthur K. Peck who
will appear at the opera house Wednes
day evening, Feb 26.
Competent authorities attest that the
subject, the treatment of the same and
the illustrations are in class outside
the ordinary stereopticon lecture.
The particular merits claimed for this
lecture are that it is upon timely topic
Of intense interest; that it is instructive
for the heroic work of rescue by the
surfmen is little understood; that the
whole story is fascinating, thrilling
narrative; and that the illustrations bot h
from Photographic and artistic stand,
point are really wonderful The col
lection is one which has no duplicate,
and the difficulties of illustrating sub.
ject dealing with scenes of action in
storms, have been met only by years of
patient search for the real photographs.
Chart for reserving of seats opens at
G. w, Fechters three days before lhe
event.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1908-02-20
KENNEDY HEADS CLAY WORKERS.

At the annual meeting of the Wiscon-
clay workers association, held at Mil
waukee during the past week. G. w.
Kennedy of this city was honored by
being elected to the presidency of the
association for the ensuing year. This
is the second time that Mr. Kennedy has
been elected to this Office since the Or
ganization of the association few
years ago, and the action of the conven-
ton is a high tribute to the character
and ability of Mr.. Kennedy. The asso.
citation includes in it's membership prac
tically all of the brick makers and clay
workers of Wisconsin and its object is
the mutual benefit of its members
through interchange of methods and
ideas, as we'll rs protection in a general
way through organization and united
action, to the clay working industry.
Mr.. Kennedy is the Manager of the
Manitowoc clay product Co. of this city,
and has been an active worker in the
state association since the organization.
Other officers elected are Vice pres.
l.. T. Crabtree, Crandon. Secretery, Os-
car Wilson, Menomonie. Treasurer, Os-
car Zimbal, Sheboygan.
Milwaukee was selected as the place
for holding the next annual meeting.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1908-02-20
IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT.

The post master general has issued an
order effective January I, 1908, which
is of much interest to newspapers and
newspaper srhscrihers in all parts Of the
country. Under the ruling limit is
placed to the time subscriber can get
in arrears of payment and continue to
be regarded ~ u bona fide subscriber.
This time limit is three months for daily
papers and ole year for weekly papers.
when this is exceeded papers can no
longer be sent to such subscribers at 50.
called pound rates. The only way pa.
pers can continue to be sent is to have
them prepaid at regular postage rates,
which of course is out of the question,
as no paper could stand the expense.
Although the new rnle went into eff
feet January I a reasonable time will
be given publishers to organize their
subscription lists on the advance pay
ment plan. and give subscribers who are
in arrears a chance to pay up.
The notice in the PILOT regarding the
new ruling of the postmaster general
has worked like charm. During the
past month large number of our sub
scribers have paid up, and this fact has
put the "old man" in the PILOT Office
in good humor But there are still
number of subscribers who are delin.
quent and unless they pay up before the
new ruling goes into operation their
names will then be dropped from our
list. The new railing requires that all
subscriptions to weekly papers must be
paid within one year and we are there.
fore compelled to restrict credit accord
ingly. If you are delinquent give the
matter prompt attention for the time is
drawing near, when the new ruling will
go into effect, and if you are not square
on our books off goes your name from
our list we have no other alternative.
we must comply with the law
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1908-02-20
WILLOTT NAMED AS RECEIVER.

There were more proceedings in the
case of the Cartwright Mattson Glove
Co., bankrupts, Saturday in the United
States courts at Milwaukee when Judge
Quarles on motion of some of the Mil
waukee creditors of the defunct con
Germ, appointed j. Willott Jr., of this city
receiver of the company, which appoint
ment gave to Mr.. Willott certain powers
that he did not have under the title Of
custodian. He will now take active
charge of both the Glove company and
tannery, together with all stock, look up
the reports of missing stock, and also
take steps to save what certain creditors
state is 81, 600 worth of hides in the watts
of the Cartwright Mattson tannery
which are said now to be spelling.
The appointment of Jos. Willott, Jr.,
rs receiver was made on petition of
Atty. VIM. Kaumheimer of Milwaukee,
who appears for several creditors at Mil
waukee, including A. B. Nichol, Jr.,
who is a creditor to the extent of 81, 900.
These petitioners, four in number, set
forth that in their opinion there was at
least 81. 600 worth of hides in the tan
merry that could be saved with the ex
penditure of less then 5000 for labor.
Accordingly Judge Quarles issued an or
der instructing and allowing the newly
named receiver to expend 5000 in saw
ing these hides.
Mr.. Willott was also required to fur.
nish bond of -, 600 to cover his new
duties. Monday morning he took charge
of all the stock in both the Glove factory
and the tannery and made thorough in.
vestigation of the same. He was in
structed by the courts to look into the
reports made that goods had been re
moved from the factory in the past few
weeks, since the financial difficulties came
up. To complete the process of tan
ming hides now in the tannery the re-
receiver was allowed to incur 5000 ex
pense, which will, be deducted from the
assets of the concern -Manitowoc Daily
News.
Later-Upon investigation Mr.. Viii
lott found that there were only 80 hides
in the tannery in danger of spelling, in
stead of thousand dollars worth.