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The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1919-02-21
KEEP 1T HANDY

II you paid n specialist $500 for a
you would not get any
thing that would give quicker relief
for Group, Catarrh, Colds, or Sore
Throat, than VACHER BALM, which
only costs zoe In Jars, or tubes.
Write for Samples and Agents
Prices. Beware of limitations. II. w.
vacher, Inc, New Orleans, La. Adv.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1919-02-21
whv Should He?

Joe wasn't feeling well one morning
and his sister Dorothy, was helping
him on with his shoes and stockings.
Happening into the room just then,
I said: "Why, Joe, don't you dress
yourselfY'
mot when I can get service" said
Joe.-Chicago Tribune.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1919-02-21

$50 you would object TO marrying a
man for money!"
Certainly" said Miss Cayenne.
wouldn't you like to be u bird In
II gllded cage7"
"No. Too many people think that
all bird in gllded cage needs is a
little cereal food and an occasional
drink Of water"
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1919-02-21

Those painful attacks of indiges-
ton, heartburn, belching, disgusting
food-repeating; that puffy bloated,
lumpy feeling after eating, dys.
pepsia and stomach n1iseries - all
point to just one awful American
disease commonly known as ACID"
STOMACH.
Fortunately there has been discov.
cred a wonderful modern remedy
called EATONIC-that brings instant
relief from all these stomach miseries
because it absorbs the hurtful excess
acid in the stomach and drives out the
bIoat and gas. You won t know you
have stomach, so free of pain you'll
feel. Besides, it saves you from more
serious ailments because it is scien.
tifc fact that ACID-STOMACH FIRE.
0uently creates conditions which battle
the best medical skill. Many cases of
chronic stomach trouble, biliousness,
severe headache, general weakness,
rheumatisn, govt, lumbago, intestinal
ulcer. cancer of the stomach, heart
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1919-02-21
RECIPE FOR GRAY HAIR.

To half PINT of water add OF. Bay Rum,
a small box of Barbo Compound, and Y
OF. of glycerine. Any druggist can put this
up or you can mix it at home at very lit
tie cost. Full directions for making and
use come in each box of Barbo Compound.
It will gradually darken streaked, faded
gray hair, and make it soft and glossy. 1t
will not color the scalp, is not sticky or
greasy, and does not rub of.-AdA
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1919-02-21
No Worms IN n Healthy Child

No Worms In a Healthy Child
All children troubled with worms have an nm
healthy color which indicates poor blood, and as
rule there lie more or less stomach disturbance
GROVES TAsTBLHSa chill TONIC given regularly
for two or three weeks will enrich the blood, inn
prove the digestion, and act General Strength
enlng Tonic TO the whole system, Nature Will then
throw on or diepel the worms and the Child viii be
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1919-02-21

FOR ALL FORMS OF cATARRH.
Peruna is indicated, for all forms
of catarrh or catarrhal Inflammation
and congestion OF the mucous lin
angs In any part or organ, such as
nose, throat, bronchial tubes, lungs,
stomach, bowels, kidneys, bladder,
etc. It is fine for coughs, colds and
effects of the grip and an excellent
preventive remedy.
If you want health, insist upon
having DR.. Hartman's World Fa-
NOUS Peruna Tonic.
Sold Everywhere.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1919-02-21

The silent man may be a mine OF
wisdom, but a laxative fool some
times explodes the mines.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1919-02-21

The mysterious origin of Gains wife
is the only excuse some men have fol
staying away from church.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1919-02-21

Romantic Young Husband-"What
can l add to your happiness" Prac-
teal young wife-"More money!
Judge.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1919-02-21

DR., Peerys dead Shot" is powerful but
safe One dose is enough to expel Worms or
Tapeworm. No castor oil necessary. Adv.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1919-02-21
Acid Stomach
Now Quickly
Relieved

pains and even heart failure can be
traced directly to Acid-Stomach.
Avoid these dangers-don't let acid
stomach wreck your health. Don't
drag outyour days feeling all in, down
and out, weak and ailing. Keep the
vital spark flashing. Eat the things
you like and digest your food in com"
fort. Then you'll feel fne-be fit
mentally alert-have pep and punch
the power and will to do things.
Take EATONIC and give your
stomach the help to put it in a fine,
healthy condition so that it will digest
your food perfectly and make every
mouthful you eat register 1909 in en-.
riching your blood and building up
your bodily strength.
Get a big box of EATONIC TAB
LETS from your druggist today. They
taste good-just like 9 bit Of candy.
The cost is trifing. It is absolutely
guaranteed. If it fails TO relieve your
stomach misery, your druggist Will
refund vollr money.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1919-02-21

Nothing takes the glitter off a lux
ury like possessing 1t.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1919-02-21

Before marriage men and women ar
que, after-they dispute.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1919-02-21
DON'T Waste Wool

DID methods of shearing leave too much wool on
chine. The Stewart No. 9 Ball Bearing Shearing
Machine works wonders with focls up to- 800 head.
Saves time and money shears 1870 more wool.
Does away with second cuts. Soon pays for itself.
nav balance on arrival. Or write for catalog.
CHICAGO FLEXIBLE SHAFT COMPANY
eept. 172, 12th Street and Central AueS Chicago A
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1919-02-21

Be sure you are right, then pause a
moment for reflection.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1919-02-21

WRITE FOR THIS BOOK.
All sick and suffering should
write The Peruna Company, Dept.
$50, Columbus, Ohio, for DR.. Hart
mans Health Book. The book is
free and contains perhaps just the
information you are seeking. 1t is
sent in a plain wrapper to any adj
dress.
DO IT TODAY.
IN LIQUID OR TABLET FORM.
Ask your dealer for a Peruna
Almanac.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1919-02-21
Quite Different.

''That actor seems to be just moon
ing along"
"Why, thought he was starring"
Evening star., 1919-11-30
Picking the AllAmerican Team

the conversation amongst the experts
take Brandy from Notre Dame or any.
where's else.
AS say my admirers has been after
me to pick a All America but on acct.
Of the print PAPER situation have not
got the heart but will try and mollify
my readers to some extent by giveing
my Impressions Of the differents be-
tween the game here and out there
which Is bound to be Interesting
comeing from a man that has just
landed on U. 8. soil to take up my
abode to say nothing of the way I
can write.
Well to begin with take the crowds
that tends the games in the sections.
In the west when they's a big game
comeing off you look forward to it as
something you are going to enjoy, but
here everybody takes their wifes
along. They usually all so take q
basket lunch as most of the games is
played in towns where the restarent
closes up for hrs. at noon so as the
prop. can go home and eat.
was on q party that went to the
Harvard game down to Princeton and
the gals brought fried chicken and
sandwiches and doughnuts and me-
dunn boiled eggs and Damon Runyon;
and the dean Of the college asst us to
eat on his porch and I bet when he
seen the growth OF egg shells and
chicken bones on his lawn afterwards
he was tickled to death nobody had
broughten water melon.
When you go to game out west
you walk in through q gate but at
New Haven you enter through por-
tai. In old Chi or Ann Arbor you tell
the usher the letter Of your section
but in Princeton you tell him the
number Of your ramp. BY the time
you have clumb the long, long trail
to your seat you don't feel like ramp
ing no more that afternoon. In Min
neapolis or Iowa City you can set in
the stand and see 20 men down there
on the field trying to play football
but from where set in the Yale bowl
I thought q bunch Of cooties was
amusing themselfs at the expense Of
a good-natured humble bee which I
seen in the papers afterwards was
Referee r. W. Maxwell Swarthmore.
AS for the game itself the rules 10 q
Evening star., 1919-11-30
No Time for Optimism.
NEW YORK propaganda threw

A NEW YORK propagandist threw
"A down his periodical with a snort.
"rhere's too much OF this sunshine
fiction being written he said. with
prices what they are. there's too much
smile stuff. too much optimism, alto
gether.
"A chap was talking about an opti-
mist the other day.
what an optimist Smiler is!' he
said. If he failed in business he'd
thank Providence he had his health:
IL he failed in health he'd thank Prov
idence ne had his business. and II he
failed in both he'd give Il CHEEKY, opti-
mistic laugh and say:
"'Oh. well, what use is the one with
out the other"'"
Evening star., 1919-11-30
0 THE EDITOR: The other day
the newspaper publishers from
all over the u. S. met in n. Y.

ehS newspaper ITOIu
all over the u. S. met in N. Y.
city and disgust the shortages
Of white paper which is said to of
reached the cute stage and they all give
their word that from now on they
wouldn't use no more OF 1t than was nes-
sary and wouldn't waist none of 1t but
they hadn't no sooner then broke up their
meeting and went home when pretty
near every male voter on the Atlantic
sea board begin laying their plans to
publish All America football team.
Some of my admirers even come to
me and said why don't you pick a All
America IL as YOU are now eligible and
! asked them why was / now eligible
and they said because this Is the 1st yr
you amt seen a western game SO you
can make your selections with a open
mind.
The most of the boys down heke that
picks the All America thinks the U. g.
still has only the original 13 states yet
and the country is bounded on the west
by the Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburgh
and some Of the highest authoritys in
New Jersey and N. Y. state claims that
the prohibition amendment Is inconsti-
tutional because the congressmens from
Ohio and Mich. was allowed to vote
on it.
A great many New Workers. stayed
away from the world serious In Cincy
last Oct. and the world farcial in Toledo
last July on the grounds that they was
poor sailors and last summer VIII N that
big balloon fell into the bank out in Chi
l Of the N. Y. papers didn't feel like it
wanted to pay cable tolls on long story
so it said "a big balloon fell through the
roof Of bank out in old Chi yesterday
and some Of the clerks was so surprised
that they had to add up their coils a I'd
time"
But In regards to football another
westerner that lives here told me the
other day that the sporting editors
here was giveing the west whole lot
better play then they use to. as all they
use to print was the wrong score Of the
game between teams that was going
to meet the following Saturday but now
you can pick up N. Y. or Boston paper
pretty near any Monday AM. and after
you have read The . coils. about Harvard
and Yale and etc. why they's a whole
sentence down at the bottom about the
situation in the west like for inst.
I'm the west Ohio ana Oregon still
remains undefeated' like they was right
acost the bridge from each other and
the rivalrys between them was so bitter
that the state militia was going to act
Evening star., 1919-11-30

whole lot different like for Inst. when a
eastern player is caught slugging he Is
put off the field where as when Notre
Dame and Nebraska hooks up the
slugees Is the ones that leaves the bat
tie usually on a stretcher. The eastern
game is O whole lot more intrickate.
For inst. before you enter through the
portal In to the ramp. they sell you q
program for $50 and inside is the names
Of all the players with their numbers
OPP. their name but when the players
comes out on the field they are wearing
their numbers on the bottom Of their
socks and the only time you know who
they are Is when of them takes of his
shoes to kick or something. The coaches
say that II a star player wears num-
Der where the other team can see 1t
they will know who he is and stop him
but In the Colgate-Prlnceton game the
Colgates forgot themselfs and wore their
nu: bers on their backs and Princeton
must of knew who Clio was but even
when they called him by name he
wouldn't stop.
In the Princeton Harvard hasco
Princeton might Of win IL their players
had of been numbered, as late in the
affray they sent a kid in to substitute
himself for bird name Frosty WINS.
that couldn't stand the heat but when
the kid got In there he substituted him.
self for q bird name Trimble whose Job
was to watch Casey and after that
everybody watched Casey as he was
about all they was to see. Where as II
the Princeton nine had wore numbers
the kid could of looked at his program
before he dashed in and knew which one
was WINS. The system used by Rutgers
VS.. Syracuse was even more intrickats
as they numbered themseifs like In the
program and then changed sweaters
with each other so as each man would
loose his identity and play for the good
of the team.
The championship situation in the
east is all messed up like Austria and
they's no team that hasn't either been
beat or tried to be ana about the only
logical claim for honors lays between
Colgate and Williams for tho toilet
preparations title and as for the others
about all as you can say is that Cornell
has played the most consistent game Of
anybody outside maybe Columbia and
speaking Of Cornell Fritz Shiveriok has
made q new record up there this ".
as he is the list. kicker on record that
ever had most of his punts caught BE-
fore they touched his foot.
Respy. RING w. LARDNER
Greenwich, Conn.,. Nov. 20.
Copyright. 1919. Bell Syndicate. Ine.l .
Evening star., 1919-11-30
:. THE COLLEGE, HIS PORCH.

as head linesmens when they met.
But getting back to the All America
pickers I or 2 Of the democratic ones
has for the last few yrs. been sub
scribing every fall to some western
paper SO as they could keep a line on
football out in the territorys and II
they seen one birds name mentioned
a couple times in q story they would
write him down for substitute guard
on the Sd. All America and on oc-
Evening star., 1919-11-30

pleted his telegraph line between Bal
timore and Washington. and had made
It talk.
Decision to try to lay an Atlantic
cable was promptly reached. The New
foundland legislature offered every
aid. chartering a company in which
Field was the leading figure. In July.
1856. cable was laid across the Gulf
Of st. Lawrence. eighty-hve miles.
connecting Newfoundland with Cape
Breton. and also one Of eleven miles
from Prince Edward Island to New
Brunswick. One hupdred and forty
miles Of line were strung across Cape
Breton. thus joining the United States
and Newfoundland.
The preliminary steps had been TAX
en- for the big venture. It is 1900
miles from Newfoundland to Ireland.
Though no claim is made that Field
was the first to conceive the idea Of
laying q cable under the Atlantic, ne
was the man who enlisted the capital
on both sides, called in the scientists
Of two continents, provided the neces-
sary steam and. after three failures.
put the project through and then
turned one of the failures into sue
cess.
Michael Faraday and Lord Kelvin,
then Prof. w. Thomson, were among
English scientists interested. with
such scientists as Maury and Morse in
America. Thackeray and Lady Byron
were among stock buyers in the first
venture. The governments of Eng
land and America subsidized the un-
dertaking. Congress voted an annual
subsidy for twenty-five years and
ships to help lay the cable. The Brit
ish government also agreed to furnish
ships.
The first attempt to lay an At
lnatic cable was made in 1857. The
start was from valentia bay. Ireland.
After $50 miles had been laid. the
cable parted and sank. Another effort.
made the next year, Fields enthus-
iasm buoying up the weak spirits
among the supporters. proved sue
cessful. A cable was laid between
Bay Of Bulbs ARMS. Trinity bay,
Newfoundland. and Valentia. Ireland
* i
Announcement of the successful lay
ing of the cable caused wild excite
ment throughout the United states.
There were bonfires, fireworks and
speeches. Queen Victoria and Presi-
dent Buchanan exchanged messages
over the cable.
News of the peace entered into by
Great Britain. France and China was
sent to this country by cable. and the
British government was able by 1t to
rountermanl it's order for return OF
Evening star., 1919-11-30

Pinkerton in criminology and detec-
tion and Field in maximum value ap-
plication Of invention. That year the
Atlantic was crossed for the first time
by steamship: 1t called for a man who
would bring the continents into even
closer communication.
1t would be appropriate II one could
fnd record that as q creeping baby
in his home at Stockbridge, Mass,
Cyrus delighted to run threads. cords
and wires between chairs. and from
chairs to table legs. Cyrus. 1t seems,
was methodical boy with little sug-
gestion Of precocity. but distinguish
ed by a certain thoroughness and a
disposition to accomplish anything he
undertook. He was q get-there type.
There Is no particular reason for
touching on Fields early life, ex-
cept to mention that whom. at sixteen,
he went to New York to do for him.
self his hair cut there cost him only
12k cents. as disclosed by his ex-
pense accounts still preserved. He
found q Job as errand boy in A. T.
Stewards store. 257 Broadway. at a
salary Of $50 a year. He was advanced
to q clerkship the second year and
his salary doubled. Board and room
cost him only 81 a week. 80 he was
able to bear up.
In 1s40 Field went into business
for himself. conducting. with part
ner, paper house that became a
large industry. His success was such
that after thirteen years. when he
was only thirty-four years old. he
had accumulated $3.50. .000-a fortune
at that time. He decided he had
enough and would enjoy the rest Of
his life away from business. He re-
tired. but with no very definite pro-
gram. 1t may have been Providence
that directed him to Frederick N.
Osborne. engineer and telegraph op-
orator. but history says it was his
brother. Matthew. who did it.
Osborne was in New York, nearly
down and out, after having failed in
an undertaking to connect st. Johns,
Newfoundland. with the telegraphic
system of the United States. This
called for a short submarine cable
short for that day--and as Mr.. Field
studied the project the thought came
to him that, II such a cable were pos
sible, cable from Newfoundland to
Ireland should be. too.
The idea was submitted to Prof.
Maury of the photographed office
ton; Prof. Morse, at Poughkeepsie,
and Peter Cooper. They became en-
thusiastic It had been only ten
years before that Morse had COM
Evening star., 1919-11-30
A Paris Ambition.

Gen. e. r. McGLACHLN. com
mander Of tho 1st Division In
France. was talking at Stevens Point.
Wis. his boyhood home. about French
high prices.
In the restaurants of Paris" he
said, prices are especially high. Ev-
cry Paris restaurant seems to be try
ing to build up about itself the
legend that used 20 encircle the Cafe
Anglais.
The Cafe Anglais was for some
nifty or sixty years tho finest ana
most expensive restaurant in the
world. 1t was one Of the few restau-
rants that remained open during
the siege of Paris. During tho siege.
you know. rats sold for $40 and SIS
apiece, and q tender young dog was
worth anything up to $40. As for
pound Of cheese. portion Of rabbit
or a loaf Of bread, these delicacies
each brought three figures.
"Well, the legend about the Cafe
Anglais was that 1t had kept open
throughout the siege. and that 1t
never remembered afterward to lower
its prices"
Evening star., 1919-11-30

the ed and 39th regiments. They had
been destined for India. The English
newspapers reported the collision of
the steamers Arabia and Europa In a
Zig time" bit Of enterprise, having
received the news by cable from this
side.
Twenty-six days after the cable had
been laid. It sent it's last message.
Something had gone wrong, 1t re-
fused to work again.
1t was learned later that the cable
had been ruined by chief engineer
in charge. who held the erroneous be-
lief that 1t should be worked by cur
rents Of high potential. When q re-
turn was made to weak currents. II
was found that the insulation had
been destroyed by the other treat
ment.
The civil war emphasized the need
Of an Atlantic cable and gave impe.
tus to the movement. though it was
not until 1886 that another attempt
to lay one was made. Such an Incl
dent as the Trent affair suggested the
value Of a means Of prompt commu-
nication between America and Eu-
rope. President Lincoln. Secretary
Seward and other cabinet members.
members Of Congress-. Newspaper ed
itors and business men were enlisted
for another "go" at cable laying.
Since the half success Of 1883 two
submarine cables had been laid sue
cessfully, one for the French govern
ment from Toulon to Corsica. and the
other for the British government from
Malta to Alexandria.
Field, who had resigned the general
managership Of the Atlantic Tele-
graph Company after the 1858 cable
seemed a success. returned to the Job
and engaged to promote a third VEN
ture, To obtain the necessary funds
to finance it he solicited stock sub
scriptions in New York and various
other cities from individuals. firms
and corporations, by virtually
"house- to- house, canvass. Some of
his friends told afterward that when
they saw him coming they used to
cross to the other side Of the street.
In the ten years beginning with
1856! he crossed the Atlantic nearly
forty times in the interest of his prof.
ect. He associated in the United
Kingdom with members of parlia-
ment, capitalists, merchants. mann
facturers. engineers and men of sci
ence. After each failure new capital
had to be interested for further trials.
In July. 1866. the Great Eastern.
largest steamer Of the Cunard line,
left the Irish coast with third
cable on board. bound for New
Evening star., 1919-11-30

casion Of the most notorious and
respected critics in the east who made
a practice Of reading the western pa
pers like I said must Of thought the
in memoriam col. was the write UP Of
the game. at lease when his selections
come out that fall the tackle on the
I'd. team was q u. Of Nebraska man
that had been dead 4 yrs.
This yr. don't know who the lucky
westerner will be though judgeing by