Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-02-19
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Governors Dog

governors log
Old Timber, the only dog whose yelp was
ever heard in a political campaign in Ten
nessee, has not been tempted from his IA
miliar haunts in the Happy Valley vicinity
by the bright lights of the capital at which
his master, Governor ALI Taylor, is presid-
ing.
Reports that the Democratic legislature
contemplated making an appropriation for
house on the mansion grounds for Old Linn
Der have led his master to announce that he
will promptly veto such a proposition, and
this rumored activity of political enemies is
likely to result in the governor Old Timber
at home
Old Timber furnished much material for
paign. The governor always gave graphic
recital of Old Limber's proves as a fox
hunter.
cold Timber is being well cared for in a
good home in east Tennessee and gets three
square meals day." is the last word from
the governor on the subject. ''He could not
be contented in the city. He wants to be
where he can occasionally survey the lofty
mountains over whose heights he has many
times chased the fox with the rest of the
Der is nine years old, and is too old to run
|.now, but he remembers and often dreams OF
his past achievements.
Wild Dogs
Wild dogs are presenting a serious prob
lem in Australia, according to Central news
dispatch in the Westminster Gazette Inc
correspondent at Broken Hill, New South
Wales, says that unless immediate measures
to protect the focks of sheep are taken, they
will have to be replaced/by cattle in the dis
tricts north of Broken Hill.
The seriousness of the situation is descrlD-
ed by John Dunno, president of the West
Darling Pastoralists association, who states
that. although there has been good season,
pastoralists in the Darling River districts
and north as far as the Queensland border
are faced with one of the greatest proolems
within the memory of settlers in that part OIL
the country.
"Reports are coming to hand from all
parts of the district" he added, "of the enor-
nous losses incurred owing to the preva-
lence of wild dogs. Already country which
before the drought was admirable sheep
country is now stocked with cattle, and
| likely to continue to be so stocked unless
the dog nuisance is successfully dealt with.
Last year the western vermin board was
formed at Wilcania and the government then
in power granted $250,0OO for fencing in
the eastern division against wild ANIMALS
Famine Horrors
Looting by robbers and levies by soldiers
add to the distress of famine-r1dden people
of southern Chile, says report by mis-
sionary engaged in famine relief work at
Weishien, near the Honan border. The troops
and their demands for contributions or
grain, fodder and clothing are said to be a
worse affection than the robbers. The latter
are described as emulating Robin Hood In
some respects in a recent raid at Fang Cnla
| Wing, eight miles fom Wei-hs1en, Where the
homes of the wealthy we're invaded y- y r.
GAS the robbers went from house to mouse
stores of grains were opened up, chests OIL
clothing broken open and the poor were
dressed and fed beyond the style OF even pet
| ter days. Copper coins and small cash were
| heaped up in the streets and bartered at con-
siderable discount for silver dollars, for, like
their distinguished prototype, the Shmese
| Robin Hoods are not inllelled by purely phil
anthropic impulse, but are after plumber IN
+ the transportable and convertible form
While frankly aiming at the lions share
they showed sympathy for those weaker than
| themselves"
Black Art
! Sorcery and black art, remarks the
Manchester Guardians Paris correspond
! emit, has again appeared in the french Ia"
| court
M. Salleron Bourgeois, of Touraine, months
ago brought suit against ore Chateau,
magician, for damages, alleging that the lat
fer had cast a noxious and harmful spell
upon him.
Expensive Statue
American sculptors have Deen lnVlteu NY
the Uruguayan government through tne ran
American union here to submit designs Tor
statue of the "Gaucho," or South American
cowboy to be erected in the principal plaza
of Monteyideo in commemoration OF the part
played by these intrepid front1ersmen IN the
development Of Uruguay.
The prize offered is $4,000 pesos, gold' OF
about s62 ,O40 in American money.
The Uruguayan gaucho, one of the most
nicturesoue characters in history, represents
a survival of the old Spanish colonial days
| Though he is called the cowboy OF South
America. he is more than that. A horseman
snending most of his life in the saddle, ne
was also a rancher, trapper, hunter, pioneer
and soldier Although, like the French nab
itan." he was nearly always half-breed IN
dian nv blood, he was actually an Indian IN
no other sense of the world. He did not
live as the Indians lived, but was the pioneer
of white civilization on the pampas.
POINTED PARAGRAPHS
To the pure all things are more or less
adulterated.
Bread is the staff of life and bareback is
the crowbar.
A soft heart and a hard head make
combination that is hard to beat.
Pluck usually wins. A mans success often
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