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The Press., 1922-11-30
DRAGONS OF EAST AND WEST
LsueS1ds Regarding Them Vary Wide iy,t the Oriental Mind Regarding
 Them With Reverence.


 Perhaps we never stop to realize how strange it Is that among the saints there is room for one to win his place by the reputed actual saving of lady from a dragon, And yet this is the story of Saint George of England, and considered in no allegorical light by the medieval church. The wealth hoarding and slaughter bringing drag .ons early trailed across the legends of Europe, bringing with them desola- tion and forming pretextS for love af- fairs between lorn damsels and he roeS.
 The eastern mind sympathized with the dragon and made it the emblem of rule. I know of only one instance where anyone attempted to destroy a dragon, for they were usually regarded as sacred and of incOmparable power. The West, however, true to it's tenn perament, preferred to tell of dragons conquered and slain by the wit of man Tie dragon is almost the symbol Ot nature in the East, and the different ways of meeting 1t seem to form an allegory of the oriental mystic rever ence of nature and the European scien tific conquest of it.-EliZabeth J. Coats worth, in the North American Review
The Press., 1922-11-30
H.rrv,s Dinner Missing.

Henry A. Roberts, former state sta tistician. is looking for a negro with a strong arm. Roberts knows he has . strong arm because he carried a +wo-bushel market basket of groceries from Roberts automobile recently. The hasket contained 24 pounds of flour, 2O hounds of sugar. eggs, butter ana trimmings to serve wonderful Sun dav dinner, which Roberts didn't enjoy Not least among the contents was nice fat chicken. Roberts told the DO lice he expects the fellow to make re- turn visit to his car, and he told them he doesn't wish any interference when he finds him.-IndianaDolis News.
The Press., 1922-11-30
Troublesome Phase.

A troublesome part in the life of some children is the negative" stage, where they want to contradict every body about everything to con- duct long, tiresOme dialogues in oppo- sition. This looks as if the child had not enough interests of his own. His nawers are unemployed and are being :sturned in" on himself and on you. The best remedy is to give good deal of active, intelligent, constructive thought of a nonroutine character to the situation and make change" of some kind. Sometimes to possess as his own or her own a corner in the attic or the barn-Or tiny room. or a little playhouse, where your girl or boy can find opportunities for "self-ex- pression," to use a modern word. will be the wisest plan. We need "elbow- room," whether we are three or thirty three years of age.-From "The Little Blue Books"
The Press., 1922-11-30
ANTS MUCH LIKE FIREFLIES
Species in Brazil, Travellers Assert, Throw Off Small but Quite
 Distinct Light.

At least two Brazilian travellers have described an extraordinary phe' nOmenOn connected with the nests ot white ants, or termites, Dr. da Fon' seca, who saw the exhibition on the headwaters of the Rio Verde, gives the appearance as that of tiny stars, af- fOrding the nest the look of min iature tower brilliantly illuminated When the nest was struck with stick the lights went out, only to re-appeaE little by little.
 Castelnau, in the middle of the last century, beheld a similar spectacle near the city of Goyaz. He says that the lights were produced by an i'm mense number of small phOsphores cent larvae, which withdrew into the galleries of the mound when an at tempt was made to capture them. Branner of Stanford university re marks that this exhibition is prob ably confined to some particular spe cies, or to some special occasions ol conditions of termite life, since he has lived and travelled for years in Brazil without seeing 1t.
The Press., 1922-11-30

like that happen to you. You know that medium had some pictures"
 "Now, aunt, you haven't been go- ing to any more of those fool seances, have yOu?"
 That's neither here nor there. But. clearly this picture Is one of those you know, spirit exposures. Tom, did you ever know a girl that looked like that-who died?"
 "Died? Goodness mol I have a sort of an idea that I saw a girl that looked like that once, but she isn't dead"
 Have you been thinking of her? Has her face been haunting your dreams? Tom, she's your soulmate. She may be alive, but her spirit is lowering near yours"
 To all of this Tom said "Bosh." He did not admit that on carefully studying the face of the girl in the picture he recalled having seen her and having watched her at the hotel where he stopped on his way to his mountain retreat where he had just passed his vacation. He had taken no photographs on the way. ThS weather was unfavorable. He didn't even know the girls name, yet he had to admit that he had thought of that face, that once even he had dreamed of her. However, he did not confide this fact to his aunt.
 And that was all there was to 1t for several days so far as Tom was concerned. He did not know that the next night, when he was work ing at the office, his aunt. Mrs. Claverly, went to another of those fool seances," and that she carried with her, carefully wrapped in tis- sue paper, the picture of Toms mountain shack and his sOulmate- his occult love, as she called it. She showed 1t proudly to the medium, who in the course of the evening had a communication from a departed In dian princess, who made it perfectly clear that the girl in question was still among the living. But she was the soulmate of the man who lived in the shack Her spirit was haunting him. ..
 The medium asked for the picture, and Mrs. ClaYerly compromised, by promising her photograph of it. This she delivered to the medium within q day or so and then replaced the photograph in the little pocket of photographs which had remained oR the living room table. Fortunately Tom had not asked for the phot0- | graphs in the time that elapsed and had apparently not discovered the temporary absence of the spOek pic. ture that so interested his eredulous aunt.
 Sunday came and went, and then on Tuesday night Tom came home from his office ill apparent excitement He hurriedly fumbled through the pic lures in the envelope on the living room table until he found the "spooR picture" He studied it carefully, and | then looked as carefully at a news paper clipping that he took from his | pocket and then opened and read- or reread-asletter also taken from his pocket.
 At dinner he was a little abrup1 l to his aunt. ''Who has had those prints?" he demanded, and the pool aunt hedged, but had to admit th' truth.
 'sDid you know the fool medium gave the print to the newspapers and also gave my name and my busi ness connection? The whole thinl came out in a Sunday supplement ] day before yesterday. Lucky no on
The Press., 1922-11-30
eolIaets Specimens of AIr,

The instrument used by French scientist for collecting specimens of air at high attitudes with the aid of sounding balloons consists of very perfect vacuum tube with a finely drawn out end. Either the rise of the mercury in the barometer, core spending with a previously deter mined altitude, or the clockwOrk or the meteorograph, forms an electric contact, causing a little hammer to fall and break the end of the tube. Air then rushes in, whereupon another electric contact, brought about by the same means, causes the current of a small accumulatOr to heat the plat mum wire wound around the capillary tube to a red heat. This fuses the glass and again closes the end of the vacuum tube, thus entrapping the air
The Press., 1922-11-30


 'WhO's the pretty girlf"
 There were surprise and concern In Mrs. Claverly's tone as she looked first at the small photograph print ana then at her nephew, Thomas Claverly, seated opposite her at the reading table in the Claverly living room.
 Pretty girl7" Queried Tom. Il didn't meet any girls, much Tess pretty ones."
 "Why, in one of these pictures that you gave me to look at-here In this envelope that you said contained views of your shack. It's rather queer. There's girl, big as life and twice as natural standing beside the cabIn-that's perfectly clear, too, only the girl seems to be bigger than the cabin. Tom, what does 1t mean?"
 Lets see," said Tom, stretching a much tanned hand across the table. "To tell the truth, I hadn't seen the prints. I got them from the photo graph man on my way home and didn't look at them. But the only pictures I took were of the shack, with one or two of Bob. There weren't any girls there. Good Lord How the deuce"
 "Tom Claverly, who is she?"
 Blessed if I know. Yet seems as if I'd seen her somewhere. She looks familiar and yet"
 "Tom!'' Mrs. Claverly looked in tently into her nephew's face. 'It's -it's-TOm. I never thought you were psychic enough to have anything
The Press., 1922-11-30
n....nlllar. Bead on NsttIss,


 family of black caterpillars feed inc m stingingnettles Is not an ap- healing sight but. each black form en- shrines the soul of glorious To, the .beautlful moth. The eggs whence they came matched in some fourteen days and, after eating the shells, the little caterplllars browsed on nettles. Al three days old they changed their skins, and, after other changes each one suspended itself by the little hook of the tail on nettle-leaf, hanging for fonr and twenty hours until the skin finally split that revealed the chrys alis. A fortnight later, To emerged fuIl grown, and only waited for the folded wings to expand and take on their glorious hues.
The Press., 1922-11-30
The Clever saieswoman.


 A Cleveland woman went shopping in Paris-they all do-and finally reached a saleswoman who had work ing knowledge of English and an en- gazing air.
 The customer had serious, question to ask.
 "Am I to wear my skirts longer than I have been wearing them?"
 The saleswOman spread out her fat hands.
 Ut largely depends, madame" Depends upon what"
 The saleswoman smiled.
 'The length of madame's skirts largely depends upon madame's means of loccmotion." .... ~ Which the Cleveland woman consid- cred a very neat way of putting it..
The Press., 1922-11-30
ALittIe Louder. Doc.

A doctor in the Hume-Mansur build ing was treating one of his patients, who is slightly deaf. He thought he would be a little sociable and re- marked:
 Don't those bells of Christ church sound beautiful today?"
 The patient replied: "I don't get you"
 The physician repeated and the pa tient answered little louder with more emphasis:
 You'll have to speak a little louder, Doc, I can't hear you for those church bells. ."-IndianapOlis News.
The Press., 1922-11-30
Hadn,t Affected Him.

A newspaper reporter had been re galed with a most sensational story from rural subscriber and was trying to seek verification.
 .Is the fellow who gave you the ac- count of this story regarded as truth ful mann" he asked.
 "Waal, replied the next-door neigh bor and best friend of the man in question, T ain't sayin' he ain't alto gether truthful, but kin say that what happened [ Ananias an Sapphir1 ain't never affected him noneF
The Press., 1922-11-30
Children Rouuht Baby Hippopotanus.

A baby hippopotamus, four years old and weighing a ton, was recently transported from the Philadelphia geological gardens to Boston in spe- cially built motOrtruck The animal was purchased with 5000 in pennies contributed by the school children of Boston.
The Press., 1922-11-30

In a new saucepan that cannot boil over, water rising through holes in the lid, which is lower than the rim, falls hack into the utenSil.
The Press., 1922-11-30
un,., tn Be Fashionable.

Mrs. Rox-Some of the most fash ionable people are wearing their last years clothes.
 MT. Rox-Yes. told my tailor to be careful to. put a patch in my new raincoat where 1t would show.-LOn- don Answers
The Press., 1922-11-30
Why it Should be a Chevrolet.

Chevrolet is the peoples So efficient in service pleasing appearance price satisfies every motos
 every of equipment that modern motoring demands There nothing buy the license It mile automobile.
The Press., 1922-11-30

Tenptingly Delicious Park and TiIford's Is the Candy For you
 If you like The best.
 Park and TilfOrd's Groceries are The best,
 Too.
 We have them.
 CampO's New Store
The Press., 1922-11-30
BUSINESS DIRECTORY.

HENRY RAITH, Shoe Repairing in all Branches. Hand Sewing work spec iaIty Harwood block.
The Press., 1922-11-30
Toms Occult
 Love
By JANE OSBORN
"Who,s the pretty girl2"

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The Press., 1922-11-30

M. D, O'CONNELL, Attorney at law, Gary's Block, B. Main street.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-03-01
CHAPTER XII

Z 6en't know what Mr.. Furnival said
hthsr-no mention Of his visit was
and In another week father was
(hd about again.
course had not heard from Rich
|: wished a thousand times that ]
given him my address, and ten days
h our meeting on the bus wrote
1lhr note, and told him I wOulu
n tea with him the next day.
Nv tathsr asked me who was writ
: b q addressed the envelope. and
ss9t bis suspicion I had to say it
- q order to q tradesman; he always
hteAsd my correspondence carefully {;
NJ never allowed to have friends
aequaintances outside his own cir.
''ydrnival is bringing in a couple of
o9As tonight" he said casually. "Put
Jour white frock and the rope Of
I. ~, ! gave ave, you. I want you to
u knew what that meant-some
unsuspecting fools had been
IVA lrttully into the net, and that
were hoping to have an extra
e.. how sick was of tho whole
9eesi how ] hated myself as I
~ before the glass in my room and
nv hair and fastened my frock.
IN Lannie, who generally helped me
efess, fdgeted about, and looked
slsss and worried.
Waen ! was ready to go down (F'ur-
!ars friends" were first coming to
Ganer. for which we had engaged a
w o. special servants to wait at
~ NE suddenly came up to me, and
ler hands on my shoulders.
yHa! Mr.. Furnival asked YOU TO
n! him, my dear!" she asked,
ga not answer for moment {:
We had lived in the same house
tlree years, Miss Linnie' and / had
got on confidential terms. Then
,,Why do you ask?"
1ecause," she said, "it he has, 7
you'll refuse" Then she went
M without another word,
n vent across to the dining room NV
~ wa. standing there with the in
io!s ss, glass Of whisky and soda in
s.!s.|. TOY look very nice," he said com.
ga not answer; I loathed myself
hi tiss.ing so,.,g up for such traffic, but
yace before when I had refused be
TIucx mel had appealed to Fur.
.oe protection then; now I hod
tS!sn MIN to whom could appenI
w ses sounded In tho hall below :
sxal mad his own ialcn key: an,i
seeps ascended the stairs.
~ sather spoke in his peremptorv
,dn.. d%nsr'or!e." I turned. MAY 7 in.
~ you to my daughter, gentle.
N ~ went on to the two men who
~'e'so' Mr.. Seldon-Mr. Tenn.
I.lt tho blood rushing away from
sl,ss t, closed my ewes with /"
MY " iaintness and opened then,
~ violent effort to find myself faca
~" With Richard! '"~e
ssve no sign of having mat or
Cra me before; when .;a ~, ~
d % eIo..a aana In his, his grasp was Arm m
"a m cant remember what hap.
n. ha, me whole evening was a nixht .
Eli 10~ lived through 1t i cannot
4 G dinner M misery throughout the elabo .
,~nsra ~ H seemed on very fr,e,a,v
with Furniyal. Thou iiy
Sssntivv at my fathers Jokes: an.
klls hlIt. ItaeS both enjoyed themselves
ais' vs.d : few ' mi minutes respite aft.,
wen ! left them to smoke
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-03-01

DEAR AR HAYWARD.

'SGAk NR ttA$FVNAR0s
we LIKE "SoME5ocsrs STeNoe.
VERt MUcH BUT WE THINK "CAN' IS
TO FRESH. WE THINK THAT HER PAPA
ORT To SPANK HER HARD AVN
HEAR THE WX1 OUR PAPA SRANks
OUR i9 YEAR 81 sTER. PLEASE
MR HAYWARD, DO " FOR US AND
NOT WONcG BUT SOME TINES EEcH
MONTtl So CAN WILL BE A COON
GIRL AMD MUST STAND UP To
TYPE RITE. MAhAhAA ROTE THE
ADDRESS DlDEAT SEE THIS SO
DON'T PUT OUR REEL NAAES.
EEcH OF US ROTE HAFE.
PLEASE % As We RoTE.,
BILL & PETER
(StAas) C4eAes)
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-03-01

went into my room and sak down IN the
darkness with my hands pressed tightly
over my eyes.
What Was Richard thinkingf What
could he be thinking7 That was the
only thought in my braih--nothing else
seemed to matter. o
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-03-01
. :. ,,mr IT CONTINUES

An HrsE II CONTINUES
aAp changed very little since
NJ -,o,nins he strods through the
~. and left me weeping BY the
IA was taller and broader. OF
u be still had the smooth brown
Y Il. thick brown hair that made
2s Efforts to curl when ne gave
" ~ excuse, and which I had 10
,rsi when I was twelve. .
~ third day, when my father
N Ar again, I wrote him a note.
~ said that father had been des'
EiE III, and that I had not been
\ 4 70 out. slipped out and posted
IN. and 1t was on my way back
~ nat Mr.. Furnival. He had not
!, ths house since that night when
"a me, and I would have passed
q Without speaking had he not
shst,s the matter, MarJoric?" He
rv hnnd SO TINT could not
care you still angry about
NJ iappcned tho other night? SiiIy
4 You wouldn't wait to hear what
~ soinc to say, so you must hear
~. Marjorie, will you marry me|.
made bis proposal in the voice OF
ses- No 10 nerfectly sure he will not
ssSused. In the dusk Of the evening
~ the amazement in his eyes when ]
!'Ss ss,ia +! promptly:
II ~ as not very polite refusal. but
~ not feel polite. ! wanted to get
/ hated the clasp of his hand
N, wrist; I hated the eagerness OF
- as they searched my face.
aughed at the tone Of my voice:
57fhen YOU are still angry with me"
pa. "Come, Marjorie, III apollo
in any way your like, but If you
how often I've wanted to kiss
1 Your father knows all about 1t
4 4 quite pleased ut the idea Of hav..
"a Tor a son -in-law. Say yes,
/ 9nd let's be happy ever after ~ :,
XII" believe II he hadn't said
v I might even then have kept back
ykstfed and fear Of him that filled my
n. but TO hear him use the little
Il that had always been Richard
;pest's nickname for me reused me
u Wouldn't marry you Il you were
l esly man in the world !" ! said.
|iake you! hate the sight Of your
y ma tho sound Of your voice.! l
~ want to see you again. Let
-"
"a vs. very silly and theatrical, ]
~. ! dragged my hand free OF
St1ch and ran away as fast AZ my
1llng legs would carry me through.
Hward I heard his voice in the
I was locked in my own room
and later Miss Linnie told mt
y had been in my fathers room
n6ifiy an hour.
s ~ dared he?' I said angrily.
hows father is i'll and that tn.
6e said he must not be disturbed
= ] suppose he will be worse again.
a. looked at me with an odd EXPIRES
y IN her eyes, but she walked to the
= without answering.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1922-12-29
Please Help Us Out

Christmas is here with its good
cheer and the spirit Of the lowly
Nazarene prevailing when all hu.
manity looks to his fellows relief,
comfort and happiness.
Now, good people, you've re-
ceiyed the journal for year som c
Of you, while Others have received
it for a much longer period with
out paying for it.
1t cost money to run a paper,
Just like it does any other business,
and we have \ family to feed just as
other people ha We. This is our
way Of making a living just as your
vocation is your way Of making a
living. Those whom I'VE owe we
must pay or get cussed. We are
not going to cuss you just now, but
are going to appeal to you, man to
man, to come not next month or
even next week but TO -D'A Y,
and pay up, then if you don't APP
preciate your home paper, stop it.
Our Christmas is already shorn
of the brightness that should have
dawned from the east on account
of our laxity and your laxity 1t is
not too late yet for you to put one
little bright spot where it belongs;
will you.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1922-12-29

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The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1922-12-29
Cows Running on
Streets Against.
City Ordnance

We have been requested to call
the attention of our readers to
the fact that there is a city
ordinance against cattle, horses
and hogs running at large on the
streets of Leesburg. The City
is now doing some ditching for
the sewerage and waterworks
and several cows have been re-
moved from the bitches already
but none have been hurt so far.
The city. is not responsible Tor
any animal being hurt in these
bitches and it is up to the owner
to look out for them. This IS
done by order of the Mayor and
Council.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1922-12-29
W. D. Todd Buys
H. D. Logan's Farm

Mr.. w. D. Todd, who is con-
nected with the Hollis Corpora
ton bought the farm of Mr.. H.
D. Logan last week and will
shortly start to improving same
and putting out pecan trees. Mr..
Todd came here sometime age
from Chicago and has made
many friends here. The price
paid for the land was good SO we
understand but were unable tt
get the exact figures.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1922-12-29
Pointer for the Baby.

The nurse was in the room with the
new baby. She heard Bobby softly
enter and saw him stand by the crib
watching with considerable interest the
new baby using his lungs. The baby
was strong little fellow and he cried
louder and louder keep It up" adj
vised Bobby gleefuIly, "that's the way
/ get things"
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1922-12-29
1OTE
OfNIED
.rentIy Is Lost.
art Refuses to
a Rechecking

.dvocat, the constitutional
.nendment ling The County oil
Peach in Geor. rearived blow al
the hands IT Judge Shepard Bryan
Wednesday when he denied a
motion of State Senator j. E.
Dawson fora recount Of the referen-
dun votes.
With the denial hy the court, II
was assumed that advocates OF the
measure had taken their last stand.
The amendment, which was passed
by the State Legislature at lis sum-
mer session, WAS lost by majority OF
approximately $500 votes.
Judge Bryan heard the motion OF
Senator Dawson Friday but reserved
his decisien until Wednesday. In
the petition, the legislator sought by
writ of mandamus to compel Secre.
tary of State S. G. McLeGdon to
recount the votes. and correct or
amend the certificate fled with Coy
ernor Hardwick November 81, 50
as to eliminate alleged uncertainty
in the outcome of the ratification
vote"
To the motion Secretary McI4en-
don filed demurrer containing nine
points of objection. He asserted
that Senator Dawson had given no
reason for asking a recount; that
the votes had been counted inme~
dii.tely after the election, and that
the majority by which the amend
ment lost was sufficient evidence OF
the impossibility Of an error in the
outcome.
Judge Bryan said that it had been
proven to his satisfaction that no
miscount existed. Atlanta Geor-
gian, December 28th, 1922.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1922-12-29
Climate and Deafness.

It Is curious to note how deaf
mutlsm varies in different countries.
In Switzerland, for instance, owing to
the prevalence of cretinism, 245 per
100000 of the inhabitants suffer from
II, whereas the general average among
European countries is 70, and In the
United States, 6S. per 100000.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1922-12-29
vo.., omarltlsh parlIament Chiefs.

Votes oENBrItlsh Parliament Chiefs.
The difference between the speaker
Of the English house of commons and
the lord chancellor, who occupies
similar position In the house of lords,
,s that while the speaker cannot take
part in debates and can vote only
when there is a tie, the lord chancellor
ig entitled to speak and vote on all
occasions.