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DOG CAUSED 4 YOUTH
, TO SHOOT AT AUTO
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Anderson, March 1.? (Special).?
A dog was the cause of a shooting
scrape in Pendleton township, west of
Sandy Springs, on last Saturday. According
to the best information that
could be obtained here today, Wil
liara Hammond, about 19 years of age.
had been hunting, and was standing
by the roadside in front of his brother's
house?Waller Hammond, liud
1 v Jones and family came along in an au?
0 1 tcmobile, and Hammond's dog ran out
in front of the car and was run ever,
<J whereupon young Hammond fired
both barrels of his shotgun at the car,
and woynded Mrs. Jones and one of
the children. There were seven persons
in the car. Mrs. Jones" was painfully
but not seriously injured.
Young Hammond was placed under
bon<J by Magistrate Erwin.
The Big Joke Cot E. M. House Flayed
On William J. Bryan.
A certain retired cattle king in
ifl j WHICH? A season's toil wa
I I food, or a little money invested
fl Truck, Cotton or Grain crop n
I choice now.
Progressive Southern farmers long ago
B hausted soils with Phosphoric Acid, A
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A wonderful panorai
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Texas, who amassed a few millioi
and then quit the game in order 1
"just visit around," has a habit <
running up to Washington every si
months in order to, as he puts i
"give the lawmakers and Ration:
capitalers the once over."
During a recent trip he got re
chummy with a western Congres
man one night as they sat in a hot
lobby. Following a discussion of tt
field of presidential candidates, tl
old Texan chucklingly remarked thi
the funniest thing that had ever ha]
pened in all his life was the tin
Col. Edward Mandell House played
f pratical joke on William Jenning
j Bryan.
Up tc the time the westerner ha
been lolling far back in his big leatr
er chair, with his feet anchored hig
against a nicely polished marble pi]
lar. "What! Colonel House play
practical joke?and on William
Bryan," he loudly demanded as h
brought his feet floorward and hi
isted on a coil deficient in plant
in Planters Fertilizer?and your
nore than doubled? Make your j
realized the necessity of supplying exmmonia
and Pptash, which every crop
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body to an erect position. "Never! kei
The idea is preposterous! Why House tip]
is as quiet and dignified as one of her
> those mummy chaps who have been hoi
_ slumbering 'neath a pyramid tombstone
since long before that Cleo- a ^
patra girl canoed up and down the ,jer
Nile on moonlight nights, snuggled t0
close to the one man. pie
"I might believe your tale it. it was eig
any one but this quiet, smbre old for
scout from Texas who has the de- tre
meanor of a Quarker reacon, and who <<
wears a plug hat, Prince Albert coat, par
no smile and patent leather shoes, eve
and who has proved himself to be jjoi
such an able friend and assistant to ces
the President in deciding what, when,- mu
how, where, why and who to do in
the way of cabinet making. League ing
of Nationing, railroading. Samuel- rec
gompering, suffragetting, prohibi- an(;
tioning, congressing and various
other odd jobs that have been bobb- p0a
ing up for several years past. hac
"However, I am curious and good- mj]
natured, and willing to be the goat thii
now and then and bite, so Mr. Texan, cou
cut loose with your House-Bryan cja
yarn.", em
"Well you see it's like this," started jn
in the visitor as a reminiscent smile hos
lighted up his face, "some fifteen or Cit:
sixteen years ago Bryan decided to aw"
give his native state a little vacation anc
?he'd been usin' It considerable?so hea
he comes down to Austin, Texas, tha
which in addition to bein' the state fen
capital, also us'ed to be the perman- con
ent home of Col. House. There was 0f
some excitement when the news Cre
commenced to spread that Bryan was cot
goin' to spend the winter in a house pic
right next door to Col. House. Nat- in'
urally they gets neighborly and talks! old
some across the dividin' fence?least- at
ways Bryan talks. | in,*
"Not wantin' to monopolize the en- Ev<
tertain' of the honored orator and rar
presidential runner. House confers as
with Jim Hogg, a friend of his'n he lea
Ihad been instrumental in makin' gov- the
ernor a few years prior, and they rib "
up the greatest huntin' trip ever p0]
staged in Travis County. They im- ger
^pressively notify Bryan they are a 1
plannin' a wild animal huntin' trip' i \
for him, which seemed to please that be
Nebraskan much. j f jr5
"There was an old panther chain- j bea
ed to the post in the back yard of our is
most popular saloon?yes. we had 1 pre
lots of saloons them days. To a I "
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I Siraiigei-, UUW-UC-C*C4, one nao t** ;
[ways referred to as a wild Mexican1 ch(
wolf. The critter was well nigh blind 1 too
|and only had one upper and one low-jtha
er tooth, neither of which hit. makin'.the
leatin' considerable difficult. In;noi
fact she had dined on nothin' but soft! his
? vittles for years. This animile was sai
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it because she was amusin' to the only one other tlr
piers who preferred listenin' to he was just as ha
style of growlin' instead of goin' time he pulled t!
ne. and cross of thorn
House and Hogg give a nigger boy mocrats and got
lollar six bits to lead the wolf, un- one.
cover of early momin' darkness, .<A delegation
a strip of woods a right smart had the yarmlnt
ce beyond town?mebbe six or dressed and fixed
ht miles, and put her up in the presented it to Mi
ks of a whalin' big cottonwood gpeech by th
B. If ilooAro-f^rl tho
Early that mornin' the huntin' many years.
ty paraded up Congress Avenoo,
rybody on hossback or muleback. 1 * * 1
use and Bryan a-leadin' the pro- lea f
slou. Bryan straddlln' his sorrel
stang as dignified and straight as ??J- House ana t
poleon Bonypart and John Persb- J*"*
combined. They was followed I
kon by fifty or a hundred men more than flfty ye
I boys armed with muskets, Bhot
is, and sixshooters. It was as im
iin* a lookin' band of hunters as I ?. .. _
I ever seen. Every houn' dog for
es around had been borried for . #1 4
3 particular festivity. Bryan, of O660 \z?IT
irse, was some happy, duly appre- It>a now_
tin' the kindness of his new South- 80meiy illustrated
. neighbors in goin* to all this fuss cover' in natural
orde^ to show him true Southern beautiful and heli
ipitality. A few miles beyond the necessary to get
T limits the dogs took the sent and request. You will
ay they scampered; such howlin* logue a well wortl
i DarKin' ana growim i never Hastings' seeas
ird in all my born days. Them mail. You will r
t could, jumped their bosses over sal? in the store
ces and creeks; them that fir# hundred thoui
ildn't, got all excited and cut a lot buy from us by m
wire fences and just waded the satisfy them, and
eks. When we reached the big sat;sfy you in 192C
tonwood you never seen such a Planting Hastin
ture as them dogs made surround- garden or in your
that tree and bayin' away at that luck" so far as r<
panther girl as she blinked down mined by the see
them from her safe perch wonder- yQ*" Hastings' S
I s'pose, what it was all about, standard of seed
jrybody in the crowd, by pre-ar- ,ln, . ?,
tgement, acted scared and excited PecL ?r
if they expected the panther to ?noftl^? "
P at them any second and rend
m arm from leg. logue now. H.
'Gentlemen,' said Col. House So^dsmen, Atlanta
ite-like, like a true Southern
itleman, 'bein' as how Jklr. Bryan is
lighly honored guest in our midst, *
vould respectfully suggest that he ' >'ews 1
accorded the honor of havin' the \ traveling ma
;t shot at this dangerous wild himself obliged to
ist. But in case he misses then it town on account o
to be a free for all, each man railroad, caused by
(tectin' himself as he deems best.' was still coming clt
Bryan beamed all kinds of grati- toring the dining ri
[e. Restin' his silver-plated Win- tol he said, to tt
:ster in the forks of a saplin' he ccrtainly looks like
k long and careful aim and shot "The what?"
t decrepit panther plum through /'The flood. You
i heart. When Bryan rolled it over, flood and the Ark
ichalant-like. with the. barrel of Ararat, surely."
erun. the expression on his face. "Gee. mister." sli
(1 as plain as (lay that there was a paper for t
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ne in his life when chinese d
,ppy?that bein' the
hat crown of gold Ida Kahn,
is speech on us De- one of the
nomination number Flowery Re]
of half a di
of leadin* citizens js also one
skun and the hide Ist?*
up right pretty and _ .aoth the
\ Bryan with a fit- Uunmese W.0E
e mayor. I'm told e Qua^ties
Bryan parlor for together an
she declares
you America
years afterward be much be
d the real truth a- the other la<
trip, generaled by -L
aund that nothin' ? -r
ad chipmunks bad A diatinl
miles of Austin in ing on thi
fars- cities, addi
audience thi
"I am pi
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alog Free addressing
One hundred hand- Now I am g
pages with brilliant cophagi of
colors. It is both Outlook.
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It is a postal card I SAVANNAH'
find our 1920 cata- IS 1
i while seed book Savannah,
are 8,?ld, 11 * 7 Nathans
lever find them on hag b
S- ,,We art to hold
aih We please and 'her^b^rth
we can please and Nathans. (a]
igs* Seeds in your with the ^
fields insures "good
jsults can be deter- E
id planted. For 30 Pants are
eeds have been the for women. 1
excellence and pur- and not for
Lh. Only varieties for a womar
nth are listed. Qual- a man, that
id prices often less Pants are 1
ly at home. Write thinner in hi
this splendid cata- cold weathe:
G. HASTINGS CO., discussion as
i? Ga.? (Advt.) gular or plui
turn ncai
they don't v
If you want
to Her. make the co?
in one night found ?
remain in a small
if a washout on the "Daddy," s
a heavy rain which I want to gc
>wn in torrents. En- "Do you
:>om of the little ho- proud pareni
ie waitress: "This ouire to wlu
? the flood!" "I want to
"Do you ii
've read about the I would alio
landing on Mount tuer?en:
"Well, wh
ie returned, "I ain't tho tender
hree days." ' ! ine. didn't
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OCTOR CRITICISES
AMERICAN WOMEN ,'j
, of Nanchang, China, is
leading physicians in tha,
public, wh$re she is head
ozen large hospitals. She
of China's leading fetdn- '
American woman and the
nan would be better off if
t of each could bq shaken
d then divided by two,"
i. "If they could be what
ms call fifty-fifty it would
tter. Each has something
bks.
'ouch of 3?ischief
juished celestial,' lecturigs
Chinese in American
essed his Philadelphia
us:
eased indeed to be with
week I spoke before the
f New York, and week
I had the pleasure of
the literati of Boston',
lad to be among the sarPhiladelphia."?World
S OLEST LAOTf
VEARLY ONE HUNDRED
Ga., March 2.?Mrs. Geor ,
Savannah's oldest citin
invited by Mayor Stewa
reception in the city
10, the 100th anniversary
. She has accepted. Mrs. v
tnily has been identified
since its settlement.
ssay on rants.
made for men and uot
Women are made for men
pants. When a man pants
l and a woman pants for
makes a pair of pants,
ike molasses; they are
3t weatner ana tnicKer in
r. There has been much
; to whether pants is sin al.
Seems to us that when
nts it is plural, and when
rear pants it is singular,
to make tlie pants last,
it first.
Good Logic
aid little George, "I think ?
:t married!"
my son?" And then .the
t asked: "And may I in>m?"
marry granny."
1/lonrl I A n rl fin waii fhfnlr
nnu uu JUU UliUIV
w you to marry my mo- ,
y shouldn't I?" retorted
logician. "Yon married ,
you"?
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