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the Eagle X’liblisliing’ Company.
VOLUME XL.
1899.
B. E. ANDQE & CO.
START THE
New Year
BY GETTING IN
NEW GOODS.
This week we are opening up a large
shipment of
SHOES.
To all our customers we wish to say that
this year our stock of Clothing, Hats,
Shoes, and Fine Dry Goods will be
the largest we have ever shown.
R. E. ANDOE & CO..
14 M.ain St.
Telephone 9.
Waterman, Barnett & Co.,
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Him, Tailors,
GENTS’ FURNISHINGS and SHOES,
GAINESVILLE, G-A..
-—'The Time to Flow.
The season for sowing grain is now here, and it is to your interest
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A powder to be shaken into the shoes. At this
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try Allen's Foot-Ease. It warms the feet and
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corns and bunions of all pain and is a certain
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removes the desire for tobacco,
out nervous distress. expels g
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Bl will,patiently, persistently. One
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guaranteed to cure, or we refund money.
Sterling Remedy Co., Chicago, Montreal, New York.
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Has established a first-class Wood
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INo. I<s Grove St.,
where he will keep a large supply of
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Wood delivered on short notice.
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reproduce immediately and as often as desired,
your song or words
Other so-called talking machines reproduce
only records of cut and dried subjects, specially
prepared in a laboratory; but the Graphophone is
not limited to such performances. On the Grapho
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records of the voire, or any sound. Thus it con
stantly awakens new interest and its charm is ever
fresh.’ The reproductions are clear and brilliant.
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GAINESVILLE, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, JANUARY 26, 1899.
HER NAME ATTHE TOP
”U. S. s. BROOKLYN” WENT ABOVE
“H. M. a SPHINX.”
A Heroic Feat at Muscat by Some
of Unele Sam’s Old Time Jack Tars
That Thrilled the Hearts of a Whole
Ship’s Crew.
There was once another Brooklyn,
the forerunner of the present armored
cruiser, but the old Brooklyn, which,
daring the civil war, gained the name
of the "Butcher Shop had no resem
blance to the floating fortress that
hurled destruction into the fleet of Ad
miral Cervera.
The old ship bore a great spread of
canvas and had bat auxiliary steam
power. Her lofty masts and creaking
yards would seem singularly out of
place today, but they served their pur
pose in their own time. Her open deck,
with double row of muzzle loading,
smoothbore guns, looked like a scene
from a mediaeval drama, and when she a
went to sea the flapping of the -sails
and the snap of the cordage were not an
unwelcome lullaby to those who slept
beneath her cool white decks.
This old Brooklyn sailed one day
from New York, bound upon a roving
cruise and came in time to the Azores
islands, whence she sailed for Lisbon
and Gibraltar and, passing through the
Mediterranean and the Suez canal,
steamed slowly down the scorching Red
sea. A stop at Aden for a day or two
made her ready for a journey to the
Persian gulf, but when the gulf of
Ormaz was reached the skipper thought
to take a look at Muscat, and so the
course was shaped for the capital of the
son of Abraham, whose forefatiter&lor
hundreds, nay, thousands, of years, had
been sheiks of the desert.
In all her journey the good ship had
entered not a port where the proud
cross of St. George could not be seen
from the staff of a British man-of-war,
but here at Muscat it was thought that
at least our flag would be the only token
of western civilization in evidence. But
it was not so, for, as the Brooklyn
rounded a high promontory that shut
in the little harbor, there, lying at an
chor, was seen the English gunboat
Sphinx with her milk white flag float
ing above her.
Muscat had much that was strange
and weird to interest the Americans,
but neither the palace of the sultan,
with its double wall, between the two
parts of which are kept the tigers
whose duty it is to guard the palace at
night, nor the imperial harem's grim
exterior, nor the gorgeous apparel of the
sultan himself had half the attraction
for the westerners that the grim, sheet
face of the promontory that shuts in the
harbor had; for there upon the bleak
wall of this towering height were
painted the names of many ships, and
high above them all, in a place that
seemed inaccessible, were the words,
"H. M. S. Sphinx.”
The men of the Brooklyn stared at
that name day after day, until it seemed
burned into their brains, and the spirit
of emulation grew within them.
The night before the Brooklyn was
to sail for Persian waters there were
evidences of a secret; movement among
the crew, and after the night had fallen
still and black a boat pulled off from
the vessel’s side, and with muffled oars
made rapidly for the shore. It carried
many things of various sorts, and among
them a lantern, whose tiny glimmer
those on the ships watched with bated
breath as it reached the shore and slow
ly began the ascent of the promontory.
Now it would disappear and then glit
ter again like a star of hope and com
fort, and so it went slowly on, ever up
and up the face of the outlined precipice.
The hours dragged slowly by, and it
was far inti- the night when a tired
boat's crew clambered slowly over the
Brooklyn’s side and dropped exhausted
into their hammocks for a short sleep
before the call of “all hands” in the
morning.
The Brooklyn sailed away just as the
sun began to show above the eastern
horizon, and as she swung upon her
course and stood for the waters of the
open gulf a cheer burst from the throats
of the whole Ehip’s company. For there,
in great letters of white that caught the
warmth of the rising sun, far above the
name of her majesty’s ship Sphinx, far
above the highest name of all, could be
seen the legend "U. S. S. Brooklyn.”
And there today, looking down upon
the tiger guarded palace and the harem
of the sultan, ever before the Arabs and
the Boloochistanese of the tiny sultan
ate, still gleams the magic name that
Schley and Cook once again made fa
mous and that shall endure in history
when Muscat itself shall be forgotten.
—Washington Post.
Some Samples of Spelling.
A Jersey City druggist is making
a collection of the queer orders he
receives from people who send chil
dren to the store for things they
need. Here are a few samples of
them:
"This child is my little girt I
sent you five cents to buy two sit
less powders for a groan up adult
who is sike. ”
Another reads:
“Dear Dochter. pies gif barer five
sense worse of Auntie Toxyn for to
gargle babi’s throte and obleage.”
An anxious mother writes:
"You will pleas give the lettle boi
five cents worth of epicac for to
throw up in a five months old babe.
N. B.—The babe has a sore stum
mick.”
This one puzzled the druggist:
“I have a cute pane in my child’s
diagram. Please give my son some
thing to release it. ”
Another anxious mother wrote:
“My little babey has eat up its
father’s parish plasther. Send an
antedote quick as possible by the
enclosed little girl.”
The writer of this one was evi
dently in pain:
“I has a hot time in my insides
and wich I wood like to be extin
guished. What is good for to ex
tinguish it? The enclosed quarter
is for the price of the extinguisher.
Hurry pleas. "—New York Sup.
To the Public.
We are authorized to guarantee every
bottle of Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy
and if not satisfactory to refund the mon
ey to the purchaser. There is no better
medicine made for lagrippe, colds and
whooping cough. Price, 25 and 50c per
bottle. Try it. For sale by M. C. Brown
A Co.
LOTTERIES AND LUCK
TRICKS THAT HAVE BEEN PLAYED BY
FICKLE FORTUNE.
Some liiHtances That Aptly Illustrate
»;.• Truth of the Old Adage That
Cup and the Lip.
<here are few things with which ro
ruffice is more closely connected than
the distribution of lottery prizes, and
There can be no doubt that we Britons
are all the better off because of the ille
gality of holding lotteries in the United
Kingdom. A big lottery must disap
point hundreds of thousands while it
enriches one winner, who often finds
that his hastily acquired wealth results
in doing him more harm than good.
A short time ago the first prize in
one of the Italian state lotteries, which
alhtffinted to some £B,OOO, fell to a
peasant who, with his wife, had actually
died of starvation within a few hours
of of the prize.
Owing to a dream in which a peasant
had the presentiment that a certain
□umber would be on the ticket which
would win the splendid prize, he
scraped all his money together and pur
chased not the ticket he wanted, be
cause it was already sold, but one which
bore the same numerals, differently ar
ranged. Then he and his wife fell on
desperately hard times, which eventual
ly closed upon them in death from sheer
starvation, for he had tried and failed
his lottery, chance, which was
the last thing left to him.
When the drawing came on, he won
thaffirst prize of £B,OOO, but as he was
dead and no next of kin could be discov
ered the prize was raffled for again,
whefl it fell to swell the purse of an
Italian banker who already was pos
of vast wealth.
A German lady living in Brunswick
hada fancy that a certain ticket would
Win a prize in a lottery in which the
first prize was £15,000. It may seem
Strange, but it is vouched for as being
peffectly true, that she so altered her
opinion as to the chances of her ticket
winning a prize that she bartered it
away for a new hat from her milliner
within a few days of having purchased
it.
This was a melancholy exception to
the rule that "second thoughts are al
ways best.” The ticket which she had
exchanged for a hat, possibly worth a
couple of guineas, succeeded in captur
ing the first prize of £15,000, and the
milliner, who considered he had run
his'.risks, absolutely refused to palliate
his customer’s bitter disappointment by
anything beyond the payment of a few
pounds, which were dragged from him
by hollow threats of legal action.
On one occasion the first prize in an
Italian lottery, amounting to nearly
£5,000, fell to a man who had died
three days before the raffle, the second
prize of £2,000 fell to a lady who had
sold her lucky ticket at the eleventh
hour, and the third prize of £I,OOO to a
private soldier who, on hearing of his
govii fortune, drank himself mad and
then committed suicide. For want of
claimants who could establish their
claims satisfactorily, the first and third
prizes were again raffled for, and this
time they both fell to the same person
—the owner of one of the ‘srgest pri
vate estates in Austria, who was quite
indifferent about the addition to his al
ready huge fortune.
Silly superstitions play an important
part in the buying and selling of lottery
tickets, and it is no uncommon thing
for a person who fancies a certain num
ber to buy it at a price equal to hun
dreds of times its original cost, and
many Os those who indulge in this kind
of speculation with the fixed idea of
gain generally discover that it is an
expensive game.
A German banker conceived the idea
that the first prize in a certain lottery
would fall to the holder of a ticket on
which the figure three stood either alone
or with others. So greatly impressed
was he with this belief that he bought
up every ticket that bore the numeral
, three, a little deal which cost him some
i thousands of pounds, because many of
the tickets he fancied were held by per
sons to whom he had to pay fancy prices.
One of these persons when approach
ed on the matter refused to sell his
, ticket unless the banker purchased a
complete bundle of 20, of which he was
anxious to get rid. The banker did not
wish to do this, as there was only one
ticket bearing a three in the bundle,
but he ultimately consented, took the
ticket be wanted and gave the vender
back all the others. Great must have
been his annoyance on discovering later
that the first prize had not fallen to
him, but had been won by one of the
tickets he had bought and scorned.—
London Tit-Bits.
Nobody’# Mother.
i There is a story told on one of the
circuits, which may or may not have
seen the light of print already, of how
i not long ago a very young barrister rose
to examine cue of his witnesses with an
unaccountably hazy notion of her iden
tity. "I think that you are the prison
er’s mother?” he began.
"Certainly not, sir, ” was the unex
pected answer.
Turning hurriedly to his brief, he
, thought he had found the reason for her
, evident annoyance. “Ah, yes,” he con
tinued, "I see, you are the prosecutrix’s
mother?”
“Certainly not, ” came her reply, still
more emphatically.
1 "Then whose mother are you?” he
demanded, almost in despair, and she
fairly boiled over with indignation as
she retorted: "Nobody’s, sir. I am a
single woman.”—St. James Gazette.
Farreachtng.
Nelly—l don’t see bow getting one’s
feet wet causes toothache.
Jack—You don’t? If yen had ever
had a tooth pulled, you would know
that the roots run clear to your toes.—
i Tacoma Ledger.
London Landlords.
There is perhaps no tenant who is eo
completely at the mercy of his landlord
i as the occupier of a house in London
which belongs to one of the great
ground landlords. He is an absolute
prisoner within the four corners of his
lease. The slightest deviation is accom
panied with pains and penalties, but,
on the other band, the landlord reserves
all kinds of privileges to himself.
Very little furniture is used in the
bedrooms of Turkish houses. Rarely is
. a chair seen in any of them. A few
. mats adorn the room, and the bed is
stretched on the floor.
The English language contains 41 dis
tinct sounds.
A MISTAKE IN THE BIRD MARKET.
▲ Persian in the market place
Longed for and so took home a wren.
Yes, his was but a common case;
Such always are the ways of men
Once his, the brown bird please him not;
Almost he wished it would take win*
He loosed the cage door and forgot
The dark, unsinging, lonely thing
Night came and touched with wind and dew
(Alone there in the dim moonshine)
A rose that at the window grew—
And. oh. that sudden song divine
His children started from their sleep,
Their orient eyes with rapture lit.
Their pale young mother hid to weep-
Their father did not care a whit.
He only heard the impassioned wall
From that small prison overhead.
‘My wren is but a nightingale!
I’ll wring its noisy throat!’ he said
—Sarah Piatt in Century
WHAT A WORK IS MAN !
The Human Body the Moat Wonder
ful Thing- In the World.
Human beings are of all sizes, but the
tall man is less common than the abort
Only one* in every 208 exceeds the
height of six feet For every foot of
stature a man should weigh from 26 to
28 pounds, a proportion that is not the
lot of all in these hurrying, scurrying
days. An average sized man weighs 140
pounds; a woman 125 pounds. Curious
ly enough, the mean weight and height
of lunatics are below those of jane peo
ple. Another unexpected thing in this
respect is that a negro’s skeleton weighs
more than that of an Englishman.
The vitalizing power is the blood, a
drop of which takes but 22 seconds to
go the round of the body There passes
through the heart once every three min
utes an amount of this precious fluid
equal to all that is contained in the
body. The mileage of the blood circula
tion reveals some astonishing and un
dreamed of truths. It is estimated that,
assuming the average speed of the heart
to be 69 beats a minute, the blood
travels 207 yards in 60 seconds. In oth
er words, 7 miles an hour, 168 a day.
or 6,320 per year.
If a man of 84 could have one single
blood corpuscle floating in his blood all
his life, it would have traversed in that
period no less than 5,160,808 miles.
The average weight of the brain of an
adult male is 3 pounds 8 ounces,
of a female 2 pounds 8 ounces. The
woman’s brain begins to decline in
weight after the age of 80, the man’s
not till ten years later. According to
high authorities the nerves, with their
branches and minute ramifications con
necting with the brain, exceed 10,000,-
000 in number.
The palms of the hands and soles of
the feet are composed of cushions of fat,
in order that sudden jolts and violent
blows may be successfully resisted and
no injury done to the muscles and bones
underneath The muscles—of whioh
the tongue monopolizes 11—and bones
of the human structure in combination
are capable of more than 1,200 different
motions.
The teaching of experience indicates
that accidents are far more likely to oc
cur to the right leg and arm than to
the left. Further evidence of this fact
is supplied by the makers of artificial
limbs. They dispose of many more ap
pendages to the right aide of the body
than to the other Statistics show that
in 54 cases out of 100 the left leg is
stronger than the right.
If a man could move bis legs propor
tionally as fast as an ant, he would
travel not far from 800 miles an hour
-—London Mail.
nauing nil »*a.re.
A certain board school teacher is re
sponsible for the following little story,
which is not without its pathetic side.
He was endeavoring to explain the
term "booking” as applied to our rail
way system.
"Now, ” he was saying, “can any of
you tell me the name of the office at
which railway tickets are sold?”
"The booking office, ” replied one of
the lads.
"Right, ” responded the teacher.
At this moment his eye fell on a
small boy at the end of the class, who
was evidently paying very little atten
tion to what was said.
"Did you hear that. Dowser?" he
demanded.
“Wot, sir?" asked that youth inno
cently.
"As I thought, you were not listen
ing. We will suppose that your father
decided to have a day’s holiday and
visit the seaside. What would he have
to do before he could take his seat in
the train?”
Without a moment’s thought the
youngster electrified his teacher by re
plying, "Pawn bis tools.”—London
Standard.
Au Odd Collection.
One of the most remarkable collec
tions of souvenirs ever made is a collec
tion of male opera hats by one of the
actresses of a London company. She
owns no fewer than 216 of these arti
cles, for it was her whim to make every
young man who was introduced to her
give her bis opera hat as a souvenir.
She not only keeps them in their pris
tine condition, but converts them into
all sorts of other things, such as photo
graph frames, workbaskets, and some
are even used for the purpose of holding
flowerpots.
Golden Silence.
A man who once met Ralph Waldo
Emerson at the house of a friend tells
of the characteristic way in which the
Concord philosopher blunted the edge
of a compliment.
"Ob, Mr. Emerson," said-a young
woman of the party, "it must be so de
lightful to know that people all over
the country are grateful for the things
you have said!"
"Thank you,” said Emerson slowly,
“but it is for some of the things I have
not said that I feel most grateful. ”
A Story of Georva IV.
In Lady Gregory's newly published
reminiscences she says of George IWs
trip to Ireland in 1821: "The king ar
rived after a good passage, during
which much goose pie and whisky had
been consumed. Word had just come of
the death of Napoleon at St. Helena.
The story goes that ‘Sire, your enemy
is dead,' were the words he was greeted
with. ‘When did she die?’ was his re
sponse. But the queen was indeed also
dead."
The Gambling Bacillua.
Successful sports know that in the
highways and byways are countless
idiots who skimp their families, borrow,
beg and even steal in order to bet on
horse races at odds of 4 to 1 against
them in the long run, on stocks at 20 to
1, on slugging matches at everything
to nothing. The gambling bacillus in*
fests every legitimate sport and soon
rots it. —Criterion.
#1 .OO Per Annum in Advance.
A DRAMATIC CLIMAX.
The Effect of One Woman's Pathetic
Eye* on a Jury.
That juries are affected by handsome
and languishing eyes is proved by a re
markable experience of the greatest ad
vocate at the New York bar, the late
James T. Brady. He was counsel for a
young woman in a case involving an
attempt to break a will.
His client sat by bis side. She was a
very beautiful young woman whose
eyes seemed always to rivet the atten
tion of those upon whom her glance
fell. There was a pathetio expression
which affected every one. She sat
watching the jury during the course of
the trial, and at last there was some
complaint that she was attempting by
means of her glances to excite the sym
pathy of the jury.
Then Mr. Brady arose and in one of
the most touching and beautiful of all
the addresses he ever made in court he
spoke of the blessings which every one
who had an appreciation of beautiful
things and could see them enjoyed, and
dwelt for some moments upon the happy
lot of the jury who could see the bud
ding of the flowers—it was then spring
time—and the charms of nature; then,
suddenly turning to his client, he said,
“That blessing is denied my client, for,
though she has eyes which seem to look
upon you, gentlemen, there is no vision
in them, for her sight has been taken
from her. ”
She had been, in fact, the victim of
total paralysis of the optic nerve, which
had not impaired the beauty of her
eyes, but had given to them that sin
gular patbetib expression which she was
thus falsely charged with employing
that she might secure the sympathies
of the jury.—Philadelphia Press.
He Obeyed Order*.
Years ago, when Clemenceau was the
mayor of Martre and at the same time
a deputy, he opened a dispensary in the
quarter, where advice was given free,
for Clemenceau is a specialist in skin
diseases. One day he noticed that he
had just one hour in which to get his
luncheon and go down to the chamber,
where he had to interpellate the gov
ernment. He called his assistant and
said, “How many more patients are
there waiting?”
“Six,” replied the man.
One after the other had his case diag
nosed, and Clemenceau, after another
glance at his watch, said, “Tell the
other two to undress at once, as I have
only two more minutes to wait.” One
entered, and Clemenceau wrote out a
prescription in the twinkling of an eye.
The last man came in as naked as the
day when be was born. Clemenceau
eyed him for a minute and then said:
“You are suffering from no skin dis
ease. What have you come here to
worry me for?”
The man looked at him aghast for a
minute and replied: “Skin disease? I
never said I had a skin disease. Your
man came in and told me to undress,
M. le Depute, and I did so. All I want
ed to ask you was to use your influence
to get my sister a place in the post
offices in Algeria. ”
Clemenceau smiled, took hie name
and did use his influence.—Today.
How Far Can Quail Flyf
A number of sportsmen have been
discussing the question of how far a
quail can fly. There are a good many
contingencies to be considered in arriv
ing at a definite conclusion of the ques
tion, the which cuts no inconsiderable
figure in the distance one of these birds
can fly. If there is a stiff wind blow
ing and the bird’s course is with the
wind, a full grown quail could certain
ly go more than a mile with ease and
doubtless a much greater distance.
Those who have noticed quail trying
to fly across the Missouri river, where
the distance is about a mile, recall that
not all the birds make the trip safely.
They usually pick a spot where they
can make a halt on a sand bar in mid
stream, and thus cross the river in two
flights. But sometimes they make the
distance at a single flight, and this
seems to be their full limit under nor
mal conditions, for when they alight
they are completely exhausted.
It is generally believed that on an
average a mile is about the limit of the
flight of a quail where it is neither fa
vored nor retarded by the wind. It hap
pens very often that in crossing the
Missouri river at a single flight quail
drop exhausted into the water. Proba
bly these are young birds. —St. Louis
Republic.
Danger* of Laughter.
It is surprising to learn from the
highest medical authority in England
that laughter may be injurious.
Laughter in itself, says the British
Medical Journal, cannot very well kill,
but it may do harm. Hysterical girls
and boys with kindred nervous affec
tions are often given to immoderate
laughter, which tends to increase nerv
ous exhaustion.
Dr. Feilohenfeld relates an instruc
tive case in which a little girl suffered
from very definite cardiac symptoms
after immoderate laughter. The patient
was 18 years old and had previously
been free from any sign of heart dis
ease. After laughing on and off for
nearly an hour with some companions
she suddenly felt stabbing pains in the
chest and was seized with fits of cough
ing, followed by cardiac dyspnoea, very
well marked. Feilchenfeld believes that
the cardiac disease directly resulted
from immoderate laughing.
Defending Hi* Profession.
“Now,” said the attorney for the de
fense, “let us take up the bill present
ed by the plaintiff in this case for al
leged services rendered to my client. 1
say alleged services, gentlemen of the
jury, because these figures show every
indication of having been doctored.”
“Would it not be better to say law
yered?” asked an indignant physician
who was serving as one of the jurors.—
Chicago Tribune.
Scotland'* Strange Bird*.
From the small island of St. Kilaa,
off Scotland, 20,000 young gannets and
an immense number of eggs are annual
ly collected, and although this bird lays
only one egg per annum and is four
years in obtaining its maturity its num
bers do not diminish Obviously such
birds must reach a great age, or they
would long ago have been exterminated
—4
The deserts of Arabia are specially
remarkable for their pillars of sand,
which are raised by whirlwinds and
have a very close resemblance in their
appearance to waterspouts.
It is said that so difficult is the art
of cutting gloves that most of the prin
cipal cutters are known to the trade by
name and by fame.
NUMBER 4.
THE SCHOOL PLAYGROUND.
It* Abolition Is n Grievous Wrong to
the Children.
This is an evil which has crept in
with the tendency to centralize the
schools. When in any place the schools
begin to overflow, a movement to put
up a larger building takes place, accom
panied by an effort to create a high
school department, not so much the
need of the community as the ambitious
dream of some principal who would be
superintendent or some sort of central
sun to a group of satellites.
This dream is too easily realized, be
cause it flatters the people. Then there
rises a preposterous structure of stone
and brick. A house of many gables, out
of keeping with everything, either pub
lic or private, in the place; a temple of
vanity. Now is rung the knell of the
school playground, for the new “high
school,” although it will house all the
children from 5 to 15, must needs be
surrounded by a fine lawn, studded
with shrubbery and threaded by blue
stone roads. The janitor has to employ
an assistant to keep the grounds in or
der.
A shut in, penitentiarylike place has
been evolved by the architect and school
committee, gratifying to their pride
and a deep wrong to the children.
There are many wrongs about it. The
one insisted upon here is the abolishing
of the recess, that time honored joy of
the American schoolboy and schoolgirl.
—lsabella G. Oakley in Popular Science
Monthly
Music and Eating-.
I dined the other day at a restaurant
where the dinner is served to the ac
companiment of an orchestra. We had
“King Cotton” with the oysters and
rag time with the soup. Then the or
chestra slid into that always beautiful
intermezzo of “Cavalleria Rusticana. ”
They played it much more slowly than
I remember ever to have heard it be
fore. The head waiter fidgeted and
gnawed his lip. There was misery in
his eye. At last he disappeared in the
direction of the musicians, and a mo
ment later trbe intermezzo began to gal
lop along, presto, prestissimo, and at
the end of it the orchestra struck up a
two step. The head waiter came back
relieved.
“We can’t have slow music here,
madam,” ho said to mo when I asked
him about it. “ We’d never get through,
and I wants to get off early. People eats
too slow when they plays slow music.”
And when I looked around I saw that
knives, forks and spoons were moving
to the tempo of the twostep. Everybody
was hurrying. The bead waiter knew
what he was about.—Washington Post
The Retort Courteous.
Father O’Leary, a well known Ro
man Catholic priest and wit, was on
very friendly terms with his neighbor,
the Church of England vicar. They met
on the road one day, when the vicar said
excitedly, “Oh, Father O’Leary, have
you heard the awful news?”
“No,” says the priest, “what is it,
at all?”
“Something awful,” says the vicar.
“The bottom has fallen out of purga
tory, and all the Catholics have tum
bled into hell I”
“Oh, dear, oh, dear,” says Father
O’Leary, “what a crushing the poor
Protestants must have got!”—London
Chronicle.
An Explanation.
Little Dot —Mamma, I was playing
with your best tea set while you were
away, and when you bring it out for
company you’ll be shocked, ’cause
you’ll think one of the cups has a hair
in it, but it isn’t a hair.
Mamma—What is it?
Little Dot—lt’s only a crack.—Pick
Me Up.
A Handicap.
Corson—Do yon think trained nurses
should be pretty?
Hillebrand—Not if they are expected
to follow their calling permanently.—
Philadelphia North American.
And Miniftterial Too.
The Bachelor —Well, how did your
battle with the coquette come out?
The Newly Made Benedict —It was a
tie. —Syracuse Herald.
For Overworked girls and Feeble wom
en, Simmons Squaw Vine Wine or Tab
lets are nature’s greatest boon.
The Mau of Moderate Means.
“Among the circulars that I re
ceived from time to time by mail,”
said the man of moderate means, “I
find now and then one of a bank,
setting forth its strength and re
sources and inviting my account.
Very limited banking facilities
would be ample for my business,
but I am glad to get the circular
nevertheless, just as I am pleased
when a cabman says, ‘Cab, siri’ to
me, because it classifies me with the
men of substance. ” —New York Sun.
Generous Girl.
Little Fred—Mamma says she’s
always glad to have you come to
our house.
Mr. Jenkins—lndeed! Then your
mamma likes me, does she!
Little Fred—l don’t know about
that, but Sister Mildred always di
vides up with the bonbons that you
bring her.—Chicago News.
If Gloomy and Nervcus, and looking
on the dark side of things, take a few
doses of Dr. M. A. Simmons Liver Med
ieine, and the glooai will disapper.
Took the Hint.
“1 dearly love birds, ” he gently
sighed, and then she didn’t do a thing
but hasten to the open piano and softly
began singing “I wish I were a bird.”
They are looking for a nest now.
Yonkers Statesman
Length and Breadth.
Mrs. Billus —Well, I’m glad we
went. Foreign travel does broaden one’s
mind so!
Mr. Billus—And shortens his bank
account.—Chicago Tribune.
The quorum which ratified the United
States constitution for Pennsylvania
was secured by abduction and held be
hind locked doors.
“Trivial” is derived from the Latin
for three ways, and means the petty
sossiD of the crossroads.
QYSPEPSIA is the cause of un
told suffering. By taking Hood’s
Sarsaparilla the digestive organs are
toned and dyspepsia IS CURED.