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We have just finished taking an inventory, and we have a lot of short lengths
throughout our stock, that we will sell at about one-half former price. All remem
ber that at our closing out sale twelve months ago we sold goods at less than 50 :
cents on the original cost of the merchandise, and
WILL D® THE SAME THIS YEAR.
We call your special attention to our Figured Lawns and Organdies. Also a
lot of white goods in Persian Lawns, Organdies, Mulls, Batiste and Swisses, that
we cannot duplicate in the markets at the price.
' We have a lot of Shirt Waists from 50c to $l.OO each. \
All the above goods are first-class merchandise, and will be a special bargain
to the purchaser. We will also have small counters with merchandise that will be
a bargain, and it will pay you to come early and see what we have. Sale starts
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- J. R. KING DRY GOODS (CO.
HISTORY SHORT CUTS. |
Three Times Three Brothers on the
French Throne.
When I was at school my teacher,
who was quite a remarkable histo
rian, called my attention to a some
what curious coincidence in the his
tory of France, which was of much
assistance to me afterward in plac
ing various personages and events,
says a writer in St. Nicholas. Per
haps the boys and girls of the pres
ent day have already made this dis
covery, but lest they have not I am
going to tell them what my teacher
told me.
It is simply this: That since
France became a kingdom by itself,
under Hugh Capet, three brothers
have ruled in succession at three
different times, and after each of
these groups of royal brothers a
family with a new name has come
upon the throne.
The first time this trio of broth
ers occurred was in 1314, when at
the death of Philip IV., called “le
Bel,” his son, Louis X., named by
the people “Hutin” on account of
his quarrelsome disposition, became
king. In two years he was followed
by his brother, Philip V., who reign
ed but six years, and then came the
third brother, Charles IV.
These three were the last of the
direct Capetian line and were suc
ceeded by the first Valois king, their
cousin, Philip VI.
The next group of three brothers
ended the reign of the Valois fami
ly. They were the sons of Henry
11, who died in 1559, and their
mother was Queen Catherine de’
Medici. The first was Francis IL,
who was king only a year and whois
remembered more because he was
the first husband of Mary, queen
of Scots, than for any other reason.
‘The second was Charles IX. These
two brothers had both been very
young, boys of fifteen and ten, when
they were made kings. /The third,
Henry 111., had grown up before
his turn came, but he was certainly
no better than his brothers. He
was killed by Jacques Clement, a
monk, in 1589, and Henry of Na
varre, the first Bourbon king, came
to the throne under the title of
Henry IV, :
The three brothers came again
after nearly 200 years, when in 1774
Louis XV, died, leaving three grand
sons. The first of these to rule was
the unfortunate Louis XVI. You
All know of his queen, Marie A}}-
loinette, and how he and his wile
were both beheaded, and their poor
little son, the dauphin, who would
have been Louis XVII. had he cone
to the throue, died of hard treat-‘
ment in prison; and the two broth
ers, who were to be kinzs iater, had
to keep away in exile. It was a long
time, and they were old men before
they were crowned, because I'rance
went through many changes, first as
a republic and then under the di
rectory, then under Napoleon Bona
parte as first consul and afterward
emperor. But the battle of Water
loo was fought, and Napoleon was
sent to St. Helena, and the two re
maining brothers, first Louis XVIII.
and then Charles X., had their short
reigns. And so ended the straight
line of Bourbons, for after them
came Louis Philippe of the house
of Orleans, who no longer called
himself king of France, but “king
of the French.”
Expert Opinion. }
Physicians as a class are supposed
to be indifferent to poetry. They
have other and more important
things to think of.
“What do you think of my
poems ?” inquired the young man.
“They betray an astonishing ig
norance of anatomy,” replied his
medical friend.
“But they’re not supposed to be
scientific, you know.”
“That may be the case, but it af
fords no excuse for your saying
they ‘spring from an aching heart’
when 1t is so apparent that they
proceed from a deranged liver.” |
Almost a Lie. <
“(Good bordig,” said the boarder
with a bad cold.
“What !” cried the other boarders
in surprise and also in unison as
they desisted from their burncd oat
meal.
Clearing his throat and blowing
his nose vigorously, the boarder
with the bad cold explained some
what wearily that he had merely at
tempted to pass the time of day.
Whereupon the other boarders
apologized, saying:
“We thought you said ‘good
boarding.”” e
A Hungarian Bull.
Tt is a mistake to suppose that
only Irish members in the British
‘house of commons perpetrate
bulls. It was a representative in
ithe Hungarian diet who when
hated Austria‘tried to interfere in
local Magyar affairs declaimed pas
sionately, “Gentlemen, the apple of
discord has been thrown into our
midst, and if it be not nipped in
' the bud it will burst into a con
i flagration that will deluge the
| world.”
PALINDROMES.
Words and Phrases That Spell the
Same Backward and Forward.
“There are in the English lan
guage certain words and sometimes
whole sentences of which the let
ters composing them, taken either
in direct or in reverse order, read
the same. Such combinations are
called palindromes, a name derived
from two Greek words meaning to
run again—that is, the letters run
or read backward as well as for
ward.
“When the first man met the first
woman—whose name, Eve, by the
way, is a palindrome—he may have
introduced himself to her thus:
‘Madam, I'm Adam.” In this sup
%osed case | assume that he spoke
nglish and not a garden of Eden
ish dialect, and if my supposition be
correct he made use of a palin
dromic expression.
“Among the simple words of this
kind or instances of whole sentences
are deed, defied, gog, Hannah, level,
minim, redder, nun, repaper, re
viver, rotator, sexes, shahs and tat.
‘Was it a cat I saw ? is palindromic.
“Barring the spelling the follow
ing sentence may be given: ‘Lewd
did I live & evil I did dwel.” An
other example is, ‘Desserts I deswre
not, so long no lost one rise dis
tressed.” It is said that Napoleon
was once asked whether he could
have invaded England, when he re
‘plied, ‘Able was I ere 1 saw Elba.’
'This i 3 a good specimen of a palin
‘rome, but of course the reply was
never made, as he would have an
swered in French. Here is one in
Latin, ‘Subi dura a rudibus.” ‘En
l dure hard things from the rude.’
“The following list of five words
furnishes a remarkable combina
| tion of letters. With one exception
they are all Latin words in good re
pute, and the Jetters are capable of
many regular transformations:
SATOR
AREPO
TENET
OPERA
ROTAB
“The first letter of each word,
read downward from the top of the
list, spells the first word, and the
' second letter of each word, read in
| the same way, spells the second
word, and #o on through the list.
' Beginning at the top each word,
read backward, spells the corre
sponding word in the list under it-—
' that is, the top word spells the bot
tom word, the second word from the
' top spells the second word from the
' bottom, and so on. Again, begin
' ning at the bottom of the list, the
| last letter of each word. resd. ==
wara, spets the word at the top,
and in the same way the second let
ter of each word spells the second
word from the top, and so on
through the list again.”
The Infant Terrible.
A Washington heights mother
had just sought to punish her
youthful son, and the son, to escape,
had crawled under a bed, when a
woman friend called at the apart
ment.
“What a lovely place you have
here!” the caller remarked. “So
pretty and so bright and clean!
You must give more personal at
tention to things than [ do.”
At this moment the small boy
crawled out, scenting safety.
“Say, mamma,” was his greeting,
“I don’t get under any more beds
in this house. Look at me. I guess
when you sweep you never sweep
under there. The dirt’s an inch
thick.”
The caller looked off into space,
and the mother exclaimed entgusi
astically:
““Oh, let me show you my hat, my
dear!”—New York Globe.
Why He Didn't Resign.
Sir William Wightman held office
in the old court of queen’s bench in
London far hevond the prescribed
time, and at last,®n the eve of the
“long vacation,” he took a sort of
farewell of his brother judges. How
ever, when “the morrow of All
Saints” came around he turned up
smiling at Westminster hall. “Why,
Brother Wightman,” said Sir Alex
ander Cockburn, “you told us that
vou intended to send in your resig
nation to the lord chancellor before
the end of August.” “Soldid,” said
Sir William, “but when 1 went
home and told my wife she said,
‘Why, William, what on earth do
vou think that we can do with you
messing about the house all day?
So, vou see, I was obliged to come
down to court again.”
Valiant !ndeed.
During an invasion panic which
spread through England when some
French colonels addressed their em
peror, Napoleon lIL, in very fiery
terms a certain Yorkshire colonel
of volunteers distinguished himself
by the following utterance at a lo
cal banquet, “Gentlemen, on behalf
of my comrades I can assure you
that if Napoleon’s colonels should
land at Spurn the First East York
rifles will not be the last to flee,” a
declaration that remained as a joke
against the regiment for many
years. \
AFFECTIONATE BIRDS.
Ways of the Geese of Keppel Island,
Tierra del Fuego.
To the naturalist wild life is every
way more interesting than that of
domesticated creatures. Nowhere
can this life be studied better than
in regions least frequented by man.‘
Captain Snow tells in his “Voyage
to Tierra del Fuego” how complete-
Iy unacquainted with man were the
birds of those South American is
lands. What particularly interested
him was the fellow feeling shown
among the sea fowl, |
“I remember once when | wanted
to give the wen a change of diet at
Keppel island I shot in an hour and
a half twenty-nine of the best up
land geese, quite as good and large
as our finest geese at home,
“It was not always, however, that
I wanted to shoot these birds. They
went in pairs or threes when feed
ing. On the occasion to which I re
fer I was making sad slaughter
among them, when I observed a
male bird suddenly turn from the
flight which he and his companion
were making and look around. 1
had shot his mate, and the poor
thing had just dropped on a hillock
not far from me.
“For a moment the male hesitat
ed and walked off after alighting
near his partner. But he again re
turned on seeing the female strug
gling in death. On he came leisure
ly toward the fallen bird and so in
different to his fate that for a sec
ond or two I did not shoot, until 1
bethought me that T would end his
grief, if grief he had, by making
him share the came fate.
“Another male bird that 1 winged
fell in the water, where | could see
him swimming about closely attend
ed by his female companion. When
at Jazt 1 sent the boat and captured
the wounded one his poor consort
took to the shore and wandered
about by herself, apparently quite
disconsolate, and refused to mix
with the others.
“l could mention several in
stances which I noticed of affection
between these wild birds, but must
give only the following: One of the
loggerhead ducks had been caught
alive and carried about with me on
the beach. The other bird, seeing
his companion in this situation, at
once came on shore for it and fol
lowed us about to some distance,
‘until at last I allowed the c!gtive to
‘go, when they joined each other and
immediately waddled away to the
water.”
. A confidence man has very lit
tle confidence in other people.
~You can’t dodge the worst by
sitting down and hoping for the
’ hest.
- The man who lives in the past
‘carries his head-iight on the wrong
‘ end.
HAVEYOUEVER THOUGHT
" How many hours out of each week
'would be saved by yourself, your family
‘and your teams, by the telephone ?
1 Have you ever calculated how many
minutes can be saved in case of business,
sickness, or emergency ?
Have you ever thought of the dollars
you might gain, if yon were only in
close connection with the market ?
Can you conceive of the pleasare to be
derived from having in your home im
mediate communication with the homes
of neighbors and friends though situated
miles away ?
The telephone will pay for iteslf by
@etting better market prices.
It will save several dollars every
month by avoiding needlens trips to
town
It will vake and deliver telegraph
mec ages immediately without extrs
pXpense,
It will keep you informed on weather
predictions upon inquiry.
. It will order repaira instantiy when
‘ machines break down,
i it will do the visiting and make social
salls without the trouble of “‘dressing
t Ip”’ and taking a long, dusty, hoated or
| Ireezing ride.
. It will get a doctor on » moment’s
notice and maybe save a lo7ed one’s
life,
‘ It will get election returns as soow as
| shey are in,
; It will keep away insolent tramps and
| prowling burglars,
f It will keep the boys on the tarm.
I' It will make homes happier, brighter,
better and more delightful in a thousand
[diflerenb ways.
g
1 Progressive farmers living in the
E sountry are installing telephones in their
| homes, and in the near future every
| *uitivator will have a direct means of
| ommnnication with the oatside world.
' THE SOUTHERN BELL TELLPHONE
| AND TELEGRAPH CO. will be glad to
turnish fu)l information upon ape
!ullcotion to
| Applyto H. R. McClatohey,
| Manager, Marietta, Ga.
