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4' ■ s - The Hays System of Tailoring By Applying “Modern Methods” Insures the Best Results. f. jti ■ .•Wv tor. a; ■ TF you desire the highest quality of tailoring service at moderate price, it will pay you to investigate the Hays System—The “Modern Methods” of tailoring. Our established reputation for first-class tailoring, at moderate price, is a sufficient guarantee of satisfactory results. One order from .you will insure your future patronage. Our Spring and Summer assortment of styles are unusually attractive. Our line is represented in all large cities of the United States. ^ i \ r i L. E. HAYS & CO., Cincinnati, Ohio. REPRESENTED BY S. B. BROWN ® CO., Albany, Ga. INDSTINCT PRINT a \ ■E OREGON SHERIFF KILLED BY OUTLAW. Portlud, Ore.. April SO,—A special aaysdhai Sheriff Sharer, who was shot by t!he desperado, Frank Smith, Satur day; at Woodburn, Is dead. Shaver Is the!third victim of the outlaw. No trace ha* been found of Smith, who escaped. . A Lucky Postmistress Is Mrs. i Alexander, of Cary, Me., who has found Dr. Kink's New Life Pills to »he ever tried for keiplnlp afhe Stomach, Liver and Eutoetodaperteot order. You’ll agree ■with her- if/you try these palnlesB purl- Borsxthat'Infuse npw llfo. Guaranteed by Albany Drug 0o„ Druggists. Price M4sy and various are the wiles of tbe>ahoe shiner. The little bootblacks ■ evince a sharpness that only contact wfth ..the, hastening crowd can give. Just at present they are doing a good biislnean at the Albany street comers, 1 tfaedust' bstng their chief auxiliary. To such proporttQns tin the custom of the shoe ’sbfoera grown, all over the country,, the past few years, that It cfnalmoat be ca]led an Industry. The same can be said with greater empha- sis about Use dbda fountain man—for the: larger cities they are men, not ^iags- Th.tr* Is coming to be recog. a profession, almost. The| buslnea^ agencies look oik them as any, other sort of salaried men, and ^iave more cails for them than they canllll/all of which goes to show that . ^'people 'spend many times more the amount bn soft drinks than they did formerly. ; Thlogs have been very quiet with the dry department this month. Only one siyrm has been turned In since tile first of the month, and It was nothing ' but an alarm. Before then there we~e -several In quick succession. The fire- fighters think 1 these are dull times 'sure. Is the l^oon Inhabited; " Science his "proyen that the moon ... has ah atmosphere, which makes life - in some forth'possible on that satel- 4 Ute; but not for human beings, who have a hard enougli time on this earth of ours; especially those who don’t know that Hectrlo Bitters cure Head ache, Biliousness, Malaria, Chills and Fever; Jaundice, Dyspepsia, Dlxslness.l Torpid liver: KMgsr complaints, Gen eral Peblllty.aqa Female weaknesses.! ■ Unequalled ASet general Tonic and Ap petiser for. wexk persons and especi ally, fer. the aged, jv Induces soundl sleep. Fully guaranteed by Albany SKlMlitOft., Dmggktta. Price only Mo. A Wutuial Sensitive Plant. Ail Incident related by the author ef -The Pearl of India” lu his description Of the flora of Ceylon Is almost un canny, although we are assured that It to. true. It Is about the mimosa, or sensitive plant, and makes on* almost wander whether the plant has Intelli gence. The doctor, one of the charac ters of the book, while sitting with the family on the broad piazza which form ed the front of the bungalow of a coffeo plantation recognized a thrifty sensitive plant, and It was made the subject of remark. He called bis young daughter of eleven years from the house. "Lena," said he, “go and kiss the ml- The child did so; laughing gleefully, and cam* away. The plant gave no tok en of shrinking from contact with the pretty child. “Now,” said the host, “will you touch the plant?’ filling to do so, he approached It with one hand extended, and before It had come fairly In contact the nearest ■pray and leaves wilted visibly. “The plant knows the child," said the doctor, “but you are a stranger.” BahMt Sfceottas la graa«*. Le Sport Is answerable for much exhibition of humor on the part of a nation like ours, where killing for tun It brought to perfection, and the story ef the Englishman who went rabbit ■hooting with two Frenchmen In Nor mandy may or may not be true They set out, eager for the chase; they sight ed u rabbit, and up went the English men’s gun to his shoulder. “No, no; do not ahootl” cried hie companions. “That Is MlmL We never shoot at MlmL” The Englishman, greatly won dering, desisted. A second rabbit crossed their path. He aimed again and wee again deterred from ehootlng. “That Is the adorable Lulu," they pointed out We never ehoot at Lulu." Naturally, when a- third rabbit darted up, the Englishman .made no effort to kill it, much to the distress of his com panions. • “Shoot ahootl” they cried wildly. “That Is Alphonse.’ We al ways shoot at Alphonse.”—London Chronicle. He* Culm, to ratronene. When Mrs. Lombard offered to rec ommend Miss Simpson to her friends as u dressmaker she was honest In her wish to help the little woman, but her .] efforts bore more evidence of honesty ‘ than of tact “I wish you would try Dora Simp-1 son," she said earnestly to three of her " friends who were calling upon her one day. "She’s such a good little body pnd so unfortunate! Her old customers have dropped off one by one till there’s scarcely a person la the neighborhood who employs her now. "As I often say to my husband,’’ con tinued Mrs. Lombard, with baBte, as ■be saw signs of Inquiry on the faces of her friends, “suppose she doesn’t fit very well. That doesn’t alter the fact that she has an Invalid brother to sup port and that she tried everything else, from stenography to cooking, and only took tip sewing, as a last resort and Just hates every stitch she takes and always baa Now, do try her, some at you. She's been with me for the last four days making a Jacket for my Jim. Dora 1* Just as patient abont It as can be, though we’re had It all to pieces three time*.”—Youth’s Companion. The Btafflo of z Mirror. A ward patient In Roosevelt hospital. New York, grew gradually weaker without any apparent reason. “She's fretting herself to death about some thing,” said the nure*. "It she would confide In me I think she would get better.” By and by the patient did. ipeii her mlad. tad. heart, “If I could ■July see myself,” she walled, “I’d feel different I know I must look like death or you’d Jet me have a looking glass.” It was Against the rules to sup ply patient* In that ward with mirrors, but the anna; recognizing the gravity of that particular case, imuniad to A mail band glass. The result was mi raculous. "Why, dear me,” said the sick woman, "I don’t look half so bad. as I snpposed I did.” And from that hour eh* tuffgn to Improve The First Men Dressmaker. The first male celebrity who made bis mark as a dressmaker was Bbom- berg, the urn of. a Bavarian peasant from the neighborhood of Munich. One day In the month of May, 1T98, a beau tiful equipage was seen driving about Pari* with an escutcheon lu the shape of a corset and an open pair of scissors In the middle painted on the psnel of each door. That was Bhomberg’s coat of arms, and It told tt> own tale. He was a genius In his way . and owed his success chiefly to his skill la disguis ing slight deformities and bringing out 6to moat attractive charms of his fair customers. Be rapidly made a fortune and left hla heirs an annual Income'of 50,000. francs. Under the first empire and the restoration Leroy snpplted the dresses of the ladles of the court and the higher nobility from bis- splendid mansion In the Bae Richelieu. An ef fusive encomium was WTltten upon him by Auger, a member of toe acad emy. Fmtmlnate at Mecca**. A peculiarity of fulminate of eury la that it produces a shock to which all other substances are sensi tive, and Ha supreme value as an ex plosive rests In tola fact and In toe known liability of all explosive* to be detonated by more or less distant ex plosions. There Is a current of sympa thetic influence in these terrible chem ical compositions that i*‘as strange as It ,is dangerous. What Is required to produce explosion Is the rapid genera tion of great heat along with large quantities of oxygen. In gunpowder, tor Instance, toe nitrate of potash (sol tested, which la.tha.cbtaf lngre- dtont; la practically Imprisoned oxygen, n H I* decomposed along with aa lametstohaattodewopad, ta expand sud- Burned at the Stake. As late as the end of toe eighteenth century counterfeiters were publicly burned et the stake lu London. On Masob 18. 1788, Chrlstlanie Murphy was executed at Newgate tower, Lon don, tor the crime of “coining.” She was bound to the stake seated on a ■tool, the main tie being a cord around the neck. The funeral pyre was then lighted by the executioner and his dep. i, one of the latter of whom finally forked a* stool from under the wretch ed creature, allowing the weight to fall «n her. neck. Within forty-eight min utes the body was eutlrely reduced to ashes and burled In n hole oh the spot Where the execution took.pla.ee. The Unit at Heat. We cannot, of course, measure heat by yards, pints or pounds, but the unit at beat, the standard measure of that phenomenon, has been agreed upon by' those whose business It Is to phlloso pblze on that subject to be that quan tity which can raise a pound of water t degree Now, to turn 4 pound of water, tote a pound of steam It requires 887 of these units of heat—that Is to say, if we boll a pound of water until tt all goes away In steam we shall have used In doing so a quantity of heat which' would have raised 807 pounds at water one degree higher In tempera- tux*. The Evil Era. Anttqultle hath held that certalne Women at Scythia, being provoked end vexed against some men, bnd the pow er to kill them only with their looke. The tortoises and estrlges hatch their eggs with their looks only, a slgne that they have some ejaculatlve vertue. And concerning witches, they are said to hare offensive and barmeworklug dea—Montaigne. . A Deadly Poisonous Beeswax. Wax Is a substance secreted by bees that Is said to be analogous to the fat Of the higher animals. In Patagonia, Tlerre del Fuego and other portions of southern South America honey Is never eaten. In the countries mentioned all beeswax Is a livid, whitish, blue color and more poisonous than either strych nia* or arsenic. ’Phone 280 for stove wood and Ice. ALBANY COAL & ICE CO. The fans will all he out In force on Thursday afternoon when the formal opening of the Georgia State League's season is scheduled to take place. In terest In the approaching games Is high, and It will rafctdly Increase after the season gets In full swing. Albany, Amerlcus, Cordele, Valdosta, Colum bus and Wayerosa are In the league, and each Is determined to win the pennant. Disappointment inevitably awaits five of the six teams, but all the towns In the league will see the Best ball they have ever enjoyed. . The Phlloaophr of Thunder. Thunder Is caused by the lightning spark heating the air in Its path, caus ing sudden expansion and compression all around, followed by os sudden a rush of air Into the partial vacuum thus produced. If the spark bo straight and short the clap will be short and sharp; If Its path be a long and crook ed one a succession of sounds, one aft er the other, with a characteristic rat tle, will be heard, followed by the echoes from other clouds. The echoes have a rolling and rumbling sound. The Tendon Achillea. Anatomists fancifully call the big tendon of the heel “tendon Achilles." after the Greek hero. The mythologic al story goes that his mother, Thetis, bolding him by the heel, dipped him In the river Styx to make him Invulnera ble. Put Paris inflicted a wound that proved fatal otf toe'heel that had not been Immersed. A Dlngefooi Practice. A.—Is dying toe hair as dangerous ss the doctors would make It appear? B-—Certainly 1 You take my word for It Only last spring an uncle of mine dyed bis hair, and In three weeks he was married to a widow with four children.—FlIegeDde Blatter. Overdid It. “So sorry not to have heard your lecture last night,” said the loquacious lady. “I know I missed a treat Every body says It was good,” "How did they find out?" asked Mr. Frockcoat “The lecture, you know, was postponed." The Clever Girl. Daughter—I don’t want to marry Just yet I’d lather stsy at school. Mother —You must remember, dear, men do not wish clever wives. Daugh ter—But all men are not like papa. A tale of horror was told by marks of human blood In the home of J. W. Williams, a well-known merchant of Bac, Ky. He writes: “Twenty years ago I had severe hemorrhages of the lungs, and was near death when I be gan taking Dr. King’s New Discovery. It completely cured me and I have re mained well ever since.” It cures Hemorrhages, Chronic Coughs, Set tled Colds and Bronchitis, and is the only known oure for Weak Lungs. Every bottle guaranteed by Albany Drug Co., Druggists. 50c and 11.00. Trial bottle free. , Clean Your Premises. Notice Is hereby given ttmt all the premises In the city must be cleaned and kept dean and in sanitary condi tion during summer. On May 10 and regularly thereafter an inspection of all premises will be made and cases will be made against all who have fatled to comply with this notice. J. R. deGGraffenrted, tf Sanitary Inspector, ..Good Groceries all the Time... If yoit want the best in the Grocery Line, and want the right prices, too, ’phone your orders to No. 91. S. STERNE, Washington SL Grocer Power Motors, f. o. b. New York City: 1 H. P„ $54; £ H. P„ $60; 3 H. P„ $70; 5 H. P„ $126. Albany Electrical and Construction Co. 105 Broad St., Phone 415. G. W. SAYE, President. 6 Per Celt. Farm Loans. THOS. H. MILNER, Atlorney-at-Uw, Room 811 Davis-Exchange Bank Building, Albany, Ga. TALKING FEET TO CELEBRITY. -P®!® 1 ® Field, that great merch ant prince of Chicago, sent for me after I fHDhtixffn 11 rl 8 wlllch came very near th f wits out of me untjlhesald. r gh , 1, but what 1 want you Ine al ‘ about my own feet.” To £f*° 1 r ,f 1 ed almost to death with corns, bun- , n * g r owln K “ails and perspiring ^eet Is ly umiecessary. I remove them ln- «^oo! y Pain or blood It Is a most “;SnOtoro a A?t’-f^h^ S ria. ingrowing nail be cannot cure without pain, ? BlAt y manicure, mas- Sirt h „ alr , dre88,n K Scalp treatment and the morcel wave a specialty. HICKS’ CAPUDINE immediately cures HEADACHES Bruin Up COLDS In 6 to 12Houra Titt&au* At Drag Stats