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Because they are the best.
'1 heir purity < t oicing, prompt; sneecb, >iulck-
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wen tor them tie highest, praise nnd admiration
■f all who hat en nd heard them
— *‘.v contain many valnal. o improvements,
zr ih n I'**! features Folrtii g* l’etLils
r* ernding Boards, Book Clouets aud a
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Chimo of Bvrisr, Follr.
creating the i l Imrrnor.i ih! wliicu
can be used with or without tin rec*ci These in-
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nr»t already prov ided for.
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Factories New __'a.ven. U Conn.
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of
Ml , Salem, Ohio,
$20 Ul * NY lit c.x ; “ W as at wA*rk on a farm for
!#?50 a month; I non have an agency
lav Mien A, IV* all urns uml publi-
ions a n • fte inaki a day."
A (Signed) H. (.AKKISON
Wi Ilium Kline, Harrisburg, Ta.,
. writ*** “I have never known
anything to st*ll like y our album.
Yesterday l took orders enough to
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re, Hunger, Me., writes: *‘l
m take nu order for your album at
aimost every house 1 visit. Mv
lit is often as muchas
m f o r a single day’s work."
Other* are doing quite as well;
we have not space to give ex-
tracts fi m their letters. Every
one. who takes hold of this grand Iruslnesa piles upi grand profits.
Shall we stiirt VOIJ in this li iisiness.
reader Write to us nnd h all about it 1 your self We
starting many we will start you if you don’t dt ■lav until
Knot m rrgets ahead of you in your part of the country If you
fake hold you will he able, to pick up gold fast. tftF -U.-JMl-
On account <0 a forced manufacturers sale 1 ,Om> ten
rfollai* l*l!otugni)di A ll»mi»s are to l e sold to to tho
people Flush.’Charmingly for cacti. Hmuid in Koval Crimson Silk Vel Velvet
8ice. decorated insides. Handsomest albums in the
world. Largest Greatest bargains ever known Agents
w anted. Liberal terms. Uig money for agents. Any one can
become n successful agent. Sells itself on sight—little or no
talking necessary. '\Y4ierever shown, every one wants to pur¬
chase. Agents take thousands of orders with rapidity never
i foreknown. Great profits aw ait every worker. Agents are
ma king fortunes. Ladies make as much as men. You, reader,
can (It as well as any one. Full information amt terms free,
to those who write for same, with particulars and terms for our
Family Bibles, Books and Periodicals. After you know all,
should you conclude to go no further, why no harm is done.
Address E. i ALLEN &, CO.,* AVGUSTA, Mains.
W • H . B R U U ,
One of the Oldest Mercantile Houses in Toccoa,
Here you can find bargains
STAPLE DR* GOODS.
Boots, Shoes Provisions of ail
Kinds. ILVCOX, FLOUR, FEED. ALSO THE BEST VARIETIES
f m m txmze m Ho
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Peek less Engines*
BOTH PORTABLE & TRACTION
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toguc Lowest Prices and Best Terms on the celebrated
«IESTEY 0RGANS.i>
Cardwell Hydraulic Cotton Presses, Corn and Saw Mills, Syrup
Mills and Eva porators. Will have in by early .Spring a Full Stock of
White Sewing Machines,
McCormick Reapers, Mowers and Self-Binders
Which need only a trial their Superiority. Call and see me be-
cre you buy. Duplicate parts of machinery constantly on hand.
TOCCOA MARBLE WORKS.
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payment is asked. Buy direct of the Manu-
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BRONCHITIS and ASTHMA. Our faith is so
strong that we w'H send treatment on trial.
Send for Treatise and full particulars. Address,
fhe Hall Che mical Co., 3860 Fail-mount Av., Phila., Pa
or Tallin! Sites
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Address, THE hall CHEMICAL CO,,
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LEWIS DAVIS,
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TCCCOA CITY, GA.,
Will pracf ic ■ in tire counties of Haber
•bam and ltdrua of the N • rtliwes’ern
Circuit, ami Frank’ 0 an 1 Banks of the
West, rn Circuit, l‘r mipt attention will
be g ven to all busi ss entrusted to h:m.
The collection of deb w 11 have spe c-
ial attention.
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in pvpry respect iiiii rue f •nlv.iffi ‘ixicefoi t •ent
encourage agents aud others to handle our good*
uiiUar cash order fMin oar curular w<
set of soatps free, <.r allow t!.ft ■ *
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Manufacturing and Repairing
WAGONS, BUGGIES
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FftRIVI IMPLEMENTS
Of all kinds.
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TOCCOA. GWIimiA.
States!! facials
Of All Kinds and Styles from the
plainest and lowest prices, up to the
m st elaborate and costly. All work
delivered, set up and satisfaction guar-
airteid. C -.'l at mv yard, examine
sample* and learn prices 1 efore | ur-
chas ng elsewhere Addres-,
D. P. COOK.
TOCCOA. GA.
THE GOOD OLD TIMES.
, .. . .... f .. rOUSht ... ? e dew^ale ._« ,
’
™ T^emilk-maid came tripping home,
l^! meIT7 S ° n l and Z a ***
“• v **** 1 »“*“■**«»««•* w**
The plashing churn, and the squeaking curds.
j n the good old times, rosy Ruth in the field
Drank butter-milk out of a jug;
But EOW pale Pauline, in the parlor con-
ce^ed,
8unk deep in a chair all cushioned and
v.hi-eled,
With her fingers beringed, and her cheeks
cochineal ed
Is making darned dogs on a rug.
Oh, the good old times of the scythe’s keen
ring-,
And the purple flash of the barn-swallows
wing!
And their lips over vards of candy to smack,
A \vhu« ' hl19 th thpv ^ lau g hed at the ^ md and tbe
snow
But now they, alas, can chatter and play
PmVVr™TJI, ' 9ez;ns nd tha,w eSn0 ins T by re mght ’ - u* and . ,
‘ ay :
And , shoving and , crowding .. each , other , away,
Huddled round a warm hole in the floor.
"h, the good old times of simple contents,
O t e back-log fires, and the common sensei
In the good old times ere the day begun,
The mother was up with the bird;
And all day long, till the set of sun,
She wove at the loom oa the soft yarn spim,
And of all her cares left nothing undone,
And never a murmuring word.
Oh, the good old times of the home-made
wares,
Of the pewter plates and the straight-back
chairs.
r a 10 go<K (>tiaie ® tlie father Ayed
P r
Forgraceat hrs daily board;
Although by his plow, and his hoe, and his
spa l e ’
It r . seemed that . himself by his own labor
ma e
A ° ri I >9 c ” rn grow fiom the tender blade,
And his . barn with abundance stored.
u novi ’ w 0 0 1 care &r aieful hands to
upraise
While he thinks he is blessing himself ?
As graceless he feels on the bounties of grace,
And breathes not a thank nor a whisper of
praise,
Believing no ways are above his ways,
And heaven on the pantry shelf.
Dh, the good old times, and the thanks that
were said
I 10i ‘ the honest flutter, and the warm brown
’ bread!
— Rev. John B. L. Soull.
THE OLD STOVE.
“Nancy!” said Mr. Moppet.
“Sir?” responded Nancy.
Mr. Moppet was coming in from the
garden path. Nancj*, with plump white
' arms bared to the elbow, washing
breakfast dishes was the
in a deep pan of hot
soapsuds.
Mr. Moppet was a hard featured elder-
ly man, with whitish bine eves, a staff
gly fringe of white beard beneath his
square chin, and a bald cranium. Nancy
was fresh colored and bright eyed, with
silky tendrils of auburn hair drooping
over her freckled forehead, and a certain
dimple perpetuallji playing at hide-and-
seek on her left cheek. The two com-
pletely realized Shakespeare’s ideal of
“Crabbed Age and Youth.”
“I’m a-goin’ to town,” said Mr. Mop-
pet. “It ou won t need to bile no pot
victuals for dinner. Waste makes want,
A cup o’ tea and a biled egg and what’s
left o’yesterday’s pork and greens—
that 11 be all you need.”
“Yes, father, acquiesced Nancy.
She was thinking of something else all
the while.
“And, talkin’ ’bout eggs,” added Mr.
Moppet, “you may take four dozen up to
Peach Farm. Mrs. Wixon wants plenty
on em to make cake for her niece's party,
Better go early this morning’.”
Nancy colored scarlet under the auburn
rings of hair.
“Can t I send 'em up by little Bill
Becker, father?” said she. “Webster
Wixon will be there, and—and I
like W ebster Wixon, with his red nose
and his compliments.
Mr. Moppet frowned.
“Nancy, said he, “don't be a fool. I
can see through ye, like ye was a pane
?lass. Mobster Wixon's a well-to-do
man, with money out at interest, and
y°u’d oughter be tickled to death that
he s took a notion to you.”
“Not “^ut, another father— word,'* ’
Moppet. “I know grumbled Mr.
comin jest exactly what's
. It s that foolish nonsense about
Absalom Parker, that I hoped you'd got
over long ago. Absalom hain’t no prop-
ei 'ty, and ain t like to have none, and no
daughter o mine ain't goin’ to marry
your Grandfather Atkins's hired man,not
if I know it. ’
He paused with this multiplicity of
double negatives. Nancy set her small,
pearl-white teeth together ; her eyes
flashed with hazel fire. It was a clear
case of true love versus money.
“ Take them eggs straight up to Peach
Farm,’ reiterated Mr. Moppet, shaking
his forefinger at Nancy, “ an’ don't ar-
gufy the p'nt no further. I'm your
father, and I know what's best for you!”
“ But your going right past the lYix-
ons' door. ”
“No, I ain’t, neither. I'm goin’the
Horn Hill Road. I've been app’inted
by the Supply Committee to buy an air-
tight wood stove for the church,” he
added with some complacency. “The
ed one's rusted clear out. so there's
danger o’ fire every time its used, and
the brethren have subscribed twenty
dollars for a new one—leastways, a
second-hand one, if its jest as good. ”
Webster Wixon, a fat, middle-aged
bachelor, was out helping to gather the
October apples on the north side of the
house when Nancy came up. He made
haste to welcome her.
“Good mornin', Miss Nancv,” said he.
“As bloomin'as ever. I see.”*
“Here's your eggs,” spoke Nancy,
cujtly.
“Set down a spell, won't ye?” sim-
ered Mr. Wixon.
“I'm in a hurry,” said Nancy.
*
“But, Nancy--”
‘Gly name's Miss Moppet, sir?"
*‘Pve got something very particular to
say to you. Nancy," urged the middle-
aged suitor.
•‘It’llhave to keep," said Nancy. “I've
got to get right home.”
“Can 11 walk with you a piece?”
‘Td rather go alone,” she persisted.
.‘Nancy — Miss Moppet _ I must
speak!” blurted out the old bachelor,
‘ t]E love I° u better’n all the world! I
^
“Is it me, or father, you're a-courting?”
sa ^ g be.
“Why you, of course!”
“Then take my answer—No!”
And without waiting for the return
ber basket, she hurried away, her cheeks
blazing, her breath coming quick and
Cast.
“Father’ll be awful mad,” she thought,
•‘bull'd sooner die than marry
Webster Wixon stood a minute gazing
after her in crestfallen silence; then he
went back to apple harvesting with an
ominous compression of his lips.
s,^
f lor nr psBsid’.h^ consicl ab.e. »
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Mr. Moppet drove leisurely on to Horn
Hill, drove an excellent bargain for a
highly ornamental wood-stove, after hav-
ing successively inter\-iewed every hard-
ware dealer in town, and set forth to re-
turn with it in his wagon just at dusk.
“It’s a warm day for the time o’ year,”
sa id he, “and it’s easier traveling for the
horse arter dark. It ain’t a bad day’s
work, come to think on’t. I beat Brother
Piper down pretty well on the price, and
it’s worth a dollar'n half to cart the
thing home over these bumpy roads,
They ’lowed twenty dollars for it, and I
got it for fifteen. Takin’ my time and
wheel wear and horseflesh into considera-
tion, I guess I won’t say nothin’
the odd five dollars. Business is busi-
ness. It’s a proper pretty pattern, too—
thistle leaves and acorns. I’d like one
the same fashion in mv best room, and”
-with a long whistle—“why shouldn’t I
have it? There’s that second handed
stove Gran’ther Atkins took for a debt
f rom Solon Grubb. It’s jest standin’
rustin’ away in his back wood shed. I'll
fetch it home to-morrow and black it up,
and let E l der Meachan suppose I got a
bargain from somebody; and I'll have
the nice new stove for mj'self, and
nobody’ll be none the wiser, now' that
Gran’ther Atkins is confined to his bed
with creepin’ paralysis and Absalom
Parker’s up in the wood lots, choppin’
down trees for winter firewood. It’s a
good idee. I’m glad I happened to think
of it!”
He drew rein opposite the Atkins
house. All was dark and quiet there
save the one red light that burned in old
Mr. Atkins’s bed-room.
At that identical moment, had he but
know it, Absalom Parker—the old man's
general factotum—was hanging over the
garden gate of his own place, talking to
pretty Nancv among the purple dahlias
and quilled asters.
And it was no difficult task for a man
of John Moppet’s physical strength skill-
fully to lift the old stove out of its place
in the outer shed into his wagon.
“Git un Prince ” he muttered to his
horse, shaking the reins, and away they
went.
Elder Meachan was not quite satisfied
with the bargain. The church brethren,
too, would have preferred a new stove,
considering the money they had spent;
but Brother Moppet was a man in author-
ity, and they were compelled to acquiesce
in his choice.
Nancv was delighted with the new
acquisition for the best room.
“Oh, isn’t it pretty?” said she.
“Yes,” nodded Mr. Moppet, rubbing
his hands, “it’ll sort o’ dress up the
‘
room for your weddin’.”
“My wedding?”
“Jest so. I’ve arranged matters with
Webster Wixon, and-•”
Nancv burst into tears, and ran out of
t hp rnn ^
Mr. Moppet glared balefully after her.
“She shall marry him,” muttered he,
“or she shall be no darter o’ mine! I
won’t, be set at defiance by- Why,
helloa, Absalom Parker, what brings you
here?”
“Mr. Atkins is took wuss this after-
noon,” said Absalom, standing at the
doorway, like a rustic Apollo. “Wants
to see ye—right off!”
It was a Saturday afternoon. As Mr.
Moppet drove by the church door, he
saw the load of wood being delivered for
the first fire of the season.
“Jest in time!” said he to himself,
“There’s a frosty feel in the air.”
Grandfather Atkins lay among his pil-
lows, like a wrinkled ghost.
“*John,” said he, “all I’ve got in the
world is yours; but I think I’d ought to
tell you where I’ve hid it, sence the bank
robbery give me such a scare.”
“Certainly, certainly!” said his son-in-
law, with eager eyes, like those of a bird
of prey.
“I’ve hid it away-”
John Moppet placed his ear close to
the pallid lips. bills-”
“Six five-hundred-dollar
“Yes. yes—goon!”
“Folded up in an old number of the
Horn Hill Gazette -”
“An old number of the Horn Hill
Gazette —I understand!” repeated Mop-
pet. shed!”
“In the old stove out in the
gasped the old man. “I knowed no-
body wouldn't be likely to look there!
It's yours, John Moppet—every cent of
it. And mind you. don't spend it in no
extravagance!”
So speaking, the old miser closed his
dim eyes and went where there is neither
money nor counting of money.
John Moppet uttered an exceeding bit-
ter cry as he remembered the lighted
match he had put to the crumpled papers
in the stove, to make sure of a draught
when it was put up in the northwest cor-
ner of the church—the roar of the blaze
through the lengths of Russian pipe. In
his excellent management he had con-
trived to overreach himself.
He went home and sat all the evening
in a sort of stupor, with his head in his
hands.
Nancy, busied about her household
tasks, watched him with hazel eyes of
surprise. he thought much of
“I didn't know so
Gran’ther Atkins." pondered she.
“Six times five is thirty—six times five
is thirty.” mused Mr. Moppet, rocking
to and fro. “Six five-hundred-dollar
Three—^thousand—dollars—and
all gone u[f chimbly in one breath o'
wind, and. me as done it! I shall go
crazy. I shall lose my mind. Three—
thou—sand—dollars! It's a judgment
on me. Fve been a mis’able sinner, and
cheated the church. I've tampered with
my own conscience. Six times fire is
thirty! Six five-hundred-dollar bills!
Oh, Lord, there ain’t no calculatin’ what
a mis’able sinner I’ve been!”
As the old kitchen clock struck nine,
S*/- jm
ra k 8 «.
“If it’s about Nancy, it ain’t no use,”
said Mr. Moppert, rousing himself to the
affairs ot the world with some petulance.
“It mn't about Nancy,” Absalom an-
swered, with a smile. '“It’s about Mr.
Atkins's money.”
Mr. Moppert gave a start
“Oh, you needn’t jump so,” reassured
Absalom. “It's all safe.”
He took » flat parcel out of lit, pocket,
Count em, said he. “Six, ain t
there?
Mr. Moppert stared at Absalom Parker
as Aladdin might have started at the
Genii.
“ cminert, uwt a
human magpie as he was. I knowed it
wasn’t safe, so I quietly took ’em out,
arter he’d had that last stroke,and locked
'em in his black leather trunk up in the
garret. And you may thank me that
they wasn't all burned up in the first fire
you lighted in that identical stove!”
3Ir. Moppert turned a purplish red.
“Yowknow about that stove?” said
he, with a gasp.
“It wasn’t likely 110 such conjuring
could go on about Mr. Atkins’s place,and
me not know it,” said Parker, drilv.
“The stove wasn’t of no great conse-
quence, though, except for old iron. I
guess the church folks ’ll get sick of it
before a great while. ”
Mr. Moppet drew a long breath,
“When they do,” said he, “I'll make
’em a present of a brand-new one. And,
Absalom—”
“Yes, Mr. Moppet?”
“You won't say nothin’ to nobody?”
“No,” said Absalom, “I ain't one o’
the talkin’sort.”
“And, Absalom—”
“Yes, Mr. Moppet?”
“Since vou and Nancy reallv are at-
tached to each other—”
“We’re just that, Mr. Moppet.”
“I don t see no objection to your get-
tin’ married this fall,” said Moppet, with
an effort. ‘You may tell Nancy that
she has my consent!”
Nancy cried a shower of happy tears
when Absalom told her the good news.
never imparted . to her the story
of the stove. As he himself had re-
marked, “he w T as not one of the talkin’
sort .”—Saturday Night.
Sea-Wee<l of the Gulf Stream.
fll , . e . S( F l ’?- ee Jn 1 gulf stream is
. 1t lndb Crabs
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S 1J11 *P S ® ee v re ”g e 111 > * ee< 3 upon
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mimuc . 1 0 a so K ‘ ie ' u safety. Ihe
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§ oose aruace is ount in great
numbers attached to every floating ob-
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. sailing
l m cri( j m ^ s- lpnustus from
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ro F u a ,P or s ‘ 10 ug 1 G*e vessel s
, 30 om . before leaving
]s scia P c J Ub
P ° rt , ’ jmmg g00se barnacles attacb them-
J? 1 ™ 3 m 8Uch “umbers that, owing to
*L clr ! , hlI> !'T !. . d K rowtl ‘- 1 here ser !<>“ sI J remedy «ttld
P 10 S TCa ®- is no
, 3U . ° Sai .?, U e ie m g*°w as last
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, V ., a1 ,' removing . them when
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-T, „ “ )‘ l j° i 5arnac c goose latches out
&' 00 ‘’ ( ' ,,uuac - e ) auc many have as¬
serted . that they + have seen the young just
probably ! , of from Aymg the out. peculiar This belief
arises scoop-
“v; ™® ?, e tlon " , 11 ?/ e ^he 3 l!5 fringed 0 <ilnin feet g of food, the
Lven v tben a S ood pagination . . needs soma
stretching to be able to see a resemblance
t0 a >? un S bxrd - p hen a barnacle is
! 1S 'pp'pnung, and resern-
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cement and n becomes so changed that,
unless its anatomy is carefully studied,
no affinities to a shrimp would be im¬
agined. Indeed, early naturalists con*
sidered it to be a shell-fish or mollusk.
Odd as it may seem, many kinds of ani¬
mals, at first possessed of free motion,
voluntarily attach themselves to some ob¬
ject, and are from that moment impris¬
oned, having no power of moving from
place to place .—Popular Science Monthly.
How Bees t’liug to Smooth Boards.
I have seen a single bee cling to a
smoothly dressed board with its front
feet, and supporting a living chain of
twenty-five bees, thus supporting twenty-
five times her own weight, for an indefi-
nite time. There was a time when I was
puzzled to know how the bee could hold
onto the smooth board and sustain such
a weight. But the magnifying glass re-
veals a finely curved claw at the ex-
tremity of each of the front pair of legs,
these enabled the bee to cling to the
wood in any positton, with its back
down as well as otherwise. But how
does the bee manage to run up a pane of
glass or a sheet of polished metal? Her
sharp claws will not serve in this case.
nature has provided for that in a
wonderful way. I once had a theory to
account for this wonderful feat. But
when I commenced to study the anatomy
of the bee under the magnifying glass
my theory was found to be wide of the
mark. The glass shows an infinitesimal
gland in the soles of the feet, which se-
Crete a mucilaginous substance of suffi-
cient tenacity to enable the bee to cling
to the smoothest surface that it is likely
to come in contact with .—New York Ob
server.
The World’s Coast Lines.
William Hosea Bailou says in Frani
Leslie's: The War Department, on appli¬
cation, has collated forme a table of the ex¬
tent of the coast line of the United States,
including indentations based on coast sur-
veys. To this is added the computed
lengths of other bounday lines of our
dominion. Side by side is placed the
accurate table of the lengths of foreign
coast line possible to secure.
THE COAST-SVRVEY TABLE WTTH INDICA¬
TIONS.
Atlantic Coast. ..•36.518 miles
Gulf ..19.143 “
.. 8,900 “
Alaska ..12.830 “
COMPUTED.
j^ e c oast Pacific!.! .. 3.400 miles
From Lakes to . .. 1,700 '■
From Gulf ve Pacific-....... .. 1.400 “
Total... ..... .85,889 miles
COAST OF OTSEB NATIONS
Silica.. T:..40,000 miles
.... ----- 1.000 ••
^ Europe..... _____ 20.000 6.000 “
exa 5°: “
ut •••:■• . . .15,000 “
“° men<a .
Total 82,600 mile*
About Honey Bees
--
I have seen, writes G. W. Demaree
dressed a single bee clinging to a smoothlv
board with its front feet, and
£SgE335g Srstsrssitsresii:
curved claw at ^he 8 Extremity of each of
the front pair of legs, and these enable
the bee to cling to the wood in anv posi-
tion, with its back down as well as
otherwise. But how does the bee man-
age ta run up a pane of glass or a sheet
Pushed me al l Her sharp claws
Berve he f * n this case. Well,
bas provided for that m a won-
count IS’ thfa“”mterfSl fe2T *°Ct
when I commenced to study the anat¬
omy of the bee under the niagnifving
glass my theory was found to be wido of
the mark. The glass shows an infini¬
tesimal gland in the soles of the feet,
which secrete a mucilaginous substance
of sufficient tenacity to enable the bee
to cling to the smoothest surtnoe that it
is likely to come in contact with.
The mandible (jaw) of the honey bee,
when seen under the glass, is a real curi¬
osity. They not only open and shut,
like the jaws of anv other animal, but
they have a backward and forward move¬
ment, and each of the pair is independ¬
ent of the other in its movements. The
old cla^s of naturalists believed that the
honey bee, as an artist aud a builder,
was a “mason.” But such is not the fact
in the case. The honey bee is a
“smith.” She draws out her work, us¬
ing her mandibles in place of the smith’s
hammer. It would be a simple impossi¬
bility to build a wall ns thin as that of
the honeycomb by any other process.
Beeswax ‘is the ‘result of disgested
honey, digestion just as tallow results from the
of the food of the ox. But
the beeswax, instead of adhering to the
fiesh, as in the case of fat animals,
passes of out the of six the false body of the bee, through
side one of the pockets on the under
abdomen, in the form of thin
scales or pellets, and while they are
warm and pliable the bees seize them
with their mandibles and weld them to
the rims of the cells, and cont line to
draw out the combs untill tho proper
depth of the cells are reached. The
cell walls are as thin as the finest tissue
paper known to the art of paper making,
and would not have sullicient strength
to support the tiny weight of a tiny bee
quis were tely they not strengthened by an ex-
formed rim around them, sup¬
porting their fra : l walls below, precisely
as does the wired rim around the top of
a tin vessel. That these thin walls are
drawn out and not built on to, is proven
by the fact that the rim around the cell
is as well defined when the work is first
begun as it is when the comb is finished,
and is present through the whole process
°f construction.
A Wonderful Tree.
A California man has just finished
working up a fir tree which grew on his
estate. He received twelve dollars for
the bark, built a frame house fourteen by
twenty feet, eight feet high, with kitch¬
en eight feet wide and twenty feet long;
built a woodshed fourteen by twenty
feet; made three hundred and thirty
fence rails, ten feet long; made three
hundred and thiriy-four railroad ties,
and five hundred boards six inches wide
and two feet long, and fifteen cords of
wood, all from one tree, and has part of
the tree left.
Statistics prepared by the railroad
commissioners of Iowa show that in that
state alone, with 8,000 miles of railroad,
862 brakemen were killed or injured in
1888 because of the use of the common
link and pin coupling and the hand¬
brake on freight cars.
TnE Jews in New York city have
nine synagogue 8 , and constitute a larger
population than in Jerusalem itself, num¬
bering nearly 90,000. They form an in¬
fluential element, many of them being
bankers, merchants, editors and politi¬
cians.
Don’t Waste Yonr Time
And money experimenting with doubtful
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B. C. Joxks, Aina, Lincoln Co., Me.
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■ I prescribe and folly en.
i T ''529 dorse Big (l as the only
MWl Ah fS m Currain patb.^H specific for the certain cure
J^0S8»r*nte«i TO 5 »« of this disease.
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Sold by Druggists.
A. N. U. Forty-three, ’89.