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rmi Iff Expected of Them and How Their
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Old Men—One Reporter’s Experience In
Securiug Important Information,
When tho "chief of the service of in
formations' ’ consents to annex a de
bntante, his aptitudes are first utilized
in the •/department des chiens creve*. ”
This is the professional slang for picx
ing tip such items at the police stations
Si, as are not sent kt to the prefecture. For
work fe will b. paiO 2 or 8
times a line for those inserted, on the
average about one in twenty of what he
handmm., These modest auxiliaries have
only exceptionally the peispective of
power to make thamaelves noted. In
deed their rolo ia limited, for if thev
1 ?* m oi an accident or ao affair out of
the common ran they must telephone
the faot to their papers, from whence
the chief sends as soon as possible one
or two staff' reporters, but if the late¬
ness of the hour or the gravity of the
event justifies such an initiative, the
titular of the “chiens creves” becomes
somebody. In this case, if he is clever,
he can render his jonrnal special service
by avoiding a “beat,” and he will bo
well recompensed. This is why, over at
the Cafe du Coq d’Or, consumers some¬
times hear a young man at a neighbor¬
ing table shout gleefully to his com¬
rades, “Aft last I have my first crime!’’
and the comrades press his hand and
congratulate him warmly. ~
Perhap3 ^‘enqueteur, he is promoted to tue dignity
of ■ or interviewer. - Now
he-receives a retaining salary of $50 to
$60 a month and is paid extra -fOtfall
the lines, he writes, so that ho usually
earns $25 to $80 weokly. He must give
his definite measure, however, and-show
if Be really has the gift of the pr ofes
eion, for after two or three failures ho
would be thanked and have his head
out off. Of tho,J 50 reporters Parisian *wfco each
year spring up on tho press
eight Or ten at most snrvivepsid become
corporals and sergeants in tho profes¬
sion. T6 succeed it is necessary not oniy
to have good health, perfect bearing, ft
courtesy and education which permit of
being received everywhere, but great
clearness of ideas and a^amarkamo
power of assimulatioa. Tno reporter
may know nothing", bnt he must be
quick at understanding everything,- It
is necessary that, a quest ion bei u^givon,
he should know In/a few instants who
is tho person in Paris the most probable
to eblve it He must go to see inlormocT, this per¬
son or some one elso’ equqify
and in 20 phrases of an iutoryiew gather
a dear, net and precise, resrnno of the
responses to make. He must aiso h’avo
the scent of a detective and above ail
lore for bis profession.
I know,a Paris reporter who was sent
Out to write about the doing* of a for¬
eign sovereign then at a French water¬
ing-place. He went to the chateau where
the monarch was stopping, but was po¬
litely kicked out by the daily, grand chamber¬ latter
lain. “We telegraph ” tho
-said, “news relative to his majesty to
our national papers. You can tako from
them for your columns. ’ ’ This did not
satisfy my confrere. He had been sent
at much expense on this special work,
and it would never do for* him to do
nothing during his sojourn. A brilliant
idea Struck him. He had got acquainted
with tar old man who had formerly been
* employed la the telography department
of tho army. So he said to tho ex-licu
tenafct, ’ ‘Would you be capable cf writ¬
ing out tho value of the letters trans¬
mitted by the Morse system by simply
bearing the tioktack of the instrument?’ ’
“Parblon, that is only-the infancy of
business, ’' answered tho other. “Well,
air, 1 will give you a lonls every morn¬
ing if you will come and pass a quarter
of an hour at the jpostoffice. hour ” when tho
• The next day, at the arrived,
dispatches from tho the chateau
those two men were very busy in tho
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office over an imaginary correspondence,
but as soon as the Morse Instrument bc
gan to tick tho old man inscribed on a
sheet of paper letters of foreign wards
he did not understand. The report**
read immediately ■MfeMpkrords these sly w translated over his them, shoulder. and the He
'•* ‘ aroely off when
in French to his
» raph employees
tnrally Suppoeed that this literal by
xsiation was gmn given household to to tfer u* sender senaer while, oy
of the sovereign’s sign’s houeeholck while,
or the royal guest asd his grand
mbexlain, they had the pleasure of
ling In the Paris journal details oon
xkxg ^HKiibik-^ved. themselves long bpforo their A
. r eporte r has in analogous cir
mt/mm - .1,.^ the resources of his
pausAlly obtains a fixed salary
ores him a revenue independ
« fluctuation of actualities,
r instance, charged with rela
J a cabinet minister, reports
Lons, pablio.reunions, etc., bat
I more than $$00 a
the fatigue is such.
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<*tiw twelfth- nocturne.
Beyond the realm of being and of pais, .
Upward and onward ftfts my charmed soul,
Captive toThe ineffable control
Of mueic’s wonder worker. Every strain
Of-tais heaven nurtured harmony is rain
To the parched glebe of memory, a scroll ’
Whereon nro graven cabalas that ro41
Floods of bewildering transport on the brain.
In joy’s whirlpool I revel asl soar.
And from the ether heights whereto I climb
List the sound waves.sweep back from Lethe's
shore
In ^ nin * cmdooc “ towar ' 1 ° 10 / Btaad °*
Deeply iTt'he e Circeon founts 1 dip
And with the wild winds sit in fellowship,
A f9as0Q , and throneUout ^ spirit runt
a pang of awesome deiolatencss, lent
The sumbwncSs of some daad firmament
Of cinerama ^S^S&SSSS worlds and buried suns.
* 8 82 :
Olldes palpably a-near. I am content,
M r Infinitude no loagcr shuus!
Tears start aa drops of Nature's crief at morn
*Adown chameleon shafts of. sunlight fall;
M >- bcln B inivors ’neatb the sweet duress
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An Interesting Creature.
The slug and its habits and peculiari¬
ties are well worth a little attention
from those who are fond of tho unusual
and ourions things of earth. A family,
upon moving into a house, remarked
that the cellar was lined all over with
thin, shining trucks where some slimy
Ihe crosture hail crawlod. For a long time
irtakers of tire tracks could not be
foiuidr-but„were at last discovered un¬
derneath a box in one corner where the
mice had carried some leaves and pieces
of vegetablea They were put into a
glass fruit jar and fed with leaves and
scraps of vegetablea They seemed to eat
bnt little, bat were continually crawl¬
ing about the jar. At tho slightest
sound they contracted into a length of
not more than 2^ inches, remaining
perfectly quiet for a few minutes, when
they cautiously put out their feelers and
bflgan to move. Tho hoad seemed to go
on, and the tail was still until the body
measured almost 0 inches, when grad¬
ually tho entire length raovod slowly
along. As it crawled up tho side of the
Jar the under side of the body could be
clearly seen through the transparent
material. Its propulsive power seemed
to be a sort of endless chain arrange¬
ment that ran lengthwise from head to
taiL This slug is as thick aa one’s little
finger. The longest specimen measured
a triflo over 8 tuohes in longtlx. —Now
York Ledger.
Straightening Sian* Bye*.
* The wheel of progress whlszee on!
The Japanese have got tho wrinkle into
their head that thoir slanting eyes must
straighten out like a white man’s. Tho
consequence is that a Burgeon who was
dqing very little in tills country is fast
.getting rich in the novel business. He
hos been there only two years, but ho
has induced several classmates to join
him, and they are vety fast compiling
respeetablo bank oooount The operation
for straightening the slant in the Jap’s
eye is described as comparatively pain¬
less. It is confined exclusively to the ex¬
terior corner of the eyelids.
The surgedn’a sharp little blade is in¬
serted under that part of the lid near
tho slant, an almost infinitesimal slit is
made, a fine silk thread stitches the
parts together, and, presto, Bappy change! the
Jap arises from his chair a man,
With eyes as straight as those of any
white man.—Boston Advertiser.
The Soldier Wii a Diplomatist.
A good ttovy of the Duke of Welling*
ton is told. After one of the battles
Spain ho invited ae^poong officer, who
had exhibited oonspicuoas bravery, to
dine with him ia his tent Riding by
sqpe short while afterward,* the duke
overheard the young man exultantly
proclaim, "I am going to dine with
Wellington tonight. ”
“You might vouchsafe me the prefix
of 'Hr.’ at least, Captain -re¬
marked tho duke dryly.
“Not at all, my lord, ” retorted tho
.
unabashed youth. “I should not speak
of Mr. Caesar or Mr.. Alexander, so
why should I talk of Mr. Wellington?”
—Sheffield Telegrapher /
8 *11* on Sl*^it.
Peddler—Have you any daughters,
mum?
Housekeeper—Sir I vul¬
“Plase, mum, I don’t ask ont of
gar curiosity, mum. I’m sellingresona
tors.”
"What are they?”
“You hang one up in the hall, mum,
and it so magnifies every sound that a
goodnight kiss soqpds like a cannon
shot”
"Give me three. Y—New York Week
In England tbeffiba ,ve what x xs oalied n^,
a “damp detectdK”
not ^«:
a.
through which the damp paste* and
moves the needle until it points to the
word “damp. ” By the aid of this con
trivance unaired sheets can be detected,
-Hardwa re. r
In a case in which a man was accused
of forgery a witness ■ for the defease
ly, ”1 know that the<«ris
mo* write his own nama. “AU
excluded, “ said the judge. "The
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The coast is the properfy
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MAXi M‘g new IDEA, ~~.
A Fort In the AiiTVWth W«ul4 Cost *
Fortune, but Badu War.
The celebrated inventor of the Maxim
gon^one of the, mcrt formidable of
modern weapons, is hard at Work, as h«
has been for a long time, upon the old
problem of aerial navigation. In oneim
portant respect Maxim is working on
different and less difficult lines than
those which other inventors have tried
to follow. They have aimed at the de
rising of flying machines which could
be operated at acost not too gt&S& fo
mit of their use m the ordinary v„ luai- 0 ;
ness affairs of life. The inventor of the
Maxim gun, however, is very appropri
ately working, primarily, to produce a
machine which can he used in wax-fare.
For this purpose it ia not at all neces¬
sary that the expense of air navigation
should be low enough to bring it within ffb
reaoh of commerce or travel What
is aiming at is tho creation of n iiow
and terrible engino of war, and every¬
body knows that tho great powers of
Europe take little account of cost when
they are dealing with the armaments
which they regard as essential to their
very existence.
If a flying machine or airship can
be invented which will bo efficient in
ordinary weather and will enable the
power possessing it to attack the for¬
tresses and camps “of its enemies from
above, there will bo a mad rush to ob¬
tain plenty of tho now engines of de¬
struction, 40 matter how much -they
may cost to build and operate. Tho pic¬
ture of wholesale destrxxotion which is
held xxp before the military mind when
ah inventor talks of pouring dynamite
shells down upon a beleaguered fortress
from a great height and thus blow it
into atoms, without risk or possible de- ■
fense, is too attractive to permit money
to stand in the way at all. Perhaps wo
shall s«« that wonderful dream of the
poet come true which is told, in the
litres:
Hear the heavens fill with shouting; and there
rgtned a ghastly d*w
From the nations’ airy navies grappling in the
central blue.
V —Cleveland Leader.
An Expensive Cow.
There is a man in Chicago who pays
$ 18,000 a yearfor the privilege of keep¬
ing a cow. Ho is a sane man, a business
man, a man of family and generally
respected in the community. His poor
relatives declare him a freak, and his
neighbors Bhrug their shoulders and
murmur things about rich men’s whims.
Tho way of it is that he possesses a val
ua ble building lot in a choice residence
portion of tho city, and having nothing
e i se to do with it ho put a nice little
f OUC o around it and quartered therein
j^g pet Jersey oow. Tho cow was an
artistic cow and harmonized well with
the green turf and little bushes, so pco
p i 0 ra the r admired, tho arrangement
, Q n0 ^ a y a man camo along who thought
ho WO nld like to build a house on that
particular lot, bo ho hunted up the own¬
er and made him » sixot cash' offer of
$ 300,000 for the Ihud. His offep was re¬
fused, decisively and politely.
“Bnt," remonstrated a relative,
aghast, “that would pay yon $ 18,000
a year 1 Why on earth did you refuse
itr
Tho rich man lit a cigar and turned a
protesting face on his accuser. “Yes, ”
ho assented in a puzzled way, “but
what would I have done with my cow?’’
—Chicago Record.
Quince Culture.
Quincos, like forest trees, needbut lit
tie training. During tho first two years
remove branches that ayo Wifely tp in¬
terfere or cross, fox all branches then
will be.main bran ches in time and
will ecriously interfere if allowed to
cross or touch each other. After that the
trees will nearly take care of them¬
selves, as far as training is concerned.
Let them head now and remain so, for
quinces are of a dwarf habit. If the
head is formed within a fdot of the
ground, it will not be too-low. The best
tool for cultivating is a disk or cutaway
harrow. These tools reaoh beyond the
team and under the branches of the
trees, thus stirring the soil and keeping
down the weeds under the trees. A plow
l#"bot very satisfactory. It cannot be
used under tho trees-without danger of
basking them. It does not leave the
ground level and must be followed 8bwn by
some other tools to smeteth tile
ridges. The other tools- mentioned do
not throw dirt enough to form a ridge at
the trees in the ' between, either
or spa®
of which would not be lcsiralila,—Phit
adelphia Ledger,
Mlgtit Toodies, K**gIA.
It was “Mfs. ” I bcliwe, in
the play which the late William E.
Burton made so popular,* who bo® q"
• eoOTldh<kod doorplate bearing the
of ■‘Thompson.” because “T< es
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heard the other <L_ wfo
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DEHOREST DIRECTORY
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MUNICIPAL OFFICERS
Clarendon Bangs, mayc or.
8. Rant, I> id
Heskett and Nix, C. VC. Stambaugh, aldermen,
W. VV. marshal,
, , CHURCHES
Mwhofttst E p iSr0 pal ehunsfa-Rev. W.
jj. Krazelle, jy*stor. Services every Sun.-,
day at l0;3o a. m. and H,"Willett. 7:c0 ?). in. v Sunday
school at V2noi>n; Prayermeet
!n " at * ;J0 * ****** ^enmgs.
Church—Rev. I). A.
UaBipOi'ii, pastor. AH services at same
^out* aw i tlsva as at, Methodist ehmch;
Rev. A. A. Safiford superintendent of Sun
day school. i
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Womans’ Christian Temperance Union—
Meets Wednesdays at 3 p. m. Mrs. S, H.
Manny,-president; Mrs. i>. Hcakett, Mrs.
A. A. Campbell, Mrs. E. B. Hard, Miw. F
I>. Sufford, HohuenKratt, vice Miss presidents. Lutie Vanllisc, Mrs. L.
J. secretary;
treasurer; Miss ltuth Starkweather, cor.
responding .secretary.
Young Peoples Society oi Christian
Endeavor: Meets every Thursday Episcopal evening
«t 3 o'clock in tire Methodist topic
church;’ announcement oi in another
column. R. U. Sibley, Pres.; Ruth Stark
weathot, Willett, V-Pres.: A. Hampton, Secy.’,
O.VauIlise, Lottie Treas. Corresponding-Secretary; Everybody invited
is to
attend these meetings and take an active
part if thev feci 30 inclined.»
culating Demurest Library Association—-F/ee cir¬
library. Rooms at Starkweather’s
shoe store, W. II. VanHise, vice president; president
Mrs. I>. .1. Starkweather, ;
O. Haugs, secretary; A. A. Campbell, treas
ttrer.
Demorest Lodge T. O. G. T., No. 118—
Meets every Friday evening at B o’eloek.
C. Bungs,chief templar; Miss IvOttie Wil¬
lett, vice templar; Roy Sibley secretary;
Lome Adams, (financial secretary.
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ABSOLUTELY
SAVE m The Best
SEW1H9
MONEY MACHINE
MADE
WB OR OCR' DEALERS earn uU
yon machine* cheaper than you ean
get eUeurhere. Tho NEW BOMB I*
our best, bat vremakc cheaper kinds,
•neb as the CMlffiX, IDEAL and.
other Hick Arm Vail Nickel Plated
SewtaK Machines tor $15.00 and up.
Gall on our agent or write ns. Bra
want yonr trade, and If pries*, term*
and square dealing will win, wo will
have It. We challenge the world to
produce a BETTER $50.00,dr $50.00 tewing $80.
Machine tor a better
Sewing Machine tor $80.00 than pon
can boy from ns, or our Agents.
THE HEW HOME SEIDIO MACHINE CO.
FOR BALE BY
L. C. FURR, Clarkesville, Ga.
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WHY? -N.
Wg Guarantee
To sell you a Bicycle 25 per
cent elsewhere. cheaper than Wc you have can buy six
or eight different .makes—all
' are high grade machines.
Pianos
We can sell you a fine piano
at'prices that will astonish you
Sewing Machines
We can save you $20 on a ma
■ chine.
Buggies
*We have some of the best
makes in the world and you
can save 015, on a cheap buggy at
least Call on or address
THE TIMES,
Demorest, i Oa.
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Fruit-growing region of the 80
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Apples and Grapes be mi
finer ean mm mm
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in the world than in this county,
tables and farm products grow abui
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We want Progressive fan
vestigate this section, and if sati «» . .
tbcif homes with We dont T - #'■ £
us.
you can make a living without
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you cant. We have, according to
sus, tlic healthiest ttflre county in the
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per up. * ; "MP
Can You Do Better Elscwb
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