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FOURTH ANNUAL
Cornelia Normal Institute. June
i5t f 2d, 3 d and 4th.
Sunday, .fun* 1. 11.30 a. m.— Aunual
sermon, Rsv. Sam W. Small, Atlanta
Monday, June 2, 8 n. in. — Kxeqptaea
by Primary and Intermediate dc-
p art men t.
Tuesday, June 3/ I p. m,—Annual de¬
bate, J. T. (Graves and A. E. Booth
literary societies: Resolved, that the
present system of electing president,
and senator® 1 * the bent. Atiirma-
tive.: M. B. York, Rabun Co. O. J.
Davis, Habersham Co.; negative : T.
I* Tribbls, Forsyth < o.,J. F.
White Co.
Wednesday. June 4th. 10.JO a. m.
Annual address, Hon. W »S. Wit bam,
At lanta.
2 .30 p. in.—CkM» exercises. Twenty-
*, x pupils will graduate from the
snteral departments of the college.
Music by Richardson Bros, orchestra.
Everybody invited.
Rush Work at Quarries.
The quarrey folks are running m
a great number of hands now at
the works, and Manager Trov is
getting rock out to beat the band.
He says there is a very prosperous
rock time ahead, and that he is
working to keep orders filled.
On account of the railroad work
at Tallulah there ha 9 been a
scarcity of hapds, but M r . Troy
went to Gainesville Monday and
gathered up a large crew, He
thinks these negroes from else¬
where make better workmen, be-
cause they stay at the quarries and
trade their money out here in town.
• President VaR Iloose of Brenau
College at Gainesville has received
a check for nearly $2,000 from a
friend in New York. The amount
is given with the understanding
that the triends of the college raise
$5, 000 additional and that the
money be used in erec.ing a library
building for the school. Prof. Van
Hoose has been at work upon the
matter for some time and now, has
about $3,000 in cash and subscrip¬
tions for the new building. The
young ladies of the college gave
$700 a few day* since, and the
young men of Gainesville say that
they will not be outdone in the
good work by the girls of the col-
lege and they propose raising a
fund ot $1,000 and presenting it to
the school.
Be Pooductrs.
A question eveiy house wife in
Toccoa and all over this section is
asking every day now, is 4 4 what
shall 1 have for dinner.” People
here abouts a* a rule are consumers
and not producers. Dirt was given
us wherein to grow the things we
eat, and people hereabouts, as they
do everywhere in small towns for
that matter, are bent upon running
to stores to buy their chickens,
turnip salad, vegetables,etc, instead
of going out into their girdens and
barn yards for it. As long as this
continues so long wi*.l the house
wife say, ‘‘well, there is nothing I
can get for dinner today.”
The remedy is easily attained.
Raise something, ynd thus become
a producer. The ptoducer, where
you do find him in the country,and
there are a few of them, have hams
stored away now, and canned corn,
tomatoes, fruits. early spring
chickens fast stepping up into the
frying size stage, and everything
else to match. That is the only
way to live, and that kind of liv-
ing will make the country pro*-
perous, happy and peacful.
it you , have a pain . T I can guarantee
that if any remedy can touch it Dr.
Ordway’s Improved Plastes can.
just try it once and you will keep
on trying it.
L. P. Cook. v f
For rent, the "Rich Bryant”
house. Conveniently located
tainimr taming n 7 good tmod room., good a well h
and large yard. For
*ee J° in rysnt, at Kilgo & Ed-
tf.
THE CAPTURED DRAGONS.
How Koreans Viewed the First Elec-
• trie Cars In Their Country.
When the electric car service was
first opened in Korea, it furnished
a. most pei plexing theme to the
minds of the Korean*, for they
could not see how the electric
could move along without any horse
or any steam engine to pull them,
Many months passed without
solution being found. During these
months there was no rainfall in
Seoul, and the fact at once brought
a happy idea into the Korean mind.
Koreans believe that rain is pro¬
duced only by rain dragons that live
in tlie skv. Xow, in view of the
drought, these dragons, the Ivore-
a ns argued, must have been captur-
ed by the enterprising Americans,
whose intention was to cause them
to exhale the steam by means of
which the electric cars are driven
on. In support of their argument
they pointed to the bine sparks that
are often seen in the engine room of
the electric railway company and
said that the flames were those
which the dragons vomited in the
agony of being compelled to manu¬
facture the steam.
This solution of the electric car
mystery and of the drought was en¬
thusiastically indorsed by the ig¬
norant populace of Korea. It then
came to pass that the enraged na¬
tives wreaked their vengeance on
the electric cars with terrible vehe-
mence. The motormen were at-
tacked and injured, the rails were
torn up and the cars were deetroy-
ed.
Then, taught by these costly ex¬
periences, an engineer of the Elec¬
tric Car company contrived a cun¬
ning method to outwit these Kore¬
ans. One day he caught one of
these riotous people in the electric
car and, driving him into the en¬
gine room, imprisoned him there
all the night. There was the for¬
midable mechanism of the electric¬
ity, but no dragon. The sight was a
complete Korean. disillusionment for the
He spread the report
among the other superstitious peo¬
ple, and they reluctantly abandoned
their crazy notion, and the cars were
unmolested.—Japan Weekly Times.
The Sneezing Superstition.
The custom of saying “God bless
you!” when a person sneezes dates
from the time of the Patriarch Ja¬
cob. The rabbis say that prior to
the time when Jacob lived a man
never sneezed but once; the shock
consequent was certain death.
When Jacob came on the scene, he
interceded with the Master and ob¬
tained a relaxation of this rigid law,
subject to the condition that in all
countries when a person sneezed he
himself, if alone, or a friend if one
happened to be near should make
a pious exclamation. This soon
crystallized into one general form,
that of “God bless you!”
It is rather singular that this cu¬
rious custom is now observed in one
form or another in most European
countries today. In Germany the
sneezer is saluted with <f Your good
health!” in Ireland with “God bless
your honor!” In Italy and Spain
similar expressions are used. The
Russians, in order to be odd, I sup¬
pose, exclaim, “How do you do P”
Care of the Watch.
Always wind up a watch as near¬
ly as possible at the same time ev¬
ery day and do it as smoothly as
possible to avoid sudden jerks. Most
watches are now made keyless, but
if a key has to be used it should be
kept perfectly clean and free from
grit or flue, says an exchange. If a
watch is hung up, it must have
some support at the back, and if
laid horizontally it is well to place
some soft substance under it for
more general support; otherwise the
action of the balance will cause a
pendulous motion of the watch and
cause much variation in time. The
watch pocket must be kept as free
from dust and nap as possible.
A Linguist.
“Mamma/’ exclaimed little Ger-
trade, rushing into the house terri-
bly excited, “I thought you said
Mr. Fritz couldn’t talk anything but
German.”
“Well, he can’t, dear. He has
been in this country only a few
and
“But, mamma, when the boys
were liams and snowballing Charley and Fred Wil-
Johnson fell over
eac b other he laughed right out
* ou< * in our vel 7 0WI1 language.”—
Chicago Record-Herald.
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To Whip Cream Successfully.
The cream must be sufficiently
thick to hold the air and must be
very cold and kept cold during the
whipping. A small churn made
from tin will whip one quart of
cream in two minutes. Without a
regular whip put the cream into a
bowl and with an egg beater or “syl-
Jabub” churn beat for a few mo-
merits. then skim off the whipped
portion from the surface and drain
a colander, and so continue until
cream has been whipped.—
Ladies’ Home Journal,
What Alligators Eat.
More than once curious things
have been found in the stomach of
* shark, but never has such an ex-
traordinary collection been found
as was discovered recently in the
stomach of an alligator.
This alligator was killed in the
Sudan and was more than twelve
feet in length. In its stomach were
discovered eighty-five stones, sev-
eral birds* claws, two human finger
nails and three hoofs of a donkey,
to one of which a piece of rope was
attached.
Some Women.
It is a common sight in London
to see scores of women, many of
them with babies in their arms,
standing at public bars drinking
gin. If the women were taken from
behind the bars, the women would
not stand in front of them. This
is the proposition which the British
reformer does not seem to have
acted upon.
In France one wonders where the
men art*, as the women appear to
be doing all the work. It is much
1 he same in Germany. In the city
of Munich l recently saw women
mending the streets, adjusting the
rails of the tramway and handling
the heaviest tools of the trade. J
saw no men at this work. Those
who were not walking about in mil¬
itary uniforms were' mainly driving
cabs.
The reflection upon this sort of
differences in national points of
view tends to a certain inward sat¬
isfaction in the American breast,
and perhaps the natural gratifica¬
tion which one feels upon regaining
native shores is mingled with a
touch of that pride which needs to
be regulated, but not necessarily
suppressed.—William Howard Fran¬
cis in Lippineott’s.
A Perfect Lady.
The following conversation took
place between a well known actress
and “a dresser” in a large provin¬
cial theater in England:
“Perhaps you don't remember me,
miss?” said the dresser in the half
vague, half confidential manner of
her kind.
“I remember you very well,” re¬
plied the actress, “but I think it was
your sister who dressed me when I
was here before.”
“Oh, no, miss! I've got a sister,
but she's never been here with me.
Oh, you'd have liked my sister,
miss!” Then in a tone of convic¬
tion, “Oh, she's a perfect lady—
looks so nice—always wears a black
silk dress, and I've never seen her
the worse for drink in all my life!"
How to Open a New Book.
Hold the book with its back on a
smooth or covered table; let the
front board down, then the other,
holding the leaves in one hand while
you open a few leaves at the back,
then a few at the front, and so on,
alternately opening back and front,
gently pressing open the sections
till you reach the center of the vol¬
ume. Do this two or three times,
and you will obtain the best results.
Open the volume violently dr' care¬
lessly in any one place and you will
likely break the back and cause a
start in the leaves. Never force the
back of the book.
Wanted Lots of Love.'
Librarians have some peculiar ex¬
periences, especially in the down¬
town districts, where the poor chil-
dren are often sent by their elders
to draw books. The other day a
little chap of perhaps five and of
some foreign extraction toddled into
a downtown branch and, holding up
a grimy card, said to the young wo-
man in attendance:
“Please, nrp sister would like a
book of love.
The librarian suppressed a smile
and gave him “Children of the Ab-
bey.”
The next day he returned with
the book tucked under his arm and
remarked:
“Piease, my sister would like an-
other book with more love in it
than this one has.” — New York
Timeo.
Don't forget to register.
Like a Drowning flan.
"Five tears ago a disease the
disease the doctors called dy*pep*ia
took such a hold of me that I could
scarcely go. J * write* (ieo.S. M ;*r*h,
a well-known attorney •»I Nocotta,
Tex. **1 took quantities oi pep* in
other medicine* but nothing
helped me. As a drowning man
grabs at a straw 1 grabbed at
Kodol. I felt an improvement at
once and after a few bottles am
sound and well.’' Kodol i* the only
preparation which exactly repro¬
duces the natural digestive juice*
an( i consequently i- the only one
wl ic |, ,u g( . >ls ,, nv go , )( t food and
curt . s ally f 0 , m <lt stomach troubles,
— McTunkm & Co.
THE ENGLISH PRIMROSE.
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No Other F.ower Holu* an Equal
Place In Briton-*’ Affections.
No flower holds l lie same place in
the affection* of the people of the
British isles as doe* t lie common
primrose, Primula vulgaris. It is
so closely asM»riaied will) the coun-
try life that it would be hard to
find a person who does not know
what it i*. woe of the first ovvers
to open in sj it i* large g used
to decora ie the chim he* at Faster,
Rather din* rent from the Eng-
lish sparrow ami some other “insti-
tutions,” it does not make itself
entirely at h »me in America, but
as a garden plant i? K w«|) worthy
or a lin V an of run
iii'N I r« w 1 *
w MU' in liiii cl 1 in air «. re lilt- hot
summei* ;-.nd o*\ere wuuei\. the
former L-Aug the worst. Bui it
planted where it can get a little
shade ami moisture in summer and
a slight protection of leaves or oth¬
er material in winter it will well re¬
pay for the extra care. It is hard¬
ly necessary to speak of the color, as
it has given its name to that shade
of pale yellow; but there are many
garden hybrids of different colors,
ranging through all the shades of
blue and purple, that are very pret¬
ty and sweetly scented. The cow¬
slip, Primula veris and Primula of¬
ficinalis, names it is variously known
under, is very much like the prim¬
rose in habit and general appear¬
ance, but the individual flowers are
deeper yellow and smaller, with sev¬
eral borne on one stem, forming an
umbel, while the blue primrose has
only one flower on a stem.—Mee¬
han’s Monthly.
A Husband Incidentally.
The death of a member was re¬
ported recently at one of the wom¬
en’s clubs. “I move that a letter of
sympathy be sent,” said one mem¬
ber. “To whom ?” inquired the pres¬
ident. Inquiry was made as to what
family the deceased member bad
left. “She had a daughter,” ex¬
plained a well known suffragist.
“The letter should be sent to her
daughter.” “But wasn't there a hus¬
band?” inquired another member.
“Oh, yes, there was a husband, too,”
admitted the suffragist, with the air
of “husbands don't count.” The
club decided, however, to count the
husband in and send the letter to
“the family.”—New York Press.
The Mighty Amazon.
The Amazon is in every respect
but length the greatest river in the
world. At many points in its low¬
er course so vast is its tide that one
shore is invisible from the other;
the observer seeming to look out
into a rolling sea of turbid water.
It has over 400 tributaries, great
and small, which rise in so many
different climates that when one set
is at flood height the other is at
ebb, and vice versa, so that the bulk
of the great river remains unchang¬
ed the whole year round. At 1,000
miles from its mouth it is navigablt
for large sized ships and at 2,000
for steamboats of the largest size.
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Toccoa. (Georgia
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day, week or m°n5h, at reasonable rates.
Newly furnished turoughout. Prompt at
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