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INDIRECT FIRING. Hew Gunner* Shoot Accurately at an Enemy They Cennot See. The indirect method of firing by artillery batteries is now in almost universal use and has been prac ticed by the batteries of New York state for some years. The French are given credit for the adoption of indirect firing, but it has been adopted by all modern armies. In indirect firing the artillery men shoot at a target which they can not sec. They can shoot from the rear of a hill over the crest and hit the enemy or the target with dead ly regularity. In fact, artillery of licers assert that modern field guns can be fired more accurately by in direct firing methods, properly di rected, than by direct firing, where the target is in sight of the artil lerymen. Indirect firing is based on tin* use of the triangle, and its application requires the officers to be skilled in the use of geometry and trigonom etry. The officers arc stationed a I some little distance from their guns and communicate their orders fix field telephone and flag signals. The officers are posted at some point, usually the* top of a hill, a church tower or something of the sort, where they can observe the position of the enemy through powerful glasses. The officers’ station is one point of the triangle, the cannons’ an other, and the enemy or the target the third point of the angle. The base is the line between the officers' post and the position of the can nons. This is a known distance, and the two angles at the base arc ascertained. Then the use <>f trigo nometry makes it easy for one who knows how to find the distance of the enemy or target. Then the gunners are instructed over the field telephone or by signal flags to give their guns a certain elevation or range and to direct them to ward a certain point of the com pass. If everything is done properly the shell is mathematically certain, or almost so, to strike the target. The artillery officers from their post of observation watch the effect of the artillery fire and correct their instructions or change them as they discover errors or as the target moves. Solid shot, explosive shells or shrapnel can be fired as in direct firing. But the man who loads and fires the cannon docs not see what he is shooting at or what effect his tire has. Ho must depend on his officers.—New York I’ost. Like a Gaa Mater. Jackson Wentworth, after an nb- Hcnce of thirty yenrs, returned to the homo of his youth. Jackson had a slight affection of the skin which made his nose very red; hence, when lie called at the parsonage the old minister remarked: ‘‘Jackson, Jackson, my man; I’m afraid you've become a hard drink er.’’ “Don’t judge by appearance*, Dr. Steenthlv,” said Jackson Went worth. “1 hardly average two glasses of beer a week.” “Well, then,” said the minister in a soothing voice, “1 guess your face is like my gas meter. It reg isters more than it consumes.”—At lanta Constitution. How Old Spider* Live. Old spiders, .which have neither web nor the materials to make one, often hunt about to find out the webs of other spiders, younger and weaker than themselves, with whom they venture battle. The invader generally succeeds, and the younger spider is driven out to make a now web, and the old spider remains in possession until a stronger spider invades the web and drives it out. When thus dispossessed the spider seldom ventures another attack, but tries to subsist upon the few in sects that may fall accidentally into its clutches and eventually dies of hunger. Impossible. A lustv lunged auctioneer v holding forth in ilowery terms on the virtues of a particular brand of cigars he was endeavoring to in duce his audience to purchase. Holding up a box of cigars, he shouted: “You can't get better, gentlemen. I don't care where you go, you can’t get better!" “No,” came a cynical voice rom a man in the crowd, “you v.ufi 1 smoked one last week and I'm not better yet!” Tr and Feather*. So far as is known, the first rec o 1 of punishment by tar and feath er. is in the year 1189, the first of Siehard I. At that time a law was passed that “any robber voyaging with the crusaders shall be first shaved, then hot pitch shall be poured upon him and a cushion of feathers shook Over it." After this the criminal was to l ut ashore ft the first place the el up c ante to. CAUGHT THE MOOD. Pathetic Incident That Helped Verdi With Hie “Miserere.” Men of genius are confessedly creatures of mood. Grief and ad versity have often been a real help to them rather than a hindrance. Poe, it is said, produced “The Ha ven” while sitting at the bedside of his sleeping hut dying wife. Many similar instances might be cited, but an anecdote ol \ erdi, told by Carlo Cecarclli, will suffice. On one occasion when Verdi was engaged on his well known opera, “II Trovatore,” he stopped short at the passage of the “Miserere,” be ing at a loss to combine notes of sufficient sadness and pathos to ex press the grief of the prisoner, Manrico. Bitting at his piano in the deep stillness of the winter night, his imagination wandered back to the stormy days of his youth, endeavor ing to extract from the past a plaint, a groan, like those which escaped from his breast when he saw himself forsaken by the world, All in vain! One day at Milan lie was unex pectedly called to the bedside of a dying friend, one of the few who had remained faithful to him in adversity and prosperity. Verdi at the sight of his dying friend felt a lump rise in his throat, lie wanted to weep, but so intense was his grief that not a tear flowed to the relief of his anguish. In an adjoining loom stood a pi ano. Verdi, under one of those sudden impulses to which men of genius are sometimes subject, sat down at the instrument and there and then improvised the sublime “Miserere” of I lie “Trovatore.” The musician had given utterance to his grief. A Rare Orchid. The late Joseph Chamberlain was passionately fond of orchids and at one time cultivated them assidu ously at his Birmingham estate. One morning when an officer of the British embassy at Paris und Mr. Chamberlain were walking together on the Quai aux Fleurs, the great statesman suddenly caught a glimpse of a rare specimen of his favorite flower. “What is the price?” he asked, making his way to the person car rying the blossom. “Five hundred francs, monsieur. It is the only one of its kind in France.” Mr. Chamberlain paid the price, crumpled the flower in his hand and scuffled it underfoot. “I have it in my collection,” he explained to his astonished com panion, “and 1 don’t wish a foreign er to possess one like it.” Both Rather Flippant. There is it curious parallelism be tween two stories told respectively of the lato Mr. Spurgeon and of Dean Swift. Mr. Spurgeon on hearing of the devastation wrought by an earth quake in Essex merely remarked, "1 am glad to hear that my county is moving at last.” The dean of St. Patrick’s, Dub lin, was watching with a friend t he roof of a building on which several men were at work fixing slates. Suddenly one of the men vanished. Thereupon the dean turned to his companion and said, “I like to see a man go quickly through his work.” Jupiter and Lightning. Among the ancients, especially the Greeks and Homans, one struck dead by lightning was held in great honor. The supreme deity in the Greek and Homan religions, Zeus or Jupiter, was supposed to be the manipulator of the lightning, and the person struck down by one ef the iiery bolts was especially dis tinguished, inasmuch as he had .been felled directly by the king of the gods. The dignity of the killer was reflected upon the killed. In addition to this the opinion was quite universal that the bodies of those struck by lightning were in corruptible. The Mad Parliament. The name "mad parliament” was given to the parliament which as sembled in the year K’oS and broke out into open rebellion against Henry 111. The king was declared deposed, and the government was vested in the hands of twenty-four councilors, with Simon de Montfort at their head. To De Montfort be longs the honor of having started what might be called popular gov ernment in Great Britain. Use Found For It. ,r Do you believe that music pre vents crime?” “To a certain extent,” replied Mr. Sinniek. “When a man keeps botli hands and his breath busy with a cornet you know lie can't be pick ing pockets, attempting homicide or slandering his neighbors.” Ex change, HANKS CCUNTT fOURNAL, HOMER.CA., To Our Subscribers If the little yellow label on your paper shows you aie in an ears with Journal please call in and settle the bill. All can pay the small amount they are due us and it will relieve your conscience and our fii nandal strain. DIET AND UINT3 By DR. 1. J. ALi.fcN Foiml Speclftllst RECOVERING HEALTH. Germ* are the nrtural mean* of reducing dead or dying mat ter back to Its original ele ments. Nutrition is the means by which the elements are made to maintain life. Only when the processes of nutri tion fall or are weakened, are the germs required to perform their proper function—the total failure of which would soon make life Impossible. The low ering of vitalty through over work, worry or avtc intoxica tion Is a predlspooing c to any disease, seen particularly In the contraction of pneumonia or consumption. Infections need to be combatted and there ere all artificial means tr> assist nature in antedating and overcoming Infections a-.d of aiding Iter In strengthening vi tal resistance. The body may be regarded as a nutritional ma chine that needs to be kept in good running order, by adjust ment and repairing, but the es sential fundamental condition for the maintaining and restor ing of health is the mainte nance of normal, vigorous nutri tion by simple, who'tsome food, pure air, water, sunshine, ex ercise and good mentai vondl tions. The recovery of health depends upon discovering the nature of the abnormal condi tions that constitute disease, removing the causes, and lead ing back gradually and care fully to the normal conditions. Violent means and sudden changes are to be avoided al ways. <o>pyrilit. 1311, hv Joaeph It Tl- vlevj But Not for Help. "What did you do when he kissed you—holler for help'”’ "No, I hol lered for witnesses " Cleveland Plats Ue*', r Stop In Atlanta At Hotel Empire Opposite Uuiou Depot on Pryor Bt. Renovated anil refurnished throughout. Reservations made on application. Hot and cold water,private baths, electric lights and elevator. First class accommodations at extremely moderate rates. Euro pean plan 75 cents up. John L. Edmondson, Propietor. '-'-.v To Give Quinine To Chlldre t HRIUNE is the trade-in Htnu* given torn proved Quinine. u-vs Syrup, pleas t to take and does not dihiu.Li the *t much, ihlren take it and never kn v it Quiniu\ so especially adapted t > nduiu who c.muil t ordinary Quinine. E t v roseate n> r tse nervousness north's.- m* j 4, the head. Tiy he next time you need <m . . i r r.ny pur se. A“k for 2-ounce or'ni’o ’ i-ncl.tge. The me FiiURILINK is blown in bottle. 25 cents. Stop your had E.f.lh Unlb* SMART FROCKS FOR FALL WEAR * Easy to make at Home when Developed by the Use of f*ial Review Patterns The New Russian Tunic Dress, No. 5811, will cost you $11.28 WT/t if developed as follows: Sue y ' 36 requires— / j V 4 1-2 yards Black Satin, for tunic anti waist / I / • inch material at $1.50. K>./5 M , ■ ML 2 yards Homan stripe Silk. M j x MY MjL for skirt, collar, vest, f * i MfM belt: 4lln*hrs wide; at JM 1 5-8 yards UnteKbSS inches Jfm • 7-S'aniweMilnc. St stay. Mr wSR 2 hieh**s wi<!e; at COcyard -I* 5-8 yard All-over Lace; IS Inches wide; for shield } * J and collar at 75c yard. -47 wS 1 ' r fl IS Jet Buttons: long, dia- J ' | | I mood-cut shape; at 39c 7-8 yard Snap Tape, at 25c I Spool Sewing Silk. f -m 1 Pictorial Review I'attern \ t i 1M rP i 1 /No. 5811: site 36.. 15 If ■! ml • ? \t4 Total C\*t *1 • .5* ifll M * JV \ 5990 —Ladies Reclincote Dress f m : S\* \ * if made as Illustrated: Sire ( \ ♦ 3® reQuires l • | l \ (| | I \ 3 1-4 yards Blue Broadcloth. / I L ■ f! n O \ for Rrtlln;ote: s<>-lnch / 2 1 ■ \\ material; at $2 00 yard. 5o 50 -9 I \ 2 1-4 yanls Black Satin, for / n li i l\ \ sleeves and lower I’art of / 's 1 : 1\ skirt; 36 inches wide; at =•' -1 1 * I \ UiJ-t 13-8 yards Linin’, for upper ? K A 8-L 'll \i 1 part of foundation gores: t -41 : ll' - ■ V * 1 M' h i'U at 2iV * yard .. . . M 11 W . -8 yard White Satin.for col lar and ct fTs 27 inches < \ x \ | aide, at $1 25 yard .42 \ V\ 1 1 dm. Jet Buttons .5# taa 10 yards Sttk Braid; at 10c / I* \ \ 7-8 Snap Ta-w> .18 / \ V l Srvk'l Sowing Silk -0* 2~7T+ Y "a \ 1 1 Pictorial Review Pattern. A W V No. 599 ti slue 36 .15 ▼ Ruiun Tumc CoUamr 5811—15 c Total cost. Jll 1 Co:umt 5 00 0—U* Mrs. J. T. Smith, MaysviHe, Georgia. Fall Millinery At Gotten Prir ?■' This beautiful Line of Millinery eclipses anything’ ever before brought to Ivlays ville. Can please you in style and price WOMEN and CHILDREN’S SUITS We have a big line of Women and Childrens Suits and Cloaks. Never take a railroad trip to another market until you have in spected this stock. You'll find in our stock many exclusive novelties both in style ind patterns found in no other shop—it will p ly you to bring your riends here where the selection is so large that ther * is no possibil ty of a mistake in choice and where absolute satisfaction is posi lvely guaranteed. You’ll get the best values for the least money if you buy your Fall Goods here. Mrs. J. V. Smith, NI AYSVIIA JO, - - (JEOKAI4 HOME MsDE SYRUP I have a large quantity of as fin !syrup as nas ever mac e. Put op in 10 11*. buckets. Price 50c pm I (ticket, Amounts ot 50 buckets or over will be delivered. .1. .1. ( v roki.i,, 9 21-8 t Homer, (id. Whenever You Need a General Tonic Take Grove’s The Old Standard Grove’s Tasteless chill Tonic is equally vuluable as a General Tonic because it contains the well known tonic propertiesof QUININE and IRON. It acts on the Liver, Drives out Malaria, Enriches the Blood and Builds up the Whole System. 50 cents. FOR SALE Road Summons 35c pci huti deed. 50 for -< ! c 25 for 10. Pos tage paid. Journal Office. CURIOUS BITS OF HISTORY LIVING WITHOUT FOOD. By A. "W. MACY. That was a t rrible experi ence which Liei tenant Greyly and his companion underwent In the frozen region* of the north during the winter o 1883-4. From November 1 to March 1 the dally allowarce of food for each man was only 14.8F unces of solid food. It wil' K e ap preciated what this meant when It Is rememuered ttat th daily army ration allowed each oldler is 48 ounces. From Mamh " to May 12 tie daily al'owance to each member of— Qrecly party n- reduced to t unces of bread ad r eat, with one to three ounces . shrimps. From May ir. *-> June 22, a period of 40 days, there was no allowance, for there w no food The only things to be ha to eat were a f-w shrimps, r. ndeer moss and black che craped from the reel s. On Jure 22 a rescue party, ir J er the command of Winfield 5. Schley reached the all but famished men, but only stven of the o • jl twenty-five remained ai' • lv rlif'.t B BwV ia Jaobace P/t nts & •V .viii- r i duiitns have lieeu lt>.b u;:<1 ian justifiei in dying .Siat you can't buy any better plants, and l fee! sure you will be more than pleased with them at :he reasoi able price offered. Va * i-ties; Kiriy .Jersey. Charleston Wakeiieid Euly aud Late Elat Dutch, Early and Late Succession. Price s<X>. 75 eeuLs; -?1.00 per 1000; 5000 and over 85 cents per I"c0. Special price on large qoanities. Belt, Lettuce and Union Plants ready after December Ist. Write for price on these. Plants by mail 35 cents per 100. Shipments are in ide -ame day order is received aud satisfaction will be cheerfulh given. AppreciatiuTyour tavors, Alfred Jcuannet, Mt Preaeant, S- U. MET AND KEAFTI HINTS r, ;-b. r t. a-:.r.N food *-r REDUCED WEIGHT Of! MON ODiET OF APFLE3. A reader of there H’r s un dertook an exclusive diet of apples for ten days for the re duction of weight. He reduced seven pounds without inconven ience or interference with work, but on resuming the usual diet woe much troubVd for -rversl weeks with d'ecstive dc. o j-- rre-t. The e- “cr was in rh* ig ir suddenly to sppie? ami ?9 so ■- ! enly resuming the ordinary diet. I have repeatedly cau tioned against sudden changes, even in the adoption of an im proved diet. The syst-m will adapt Itself to any ordinary diet ir, time, even In an old p--son, but sudden changes are always tn be avoided: weaning is r.ot confined to Infancy. The shock resuiting from a great change indicates that there is a con stant condition of disturbance when the diet Is greatly varied, hence the benefits derived from the monodiet, partial or com plete. DIET AND HEALTH HINTS By DR. T. J. ALIEN Food Specialist FRUIT AND VECETADLCS INCOMPATIBLE. “To take fruit into th* stom ach along with vegetable*.” says Dr. R. S. Ingersolt, “will caust; trouble, for the fruit can not be separated frem the vege tal les.” Vegetables require *rcn two to f:ur hours te di gest, fru.ts about c”e hour, so that theee classes of foods are incompatible. The fact that the stomach discharges its contents at Intervals makes food* requir ing dlrrerent times for digestion none the less Incompatible, for examination of the contents of the stomach two hour* after eat ing such a combination shows the fruit, or a part of It, mixed with the ether food, and It is reasonable to suppose that the effort to separate the two, after the fruit is prepared to pass, Is wasteful of vitality and tend* to weaken the normal action of the stomach, and accordingly we fnd that In severe cases of dys □en'ia a sjitab’e monodiet is ?cer*ary.