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• P. O. Box 305, - - Athens, G|a
"'aher W«-limansays tbidT fee
doesn't care to try for tho north pcj'e
again himself, but that, he can po/nt
oni a sure way to get there
explorer who can raise ?100,000. Cw m '
mand<r Peary is still
n (l > <l<» iiis own xpl|’ r ‘
tir'd rcgret v,;,! b " fe,t fhrouisJ’Ot
Jnr.:'.ry sos the loss sustained jl’y I
JolUf fiSt ,
f opkins university in thrt BP 1 "
tnn® , ../"I
In T I'-mht.y buildings !.<loj»K
--,lt ’ '** > \lier, and valued at ?1 3(]owW,
destroyed. It is estimate'’ I
H, ’jaiiee. even if paid in fullj Will
not *
cover more than half the-,, loss.
1 het &.
~ •’ buildings gave a levenßß ip
the l . jwTV
anniK verßil > in ren,s “ f per
( je publication by tho Paris Figaro -•
th ‘ e an interview between
, . late President Felix Faure add ’
late , m
n j K ;mt Mqravicff, who wafttfreh
. . , sla i minister of foreign affair®,
1 “ to the Fasho<lkiaMcfc
(fen
1”' Figaro fbUfe of
a 'lubuuair offer by Russia fbjofa
r Fr *nce U ;var against Great BriW|
refusal of tho (.WMK|
fl iotr k uprfVin- . zw
■3 x~,»rnday. M ,.tk a so franklV
was already foreshadowed.
|p!jp Jww <SS!I *h* rea<^ war news,
I’’ mind that nearly every
wM 1 " Corea has three names, the
the ( hlnese ami the Japanoqjj,
■at each of those throe has sev-
forms of spelling. $q
same place is
jHBn according to the source froßj
n<WS CU ""' S - T,IIIS . I’iyfr;
we commonly call it, and :k g
call it, is I’hyong-Au, <>T
the Coreans, and
Japanese. Vongamph&
- Yon;-, (’lion and
Vtin Ki p So ciioa J,, mentionoi
dispatches as tin' point
MB I in ('orca by the Russian mil
figure:', on some mapfl’-E
appear tn some dispatched a<d|
and as Shyong Chyn. Chy® ra
•**'**'hyiing-Chyong, to whielx <
f in stan ntriguors are said to bilS
) , lo Pers a< ie the Coroan emper-iL.
etnovo ds court from Seoul, isflß
an l 50 miles east of Seouljf
•Mm-Y 01g river a brannh of thot[
Seoul liv er.
""rid p ro( j U ctio n of copper isi <
a li " , ° fess than 600,000 tons aiM
• o<! he United States supplies j |
it, announces the&|
• ‘ukSun/Twenty time years ago»
f 11 ~a ootiut approximated 25,000tt|
* r ~c P'Odluetion for 1903 is esti
ni/ ’K n> arC y 320,000 tons, or about BB
I»> C ♦LuO'
_ of a quarter of a century
‘ i*w«ig t,lat ,inie the total out-EJ|
.* other countries of the ■a
?t a little more
• United States is now f a
k* ' > k S9fl
A ■rjß’l’'’ l ' cenln ' llt ' ie world. ■■
T-/ JP* 1 ,1 onr home product, weß
I lU“iiv^V^' a,!a
--' i'S elsewheV ,n 'ajlous fit "'*
' □•ulus, ImrsXiJßs. etc., W^uau£
Vproximating 15 percent
sot our domestic copper.
’•lion of this comes as ot«|
( '".•'V ' lor smelting ami retininßß
■’ M fl k establishments Out
A A Mkprodueed amMniporlHß
UH export, t,i •!:?'
Hr live yearsjlab
'lßi*' ■» AaSßhj -aving ,b e
' m: ' rOl 4 e «HrE
hut. I
■ ■ '
!I* /■ HE “TYLER” iMA |
■ f ne S |°ry of “How Mary Had a tjH!® j
Wf , aftlb ” Came to be Written. 1 *
jt wrote' “Mary Had a Lit’ft
? t:t likely to say, “Mother GooJS
Se ’” That is not so. Marl®
w ‘ s U ni,irG recent
>i£ .. indeed, that, it is strange thQ
Hkontl ’ . . M
T, vorsy can have already aristra
wiboij.. , , . ■ W|;
its authorship, but such is ’’i f|
< It was written at some time W 9
i st. third of the 19th cenutry. Aisf
• . ’• tom I since relv believe, aiw 4 *
i tit can be proved, that it w«
- j’ 11 ?!! by Mrs. Sarah Josepha Hal®
iff aksays it was, and not to
Bl? jS&Tyler by one John
-t says it was. I am nrffi|
■i that Mrs. Tyler says that
r! account of the factsH
'Jmß ll ' rentier the conviction ofß
t i ee ' myself, I must
t I'lißl' 3 heixstory as told by @
’ lint cryiews reported in th.®®
new"JK- *** ■ I
land' told when she was AT
'' 11 Id j woman in Somerville/
A y / g anyt |,i n g by the omis-
. ? iOn ® it loses, perhaps, tho
j ~i! and effect given it by her obvi
•oc no nne can doubt that belief, I
t f*’i|< that these, which are substan-
f ’V*/ her f<Ty words, give truly all .
. i librself have thought essen-
• I' tk ‘
' I >ie was’ttßry E. Sawyer of Sterl- ,
,4 n l Mass., Ivtts born in 180f>, and was ;
ft,J, tt 11 witta her mother persuaded
® p| to takefiLr pet lamb to school. |
Th ihmb by her teach-
I ®'- Mary heiWlf then took the lamb
ou * and tied y in a shed until noon.
Rb -n she urtled it, and it. followed
H*”' home, .nim Roulstone, a student
l* v 'ng with his uncle, the parish min
t r * ( r, was visiting the school that, fore-
I h’Xm, and the next day he came to the
i old school house and
Ma, r y a s ]jp o j p a per upon which were
wr |lten 12 lines, which are, she says,
• hi, original verses of four lines each,
* those “Mary lost and never knew
' it became of them.” That would be
J n ?817. When the written copy had
n lost for nearly a quarter of a
I*’ 1 ' tury, and xiany years after the
j/ e ith of the lamb, Mary was sur-
| ,H nsed to read aLpoem by Mrs. Sarah
C b lsepha Hale that contained three
jVjrses of eight lines each, and the first
| \frjines of which were the same as
I '.Wh b3rilol.n ..Uoiilstjine in
I I JI7 Mary had them in IB.—Tfe-
MrfrrUtolVg.£ al< i <o have a<)d
3T>vler’s” sfOrj.—JTrLi WfWitSr
■. of jf>-’• L - A - '■
*" jl the Case.
i was In a country police court, fend
on one side had occasion to
■r £o a dead man, whose evidence,
® lived, would have been impor-
defunct,” the lawyer said,
h ave corroborated me in this,
’ w?Mr' Ors h'* ,s ' ” or “The defunct,
Jmil please the court, would, were
jk < or, “It is notorious that the
.JEy* declared frequently, your wor
and so on.
’hehever these references to the I
d( fl man were made, indignant objec- |
t 2s came from the lawyer on the |
o Tr Side. The words “the defunct,” I
always caused a squabble, and
jt fas-to be observed that in this
g^ i bble one of the magistrates— a |
g -made jnan—had from the begin
been disposed to take part. He
and shook his head in repro
.‘.ion a great deal, and filially he said j
'jS&Bflhtlv. — I
Whai's the use o’ talkin' so much ’’
& 4Ut this chap you call the defunct?’
pVt yon bring him here and let him
iHjk fbr himself?” b
The defunct's dead, your worship." )
lawyer interposed hastily. i
.he magistrate looked mollified. I
i that alters the case.” he said, f
’’®,\ Culture and Riches. I
S one tenth as much attention were]
d t*ted to the fools among the middl®
wo: king classes as is devoted t<J
sons of the rich, we would
H WW' er Os believing with CarWf] e '
people are mostly ‘fo»' s >•
w’ e t,ult the eulture of tha|r SUl j.
KHnOeh is cinder and (( ian
of those who gen
of wealth and but cnl
relative. Tb.eZn lltu ,. e of th „
1 1, ()!i | wor |M
Ui»esult of lar^r KVeai . h piISSCSSC «
lu^^j ( n( . Vll . j n piiv .
ai ’ ib ss gl ' euiture of
in this country as com- I
BMJHMhi of
RKMFn youth ami aae. mffcn m e
d'hote is a < om]>:'irauve
TWmpness in the eulture. bearing and
of the people of the West as I
c 9 ipftred with those of the East, and
Hr the same reason. The aristoiracy i
Hthe South and of New England have
■f eflnement quite unlike that of the
■wly made rich in New York and
:ago and the West. They have
K?;> longer in the making.
S«;he annual government expenditures
»'the'promotion of agriculture qre: J
spent, by the states and 1?6.-
Ji.udO by the national secretary of
■riculture. i
HOW ffri OOKED AT
“Yes.” said r.. author, “I got ttewf
letters complin|nting me on that </no
short story.” | f
“That must' have made you f«®l
' proud.’
' “It didn’t.” !
“What did it'do?” ,
"Why, it onto made me feel that T
didn’t get enough for it wh ..if*? sold
d lL ” —Chicago Host.
READY 710 TAKE A HAND.
I Satan— Wai ; rights in and get ac-
with the fiends.
New Arrival —Thanks! Wheniabouts
are the poker fiends? —Punch.
j- - |
k impressi 3ns Qf Hich sp ce j,
Ik, l made two trips in eac h cir over
fourteen jaMea of track. At the
Uid of the fir Jt mi ] e tlie carfcas gx>-
nßg seventy m p es an hour; atjthe end
SV the secon j m ii e between ninety
l|nd one hundt e( j j n fact, my interest
jKvas so aroua !( j y,y the rapid ty with
tyhich the sp ee d indicator bad kept
.pmplng up, t jj at we were Tinning a
hundred mil c an hour iefore 1
thought to lc®t Q U t of the window.
When I did^^^v as disappointed. It
was evident v were traveling at tre
mendous s P e< w, but the car was very
steady, and t® re was no th ng excit
i mg. The s< W.,htion was shout the
iijame as thaj which a passenger on
i the bake Sh<b re Road gets when tho
train is running seventy mile an hour.
Later, as I by the sido of the
■ motorneer, oi- with the brakeman at
the rear, the sensation was far more
• vivid.
Standing 'nst behind the motor
wheel in thehepnt of the car, one is
far nearer tip track than he is when
in a steam tjigine; and the frightful
rate at whki th e track is being de
| voured is m3 e evident. The impact
jof flies, bees,L nf i even birds upon the
■ curved glassV m nt of the car serves
o heighten jhe effect. I must con
fess that I !(](] my breath as 1 saw
' the curvg-'^t ie j n sight. Apparently
| tlie track enied, and the car seemed
| directed straght into the air at a
sieed to send it flying over
iyto the Geriian ocean. As it glided
sfaoothly roiiid the curve the sensa
tion was something like that which
oe has in aj express elevator in one
i ollour Amerlpan skyscrapers when he
! isylroppej .from the fifteenth floor,
t r® - niol ■< sure whether he will
♦flp at the o®§*Mkst.ralght
v 'Ugh to Chita.—Hcnl 1 ,, ITritchett,
» < P fiEXq- .
In the da s of K.c |
ely had notleamed to lot” ..
’ as a foe lobe sQnnned at any cost. '
but the quitu firing iriagartns rifle hag
taught him hat if he* possibly can he
I must keep cit of man’s sight. He has ’
now been driven back into the almost
inaccessible solitudes of the north
western Rbjky Mountains, and the I
sportsman who wishes to add his pelt
find dangliny necklace ot' claws to his
collection o! hunting trophies must
travel far aid endure much hardship
and labor, or “old Ephraim,” as he
1 (was called fey sfce Western pioneers,
/ 'is as cunning is fierce.—From J. I
I M. GIeiTSGnS. *'«io Grizzly Bear,” in
/St. Nicliblai.
ESTTM.VTUWJ WIE POSSIBILITIES.
Archie (to ißitimate friend) —I’d
propose to Miss Jarvis in a minute if
I wasnS nfr’Mfl, Do you think I’d
I stand atjy .e'handr. old chap?
IntimlW: Friepd—Why, of course
)you would/ She’d say ?ither yes or
no. wouwnt sfeb?—Chicago Tribune, i
~ i
WOtyEN tjJREAK DOWN.
-*•
SometfWfcß wfllnen drift into a con
dition ‘f’half invalid.” Continual
out. run down, back- I
he. nerves shattered, !
adache, (terrible pain,
• appetite, poor diges
>n. I unit incases out of
n it’s because the kid
ys fail to lotheir work
filtering the poisonous
stem w.iw from the
tod. Tin Nkidueys are
?ak and | need the
rengthen tfg help of
jan’s K Aney Pills, i
'ad how f these pills'
pair a vdeakened phy
?al coalition when j
is condition is caused
I
ttles, of 1394 w. 4 t p '
Ave., Dhid. sajfs; "Prior to I
the 1 suffered bonsidornbly 1
from ■i k.rcTipain in the head. lan- '
gnor .-jiid xtaftvssion and iveakness of ■
the aeiMJC lof.lthe kidneys f The pain
was iIWHV J vr >rse in the Uaornin- and :
I felt inWe-Wble. I was induced to pro.
cure ttftwxiofjfioan’s Kidn y Pills and
I begiwi lliey proved prompt
and They cur- d niPi and j
there fees been no return of the trouble I
since I owe a n the credit
to Kidaey Pills."
A I'KEF Till AL of this j rea | ki dn<l y
medicine cured M Mettles
will ’iii.iileil on applica ion to any
' part Siate< • Address
’ Huffal 1 . N. V. For
| sale O'*ffWj|p¥Sjst3, prk e 50 cents
j per bpX. -1 ’ |
’ NEW PIONEERS
The Camps of Sret ■■ !iiCfclM|yg NO
Longer E>oMblj]|E
While placer miningiv
ing way to lode
cf metals from w of |
the earth, which obv®Kpra|ri lands,!
the expenditure of skill 1
and money— the bulk from
i Siberia. Alaska, the Nijß^^H^rr ito-
I vies and seme other still
i obtained from auriferous But
. , this void is being the
j Cid-fashioned method SMbinß min
ing. bin by the spe-
a! ma< hinery under jßhluyJ direc-
:n; as, for example,'in tfßodfees of
I ir iraulic mining and 'of “g4l >redg-
AViih the progress'Of
and the partial placer
i lit-ids, many changes jh whnjrKiy' he
'■ailed the exterua^amjj/dte
P'.cts of gold miyn
camps
wrote so graph exist.
I Railroads now run int® most cf the
. ; larger camps. Electric lights and other
i up-to-date convenience are in evidence
i and the conservative opinion engender
ed by the presence of and its
responsible agents has created an at
mosphere in which the old-fasbioned"
“bad man” of the camps flour-
■ The quondam prospector, tlt>, in his
. slouch hat and top boots, is, alas! be
j coming merely a picturesque figure of
i the past. He has done mugifor the
mining in this country,; the
I plucky, hardy pioneeii pwietrating
j dangerous and almost inaccessible re
gions in his search for precious metals.
Tiie method of pioneering ts differ
: er. t now. The pioneers are mostly rep-
■ • ntatives of capitalists, travailing in !
I parties, and in all other respdcfk well ’
, equipped for journeys into unsettled
regions. American experts nokv go to
Siberia, Asia, South America?" Africa
and all other parts of the where
' gold and other metals are likeiy to be
I found. ' ;*]
With the prospector with no other
capital than hope and the grub-stake
is passing away, fortunately for
j the mining investor, the so-called
j practical miner, who poses as an au
thority on the value of mineral de
posits. He is being superseded by
i young men thoroughly educated in
mining schools, and equipped, with
practical expertencetffoi the field.
, All this means tMat mining is be
coming less of ai fflvmblti and more of
a science, and is conmTcted ap
proved and established lines, few
' years ago a man Tot means <<■> was
ested in a
Success?'* ’ '•
Appeflf JR ’ .
; Some amazing appeals are iacre ~
! the rich by persons -who have lo maa
; ner of claim upon them. Th follow
! ing is a list of some of th things
j asked of a rich woman, bot at per
sonal interviews and by lettl> within
the last few months, says !^ e New
¥®rk Sun:
An Indiana man begged trft money
be, sent to pay the cost a’lTnioval
of his household goods front ,ne town
Ito another. And anot her petitioner i
! preferred a request for a arm ant l
' three cows, so that tie an®’ B - sweet- i
■ heart could get married af jn ce.
A Now York woman asb i f° r five
, hundred dollars to procurd er daugh- ,
tor’s trousseau. The girl iJI a chance
• of making a good match immediately,
she said, if only the mone/was forth
coming to get the weddinPtitfit.
A widow asked to rail- i
road stock bought for he! b u t added j
that she would be satts e( i with a
small annuity for life.
A young woman urgent' requested .
an interview, and upon its being
granted asked for mono to get her .
. sealskin coat out of pawi an d certain
articles of jewelry whit were like
wise detained.
A young student tnoney to
pay for his education wa pSy'Sk’hHU I
An artist put in an. apiication for
money to get householdgoods out of
storage.
A western woman ,j mon ‘
ey be sent to enable r-old
daughter to take a trip ' York
and see the world. A^^^EL' ,nlan
asked for a sewing a
* college graduate ‘ v here
withal to set up a photc®p gallery.
A man wrote for S° to a
Keeley institute, and musician ;
Solicited money and to bring :
out her oratorio. I
The Owl and the :o °-
The Birds, having to a Ruler, |
chose the Cockatoo, d. zzled by
the splendor of his
The Owl expostulat<W av >ng:
“What, in the namSß Gamekeep- ■
ers, can have ®i®ct as i
your Ruler that mostMp’i' 3llß of all j
feathered fowls?”
“Why, just look at ■eautiful yel
low •Crest!" replied thK :,< r Birds.
“Yellow Crest be ■fae.rmatized,”
the Owl retorted cotiwP 1 uously. “It
is not what a Bird vM* oo the Top
of his Head that maS9- It is what
be has inside.” -
Moral: it takes mo® ! ’ an a foronet
to make a Statesmaiß-ondotl Truth
ON® ' t
"So/ OF THOSE GE\TttstE3.
heZWTour husband is bnsf now, Is ' $
ps; Lysander has bee( working 3.
Mpy steady of late.” I
I is he doing WnBI
Indianapolis Sun. J<n<e. j «*#**•*
G *NG THE ROUNW
Miranda—l ac«epted Mr. .
last night, and he is going lt /■
engagement ring today. <1 “ 4 |
Murie—Oh. he already hagft.. I 1
returned to him this morning fc one
he me.—Life. t".
■ rr
_ & *
Tlm< an<f<F?L -
th*
Httle Is ><M*eli ite, as
" i« aßwr' a’fit of harmonya -eg the
loongs, but if he does anythingfoouTd
—and I know he will —bate thj wan
next to him an’ ’twill frighten aim.” '
Chicago Journal. < _ •
FITS permanently cured. No fits
ness after first day’s use of Dr. Klh'VGroat
Nerve Restorer.? 2 trial bottleand tre tisefree
Dr. R. H. Ki.tne. Ltd., 931 Arch St., Pr.i p a
Reciprocity is the art of excha.kjg
something you don't want for some : >~,
you do. ■* .
Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup forphllarsn
teething, soften the guins, reduces inflamma
tion allays pain, cureswind colic. 2t>e. abottlr
M hat a jolly old world this would be if V
all men practised what they preach! g
Old Sofas. Back? of Chairs, etc., can be A
dyed with Putnam Fadeless Dyes. g
Love may intoxicate a man, but marriage W
sobers him. "I
I do not believe Piso’s Cure for Consump
tion has unequal for coughs and colds.—John
F.Eoyeb, Trinity Springs, Ind., Feb. 15,1900.
Two often cease to be company after w
they are made one.
Lighting and Water.
It is practically impossible to
an electric spark of high electromotive
force to leap from one surface of a
liquid to another. For this reason itJs j
rare that lightning strikes the surfate’' 4 ’-
of water.
How’s This?
We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward for
any case of Catarrh that cannot be cured by
Hall’s Catarrh Cure.
F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, O.
We, the undersigned, have known F. J.
Cheney for the last 15 years, and believe him
perfectly honorable in all business transac
tions and financially able to earrjj out any
obligations made by their firm.
West A; Truax, Wholesale DruggistsfyLfEkL
Jfcdo, o, ' : ’W'Xs
. >.i •• .■ f ’
! S ■ • of tae ■1 • j • -niabf.
I f rfiw, Vbc,.vetff 1;
! x*k«i HMU’s’t . ..ilr PIUj for •
w * tH
'lias Kight to Pra.Y For Japan. JS
! At least one man in pious®
prays that victory may perch'on tl»
I banner of the Jap in the war now ba
j ing waged. This is Colonel John SJ
bieski, of Richmond, lineal heir It j
j King John Sobieski, of Poland. /
nTosfs ONE CENt
1 Write, us a postal card for a free sample of
STUART’S GIN AND BUCH'J.
I We cheerffflly send it to al! Sufferers of Kid
, ney. Liver, Heart. Bladder and Blood diseases
I v n n e S’. lPSt '. U wil! <io a!1 th “t we claim for it.
| full directions with sample sent. Mention
i Paper- Address STI'ART DRUG M’F’G
j CO.. 28 Wall Street, ATLANTA. GA.
■MILLSkSSI
Universal T.<w Beams,Rectilin-W
terms Set Worksand the Bea rt
irialjle Feed Works are lines-
CRACY. SIMPLICITY, DUBABII-h|
ofopf.ration. Write for fullfifi
frevjars. M anufactured hv : be«a
< WORKS.-Winston-Snlen’.N.C.W
This is What You Want !
Have You Any Malarial Troubles ?
yr a ßJ to well and get well quick? If so,
•end a lyostoftice order for fifty cents to th©
REGAU MEDICINE C0.,0f Stamford, Conn.,
i for cine and directions. A quick and certain
cure guaranteed in a.ll cases of malaria, chills and
fever, dumb ague and intermitteiu fevex.
ELECTRIC FLUID.
Vl ThCßrcat pain extractorjctirM
v' rheumatism, neuralgia, colit
} crampsand all aches and i-aiR
"•Wn Nothing like it. Try a bo'.tM.
Xd wk/JCTb-. 3ave doctor's bills. Ask v flg
(L .KMruggist to net it, or send IB
W' W - C - HUOHK'N, At I •
' Gb - Agents wanted; big WT-
w. L douclK| <
54.00, $3.50, SS.OQftO
W.'B? SHOES 'y'- x d '
j W.L.Douglas shoes J Ra i~”i
i are worn by more sci
men than any other f
make. The'reason jj, . "
is, they hold their
shajte,titbetter,wear t
longer, and have <1
greater intrinsic j' X,.
value than any *
Other shoe-b
Sold Everyuihare. t ' '
T«ook for Home and piv** Hnes; ;
Douglas uses Corona < B o r //e /g/*72i'
everywhere conceded to)« : ( .tiaioS ”
Leather yet produced, a * 4 ><-kton Mass.
Shoes bv mail.2' ‘ ents PKir:>
W. E. <)O( GLz\>l paper wneri
Give the name of ,
writing to advertiser®!-. . \
£ t
It afflicted tvitli T’.ftkwA J fe. I]
weak eyea, use