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OUR VIRGINIA LETTER
Hog Killing' Time in the
Old Dominion.
BIG DROVES OB SWINE.
Something of the Fine Cattle—
The School Interests Intel
ligently Talked About- ,
Ic is hog killing time. I would
be ash l ned to let the figures be
seen that would express the num
ber of yards of sausage and
pound-, of pudding which I have
consumed.
Tnanksgiving day passed very
qme:. Business generally was
su-p-noed. Service at a great
ma<i> hutches. For'several da>s
pi t. * ions the merchants were busy
shipping turkeys, thousands being
seuc av ty from this county. I
don >t it there were a dozen turkeys
eaten by the raisers. Prices were
too high —fifteen cents per pound,
gross It is a very common sight to
see 'ticks numbering from fifty to
seventv-five. The larger part are
being held for the Christmas
market.
I wish some of the growers of
cattle n Eartow cctrld see the
beef Cr tie raised and fattened here; i
they are mostly red Durhauis. I
saw one that weighed 19S0 lbs., it
was a Durham, a braed of hornless
cattle. Some predict it is the com- :
; ug breed of cattle, for it does away
with all dehorning: all cattle are
dehorned. This is generally done
when they are in their second >ear. j
I saw a bunch of twenty dehorned,
it looks like a very cruel operation, j
but is done so quickly that some i
go to eating # in fifteen minutes
after the operation. The advantage 1
is very great, both in feeding and
shippi g. The farmers are about j
through shucking and housing the |
corn crop, which was very fine. !
I have hail a talk with Mr. Hul- j
vey, the county superintendent of
public schools. This county has a
population of near 35000. I did
not ascertain the school population.
There was upon the roll 152 teach
ers, but by concentration they have
been reduced to 128; the pay of
teachers runs from s:?sto S4O, ac
cording to grade. The school
houses contain two to four rooms,
,each room being a different
grade. The schools run five
to seven mouths in the country,
according to the amount of money
each district has; the school board
in each district consists ot three
members, and levy a tax in addi
tion to the state, some running as
as 15c on the hundred.
Here are the figures in the two
largest districts, Stone Wall pays
to teachers, $8,237,45; balance,
$1,856,78; Ashby, paid teachers
$7,870,90; balance, $3,640,90. Each
district builds its own school hous
es and keeps them in repair. The
superintendent gets a fixed salary,
very' small when amount of work
is taken into consideration. At a
few places they have consolidated ,
the small sclyiofs, making graded
schools, aud are trying hauling the
children who are too far off, thus
having better schools, at about the
same cost. The pay of the teach
ers saved nearly the hauling
account. The district board has a
wagon built for the purpose, with
a cover, and contract with some
man to furnish aud drive the team:
weather bright and cool.
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a~ - W^m
“What is the matter with our candi
date?” asks the first politician, “lie
wires me that he is too ill lo si>eak to
night.”
“He made a mistake." explains tin
second politician. “Inadvertently he
smoked one of the cigars he had
bought to hand out to the voters.”
Till: N’KVVS, CARTERSVILLE, GEORGIA. DEC. 1 5. 190-4
VACATION DAYS ARE OvER.
Ttit 5 CNQGL
Johnnie’s idea of what he is up against.
—Omaha World-Herald.
FOR THE LITTLE ONES.
“Whalers of New Bedford” Is a Lively
Outdoor Cams.
A good game, just suitable for
this season, i- the game of the ‘'whal
ers of New Bedford." Some partic
ular spot of the playground is se
lecled to represent the harbor of
New Bedford. All the players ex
cept two scatter and pretend to be
whales. The two who remain must
join hands and “put to sea” from
New Bedford to go a-whaling.
They must select a particular
“whale” and go after him, but un
der no circumstances must they let
go of each other in doing it.
The “whale” must be carried suc
cessfully into port, and he may re
sist his captors all he pleases, with
the exception, of course, of punch
ing or otherwise making a rough
fight. Naturally the whalers try to
catch the smallest “whale” first.
Arrived in port, the “whale” be
comes a whaler and takes his turn
at going out, hand in hand, with one
of the first whalers to Catch another
“whale,” and so on till the sea is
fished out.
How to Cut a Bottle.
Cut two -lips of paper long enough
for each to encircle the outside of a
bottle, leaving an uncovered space
between the slips. Fasten them in
place by a thread and then wrap'a
piece of twine around the uncover
ed glass between the strips.
Tie .one end of the twine to a nail
or some convenient hook. Hold the
other end with one hand and with
the other move the bottle quickly
backward and forward. This is done
in order that the twine may rub
upon the exposed glass between the
paper bands. This action will short
ly cause the surface of the glass to
heat.. After it is well heated drop
some cold water on it. Now, by a
sharp stop, you may break the bot
tle in half so evenly that there will
not be one jagged place in the en
tire circle of the break.
What a Comma Does.
Here is a “catch” that is so sim
ple that it will make everybody won
der why he didn’t see it at once,
yet 'hardly any one will be able to
answer it correctly the first time.
The question is: “How can this
be? A man wrote the following
sentence on the blackboard: ‘Ten
fingers I have on every hand, five
and twenty on hands and feet.’”
The reply is that the mixup is
due simply to a misplaced comma.
Take the comma away from after
“hand” and put it after the word
“have,” and the sentence is perfect
ly clear and correct.
FOR THE LITTLE ONES.
An Amusing Game Which Tests the
Sense of Hearing.
Provide a large and small bell, a
whistle, a glass tumbler, tin cup,
slate, key, pencil, etc. Let your
party see what objects are struck
and notice the sounds of each. Aft
er striking lightly various objects,
a- tltC tabic, chair, stove pipe, bell,
tumbler, cup, etc., two or three
times request your friends to close
their eyes and then tell by its sound
what object is struck.
Change the position of some of
the objects before striking them and
let the listeners discern the change
from sound alone.
Call four or live aside and let each
read figures or spell words from a
book while the eves of the others
are closed and request them to tell
which one read by the sound of the
voice.
0 Matilda at the Piano.
Matilda's music lessons have just begnm
again!
Miss Perkins comes at nine o'clock and
goes away at ten.
And from the moment she arrives until
the hour Is through
Vou hear, ' One, two! One, two! One, two!
One. two! One, two! One, two!
tf you're pissing through the hallway,
and you peep ii. at the door
You"l see Matilda sitting there. (Her feet
uon't touch the floor!)
L.'.e ;i fairy on a mushroom, in her mus
lin and h r lace,
Matilda 1 lays the treble and Miss Per
kins plays the baa*.
I'm half af"ufd Matilda hates to play like
anything!
There's a wrinkle on her forehead when
she hears the doorbell ring.
And she says. “Good morning!” sadly,
and I've notice , as a rule,
That she walks, oh, very slowly to the
big piano stool!
From time to time the music stops, and
then you hear, “i can't!"
But there's this about Matilda, that she
never says, “I shan't!”
For there may he luts of trouble, but of
temper not a trace
When Matilda plays the treble and Miss
Perkins plays the bass.
The piece Matilda's learning—and that
now and then she pounds!—
I3 called “The Silver Fountain,” and
that's just the way it sounds,
For It’s “tinkle, tinkle, tinkle,” on the lit
tle upper keys,
And in one place, near the middle, there’s
some trilling, if you please!
It is very hard to learn and very easy t*
forget;
It will take her all the season just to do
this one duet,
And the concert comes at Easter! On the
programme there’s a place
Where Matilda plays the treble and Mis*
Perkins plays the bass.
Oh, the concert! Oh, the concert! I re
member it last year.
And Matilda all excitement and embar
rassment and fear.
And the rows of people listening and
ready to applaud,
And the little boy in velvet that the au
dience encored!
Oh, the concert! Oh, the concert! And
Matilda so dismayed!
(Last year it was “The Gambol of the
Brownies” that she played.)
And such shaking and such quaking
and you should have seen her face
When Matilda played the treble and Miss
Perkins piayed the bass!
—Youth's Companion.
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Leopard
Escaped
JVetv y
S' hot It cur It Jumped at
Him F'rcrn a
•A n Fjc citing Midnight Chcue In
Uronjc "ParK. y orK.
City—Fired Gun
Just In Time.
Ten policemen and a squad of keep
ers had a leopard hunt in Bronx park,
New York, between midnight and 1
o’clock one night recently. They bag
ged the game they were looking for. If
they hadn't it is entirely likely that the
leopard would have bagged a police
man. The quarry was an eight foot
THE CROUCHING LEOPARD LEAPED FOit
HIM.
snow leopard taken to the zoological
park recently from the Himalayan
mountains.
lx cycle Policeman Walter Ivaine
filed just in the nick of time. If he
had pulled the trigger a second or two
later he would have been torn to
pieces by the infuriated leopard.
The leopard was called Prince. He
wps one of three from the Himalayas.
They were said to be the only speci
mens of the snow leopard In this coun
try and were valued at SBOO each.
Their habitat is in the lofty snow clad
mountains, and one is rarely below an
elevation of 9,000 feet. Ever since
their arrival they have been a center
of attraction.
Because snow leopards must have
plenty of cool air they bad more liber
ties than most of the other animals at
the zoo. They were permitted to stay
in an outer cage in the lion house at
night. Prince measured eight feet
from tip to tip and was two and a half
feet high. The animals were fed
through a skylight in the roof of the
cage.
This skylight had been left unfas
tened, and it was through this that
Prince made his escape. Night Watch
man Yeldern discovered that the big
leopard was missing about 11 o'clock
and at once gave the alarm.
As soon as the animal keepers ar
rived on the scene they summoned the
police. Ten policemen were soon on
the ground. For nearly an hour they
scouted around in the bushes in the
neighborhood of the lion house. The
keepers went in the lead, with torches.
It*was decided that there was no hope
of recapturing the big leopard and
that he must be slxit on sight.
Bicycle Pol iceman Kaine is a crack
shot, and for that reason the zoo's, teu
gauge repeating- shotgun was handed ’
to him. Kaine left the others and
walked over to a clump of dwarf trees
just opposite the cage from which the
snow leopard had escaped. Besides
the shotgun he carried a long pole.
With this he poked in the foliage.
Presentfy he heard a low growl. Then
there was another growl louder than
the first. He called out to the others to
come to his assistance, but his call was
too late. He had just dropped the pole
and made ready to take a quick shot
when Jus eye caught a glimpse of a
croud big figure in the darkness mov
ing v. ;;!i cat-like stealth toward I)ini.
Kahn- .- ys he had Just seen two
ey< ' u glittered like balls of fire in
t! 0 1! . ; x:s when the crouching leop
ard : - leap for him. He knew
he h ■ : o lime to lose in taking aim.
and so he clapped the gun to his shoul
der and fired at the leopard in midair.
The load of buckshot struck it in the
neck and severed the jugular vein.
Kaine had jumped aside as soon ns
he fired, but the animal was dead
when it struck the ground. The skin
of the leopard will be stuffed and
mounted in the Natural History muse
um.
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poor cripple in our neighborhood”—
“None for me. thank you. I wouldn't
know what to do with a poor cripple
if I won him.”— Philadelphia Press.
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Nos.-- Nos.—
jBO 23 21 22 24 88
jAM PM AM PM AM AM
(IAN) (LAN)
Dly’ex. D’ly ex.
mon. aily. Cent. Time daily.mov.
... 430 822 l. Atl (WiAryp a. 73011 45 ....
2 50162(i] 102fj Cartersville...ft 1519301 220
3(d31j102s .. Ladds AOS 9 22) 204
317 6 .Stilesboro . j 403 911 149
329 6 52; 105 - .' Tavlorsyille 441 901 133
343 701110 Davitts 432 851 1 17
3 4917 061110 c ...Aragon 4298 J 3 112
402 7 lull 14' . Rock mart-... 4 17 83a 101
409 7 35111 311. Fish Creek 358817 12 41
4 25j7 41 jll XSj . . .Grady .3 50 8 111 12 30
4408 04 II 57j t Oedarto wn .1. 3327 48 12 13
528 .... 124’!.Esom Hill .a. 250. . lias
585 .... 12 8.. Warners. .. j 2 45 ... 11 31
543 1257 . Palestine ;23* ... 1120
603 1 Hi; Wilson Ridge 218 10 55
616)... 129; Piedmont. .1204 .10 44
635; . 147' ... Mrices 1 47... 10 25
657| 204; .Tredegar . ;128 10 05
220 ArJacksonville Lv 1 10
710 258 Lv. .Tampa—Lv 12 33 951
720 315 Ar .. Dukes 12 22 935
725 —Lv Dukes (LAn) Ar 915
820 .... ArAnmslon “ Lv.... 825
3 50 ArGadsden ( LiYN).ll 45
.... 4 10“ Attalla “ 1125 ....
.... 319 Lv Dukes ... Ar 12 15
. . 329 Hebron 12 02
342 Ohatehie 1140 . ..
354 ...Lock Three 1120
4 15 Ragland 10 55
4 42 Ethel 10 20
436 I nman ... ... 10 !7 ....
.... 452 Coal City 10 00 .
514 Ar Pell Citv.. Lv 930
955 Ar... Birmingham (So. Rv) ..Lv 010
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