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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. * A % .V* 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. OASTOIII A. dears tie The Kind You Have Always Bough! This Will Interest Mothers. Mother Gray s Sweet Powders lor Children cure Feverishness. Bad stom ach, Summer Bowel Troubles, Teething D.sordets, cleanse and regulate the Bowels and destroy- Worms. They never fail. Over 30,001* testimonials At all Druggists, 2.">0. Sample FREE address Alien S. O luisted. Leßoy, N.Y FOLEYSffONEY"®TAE Cures Colds: Prevents Pneumonia t. h;‘ .. D0.3 VVHtHfc V. RbE FATS. jPST I ,* * Syrup* Pastes Good. Use B®s foleyshoneyhdvh for children: safe, sure, Xo ooiates <r ~ -*o*. SB S L A ■ 3%. 3" jflk. . Sears .iio _/} The Kind You Save Always BoagH Xodoi dyspepsia s Owestn what jCu eat. 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. * An Elephant on Hl* Hands. “You’ll take a couple of tickets, of course. We're getting up a raffle for a 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. I A Happy 8 New Year I To you Farmers! You will cer tainly have a Merry Christmas feu as well as a prosperous, happy H New Year, if you used on your H crops at seed-time Pjg Virjrinia-Carolina Fertilizers. Now. to iusure yourself a 9 happy New Year every year, S’? and all the year through to H Christmas—continue to fertil- Sr ize your crops with these well- f* known brands. They will pay ■ you handsomely. vtrginia-carolina 4 CHEMICAL COMPANY 9 Richmond. Va. Atlanta, Ga. .v) Norfolk, Va. 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No man or woman who uses opium or whiskey in any tornt, or who has Iriends so artiieteti. should hesitate to write to DR. B. WOOLLEY, , 106 North Pryor St-P. O. Box N0.307 Atlanta, Ceorgia. fot his book or. these diseases, which he will send !•’KEB AND CUX!•'IDEXTIA L. 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Agt., ll(i Peachtree st. Atlanta, Ga. I* R. M. COFFEY, (J. P. and T. A.. 116 Peachtree st Atlanta. Ga. W. E. CHRISTIAN, ss’t. Gen*!. Pass. Agt.. Atlanta Ga Atlanta and Birralngliaiii j ! Air Line Railwav. ! West Bound East Bound j Read down Effect Nov. c, 1003 Read up 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 (Excepting Sunday.) Close connections as follows: At Cartersville, Ga., with W. A A R. R.; at Roekmart, Ga., with So. Rv.; at (Vdartown, Ga., with C. of Ga. Rv.; at Piedmont, Ala., with So. Ry.; at Pell Citv, A)a„ with So. Ry. Direct connections iD Atlanta for points east, northeast and southeast. 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