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The Search-Light.
BAIN BUI DUE, JULY 27 1901.
A VERY CURIOUS BIRO.
fk« Oa« TnnnK Mark Twala Ipmg
t'poa Ike SeleallaW.
lilurk Twain’s fattier wns u;i ornithol
ogist. He bad neverat friends who
’ were also eotbuslast* on tbe subject of
birds. Whenever atlf one of t!a>m dis
covered a raru uvls It was theft-nstotu
to hare a consultation. Mark bail been
a witness of several of those bird In-
quests and bad noted tbe delight tbe
old ui«*n took lu discussing ti new
found specimen. One day It occurred
to btui to provide tbe Haunlluil orni
thologists with a rent circus In tbe
form of a bird. He killed a crow and
also a barnyard rooster. I’luck ins out
the tall feathers of both the crow and
tbe rooster, ho sulmtltuted the rooster's
tall feathers for those of the crow, pro
ducing a unique effect. When he laid
the specimen nicely ttrepareU. be went
to bis father and. banding It to him,
said:
"Hera father. Is a very curious bird
1 shot. I thought you would be Inter
ested lu It."
The old gentleman tensed upou the
specimen with astonishment. That
evening Che ornithologists of Haunlbnl
were assembled lu Mr. Clemens' pur-
lor. Tbe rare specimen was put liefere
them. The discussion wits long and
learned. The opinions expressed were
various. One thought the blnl was un
offshoot of the bird of |inrndlse fam
ily: others bad equally ridiculous no
tions as to Its ancestry, Hut there was
cue who refused to lie swerved by tbe
peculiarity of the bird's tall from the
judgment that It was of the crow fam-
lly.
"Why. Just look here.” be said, lift
ing tbe bird by Its tall feathers, lie
got uo further. The feathers came
out. There was a quick closing of n
door. Mr. Clemens started to leave
the room.
“Gentlemeu.” he said, “please excuse
inc a few moment*. I will see Samuel
first sod explain later."
The Olu Fasplao.-d Boy.
At a little dinner of a few old timers
Is this city the other night one of the
speakers said.
“Wliat has become of the eld fash
ioned hoy. tbe one w ho looked like his
father rrhefi his father carried the sort
I of pomposity which was like the divin
ity that hedged a king In the time when
I klngbood was In Its break of day. the
* hoy who wore a hat which threatened
to come down over his ears, the boy
whom* trousers were made over from
his father's by his mother or aunt or
grandmother, the boy whose hair had ii
cowlick In It before and was sheared
off tile same length behind, the boy
who walked with both bunds In the
pockets of his trousers and who expec
torated between his teeth^ wbeu bis
teeth were clamped together, the boy
who wore boots run down at the heels,
tbe I toy who never wore knickerbock
ers or a roundabout coat, the boy whose
eblrogrnpby was shaped by tbe gym
nastics of bis tongue, tbe boy who be
lieved bis father wns the greatest mnn
lu the world and that he conld have
been president If he had wnuted to be.
tbe boy who was Ills mother's man
when tbe man was away from home?”
—New York 8un.
EATING^ FISH.
It Is not good form to ask for a sec
ond helping of tlsh.
It Is considered extremely bad form
to use u knife In dlusectlng tlsh.
A little modern fish knife, with nn In
genious fork arrangement on one side.
Is now made.
A bit of lemon Is served with broiled
and baked ilsli. nud It Is In correct form
to use tbe lingers In expressing the
Juice.
Potatoes are considered a proper ac
cessory to tbe tlsh course.
Sliced cucumbers, wttb plain French
dressing, a re also served.
With a boiled fish the potn'oep are
also usually boiled, cut Into lilts or
scooped out and gnrnlidnto with a little
melted butter mid chopi'iil parsley.
Never use the linger* to separate tbe
bones from the ••u'nbie portion of tlsb.
The hones must If evadtd with such
doitevlty ns one can command without
ether aid than such n » bit of bread
bald lu tbe bn tin ml e ov furnish.
tin sibling.
Ttie writer ome s|>eut a Saturday
nficruoon In the study of a dignitary of
t'. i church while the eecleMlustic -'rug
gled In i n to Hume an argument
against gambling to lie presented to the
' • „reg; : >n >- morrow lie a I si u-
doned the Hrii iu t. Par lie It from a
literary Joern >1 in assert powers the
possession n: ivh'ch the professionally
religious ure f.iln to disehum. yet wlib
toil.mission we even venture to liolleVe
I hat ill least one cogent and effective
argument lie* against nil forms of gam
bling—ome. Hill < ly. I.'tised jii the truth
Ih.H wealth, great or snuill. Is a trust
rud therefore may net If put lit risk.
The moralist may declare tlmi the
gaol tiler gels, or at least wants t» get.
something for nothing Men will laugh.
They Ihiow better The winner gave
his chance to lose for Ids winnings.
For his ‘losses the winner got his
chance to win Bui ask the somdaior
whether he would ramble w-• t!; trust
funds held by Idm inr orphans and
then suggest to him the one great trull
that is arising hold of men's conscience,
the most hn— fm sign in these perplex
ed day* of social unrest, that men an*
trustee* of all that they call their own.
—Current Literature.
L'ltarlitah.
“Bv> you proposed to M ica Chillers?"
"Yea," answered Willie Washington.
"You must have known she would
reject you."
“Of course. But It Is an old saying
that women can't keep a secret, sad (
was afraid she would pet to comparing
note*. 1 bud proposed to all the other
girls, and I didn't want her to feel
alighted."—Washington Star.
Virtu* of dir llallt.
1 Among the Mafia “onesttt" Is the
i great virtue. This virtue Is said to he
j possessed hr tb»se who never under
| any circumstances help tlie authorities
! by giving Information, not even of
I crimes of which they may he the vlc-
; tints. To give information to to forfeit
, all honor, to become a “eaBcIttunl,” or
•py.
j This feeling which underlies the Ma
fia. which Is not old. hut wns born In
Sicily at the beginning of the nine
teenth century, Is due to the Inborn
hatred which tlie Sicilian has for gov
ernment. Any Interference of the au
thorities In his private affairs he re
gards with Jealousy ami distrust. In
kta sight n mail who calls on the au
thorities for anything Is vile. He be
lieves In settling private difference*
privately, either by fulr light or mur
der.
No matter what a member of tbe
Mafia may suffer, he will never Inform.,
If he recovers Irom an Injury, be will
avenge himself If be eon. and If,he
cannot he blames no one and would
scorn to even take the authorities Into .
bla confidence, A Sicilian proverb !
runs. “If I live, I Will bill yod; If 1 die. j
1 forgive yod."
R.a j«la Pell Prom Orica. !
Chinese servant stories are epidemic
Hero's one. and It’s true:
A west side woman a few days agf
wns boasting to a caller of the virtue!
of her Mongolian cook, and she empha
slyd the latter’s systematic method!
as his special strong (joint.
“John finishes bis work at precisely
the same minute every evening." sniii
she proudly. "I always know exnctlj,
where he Is nttd what he Is doing ai
any time of the day."
"Well, what Is he doing now?" wai
asked.
"Let me see. It Is 7 o’clock. Well
he has Just finished putting the dlsbei
away aud at this moment Is sweeping
the kitchen. Couie. let's go out and set
If I'm not right.”
They stnrteil through the dining
room and found everything lu Its place,
as 'prophesied. In the pautry the dlslier
were neatly arranged In their custom
ary place. Then they opened tin
kitchen door.
There in the oenfpr of the room wai
John. huiI he was complacently wash
Ing himself In the distipau!
The embarrassed mistress aud bel
convulsed guest retired lu Haste, and
the servant problem was dropped.-
Milwaukee Sentinel.
Andersen's f'tilldtltce Vanity.
“Ilaiis Christian Andersen." said one
who saw him often, “woo the most
damning egotist I ever knew." When
the Danish crown prince brought home
l-.ls Swedish bride In the Rummer of
ISIS), a groat assemblage of iieopit 1
stood In tbe streets of Copenlmgeu to
see the royal couple pass.
In one group were several distin
guished women anil the great story
teller. Hans Christian Andersen. Tim
women occupied front sents at the win
dow mid received marked attention
front the court dignitaries In the" pro
cession.
Some one In the company remarked
that this particular window seemed to
possess peculiar attractions.
"Oh. yes." said the aged iwt-t. pleased |
and happy la his sent, where he had ,
Us'h seen by nobody. “Everylwsly j
know* me."
The quiet smile that went round the
group had no trace of unktuduess. Ills
childish vanity was one of the amiable
traits of tbe gentle old mao. Every- .
body knew and loved It. I
Cloud Mountain*.
The highest of all the cbinds are
those delicate, white, fibrous, detached
masses of frozen vapor; always, seeto
high against the blue sky. Tbe top
most point of tbe highest of these may
be ten miles above the earth. They ore
called clrrhus clouds. Altogether there
are ten principal'types of clouds. The
lowest, known ns the stratus, ore really
horizontal sheets of lifted fog seen on
damp days or in very damp localities.
Those clouds are only a few hundred
feet above the earth.
Some of the vast bodies of vnpor are
higher than the tallest of the Alps.
They are undoubtedly snow capped—
veritable mountains of Ice and snow.
It has been discovered that the teuc
perature on one such summit was 7,>
degrees below zero.
Were It possible for ua to ascend In a
balloon aud penetrate one of these
snow capped peaks from base to sum
mit we should travel first through a
layer of dry air. vapor and water, a
third of freezing vapor, water and lee.
and finally through the BumniU-. com
posed of dry air. vapor and lee. but oo
water. ,
Getting AW From Land.
Tbe question has lieen asked. Is It
possible to sail 1.000 miles from land?
This can lie done at several points. By
leaving San Francisco and sailing
northwestward into the north Pacific a
si>ot Is readied where there is no land,
not even nn Islet, for 1.000 miles lu any
direction. So. too. sniHug from the
southern point of Kamchatka south
eastward ships reach a point equally
distant from loud of any kind, the
nearest to the north being the Aleu
tian Islands and to the south the
outlytng members of .the Sandwich
group. In the southern Indian oceaq
It Is possible to sail 1.000 miles out
from the southern points of Australia
aud New Zealand ntid still be ns far
from any other land, uiwl the same may
be done In a westerly direction from
Cape Horn. Indeed, from this point
a much longer distance might lie readi
ed. for the southern Pacific between
the Horn anil New Zealand covers n
space of 80 degrees of longitude and
40 of latitude of absolutely unbroken
sea. making its cent rat polut over 1,^U»
miles from anywhere.
Geographical Olsti*ll,a:]«a of Hair.
The geogvnpMcnl distribution of the
hair over |b»> habitable world Is. as re
gards the color, very precisely defina
ble. The xnnthoconik' or light haired
race* are to lx- found north of latitude
48 degrees, which cuts off 1 England,
i {Maintil. the whole of northern C.er-
many and a grant portion of Russia.
, Between tljis parallel and latitude 4A
' degrees, Including northern France,
Switzerland and part of Piedmont and
passing through Bohemia ami Austria.
; there Is ft sort of debatable land of
mtbv or less dark brown hair, nml be
low this line we ionic gradually upon
the Melanie rices. The people of Eu
rope therefore present In the color of
hair an almost perfect gradation, the
; light flu seen of the colder latitudes
| deepening Irayereeptlhly Into the blue
I black of the Mediterranean shores.—
Gentleman's Magazine.
The Population of R*bytom.
Various attempts have been made, by
comparing Its urea with that of modem
cities, to estimate the population of
Babylon. But oti the lowest calcula
tion It would be found, suppqfdijg It to
have Imrnc any considerable resem
blance to one of our cities, to have hud
a imputation of fi.noo.lHX). a supposi
tion to which nil but Insuperable ob
stacles are opposed. The map of Asi
atic Turkey shows that the extent -of
country around Babylon available for
agricultural purposes must have been
quite Inadequate to supply the neces
sary demands for anything like such
nn Immense population.
Perhaps, on the whole, we may esti
mate tile population at from 1.000.000
to l.'JOO.UOll. This supposition derives
support from the fact that Scleucla.
with a population of UPO.OOO souls, is
stated by Striilm am'. Pliny to have
tax'll aiioiil hull the size of ltuhylou in
the days of her greatest glory.
Qnc,-*- i,n?iC ' .>i e*.
’ Some of the toon re;- Coglnnd are
very curious. A nu niJief: iiroadhouse,
In York.ihlre, ; s qj to the
landlord a atinvrnaH in iniiiHuinmcr and
a red rose at J?!ifisfnwis. The manor of
Fostnn Is held by a rental cf two ar-
' rows anil h lo..f A oread. An estate in
the north of Tie than! to Id by the ex
hibition before n court every seven-
; years of a curtain vase owned by the
family, anothei in Suffolk by an annual
: rental of two white doves.
A Greot Relief.
Mrs. Caftirsoo—I thought I would
come and tell you that - your Harold has
been fighting with rr.y Bobble aud set
tle the matter If I could
Mrs. Hatterson VVelh for my part,
1 hnve no time fo enter Info any dis-
eurston about children's quarrels. 1
hope t am above such things. *
"I'm delicti)rd to in at that. I’ll seed
Harold oyer on a stretcher in an hour
or so.’’—Harper’s Bazar.
Am tnlras*.
Mrs. Jane*—Are you aware, Mrs.
Bktnbou*. that your dog bu Jaat bltteo
my little WIRte?
Mi*. Sklnbone—What, your Willie.,
who has only Just got over scarlet fe
ver? Oh. Mrs. Join's, if anything
Should happen to Ftdo I'd oevar forgive
you.
Stuy JI.1M Like It.
"Those new neighbors uutuiiiated mo
dreadfully ttulav."
"How?”
"Why. they ser.t 0"or to borrow our
Bltdc; said they l\:d forgotten theirs
when they moved And Pin almost
aorryri let ’em take It."
"■But wh/?"
"Becnr.se It doesn't look t? If it er«r
had been uSbd."—Cleveland Plabi De.oi-
A* Ornamental Her*.
One of the first things to attract tlie
attention of Ruby durance was graod-
m?V hutrack. made of a pair of deer
hqitnv. One alternoou when he waa 3
years tfkl his papa took him to Captain
O.'a pr.rU. When t deling the Incidents
j of the trip to bis mamma ou their re-
I turn, he exclaimed, "And, oli, mamma.
; l saw a deer, and be bad a hau&ck on
his headF—Current Literature.
A SlniDiii Method of Sulatntton.
Of ill! tlie strange modes of saluta
tion, the must extruonUunry Is the
“dance of ceremony" current in the
west Afrliiin kingdom of Dahomey.
Whenever any Duhouutu chief or otil-
clal of rank comes in pay you a visit
he always o|»eiis the interview by
dractng nroutid you with various queer
eontortluus (exiieim-iy suggestive of
his having jusi upset a kettle of boil
ing water over his kneesi. which von
itri hound to lailtate ns closely ns pos
sible.
It Is even re polled- with what truth
I cannot say that one of the native
minister* of the terrible King ilozis
owed Ids rapid rise at the Huhoin.iU
court wholly to bis superior skill In cut
ling these si range capers nml that he
thus literally ms well as figuratively
Jumped to preferment. ,
“The Anifiicun lype. H
Those who direct tlie state, who ad-
miids’er the cities, control the leglsln-
tures. toe tin uncle is. ruerchnnls. pn>
fessors. JourtiRilsls. men of letters—
those whom 1 met in society -are,near
ly all of American birth and of marked
American type I rarely heard n for
eign accent or saw a foreign counte
nance. The American world Is practi
cally “run” by genuine Anterieat's.
Foreigners are more in evidence in
London or Manchester. It seemed to
me. than they uiv m ,\ t w York. Phila
delphia or Boston.-Frederic Harrison
In Nineteenth Century,
DIBECTCBT.
HHKimtTKaUx vu
Bov. ChMS. a, VIbIh-i „ u
*»ti hid, Xrd and otii s nil ,, t "'-'?. ,
sad T iXO p. tn. Prayer ‘1« »i i
. :*) n. tn. Sanditv scliuoi U*," 1 ' ' t <i|
HriQwcll, superlntoaue^ 1 J
BAPTIST UHDDL'P 1 *
Kev. W. L. Kichards, p ' 1
vices every Sunday llt it l >U,l
i.SI) p. in. aabbatlim-IiuuI ut V-e k 1 *
er meeting every Thui ",1
All aie cordially invited to ''J
■wrvlees. ‘VtU-i.d
M. K.UHUkCII.sotT„ j
;ev. w. r. Smith, e,u,.. ' '
try Sabbath at 11 al n, ^I'N
Prayer meeting WednoHduv , ‘*1
onth school at 10 a. in. a1 in “"'“F
toted to attend nil the servi^ K
H.O. Allen, Sig Nusabuiim.
ALIEN St COMPaM
pip iusopr^E «t
BAIN BRIDGE,
Grn
Mother Gcwae Retiortee.
The l.ltile Roy hail been Tying in g-t
Into vaiidcrille. with 111 success, nml
he was tftwiotisly tn a fault finding Un-
mur as he «at under Hie lutyeoek with
Bopfx'p.
-“I fall tn see the'-reason why you se
cure such widespread advertisement,"
he exclaimed jiettlKhly.
"Kspeelally." retorted Eopecp. “when
you are so rigorously blowing your
own horn."
“You iu*glect your charges shnmeful-
ly. I believe even now they are lost."
he pursued.
"Oh. they'll oil come home, like your
press agents, bringing their tales tie-
hind them," returned Ikipcep airily.
Hereupon the Little Boy looked rash
er sheepish for :iu lustaut. "Your long
continued association with crooks Is
corrupting Jour morals and manner*.”
he cried, recovering himself.
At this Rnpecp blushed, but made no
reply. Pertiups, rffter all. It was Jeal
ousy that made the Little Boy Blue.—
New York Son.
SOMETHING WORTHY
' Of (J0SSI8E
i NEW REVOLUTION n
BARBERJBSIREig.
An absolutely sale shave at tL
City Shaving Parlor, a ci.nsi i,.j,
next door to city Post Office
Our plan of shaving n. Ml w ,
t hat we can prevent infection
h tion l>y so called i,< ximis nr uji
grems. These troubles are nitiJ
tracted from cue to the otlisv Li
of usil.g the same razor or brush on
body Now how we prevei i mdn
les »e have a sleriliter. a i.it-ble A
coiieern iu which we alwHVr k M []
hoitn g boiliig water. M'e |,|| nM
qminify of Antirepliola. tl si, s t d
l ei after shaving each cnsti-n.st]
his razor over the S.terihm
Loi'.iog water, lettii g it ten nir,t
minutes Alter shavirg ws i„e,
non of that Antiseptiola oi, ea,h i
n.er's lace. By tins met Lou
sure \oua sale shave.
t*«li and see us and we sill v
von that our service is liie Irsl
city . Shave 10c.. Hair Coi 2fr.
P. M. SIX.S, Pi»j>rittj
A General Kertliaij
* Store! »
t'LKAK stock,
CI.KAN RiETHOIS.
I have genuine largi
to offer YOU!
Small profits and quick tmlvs, I
weight and just nieasun'. i
attention and courteous trull
constitute my motto.
Can I Say More?
Make it convenient to
store and be conviuce'i ol 1
facts.
An A Itec lolr of Oreelep.
A call wns otwe ii.ailc by a dozen
noted artists of the Academy of De
sign. In 1.870. oq Horace Greeley. Mr.
Clarence Cook, then the art critic of
The Tribune, had lieou saying things
about the academy exhibition which
caused tbe venerable chiefs of that es
tablishment to boil with indignation.
Om* day a committee went down to
The Tribune :o complain. Mr. Greeley,
having listened 1ii silence to what these
gentlemen had to say. looked up from
Ills desk, a twinkle In his eye. aud
hold, with his jieciiHnr nasnl falsetto:
“Gentlemen, l Judge from your re
marks that Mr. Cook's articles are
widely read. They will therefore con
tinue to be printed In The Tribuna.
Good morning."
lusn Jted.
Lord Cardwell was !d the habit of us
ing the chnreb prayers at family pray
ers. One day his valet came to him aud
said, “I must leave your lordship's
service at once."
I '\A by, what hare you to complain
I of ?'•
"Nothing i>ersotially, but your lord-
ship will repeat every moiming, ‘We
' ,lim ' done those thlugs which tve ought
nos to have done uftd have left undone
those things which we ought to liave
done.' Now. ! freely admit that I have
.often doue things I ought not. but that
I have left uudoue things ihat 1 ought
. t,J have done 1 utterly deny, and 1 will
| net stay here to hear ti said.”
ft. H- CASSETT,
ELDOHENHO, (
|Dyspepsia C
Digests what you 1
i It.Trtiflcially digests the food a
Mature in strengthening am
■tructing the exhausted dige^
gans. It is the latest discoveTM
aut aud tonic. Ho other projn
l can approach It in efficiency;^
! r.taatly relieves and permanctuilg
Dyspepsia, Indigestion, He 3 - J
1 Flatulence, Sour Stomach, n*
Tn.TAnu Fork*.
The tuning fork .was the Invention of
John 8lone, royal trumpeter. In 1811.
Though the pitch of forks varies slight
ly with changes of-the temperature or
by rust, they are the most accurate
rneuaa of determining pitch. Tuning
forks are capable of todng made of any
pitch wtibin certain limit*, but those
commonly Bred are the note* A and C,
giving tbe sound* represented by the
second and third spaces In the treble
•MCA.
How Be Talked.
I Rublnstelu. after a concert tour In
, ftpeln. was asked; "Do you undvrstuud
Spanish y .
J "No." he eald.
‘ “Then yon bad to converse with tbe
Span lards In French. I suppose?"
] “Not every Spaniard speaks French."
“Then how In me world did you talk
to them?”
"With tbe piano,” aald Bublusteta,
with a smila.
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ALL KINDS OF HOMADEH* 1
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RCPAIRING A Sf’ECl'LTV-
j»erTEKMS: STRICTLY C-'«
1 North Broad Street near br %
Stables,
BAINBKIDGK, -
GEOB
eaitk
•*I am indepted to One Mu '^
Cure .for my present good l-c
my life. I was treated it , v j
tors for lung trouble following •*
I t<iok One Minute. Cough ’'"C
covered »-v he’>'t1’ " Mr - “• “
Madison, Ga. B. L. Hicks-