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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. ■ 1 - 1 -iito .... - c u. -dsusrariSj — DEALER IN— ALL KINDS OF HOMADEH* 1 -S,il VCTorla J/JcjL'-tly tvzxd Prossip -' ~jzoc-* 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-