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iittrtbv iJ 3s9-/ ODD PRANKS. %ELL IN LOVE vVOWEN THE'B HUSBANDS. Tlinl «< Time* lot . Si-a l»i of Who Won 1'lrd a l<t one* bo Pk' i»Th? Woman Woman UaltT. question more than wticb it * tu f- 1 * or ., ...-i-v ans"'’ 1 ' 11 151 sprely “"j.j vou fall In low with |,jy> *[u lit cases out of 20 MlJcfolial'l.v cun!ess candid- „ 0,5 not (enow or else she conclusively that she ' ' s ue did. and that ought to nwasM where the lady oon- u jeiiare her reason the au- both Interesting and tu- l-or made you marry the prls- fj oti.ica magistrate asked a Lose five hole "striking" evl- Lr husband's uffcction. “Be- aicht' I ill the other fellows’ answered, "and nobody make love to me." Looii knl.v confessed that she „ t ; or husband because "oulv man who ever dared t , r e '.Vlale other men were over each other to pay her I attention, he nlwuys treated Ibsolute Indifference mid even THE UH.UKST bTt.VIHbN bitHV. was that she de- to bring hlui lo her feet and She succeeded, but lost her lie attempt. love with my husband.” | recently declared, "iiecause , only man about whom no tver heard to nay on unkind D u me women, although lie dal attention, were [it tie was 'a darling:' and. r>l» s plalu. almost to^ugll- lol.l enough almost to be my loved him and determined to lang lsnore be had any gbt «f me." Yorkshire lady ol Ibeauiy shocked her friends |:ap a poor erlpple. It hud that tie had long lov- tllcure and had eoliuted each If lie only caught a Ulstaut her. She d ls«’even'd that .■vote sou and brother and unsn.u gifts ami culture for ? iiusitioti. and. moi’ed by |lu- sadden, generous tne Inch some women are Ha lil,ht an interview with him. [hot she had learned his se en" I hlui her hand and for- way appear a strange and i:ng. hut thousands know literally tree. i !y v. hosc uuirrlage result- | similar Impulse gives this < of It. Among the friends I V was in 'old biu'liclocAvith a tar entst laces/vrlio had from a child and.had often ‘a eni’ly days. To her he hern gentle and kind, nnd fved UIIU ' in n 'way" as long |M remetuder. sbu said. “Why have yon fled. Mr. r m.v dear? Why. no one |r many u grumpy old man 1 they would!” she nnswer- Jntly. "Why, l would marry 1 1. ray dear!" eamo the un- i.-'’.vef. "Then we ll consider ; led.’ '.I net- surprise nnd misglv- l"'l loyally kept her promise, never had reason to regret r « tudlscivtluii.” ■aiJ of the writer married r-l h>r the very illogical re.v 1,1 was an avowed woman made no secret r.f his ilver- ■ ;, ir sex mid declared tt so '•■it, as she says. "1 vowed |0Uvert him ami make hlui ''t least so far as out) is (•(!•.(.,.cued." He was a convert, for within 12 J '* torsvvoni his creed so The recent repot t of Pension Com missioner Evans lias provoked milch comment both al home and abroad and caused many a citizen to wonder where pension expenditures are to stop. Tliiriiy-six years after tiie civil war we are burdened w’th a pension roll which carries nearly a million names and req ires an expenditure of $140,000,1100 a year. How strange seems now the pre diction of James A. Garfield, uttered in the house of representatives nearly twenty-five years ago, to the effect that henceforth pension expenditures would dimmish. T-imc has rolled on and today there arc four times as many mimes on our pension rolls as there were then and the government pays three and a half times as much money for pensions. Since 1801 our cx'peuditures lor pensions have amounted to the stu- penduous sum of $2,763,350,033, or nearly as much as our eutire coinage of gold, silver and copper since the foundation of the government. We talk much about the great standing armies of European nations but no people lias, or ever had, a standing army the maintenance of which cost as much annually as our pension roll—$140,000,1)00 a year. We have the largest standing army on earth, in bur one million pension ers, an army larger than that of Great Britan, Italy and Austria Hungary combined. Instead of decreasing our pension list it is growing constantly. Last year it lost 43,586 names on account of deaths and discoveries of frauds, but 47,792 names were added to it. An Incident ShvntnK tbe mill tit. rr Cooruitv of ch-i* Nonlencffrls, In military courage the Montenegrin prahnlily stands al the head of Euro pean races. The best wish for a liaby boy la. “May you oot die In your lied!" and to face dentil Is, to man or hoy. only a Joyous game. Says XV. J. Still man In Ids "Autobiography:" I have aeen ii mini under u heavy Turkish tire dellls-nuety leave the trendies anti el.tub the breastwork, only to expose himself from sheer bravado. While lying at liead«iu;irters at Oren buk. awaiting the opening of the cam paign lu IS~. I was walking cue day with the prince, wheu a bey of 10 or is approached us. cap In hand! “Now." said the prince. “1'U show you i an Interest.ng tiling. This boy is the Iasi of a good family. Ills father nnd brothers were nil killed In the last bat tie. ami I ordered Inui to go home and stay with Ills mother-and sisters, that the family might not tweonr extinct." The buy drew near aud stopped Ins tore us. his head down, his cup iu hand. ••XVhat do you warn?" naked the prince. "I wan; to go lack to my Initiation." “Bill." said the prime, "you are the last of your line, and I cannot allow q good family to lie lost. You must go home and take cure of yottr motlier." The tmy liegan to cry bitterly. “Will you go home quietly and stay there." su'd the prince, "or .will you take u Hogging and be nllowed to tighr?" The boy thought for a moment. A flogging, he know well. Is the deepest disgrace Hint can ts'fall n .Montenegrin. "Well,” he broke out. "sluce It Isn't for stealing. I’ll Is> flogged.'" . “No,” said the prince, “you must go home." Then the boy broke down utterly. “But.” he cried. “I want to avenge my father and brothers!" He went away still crying, and the | prince said:. "In sidle of all this he Will be iu the uext buttle.” Can be properly run without being Advertised, And no advertising pays better than newspaper advertising. The news paper goes into tiie homes of the people and is read through. If bar gains arc offered, they make a note of it. TIE SEARCH-LIGHT a first-class * advertising medium. As it is read by generally in this tiie people very county and by many in adjoining counties, CHINESE PROVERBS. 1 Dig a well liefare you are thirsty. | The r!|<esi fruit will uot fall luto I your muutU v j Ureni/^voalth means destiny. Mod Claims for pensions on account of i »rattj wealth means industry, the oivil war continue to pour in and | 'flu; p’.'iianre of doing good Is the only cme which does not wear out. 'YVntcr does not remain on the moun tain nor vengeance lu n great mind, i To nourish the heart there. Isnothing The last battle of the revolution j than to make the deslres few. When life comes. Il cupnot be de clined.* XVfien It goes, It cannot he there are 50,000 applicants for pen sions on account of the Spanish and Filipino wars. was fought one hundred and twenty | years ago anil there are still nine ! pensioners on account ot that war on the rolls, widows ami daughters of j revolutionary soldiers. The pension list huge as it is now, I would be costing the country much j more, but for the fearless and deter- j mined efforts of Commissioner Evans | to lop off the frauds he tound ill it' and to prevent the addition of others. , What petisiot) expenditures will be j next year nobody can foretell, but| that they will be larger than they j are now is a safe prediction. detained- , (JootJ governments get the people's wealth, white gn&d Instructions get their hearts. PUT ad. nr TIkuso who labor with their minds j govern others. Those who Inlxic with I' their strength are governed by others, A Small bag cannot be made to con tain what Is laugc. A short rope can not he used toOniw water froth a,deep well. , ” Let every innn sweep the snow from before tils own door and not busy him Bell about the frost ot his neighbor’- tiles. And work up your business to a payin point* ! Eriprfwi E1fv«tom. To the man who Is accuntoraed to buildings where sialrgr.tM's are atlU use- i fu! us well, us oruumenial the Speed of | the "express” el< vapors iu New Yojh in | skyscrapers is disturbing. Recently tip state”- man, who was TcTn ( M3.1 act "in’ of the "hated os t lp . uu 'l now l«, declarer n ill,"-Tit-Bits. Snakes have been discovered , , , , -, r , i an "tip state ’- man, iviio was bcinj Ireland. A recent issue of the Glare - Bhowt) abont ^ ei4j . 0y n frl( , n<1 , wa . Journal reported the recent discov- i taken at, Iasi up to the slxtecuili story ery and execution of 'two venomous* ol otu»X)f the high buildings. He went J ■ ... cL'-. i uii In a "local" elevator, al moderate reptiles near the town of Etui s, j | lllt ( . V n n Unit caused him to suffer tnauy (|imlms ts’for*' lie stepped ! Job Work Photographs! G. II. Ghistensen, the photogra pher, is back in lim old stand, and will lie pleased to inye any one any thing m the line of photographs. 2t. r n ° m * <■« Eclioen. f n ‘ . J ' s described In guide- ! isperli: s valleys" are fa- pru f „ r "fists In all parts ■ mv. however, exceed lu . Stamslield in Es- I It" riK’ior of this par- <srvf ' 11 account of his ■i"i ;V'.?!*'*’ t * ial llls bouse feel aliove sen ' n;tr 300 feet, while I 1 ; wound : iopc6 away to a “’low and ugniu rises • npposUe K »de. From Z ' lls of G or 15 vIN v ,'n f,ls,ln Bnished. while foot!i 'epa and voices toue may be heard H.C. Alien Slg Nusstiuuui. S. R. BrJnaou ALLEN & COMPANY. Pip ii)2upr$E mw BAIN BRIDGE, GEORGIA. Out on the tlrm landing. lu coni In; down to street level ngrln tlwy took, an "express." With out switch of the hntni.e a uii u few sparks from ipe con trolling apparatus they e.- iy deposited, on the ground O'.wr. The city man askisl the other If "H ot was quick enough" for him. "Quick enough!" lie exclaimed. "Why, I might Just us well have Jumped.”—New York Rost In Abyssinia the coffee plant grows wild lu great profusion and derives Its uame from Kaffa, a district of that country- ^ -A FIRST CLASS- •:<£ FEED MD BOARD STABLE! I am devoting my best attention to the or re oi a limited nurabar of horses I have only experienced horsemen, and they are under rny direot supervii-ion. Joy I r: f " prefers coffee for flieu j Prefer te suppose you bars '’r D batw, e y T n,Pro “ toe * ‘■■''“'Prouiwe on My Dray Line is RUNNING ON FULL TIME AND IF TOL NEED ANI HAULINO CALL ON ME. 3rEO. D. GrRIFFIN. 6nr lidok and job office is busy turn- •iijj out first-class job work all the Lime, and w;e propose to give silis- factioii at reasonable prices. If yon need anything in the job printing line, write to us or see iik before placing your order, it will pay you. RsaracffFiTZiX.? THE seabch-usht: