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UonnctiH %\r.d TI:«» •ir L: A n !:i:al Vli^nren Art *;« I’ei'Blan Rnsi. Mae 2Iob:iii»mcdan» he Ku^.i of Siva*. of k\v\w\ 11k* ilia in TUe Ho»t of Table He Wanted. .IIUTI pTJ(J DESIGNERS Tli'? following con vermilion was ovefr XAi-U AbiJ'-" beard lie tween n Joiner and liis custom- " er a short-time ago: »ATTESNS DESCEND FROM PARENT Joiner—I’lease, sir, I’ve brought tbfl -po CHILD IN THE ORIENT. table you ordered me to make. i Customer—Well, put it down here. ' my man. and lei’s see what sort of, a Job you’ve made of it. The mnu set II down In the middle of the room, and the customer examined It witli the air of il critic. Customer—Why. my tnau. there Is here a crack tilled up with putty. .lotuer Yes. sir. Well. sir. I know about that, hut it won’t he noticed when It sols hard. ClU|tonier*(e:;tidtig across some more putty*—Hut here’s some more, my man. What Is the meaning of t It In ? Joiner - Well. air. you see. a little lilt of wood chipped off the corner, and 1 Just put a Hill - puny there to till up. It won’t do no harm. sir. when It’s set hard. Customer (lie.dir.g some more putty patches) l.uok here, my man. this won’t do Why, I ore's n big lump right In the middle of this leg. What can you say about that? Joiner (snatching his head and try ing hard to find some excuse by which to retrieve Ills lioaiin Well. sir. (Inti's no harm whatever, and the putty, when Il sots har«* will lie firmer and harder than llie wood. So. you see. it u ill lie all the better If yon wall a hit. sir. Customer (sarcastically! - Here, my good man. Just take this table home ami tiring me one made of putty alto gether 1 want a good strong one. turd you can 111! up the cracks with wood.— London Tit-Pits. Arroitissicnai Cans- G. R A GST IN. | Ool\im.lo\is, Ilnw i!ii> Kimnlsti Gypsy Dnuces. 1 held my iireatli us 1 watched the gypsy in the Seville dancing lte.il. I felt myself swaying unconsciously t^t the rhythm of Iter body, of her beck oning hands, of the glittering smile that entile ami went In her eyes. I seemed to tie drawn Into n whirlpool. In which I turned, turned, bearing the bus* of the water settling over my head. The guitar buzzed, buzzed tu a prnuelug rhythm, the gyp Hy colled ntin'll the Ilnur In her trailing dress, never so much as showing her ankles, with a rapidity concentrated upon Itself Her hands beckoned, I cached inti, clutched, clutched deli cately. lived to 'heir linger lips. Ilef body atr,'tightened, bent, the knee* bent and straightened, the heels heat on the floor, carrying her backward and round. The toes pointed, paused, point ed. and the hotly drooped or rose Into Immobility, a smiling, significant pause of the whole body. Then the motion began again, more vivid, more restrain ed, as If leased by some iittflccn limits, ns If titrufng upon itself in the vain de sire to escape, ns If caught II) Its own tolls.—Arthur Symons in Loudon Sat urday Review. i,r eastern rugs are often j " .-"s outcome cf the fancy . i , Sometimes they are • fvi.m one generation to i m cases young girls are r-'-ign by an adult, who • ■ sand. At other times a the vug la made on paper, tor showing her pupils the ut raiigemunt ef every thread and the color to he tired. When nil. this lias been done, the pupils must make the rug without I oklijg at the drawing/ I’orsl.tn rugs excel those of ether countries In artistic design as well as In harmonious coloring.' The I’e.rsh'iis seem to have a natural intuition In the use and blending of different shades, and hi the th .-.igus that contain there certain colors they achieve the happiest resr,Its. U is really wonderful what exquisite fabrics these people, horn and reared in ignorance and poverty, pros! nee. , The designs in Persian rugs are gen dally floral, and In some districts, es pecially bars, the worn*!) weavers in vent the designs, varying them every two or three years. Tile Mohammedan religion does not allow any direct rep ; roseutatioii of animal forms, conse quently rug* woven under its Influence | take floral, geometric and vegetable I forms. The Shiah sect of Moslems, however, numbering about I3.000.fl00. of whom 8,0C0.Ct:0 are Persians, do not regard representations of animals as unlawful. By the Industry of this sect and that of Infidels and of nil who dis- I mine regard the law of the Koran animal ” forms are seen on some Persian rugs, i The prayer rug was evidently lnveitt- j ed for the purpose of providing the I worshipers with one absolutely clean : place on which to offer prayers. It Is not lawful for a Moslem to pray on any place not perfectly clean, and unless I ouch one has his own special rug he Is i not certain that the spot has not been polluted. With regard to the purity of the place of prayer Mohammedans tire specially careful when making their j pilgrimages, the rugs which they take with them having been preserved from pollution hy being rolled up until the Journey Is begun or until the hour for \ prayer arrives. It does not matter to j these followers of Mohammed how | unclean a rug tlint Is ou the tloor may be, because over U they place the pray- | cr rug when their devotions begin. The Turkish rugs made at Slvas are always woven of wool, and i.Jnost ev ery hamlet carries ou the Industry of weaving In the homes. There an? no factories, the yottttg girls and women doing the work here as In other parts of Turkey. Slvas rugs are in most cases small, measuring about eight by four feet, lmt In these years larger and more attract!re rugs are being made. Even the poorest families have fine rugs, for they regard them as valuable property, to be sold only under the pressure of great extremity. The weav ers are so frugal In their manner of living that their dully earning of 15 to 11) cents Is sufficient to supply their ill TORN RY-AT-L .ATM. 1 Office With Townsend & Westmor ! and. I B.\IN BRIDGE - - GA.| liYIMN liOU'EU • Coin on il Ion* In Minor*. “1 n:n not especially sensitive," said the man with the billiard ball pate in , talking to friends with scanty hair who had Iiimmi telling experlriieos. "luit 1 confess it rankled when an absolute , stranger hailed me as ‘OhP Itnldy!' I i was sprinkling the lawn one hot even ing last summer and Imd laid aside hat I amt rout I wits somewlmt astonished on looking up to see a stranger hanging over lie picket fence Intently watching me. I continued to play the hose. Inn when I looked lip again the man was wants. Their food consists usually of still there studying and with evident j r ) t .c and crushed wheat, with occuslou- aatttsetneitl. I glared at him. ; nlly a small piece of mu CiolilK)?. BOWEll. B0WER&B0WER,' Attorneys At Law, BAIN BRIDGE, GEORGIA. Practice in the .State courfst Federal, and Justice courts. Office: Old Search-Light Btiihl- iutf. W. I.'GEER, Vttfimoy and Counselor At ’ aw, COLQUITT, - GEORGIA. Office: In Court House. ALBERT E. BUSSELL, Attorney at Law BAINBRIDGE, - - GEORGIA. Office Over Bainbridge Stale Rank J. . . . t> RORiiEI S, i ATTORNEY AT LAW. BAIN BRIDGE. - - GEORGIA. W ill practice tu all the courts HENRY VAUGhN Practical Blacksmith and Wcod- woi'kman. Always ready to serve. Lowest p*'ioes ' for best work. flfegfShop on West street, near old Townsend Warehouse. BAIN BRIDGE, GEORGIA. ESTABLISHED 1885. TECEj STl'-A-BL Miaviiig Saloon. West Broughton St., Bainbridge, Ga Established bv h home boy. First-class material and oolite and at tentive Bavbets. Win & Tk.oiE.tcr. PROPRIETOR. All kinds of Huildor’s Supplies, Lime,' PLustei- f Horse nnd Mule Alices, Ptiii.ts, Oils, Glass * to Doors and Minds, in fact anything ) U1 Lt(( j’ 4 poses or in a HI tick smith Shop. 'lake advantage of the low freight i r ; ts write me and let me. give you prices. u 1 ' T.l. 0! l-ZAKI#,j CO 1,11 Mm? A I.. TOWNSEND. O. F. WF.HTMIIRKLANI shouted, 1 dc- ’Hello. old Btilily!’ be making a iirolottml bow. “ ‘Are yon speaking to me, sir? mantled. " ’Hello, old Italdy! - lie repented. “‘Why. you verdant /bump.’ I re- pllerl. rusidng toward tutu, with tbe nozzle. ’I’ll turn the,hose on you!’ 1 " ’No. you don’t,’ lie answered, re moving Ids fiat wit It a flourish ami making another low bow. ’I’m tbe lim it.' he said 1 then saw there was not a hair on Ills lietpl We Wynt oil to gether and had a drink."—New York Sun. An Itinerant Infnnt. Going down the road in North Caro lina. i accosted a bright looking little colored girl and Inquired her name. "Virginia Alabama Mississippi Ben- eon." she said so hurriedly that 1 had to ask her to repeat it several times, aud I railed to discover how so insig nificant an atom tn this great universe had received such a tremendous tine. Learning that site lived In a little cab in near hy, 1 inquired of her mother. “So’s to ’member th’ places we’ve lived at,” was tbe reply, and further questioning drew out the Interesting fact that the child Imd been made a family record uud christened so that nlly a small piece of mutton, j Smyrna Is only n mart for the sale j of comparatively Inferior rugs that are made la too Interior from the coarse ! hair of the Angora goat. These arc woven l:t Irregular designs and. al though not artistic, are largely sought ns coverings for the bare floors and tn | odd warmth. The weaving of these ruga is crudely done by girls and wo men. Sometimes the loom 13 primitive ly constructed front the trunks of trees. The design* art* very simple and have cither been handed down front earlier generations or are supplied front the I city. | Vitruk rugs are so called from a band i of nomads who dwell auioug the moun tains of Anatolia. They have large flocks of flue sheep and weave ruga of , firm, even texture. The colors are ve: 1 good, the field oflon of dark brown, or namented with large designs. About ‘J’JO years ago small embroider ed rugs were largely made In Persia, chiefly ut Ispahan. These were prayer rugs, and on each of them, uear one end, was n small embroidered mark to 1 show where the bit of sacred earth from Mecca was to bo placed. In obe dience to a law of the Koran that the bead must be bowed to the ground In prayer this was tombed by the fore head when the presentation was made. TOVHXD & WE iPfc£L\K* Attorneys-at-Law, Bain bridge, Geor her parents might not forget the aantes 'and so the letter of the law was car: of the states tu which they had resid ed.—Chicago Record-Herald. RrauaM. “They claim that women are trying to dominate tbe entire species,” re marked Mr. Meckton. "Well, femininity la becoming very aggressive." “It seems so. But when I am at home and Henrietta Is out lecturing ( get my book of choice selections aud rend. ’The baud that rocks tbe cradle Is the hand that rules tbe world.’ And tben 1 reel perfectly content.”—Wash ington Star. out. The custom prevails. The Persian women who weave the finest prayer rug3 seldom weave any other kind of rug.—“Ruga, Oriental uud Occidental." At* Stic. He—Ofteu when I look up at the stars In the firmament 1 cannot help thinking bow small, how insignificant, I am nrtcr all. She—Gracious! Doesn’t that thought rver strike you except when you look at the stars tn tbe firmament}-—Ex- cuuuge. C. H. GRIFFIN, — DEALER IN ALL KINDS OF H0HE9AES HASSES!?- A. -1 NRToxlt. 1'7’oa.fcl y arid Z 3 - 3-.ixptl-;r lixssscv.’fcad. REFAIRING A SPECIALTY. BfifTKKMS: STRICTLY CASH IF©, Nin th Broad S’teet near Br.i'ekiit’s Stables. BAINBRIDGE, - GEORGIA *r \ a! flmfcindisi * CLEAN STOCK, CLEAN METHODS. I have genuire Terrains to offer YOU! Small profits ami quick sales, hottest weight and just measure, promp’ attention and courteous treatment constitute my motto. Can I Say More? Make it convenient to call at ro; store and be convinced of thes< facts. tv. II GASSETT, ELDOUENDO, GA Subscribe for the Searoh'L’ght j ind get all the news. JOE. H. GILPIN Attorney at Law, BAIN BRIDGE, - - GEORGIA. jjj-jjy* Wi’ii practice law together in all courts, except the criminal branch of the city court of Decatur county. Notary Public in office. JOHN C. CHASOlf* ATTORNEY-AT-T.AW, BAIN BRIDGE, - - GA. Will practice law in all the Courts. EQB’ L. Z. BRIDGES* ? acticing Phytioiaa, BRING ON. - - GEORGIA. . . . All calls promptly attended. . ATTORNEYS AT LAW Bainbridge, - Ga. Will practice ill all the Federal and State Courts. Dtp, 0(Jh; Up-stairs Belche' Building. SSO IT'CT S £BAUM, Attcrrey-jl-I.w BAINB1UDGE, - GEORGIA Will pi.ictice in f11 the coiuts. Sut-c lal attention given to real eMate, tin merciai ami corporal ion practice. Oflice in old Bank BitiMinvr* !J- E. HATH! j OONTKACT0K ls , ’ BAINItlilDHi;, | . Bids submitted on ^ Brick or Wood Wq^ ALBERT GP v j tonsorial a Oolq iiit, fiJ !!osl Jfathfaaji J. B. Qr P-RACud l‘L U3IJ1EI Meant and Gas fitUr, E. A.Wim L COMMISSIONER 0 1 011 FLOW; Surr-RioK Count C'ojniL r TAliY Puain. (with Office -vith Clerk Supecorj IP TOMB STONES, Do you con template erecting a tnonnment or tomb <tone. or in any wav im proving ; our cetuetet v lot? If so. write me at CUTHBERT. GA. I will submit designs and prices and will call at yo rr home to tee you. The best work, of all Craccc c£ C roxrite rriJI/ axtl PRICES TV; SUIT YOU. 1'iitlibcrt, Ga. DR. SAM J. CHESTNUT. Pysishn ail Sur pit Treats diseases of the Eye, Ear Nose and Throat. All calls promptly attended. OFFICE ON Broughton Street R. J. ROONEY, Contractor and Enildor, Estimates cheerfully furnished on all * . classes ol building, . , J. W. TUILXEY, BUILDEF BAIN BRIDGE. GEUHtlA. I©”Agent, for Hardwood Mantels, Doors, Sash and Bln ds, and coctracts or first-class Cement Sidewalks. Ge u'gia Si-ed Rye at Draper <fc Co’s. a. m Soot an.d Shoa On Water iftre■’ QD.DM B) Ufa! Buys, Renta and sell^ Fa all othei Kinds ut Pn*! erty. < l.'«inl)l’i(lge, t ; B.4GGS&SFI DKNTAIi SUB® BAINBRIDGE, . BQy*Offiee—Corner Water, streets.'in Chason Hi.ildirg. DS. H. 'D. V7I Dentist. —OFFICE Over II. B. Eltrlicli & Eainbrid^e, A.11 Ivin, AT MV M' v JETE H. POW For firis-class job work, call kt tbe Searcu-Light office. All orders left at MavD" Ware .Store promptly >d ten :idrd OLD Utll-U 't*’ fll ’ V ,, f : V.iiJ Have you any ot tuts. it to Subers, Bainhtidg®- ceive highest price trade? Will buy ar. > : irtlc ’' silver.