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ng
TO ONESELF.
Eocr.nne
Mndncs*.
other form of ora
assured of a
"oneself bns Ibis obvious
:slp: iience ^But’ it bus nlso
;£n-bnck: It is supposed
n,o early symptoms of ln-
,,,v so perhaps. A mud
lt r u!e the habit out of bis
Nevertheless the popular
rooted, and it is for
.belief doubtless that we
.lives even as we dress our
mws so rarely,
said that we never do ad-
ires at any
length except lu
... 0 f a fever. In moments
“ -statement of course we
wind some sort of appro
bation. Delight wrings
, rv 0 f -Hurrah!” or “Thank
rcn thow-'li there be none by
Similarly in any disgust
al > of those sounds whose
equivalents !n print are
Faugh!" and "Tut!” Much
u this we do not go. “Why.
s am I!" cries Hamlet in
soliloquies. Omitting the
ami transposing the last
ordinary modern man does
jquize’to that extent. But
o more soliloquize to Ham-
t than he could speak In
i ( , re any reason to suppose
lass of the community with
temptuous of his own fluen-
,t compared himself Is or
more prone to soliloquize
idler. In the matter of solil-
cannot accept Hamlet as an
nthorlty. We merely find in
ossible origin of the belief
e to oneself is a bad sign.—
teview.
QUAINT COLLEGE LAWS.
Kale* Prescribing the Dress of Hat-
vard Student* In Bygone Daya.
The curious laws regarding students’
dress which prevailed at Harvard up to
the middle of the last century nre illus
trated by two eighteenth century waist
coats which are among the collections
of the Boston Art museum. One was
worn by a member of the class of 17aq
and the other by his son in I78-I.
The latter waistcoat is olive green in
color, conforming to the college regula
tions, which required either blue gray,
plain black. “nankeeo”-a kind of"buff
—or olive. The coat and breeches which
originally went with It. ns one may
read lu the old time Harvard “Laws,"
were blue gray. Freshmen of that date
were allowed only plain buttonholes,
sophomores leaped to the dignity of
having buttons on their cuffs. Juniors
might have Inexpensive frogs to their
buttonholes except that they might not
have them on their cuff buttonholes,
and the senior enjoyed frogs, button
holes and buttons complete. Seniors
and Juniors were permitted nlso m
wear black Oxford gowns, such ns are
worn at graduation today, and a "night
gown,” or dressing gown, was per
missible on certain unimportant occa
sions. It cost "not more than 10 shil-
we.
Ybrough many, many summers
1 Jock, s<j ihrough u I'iav*.
And cue a world ol showers' and flowvn
And laughing children pus?.
And In her big blue sunhuemet
One other little Uss-
A loss who watched the swallows
Skim Just beyond lie* band
And where the flickers fled and sned
And west* of hang birds fanned
And felt those birds were fairy folk
On wing to fairyland.
In her warm fist she carried,
Trudging o'er hills and dales,
In tiny papers laid and weighed
As if in fairy scales
The salt that catches bobolinks
When sprinkled on their tail*
A little lass and wistful.
Who gazed up the far sky,
And reached for fairy things and wings
In rain and wondered why;
Pcor little lass, I wonder still,
Could Bhe be roully I?
—Harriet Prescott Spofford In CoUiar 1 *
ALLAH AND AMERICA.
A Persian Legend About the Crea
tor’* Visit to garth.
In Persia, on a morning uftor the ver
min had been particularly vigorous, I
by ill something caustic about getting
back to God’s country. An Armenian
who had reposed In utter comfort In
.. „ . i the snmo caravansary heard It and
°PP enrance of sold or | smiled, Bciug an Armenian, he hated
the Persluns, probably. Incidentally
SCHOOL DEPARTMENT.
LEGAL PAPERS.
1. Define a promissory note.
2. Define a mortgage.
3. What is a chattel mortgage.
4. What is a foreclosure,
5. What is a mechanic's lien.
0. What is a deed.
7. Define a lease
8. Give a definition of a will.
9. What is a bond.
10. What is a bill of sale.
11. Define a contract.
ANSWERS.
1. A written promise to pay a
certain sum of money at a time spec-
fled in the note. m
2. A conveyance of property,
made In order to seoire paymont of
urally follows that in traveling II the | a debt. When the debt, ts paid, tbe
other direction, from B back to A. the | morl becomes void and of no
road being n gradual ascent, a greater °
Chinese Method of Measuring.
Many travelers returning from China
have commented upon the apparently
•lagitlar lack of knowledge of the dis
tances across their country or between
their towns that exists among the Chi
nese. If at one town you Inquire the
dlstnnce to the next, you may be told
that It is 20 11 (one-third of a mile), but
upon arriving at tbe town you will lie
surprised to find tbe distance back to
the town from which you have Just
come Is 24 II and thnt tho cost of Jour
neying back again Is correspondingly
greater than tbe cost to go to it.
The Chinese measure distance not by
rule, but by the amount of physical en
ergy required to traverse them. Their
wage is based on a unit of energy, the
amount that It taken them to carry a
given load, one picul ono 11, on level
ground. If the rood from A to B is
down hill, the distance Is regarded ns
less than the actual llncnr distance be
cause It Is supposed to take less energy
to travel In that direction, or, ns I bo
Chinese say, “the li are short." It nat-
INKS OF CUPID.
ibratvil Men Who Married
Domestic Servant*.
ilcbrstcd men have married
estie servants. Sir Henry
cmier of New South Wales,
iple. One night when dining
1's bouse he was struck by
*uce of u servant girl who
on tbe table and persuaded
allow her to enter his em-
she did and for a short tlmo
isitlon of cook in Sir Henry’S
Then he made her Lady
e Illustrious than this Is the
iter the Great. One day be
st tbe house of Prince Men-
le noticed one of the s’arvant
rticnlarly, and, though she
indiome, she caught his fan-
ame, the prince told, the czar,
hi. She had been.h servant
seof n Lutheran ‘minister of
"■ and when tbat city was
by the troops of Russia elie
taken prisoner by General
io bad passed her over to th<
liose servant she was. The
tHy made a present of her tc
rho eventually married her.
•liver adornment.
The roles of costume were changed,
of course, from time to time. In 1828.
for example, the prescribed dress con
sisted of a black mixed coat, single
breasted, “with a rolling cape square
at the end and with pocket flaps, the
waist reaching to the natural waist,
with lapels of the snme length.” It Is
explained that "biaek mixed,” called
also Oxford mixed, was black with not
more than ode-twentieth nor loss than
one-twenty-tffth part of white. The
senior was allowed to support his dig
nity with three "crow’s feet” of black
silk cord on the lower part of his coat
sleeve. Two crow’s feet were permitted
to the junior, one to the sophomore nnd
none at all to the freshman. The waist
coat was of black mixed or of black or,
when of cotton or linen fabric, of white:
Single breasted, with a standing dollar.
The pantaloons were of black mixed.
APHORISMS.
Good counsels observ'd are cb’alns of
grace.—Fuller.
Tbe beauty seen Is partly In him who
Bees it—Bovoe.
Admiration Is the daughter of Idpu'o-
rance.—Franklin.
In great attempts It lb,-glorious even
to fall.-rLonglnus.
The one prudence of life 1r concen
tration.—Emerson.
The golden age Is before us, not be
hind us.—St Simon.
Levity in behavior is the bane of all
that Is good and virtuous.—Seneca.
Better be d-lven out from among
men than to be disliked by children.—
Dana.
Loving kindness Is greater tbnn laws,
and the chnrltles of life are more than
all ceremonies.—Talmud.
Have you so much leisure from your
Cobbott, the great writer, 1 own business that you can take care
ras only twenty-one years of of that of other people that does not
ornlng chanced to see a bur- belong to you ?—Terence.
girl busily engaged in
the family linen. The girl. I
l. so Cobbett spoke to her,
■ r Mine and the same even-
ton her parents and said
like to marry tlieir daughter. !
its of the girl informed the
the Persian reciprocates.
Well, this Armenian, rubbing his
hands and with his head skewed over
on one side, said: "The Persians have if
legend for everything. They have a
legend for wlmt you said just now. It
Is this:
“Allah—that Is God—once said to his
angel, T will see this world which 1
made.’
"And so Allah and the angel descend
ed invisible In a cloud to the earth,
and the first place at which they ar
rived was Fnuiee—that Is, In Feren-
ghlstan. And there they saw the raU-
rondh, nnd the tramways, ami the the
aters, nnd the great pioturo galleries
•find Allah looked in disappointment*
nnd said: ‘Alas, no! This Is not the
world which 1 made. \ made none ot
these things,’
”*io they Jotirheyod to mgiezlstan-
that ts, lSrtghuid — mid there were
mighty tshlps in the harbors and bugs
mills \vhicb Ynake all sorts of thing*
and food In plenty. And again Allah
said; < Alas, no! This is not tbe world
Watch l made.’ And everywhere they
traveled in tbe cloud Alinb looked upon
tbe land and said. ‘No; this is not It’
"At last, In despair, tbe angel led tbe
way to Persia, and Allah sat himself
down upon a very high mountain, und.
looking far on every side, be saw nei
ther railroads nor tramways nor thea
ters nor picture galleries nor ships uocj
mills Dor scboolbouses nor plenty t«
eat,
"And Allah said: ‘Yes, at last This
Is tlie world which 1 made. Not a
thing is changed. The ( people whomii
put there have done nothing.’ "
“Why didn’t he come to Amer1ca?”'l
asked.
"Sir.” answered the Armenian, “In:
Persia they had not even heard of!
America.’’—Harper’s Weekly.
expenditure of energy Is necessary.
"The li are long,” and Ih order to get a
fair compensation for tholr work tho
carriers must see thnt the distance hnd
the charges are correspondingly In
creased. With tills explanation What
Inis often appeared ns a vagary of tho
Chinese becomes simple and reasona
ble.— Leslie's Weekly.
A Rattlesnake’* Fang*.
Ton often hear of rendering a rattle
snake harmless by pulling out Its
fangs. Then, again, you rend of ease*
where a serpent so treated has bitten
persons fatally. The reason for this Is
that they had uo objections tbat a nolsonous snake Is deprived only
Hif'lr son-in-law, but that be ! temporarily of Its venomous powers by
® 1° ' va it until their daiigh- tbe extraction of the two incisors In
the uoner Jaw, at the bases of which
are the poison glands. Of course you
know thnt the fangs are hollow, so
that when the animal strikes the ven
om gushes through them Into the flesh
of the person struck. Now, by draw
ing the two teeth the snake may be
rendered harmless for a few weeks.
„ 11DU „ U but after a short time the two teeth
"l>e Fate of the Nortons.’ The j Just behind the original fangs move up
"eompni-aijiy One. It would and take tbelr places, making connec
tor how he talks of his tion with the poison glands and thus
°tion. His entire und intense becoming poison fangs as good and ef-
eiceeds anything you could fective as tlie old ones.
Er f- ! am more amused at —
ended; not being sufficiently Hor*e» and Cold.
“ linn to fed paiu at perceiv . Colonel Sir T. H. Holdlch. writing In
to, and yet respecting him “The Indian Borderland" of the terrible
to on the average of his storms and wind and snow which over-
0 ,e disgusted. It is so pur< take the traveler on the high passes of
'‘, a Passion in him that Bes the Herat mountains, remarks on tbe
have had him in a plaj superior power of the horse to with-
con temporary.”
* a marriageable age. F'.vf
r Cobbett, true to his early
W her.
Hey on Wordsworth.
swort!:, Southey writes lfi
Harold S. Scott In The At-
*■ has written a masterly
: ‘ Tlle White Doe of Rilston
Olive*,
The olive tree In I’d wild slntd Is a
thorny sht’uli or hat nil tree, but when
cultivated becc.tt)“s A tree 20 to 40 feet
high, with no thorn*, it lives to a good
ago. The. Vkavos resemble those of a
willow, the flowers are small and white
and grow In clusters as grnpos do, and
the fhdt Is greenish, whitish, violet
Pf- oven black In color and generally
bval In shape. It is produced In great
profusion, so tbat an old Olive tree be
comes very valuable to Its owner.
Among tlie Greeks the olive was
sacred to Minerva, tbe goddess of wis
dom, It was also tbe emblem of pu
rity. A crown of olive twigs was the
highest honor that could be bestowed
upon u Greek citizen. An olive branch
was also the symbol of peace, nnd
the vanquished who came to beg for
peace bore olive branches in their
bands.
The American olive Is remarkable
for tlie hardness of Its wood. It Is
found ns far north as Virginia. Its
fruit Is tit for use, and Its flowers are
fragrant.
Tho fragrant olive of China nnd Jn
pan bns extremely fragrant flowers,
which are used for flavoring tea.
An Old New Jersey Schoolhonsc.
The pupil of today would think bisi
opportunities very grent If he could,
see tbe school equipment of a hundred)
years ago. A Morris county (N. J.l
school of that period is thus described!
In an old letter of one of Its attendants::
Tbe bulldlDg was constructed of logs.,
and instead of glass for windows,
sheepskins were stretched over tho
apertures made by sawing off an occa
sional log. The windows had one 1
merit—they prevented pupils from
being Interrupted In tbelr study by
what was going on outside. The time
wns regulated by an hourglass, and
tho pupils drank water from a tum
bler made of a cow’s horn or from a
ground shell.
Iu spite of these differences of equip
ment, the schools of a century ago re
sembled those of today in one notaWo
respect—they had for the most part
the same great literary works that are
tbe standards of our language now.
The grentest literature is fortunately
tbe possession of many centuries.
Bat tie Weakened.
“My dear." said the poet sternly.
“I’ve Just sold a love song, but”—
“But what?”
“Oh, nothing. I was just about to
say that 1 wouldn’t buy bacon or
Hla Method.
leg.
gone out to look
stand cold, in one such storm "over p. ucns 0 r self raising flour with tho
twenty men perished and ninny mules, money, but—you know best”—Atlanta
All tbe dogs witli the caravan were Constitution.
dead, hut so far as 1 ea-n remember. •
no horses. Yet some of tbe chargers of ) HI* Gl*«* Eye.
the Eleventh Bengal lancers got slowly ^jncle Cytus—Say, this glass eye
#n * of them.” she said “that on tbelr legs the day after the blizzard ha|n>t no good. I want my money
! eye * ®nd Couchs nnd’hnno* literally sheeted with ice as an ironclad , back
Optician—No good?
Uncle Cyrus— Hain’t wuth a tinker’s
darn. Can’t see a hit better with tlie
blame thing than I kin without.—
Judge.
True!
Tlie people who are always short find
It difficult to get along —Philadelphia
Record.
Tlie Inhabitants of Palmyra get ail
tbelr salt by dipping buckets into the
and coughs and hanef literally sheeted with ice as 1™“--
Doting that tbe horse will stand com
^ your pap a do for bI| where a mule or a camel will not and
to the owner of the ant where a dog will die,
lnnoceBt
polite Erie Camaatna
A stranger who had an appointment
to mect.a<frleud In the Chambers street
ferry house, which Is used Aiy Erie
commuters, was- greatly, puzzled tbe
other afternoon by tU6 actions of the
mfen who passed the ticket taker’s win
dow. Ncurly three-fourths of them
took tbelr 'bats off to the ticket taker In
the most polite style.
The stranger thought that possibly
tbe ticket taker's wife was In tbe box
with, bint, and he went back to look
again. There wns no one In the box
save the ticket taker, who looked good
natured, but not imposing. When his
(friend arrived, tbe stranger said:
“Is that tbe president of tbe Erie
rend In that box?”
“Certainly nob Why do yon ask such
a question?”
“Why, every mnn who passes him
takes bis bat off, gives him a marcblug
salute and walks on.”
Tbe friend smiled pityingly at the
stranger's Ignorance and said it wns a
trick of tbe Eric commuters to carry
tbelr tickets in tbe crown ef tbelr bats.
•They took their hats off so that the
sgent might see tbe ticket—New York
Sun.
Value.
3. A mortgage on movable prop
erty.
4. A statement that the property
Is forfeited and must be sold.
5. A right given to builders and
persons furnishing materials, to hold
possession of personal property in
the bauds of owners until property
is paid for.
(5, A sealed instrument in writlngi
duly executed and delivered, uw
taining some bargain, trfl n 8fet Of
oontraot.
7. A oontraot for the possession
and enjoyment of real eBtate on one
hand, and the payment of rent or
other income on the other. ' A ten
ant is one who has temporary nse of
real estate belonging to another, the
term of his occupancy being defined
m the lease, Verbal promises-
amount to nothing;.the law consid
ers only what is slated in the lease.
8. A written instrument declaring
what a person desires to have done
with bis property after bis death.
9. A written Instrument admitting
an obligation on the part of tbe
maker to pay a certain sum of mon
ey to another specified person at a
fixed time, for a valuable consider,
ation,
10. A formal written conveyance
of personal property,
11. The legal definition of a Con
tract is an agreement between per"
sons competent to contract to do or
not to do, fpr a consideration, some
specified thing,
A Historic Throne.
The biggest episcopal throne In Eu
rope is at the Exeter cathedral. Com
posed of the very best oak, with mag
nificent carving executed by tbe most
expert designers of the day. the throne
soars upward In beautiful tapering pin
nacles, wblcb rise up to tbe lofty roof
of the sacred edifice. The throne Is
not only the biggest, but one of tbe
oldest It was saved from destruction
by the Puritans by the Ingenuity of the
Cavaliers, who when tbe Roundheads
marched on Exeter pulled down tbe
throne and divided It into 3Q5 pieces,
one for every day of tlie year. Tbe
pieces were safety secured In many
hiding places, and when peace was re
stored the pieces were put together
Again without the aid of a single nalL
frill!
■v —K
don’t
“B Work*
A Blc One.
An octopus which had been In a flget
with some other monster once drifted
ashore on the Malay peninsula. He had
,, „ , feelers, or arms, which were from 1-
toortJ 00 qu,t bes&lns to 17 feet long and weighed altogether
B-ell. forking people? 550 pounds. It was calculated that r ^ _
) i dlm ef I ain’t work In’ be was big enough and strong euou„ , nclr |j bor | n g salt lake and allowing the
D ° "'Ho Is.—Chicago i to drag a two ton fishing boat under i wjUcr to evaporate.
1 the surface by mala strength.
t*.(n Differ.
Denier—Here, mndam. Is a horse 1
can recommend—sound, kind-
old Lady—^Ob. I don’t want that sort
of a horse. He bolds bis bead high.
Dealer—Eh 7
Old Lady—I like a horse tbat bolds
bis nose close to tbe ground, so be
aee where he’s going.—New Xork
Weekly.
The geographical divisions of the
United States arc the north Atlantic
group, the south Atlantic group, tho
north central group, tbe south central
group and the western group.
APPLICATION FOR CHAPTER.
GEORGIA— Decatur County.
To the Superior Court of gnld County;-
Tho petition of E. V. MeBnrney, of Fufto*
comity. On., T. C. Walum**, of DiUiSttW"
county, Mm., mid M. C. Allen, Of* Uefcatur
county, G*„ ahowa:
Ini. I’ntltloiiei* d»qr« fo*- tfifemselvei, •••
tlieir neeoctutos, auccoMorernnd neelsne, to'
be liicoporHled it* n body )*>ittlc ami corpor
ate under the imino <tf the "BA1NIIII1DGK
on, company,” urnrby ::.,.i •mine to »u«
»ml be »H«d, trsanao* nil bnslnbu »» heretn-
nfter pwtyeif. s»ve ««(* line it common tivitl,
initke contracts, borrow moony, und create
Hueh e>-ldi noes »f debt hh the corhorAtloo
iniiv doHin , ttml hoc mo tbe raina hv trorl
page, deed, i.ceil of trust,orotUer (eeuritlu* '
upon It* property nod rntneftlses, it:.y'
port thcreol; to buy. leuee or rent, own nek
»ull re*i; entitle und iteraonnl property of
every dene-lotion; nnd to have nnd exerclBe
jtll such other power* as lire specified by the
lews »f Georgia, and u* may be neceuary tA
carry out the m.rpOHauof thl*incurporulion.
*"d. The object* Of *») a corporation and
the imrtleubtr l>u*ln**» tube curried on are
to Oianuleteiure, Inly and »cll at wholcusle
and let.II from cotton teed otl. lint, hull*,
stock feed and fertillsera of every dcxeiln
tiou; to rettnc oil,buy and xell the Nine. Inly
und xell cotton *ecdand fertilizer*, and in
general to c-nidnct thu biiNlncxHof a cotton
need oil mill, and the inunufactnie and «ule
of Icrtlll-zer* and merchandise Incident
thereto
Hrd. Tho principal office and place of kos-
Ixiiexx of xnfd corporation xhull be In tho
town of ituinbrldge, In Decatur county,
Georgia: but tho petitioners desire the right
to establish brunch offices, factories, nlnce*
ot business, seed house* and scales at such
other place* us said corporation uiay wish.
4th. The CHDltuI stock of said Company,
actually pitld in, I* *l»,1100.00, and petitioner*
ssk the privilege of Increasing the same at
any time to any amount not exceeding fi.vi,-
000.X). Petitioners a*k that the subscrip
tions to thecuplial stock may be paid In auy
kind of property that tho corporation is
authorized to deal In, No stockholders in
said company shall be bound la hi* individ
ual capacity for the contract or debt of tbe
Company beyond the nxnonjt of hbt unpaid
subscription to its capital stock.
»th. Petitioners pray that they -miry be
granted the right to make all proper nilof.A
constitution and by lawi,and*lterthn»ame-
at pleasure; also iliac they have power to
elect such directors, officer* ami agent* as
!® * ’ J* 1P Period of Mtd corpormtion
Khali bo twenty years, with the privilege of
renewal as Prov ided by law. v ”
nth. Wli erefore, pe.ltfoner* prnv that •.?,fir
petition may la: mod and recorded as nr,.
by Is*, und When tbe «wne bus
published as provided by statute, that all
order may be passed Incorporating peiltlcm-
er* under the name und style, and for iim
purposes und with the powSr. berolktofJK
r. u. gramaj*.
Flledtn office tht^tH^ >
A. I). lUOf. u, \v, WlM UK 111 Y * *
(>lurk Superior Court Decatur coupty,!^
tJKOftiii/—^zetatur^Oonnty.
r\\e above Ih a true copy of the original
,0 “N4INBKIIHiK OIL
IzOMI'ANT * hh appearsou file In thin n«fJL
This 15th day of rebruiuy, 11*02
Clerk 8u perlor Court Decattw (owity) bfa.