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A LOVE TRAGEDY.
Ruskin’s Adoration of the Lovely Rose
La Touche.
Id 1858. when Buskin was in his
fortieth year, he was asked hv a friend
to give some lessons in drawing to a
chilt} named Uose lai Tout'tie, whose
name, indeed, was French. hut whose
family were Irish There sprang up
between Buskin and this young girl a
very charming friendship, which. <>f
course, at the time could be nothing
but a friendship. They wrote each
other letters and exchanged drawings,
ami then for awhile they did not meet
Ten years passed by before they saw
each other. .Meanwhile the child,
whom be bad remembered as a blue
eyed, saucy, clever little blond with
ripe red lips and hair like tine spun
gold, had become a very lovely young
woman of nineteen. They resumed
their old acquaintance, but in a very
different way. Though Kusktn was
now nearly lifty. he gave to Hose l.u
Touche an adoration and a passion
such as he had never felt before. On
her side site no longer thought of him
as “very ugly," but was singularly
drawn to him despite the difference
in their years.
The two met often. They took long
strolls together in the pleasant fields
of Surrey, and at last Husk in beggtnl
her to make him happy and to be his
wife. Oddly enough, however, she hes
itated. not because he was so much
older than herself, but because he had
ceased to be what she regarded as "a
true believer.’’ Some of the things
that he had written shocked her as
being almost atheistic. She was her
self. underneath all her gaiety of man
ner. a rigid aud uncompromising Prot
estant. She used phrases front the
Bible in her ordinary talk, and when
sbe spoke of marriage with John Bus
kin she said that she could not endure
to be “yoked with an unbeliever.'’
Yet her heart was loin at the thought
of sending him away, and so for sev
eral years their intimacy continued,
be pleading with her and striving hard
to make her see that love was every
thing. She. on the other hand, read
over tboae passages of the Old Testa
ment which seemed to bar all com
promise.
At last, in 1872, when she was t wen
ty-four and he was fifty-three, she
gave him her final answer. She would
not marry him unless he could believe
as sbe did. Mis honesty forbade him
to deceive her by a*pretended corner
sion, and so they parted, never m sc**
each other again. Mow deeply sbe was
affected Is shown by the fact that she
soon foil ill. She grew worse and
worse until at hist it was quite certain
that she could not live. Then Buskin
wrote to her and begged that he might
see her. She answered with a note in
which she feebly traced the words:
"You may come if you can tell me
that you love Gull more than you love
me.’’
When Buskin read this his very soul
was racked with agony, and he cried
out:
“No. no; then I cannot go to her. for
1 love her even more than God!”
When she died, ns she did soon after,
the light of his life went out for Bus
kin.—Lyndou Orr in Munsey’s Maga
zine.
The Ocean's Age.
The ocean, of course, is not as old as
the earth, because it could not be
formed until the surface of the globe
had sufficiently cooled to retain water
upon It. but it seems chimerical to try
to measure the age of the sea. Never
Iheless Profesttor July undertook the
task, basing his estimate upon the
ratio of the amount of sodium it con
tains to that annually contributed by
the washing from the continents. He
thus reached t He conclusion that the
ocean has been in existence between
80,000.000 and 170.000.000 years. This
does not seem a very definite determi
nation. but then in geology estimates
of time in years are extremely difficult
because of the uncertainty of the ele
ments of the calculation. The most
that can be said for such results is
that they are probable.
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Coulda’t 9lgnal It!
During some tarticn! operations one
of the ships of the squadron had made
some bad blunders, and at length the
admiral completely lost his temper. He
stormed about his quarterdeck and in
formed bis hearers of bis opluion of
the officer in command of the erring
ship. When he paused for want of
breath he turned to the signaler and
said to him. "And you cau tell him
that, sir!*’
The man scratched his bead medi
tatively. “I beg pardon, sir.'* be ven
tured. “but 1 don’t think we have quite
enough flags for your message."—Lou
don Answers.
Cannibalism.
Among regular cannibals the most
varied motives have been found. There
ire Indians who are said to eat their
enemies by way of Insult and Austra
lians who consume their deceased par
ents as a mark of affection. Some
tribes devour the dead enemy to abol
ish him utterly, others to assimilate
bis virtues. Africa has revealed canni
balism of every sort, from the most
solemn religious rite to the most pro
saic gratification of appetite aud taste.
SLOW DEATH.
Disease Usually Takes a Long Time to
Kill, Says a Scientist.
Few indeed are the men and wom
en of full age. say twenty-five, who
have not yet contracted the malady
that will kill them, according to that
distinguished scientist aud physician
Dr. Felix Itegnault. Normally, as con
temporary investigators are beginning
to find out. it takes twenty years for
a fatal malady to kill a patient. It
may take thirty years. The popular
impression is that a man may die sud
denly or that he may require only a
year to die in or six months. To be
sure, a man may be killed or a chiid
may die in a few months at the age
of oue year. But. ordinarily speaking,
all deaths are very slow, indeed, and
about It.") per cent of civilized adults
are now stricken with fatal diseases.
They do not know it. They may not
suffer from them. In due time they will
have their cases diagnosed as cancer
or tuberculosis or diabetes, or what
not. But so inveterate are current
misconceptions of the nature of death
that the origin of the fatal malady
in time—will be miscalculated by from
ten to thirty years.
lri the case of human beings death,
barring accident, is nearly always
caused by some specific malady. This
malady Is as likely as not to be cured
—what is called cured. The cure, how
ever. no matter how skillful the treat
ment or how slight the disease, has
left a weakness behind it in some
particular organ of the body. One of
the organs is. if not prematurely worn
out. at least so worn that Its resisting
powers are greatly diminished. All of
us In this way when we have reached
a certain age possess an organ that Is
much older than the rest of the
physique. One day we shall die be
cause of this organ. Even if we live
to be very old. Indeed, we shall not
die of old age. but of weakness of the
lungs or of the kidneys or of the liver
or of the brain.—Current Literature.
A Ten Years’ Penance.
It is happily seldom that the revenge
of a disappointed husband takes quite
such an extreme form as in the case
of the man whose will ran thus: "When
I remember that the only happy times
I ever enjoyed were when my wife
sulked with me. and when I remem
ber that my married life might, for
this reason, be considered to have been
a fairly happy one because she was
nearly always sulking, I am constrain
ed to forget the repulsion the contem
plation of her face inspired me with
and leave her the sum of £(>0,000 on
condition that she undertakes to pass
two hours a day at my grarenide for
the ton years following my decease, in
company with her sister, whom I have
reason to know she loathes worse than
she does myself.”—Loudon Tit-Bits
Here and There.
A man was waiting patiently for a
street car the other day at a transfer
station, says the Boston Record, when
a woman, highly excited, rushed up to
him and cried, “Are you the man
here ?’’
“1 don’t understand.” he said.
“Are you the man here?” she re
peated.
“No, madam.” he said, concealing a
smile. “The man here is that man
over there.”
Money is one thing everybody is aft
er. and yet It always gets left behind.
CORN AS MOD
There it* a wide-spread belief
among horse owners that no grain
is equal to oats as an efficient feed
for horses and that no matter how
high the price of oats, no other
grain can le used as a substitute
for them.
In order to test the accuracy of
this belief, B. E. Carmichael, of the
Ohio Station, began in the spring
of 1007 an extensive series of ex
periments to test the relative value
and efficiency of oats and corn as a
grain ration for work horses.
With this in view, three teams
of grade Percheron geldings were
taken; these horses were used for
general farm and team work on the
station farm. The horses in each
team were about the same age; one
was fed on oats and the other on
corn. The plan was to feed as
much ear corn by weight as oats.
All the horses received as much
mixed clover and ear corn as they
could eat. The experiment report
ed was continued forty-eight wet ks.
The variations in weight of the
corn-fed horses were practically the
safne as those of the horses receiving
oats; nor was it noticed that there
was any difference in spirit or en
durance between the mates of each
team.
" re ou *° But a Minute
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WLm, iHMf _ JUST ANOTHER MINUUTE, PLEASE.
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IN LIGHTER VEIN.
Mother —Now, Bobby, you must
j not get into any tights with the
| neighbors’ children.
Bobby —But, mother, I’ve got to
got acquainted with them some way.
—Ex.
Providence will not prevent a
man from freezing who is too dey
ilish lazy to build a tire. —Ex.
A spinster when urged to marry
said she had no need of a husband
because she bad a parrot that swore,
a lamp that smoked and a cat that
stayed out nights. —Ex.
Why is a school yard larger at
recess than during school hours?
Because it has more feet in it. —Ex.
“I could tell you,” said he, “how
much water runs over Niagara Falls,
to the quart.” “How much?”
“Two pints.”—Ex.
A hen is a very poor economist,
for everv grain she takes she gives
a peck.—Ex.
Why don’t hens lay at night?
| Because they are roosters. —Ex.
Husband —You are not econom
ical.
Wife —Well, if you don’t call a
woman economical who saves her
wedding dress for a possible second
! marriage I’d like to know what you
1 think economy is like.--Ex-
Pointed Paragraphs.
(From The Chicago News. >
If a man looks at his watch while
| you are telling a story cut it short.
Wives look foward to buying new
[clothes, and husbands to paying
! for them.
When it comes to minding their
I business, men have women beaten
) to a frazzle.
If people were oompclhd t<> fel
low their own advice they would
generate a better brand-
No man would be able t>* escape
matrimony if nature had fixed it so
that all women could have been
born widows.
His Proviso.
“1 can marrv a rich girl, whom I
do not love, or a penniless girl
whom 1 love dearly. Which shall
I do?”
“Follow the dictates of your
heart, my lxy, and be happy- Mar
ry the poor one, and —say —ei —
would you mind introducing me to
the other one?”
Schedule Gainesville Midland Railway
SOUTH BOUND
No. 11 —Lv. 8:85 a. m.
No. 18 —Lv. 2:50 p in.
No. 15— Lv. 10850 am; Sun. only.
NORTH BOUND
No. 12—-Vt. 11:25 am.
No. 14—Ar. 5:40 p m.
No. 16—A.. 4:25 pm ; Sun. oulv.
DR. S. T. ROSS,
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON,
Winder, Ga.
Offices Rear Turner’s Pharmacy.
EDMOND F. SAXON, M. D.
WINDER, GA.
Office over Turner’s Pharmacy.
Residence on Broad St. ’Phone
116. Attend all calls day or night.
Buyers of Cotton Seed.
We are in the market for Cotton Seed. Most
convenient place in the city to weigh and unload.
Highest Market Price Paid
Will exchange Cotton Meal and Hulls for
Cotton Seed. See us at the store. .
LAY & GRAHAM,
WINDER, GEORGIA.
CHARLEY JOE
THE LAUNDRYMAN
Opera House Building,
Behind Express Office.
First-Class Work. Satisfaction Guaranteed.
All kinds of laundry neatly done.
Clothes cleaned and pressed
PRICES: Collars, 2c; Shirts, 10c; Cuffs, 4c Pair.
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If you feel your responsibility for those de
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F. W. BONDURANT,
MANAGER
Fidelity Mutual Life Insurance Cos.,
WINDER, GEORGIA,
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Also agent for Accident, Fire and Bonds.
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