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'PHONE J.E.COOK For Good Things to EAT! Promptest Delivery—Best and Freshest Eat ables Always Ready for You. Fresh Meats, Staple and Fancy Groceries and Delicacies TELEPHONE 32. SAMPLES! SAMPLES! HATS! HATS!! SHOES! SHOES!! Don’t Buy Hats, Caps, Shoes, Shirts, Etc., until you have seen the big lot samples. :: :: :: :: Sample Shoes! Sample Shoes!! Yes, plenty of them—at same old prices that you have been buying them at. :: :: :: Big Stock Dry Goods, Shoes, Hats, Clothing, Trunks, Etc. :: :: Can Save you as Much on Sample Hats as I can on Sample Shoes. Low prices on everything all the time JESSE M. WYNNE. Bring us your Cotton and Cotton Seed We Pay Highest Market Price! GENERAL MERCHANDISE! Buggies and Wagons! Your Patronage Appreciated C. C. & J. H. HALL, Empire, Georgia. Decorate the Grave! with a Good, Nice Monument at a Low Cost. tJWe handle all grades Marble and Granite and Iron Fencing—See or write G. W. PERKINS, Cordeie, Ga. He will Save you the Middle-man’;? Profit and Commission by Buying Direct from him —Sales Manager, CORDELE CONSOLIDATED MARBLE CO. Cordele, Georgia* WHITE FACES. Effect They Produce When First Seen by Colored Races. Either Stanley or Livingstone per haps told the world that after long living tn Africa the sight of white faces produced something like fear. (And the evil spirits of Africa are white.) Well, even after a few months along with black faces I have felt that feeling of uncomfortableness at the sight of white faces. Something ghostly, terrible, seemed to have come into those faces that I had never Imagined possible before. I felt for a moment the black man’s terror of the white. At least I think I partly real ized what it was. You remember the Romans lost their first battles with the north through sheer fear. The fairer the weirder, the more spectral the more terrible. Beauty there is in the north, of its kind. But it is surely not comparable with the wonderful beauty of color in other races. To appreciate the beauty of colored skins it is not simply enough to travel. One must become familiar with the sight of them through months and years. (So strong our prejudices arc!) And at last when you perceive there are human skins of real gold (living statues of gold with blue hair, like the Carib half breeds) and all fruit tints of skins, orange and yellow and peach rod and lustrous browns of countless shades, and all colors of metals, too— bronzes of every tone —one begins to doubt whether a white skin is so fine. (If you don’t believe these colors. Just refer to Broca’s pattern books, where you will find that all jewel colors ex ist in eyes and all fruit colors and metal colors in skins. I could not be lieve my own eyes till I saw Broca.) I have seen people who had grass green emeralds instead of eyes and topazes and rubies for eyes. And 1 have seen races with blue hair.—Cor. Lafcadio Hearn in Atlantic. TRICK ANIMALS. 1 Sometimes the Trainer Has to Do His Work Quickly. “You wouldn’t believe how fast you have to work to train an animal,” said the man who has broken everything from elephants to geese the other day. “Why,*l can tell just how many hours it is going to take to break in any kind of animal you might mention. “A woman came to me the other day and said: ‘I want a trained goose for my magic act. How much will you charge me to break one?’ “ ‘Sixty dollars,’ said I. “ ‘Well, how do you figure that out?’ she asked. “ ‘Why, it’s very simple,’ I said. ‘lt’s $1 an hour, and it will take me just sixty hours.’ “Yes, sir; I can train a goose—that is, to follow mo around and do some simple tricks—in sixty hours, a pig in thirty hours, and so on. But as for a peafowl and a guinea hen—they can’t be trained in a hundred years. “Now, you take a troupe of trained dogs. That doesn’t take half as long to do as people suppose. No, sir; a man with an animal show has got to work fast. Why, maybe the boss comes around on a Monday morning and says: ‘Here—here’s a bunch of six dogs. Now make an act out of it for next Monday’s show.’ “There are six green dogs to make into a troupe in a week. Can’t be done, you say? Sure, it can! One dog—one trick—one day. That’s the principle, and you can do it too. Each dog will learn a trick each day all right. One will learn a back- somer sault, one a front som'ersault, one to walk on his hind legs, one on his front legs, one to roll over, and so on. Then by the end of the week you’ve got a nice little act, and all the people are acclaiming about your years of pa tience and that sort of stuff. Patience is a good thing, of course, but the secret is Just ‘know how;’ that’s all.” —New York Post. Telling Eggs. The problem of tellings eggs is not an easy one by any means. Very few of us know how to do it properly. On the other hand, there are those 'who think they should not be told at all, but that is old fashioned nonsense, in spired entirely by false modesty. It is safe to say that eggs should be told at as early an age as possible consist ent with their temperament. If al lowed to go too long there is grave danger that the egg will become bad, and when an egg becomes bad it is hopeless. The world is full of bad eggs which might have been saved If they had been told in time.—Lippln cott’s. Wasted Effort. At a fire recently a brave fireman came gasping and panting from the burning building with his beard and •yebrows singed in the flames. Un der one arm he carried a small but heavy box, which he deposited in a place of safety with the air of a man who had saved a box of government bonds from destruction. On opening the box it was found to contain six bottles of a new patent fire extinguish* er— Argonaut. Protracted'. “Hello, Barker!” said Smitkin, meet ing his friend on the street. “How goes it?” “All right, I guess,” said Barker. “Seen Bobbie Sponger lately?” “Yes; Bobbie is down at my place at Westhampton now. I invited hint down for the week end”— “Why, I thought that was three weeks ago!” “It was,” said Barker, “but. you know, Bobbie is an expert at making both ends meet.”—Harper’s Weekly. NOTHING WAS LOST. An Omission In a Wedding Ceremony That Didn’t Count., A distinguished officer of the United j States navy once told this story on ; himself: At the time of his marriage he had been through the civil war and had had many harrowing experiences j aboard ship, through all of which he kept courage and remained as calm 1 as a brave man should. As the time . for the ceremony came on, however, his calmness gradually gave way. At I the altar, amid the blaze of brass but tons and gold lace marking the full ! naval wedding, the officer was all but stampeded, and what went on there seemed very much mixed to him. Fearing the excitement of the moment would temporarily take him off his feet, the officer had learned the mar riage ceremony letter perfect, as he thought, and he remembered repeating the words after the minister in a me chanical sort of way. After the ceremony was over and all was serene again, including the offi cer’s state of mind, the kindly clergy man came up to him and touched him on the shoulder. “Look here, old man,” he said; “you didn’t endow your wife with any worldly goods.” “What’s that?” asked the bridegroom with something of astonishment in his voice. “Why, I repeated the sentence ‘With all my worldly goods I thee endow’ several times, and despite my efforts you would not say it after me.” The bridegroom seemed perturbed for a moment, aud then a beaming light camo into his face. “Never mind, sir,” he said. “She didn’t lose a blessed thing by my fail ure.”—Exchange. Lights His Pipe In a Gale. I write as one who has smoked in his time more matches than most people, and it will be understood how I regard the bus driver’s ability in lighting a pipe. A galo may be blowing, the horses requiring special attention, his left eye engaged on the reflection v of the omnibus in shop windows, a pas senger inquiring who won the Derby in 1884, constables issuing directions With the right arm, a fare hailing him from the pavement, and amid all these distractions he can strike one wooden match, hold it in the curve of his baud and the tobacco is well alight. Also while hats are blowing about the streets in the manner of leaves in au tumn his headgear never goes from its place, rarely moves from the angle de cided on the first journey. I have al ways assumed that ho takes it off at night before retiring to rest, but to part with it must mean a terrible wrench.—London Express. Spontini’s Decorations. Caspnro Spontini, the composer, re garded himself in the light of a demi god, and when inspirations crowded upon bint lie donned n wide, toga like gown of white silk with a border of gold and a fez of white silk em broidered in gold from which a heavy tassel hung down. With great dignity he sat down before his desk, aud if a grain of dust was visible on the paper on which ho penned his music he rang the hell impatiently for his servant to remove the obstacle. Spon tini owned so many medals and deco rations that they could no longer be accommodated on his breast. At a grand musical reunion at Halle an old musician remarked to a comrade, “See how many decorations Spontini has, while Mozart lias not one.” Spon tini, who overheard it, replied quickly, “Mozart, my dear friend, does not need them.” Night Blindness. Inability to see by day is matched by the commoner night blindness which most of us have known in friend or relative. This defect, which includes an inability to see even by artificial light, is congenital with some people and never overcome. It is often he reditary. It may also be caused, how ever, by long exposure to an overbright light, coupled with fatigue. A strungo story is told concerning a ship’s crew two centuries Rgo which were over come by night blindness so extreme that their captain was obliged to force a fight with a Spanish privateer dur ing the day, knowing that by night his men would be helpless. In order to obviate this difficulty for future occa sions he ordered each sailor to keep one eye bound during the daytime, discovering, to his gratification, that this eye, having rested, was then free of the defect. The sailors were very amusing in their efforts to retain the bandage well over the eye that must be ready for night duty, and so a method of modifying this trouble was discovered—London Strand Magazine. The Attorney In England. The use of the word attorney de notes a belated mind. Since Nov. 1, 1875, attorneys have ceased to exist, their title merged by law into that of solicitor of the supreme court of judi cature, says a writer in the London Mail. The name had long been used as a term of abuse. Johnson observed of an acquaintance that “he did not care to speak ill of any man behind his back, but he believed the gentle man was an attorney.” Archbishop Trench, in 1850, noted that the word attorney was going out of favor and that the lower branch of the legal profession preferred to lie called solicitors. So when the judi cature act of 1873 was before parlia ment a clause was Inserted abolishing the obnoxious title. But with our de lightful conservatism we still honor the “attorney general," .-—v— . _ j HAWKINSVILLE FURNITUkI . h AND UNDERTAKING CDMPAW HAWKINSVILLE. GEORGIA. FUNERAL DIRECTORS LICENSED EMBALMERS Day Phone 69. Night and Sunday Phone 168. A CALLS ANSWERED PROMPTLY. 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