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Editor Rainey Was Once A Boy-
Many a man whose head has
"been silvered in the course of time
seems to have forgotten that he was
once a boy. He rails at the foibles
of youth, and holds up his hands in
holy horror at their mischievous
pranks. Don’t forget the days
whhen you robbed bird nests and
played truant to lure the finny tribe
from their lair. The happy days
of boyhood are spent in an endeav
or to have sport, and even if the
boys do sometimes overstep the
bounds of orthodoxy give them for
giveness lest in vour attempt to
crub them you break the spirit that
leads to success in after life. Rec
ollect you were once a boy your
self. —Dawson News.
Macon News : —Fourth of July
is almost here, and of course, it
will produce its usual crop of acci
dents. According to statistics, it
would seem that Chicago is a very
patrotic city, if the number of cas
ualites should be accepted as the
-test. In ten years 1,100 persons
were killed and 5,593 injured, more
-or less seriously, on Independence
Day in ten cities. The fire losses
reached the snug sum of $5,659,000.
The tribute paid by noisy patriotism
to the country’s natal day is rath
er costly.
An exchange: “What has be
come of the boy in patches?” Why,
bless your soul, he is out on the
farm chopping clods 16 hours a
day. he will come to town after a
while and run the banks and the
stores, and be the successful law
yers and preachers and physicians.
Don’t worry about the boy in pat
ches. It’s theslick-lookiug. nicely
groomed lad to inquire about. He’s
the fellow that’s going to drop
though a crack in the sidewalk,
out of sight one of these days.—Ex.
The United States should take
time by the forelock, so to speak,
and get rid of the Phillipine Islands
while it may be done peaceably
and with honor, its presence there
as a master is shameless. It is a
shame that can be perpetuated only
at a great sacrifice of blood and
treasure. Safety lies only in the
justice of letting the Phillipinos go
free.—Sparta Ishmaelite.
Macon Telegraph : It is re
ported that the New York physic
ians are meeting with much encour
agement in treating a boy whose
brain is only partially developed.
What a field will open for the
members of the medical profession
if they succeed in this direction?
Then the poet will be made, not
born, and money and brains may
be foundinseparable,
Mayor J. A. Jones, of Waycross.
was in town last Monday, and se
cured a half page in the Breeze to
advertise his celebrated Hay Baler.
Mr. Jones never handles anything
of an inferior grade, therefore you
may be sure of getting something
that will give satisfaction if you
buy one of his machines. The
space is reserved; the advertise
ment will appear next week.
The American woman’s foot is
the prettiest,’’ said a shoemaker.
“It is at once slender and robust
and very supple. The instep is
high and beautiful. In a word, a
perfect foot—charming and service
able alike in a pink satin slipper,
in a ballroom or in a white, rubber
soled shoe on a tennis court, or in
a pair of old shoes in the kitchen.
Brunswick Journal: “The A.
& B. will bring in a large excursion
from Douglas early next week. The
Douglas band is giving the excur
sion and visitors will have three
days in the city.” Our friend
made a mistake. It was not the
Douglas Band this time, but the
Douglas band will come to Bruns
wick later.
Another circumstance has de
veloped to relieve the alleged
“leaks” in the government’s sta
tistical bureau from the charge of
being a dry subject. It has been
discovered that there is a woman
in the case. A woman who buys
and furnishes an elegant house on
SSO a mouth salary. This grows
interesting.
When a woman doesn’t have to
get a new cook more than once a
wees she thinks she is becoming a
successful housekeeper.
Flowers With Vegetables,
You can't eat your cake anil have It
too. If you cut flowers all over your
grounds, particularly near the house,
the place will not look iis best. More
over, we none of us have enough cut
flowers for house decorations and to
give away. If you plan to raise a great
many flowers for cutring in beds and
borders you are simply inviting back
ache and hours of unnecessary work.
The cheaper, easy and sensible way is
to have a separate place for raising
flowers that you want for cutting. Se
lect a place that is out of the way, so
that the removal of the flower's will not
spoil the garden or landscape effect.
The vegetable garden is just the place,
because you can have long, straight
rows and cultivate them easily by
horse or wheel hoe. You can trust an
ignorant laborer to hoe anything that
is in straight lines, but he is the ruin
of an informal border.—Garden Maga
zine.
The Walt* In 1781.
I was engaged in looking at these
fine people when a gentleman and lady
came whirling by and had almost over
whelmed me. I could not imagine what
they, were about. I had scarcely extri
cated myself from the danger with
which they threatened me when anoth
er and another couple came twisting by
in like manner. I found on inquiry that
this was a favorite German dance call
ed a waltz and is performed in the fol
lowing manner: The lady and gentle
man stand face to face. The gentleman
puts his arm around the lady’s waist
and with the other hand he gets firm
hold on her arm. You would at first
think they were going to wrestle. Thus
prepared and the gentleman having got
so good a purchase upon the lady, they
begin to spin around and around with
a velocity which would have made me
giddy in half a minute.—“ Twining Pa
pers.”
I.norincr For Bras*.
Make lacquer for brass as follows:
Tumeric root, ground flue, one ounce;
best dragon’s blood, one-half dram, put
into one pint of alcohol. Place it in a
moderate heat and shake at intervals
for several days. It must then be
strained through a linen cloth and put
back in the bottle. Now add three
ounces of powdered gum shellac; then
keep ns before in a warm place for a
few days more and shake frequently.
When thoroughly dissolved strain it
again and keep in a bottle tightly
corked. The metal must be perfectly
clean and free from dust or grease ami
must be heated. The article may
either dipped in the lacquer or coated
with a brush, taking care not to go
over the same place twice nor to leave
any spots uncovered. The lacquer will
dry in a few seconds.
Tile Shilling Face of Moses.
All down through the ages a mis
take has been perpetuated as to the
meaning of the Hebrew word “karan,”
“to emit rays like horns.” It is the
word used in Exodus xxxlv, 29, to
describe the shining face of Moses aft
er he had talked with the Lord. The
Septuagint translated it into Greek,
“his head was horned.” So all through
the middle ages and the period of great
Italian art the Vulgate had it (whence
Michael Angelo and other artists got
the idea, Angelo giving to Moses two
flamelike locks of hair on the head);
the Cranmer Bible and the Douay
Catholic English Bible continued the
queer error. King James’ version at
last got it right, “the skin of Moses’
face shone, and Moses put the veil
upon his face,” etc.
Coaling the Sun.
Coaling the sun is au expression used
by physicists to indicate the necessity
of renewing the stock of motive power,
exactly analogous to coaling a vessel
for an ocean journey. Many maintain
that this is done by the incessant show
ers of meteorites which rain in upon it
from celestial space. Thus it is that
the sun’s energy is continually kept up
and its fires are fed. Atom after atom
in the continuous collisions of matter
is changed into vapor and adds its
quota of energy to the great central
storehouse—in fact, “coals the sun.”
Climbing: Parnasso.H.
In mythology Parnassus, a mountain
in central Greece, was sacred to the
muses. The Delphian sanctuary of
Apollo wa3 on its slope and from be
tween its twin summit peaks flowed
the fountain Castalia, the waters of
which were reputed to impart the vir
tue of poetic inspiration. The highest
peak, 8,068 fdet, was held sacred to
Bacchus and the rest to Apollo and the
muses—whence the saying of young po
ets “climbing Parnassus.”
His Course.
Farmer Comrack —Mandy, I got a
letter from our boy sayln’ he was get
tin’ ready to take a preparatory ‘ses
sion. Mandy—A three months’ course,
I presume? Farmer Cornrack—No, I
think not. He said somethin’ about a
nine hole course, twice around.—New
York Times.
Her Advlee.
“Yes, Laura, he said his heart was
in my keeping.”
“Take my advice, dear, and tell him
you are not running a storage ware
house for damaged goods.”—Cleveland
Plain Dealer.
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