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THE CARROLL FREE PRESS, CARROLLTON, QA.
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NEW GOODS
AT ROOP HARDWARE CO.
A car load of new Cooking Stoves just received.
Also a fresh car of Mitchell one and two horse wagons.
Also two cars of Carmichael and Barnesville buggies.
FOR HARDWARE
We invite the public and our fellow citizens to come see us. If you are build
ing, we have the Nails, ihe Lock-', Hinges, Doors, Roofing and everything to make
your building, and will sure treat you right on quality and price. We carry every
thing in Hardware and can please you.
We carry full line—
Rubber, Leather and Gandy Belting, Mill and Gin Supplies
AS TO FURNITURE
We have a large stock Suits, Dressers, Davenport Beds, WaTdrobas, Chiffoniers,
Sideboards, Washstands, Tables, Safes, Chairs, Bedsteads, Mattresses, Springs.
Before buying for fall call and see Roop Hardware Co’s, line of new Furniture.
We will offer special inducements on all goods in the Furniture line The best
Felt Mattresses and Springs ever sold in Carrollton at the lowest price.
See our special seamless Velvet Art Squares,
Also our new stock wood, iron and brass Beds.
MITCHELL WAGONS
The Mitchell Wagon is the best wagon in the world and there are one thous
and of them in use in Carroll county, and every man who has one is fully satisfied.
Don’t buy before seeing us.
PLUMBING
Our Mr. Dunlap has put in about 15 complete jobs of Plumbing in the last 60
days and is now ready to do your job at ‘‘Live and Let Live Prices.’’ For the su-
^ periority of his honest work in this line we refer you to
R. W. Adamson, C. H. Huff, J. McD. Radford, O. W. Fleming,
J. A. Prichard, Borden-Wheeler Springs Hotel, V. D, Whatley,
and others.
Roop Hclw. Company
UNSOUGHT GLORY.
Luck of an Involuntary Hero of the
Franco-Prussian War.
fellow, so lie accepted compliments
and congratulations and said rioth-
During t he Franco-Prussian war
the horse of a Prussian cavalryman i
involuntarily did an act which led
to the capture of a French battery,
and, just as often happens in life,
the credit for it was bestowed else
where.
One day during a hot conflict the
troop of cavalry in which Fritz,
whom wo will call the soldier in
question, rode came to the top of
a hill. On the crest of another hill
and across a deep ravine the French
had planted a battery.
Suddenly Fritz’s horse reared
and jumped and started down the
hill toward the ravine on a swift
run.* Fritz tried to check the
frightened animal, but found that
it had taken the bit in its teeth
and was wholly unmanageable.
Down the hill, across the ravine
ancPup the hill on the opposite
side the horse went at n wild gallop.
The French buttery began pour
ing out shot and shell, and Fritz
realized that a runaway horse was
exposing him to a terrible danger.
The cannon boomed, and the shriek
ing shells passed by his head, but
by some strange fate neither he
nor his horse was harmed.
As the horse dashed up the hill
to the very mouth of a cannon
Fritz concluded to make the best
of his dangerous situation and drew
his saber for self defense.
To his surprise, ho saw the
Frenchmen leave their batteries
and turn like frightened sheep.
But he understood why they were
' panic stricken when he looked back
and saw his comrades charging up
the hill on their horses. By tin
He was promoted to a captaincy,
and all because of his runaway
horse. If Fritz had not made that
ride the cavalry would never have
attempted it.
She Wos Honest Enough.
Having vouched for the nonesty
of the woman who desired a situa
tion as scrubwoman, the good na-
tured man was subjected to a severe
examination bv the superintendent
of the building.
“There are degrees of honesty,”
said the superintendent. “Ilow
honest is she?”
The good 11 util red man-reflected.
“Well,” lie said, “I’ll tell you.
She is so honest that if you throw
anything that looks to be worth a
copper into the wastebasket you
have to take it ‘/Destroy this' or she
will fish it out and put it hack on
your desk night after night, no
matter how badly you want to get
rid of it. 1 don’t know that 1 can
say anything more.”
“No more is necessary,” said the
superintendent, and he proceeded
to hire the woman.—New York
Sun.
Wanted □read: Had Courngo.
One day, riding along the road,
General Gordon came upon a regi
mental prayer meeting, which was
very impressive. The men wore
kneeling or standing with bowed
heads about the chaplain, who was
praying in a voice of wonderful
compass. The general checked his
horse and removed hi3 hat and wait
ed for the end of the prayer. The
chaplain asked the Lord to give
the men of Lee’s army supreme
time lie had gained control of his j courage to meet the great crisis
horse, and, dismounting, he held j that had come upon them, fortitude
one of the enentv’s guns aa the ' to bear new privations and troubles,
prize he had captured. j strength to fight against the pur-
When the other cavalrymen came : suing enemy. Just then a tall pri-
up he found out that they did not j vate rose from his knees and shout-
kno/ his horse had run away, but ed to the chaplain: “Pray for
tho^rht it was all personal bravery bread, chaplain: pray for bread!
on his part and that he had urged We have courage to spare, but to
the animal to make its mad race fight we must have something to
in.to “the jaws of death” to capture eat. Pray for bread!” This broke
tjfe battery. U P prayer meeting.
Hid Fritz exnlain that his bravery
had been forced upon him? Well, j
no ! He was a shrewd and sensible l
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TO WOO SLEEP.
Th* Kanaka Stands Amid tha Rearing,
Splashing Waves.
Much has been written about the
native sport of surf riding in the
south seas, but the following de
scription from London's “Cruise of
the Snark” is novel and vivid. The
locality referred to is Waikiki
beach, near Honolulu:
The trees grow right down to
the salty edges of things, and ono
Bits in their shade and looks sea
ward at a majestic surf thundering
in on the beach to one’s very feet.
Half a mile out, where the reef,
the white heading combers thrust
suddenly skyward out of the placid
turquoise blue and come rolling in
to the shore.
And suddenly, out there where a
big smoker lifts skyward, rising like
a sea god from out of the welter
of spume and churning white, on
the giddy, toppling, overhanging
and down falling, precarious crest
appears the dark head of a man.
Swiftly he rises through the rush
ing white. His black shoulders, his
chest, his loins, his limbs—all are
abruptly projected on one’s vision.
Where but the moment before was
only the wide desolution and in
vincible roar is now a man, erect,
full stutured, not struggling fran
tically in that wild movement, not
buried and crushed and buffeted by
those mighty monsters, but stand
ing above them all. calm and su
perb, poised on the giddy summit,
his feet buried in the churning
foam, the salt smoke rising to his
knees, and all the rest of him in the
free air and flashing sunlight, and
he is flying through the air, flying
forward, flying fust as the sttrgo on
which he stands, lie is a Mercury
—a brown Mercury. His heels are
winged, and in them is the swift
ness of the sea. In truth, from
out of the sea he has leaped upon
the back of the Bea, and he is riding
the sea that roars and bellows and
cannot shake him from its back.
But no frantic outreaching and bal
ancing is his. lie is irapnssive, mo
tionless as a statue carved suddenly
by some miracle out of the sea’s
depths from which he rose. And
straight on toward the shore he
flies on his winged heels and the
white crest of the breaker. There
is a wild burst of foam, a long mul
titudinous rushing sound as the
breaker falls futile and spent at
your feet, and there at your feet
steps calmly ashore a Kanaka.—
Christian Science Monitor.
"And what’ll ye do now, Mike?”
asked his sympathetic listener.
“Oh, I’ll go back to me former
job!” answered Michael hopefully.
“Indade. now! And what was
that?” queried Pat.
A sigh broke from Michael’s lips,
and he shook his head sorrowfully.
“Looking for work, begorrnl”
said he.
Hungarian Wedding Custom*.
In Hungary wedding presents are
only given to poor couples to help
them to get their home together.
The girl friends of a well to do
bride show uttention by making
cakes for the marriage feast, but of
gifts there is none. There is no
wedding cake either, but each guest
receives a kind of sweet cuke of the
substance of cracknel biscuits, made
in the form of a ring about ten
inches in diameter.
Merely * Temporary Disadvantage.
The widow had just announced
her engagement.
“But, my dear Marin,” said her
friend, “you don’t mean to tell me
that you intend marrying a man
you’ve only known for two weeks?”
“Oh, yes.” said the happy widow.
“I can easily overcome that objec
tion in time. 1 hope to know him
tolerably well after wo have been
married a couple of years.”—Har
per’s Weekly.
(tetter a Rug on the Floor Than a Too
Yielding Mattress.
“I sleep fairly well,” a man said
recently, “but seldom soundly, and
I frequently wake in the morning
with aches in my legs, joints and
vertebrae. 1 never l'ccl supple un
til I have had my cold bath and n
brisk rub with a rough towel.”
Sleep should.be invigorating, not
enervating, and the following the
ory was advanced by a man who in
his earlier days had slept for many
months under the stars on veldt and
iu jungle:
“It is the mattress and the pil
low that are responsible for half the
trouble of the insomniac. The ideal
resting place is the ground, with its
natural covering of soft grass. The
next most comfortable bed is a
wood floor overlaid with a soft car
pet or rug. The yielding mattress
does not rest the muscles, which re
main all night in a condition of al
ternating relaxation and tension.
When the sleeping place is fixed
and hard they adapt themselves to
it and remain quiescent.
“Furthermore, the spine and
nerve centers of the bed sleeper are
exposed all night to the heat of the
mattress, which is the cause of the
sense of enervation so commonly
felt when one awakens.
“The pillow is even more ener
vating than the mattress. A well
stuffed saddle whose cleft center
permits the circulation of air, soft,
yet unyielding, is the ideal head
rest. Next to it perhaps should bo
placed the Japanese neck block.
“When the discomfort of the ex
periment has been overcome by a
few nights-of perseverance a won
derful improvement will be dis
cerned in the quality of sleep.”—
Harper’s Weekly.
No Salary Attached.
They had met casually and had
related to each other their adven
tures and misadventures since last
they had been together. Patrick
was working on a farm, hut Michael
was less fortunate. Onlv that day
he had received his bur'- -neney
1 and bad been told to go.
The Oldest Banknotes.
The oldest banknotes in the
world are the “flying money,” or
convenient money, first issued in
China in 209? B. C. One writer
tells that the ancient Chinese bank
notes wore in many respects sim
ilar to those of the present day,
bearing the name of the bank, the
dute of issue, the number of the
note, the signature of tho official
who issued it and its value in both
figures and words. On the top of
these curious notes was tho follow-*
ing philosophic injunction: “Pro
duce all you can; spend with econ
omy.” The note was printed in
blue ink on paper made from the
fiber of the mulberry tree. Ono of
these notes hearing the dale 1 BOO
B. 0. is still preserved in the Asi
atic museum at St. Petersburg.
SENSE OF SIGHT.
Helping the Engineer.
During a strike on a raihvny
much difficulty was experienced in
finding engineers to keep ihe neces
sary trains running. One of the
substitutes, a young fellow, ran
some distance past a station, and
then, putting hack, ran ns much too
far the other way. He was prepar
ing to make n third attempt when
the station agent shouted, to the
great amusement of the passengers:
“Never mind. Bob; stay where you
are. We’ll shift the station.”
The Simple Eye of Man and ths Com
pound Eye of the Fly.
A specialist has claimed that he
can with the unaided eye distin
guish lines ruled in glass that are
only ono fifty-thousandth of an
inch apart, but Lc Conte has lim
ited the power of tho eye to distin
guishing lines to one-thousandth of
an inch.
To show how immensely superior
is the sense of sight in defining sin
gle things one cun try the sense of
touch in comparison with it. The
two points of a pair of compasses
placed three inches npart on the
least sensitive parts of the body will
be felt as a single prick.
With the aid of the microscope
the human eve can discern objects
whose diameter is only about one
one-luindred-und-oight - thousandth
of an inch. It Ims been said that
the eve of a lit can distinguish an
object one five-millionth of an inch
in diameter.
Wluit we designate as the eye of
a fly is really a compound eye made
up of numerous lenses. Of these
the common housefly hus some
thing like 4.000 in the two eyes.
The structures of these leu sec are
Well known, the optical part of each
consist ing of two lenses, which com
bined form a double convex lens.
That each lens acts as a separate
eye can be easily proved by detach
ing the whole of the front of the
compound eye and by manipulation
with a microscope it is not^diflicult
to examine a photograph or other
object through it. When this is
done a distinct image is seen in
each lens.
Carpenter has shown that each
lens reflects but a small portion of
the inyige looked at und that it re
quires the combined action of the
4,000 lenses of the fly to produce
the same effect as that seen by the
one human eye. The human eye is
therefore a more perfect optical in
strument thun the eye of the fly.
Scientists who have given consid
erable attention to the investiga
tion of compound eyes have formed
no opinion that would loud to tho
conclusion that their power .of
vision with respect to small objects
exceeds that of the simple eyes of
tho higher animals. The images of
objects formed in the separate
lenses composing the compound eye
are proportionally small, and the
question whether insects can see
smaller objects than animals fur
nished with single eyes is not a
question of optics, but of the sensi
tiveness of the optic nerve and con
sequently,a matter of mere conjec
ture.—Harper’s Weekly.
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