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STATE NEWS.
M >u'trie Observer: The Jbird
Georgia B-Rimentw back from Cuba,
Hllll Co’ Berner is «g*'° where tbe
Jmularity of « un 1
prevent him fn m -dmiring Ins shad
ow.
jt c »» be safely stated that the list
() f ( j, -legates to the Epworth League
convention in Columbus will reach
500 The names of nearly 500 persons
have been received so far by the en
tertainment committee, and many
more names will be sent in during the
two weeks remaining.
Congressman Lewis hos appointed
Clovis McKenzie, of Montezuma, as a
naval cadet to Annapolis to succeed
Clarence Price, of Americus, who has
resigned. Clovis McKenzie is the son
of Mr. T R. McKenz’e, of Montezuma,
and is a bright young man, and no
doubt will be successful in his efforts
at the naval academy.
The committee on invitations coms
posed of Messrs. William B. Moore,
chairman ; C A. Beecher and Os H.
Johnson, have sent out invitations to
the Fitzgerald “Water and Lights
Carnival,” to be held on April 14 The
invitations ray, besides: “We also
desire to show the ‘Magic City of
South Georgia,’ the most lusty three
year old in existence ”
A sale of tire property now occupied
by the Confederate Soldier*’ Home
will take place before the door of the
Fulton county court house on May 2.
This will be the second sale of the
properly since it was placed in the
hands of the trustees. The home is
three miles from Atlanta, and has
upon it a building with seventy-five
rooms, besides several smaller houses.
The trustees for the home are W L.
Calhoun, Samuel H. Inman, W. H.
Ross, Clement A Evans and R. D.
Spalding The home was erected
several years ago, and during the time
the money for the purchase of the
land and the construction of the build
ing was being subscribe.! much en
thusiasm was aroused over the project.
It was accomplished by the late Henry
W. Grady.
Ordinary’s Advertisements.
STATE OF GEORGIA,
Spalding County.
Whereas, A. J. Walker, Administrator
of Miss Lavonia Walker, represents to the
Court in his petition, duly filed and en
tered on record, that he has fully admin
istered Miss Lavonia Walker’s estate.
This is therefore to cite all persons con
cerned, kindred and creditors, to show
cause, if any they can, why said Adminis
trator should not be discharged from his
administration, and receive letters of dis
mission on the first Monday in May, 1899.
J. A. DREWRY, Ordinary.
February 6th, 1899.
Consumption
% J AND ITS
To the Editor :—I have an absolute
remedy for Consumption. By its timely use
thousands of hopeless cases have been already'
permanently cured. So proof-positive am I
of its power that I consider it my duty to
send two bottles free to those of your readers
who have Consumption,Throat, Bronchial or
Lung Trouble, if they will write me their
express and postoffice address. Sincerely,
T. A. SLOCUM, M. C., 183 Pearl St., New York.
STiT The Editorial and Business Management of
thu Paper Guarantee this generous Proposition*
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Atlanta to Philadelphia via Wash
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Atlanta to New York via Richmond
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s-mf)*' Points in the territory of the
via the ? tates Passenger Association,
bv an,* ®p aboar d Air Line, at $3 less than
by any other all rail line.
f ,n'- r Jn ’ keeping car accommoda
tions, cad on or address
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■ A., No. 6 Kimball House, Atlanta
THE BALKY HORSE.
< A Simple Scheme of the Motorman
That Unde Hint Go.
’ Pt' pie near the New York entrance
5 of the bridge saw a balky horse frus
t trated with delightful ease the other
. lay by a man who openly confessed
that he had no practical or theoretical
knowledge of horsemanship. He was
. the motorman of a Fourth avenue car
i bound toward the terminal. at the
bridge. The horse was one of those an
gular, cockeyed, ungainly beasts that
no amount of currying and feeding
could make respectable.
It had stopped square in the middle
of the track and had spread its feet
apart as though its mind was made up
to hold the street against the world. In
a few minutes four trolley cars were
backed up behind the cart and more
were in sight down Center street. Mo
tormen, conductors, truck drivers, as
sorted citizens and a policeman stood
around and gave the usual advice. The
driver kicked the horse and two or
three men called to the policeman to
stop him. Then they in turn made hu
mane suggestions about starting a fire
under the beast’s stomach. A woman
said that it would be easy enough for
any one to coax him along with a lump
of sugar.
The motorman of the fifth trolley
car, which had by this time reached the
end of the blocked line, walked up and
surveyed the situation.
“Whosecar is this?” he asked, point
ing to the first car that had come up
behind the wagon to which the balky
horse was attached.
“It’s mine,” said another motorman,
who was fingering a brass motor handle
as though he would like to brain the
horse with it.
The motorman from the rear hoisted
the car’s front fender and strapped it
in place, folded against the dashboard.
“Now,” he said to the motorman
who had claimed the car, “go ahead,
very easy." Then, turning to the dis
consolately profane driver of the horse,
he said, “Get up and take hold of the
reins.”
The car ran forward until the fender
reached the tailboard of the wagon.
“Now,” said the self appointed master
of ceremonies to his fellow motorman,
“start up as fast as you durn please,
and don’t stop until you get to the
bridge. ”
The car started. The wagon started.
The horse in the shafts simply bad to
start. He slid and shoved back for a
few inches and then broke into a help
less gallop. The car came banging along
behind, giving the horse no chance to
change his mind and balk again. The
spectators cheered. The ingenious mo
torman looked the assembly over with
a sneer.
“Say!” he said. “Say! Some people
are dead slow, eh?”—New York Sun.
THE MODERN ENGLISHMAN.
An Incident Which Aptly Illustrates
His DeliberatenenN.
To illustrate the deliberateness of the
modern Englishman let me tell of a hat
which blew off a mechanic’s head on
the top of a bus crossing Albert bridge.
A still breeze blew up the Thames, and
the hat was whirled against the side of
the bridge and then went spinning
down the footway in the opposite di
rection from that which the omnibus
pursued. “Isay,” said the mechanic,
reaching over and touching the driver
on the shoulder; “me ’at’s blowed off.”
The driver fidgeted a moment at this
sudden interruption, then took a tight
er grasp of the reins and clucked to the
horses to quicken their pace. The hat
ami the vehicle spun along in opposite
ways. “Isay, driver,” said the mechan
ic; “me ‘at’s blowed off. ” The driver
fidgeted again, but now his mind grasp
ed the situation, though most unwill
ingly.
“It ’as, ’as it?” he said, turning to
the man. “Well, then, that'll teach
you to buy ’ats to fit your ’ead. I ’ad a
’ole lot of 'ats blow off before I made
up me mind to get ’em to fit me ’ead.
After that I ’ad no more trouble.”
The hat was still bowling along and
was now at the farther end of the
bridge. The mechanic looked at it
dully. I was in a fever of gratuitous
impatience for the bus to stop or for
the man to climb down. The driver
turned back to his work and clucked to
his horses, who quickened their gait.
Just then a vagrant stopped the flight
of the hat and ran and caught the bus
and got a penny for his pains. So every
one was happy, even I.—Julian Ralph
in Harper’s Magazine.
I’ayn’a Fearful Writing.
James Payn’s chirography is some
thing fearful to contemplate. It is sim
ply execrable. The Academy tells a nice
story about Payn’s “bewildering hand
writing.’ Miss Jane Barlow sent a
poem as a first contribution to The
Cornhill when Payn was its editor.
Think of the lady receiving a brief line
’which she interpreted as follows: “I
have no use for silly verses.”
Os course Miss Barlow .indulged in
copious tears. There never was such an
ill mannered snub. Then, sit* com
> menced to study the scrawl. Now came
a gleam of light, for she dimly made
out what it really was, “I hope to use
' your pretty verses.”
Alas, when you are, as a poet, “de-
• dined with thanks, ” there is today no
* possibility of error, for the fatal missive
is always typewritten. '
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Feminine Features.
> “While woman may have her face on
■ the dollar. ” said the cornfed philoso-
■ pher, looking thoughtfully at the coin,
“yet, to tell the truth, she is more apt
to have her eye on the 38 cents.” —In-
, dianapolis Journal.
i The depth of water affects the speed
of steamers very considerably, the ves-
■ seis moving more slowly in shallow
than in deep water.
“ About'l.». German woman in every
27 works in a factory.
WE PULLED A ROSE IN SUMMER TIME.
We pulled a r<in Hummer time
E*. ide true 1 ver’a gate.
Our lipa sent up ho sweet a chime
That twilight lingered late.
Now look how is the year grown old.
How leafless hedge and tree!
Tin said that even love grows cold;
So here is rosemary.
—Elizabeth Alden Curtis in Connecticut Mug
azine.
HEARSE DRIVING.
Men Steadily Employed nt It In the
Larger Cltlea.
In smaller cities and in the country
the hearse driver may between times
drive other vehicles or engage in some
other work, but in a city of great popu
lation like New York, where, in the
natural course of things, many deaths
occur daily and where many hearses
are used and kept constantly employed,
hearse driving is a regular occupation.
There are many hearse drivers in the
city who have been thus steadily em
ployed for many years. Only careful
and skillful drivers are employed in
this capacity.
The letting of hearses is a long estab
lished custom in this city. Many livery
men own from one to a dozen hearses
and let them to sextons and undertak
ers. Perhaps half of the undertakers of
the city do not keep hearses, but hire
of the livery owners. So it commonly
happens that in answering calls from
one source and another the hearses
owned by the liverymen are constantly
employed. It. might be that all the
hearses owned in a stable, whatever
their number, would be ailed for day
after day and week after week, as regu
larly as so many carriages or other
vehicles might be, and so it comes
about that hearse driving is here a
steady occupation, just like any other.
While hearses are commonly driven
to and from the various cemeteries in
and about the city, they me sometimes
driven out of the city to various nearby
cities and towns. Hearses have been
driven to greater distances, but they
are not often driven more than 12 or 15
miles away.—New York Sun.
Limits of Heat and Cold.
Extremes of heat and cold can be
produced artificially to such intense ex
tents nowadays that it is a physical im
possibility to measure them with abso
lute accuracy. “We cannot measure the
infinitesimal,” says Charles Whiting
Baker, editor of Engineering News.
“The best we can do is to make care
ful estimates. The greatest heat pro
duced artificially is that of an elec
tric arc furnace, the kind that is used
in the production of artificial diamonds,
calcium carbide, etc. It is so intense
that nothing exists with which to re
cord it. It is estimated, however, to be
of about 4,000 degrees F.
“The coldest known temperature is
that of liquid air, which freezes alcohol
and mercury and distances all means of
measuring. It is claimed for it that
with it a temperature of 400 degrees
below zero Fahrenheit is reached. The
present limits of heat and cold are
therefore i.j.
nace and the liquid air.”
Il In New Coat.
They had been chums for so long that
when the one gave a chafing dish party
to some of his more intimate feminine
acquaintances the other made a point
of returning early from the theater in
order to be present. Chum No. 2 had
hardly made his appearance before chum
No. 1, in his anxiety to chatter non
sense with the prettiest girl in the
room, managed to upset a basin of
beaten egg yolks down the front of his
new Tuxedo. Chum No. 1 was much
distressed apparently, and chum No. 2
hastened to his assistance.
“Go into my room and take mine, ”
he adjured his friend generously. “I’ve
a brand new one; just came home to
day. ”
Chum No. 1 smiled queerly. “I know
it, old boy,” was what he said, grin
ning in a rather forced fashion. “Fact
is—well —my own looked a little shabby
this evening and I’ve got yours on.”—
Chicago Inter Ocean.
Its Meaning’.
“Oh, yes,” said Miss Flyppe, “Mr.
Gayson is a nice enough fellow, but he
ought to have his clothes made by a
tailor. ”
“How do yon know he doesn't?”
asked young Throggins.
“Hew do I know? lean tell hand me
downs on anybody by the way they fit. ”
“That means,” bitterly soliloquized
young Throggins as he wended his way
homeward an hour later, “that I’ll
have to pay $35 instead of sls for my
next suit.” —Chicago Tribune.
How (offoe Grown.
This is how coffee leaves and berries
look at about the time for the harvest;
The coffee tree is an evergreen plant,
growing 10 or 12 feet high. Its leaves
are a dark, shiny green on the upper
side and paler underneath. They are
five or six inches long and from two to
three inches wide. Flowers come in
fragrant white clusters and give place
to berries which when ready for gath
ering are a deep red. It takes from four
to seven years to bring a plant to bear
ing.
The Killing Panslon.
Customer —What is the price of this
calico?
Salesman —Sixteen cents a yard.
Customer—Sixteen cents! I'll give
you 15.
Salesman—You misunderstand me.
I said 6 cents, not 16.
Customer —Six cents a yard! H’m!
I’ll give you s.—Boston Transcript.
I In the northwest provinces of India
goats frequently eat without any ill
effect tbe leaves and green stems of
the “akana” or “madar” (Asclepias,
or Salotropis gigantea), the milky juice
of which is an acrid poison for human
beings.
JACK AND HIS WILL.
A Special Act of tlir l*a.rll*>
men I Arrange* 'Flint .Matter.
Jack has the proud distinction of
having had an act of parliament passed
for the express purpose of deciding the
way in which he must make his will,
so that while all other Britons are
lumped together in this matter under
the wills act of 1838 sailors’ testament
ary documents are made under the
naval wills act of 1866. The most im
portant proviso of tliis act is that all
wills made by sailors or marines must
be witnessed and attested by the chap
lain or some other officer if they are
actually made on Ixrard ship, ami this
is somewhat curious.
If a sailor likes to make his will on
shore, any one can v. tness it for him
but on board ship th • case is different.
Needless to gay tin almost all to a
man choose the luttir course, as they
know that things will be straighter for
bearing an officer’s signature. If, how
ever, supposing that the vessel was in
action and a rim was to be struck
down who had n t ; wiously made a
will, if he h l to <!.» . , I ■•fore ho died,
even if it were not attested by an offi
cer, the admiralty has full power to
act on the merits of the case and to dis
pense with that or any other formality
that it was impossible to comply with.
Another thing—a sailor shares with a
soldier the privilege of when on active
service being the only man who can
dispense with a written will and make
a verbal one.
In former times any one could make
his will verbally if he so desired,
but this, as may lie supposed, opened
the door to no end of fraud, ami it was
consequently repealed in the 1838 act,
except in the case mentioned above.
On the night before a Miip or a regi
ment goes into action there is no more
pathetic sight than to see the men,
young and old, laboriously writing their
wills in case tomorrow should lie their
last day in this world, and what with
witnessing wills and making them on
the forms issued by tlie authorities for
those who cannot write—and this class
has now almost entirely disappeared
from both the navy and the army-—the
officers have a very busy time. Lon
don Golden Penny.
THE FIREMAN’S LIFE.
Fie Cannot Always Finish His Toilet
Before a Mirror.
“Os course everything about the fire
department interests us always, ” said
Mr. Gliinby, “but there is one little
thing in particular that I've seen I
suppose hundreds of times that appeals
to me more every time I see it. and that
is tb» firemen getting into their coats
as they go along. You see this among
the men on trucks and on hose wagons.
The men on the engine have to use
their hands to hold on.
“It’s a simple enough thing in gen
eral to see a man putting on his coat,
but here he isn’t standing up in his
room before a mirror, but he’s jumped
out of bed and taken his coat under his
arm and slid down a sliding pole and is
completing his dressing sitting on top
vs <• Kith Vs gUlIJft UUUUgII LI1«
street like mad, drawn by three great
horses at one end, with a man down
at the other end steering this outfit
with a wheel. This sight never loses its
novelty or its interest. You may see the
same thing on a hose wagon.
“But what set me to speaking about
this now was seeing a man on a fire
patrol wagon, sitting on one of their
long seats, facing outward, pulling up
the tops of his high boots—red wagon,
galloping horses, banging gong, men in
fire hats and rubber coats, the whole
blooming outfit on the dead jump and
this man sitting on the side seat reach
ing down for the tops of those boots and
straightening up with each one as he
got it and swaying back a little as lie
pulled it ui> into place, just as a man
would sit on the edge of his bed at home
to put on his stockings and slippers and
just as cool and comfortable.”—New
York Sun.
Geography For Women.
The introduction to I’arkenton’S
“Modern Atlas,” published in 1815,
has a reference to “the sex” which
ought to bo very interesting to our
modern college girl The learned author
says:
Geography is a study so universally
instructive and pleasing that it has for
nearly a century been taught even to
females, whose pursuits are foreign from
serious researches. In the trivial con
versation of the social circle, in the
daily avidity of the occurrences of the
times, pregnant indeed above ill others
with rapid and important changes that
affect the very existence of states and
empires, geography has become a ha
bitual resource to the elegant female, as
w 41 as the profound philosopher.
Stopping n Big Stea ihmli ip.
To stop the Etruria, whose displace
ment is 9,680 tons, horsepower 14.321
and speed 20.18 knots an hour, 2 min
utes and 47 seconds are required, and
during the process of stopping the ship
will forge ahead 2.464 feet, or nearly
half a mile. The United States cruiser
Columbia, with a displacement of 7,350
tons, 17,991 horsepower and a speed of
22.8 knots an hour, can be stopped in 2
minutes and 15 seconds and within a
space of 2,147 feet. In each case the
vessel is supposed to be going at full
speed and the stoppage produced by
reversing the action of the propeller.
Dumas' Quick Wlf.
Dumas found a man asleep in the
Theatre Francais during the playing of
a piece by his friend Souinet. “You
see that?” said he, “that's your work. ”
Next evening a Dumas comedy was
put on. The two friends looked in again
and found a sleeper.
“You see, dear Dumas,” said Sou
met, “your works can produce sleep. ”
“Do yon refer to that man?” replied
Dumas. “Why. that's the man who
was there last night. He's not awake
yet’ - ’ San Francisco News Letter
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