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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* TO THE ZE-A-S 1 !!?. S.-e.oo SA.VI11I) BY THE SEABOARD AIR LINE, Atlanta to Richmond sl4 50 Atlanta to Washington 14 50 Atlanta to Baltimore via Washing- ton 15 70 Atlanta to Baltimore via Norfolk and Bay Line steamer 15.25 Atlanta to Philadelphia via Nor- folk 18.05 Atlanta to Philadelphia via Wash ington 18.50 Atlanta to New York via Richmond and Washington 21.00 Atlanta to New York via Norfolk, y a and Cape Charles Route 20.55 Atlanta to New York via Norfolk, ' a , and Norfolk and Washington Steamboat Company, via Wash ington 21.00 Atlanta to New York via Norfolk, va., Bay Line steamer to Balti more, and rail to New York 20.55 Atlanta to New York via Norfolk and Old Dominion 8. S. Co. (meals and stateroom included) 20.25 Atlanta to Boston via Norfolk and s’eamer (meals and Materoom in ,,c,luded) 21.50 tlanta to Boston via AVashington atj.d New York 24.00 ♦ , n r^ e mentioned above to Washing- a U „*i> more ’ Philadelphia, New York ■ > are $3 l eßs man by any other \ti ai . ln ~. above rates apply from • n.a. 1 ickets to the east are sold from 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 B. A. NEWLAND, Gen. Agent Pass Dept . T p . BISHOP CLEMENTS, ■ 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. ' 1 ' 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 I For Infants and Children. 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