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About The Advocate-Democrat. (Crawfordville, Ga.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Aug. 20, 1897)
FOR THE YOUNG FOLKS, TUB OLD TIX HUBEI*. *Owik!" said the old tin sheep on w , iee , . "I’m growing old, and down my back rm very sure there’s a dreadful cracK. There « nobody knows,” said the ohl un •hceji, “till he’s old how an old toy teels -1 used to trundle about the floor; and Ihit t that 1 1 w waa s when w 1 was young ■> b If ira iMwmething sii b that 1 now I could not do. ^ ”* l y if 0,1 this shelf behind the door. _ “Creak'" said the sheep “what's gone amiss? Some one is taking me out, I know. They* re pulling rny string, and away J go cried the old tin sheep; Slop ' oh, Stop!" “l never can go like iliis!” Hut Tommy pulled the sheep around; About the nursery it went so fast The floor beneath seemed flying past, wheels Whilecreukety-creakety-creak '■ the went round with a doleful sound. Then Tommy left it there on its side, The wheels moved slowly and stopped witii a creak, speak And the wax doll heard it faintly do,” "Tliere'g nobody knows what he can said the sheep, “till be has tried. - Katharine I’yle. BOY AND OJJIL STREET-CMC A NEBS. The a trent-cleaning department of tlie city of New York bad its annual parade; mid 2,500 men, each attired in white, witii a flower in his coat-lapel, marched in line, and nearly a thousand carts of all descriptions, with street-sprinklers, sweep¬ in¬ ers and other paraphernalia, were cluded in the display. But the most movnl feature was the division composed of tit* “children's auxiliary/' Uie girls in wagons and the hoys on foot. There were hundreds of these boys and girls, who have done volunteer work iu keep wig the streets clear of refuse. m ow-eipKs Foil war. The hoy who shoots peas from a blow¬ pipe may not know that a blow-pipe of large make is an implement of warfare iu Mouth America. It is used , by , the , Indian , tribes on tin* west coast, and it varies in kmglli from ten to fifteen feet, and Is ma,le from one of the many species of hollow canes that grow In the forests of those districts. Its ammunition is of two kinds First, arrows tipped with poison; and, aecon lly, pellets of dried clay. But the greatest range of these overgrown pen shooters is seldom more than twenty five yards, and they do not shoot ac curaudy, owing to the irregularity of fbe horn A really terrible blow-pipe is used by the Dyaks, of the Malay archipelago, These weapons are made ■pinJlJtt nt hard wood, «*«MtU l f.ct i ..n«, ,|aa, fen .. i 'ixi’d f , th«*m, o lh »t they ^^rvc th* The bore purpose of a spear and blow-pipe. is about a thin! of an inch, and is perfectly true throughout, while a thorn of flu* sago pul in makes a natural arrow •nth a point almost as hard as iron Featlk'red with pith and tipped with the clc*d!y wourali poison, these arrowiots have an extreme range of eighty yards and can he aimed accurately at an object fifty yards away. ruoeicsaioN ok woums fifty fret i.oso. in the deep pine forests of Norway wood-cutters sometimes And a serpent hke object nearly fifty feet long crawling fuowly over the ground. If they did not know that it was made up of millions of ?»ulc worms they might be frighteued by its pecti iar appearance 1 hese worms, called the sciara, gather during July ami August in large numbers, preparatory to migrating in search of food or for change of condition When setting out on this journey they slick themselves together *n,i form a huge serpeut-Iike mass, often reaching a length of bet weeu forty and fifty feet, ami several inches in thickness, As the sciara is only on an average about three thirty-seconds of an inch iu length, and barely wider than a tine needle, the number required to compose a line of the aire above mentioned is enormous. Their P IS very slow, and upon meeting an obstacle, such as a stick or stone, they wrfl either writhe over or around it. some puipo/.' M M%i"rta-MeneriUr TJlc bra.ed French -latiimlUst, -ays that If the mar .-onion of tin. wonderful snakelike [U-occasion he brought into contact with the front part, and a sort of circle formed, Uve insects will keep moving round in that circle for hours without apparently noth mg that they are uot getting oil in their journey. If the procession be broken in two, the portions will re unite in a short time. The Norwegian peasants. wrtica they meet one of these trains, will lay some article of their clothing, such as a belt or handkerchief, on the ground in to hi l of it. If the procession passes over it it is regarded as a good sign but if it makes a way round the reverse is be¬ lieved. SCOT’S SAVINUS SANK. We are all familiar with the habit pe culiar to dogs of burying and biding bones for future dinners ami lunches, making as it were, savings-banks of our flower tied- and strawberry- patches. 1 once lived iu a farm bouse where there also resided a dog which was particularly given to this thrifty practice, ami the boys used to play practical oke$ on him on account of ilie miserly habit. One dav. having watched him bide a •beep’s hutnerus .or shoulder-of-mutton bone ! iu this manner, they dug it up, and buried in it* place one of those toy jaefc the-boxes, with big furry whiskers and | targe staring eve*, which fly up with a •firing as soon as you unfasten the lid. This they so arranged that the moment •hpot toiit-h d it w tu h's paw ;t sho'gid go L 'i’-wK For several days Spot was as closely watched as a suspected nihilist would be by the police of Russia, but he showed no sign of drawing on his bank account. ^ j m j j t wag gU gg e9 ted by a shrewd little fe) , ow that tbey cut off hia rations and so Hlhrvl . him into doing what they wanted. Thjg soon j, ad tlie desired effect and Spot waH seon slyly creeping along under the f ' f fence toward his safe-de posit vault where, after casting a cautious glance around to see that he was not watched, be began a lazy and deliberate scratching. Ail of a sudden the grim aDd f grizzly J .Jack flew out of the earth, look n(? one the Ie99 awful from baving hi3 hair and whiskers filled with particles of earth and gravel. the Spot glared with dumb terror at ' apparition for the sixtieth part of a second, and then gave one great bound backward, and uttering a howl of agony, wheeled off, with his tail between his legs, till he brought up standing in one of those veg¬ etable porcupines known a3 a gooseberry bush. Then lie pricked up his ears, tightened his tail more firmly between his legs, stared wildly to the right, left, be¬ hind, and all round and then raised up his voice and wailed. * ‘W-o-o-o-ooo I o-o-ow-wow-o-w-wow!” After this h*e took two bars rest looked all around again and once more gave vent to a “Wow wow-wow I” but this time rather more defiantly. Receiving no response to this challenge he ventured to take a few steps cautiously toward Jack in-the-box, paused a while, and gave another bark and so, with barks and pauses he at last reached the fearful object. It would take too long to describe all his maneuvers and his many snaps be¬ fore he ventured to seize the tbief who had stolen his bone, hut.when he did so it was very amusing to watch the manner in which he worried that unlucky toy. The spiral spring, which we all know is the backbone of a jack-in-the-box, was end the only thing which baffled him, the of it getting in his eyes, up his nose, in his ears, and everywhere. 1 For weeks after, when that spiral wire had become covered with rust, Spot used always to give it a timid nibble, followed by a con¬ temptuous sniff, as he passed it by. THE WOODPECKER. There is an article by Frank M. Chap . Little Drum , raan i n s t . Nicholas on “The mer of t |, e Woods,” giving much curious ; information concerning the woodpecker. Mr . chapman says: j j (j we uld i iac ( a woodpecker the beginning, in our that hands its we S |, 0 see, in t,j|i j B uot 9 li<rLitJy hooked, with the upper mandible turned down at its end and overlapping the under mandible, as in the cr0 w and other birds that “pick up a liv j i ng) >> but that both mandibles are of equal j length, It is therefore nud cut like squarely wedge off at chisel. the tip. a or j will Perhaps be the appearing tip of through the bird’s i ts tongue nearly seen t ,h.sii:JXtTWwiBrf;X. .j 0 i -..n.Hbles, aud our*P™ a mtJBt aaS when fully extended reaches almost if not (jU ite an inch beyond the point of the bill, h is not flat, like the crow’s, but round ant j tlesliy, and has a sharp, horny poiut which, by looking at it very closely, we 8ee j ms tt series of barbs on both sides. In the meantime our hands have doubt less been pricked by the bird’s tail-feathers, j each f ealljer being stiff, bristly, and j pointed at the end. Some of the larger woodpeckers —the pHeated and ivorybill, for instance — have this singular kind of tail-feather highly developed. The main stem or shaft of the feather is much larger |j,an usual, aud each barb growing from this shaft is curved downward and iu ward, and is strong and pointed, t om p ar j n g this feather with the flat tail featlier of a crow, we see at once how different it is in form, 't he wings do not impress us as in any way unusual they are neither very long nor ver y gbort, but the arrangement of t | ie j oeg j 8 so peculiar that blind they girl, were at once commented upon by a to w b m u 1 hail handed a specimen of one of tiiese birds . instead of the disposition directed common to most birds, three toes forward and one backward, we discover (wo front toes an j lwo bind ones, and we will note also that each toe is armed with a strong curved nail. Foul Breath and How to Treat It. breath comes from several viz .. digestive disturbances, t ‘‘« th ‘ >r certain f om8 °f catarrh. lt foul <Ugest»on it comes from the stomach, and in that case the stomach . should be washed out or otherwise : sweetened, and a mild (diet adopted , until the stomach clears itself. If from the teeth, it usually comes from a ; cavity in which This food is lodges deleterious and de tc j composes. disagreeable, health aside from being au j should be remedied bv consulting a good dentist. If from catarrh it is usually the atropic kind, in which there is usually a good deal of dryness to the throat; the secretions become morbid and cling to the mucous mem brane, decomposing and forming a crust, usually in the posterior nares or vault of the pharynx. This is a ' «*ry troublesome form of catarrh and should lead to n consultation with a specialist. A spray of peroxide of hydrogeu mixed w ith w ater, equal portions, will destroy ail odors. An application of carbolized vaseline has also been found to be of great ser vice,—The Home Doctor, Saved by a Hat. It may not be geuerally known that when a person fails into the water a common felt hat may be made use ol as a life preserver, and by placing th« hat upon the w ater, held down with the round it pressing it . slightly arm to the hreast. it will bear a man up fur hours, THROUGH GEORGIA. An application for a charter to build ' street railroad for Gainesville i new ias been filed with the state secretary jy a stock company. It is proposed x> build a road twenty miles in length tud to extend it as far as White Sul¬ phur Springs, seven miles east of the •ity. The Georgia Centra! Railway com¬ pany declared its first dividend at Sa¬ vannah last Saturday— 2} per cent— }n the first series of 34,000,000 of in¬ lome bonds. The condition of the property is good. There are $15,000, )00 of income bonds in three series, tnd it took 300,000 to pay the above dividend. The report of Special Master Luther Z. Rosser in the suit against Judge lohn 8. Bigby, brought by the re jeivers of the Eagle and Phcenix Manufacturing Company, has been :ompleted and copies of the decision served, on counsel in the case. The ipecia^aster du^Wie finds that Judge Bigby ,s tWlecree company 322,820.01, and ;bat should issue in that »rnouht iu favor of the company. » * * Last. Saturday was the date set by Fudge |Si >eer, of the United States iourt for the southern district of Geor¬ gia, on which to hear the application or ttft appointment of receivers for ileven railroads is. Georgia. The meet¬ ing was held at Mt. Airy, where Judge 5peer is summering. After two hours if skirmishing between the legal rep¬ resentatives present, the battle was •all clfoff by Judge Speer, and further jombat was deferred until October 13th. The mystery surrounding the burn¬ ing of the graded school building in Quitman is about to be cleared. The reward of 3700 attracted detectives who have been at work for some time, mil as a result Ed Harrison, a well iiuiwil npgro. is now in the Thomas iouutyjail charged with the crime. rhog6 interea ted claim that the evi - • * him for burning n“, the . hoolhouse here wte reste(1 with .'. him , . . ,, the are m actual commission of the crime eight other negroes, who will lie put in jail as soon as they are captured. Postmaster Fox, of Atlanta, has issued his statement for the registry business of the fiscal year ending June 10th. This statement shows an iu **rease of 13,818 pieces handled over that of last year There were handled „ • 800,466 jueces of registered 8*. <rri48 piee ^ Jpere wostmaster le hamlled. shows ,.,eu< The that statement lie lias id twelve! months sent to the sub-treasury it NewlYork $62,281.05. The increase In second-class mail matter is 1,000,0110 pounds more than any year since At lanta has had a postoffice, and al) other business has increased in pro portion 1 The warrant against Policeman Bankston of Atlanta, charging him with murder, was dismissed and ht lias lierii allowed to return to duty. Justice Orr, after he had heard all ol the evidence, decided that Bankston was acting in self-defense when he shot and killed Charley Welch. Ovei sixty witnesses were heard during the progress of the case. The physicians that examined the body of the dead man were sworn aud said they were o) the opinion that the shots were lirec while Welch was advancing upot Bankston. Justice Orr said there was no evidence against Bankston am? allowed him to go. The motion for a new trial in th< Flanagan ease was not heard in Deea tur last Saturday as scheduled. A the request of the prosecution it wai delayed for one week. 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