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A L’EMPIRE.
Itoslna. they say. Is bat just seventeen.
Yet she crushed at a blow all the fops of Uie
town
The very first time she appeared on the scene
In something she calls a directory gow a
It Is cut in the picturesque fashion of old.
With u limp, clinging skirt aud the scantiest
waist,
And wandering over Its soft silken fold
Are garlands of roses euchanliugiy traced.
They have faded, peril" Os, since the wonderful
night
When grandmamma danced at the emperor's
ball—
A dimpled young beauty who laughed with de
light
To hear herself w hispered the fairest of all.
And lingered her pink flowered frock as she step
ped
Through gf,?ue and gavotte with a gay cavalier
Whose passionate vows, never meant to he kept,
Kell now and again on her innocent ear
There's a liny spot still tin the aucient brocade.
Where tae posy she gave him had lain at Iter
breast,
And there at one side where the satin grayed
The thick jeweled hilt of his sword may have
pressed
But the Prince—ah ’ Itosina. revenge is so sweet.
That, for grandmammas sake, lam glad you
look down
With seorn on the dandies who sigh at your feet
Whenever you wear that directory gow a.
—51 E W„ in lho Century,
MAKING MEN’S COLLARS.
How it Dv.no in Onu of tho Groat i ac
torio* !«t Troy, N. v.
A dozen or more operations are
needed to make a gentleman’s shirt
collar and no j>erss» n plays more than
one part. The cutters, who never
strike, because they are well paid,
are the most important factors in the
trade. They are magical workers,
Each man has his table upon which to
spread layer upon layer of linen,
When the pile is as thick as he wants
lie puts upon it his little pattern block
of wood, whirls a sharp, thin blade of
steel as fast as the eye can follow the
movement and leaves beneath the
block the dismembered shapes of a
score of collars. So skillful is he that
he can make the cuttings close enough
together to leave only threadsof linen
wasted. 11.0 pieces that he cuts out
uresentto he lac lory hands, are cull
od for by silk clad ladies ,n carnages
und are taken home by school girls.
Une set m workers sew the pieces
collars •T'^- inside .....t out after «”!"'»• the manner ii '™ of
skiniug ed tiie eels (for these collars are sew
make the wrong buttonholes, way out), and another then there set
are the laundresses, washers, miners,
sorters, stampers and many more be
sides.
The buttonhole makers and the
stitchers all use sewing machines run
plied by power, and this power is often sup
of turbine in an is interesting attached way. A sort
kitchen faucet arranged to an ordinary to emit
so as
a tliin thread of water, which, despite
its slenderness, furnishes power to run
the machine Some women control
half a dozen, or even a dozen, ma
chines at their homes. The machines
are ated run by larger turbines and oper
by girls, on whose industry the
speculative matrons multea small pei
centugo of the profits.
larger Every operator at home, except the
ones, owns her mac-bines aud
motor aud has spent §(!() or perhaps
8100 to set herself up in business. Tlie
factories used to supply the thread us
well as the linen, but recently the cm
plovers took to making more than or
dinary the thread or legitimate profits by selling
to the woman and specula
ting in the transaction. They pretend
ed that some women wasted the thread,
hut the truth is they were diseased by
greed. They laid sold small spools until
one firm in a stock of largo spools.
which they made tlu-ir hands buy at
Shopkeepers’wives apiece.
aud daughters,
the women in distant households, the
the girts in the houses of the mould
ers and puddlers along the river
between Troy and Albany, und
in short, most of the working
women within a great radius, make
either pin money or* entire live
liliood from this irulustrv. Steady
work brought from $10 to 818 a week,
but, of course, the women who had
lumse work to attend to and girls who
went to school were satisfied with just
enougli gances.—Philadelphia for little fineries and cxtiava
Item.
Cara Etiquette.
Here are a few points in card cti
quette. which it would bo well to re
member:
The card should be written or print
ed. Never use a blank card unless
Blank happens to he your name.
NY 1 1 ito cards arc considered in tho
best taste, even m the best colored su
cietv.
The gentleman’s card should con
tain nothing except tho name and au
dress of the caller. It is bad taste to
have one’s business written on it, par
ticularly llie if he be an undertaker and
re is sickness m the house.
When calling on any one uta hotel,
send your curd and await a reply in
the i-eception room, it is not good
form to visit the bar more than twice
while waiting,
If two or more ladies are in tho
Itrmseliol'l. the turning down of a cor
ner signifies that the eaixl is for all
the ladies. Turning around a corner
immediately that llio culler after thirsty leaving und indicates looking
is is
for a saloon in the vicinity. In leav
ing the city for a permanent residence
ubroad it_ is customary to send out
cards to intunate Irieuds, adtling the
initials I. 1. C.-presents parting
compliments. tl>ftt berth It is also a reminder
a has been secured in a
Pullman palace car.-Texus Biftings.
A WILDCAT'S AWFUL LEAP.
It Was to Death, but Through No Fault
of the Animal's Agility.
“I’ve seen it disputed in the papers
that a wildcat, or catamount, can
make a leap of twenty-live feet,” said
a resident of Sullivan county to a re
porter, “and 1 would like to mention
what I saw a wildcat do once. I was
trout fishing on one Bcaverkill, of the upper trib
utaries of the and had
clambered down into a deep ravine to
get the at fall, a tempting where pooi at the foot of
1 was sure my casts
would be rewarded by the killing of
some that. big trout. 1 had 1 landed was not mistaken
as to four trout
aml the smallest one eighteen inches lon<r, Both
sat down to ‘rest tho pooh’
sides of the ravine were perpendicular
walls of rook, probably twenty-five
feet high. The summit of tho wall on
Uie side of the creek opposite to mo
sloped hack gradually from its edgo
for several feet to a heavy growth of
pine. 1 sitting
“As was at the bottom of
the ravine the 1 happened to glance up to
the top of rocks opposite me, and
saw a hen pheasant hatched accompanied by
her newly brood come out
of the pines and scratch and peek her
way along tho slomng open space,
huming food for her young, which
clustered closely the about her. Thepbeas
autcame and seemed near edge of the precipice,
it to mo that she was plac
mg her brood in a most dangerous po
silion, when sho turned as if to walk
hack with them to the pines. The in
slant she turned something -ike a
shallow (fitted across the top of tho ra
vine, and half a second later 1 saw an
enormous wildcat clinging to the edge
of the opposite wall by his fore feet,
jaws. holding the pheasant between his
The wildcat struggled a mo
ment tho abyss to drag himself from the edge of
the rocks, to but a his sure effort footfhg on top of
was in vain,
and ho came crashing down tho face
of the precipice, still holding the luck*
less pheasant in his jaws. Ho fell
with a crash in the water, und lay mo
lion less at the edge of the pool.
1 supposed that the animal had
been watching the pheasant from the
bushes on top of the rocks opposite
where the bird bad appeared with her
brood and at Ins opportunity had
leaped across to seize her, but had mis
with the ihu result ‘‘rr? so fatal *," to d him. »”■ shun
“The whirl of the water brought the
wildcat around in a short time to the
sale where 1 was standing, and as
was bonding down to examine him 1
saw a man with a gun scrambling
down the rocks. The man soon
reached my side, and I then learned
that he had shot the wildcat as the an
imui was flying across the chasm upon
Ins prey. Sure enough, just at the
base of the animal's brum was tho holo
made by the riilc ball. The hunter
had been following the wildcat for
some time, and bad lost track of him,
but came near the edge of tho ravine
in lime to see him make his leap and
follow him with tho bullet, it was
that which had stopped the animal
short m the tremendous leap it had
calculated on or it would have cleared
tlie space with safety and doubtless
with ease. The wildcat was in reality
almost in his deatli throes when he
struck tlie pheasant, which lie clung
to with the clutch of death, and still
held in his mouth when wo dragged
him out of the water. We measured
the width of the chasm across which
the wildcat bad made his death leap.
The measurement was forty-three *
feet.’’-New York Sun.
__
One may. perhaps, presume so far
U 1" )H °hl acquaiiffanceship as to in
du go oecasi-mally in a mild practi
c; d jolco, but to attempt lamiliai-itv
Ullb strangers is “another pair of
sleeves.” A city gamin was wont to
play rather roughly with a good na
tur d bull dog, owned by a shopkeo;i
er ol the neighborhood. One day tlie
bo v v.as ware ing with a crony, when
.
he saw the dug approaching.
"Hi! there’s Towse!” bo cried. “Now
sec me head him oil’.”
lie stepped m I rout of the dog, with
; arms extended, and partially blocked
the passage,. 'Hie animal looked sur
j sidere-d P. ,,,sw h within Mopped, himself ami evidently what would con be
I best do.
I never knew him to act like that.”
«ntl the joker ’ lie idlers lays down
<>'• '<!s Iwc-a and rolls. Guess 111 stir
h,: *‘“ » : l b 1 « !
G nil tuat t b.- sprang at tlie , dog. , and
cai, > f? bt 11111 b y tho oars, und began
-
» m ‘‘"S blia
louse was evidently amazed, but
a- proved equ:. to the occasion, bus
d nill 8 bis ii* ,li in Lie boy s trousers,
111 starting nearness to an expanse of
bare knee, lie held on liken vise.
^ist m tlu.t moment the boy caught
s Lie |»hl animals ot an uiilamiliur bead, and spot dropped ol while liis on
hold to take at once to liis heels, leav
n, ‘oth « a goodly portion of lib woolen
c in the creature s tiiouth
his “ un « Futsy, “He's run! he shouted _ to
chum. gone and turned
insself into another dog J”—Youth’s
Gonipaiiion.
—-
An Meui contributor.
He handed over to the wild eyed ed
Hot- an article of some leimth no bad
ei^ai-s ly'renierkcU ueenmnun vin"- ° it and e teorfub
'“["dmi't su’iwo wi-o'e vou'll ihou^ht'it use this
When I first it 1 waa
uD<» U t as smooth a piece <>? lilcrarv
W()rk M j, a( | b( . ( . n nroduce.l m rceeiil
U , U1 ^ fi-n seven editors to** have refused
J t a ntl 1 am beginning mV' think tii-t
uiy talents he direction of saw
SCHLEY COUNTY NEWS.
mg wood rather than writing essays.
If you don't care to read it, lire it
away, with as 1 won’t have anything afford more
to ito it. I can’t to have
its hair cut.’’
The manuscript was torn to pieces
with ideal a good contributor deal of enthusiasm, assured that and
the was
he had sized himself Ujy accurately.
“if " you were the feeling writing words for a street used,
car, were
“yon wouldn’t get the slot in the faro
box.”
Oh that thcro were more idea con
tributors!—Nebraska State Journal.
Conductors of Sound.
sity Asa of general substance rule, the greater the den
a und tho more elas
ticity it possesses tho more perfect is
its conduetibiiity of sound; thus it has
been found that while sound travels
at the rate of 1,125 feet per second in
el the ordinary atmosphere, it will trav-
4,708 feet per second in water* This
of was proved by experiments in the Lake
Geneva. The traveling power of
sound through solid substances may
be stated generally to be more rapid
than through either air or water. The
metals, on account of their elasticity,
naturally The stand at the head of the list
French philosopher, Biot, In
means or the empty water pipes of
Baris, proved that sound will travel
through iron at the rate of 1G,SL'2 feet
per second, or about fifteen times fast
er than through il'°a air. It has been
proved that hell be struck in a
vacuum in an air pump, no sound
whatever can lie heard and that if
hydrogen hardly he introduced the sound is
which perceptible. is In i*^At fact, hydro
o-eu Jusk. wo,-st‘conductorof Hip most i'mS >,11
is the
while iridium, the densest, is the best
This latter is very searew and con.se
quently difficult to experiment with,
so gold aud platinum which are
among the densest of bodies, are corn
nionlv called the best conductors of
sound.— New York Telegram,
1>( ,„ s
We associate this name with those
veterans of the merchant service and
of tho fishing squadrons whose appear- sianort
ai!C0 makes picturesque the
wharves and landing. If the su-res
«d Uon of Mr. Wilfred Powell were”aet
uix.n it <r,r<» , )>.. ,,
writumof his exulontions umon'Mlie
South Sea Pl unk h<> °
There is a fact well worth mention
illg with respect to earryhm otherwise do-son
board u vessel in these irirts
t i um the mere V -ct of tbeir m,e -is -i
watch It is tint L ev are vervsen
sitive toun aporoach to laud or reefs
. Ult j j f oum j tint whenever our <io»-s
be-’•up ” to sniff over the side it was”
su e si , ril ul - tlien) heino- u reef not fur
off- ami not onlv that* but thev will
coiitinue to do this ' until tho .l>n
j q- °
a on , r w;iv 0
Thev will .elect the smell of a reef
even at ni"-lit whilst «i‘,i asleen AVl.,. and will
awake *>nd run n.the f .
and whine ho tint thev are of -is nmeli
usu ,, in other nlaeon fnr
MU . nv reel's l .-re are so s-coo tb-R the '
lead‘is " " no ‘ »*-uidc ‘ — True " Fl-r ”° '
in i ‘ disonv i 'A ibor-c-v ', *
r ,! , \ T l ,, ?.° U J‘ avo ,ts ot f ,in ?
i* j'v !„*' . oome ,■ li.-no ago 1
h “ d lo1 k-two men working with me
‘•>c;uidescent hunp m a big
, . A“|‘ r ,V' ! U a 1 kroi V'a^I man an to play w ,°
^ music. ; About . 1 o . clock ,
% ar B,t |. r bn,u p ul blad h UI ‘ d
ueute f Iron, a ton-table. At tret the
auul.e, ^ and some would difficulty in keeping
umlm go to sleep under
s (no corners U e cm
ployed watchers to bring them out,
‘f* fme tucygot used to il Alter
Hlt> aaln t need forty two of
tbcia - mid 1 discharg-eil six of them,
V el ’ uo > ou know. 1 couldn’t drive
them away lliey stayed there and
u oi-Ked U.r notaing.
' a - UL ‘ fms kind of lifel
Dyery „
now and (lien 1 hire a big
schooner, ami \ o go down the bay,
'“.V naui and myselt. to fish lor a few
( ' u . vs - we come back and buckle
down to U again, interview lit i'fils
burg Disputca.
, i
I-rliiiilivo lirt->-*:nal.in".
v r . .. ,
where see purchased a cheupdroks pub
ff-ru, logoUjer with m-edies thread
and a lounble Alter tm-pu. chase .sho
;iske(i " ,olr > l,) u !? seu tllhwnl somelmg L '>–• little, ^
a j sue
expressed it, but llw room b-.-^ig t - :cu
\>m\ She was mid to pass up tue .v.airs
«ml »'itoa vacant mom. Auer awhile
the saleswoman soltly stole up to seo
h.,t slie vuls about, but as s.a* was
seated »»n the lloor and busily engaged
in plying a needle she did not disturb
her. In one hour she again made her
appearance, and to the surprise ol all
she wore the dress and also a very
triumphant air. Bangor (Me.) Com
uionuc-.l.
“
Stn»wi>erri«»n from i i-bnur, t u Augurt.
By starting from southern Texas in
slow February, and traveling northward by
stages into British America, a
tlay might have strawberries every
UMtl1 lb e end of August.
, ’ a I ,, d transpormtioi. is Iurtlier perfect
d- “* R,a v h 14 ' -0 ll,0,u during the
same period f aud stay at home. Ihul
ri !- uls llave abn ‘, ,sl miiuhdaled the
''i-uit season. ’’-Topeka Slate Journal,
“
J , a I-ci'hn P , heavy al- ,
,,VVed wagons are not
on ce, ' ,aui streets. In Baris
il,l . v « ,, "'ih/ud of rettl.ng material mast
bo U ’ 1 U,J 11 ‘’ au l raU l«.
CLAUDE DIXON EUGENE DIXON
DIZON BEOS.
)
AND
GROCERS * 3 K
WE KEEP EVERY THING USUALLY FOUND IN A COUNTRY STORE, AND SELL
AS LOW AS THE LOWEST. HIGHEST CASK PRICES ALLOWED OR COUNTRY
PRODUCE. WE SOLICIT YOUR PATRONAGE
ILi
—-.Dealers in:—
General Merchandise.
tr WEKflKr ON HAND ALMOST EVERY THING TO SUIT THE TRADE. RESIDES A
FULL LINE OF GROCERIES, WILL BE FOUND, HATS, SHOES. CLOTHING, COFFINS, CAS
KETS, FURNITURE. ETC., AND WII.LSELL GOODS AS CHEAP AS ANY MERCHANT IX
SOUTH WEST GEORGIA. SOLICITING TRADE, IT IS OUR OBJECT TO PLEASE ALL, AND
GIVE VALUE RECEIVED FOR YOUR MONEY’.
MURRAY – WILLIAMS,
Ellaville, Ga.
DU. C. H. SM
ELLAVILLE, GA.
Dealer in
) )
Paints, Oil– v armshes i
FANCY GOODS, NOTIONS, ETC.
E^TAlso, Perfumery, Toilet Articles, School Books, and Stationery. Jg3
An Astonished Italian.
A gentlenian at tho depot, whilo
T Ullians u lir>S tll ° tleparture of a " ang of
\ * wll<> were to work on
1 ie ^’ ai ’ t5la 8 <? ancl Adirondack rail
T 11 ' 1, Sai<1 : was alon^ a portion of
tliat roaa , recently, and a largo force
of thesu f e llow s wero Wasting out
stumps with , giant . powder.
woula P uncl * llolos tlown in tho
» rou, W ““^er tho stumps and put in a
quantity oi the explosive, then tramp
«« ott wn ground around it and touch
11 1 “ fusa Dive or six stumps
woul< . * bo prepared, all of the work
men but one would retire several hull
dred feet to a sale place, and that one
would set the fuses of all tho stumps
on fire and then run for safety behind
some tree or stump. There was a place
where there were five stumps in a
Four of them were loaded for
blasting who and the fifth one left for the
man set the fuses to run behind.
“In setting tho fuses the Italian got
mixed up. It is a confusing business,
and he had to do it in a hurry. He
laid down behind one of tho stumps
that was‘loaded.’ No one could warn
him. A moment of sus]Xinse and the
explosion came. Dirt, stones, water,
roots and Italian went high into the
air. One after another the other three
exploded, ed and when danger was paes
his we ran forward, expecting sal to seo
cavity mangled remains. lie in tho
caused by the uplifting of the
stump he had lain behind, worming
the dirt out of liis cars, stupefied but
unhurt. The expression that rested
on liis face when his countrymen
equaled laughed and joked h o
in comicality tlie look of
sm-m-isc ... fh-ii hhki (■» .........ereoino him
............
wheH the retreat ho supposed was se
euro rose in sudden violence by the
explosion of several pounds of Jyua
- t uca0Ww ’
About Colorlu B VLu-^r.
Bv tlie way, there seems to lie a
great amount of misunderstanding
aad misinformation prevalent regard
mg vinegar. It has been solemnly
decreed by the legislature that no
more shall coloring matter be added
to the ordinary white, distilled vine
gir of the market. Now, the coloring
luaterial used in giving the article tlie
required sliade was nothing but Ixirnt
sugar, therefore entirely harmless
This same white vinegar is simply
there regularly is distilled low wine that is
a very small per cent, of a 1 co
hoi in it—which has been fermented
is by the action on it of the air while it
scl spread out for tho purpose in a ves
kind containing of shavings beech shavings This
is used because such
wood is tasteless und does not color
the liquid. Vinegar thus inuiuifacl
ured is entirely wholesomo and sulli
ciently Cider palatable,
vinegar. 1 believe, as a rule,
to ff- very impure, and consequently
liable to prove very detrimental to the
consumer’s health. 1 would not think
of using it unless I had hud the muk
ing of it directiyunderinygupei'vi
*} the ou - Nearly all the cider vinegar of
market -w made from apples that
are njiulcred decayed, unfit worm for eaten market.—Cinciu- or otherwise
*‘«ti Times-Star.
Development of the -kuii.
Dr. Dight, professor of anatomy in
the American college at Beirut, Syria,
gives some very interesting results of
liis examination of a collection of hu
man skulls which are stored away in
a*n old monastery in the Kedron vallev,
midway Dead between Jerusalem and tbo
sea. He lias made a careful com
parisoti of these skulls with those of
the same race at the present dav. ami
finds somesignilicant dill'ere-nccs. The
Caucasian skull has during the last
thh-tcenceiituricsincrcasedineircum
fcrenco nearly two inches, and has
gained considerable in cranial enpac
lty. There has been no increase in
width. The brain has gained in lieMit
and width—i. c., there has bcenade
velopinent of tho upper and anterior
parts of tlie brain tbo parts which wo
should expect to increase by education
and civilization, as they preside over
the moral aud intellectual functions,
The lower TK.rtiotis of the bra nr" in
which the lower or more selfish
pensit.es are cc-ntc-rcdund which rdre
breadth to the h»ad failed* have in the mai-cli
of the centuries to crow as
rapidly henco^the as the hmher brain centris
skull–^Ohica^Times noii-inen-qse in the width
of our
IHuL.-'h IIon*.
There used to live in UNLIn ™nr,tv
Mo. an itinerant shoem-il-er n-miKl
Blake, win* never lived in any house
over louths at a time, and wifi
on 8 go mo much that his acquaint
ances called him “Mo 2 . ng Blake.” In
addition to a large fat ly of boys and
girls, he was always accompanied bv
a llock of faithful liens that went with
him from place to place,
It j. s asserted on good church going
authority ;r' that those liens became sJ
“ ^ -*
imr oSu.rh.™'
up to the door, throw themselves fiat
on their backs and crossing their legs
would lie there until Blake came out
and tied them together with a string
More Frankfort^^ than a dozen reputable S tockton residents 2
of Bres
Searsport abb intelligence can vouch for the remark- hens"
Boston of Blake’s
Globe
Tryi.-i" for a Modest Man.
It is awfully Lying fora modest,
sensitive man to attempt to push up
or dow pull down a car window. Tho win
is certain to stick like death to n
Ucccusttd African—that is to say, if the
man will is a sensitive down like plant; otherwise Crockett's it
come Cant.
coon or go up like Gilueroy’s kite—
and he has tlie extreme felicity of
knowing, from jus the perspiration blootl flows
every pore and the rich
mantles bis face and neck, that every*
body in the ear is watching him; that
everybody ing how the is ou the point of suggeek and
that thing can be done,
if it everybody that would si>eak right out
broad w ere grin, not and everybody is orj speak the
would rcault in an snicker attempt which to would
a
spread Jack through tho car like Yellow
ia the tropica, —Boston Tran
script.