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AlilTHM UTICA 1, COM KYI 1
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The Atlanta Constitution’s New
mium Contest.
The Atlanta Weekly Constitut 10 "
announces in its current issue tbe
close of its $5,000 Cotton Crop
offer upon the cotton season of 08-90.
Tho figures upon which that contest
will be decided and the money paid
out arc furnished by Latham, Alex
ander – Co., of New York, who
adopt the figures of Secretary A. G.
Hester, of the New Orleans Cotton
Exchange. The Weekly Constitu
tion of Sept. 11 th gives the full de
tails of the result. The crop of OS
99 shows tip larger than the former
season, and tho Neill estimate upon
the present crop, September 1st, ’90
to 1900, claims, that whether right
or wrong that this will be even a
larger crop than the ope immedi
ately before it. The prices that
ruled last season and the enormous
crop about to come in sight, wit’i
consequent low prices, ought to be a
well reraemliered object lesson to
our people. This one thing, if
nothing more, should load evorybody
to study the diversity of crops suited
in each locality to its accessible mar
ket, that will cut off the surplusage
of cotton and allow a living price
for whatever cotton is raised afte*
home supplies and other natural de
mands of the local market are met
The Constitution announces
simple problems in Mental Arithme
tic as the subject of its new contest.
This is to run only sixty days, begin
ning the first of September and
ing the first of November,
prize amount for this contest will
made up by devoting 10 per cent,
subscriptions received from
ants to that purpose, it will
ably reach $1,000 to $2,000 in
two months.
These are tho problems:
(1) A mule and his harness
er cost $90 and tho mule cost
more than the harness. What
the price of the harness?
(2) A fish weighs 9 lbs. plus
third of his weight. What is
weight of the fish.
(8) 18 years *• "*t
.<Ul OW »â€“*'» ' V1 « • wtil te*
____ old. . < __ 'in ji , mill — r
twice as my
now? \
The ConstitatiMn claims that
the essential nloints are stated
the problems a# given and that
can work tho sifms in your
wit I out setting them down on
This may bo very trike. The
lems appear simple and ought to
easily worked. Everybody is
ested in arithmetic.
The condition precedent for
ing the answers to the problems
that each and every sot of
must be accompanied* by a
subscription to the Constitution
you must answer every one
ly in order to soeurp any of
money. You can obtain this
scription in connection with
Pickkns County Progress for
$1.50. in order to win a prizo
must send us the three correct
ver§ and we will forward them
your subscription to tho
tion and rejoice iu yonr
Lot us have the subscription at
and make things hot from the
In answering simply state,
repeating the problem or
any of your work in arriving at
“Answer 1.-, 2.- 3.
A down east editor thus
over his wife’s death: “Our wife is
dead. No more will those
bands pull off olir boots like a
loving wife. No more will those
ing feet replenish the coal hod
water bucket. No more will she
amid the tempestuous atoms of
ter and bmild tlie fires without
turbing the man whe doted on hei
fondly. We had the following put
ber tombs touc: Jo the memory of
Susan Jane, wife of John Smith,
gentlemanly editor of tho
Bugal. Terms, one dollar per
Office over Jones’ grocery.
shall miss thee,darling, we shall
thee. Job printing done cheaper
any office in town. Our
spirit cries in agony. Subscribe
tbe Bugal.—Ex.
HAI) A KICK TO MAKE.
AND HE MADE IT RIGHT TO THE HE AO
OF THE FIRM.
The Kicker Went Abont l.nn<lln* III*
Prote»« In n lialher I'nronver..Iona!
Manner, bnt .lie dinner* Arc He
Got W tint He tVm After.
"Yes," said tbo tall, loose jointed
man at the telephone, “that's the num
ber I want—229. ”
"Double two nine?" queried the
voice at tbe central office.
.“Well, I don’t know that double two
nine is any better than the plain, or
dinary two. two, nine, but if yon insist
on that stylo suppose we say double
two single nine and got it exactly right,
Hello! Is that Spotcash – Co. ’«?”
“Yes,’’ responded the voice at the
other end of the wire.
"Is Mr. Spotcash in?"
“Is it something important? He is
much occupied. ’ ’
"So am I. Yes; it’s a matter of some
importance, and I want to talk to Mr.
Spotcash personally. Yes; I’ll hold the
wire—that is, I’ll hold the phone”—
“Hollo i” snapped somebody at this
jnnctnra Spotcash?"
“Hellol Is that Mr.
“Yos. Who is it?"
“Yon are tho head of the firm of
Spotcash’– Co., ara you not?”
“Yes," was the impatient answer.
"What do you want ? Who are yon ?”
“Gwilliams, 1195 Pumpernickel
street. I want to enter a complaint: ’’
“What about?"
"I bought an icebox at your store a
few days ago, and’’—
"Call up tho household goods depart
ment, confound you! I have no time
spare to look after such things."
“You’ve got as much time, perhaps,
as I have. I haven’t any complaint
make to tho household goods
ment. The head of the firm is the
I want to talk to. I bought an
at your store a few days ago for $1(5.75.
I might have got it cheaper
else, but that isn’t the point.
bought it and paid for it, I had a
to expect it to be delivered within
reasonable time and in fair condition
It didn’t come for four days, and
it did come”—
"Hay. you, I employ men to
complaints of this kind”—
“I linvo no use for them. You’re
responsible man of the house. Tho
tem is yours. If i t doesn ’t work
ly, it is your fault. When that
came four days after purchase, one
the castors was missing, the
was scraped off tho outside surface
more than a dozen places, and it
as if it had gone through a hard
at a cheap boarding house"—
"If there’s anything wrong with
roared Mr. Spotcash, "send it back!
can’t take up my time”—
"Stand a little farther away
tbe phone, Mr. Spotcash. Your
■ UAH t ■ -■*— *Y4i*l if Of ii AT* A >ou*h
of mashed potatoes”-
“Who tho devil aro you?”
“I think I gave you my name
address—Gwilliams. 1195
street, next door to Lazarus J.
horn. You don’t know mo from
staffed alligator, but you may
heard of Spillhorn. Don't yon
yourself to get hot, Mr. Spotcash,
an icebox. Tho incongruity of such
tjiing ought to bo apparent junkshop”— even to
head of nn overgrown
“If yon wore here, sir, I should
you ont of my otllce’’—
"You would probably need some
If that icebox had simply beeu
a little, 1 shouldn’t have made any
about it, but tho stupid ass you sent
deliver it”—
“Haven’t you sense enough, you
fernal idiot, to know that I don’t
personally after the little details of
business amounting to millions of
lars a year?” detail
“If you don’t grasp every
that business, you Cheap John
peddler in a gilt binding, you are
fit to be the boss of it 1 Don’t try
crawl ont of the responsibility
throwing tho blame on some boy
that icebox had simply been defaced
little, I repeat, I shouldn’t have
any fuss about it, but tlie fellow
sent to deliver it didn’t have any
sense than to tumble it on tho
walk"—
"Bring it back, blank you”—
“Look here, Spotcash, that won’t do.
you know. You aro not allowed to
in that style over tho telephone.
cise a little common sense. Spotcash.
You know it isn’t my place to
that icebox back. Tho proper thing
do, you thirty-third degree
and toy vendor, is to send mo a
icebox and take tho damaged
back”—
“You blank fool, do yon think
can tell mo”—
“Again let me tell you, Spotcash,
not to use such language over the
phone. Some remote ancestor of
may possibly have beeu a gentleman.
Try to emulate him, Spotcash. In
meantime please accept tho
of my distinguished consideration,
the icebox will remain in my
subject to yonr order. If it is
properly and within a reasonable
you will not boar from mo again. If
isn’t I shall call you up, Spotcash,
sonally a dozen times a day through
tho public telephones in town I
not the patience to call at your store
make tbo complaint Yonr system
making exchanges is too
and I believe in going to
with all kicks anyhow. Never
yourself to think, Spotcash, that
'are too big a man to listen to a
plaint from your meanest customer
think that’s all. Good morning.
cash!”—Chicago Tribune.
Good Uuan Early Learned.
“Twenty-five cents was the
tion of ray fortune.”
“Who gave It to you?”
“Nobody. I tried to borrow It
Record.
“SHOVING TH£ QUEER."
The Oracrlal Wny In Which Coun
terfeiter* I’n** Their Product.
"Counterfeit money ‘sliovers’ form a
distinct class of criminals,” said an old
federal officer. “They have nothing to
do with making the ‘queer,’ hut simply
put it tn circulation. They go about
their work very systematically and re
duce the chances of detection to a mltii
mum.
“A woman shover, for example,
starts out to unload on the big retail
stores. Iler dress Is quiet, but elegant
and she has the surface appearance of
n refined lady. In lief hand Is a pocket
book containing one bad bill and a
number of good ones. She gousjnto a
store, makes some trifling purchases,
tenders the counterfeit and pockets the
change. As she passes out she brush
es against a l>oy, who slips her anoth
er queer bill and then drops back a
few paces In the crowd.
“In that way she makes the rounds,
and* If she understands her business
she can get rid of an astonishing num
ber of counterfeits In the course of a
few hours. If the bill she offers Is de
tected on the spot, she never attempts
any argument. ‘Dear me!’ she ex
claims. ‘I wonder if I have any
of the horrid things!’ And thereupon
she empties her pocketbook on the
counter and asks the clerk to
the money and see whether It is all
right.
“In 00 cases out of 100 that disarms
suspicion at once. If she happens to
be arrested, only one hill Is found In
her possession, and there Is nothing
disprove her assertion that she
ed It somewhere in change.
the .boy who carries the roil” quietly
disappears. Often he sells
as a blind. ’Have a paper, miss?' ho
will cry and hands the shover a hill
under the folded sheet.
it Is a highly skilled trade. The
class sliovers are very seldom caught.’’
—New Orleans Tlmes-Democrat.
A COLONY OF YONSONS.
Many of That Name In Business In
VVine»n»ln Town.
‘‘Up in the central part of
sin,” said a Chicago traveling inan
had got tired talking about the
“there is a town that Is inhabited
most exclusively by ‘Yonsons.
name of the man who keeps the
is ‘Yonson,’ the drug store on the
ner ls owned by a man named 1
son.’ tho proprietor of the
ment that uses our goods Is a
‘Yonson,’ and I noticed when :
riding up town from the statiok
the grocer and the butcher wer£
‘Yonsons.’ said
,,, What’s the matter here?’ I
the bus driver. ‘Haven’t you belinff ai»
pic- In this town who don’t
the “Yonson" family?’ /
‘“Vail, Ay tank dare -be- u o j
v-.'r- ?
** 4 What’s your name. I nil
“ ‘Yonson,’ he replied.
“I was about to make some
Inquiries us to the ‘Yonson’
but at that moment we passed thL*
lic laundry, and, looking at the
red sign above the door, I read: i
“‘Yip Yonson, Laundry.’
“Inside the Chinaman who
the concern was busy ironing and
mitting bis pigtail to hung down
back. I am almost convinced
that some of those ‘Yonsons’
frauds.”—Chicago Times-llerald
UiittitnK and Nose Blowing.
A number of people come hour:
the seaside quite deaf, and very
If not deaf, are much harder of
thau when they left home. The
of tills is blowing the nose after
ing
Cf course one blows his nose
there Is some snlt water In it,
makes him uncomfortable. This
he forces iuto the little eustaehian
that runs from behind the nose to
ear. Here the water remains for
and tho particles of salt set up
mation. The next step Is that the
stachlan tube gets blocked and
more or less so permanently,
partial deafness.
You should always wait some
after your bath before blowing
nose, and then you should do it
Shrewd Advice.
The virtues of a keen business
are often negative rather that,
tive. It Is said that a great
once told Ills son that only two
were necessary to make a "groat
cier.
“And what are those, papa?” the
asked.
“Honesty and sagacity.”
“But what do you consider tbe
of honesty to be?”
“Always to keep your word.”
“And the mark of sagacity?”
“Never to give your word.”
In Them All.
"Nobody ever accused me of being
politician out of a job,” said
Sorghum blandly.
“No,” answered the guileless
who takes everything literally,
was only tlie other day that I
some one saying you came pretty
being mixed up in every job that
along.”—Washington Star.
Not Included.
Fcntherstoue—Come, Bobbie
Ing him a quarter), how many
have called on your sister this week ?
Bobbie—Let’s see—five.
“That doesn’t Include me. does it?”
“Oh, no! Sister says you
count.”—Brooklyn Life.
What folly to proclaim a love for
mautty which uo oue has for the
jority of individuals composing
Conservative.
“Slow, but sure,” Is a good
but why not be quick* and
PAID BY UNCLE SAM.
Some of (he Odd Kiprn.M ttf Gov
ernment Hu* lo Hear.
Every one knows that it costs almost
$400,000,000 a year to run the United
States government In times of peace
and that tlie department of war and
«io navy, the Indian and pension hu
rcaus absorb the larger part of this
amount, but In the course of years a
large number of dependents upon Un
cle Ham’s purse, have come into being
of which the general public knows llt
tic.
Such, for example, are tlie interna
tional bureau for the repression of the
African slave trade, located at Brus
sels, a highly laudable institution, to
the expenses of which our government
contributes $100 a year; the interna
tional bureau of weights and measures,
also at Brussels, to which $2,270 is con
tributed, and the International Geodet
ic association, the expenses of which
our government shares to the extent
of $1,500 yearly.
As a leading member of a group of
nations specially interested In humane
and philanthropic work we subscribe
$325 a year to a lighthouse service on
the coast of Morocco, about $4,500 to
be divided among citizens of other
lands - for service rendered to ship
wrecked American seamen, $500 a year
toward maintaining a hospital for sail
ors at Panama and $9,000 for keeping
and feeding American convicts impris
oned in foreign countries.
Among the unfamiliar purposes In
the home country for which money Is
appropriated from tlie federal treas
ury is the maintenance of the Wash
ington monument, costing $11,520 an
nually, and the provision of artificial
limbs for soldiers calling for $547,000
a year.—Leslie’s Weekly.
DANGER IN CHEAP GLASSES.
A Great Many Eye* Rntneil by At
tempt* lit Economy.
Looking hack now to the time when
the Itinerant quack doctor and the
wandering dentist spread misery and
destruction over the land, we wonder
at the ignorance or carelessness of
fathers in trusting their teeth or even
their lives to hands so untrustworthy.
A very similar tiling is done today by
people who buy spectacles or eyeglass
es from men who sell them on
streets or have their eyes fitted by op
tlcinns who have no qualifications
doing the work.
A surprising number of people
their glasses from venders on
streets. They get glasses for 50
which seem to them just as good as
pair they would pay $5 for
made on an oculist’s prescription,
they thirfk they have saved money.
Glasses acquired in all sorts of
by Inheritance or exchange from
friend or even glasses found on
streets are used to tlie detriment,
to the destruction, of tbe
iK’P.u.rili. sight.
sopm tq Ulifli ll jj
i like clothes,""said nn <!ld oculist
other day. “and if they are fairly com
fortable and look well they ask
further questions.” people
Another way in which
age tbelr eyes is through
In trying to remove dust or
from them. They try themselves,
friend tries a rub. tlie nearest
store and tlie nearest optician are
ed on, nil before an oculist Is
ed. The result is that the eyeball
often badly rubbed and scraped,
n many instances permanent injury
’one.—New York Eveuing Post.
One ('llltd For Each Hour.
Henry Bloch, a business man
Brooklyn, eats breakfast at half
Rosie, goes to breakfast at 15
to Gabriel and retires for tlie night
Achilles. Mr. Bloch has 12 children,
0 girls and 3 boys. He is fond of
family and In order that he might
ways have them In mind had a
made with the miniature
of one of the children in the place
each of the hours on its dial,
where the figure 7 would be on an
dinary watch dial the pretty face
Ids daughter Rosie looks out. The
of the boy Gabriel represents 1 o’clock,
that of Freda 2- o’clock and so
around the dial. At his home Mr.
Bloch has a large clock, on the dial
which the figures are represented in
the same way.
The Deacon and the Prayer.
“I didn’t like your prayer very much
this morning,” said a fault finding
con to his minister.
“What was wrong with It?”
“Well, In the first place, it was
long, and then I thought It
two or three expressions that were un
warranted.”
“I am very sorry it meets with
disapproval, deacon,” the good man
sponded, “but you must bear In
that tlie prayer was not addressed
you.”—Ohio State Journal.
Vnlui^r Trnde.
She shuddered and averted her face.
“To marry for money.” she
“Is to sell oneself, and I can’t see
It Isn’t just ns had to sell oneself as
is to sell dry goods or groceries.
is trade.”
She was a candid girl and
the subtle artifices of logic
some are wont to still the voice of
science.—Detroit Journal.
A* to Feathering- Nest*.
“My experience.” said the
confidence man who had played
-races frequently in his day, “Is that
is hard to pick tbe winner, but
paratively easy to pluck
go Tribune.
The Wronsr House.
Minister’s Wife—Wake up!
are burglars In tbe house, John.
Minister—Well, what of it? Let
find out their mistake
ELEPHANTS’ TRICKS.
HOW THE AWKWARD ANIMALS ARE
TAUGHT TO PERFORM.
Some Are Too Dnll to turn Any
thing, While Other* Are UnleU to
Catch nn Idea — Forcible Method*
Vaed In Their Training.
“Scores of people ask mo every day, ”
said Keeper Snyder of the elephant
house in Central park recently, “how
anything so stupid looking and thick
skinned as an elephant can be taught
anything. I tell them all that elephants
are not unlike children Some are too
dull to learn anything, and others can
catch nn idea quickly. Tom,” he went
on, pointing to the large elephant who
was busily engaged in throwing hay on
his back, “although irascible indisposi
tion, is quite intelligent. The first trick
I taught him was to lie down. This
was not so easy to accomplish as it
might seem, for it took a block and fall
at front and rear, with a gang of 15 or
20 men at each end. I stood at one
side, and as I said ‘Get down!’ his feet
were drawn ont from under him. This
had to be repeated only a few times be
fore he learned what ‘Get down’ meant
for him.
“To teach him' to stand on his hind
feet and on his head a block and fall On
a beam over Lus head, a snatch block
and two ‘dead men’ in the floor and the
services of another elephant were all
required. As 1 said ‘Get up!’ the ele
phant in harness walked forward, and
Tom’s fror* feet went up. while his
hind feet were chained together. When
I said ‘Stand on your head I’his front
feet, which had been previously chain
ed, remained on the floor, while his
hind feet were drawn up until they al
most literally ‘kicked the beam. ’
“These were his first lessons. When
he learned to drill to‘right about, face,’
and ‘left about, face, 1 I stood on one
side of him and another man on the
other, and we each had a prod. As I
commanded ‘Right about, face I’ he was
pushed over to the right, and ‘Left
about, face!’ he was prodded in that
direction I taught him to waltz in
much the same way. only as we pushed
him back and forth we’ made him go
clear around, and now he is one of the
best waltzers in the country. He learn
ed to ring the bell and fan himself in
one lesson. Both require the same mo
tion, and they are really the same trick,
although people never think of that.
Yes, he knows which is which and
never picks up the fiin or napkin when
I tell him to ring the bell. I only had
to put each, one at a time, in his trank,
and with the fan and bell I shook it
and with the napkin wiped first one
side of his mouth and then the other.
Ho took to hand organ grinding like a
Mulberry street Italian. It is one of his
favorite tricka
“The elephant is the only animal
whose legs all bend the same way His
hind legs bend in. and the position re
quired for creeping is not very comfort
aoie. w a -baby.
His performances on the i.armonica
are tue most surprising to onlookers,
but the fact is that all the intelligence
required for that is holding the instru
ment. As he must breathe through his
trunk, every breath moves it back and
forth. I discovered that he holds his
breath when he stunds on his hind legs
by trying to get him to do that and
play the harmonica at the sanio time,
bnt his front, feet are no sooner up than
the sound censes until they are down
again. %% high, and
“His tub is about feet
it took me about an hour to get him to
mount it tbe first time und as long to
get him down from it once ho was up.
I had finally to improvise a step from it
before he would come down. He went
right up again, however, and came
down and repeated the movement sev
eral times in the first lesson. Now he
mounts it and stands on his hind feet
his front feet, his side feet and waltzes
and changes on it.
“People all seem to think that an ele
phant has no sense of feeling because
his skin is thick and coarse. The fact is
that his skin is as sensitive as a baby’s,
and if you tickle him with a straw you
will find it out. The feet of the ele
phant have to be repaired frequently,
for they are as susceptible to corns and
stone bruises as the feet of people, and
they have to be cut and trimmed- You
wouldn’t think it. would you. that
twice around Tom’s front foot, when he
is standing with his full weight upon
it. is equal to his height ? It is true,
and it is a rule that seldom varies an
inch in any elephant.
“The African elephants have only
four toes, and their ears are very large.
The Asiatic elephants have five toes,
and their ears are smaller. There are
few African elephants in this country
‘—not more than three or four. Not
long ago. at an exhibition in this city,
there was a skin of leather with small
ears and comparatively fine texture (the
hide from all elephants has too large
pores to make it of use), and it was
labeled, ‘Hide from an African ele
phant.’ People don’t know
about them. ’’—New York Post
Not IH* Style.
“A musician out of work, are you?”
said tbe housekeeper, “Well,
find a few cords in’the woodshed.
pose you favor me with an obligato.”
“Pardon tbe pronunciation, madam,”
replied Peripatetic Padroosky,
Chopin Is not popular with
olic Standard and Times.
The Opportunity.
“Bilkins got married rather
didn’t be?”
“Yes. Somebody gave him a
pass to New York good for two,
he didn’t want to waste
Plain Dealer.
When a man Is missing, every
first impulse is to count the
left in town to see if one is
Prosperity of * Tow n.
The prosperity of u town, village
or city is not guided by the
wealth of its inhabitants, blit by
the uniformity with which they
pall together when any important
duty is to be accomplished. A
man with a thousand dollars at his
command, and an interest in-the
welfare of his own town at heart,
can do more for the building and
improvement of it than a million
aire who locks up hi* capital and
snaps his linger at home progress.”
Citizens all should feel like
they heve mutual interest in the
success of our town, and co-oper
ate in every good enterprise. No
one can prosper within himself,
but depends largely upon the help
and patronage of others. Let all
our people stand shoulder to
shoulder in all matters that will
advance the common weal.—Ma
rietta Journal
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