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AlilTHM UTICA 1, COM KYI 1 THE . 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 / « VirT^ Georgia 224oFTj ABOVE A SEA. 1 n Agricultural College 3 MjmnOuiioinO. tr. pjlTiON. iftijir bW B £ 'O-Avv! ' s: J -■"r DAHLONEGA, GA. A eolleye eduentiou in the reach of all. A.B., B.S., Normal and Business Man’s courses. 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Enclose self-address- THE Semi-Weekly Fer the FARM AND HOME. *–» The Semi-Weekly published at Atlanta, is farm and home paper brings the news of the twice a week, with farm ters by C. H. Jordan, Department conducted Mrs. W. H. Felton, Department, Veterinary partment, Book and letters by Sam John Temple Graves other distinguished utoi-s. The Semi-Weekly makes common cause the farmers and hundreds of letters them on farm topics, scribing their experience making crops, etc. It is a paper devoted the development of the sources of the south and welfare of its people. With all these good tures, it combines a news service, covering world at large and the ern states in bringing you the news a-week for only one dollar year, the price of papers. You can send your scription direct to by Journal, Atlanta, office money order, money order, registered ter or clic k ; or you can scribe through the agents. Addiess THESEMI-WEFKLYJ L'