The Barnesville news-gazette. (Barnesville, Ga.) 189?-1941, April 03, 1902, Page 11, Image 11

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JfT Has Arrived \ and your thirst needs quenching, so make Our Fount Your Headquarters. Come and See Our Elaborate Stock of Stationery WE CARRY A FULL LINE OF Toilet Articles, Rubber Goods, &c. OUR STOCK OF and Chemicals is always fresh and pure. If we should not have what you call for, will take pleasure in getting it for you any and all times. We are yours to command day or night, W. C. Jordan&Bro, Druggists and Stationers, Barnesville, Ga. Phonbs, Day 44, Night 58 and 5. BARNESVILLE THURSDAY, APRIL 3,1902. CARELESS LETTER WRITERS. The fact that anybody would be so careless as to post a letter with out an address, much less without stamping it, of course strikes most people as ludicrously ridiculous. Yet each year this class of. errors on the part of the public is steadily growing, until now over 87,000 pieces of this class of mail matter have been turned into the depart ment at Washington in a single year, the increase over the number of the preceding year being over 0,000 pieces received without ad dress. And there were over 15,000 persons who were so thoughtless as to inclose money in their envelopes in sums from a dime to several bills of the twenty dollar denomination and then forget to address the en velope. Those who forget to stamp their letters and parcels are also on the increase, as the department received 150,000 last year, an increase of 11,- 000 over the preceding year. This habit may he largely over come by giving to the envelope a farewell glance before dropping it in the letter box und not mailing it with the flap up. Mail your matter with the right side of the envelope up. Then its white, untouched, un stamped surface will call you down silently and make you more care ful.—Washington Star. A Genial Encounter. The czar’s last visit to France has filled the French papers with remi niscences of bis former stay. One day be drove incognito to the house of Loubct, then president of the senate, and while his companion went in to announce the visit he amused himself by putting his head out of the window and looking at the people who passed. A whistling street boy approached and recognized him in spite of the plainness of bis equipage. He stop ped, took off his cap and said cheer fully: “Good day, sir. How is the empress ?” The czar was naturally surprised, but he replied, with a smile: “Thanks, young man. The em press is quite well and has enjoyed the trip very much.” The boy seemed glad to hear it, nodded and went whistling away. The czar said in telling the story that he, thus cordially accosted, was the only one of the two to be embar rassed. The Rise of De Bloch. The death of M. Jean de Bloch, the author, of “The War of the Fu ture,” a great work which has had a profound influence on public opin ion in Europe, removes a man of su perior intellect. He was a Polish Jew and began life at Warsaw as a peddler and taught himself to read and write. It is interesting to note that his start in life came from drawing a ten thousand dollar prize in a local lottery. He used this money to procure a sound educa tion, going to Berlin, where he en gaged a Frenchman and an English man as tutors. He returned to War saw a cultivated man and obtained a position in a bank. Soon he mar ried a great heiress and rose rapidly in society, being ennobled an/1 financial adviser of the czar and of the monarch’s minister of finance, M. de Witte. His Malden Bpeech. “The papers,” says the Kansas City Journal, “are all talking about the 'maiden’ speech just made by Charley Scott in congress. Asa matter of fact the maiden speech of Charley Scott wps made nine years ago last June. It was in a parlor at lola, and he got up awkwardly from a chair, pulling a tidy and half the books on the parlor table to the floor, after which he got down on one knee before a sofa which stood between the whatnot and the piano and asked Miss May Bevard Ewing if she would have him. And the cordiality with which his perora tion was received on that occasion makes even the flattering reception which was accorded his effort in congress the other day appear like a frost.” Historical Novels. One of the female historical novel makers describes her hero as “stand ing like a piece of marble with his thumb on the trigger of his trusted pistol.” Few people of experience trust pistols, and those who press the trigger with their thumbs are usually employed in the museums as trick artists. But, then, you can find almost anything in the histor ical novels since the women have started to writing them.—Washing ton Post. ' Odd Advertisements. The placard in a Buffalo clothing store window, “Pants, 99 cents a leg; seats free,” has been outdone by one in a tailor shop window of East London, which reads: “Dandy kicksies, with wroughty buttons and an artful takement down the sides. Cut saucy over the trotters. Half a monarch.” A LITTLE NONSENSE. A Parent’s Strong Exception to a Les son in Physiology. The disadvantages the social worker has to overcome in diffusing scientific knowledge among the less enlightened are well illustrated by an incident which recently happen ed in one of the east side settle ments. After much difficulty and considerable explanation a class in physiology had been started. The parents of the children who attend ed the settlement classes regarded the new class with considerable sus picion and doubt. But for some time, by skillful avoidance of dan gerous ground, the class work was carried on successfully. At last the functions of the stomach were con sidered. The day after the first lesson on the stomach one of the little girls brought a letter to the teacher. This letter, which bore the marks of labored and strenuous composi tion, was as follows: Dear Teacher—Pleas don't tench I.lzer eny more about the stuflins of her stum ick. It ain’t necessary, besides Us rude. —New \~ork Tribune. How Uncle Stopped. “Skate backward, boys ? Of courso I can. It’s easy. You take two or three vigorous strokes like this— “And there you are!” “But how do you stop yourself, Uncle Joe?” “Oh, I’ll show you, hoys. It’s a very simple matter indeed to— —“stop!” Crash! Ready to Gloat. “I suppose,” said the man who is always looking for trouble, “that you realize that this earth may one day collide with some other body in spaco and be consumed.” “Well,” answered the friend, who can be as pessimistic as anybody if he tries, “it’ll be a heap of satisfac tion when all that heat is being dis tributed free to think of how wo have done up the coal barons.”— Washington Star. Explained Satisfactorily. “It seems to me,” said the young housewife, “there’s entirely too much water in the milk you serve.” “It won’t occur again, ma’am,” said the foxy milkman. “You see, the farmer’s man has been giving the cows too much salt, and it made ’em very thirsty. The farmer’s got anew man now.” Philadelphia Press. A Smasher. “Did you hear that Cholly’s auto mobile had broken the record?” ask ed Mr. Perkins. “No, but I’m not surprised,” re plied Mrs. Perkins. “I suppose he lost control of it. VV hat else did it break?” —Detroit Free Press. Found the Reason. Newsboy—-Pape, papry, sir? All de news. Editor (in a rush) —Go ’way, boy —I make those things. Nfewsboy—Gee! If dat’s right, no wonder we can’t sell ’em.—St. Louis Globe-Democrat. Mental Exercise. Berenice —What is the nature of this brain work Cholly has under taken ? Hortense—He has made his valet take a back seat, and he thinks for himself what suit he will wear each day.—Smart Set. ALL OVER THE HOUSE, 4 How to Arrange and Care For a Fertl Dish. Any one of the low, oblong, oval! or circular dishes found in profu-r sion at the Japanese shops or coun ters makes a pretty fern dish. Four or five of the small growing ferns or foliage plants that can be had afc many florists’ for 5 cents apiece will group together prettily to fill thetj dish. The packing needs no special skill. Each little plant is slipped? from its pot, its mold of earth loos ened and fitted in with its fellows in the dish. If a glass bell, such as used to cover wax flowers, chances to be still around the house, the fern: will thrive and keep green longer by, being covered with it, care being taken that sufficient moisture is pro vided. In city homes gas and fur nace heat seem to be fatal to most plants, few surviving a long dose of them. —New York Post. To Embellish a Mantelpiece. The question often arises how tdi embellish a mantelpiece which cad lay claim to no artistic merit or, how to conceal the defects of an ab solutely ugly one. A novel method! of overcoming the difficulty had been devised by an English woman! and is exemplified in her attractive little studio. A light wooden casing is made ex actly to cover the sides of the man telpiece, and over this is stretched! an embroidery harmonizing in de sign and color with the character of the room. A border of similar em-. broidery edges the mantelshelf. Art serge, Roman satin or lined may be requisitioned for the pur pose. In this studio the second of these materials is used in a soft shade of dull green worked with a conventional design of Tudor roses in subdued pink, the stems and foli age being lightly traced in gold! thread. The straight border to the mantelshelf carries out the same de sign. Water Lilies For the Amateur. The cultivation of water lilies in tubs is very simple. A wooden tank similar to those used in cisterns, only much shallower, is an ideal re ceptacle for them if six or eight feet wide. An oil barrel sawed in half makes two good tubs for the smaller sorts. If such a barrel is used, burn it out well before putting any plants in it, to prevent possible injury from the oil which has pene trated the wood. Fill the tub two thirds full of good garden soil or mucky matter obtained from ponds. Plant the roots of your lilies in it, covering them to the depth of about two inches. Then fill the tub with water. It should be placed in a warm and sunny location. The ap pearance of a tub made from a bar rel can be greatly improved by giv ing it a coat of paint of some neu tral color. I would advise sinking all tubs in the ground, however, if it can be done, as the effect will be much better. —Home and Flowers. Cooking Prune*. Miss Parloa is the authority for reversing the long cherished tradi tion of most housekeepers that prunes should be soaked several hours or even over night to prepare them acceptably for cooking. In stead this well known expert teaches that the fruit should be washed carefully in tepid water and allowed to stand in it two or three minutes to swell. Wash in a second water and put on at once in a saucepan with one and a half cupfuls of cold water to one cupful of prunes. Sim mer slowly for two hours and a half. No sugar is needed, as cooked in this way the natural sweetness of the fruit is brought out. Other dried fruits need soaking. Pretty Bedsteads. Some new bedsteads have instead of the usual solid head and foot boards a light open framework, which it is intended should be drap ed with material to correspond with; the hangings of the room, an idea, it may be added, that is not especial ly commendable. It adds to this ex tent to the furnishings of the room that will gather dust and need re newal. Better an enamel finish or brass head and foot board or one of solid wood with little ornamenta tion to catch dust. If a draft is to be kept off, one of the light Italianl silk blankets hung at any time over the foot board of a brass or enamel bed performs the office serviceably. ( I Household Hints. Persons whose hands easily be come chapped should thoroughly) rinse the hands with fresh water after they have been washed with! soap, being careful to wipe them perfectly dry. Table salt applied with a wet' cloth will remove egg stains from silver. To save wear and to insure that it dries in shape hang table and 1 bed linen across the line to dry with the ends down. The warp threads, which are the stronger, will thus take the strain. 11