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A WET YEAR IN SOUTH GEORGIA.
The rninfoll in Southwest Geor
gia in lfX)7 wan greater than in
nnv year us the lasi quarter of n
cent ury, if official ami semi-ofli
cial record'* at Albany are to •>«
relied ii|kmi Then* was but one
dry month in the year, the total
precipitation in October being the
banner month, with a total of 11.
f>4 inches.
The total for the year wnsfl! ft7
inches, an average of 5,880 i»eh< *>
per month, or but slightly le»s
than one-fifth of an inch per Ha v.
Tho ruin-full for the year by
month* was a a follows, us shown
by the official record of the I'nited
Mates Weather Bureau at Albany
January, 2.51: May, 8. 15: .line .
ft d<»; .Inly, b.lMi; August, II.til;
September, 0.12: Ocpiliur, <t If*:
November. l.iMi; December, 7JHH.
Kir the three months of .Inly.
August and September the total
preciptation was 20lUi; inches, a
record unprecedented in this sce
t ion.
The mean annual ruin-fall in
tins section is 50 inehe.*, hut thl ->
average Wits exceeded during the
year just closed by more 11 in 11 II
inches.
IN MEMORIAM.
Noble and big-hcurted A .1.
I’oulnot, the beloved and almost
idolized husband of Mattie tiray
I'ollluol, fell oil sb-ep oil 1 ><-<*!• 11l -
her t?7tli, 1007.
Mr. I'oulnol was*horn in Oco
nee county on May 11, lt*>o, and
moved to Montgomery county in
Imo2, and on February 25th, Mod.
was happily married to Miss Mat
tie Gray. He leaves a heart-brok
en w ile, a sweet find charming lit
tle son, Douglass Gray, an aged
mother, eighty years old, and one
brother to mourn Ins untimely
dent h.
For the last throe years lie has
been a citizen of ('iiimb n county,
where he was very successful in a
financial way. He was in the
prime of young manhood and it
seems sad Hub ed to sec such it no
ble, pure, manly and st mug young
man stricken down at such an
early age. He was such a comfort
and help to his wife and child,
who vied with each other in show
ing him t heir love and attention
on all occasions! He was a model
and loving husband uud father, a
good oitizon. a loyal companion
and a man respected and honored
wherever he was known. Why
should such a man he called
hence*.’ (bid called him. lb
needed him in Ins divine plan.
Some day we w ill understand. le t
us not complain, but remember
that our t bid is too wtse to make a
mistake and too good to be un
kind.
His greatest concern prior to his
death was about Ins wife and child,
lie knew he had to leave them. It
was indeed a sad partittg on earth,
bet us all live so t hat “Some sweet
day," we will all meet in that
“Land of bliss beyond such a
world as tins, where there will in
n i more partings, no more deaths,
no more henrt-aches, Imt all is
peace and love and sweet content
ment”—
Where the angola shout and sing.
And where Jesus reigns, our king.
A.-I. I’oulnot lived for those who
h«yed him.
For those who loved him true.
For tile heavens that shone alsive
him
And waited It incoming too; —
For the rights that needed as*i-l
nuoe,
For the wrongs that needed re*
8 1st a tree.
For the future m the d ist a nee.
For the good that he could do!
Friknu Wm. H.
American Foiut*.
1 have just received a carload
of the Fatuous American Wire
Fence that I shall a**ll at very close
cash prices. This car will no* last
but u few days. If you need f• • 11 -
ciug. iiom is the time to get it.
A. B. Hutcheson.
KEEP YOUR JOB,
“Keep your job and your job
w ill ke< p you,” said Franklin 150
years ago, in Philadelphia.
This was never more true than
today. Any man who leaves n
j joh now w ill find it hard to get
an thei. In New York 150,000
men are out of iniployinent. This
jis in Progress all over the land.
The output iii all manufactures
hlls b< ell cut down about llil<-
third, and the total amount paid
to operat iv<*s has been cut down
in proportion. The rule PI wages
has not been cut. but either hours
liase I cut from ten -to eight
or six and lie total of wages cut
in [import ion or | In* out put of
loom or machine i* reduced or the
number of men at work is cut a
I bird.
All extra men are being drop
ped. 1 In* “last man, the slack
man and the uneasy man arc ail
bejng In id aside.
There were more jobs than men
a year ago. There were as many
jobs as men Inst Juim*. There
were le-H jobs tliilli III* ‘I, this I>e
eeinber. Kill'll week sees I ess* jo bn.
It vou have a job, keep it and
it w ill keep you. Drop it and you
will in t get. another.—Kx.
WHEN THEY BECOME RESIGNEO.
A young lady living in Atlanta
visited tin* home of her fiance in
New Orleans, says tin* Philadel
pli ni hedger. On her return home
an old negro “mummy,” long in
the service of the family and con
sequently privileged to put the
quest ion, asked :
“Honey, when is you goin’togit
ma rried?”
The engagement not having been
announced, the Atlanta girl
smilingly replied :
“Indeed, can’t say, it untie'*’ per
haps I shall never marry.”
l’(ie old woman’s jaw fell.
“Ain’t data pitv, now!” sin*
said.mid after reflection she added,
consolingly: “Deydo sav dat ole
maids in do happiest critters doy
is, once dey quit strugglin’.”
Sp.der* Sst a Styla In Lac* Making.
Some 200 years ago missionaries
taught the natives of Paraguay to
make lace by hand. The art lias
been handed down from generation
to generation, and in some of the
towns hue making is the chief oc
cupation. Almost all the women
and children and many of tho men
are engaged in it. A singular fact
about Paraguayan laces is that the
designs arc borrowed from the curi
ous webs -pun bv the semitropical
spiders that abound in that coun
trv. For this reason the lace is
called In the natives nunduti, an
Indian word that means spider web.
St. Louis Republic.
Th# Rifled Gun.
The gnat advantage tgained by
the rilled gun is that.the bullet dis
charged from it, by having a rotato
ry action imparted to its axis coin
cident with its line of (light, is pre
served in it- direct path without be
ing subject to tin* aberrations that
injure the precision of aim in firing
with the smooth bore gun. \- a
necessary coii-oquence of the pro
jectile being carried more directly
in its line of aim, it' length of
range as well as its certain! v in hit
ting the mark i- inatcriallv in
creased. The first rifled gjn was
made by Augustin Kostcr of Nu
remberg in 1520.
Th* Sponge.
It has been proved lieyoud doubt
that the sponge i- an animal with a
complete digestive organism. As a
matter of fact, the sponge as pre
pared for toilet and other uses is
but the drv, flexible skeleton of the
creature, t'hcmically its fibrous ma
terial would appear to be closely al
lied to the substance spun by tho
silkworm. When first removed from
its stronghold on the bottom of the
sea and observed in a liviug state
the sponge bears not tho faintest
ißVssible resemblance to the domes
tic article. Wide World Magazine.
MI LES FOR SALE.
SWE USTS ONE WEEK LONGER.
W • have Forty-Five Head of
Good Mules, suitable for Farm
and timer purposes, to l>e sold at
a sacrifice. Set* tin* stock at the
Ocbwalkee Mill at once, as sale
will continue only a week longer.
Cash or approved notes, with con
venient terms.
Hilton A* l>on»;K l.rsi. Co., j
Ocbwalkee, Ga. i
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WASPS AS PAPER MAKERS.
Wonder* of a Neit—Havoc Wrought
by the Intecte.
It i.? the !.i-t loving act of the
common wasps in every colony to
elect a certain number of their lady
fellows and go through the* proves *
of “fowling them up,” for a wasp
queen I'iirn tljat title simply by rea
son‘of Iter'size and not becatise of
.iii’. Haim to aristocratic descent.
TljD jfncdijig'-fii-t' 4 the queen wasp
ill the winter through,during which
ii hi in nate in some* warm
•nniej ii it. of .* he way of frost and
now. *av : .« the Fall Mail Gazette.
\ bo.Vif'• Mari'li they' come forth
•in • more and proceed to look about
for a nesting place. Having chosen
h site for "this—generally in a hol
ies tree or,.hi some sheltered and
sunny corner among dry rubbish—
flu* qifecrt forms a cocoon of “wasp
i.'iper," when• iri she constructs
about a dozen cells arid lavs an egg
ii each. In due time the eggs be
come gridi*-, and these are fed a*-
-iduo. -Iv by the queen mother until
tliev completely till the cell. The
latter i- then scaled up. and in a few
days each grub, which meanwhile
ha- developed wings and legs and
• hanged from white to yellow and
black, emerges us a full grown wasp.
The real work of nest building
now begin.-, and the whole party go
tiff together in search of a comm
ent hole in the ground for the per
manent headquarters. This at least
is what the coYniuon wasp does.
'l’llere are several varieties in Great
Britain. and some of them build on
the brunch of a tree or in the grass
of a bank. The little family works
very hard to manufacture the ma
terial of which the nest is made—a
wonderful substance of the texture
of paper pulped up from (he hark
of trees in the wasps’mouths. The
wasp was- making paper from wood
pulp for centuries before man
thought of it. This nest proper
contains a large amount of comb,
and in each cell the queen lays an
egg.
Things- now proceed apace, flu*
feeding of the grubs and sealing
them up in tlicir cells going on as
before, hut the queen is now assist
ed in her labors by her dozen or s<>
original subjects, and the others join
in the work as they hatch out. As
the summer advances the nest gets
stronger in numbers until the very
end of the season, and even then
some of tlie grubs never sec the
light. A wasps’ nest may contain
as many as 10,000 wasps, but an
average nest Would be about half
that number.
Wasps are such hardworking lit
tle creatures that it seems a sin to
destroy their wonderful labor; for
the ucst is a triumph of architec
tural skill. At the same time they
commit sttclt havoc in orchards and
are si) troublesome everywhere
where food or drink is to he found
that every man’s hand is against
them. They seldom sting unless
molested or touched by accident.
A certain amount of good is done
by wasps in killing noxious insects,
especially house flies, but this one
good act is quite overbalanced by
tlicir maiiv deeds of evil. All sorts
of methods are adopted, therefore,
to destroy them at nighttime in
then n*'sts, but the very best plan
of all is to procure some cyanide of
potassium, a deadly poison, from a
chemist and place a teaspoonful
within (lie hole that leads to the
nest, afterward sealing the entrance
with a sod of turf. Next morning
every wasp will he dead, and the
nest may he dug out and destroyed,
brood, i onib and all.
No Precedent.
"Otic of tiic queer characters of
Independence some years ago.” said
an old resident of that town the
other day, “was ah o'd fellow whose
most treasured possession was a
>i\ pounder cannon. On all festive
occasions he hauled this forth to
the town square and celebrated
noisily as long as the powder last
ed. One Fourth of July be was feel
ing unusually patriotic and cram
med the ancient piece of ordnance
with such a heavy clrttrge that it
burst. The old fellow was for a
time overwhelmed by this disaster
and sat down with his elbows on his
knees and bis chin in his hands and
•tared gloomily at the fragments.
Alter aw hile he shook h.s head as if
the matter were beyond bis compre
hension and muttered:
“Well, it’s denied funm ! The
thing never did that before!”—
Kansas l tty Times.
National Aire.
The national airs of great coun
tries are short, while those of small
er ones are long. “God Save the
King" is fourteen bar-: the Russian
national hymn i< sixteen bars.
“ITail.VoJumbia!" has twenty-eight
l»ars. Siam's national hymn ha
seventy-eight bar-, that of Frnguav
seventy, and Glide's national hymn
bos forty-six. San Marino has the
longest national hymn except Chi
na’s. which is so long that people
take half a day oIT to listen to it. —
Boston Transcript.
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