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X’jsjtiv: A splendid assortment of newest and tastiest type , . • ‘ w#ij TESTNG FIRE CLAY. The Moat Praotioal Method te to Lit* orally Eat It. Fire clay haB been In use for cen turies, and yet 1 believe the industry la one which lacks definite laws more than any other, including those which are either modern or ancient and of less prominence. You can go to a manufacturer of steel and specify what you want by uctual figures or statements and you can check the prod uct by chemical analysis or tnechunlcal tests and thus make sure yop get what you need. The producer knows how to combine certain elements and what quantities of various kinds to combine In order to get a result at least very closely approaching what you call for, but not so In the fire cluy business. In the past the most skilled and highest salaried chemists have been employed to make tests, to promote and carry through Investigations on the natural product and to study the workings of certain manufactured and elaborated articles derived therefrom. The result has been, generally speaking, confusion worse confounded. Two professor?, working at similar times on brick or clay obtained from the same source and manufactured under exactly equal conditions, have recorded diametrically opposed conclusions! The same scien tists at different periods have reached vastly varying conclusions when test ing Identical qualities and shapes of bricks, bo can you wonder If a promi nent fire clay manufacturer should ex- claim, as 1 heard one on an occasion after having the above experience. m a11 tests of fire clay ure empirical, and I would sooner trust our superintend ent to pick and select Ills clays In the old fashioned way than pay a high fee for a highbrow's recommendations?" The chief method of testing fire clay by a practical man is literally to eat It. He can detect grit and sand best by that method, and a good fire clay (free from silica, quartzite or flint clay) Is free from grit. His only other personal test Is by experiment.—En gineering Magazine. HUNTING THE WALRUS. The Eskimo Takas Advantage of tha Animal’s Curiosity. In his frail sklnboat it Is a difficult and dangerous task for the Eskimo to go out to sea forty to ylxty miles and Intercept the walrus as he passes on hlB migration Into the Arctic. One carcass will fill his boat, for it weighs from 1,000 to 3,000 pounds. He hunts the walrus when they are lying asleep on the Ice floes In herds from ten to several hundred. Death must bo Instantaneous, else with a few rolls or the peculiar lumbering, hump ing movement (seen of the seal when ashore), he makes the few feet to the water and then Is lost, ns he has not sufficient blubber and air to float He has much natural curiosity, aud If not scared by shpts will come up close to your boat or the Ice floe on which you are slttlug, spurting, snorting and roll ing his eyes; with his gleaming tusks and bristled snout he hus_an uncanny, goblin, monster-like appearance. A herd of fifty or sixty of them will come up en masse, rulse high out of the water to stare at you, then snort, spurt and disappear again, only to come up on the snme spot and repent the maneuver Indefinitely. Taking advantage of this the Eskimos hide be hind Ice hummocks and throw a har poon Into one, then snub the tough rawhide line around an Ice cake. He must perforce come up to blow, and he Is then killed with the rifle. The thick skin and the mass of blubber and meat beneath render him almost invulner able.—Pacific Monthly. W. T. Cairo, ■JSt ■asajpjs5 A CHINESE BANQUET. Culinary Mysteries That Bewildered an Englishwoman. One moment we were eating ducks* eggs whose blackened, lime ■ flavored whites Indicated that their age was unimpeachable; the next we were grap pling with sea weeds, mucaronl and the slippery sharks* fins that eluded our clumsily manipulated sticks. Now wo tackled—not without fear—un known meats aud vegetables cooked In sugar, fresh shrimps, mushrooms from Mongolia, young bumboo sprouts, pi geons' eggs and a hundred different foreign tasting messes. - Then clean plates were given to us, and bowls of sickly pink sirup, sweet potato and Indian corn cakes of dusky hue were set before each one. These were only crevice fillers and concluded the first and lighter portion of the repast. Now came the real substantial meal, where in every dish had an accompaulment of smaller ones, containing gravies, etc.; In , which to dip the morsel taken from the central bowl. There was stewed duck cooked with out salt, roast sucking pig, forcemeat balls and chicken; there were soups of birds' nest, of mushroom, of vegetables and of sea slugs. There was'grilled fresh water fish? which, according to custom, was helped from the top side only, for the Chinese remembers his servant. And, finally, at the conclu sion the Inevitable small bowl of rice and rice water was set before each person. After some three hours, with a feel ,g of thankfulness that all was over, pes, cigarettes and ten were served, nd it seemed to me that the delicious aroma which rose from the latter soothed our senses and almost dis pelled the antipathy that had been growing on us for all things Chinese.— Mary Moore In London Express. Tho K'md Needed. ••Dear me,” snld the first young wo man, taking her initial lesson In golf, “what shall 1 do now? This ball is In a holef’ “Well, let me see,” said her compan Ion, rapidly turning the leaves of book of Instructions. “I presume you will have to take a stick of the right shape to. get it out.” “Oh, yes; of course,” was the some what cynical reply. “Well, see If you can find one shaped like a dustpan and brush.”—New York Tribune. Kissing In Iceland. Among old time laws against kissing those of Iceland appear to have been thd-most severe. Banishment was the penalty laid down for kissing another man’s wife, either with or without het consent The Bnme punishment was enforced for kissing an unmarried wo man against her will; If It could be proved that she had consented to be kissed the offender was still liable to a fine of a great quantity a* clotb for each offense. My Breeding Stock is the Best. have for sale now some choice cockerels and pul lets about 5 months old. Eggs in Season. MAKE THEM LAUGH. A Bachelor’s Idea of the Way Chltdran Should Be Trained. •The people who don't have to do things can always do them better than the people who are obliged to do them,” said the cynical bachelor. "If you want to know how to Invest money, ask a fellow who has never had any to Invest. 1 suppose It’s the Bame with raising children. Neverthe less, I am fond of children, and never having had an opportunity of raising any of my own, I am critical about the way other people, more fortunate than raise theirs. “My brother has a youngster, a boy about six years old, and everything that kid wants he cries for. The min ute he begins to cry he gets It, which according to my reasoning, Is all wrong. ’Why not moke him laugh for It? It’s just ns easy for a child to laugh as to cry, and It’s far more healthful, be sides being much more cheerful for ihfi;9urrpundlDg .populace. . , “I've tried the experiment with film. CRAWFORD, - - - - Georgia. Breeder of Mammoth Light Brahmas and White Wyandottes. 0(111=11111^ 5 We’d m- r ■ styles and highest grade papers have just heen in stalled in our Job Department. and It works like a charm. If 1 hap ppn to hnve anything he wants, and he cries for It, I 'make fun of him. 'That Isn’t the way to get it,’ I say. 'Don' cry for It. Laugh for It.’ “It took only about two lessons for him to understand this, and you. have no Idea what a wonderful difference It has made in the disposition of that kid. Still, I’m only an old bachelor, and I’m not supposed to know anything about, uitrh thtnirs.”—Phllndolnhln IjMtgpr. Took an .Unfair Advantage. Mrs. Dorkins — Yesterday I called] Mrs. Grundage’s attention to the feci that she had left the gate between oui back yards open and that her chickem bad come through and scratched up our flower beds, and she looked as If she would have liked to bite my head 1 off. How foolish it Is for people to' get angry when you remind them that they have heen careless about some thing they had no business to over look! Mr. Dorkins—I am glad to bear you say that. Maria. You won’t mind if I mention that when 1 came home iuSt night I found that you’d left both the back doors Unlocked. Mrs. Dorkins — Yes; you’re always watching to see If you can’t catch me In some little fault, aud it makes you perfectly happy when you do!—New York Tribune. inting costs but little more than irk, and is much more satisfactory Let us figure with you on anything in the PRINT ING line. We’ll do our level best to please you. m The Start of an Author. Soon after “Treasure Island” hag-ap- pearod and attracted public attention to Robert Louis Stevenson, two gen tlemen were traveling up to London from Norfolk. One of them was read ing “Treasure Island." Presently, pav ing finished the book, he dropped It Into his traveling bag, remarking: “Well, I f think I could myself write a better child's story than that." The other, who, by the way, was his broth er. urged him to try. Six weeks aft erward the former handed to the lat ter a complete tale in manuscript. It was “King Solomon’s Mines.” the first novel that made a reputation for Mr. Rider Haggard. Mm* ■r poor PHONE 141. CAIRO, GA. NHWMMWMKm MMI&iMMMMMti*. We Fit Your Eyes /'SIN By mail and guarantee satisfaction Letters of highest praisd. We also want; ;Jive agents to handle our ■ivpT/ut Crystal Lense,s. Drug stores pa-efiirred. AW furnish 'ad vertising matter. Exclusive terri- ‘Voyy to Hustlers. Write for infor mation about our popular money- making assortment. CRYSTAL OPTICAL -CO. 213 Temple Court. ATLANTA, - - GEORGIA. Wife—WUtafa^earTttint hand some men or® proverbially disagree* able? Husband-Well. 1 don’t know. 1 always try to be plwwhul. The Phrenological Test. A distinguished phrenologist while dining at a hotel stated at the table that he had formed an opinion of the character of each one present. An Irishman sold that he would propound a question and that If It was truthful ly answered he would forever believe In phrenology. The phrenologist said he was satisfied and told him to pro ceed. "Thin," said the Irishman, “will ye* be nftber tellln’ me am I married or single?"-London Tolncronl* Bring your Job Print- MM ■ * ing to The Progress office. We have the best equipped plant in this section. To give the People of Grady County a Modem County Paper. ,DO M THE PROGRESS, Cairo, Ga. L