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Mow H W«uM Affect Man’s Weight on
j the Csioetiai Bodies.
If the planet Mars be really Inhab
ited the people who live there must be
>an exceedingly agile race. The av
erage weight of a man la about 140
pounds, but the forco of gravity on
Mars Is so much less than on the
•earth that the 140 pound man would
,,weigh only fifty-three pounds If be
were transported thither. With Buch
light weight, and still retaining the
•same strength, an Individual would
ibe able to run with the speed of an
•express train, go skipping over ten
foot walls and do various other ex
traordinary things. On the moon a
man would be even lighter.
But on the sun our 140 pounder
Would have his troubles. Instead of
ibeing an niry Individual he would
weigh In the neighborhood of a ton
■and three-quarters. He would prob
ably .have the greatest difficulty In
raising his hand, for that member
would weigh about 300 pounds, •
According to scientific computation,
a man who on earth weighs 140
pounds would on the other celestial
bodies weigh as follows:
The moon. 23 pounds; Mars, 53
pounds; Venus, 114 pounds; Mercury,
119 pounds; Neptune, 123 pounds;
Uranus, 127 pounds; Saturn, 165
pounds; Jupiter, 371 pounds, and the
■sun, 3,871 pounds.—Chicago Tribune.
A SAD STORY.
The
With
Misfortune That Came
Terrible Tumble.
Fowling Is now very little practiced
In the Shetland Islands, although mar-
eggs are Secured annually. Many
thrilling stories of fowling adventure
are told by the Shetlanders. A man
who had undertaken to climb n. certain
steep cliff was neither very experi
enced nor very brnve, although he
boasted .of being both. He pushed up.
ward, however, briskly without look
ing behind untll 'he bad got up about
150 feet, when be stopped to breathe.
The pause was fatal to his self posses
sion, and he called out In tones of ter
ror, “Men, men, I am going—X am go
ing.” But he still held on for a little,
and It was not till he had shrieked
many times “X am going” that he did
fall headlong.
His comrades, having thus been
warned, moved th^boat out of the way
so that the poor rellow came sheer
•down into the deep water. Mighty
was the plunge, but at length he rose
to thB surface, when of course he was
instantly caught hold of and dragged
into the boat After many gasps and
much spluttering of sea water from his
mouth his only remark was: “Eh,
men, this Is a sad story. 1 have, lost
my snuffbox.”—“Sketches and Tales
of Shetland.”
The Last Ditch.
When William, prince of Orange,
afterward William III. of England,
was elected stadtholder of the United
Netherlands In 1672 and found himself
In the midst of war with England and
France he was asked by the Duke of
Buckingham whether he did not see
ruin impending over his country..
“Nay,” he answered. “There Is one
certain means by which I can be sure
enough' to see my country’s ruin,
will die In the last ditch." And, reject
ing all terms of peace, he checked the
invasion of France by opening sluices
and flooding every tract of land, drove
them from Holland In 1674 and made
honorable terms with England and
finally after varying effort brought the
war to a successful close by a treaty
with France in 1678.
Taken at His Word.
The doctor was telling how he came
to lose one of his best paying
patients. The man was a hypochon
driac, who was always Imagining that
something terrible was about to hap
pen to him, and the doctor, who was
a great jollier, was kept busy trying
to reason him out of his morbid con
dition.
“You have worried yourself until
you are bordering on a nervous col
lapse.” said the doctor to him one day.
“You shouldn’t think about your symp
toms all the time, but Just attend to
your affairs as if there was nothing
the matter with you.”
“All right, doctor," replied the pa
tient "I’ll 1 do as you say. You needn’t
come to see me any more.”—New York
Times,
Wc Can Sell You Property in the Banner County o( the State and Lend You Hall ol the Purchase Price at) a Low Rate of Interest.
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>3. WIGHT, VlOB-ntBIOUNT, \ R. O. BULL, CCtNBRAl. OOUNCtt.,
SOUH GEORGIA LAND AND LOAN COMPANY.
CAPITAL, $10,000.00. r| . : i ,
City, Farm and Timbered Reed Estate, 5 Years,
6 Per Cent. Farms and Loans Negotiated.
Cairo, Grady County Georgia.
WE WANT TO BUY
Your r far
Grady County, the most
inviting agricultural section of
southwest Georgia. For
Corn, Cotton and other sta
ple products it stands unsur-
The Culture of Tobacco
which has proven highly suc
cessful is one of its richest
sources? of revenue; $300.00
to $800.00 is the average
profit per acre.
Georgia Cane Syrup’s na
tive home is Cairo, the coun
ty site, the second largest syr
up market of America; this
product yields farmers an
abundant income.
Do you contemplate buying or selling any property
in Grady county? If so, we want you to come to see us.
Invest your money in the properties that we are of
fering for sale; besides the excellent rent values af
forded by them the enhancement of value will prove
to be marvelous. The best proof of this fact that we
have to offer is the record of the past.
Remember that if you haven’t tne full purchase price
we are prepared to help you.
We are in the market at all times for good property
in this county, and especially farms ranging in size
from 50 to 500 acres. Don’t sell until you see us. We
are buyers as well as sellers.
Cairo, the county seat of
Crady County, is a hustling,
thriving little city of 2,000
E ple. Owns its electric
ts and water system.
Has two banks, about 40
stores and many other pros
perous enterprises.
The Pecan industry, though
yet in its infancy, is bringing
| investors here annually. Our
lands are acknowledged to
grow the finest quality of Pe-
Grady County lands are
all well drained, no marshes,
ponds or other sources of ma-
laria. They possess the fer
tility without the unhealthful-
ness some times attributed to
this section of the State. Her
citizenship is of the highest
and most progressive type.
I. R. Boyett’s place, near Calvary, contains 225 acres, well
improved farm land, 100 acres cleared. Price $2,750.
Geo. Cook farm, 6 miles ol Cairo, 3 miles oi Pine Park; 87 1-2
acres, nicely improved, high state ol cultivation, 26 acres
cleared, 15 acres good pasture land. A bargain at $1,500.
j. T. Cone’s place, 6 miles south ol Cairo, 60 acres cleared,
100 acres good timber, well improved; look It over. We will
sell for $3,000.
200 acres known as the Parnell placg 3 1-2 miles ol Ochloch-
nee. Price $3,000. , „ ,
The Mose Maxwell place, 5 miles southeast of Cairo, 500
acres’well improved, 150 acres cleared, good timber, and line
pasture. An ideal stock farm. 6,500. ■ ■ „
The John D. Thompson place,better known as the W. G. Lewis
plantation, 5 miles south of town 450 acres, well Improved,
lots ol advantages not found in the average farm. Gin, syrup
works, etc., well worth half the price of the land; in high
state ol cultivation and It’s a bargain at the price of $10,000.
Go see lor yourself and affirm our opinion. ...
' John Wades place, near Ochlochnee, Thomasville and Cairo,
366 acres, 125 cleared, well improven, good state of cultiva
tion; worth $5,000, but will sell It lor $12 an acre In order to re
invest in small farm. . _ . „
The Whit Gainus place, six miles north of Cairo, 277 acres,
100 acres cleared, 175 fine yellow pine timber. 5 goofl tenant
houses besides the main buildings, etc. Also the Odus Gainus
place of 62 1-2 acres adjoining it directly north. This land Is
in high stale of cultivation and desirably located. Go see It,
we will sell all or most any part of the place you want at a
price that will please you.
Sixty acres within two miles of town, 15 cleared, well Im
proved, new houses, etc. Forty-live acres good timber and a
bargain at $1,200.
Has doubled its size in the
past three years; and is stead
ily growing.
Ships annually 7 to 10
thousand bales of cotton, 15
to 20 thousand barrels of the
famous Georgia Cane Svrup,
several hundred cars of mel
ons and many thousand dol
lars worth of meat.
Its educational, religious
and social advantages com
pare with those of any town
its size.
Its advantages should be
investigated by those wishing
to locate or invest in a live,
progressive South Georgia
town. 1
We will be pleased to
communinate with those in
terested.
City Property We Have to Offer.
Tl-.e two places on north side of town owned by L. G.
Merritt. We will make yon a price on this property so
low that you will find it a paying investment.
The place now occupied by R. L. Forester on Walker
street. Nice house and a half acre lot, close in. A bar
gain at $1,800.
South Georgia Land and Loan Company,
W. T. CRAWFORD, Gen’l Manager.
OFFICE IN COURT HOUSE.
CAIRO, GA.
THE STEEPLE JACK.
w And He Wasn’t,
r "Victoria,” said her husband, you
will not mind it, I presume, If 1 should
happen to be detained downtown lato
this evening?”
“1 shall not mind It,” austerely an
swered Mrs. Vlck-Senn, “because you
will not be detained downtown late
this evening or ; any pther evening."—
'Chicago Tribune. ...
A Bold Jollies-.
Mrs. Hashlelgh—Yes, we’ve been hav*
ng considerable trouble with our milk
ately. Do you take your coffee with
>r without?
New Boarder—I take It within.—Bos
ton TranscrloL —— 1
He Must Conquer Many Difficulties In
His Dangerous Work.
The successful steeple Jack must
possess determination, perseverancy
and Ingenuity. He must solve many
a practical problem in hoisting great
bodies aloft He must know how to
fasten a hook over the summit of a
skyscraping chimney. He must have
the nerve to paint a steeple that sways
like a pendulum ut the.slender top. He
must be able to tear down, build up.
gild, paint, place electric wires and do
many another task that would be
difficult enough on the solid earth.
There are many ways of getting up
on a steeple, and when all others fall
the man will tie a rope around It and
then, with a coil on his back, walk
round and round it until the entire
steeple Is covered with rope, and In
such case he has probably been round
it fully 800 times.
But a steeple Is not the most diffi
cult height to climb. Straight, tall
chimneys are the hardest of all. There
a man has to work with might and
main to lift himself 1 Inch by Inch from
the ground to the top. Sometimes the
top Is 300 feet high. When it is reach
ed a hook Is placed over the edge, a
pulley Is made fast, the swinging chair
Jp hauled up and work begins.
When the, chair Is near the top it Is
easier to work, because the ropes are
Bhort, but when they lengthen as the
ground, is approached there Is a ten
dency to owing, and the wind gives
Impetus.
The steeple jack’s safety depends
upon the hook, and until he has raised
himself almost to the top It Is Impos
sible for him to see whether or not the
hook has been properly adjusted.
More than once a steeple climber has
seen when within ten feet of the top
that corrosion of the lrod and the col
lection of soot have so thickened the
Wall that thn book is cnerelv haluiw'iiu.
*■& . 4
cm tne too. so tuat 'tne slightest pull
m tne wrong direction would drag It
off. Again, the bricks are often loose
at the top, and the hook Is likely to
tear them away.
One of the natural difficulties to con
quer Is the swaying of all high stee
ples and chimneys. In a gale a steeple
point will sway a foot and a half.
Usually It sways from seven to nine
Inches. Painting it means reaching
for a spot on the right side, and find
ing it on the left, and. when making
a dive for it ou the left, to see it sway
back to the right Yet In spite of the
constant danger a born steeple jack ex
ults In his work and 1b at home, like
the Ironworker on the skyscraper, only
when high above the world. He can
.stand triumphantly at any height, if
he can have two and one-half 'square'
Inches to bear his weight—Harper’s
Weekly.
A QUEER UNIVERSITY.
A Silk Produoing Caterpillar.
In Assam, where the natives call it
"eri,” a silk producing caterpillar has
been used for silk spinning for cen
turies, but, strange to say, Its employ
ment for the purpose has been restrict
ed almost exclusively to that region.
One of its advantages la that Its co
coons are not sealed like .those of the
common silkworm. One end of the co
coon Is closed only with converging
loops of silk. This renders It ulineces-
sary to kill the insect when Its silk is
used.
Rubbing It In.
“What made tlie boss glare so at that
bmn who just went out?” said one
waiter to another.
“When he paid; his bill for a flft;
cent dinner he asked if there wor an
place in the neighborhood, anyhow,
where a fellow could go and get a
decent meal for fifty cents.”-Ne^,
York Press.
Cairo Has the World’s Oldest Educa
tional Institution.
"When we think of Harvard or Yalo,
the former dating from 1638 and the
latter from 1701, we think of them as
old universities,” snys a writer In the
American Educational Review; “but
when we pass to the other side of the
world we discover that even the oldest
American universities are In reality
very young iustitm'ons.
“The uldest educational Institution in
the world Is the University of El
Ashar, Cairo, founded in the year 988
by the great Saladln. It Is the central
seat of learning for the whole Mo
hammedan world, as well as a foun
tain of spiritual life. It occupies an
ancient mosque In the Arab quarter of
Wanted at Once
Cairo, surrounded by a confusing maze
of narrow streets where the population
Is made up of representatives of every
race that follows the prophet
“The old mosque covers several acres
and consists of a series of courts sur
rounded by long cloisters with low
roofs supported by forests of columns.
The floors of red tiles are covered dally
by a multitude of men and boys, squat
ting in semicircles around their teach
ers, who sit with their backs to the
columns lecturing in monotones.
“The chancellor of the university is
always a descendant of the prophet
and is usually a man of ability and
learning. He occupies apartments In
El Ashar and is not only the supremo
educational but the ecclesiastical head
of the church of Egypt
“There Is no organization similar to
that In, modern universities. Any rep-
An envious man waxes lean at t
his neighbor.—Socrates.
utable mian who desires to teaqb can
obtain the privilege by application and
is assigned a column where he may sit
and Impart the truth as he thinks
propot. His fame or ability will at
tract more or less students and dis
ciples, who pay him fees according to
their means.” \ —
Three or four nice
2 to 4-horse farms
from 3 to 4 miles of
Cairo. Price must
be right.
WE HAVE
THE CASH.
Smith & Coppage
Cairo, Ga.
If It Is Neat Printing
you demand
YOU SHOULD
Let this Office do your
work.
Promptly negotiated at
reasonable rate pf inter
est. Now is the time
to arrange for your fall
on or write
R. C. BELL,
Cairo, Ga.
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