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(Continued from Second Piigo.)
And queen of all the Muses, 'bides
And her angelic sisters guides,
In epic Verse, or lyric strain,
Or stateliest dramatic vein,
Her inspiration I’d bespeak
And that “divine afflatus” seek,
By which I fitly might portray
The blessings we enjoy, to-day.
I’d sing of our delightful clime,
In winter, or in summer time,
Tempered, in cold, by sunny heat,
Tempered, in warmth, by breezes sweet,
Fertile in soil in full compare
With av’rage regions, anywhere,
^ Well-watered, with scant swampy waste,
Our lands may satisfy the taste
y man disposed to be
. Content with living, honestly.
Ouc people rank among the best,
From north to south, from east to west;
Our men are staunch, our women fair;
Our maidens in true beauty share
The honors with those to be foiind,
Elsewhere, in all the world aroUnd;
Our boys give promise of the men
Upright and nolle they'll be when,
These sturdy fathers passed away,
In course of years, ’twill be “their day.”
Oh, glorious county! Glorious name !
A glorious heritage we claim!
Oh, may our people worthy prove
And to yet higher glories move!
•' ANIMALS THAT WEEP.
Dugijng Tears Prossrved ‘ by the Ma
lays as a Love Charm.
While the act of laughing may be
peculiar to man. the same Is not true
of weeping, which. If we are to accept
the testimony of a French uaturallsL
Is a manifestation of emotion that Is
tuet with In divers animals.,
I or tne nest enlarges concentrically
| after each capture of an insect, and it
: exercises, an irresistible attraction on
j flies. When a spider's nest'ls opened
| It is found to be filled with Insects.
] Experiments made with paper nests
1 so manufactured as to be exact copies
j of the real nests show that flies will
not enter them. Though very small
and apparently insignificant, the in-
, habitant of the mosquero attacks in-
91 “ iL-SjlUdJiili creatures that j gecta far more important in size than
'weep most easily are the ruminants. , largest housefly. The wasp Is one
with whom the act Is so well known j o{ ^ favor ite victims, and the wasp
that it has given rise to trivia! but no- } ^ s gpta the wors t of the struggle,
curate expression, "to weep like/a , _ llarner > s Weekly,
calf." All hunters know that t^^tag
weeps, and we are also tolt^/timt the
bear sheds tears \vh*ny> cornea to a
consciousnes^/bf it-w mst Lour. nn ’ Q
THE OVARINAS.
r — 18St ^ 0Ur - The I
; giraffe isfnQrtt/^s sensitive and regards
with tearful eye8 the hunter who has
wounded * lt< -phis animal also weeps
"‘throw’j downright nostalgia. Dogs
uro h e id to be lachrymose, and
,ue same holds iff the case of certain
monkeys. SparrmaD states the ele
phant sheds tears when wounded or
when it perceives that It cannot es-
cape.
Aquatic animals, too. It appears, are
able to weep. Thus, many authorities
agree, dolphins at the moment of
death draw deep sighs and shed tears
abundantly. A young female seal was
observed to weep wlien teased by a
sailor. SL Hilaire and Cuvier re
count on the authority of the Malays,
that when a young dugong is captured
the mother is sure to be taken also.
The little ones then cry out and shed
tears. These tears are collected with
great'.care by the Malays and are pre
served as a charm that is certain to
render a lover’s affection lasting.—
New York Press.
A PROPHETIC JEWEL
by
Peculiar Ftt*g That Was Owned
Marquise'du Barry.
Marquise du Barry, whose lovely •
head fell. Into the basket beneath the
guillotine tn expiation of her levity,
extravagance and folly, had in her pos
session a stone of which the Paris jew
elers were unable to tell the precise
nuture.
There appeared upon It below the
surface and as If uader water an out
line of a picture containing human fig
ures. Strange to relate, when first the
gem was given to its afterward unfor-;
tunate possessor this outline was not
clear, but after it had been some,
months in her possession it grow mord,
vivid. I
One day the negro servant boy, La-;
xnor, who was afterward instrumental
from revenge in the downfall of the
Du Barry, declared, looking at the Jew-
el, that he could decipher the figure of
a woman with disheveled hair leaning
before a scaffold and surrounded by a
crowd, while beside her stodd the exe
cutioner.
A strange but authenticated clrcum
Picturesque Barefooted Fish Hawkers
of Portugal.
The ovarinas are perhaps the most
interesting people In PortugnL They
are probably the lineal descendants of
the original Inhabitants of the land,
and now come from a small place
called Murtosa (Estarreja), not far
from Oporto. As the termination Indi
cates, the overinas are the women of
these people.
Both old and young, for even young
children are thus employed, are ex
ceedingly active and energetic. They
go about barefoot, wearing a peculiar
costume, and carrying huge baskets of j
a peculiar shape on their heads. They
travel many miles a day and penetrate
into every corner of the city, crying
their wares In a loud, unmusical shout
They mount even to the sixth floors
and bargain with buyers. They go
barefoot not because of their poverty,
many of them possessing expensive
gold ornaments, but because they can
thus more easily cover the many miles
they run during tho day. Attempts
have been made to do away with this
method of seUing fish, but they have
all failed. The customers like to deal
with these fish girls and can purchase
i from them very small amounts.
Fish is not purchased by weight, but
by the fish or part of fish. The price
averages 12 to 15 cents per pound
There are not less than 2,000 ovarinas
engaged In selling fish In Lisbon.—
Consular Report.
PRESENCE OF MIND.
Wellington's Cool Interview With e
Murderous Manleo.
Onb day as the Duke of Wellington
sat writing at his Ubrary table quite
alone his doer wus suddenly opened
without a knock or announcement of
any sort, and In’stalked a geunt man.
who stood before tho commander in
chief with his hat on and a savage ex
pression of countenance.
Tho dnbe was of course a little an
noyed at such an unceremonious in
terruption, and, looking up, he asked,
“Who are you!" "I am Dionysius,”
was the singular answer. “Well, what
do you want!" “Your life." “My
life?" “Yes; I am sent to kill you.”
“Very odd." said the duke, sitting back
and calmly gazing at the' intruder.
“Not at all, for I nm Dionysius," said
the stranger, “and I must put you to
death." “Are you obliged to perform
this duty today?" asked the comman
der in chief. “1 am very busy just
now and have a large number of let
ters to write. It would be very In
convenient today." The visitor looked
hard during a moment’s pnuse. "Call
again," continued the duke, “or write
and make an appointment” "You’ll
be ready?" “Without fall,” was the re
ply.
The maniac, awed doubtless by the
stern old soldier, backed out of the
room without further words and half
an hour later was safe In bedlam.—
London Graphic.
FULL OF GRATITUDE.
But\the Little One Had a Queer Way
of Expressing It.
Mr. ^Brown’s business kept him so
occupied, during the daytime that he
had llttleVopportnnitv to enjoy the so
ciety of hiS'Own children. When some
national holiday gave him .a day of
leisure his young son was usually his
chosen companion. One day. how
ever, Mr. Brown, reproached! by the
wistful eyes of his seven-year-old
daughter, reversed the order of things
and invited the little girl to go with
him for a long walk.
She was a shy. silent, small person,
and during the two hours’ stroll not a
single word could Mr. Brown Induce
the little maid to speak, but her shin
ing eyes attested that she appreciated
his efforts to amuse her—indeed, she
fairly glowed with suppressed happi
ness.
dust before they reached borne, how
ever. the child managed, but only after
a tremendous struggle wlth her inher
ent. timidity, to find words to express
her gratitude.
“Papa, what flower do you like
best?" she asked.
“Why, I don’t know, my dear—sun
flowers, I guess."
“Then,” cried the little girl, beam
ing with gratitude, "that’s what 1H
plant on your grave!”—Exchange.
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Don’t fail to call at my. store and be convinced. We
give you the best values for youi* money.; We don’t
misrepresant aur goods.
SPE IAL SALE.
PANTS _ $1.24
MEN’S SHIRTS WITH COLLARS 44
MEN’S HATS i.29
LADIES’ SHIRT \yAISTS 75
I Remember the Placo: Corner Broad and Bryant.
# I. SHAPIRO, Proprietor.
JUST RE EIVED!
One car Page Wire Fence in all heights.
If its A WAGON you want to haul
in your fall crop we have them for you,
both one and two horse, and our prices
are right.
Remember we sell LIME and CE
MENT also. We buy these m car lots
and can always make you as low price
as you c^n get in any town in this sec
tion.
Yours truly, Wight Hardware Co.,
Cairo,, Georgia.
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per month. Extra Work done on short
notice.
Tennyson's Tactlessness.
Several stories are told of Tenny
son’s thoughtless speeches. “What
fish Is this?” he once asked his hostess
where he was dining. “Whiting," she
replied. “The meanest fish there is,"
he remarked, quite unconscious that he
could have wounded any one’s feel
ings.
Yet his kindness of heart was such
that when his partridge was afterward
given him almost raw he ate steadily
through it for fear his hostess might
be vexed.
On one occasion Tennyson was very
rude to Mrs. Brotherton, a neighbor at
Freshwater. The next day he came to
her house with a great cabbage undet
each arm.
“I heard you like these, so I brought
them,” he said genlaly. It was his idea
of a peace offering!
We Clean, Block and Reband
Straw Hats for 50c to 75c.
LADIES’ SKIRTS
CLEANED and PRESSED, - 75 to 50c.
GIVE US A TRIAL.
If you are pleased tell your friends; if not tell us.
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When Ho Didn’t Stuttor.
A confirmed stutterer went into
restaurant and met a few casual ac
quaintances, who at once commenced
chaffing him most unmercifully re
specting the Impediment in his speech.
At last one of them, a pert little fel
low who had been making himself
rather conspicuous by his remarks,
said, “Well, old man. I’ll bet suppers
round you can’t order them with
out stammering." “D-d-d-done,” says
Brown, and, to the astonishment of
the, company and the discomfort of his
challenger (all of whom were unaware
of his being, as is often the case with
stutterers,, a first class singer), he
. , beckoned the waiter and sang the or-
A strange but authenticated clrcum- wU hout the slightest hitch, then,
stance is that the negro servant boy, round t0 his tormentor, said,
precisely described the guillotine. Dr i ,. N _ n . n . n0Wt y.y.y.you c-c<-can p-p-p-
Gulllotine bad not then invented his »_Arironnut V
celebrated Instrument of death, nor had pay ’ “
the horrors of the revolution begun.
Snatching the J<»wel from the hand
of the servant, Mme. du Barry exam
ined it, saw the kneeling woman, the
angry crowd, the death knife falling, ^ ver CO me ag£dn wance
and, with a cry of agony, fed sense- what I have t* serve him!
less to tho floor. -Cleveland Leader. , ,
The Remedy.
The Mistress—Bridget, I must object
to, your having a new beau every
The Cook—Thin buy betther
aO’l
In the Sunken Submarine.
“It's too annoying that we' shofild bo
Fly Traps of Spiders’ Nests.
Spiders’ nests hre used in Mexico as too annoying tnat we snouia no
-flytraps. During the rainy season the ^ dQwn here> i b0U ght myself the
villages are invaded by numbers of, jJJJJ e p t ^d|(S, tomb only last week."-
Lustigo Blatter.
Women’s Time Schedules.
Few women speak of a train starting
slightly off the even hour, as the 3:02
train, for example, or the 3:12. “Three”
will do. It bothers a man a heap to
go hunting for a 8 o'clock train by
feminine directions when it is a 3:12
train. For some women “3" will do
for the 2:54 train; it’s near enough.
Then the man following feminine di
rections, unless he is on bla guard
against these pitfalls, is l° 8t - ^ ro “"
ably if it weren’t for bis business train
ing, which teaches a man that 3:02 Is
not 3, not 3:01, not 3:01%, not 3:01%,
but 8:02, he’d be better natured about
women’s time schedules.—Boston Post,
The Soft Answer.
Two men were occupying a double
seat in a crowded car. One of them
wqs a long distance whistler and the
oth^» was evidently annoyed. You
don’t seem to like my whistling* said
the noisy one after a five minute con
tinuous performance. “No, I don t,
was tho frank reply. “Well,contin
ued the other, “maybe you thinks you
are man enough to atop.it?" No, l
don’t think I am," rejoined the other,
“hut I hope yon are." And the whist
ling was discontinued.—Argonaut.
We have in our warehous
complete stock of the J
J. G. Smith and Franklin and Ptor-
/
man Buggies
And a large supply of other makes as
well as Harness and Wagons. Can
save you money by coming to see us
when in need of any of our goods.
W. G. BAGGETT & SON.
B.. _‘-by numbersf
flies and other insects. To rid a house
of these pests the . natives haDg. the
rbrauch of a tree bearing a spider's nest
tn a nail in the caillne. Tba anrfnoa
All philosophy ties in two words,
Hadn't Heard It.
“Money talks,” asseverated Gilder
“I am not so sure of .
Throckmorton,,. _“It. IS “Pt „ frlOnPlfV
tag terms with me.”—Detroit Free | liUli'Cl. V •
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