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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. jam 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. $ | ...CITY PRESSING CLUB... ) % ROY W. PONDER, Proprietor. * f u 0 m 00 W E clean and press your clothes for $ 1 DO 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. CO £ o j i ! .<v '*XL 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 • ^ _ Inform the public what you have for sale through the columns of The ■ess. We have in stock 50,< opes and a large variety of other sta- your job work here.