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SHADOW LEGENDS Zulus Believe the Bodily Shade Is the Future Spirit. TAKING AWAY ONE’S SHADOW. Why Soma Races Are Forbidden to Look Into a Dark Pool of Water. The Way Donald McKay Managed to , Escape the Clutches of the Devil. That mysterious counterpart of a human being which lengthens with the day and disappears with the sun. to reappear more faintly with the rising of the moon, which wo call a shadow, has always struck the imagi nation of man. It has played a promi nent part in primitive superstition and In later folklore. Shadows or shades was the classical name or figure for the spirits of the departed which still remains in use. This idea is not confined to civilised races. Among the Zulus the spirit Is the shade. Uishop Callaway, whose knowledge of Zulu beliefs and modes of thought was unrivaled, says that the Zulus conuect the bodily shade with the future disembodied spirit. They believe that the shadow cast by the body will ultimately become the “itongo,” or spirit, when the body dies, and they say that the long shadow Bhortens "as a man approaches his end and contracts into a very little thing. ■When they see the shadow of a utuu thus contracting, they know he will die. The long shadow goes away when a man Is dead, and It Is that which Is meant when It Is said, ‘The shadow has departed.’ ” There Is, how ever, a short shadow which remains with the body and Is buried with it. The long shadow becomes an ances tral spirit. Identification of the shadow in any mysterious or spiritual way with the person whose body casts it. naturally leads to respect for the strange secoud self. To tread on the shadow of a chief Is an insult to the chief himself. In the Institutes of Manu, the ancient Hindu low giver, the law runs: > "Let him not intentionally pass over ■the ghodo^ pf sacrcd^jmngesj of a ^natural or spiritual father, ot a king, -of a Brahmin who keeps bouse, or of • any reverend personage, nor of one who has Just performed a socrlflce,”, There are traces of tUo 0 | ■ these primitive Vay* sTregardlng a the English country natl| 1) ®+ l * /a< ,L ,s uuluck y t0 Cl-0S3 Lho j ‘ a newly married man ns ho £;■ j the altar; and in another rurul ^ojief that It Is unlucky to cross the path of horses ploughing when the sun is shining behind them. Association between shadows and mirrored representations of the human form is obviously natural, so It is not surprising to find superstitions about the shadow mingled with widely scat tered versions of the Narcissus legend. The story of the beautiful youtb who became enamored of his own image, as he saw it represented in the water, and languished thereafter till he died, has its origin in the belief that trouble follows from beholding the watery imuge. "Let him not look at his own Image in water; that is a settled rule,” com mands Manu, the Hiudu law giver. The reason for the prohibition is to be found in the beliefs of man in a primitive state of civilization. The Melanesians of the Pacific, says a learned observer, say: “There is a stream in Saddle island, or,' rather, a pool in a stream, into which If any one looks he dies; the malignant spirit takes hold upon his life by means of his refiection in the water.” Some such idea as this was probably the root of the Narcissus legend. The Zulus explain why it is ill to look into the water of u pool by a story of a great beast In the water which can seize the shadow of a man and •when his shadow is gone a man no longer wishes to turn back, but de sires to enter the pool. He goes in, dies, and is eaten by the great beast which inhabits 1L So, says Bishop Callaway, “men are forbidden to lean over and* look into n dark pool, it be ing feared that their shadow should be taken away.” , There are other ways in which a man may lose his shadow. There was a temple of Jupiter in Arcadia which, if entered by those who were for bidden to do so, robbed them of tbeir shadows. In the north of Scotland there are some quaint legends of folk who lost this usual attendant In Sutherland they tell more than one story of a wizard named Donnid-Duival McKay. Donald went to a school in Italy where the black art was taught by the devil, Who sdt in the professor’s chair, and at the end of each term claimed as his ®wn the last scholar to depart Break* lng up at this academy was naturally a scramble, none wishing to be last On one occasion Donald was really the last but Just as the devil was about to seize him, the resourceful Donald pointed to bis own shadow, which fell behind him. saying. “Take ■fjadow was seized, while ho fiflnself escapes, and after bis return to Scot land was never seen to have a shadow) A companion Illustration of “do'll tnk the bln’most,” from Aberdeenshire, is a story of a witch helped laird watch ing Ills reapers, whose shadow wns seized by Sninn, and who was ever after shndowless. In llternturo Chu- mlsso’s famous talo of “Peter Schle- mlhl” Is a well known example of the stories of the shadowless.—Now Vork American. REVOLUTION NEAR END. Peace Is Drawing for the Troubled Nicaraguans, That the revolution In Nicaragua is finally nearing an end Is indicated in cable reports received In New Orleans from Manugua and other Central American points by not only the sym pathizers ol the revolutionists, but by those of Madriz . and agents of com merclal organizations and steamship lines as well. For the flrs^tlme since tl^e revolu tion started, advices received by botk sides, as well as by disinterested par ties, were practically the same. They are to the effect that the Madriz gov ernment troops have met with serious reverses almost at the very gate of Managua, the capital city; that Gran ada had been capturtd by General Luis Mena with an Insurgent army; that the inhabitants of the Interior are flocking to the standards of the revolutionists, and that Madriz has been succeeded in the presidency by Jose Estrada, a brother of Juan Estra da, head of the provisional govern ment set up by the Insurgents. Whether Jose Estrada will be per mitted to retain the presidency if the revolutionists succeed In taking Man agua, appears to be a matter of doubt It Got There Just the Same. MabeJ—Such a joke on Mr. Gay- boy! We were out on the balcony between the dances, and he got the sleeve of his dress coat all over red paint from one of the posts that were just painted. Maud—And did you go near the post? Mabel—No. Why? Maud—Because you have red paint all over, the back of your waist. A Matter of Taste. At a party in the country lately kissing(games were played. A young man who was present says the girls fight now as they used to. But we’d rather kiss a fighting country girl than a fighting town girl. When a girl resists a man usually kisses her hair, and there’s a sort, of dead taste to jute that you iea’t notice in real hair.—Atchison Globe. Fire From Friction. The Australian bushman uses a method of his own to procure a light. First he selects two pieces of light wood, each about a foot long, from the cork tree or black fig tree. One, a flat piece, he lays on the ground amid a pile of dry leaves. Upon this strip of wood he kneels in order to hold down the ends. Then he rolls the other pointed stick between the palms of his hands so that it bores a hole into the flat strip of wood. This makes fine wood dust, which catches on fire, sending its spark among the dry leaves. By blowing upon the tiny light the bushman soon has a fire, which he feeds with more leaves. Tho Gentle Touch. “Do you desire my professional advice?” said a doctor to a seedy looking visitor. “I merely desire confirmation of a pet notion of mine that thorough mastication is essential to diges tion ?’’ “Certainly it is I” “Exactly! I am glad to find we are in agreement! Perhaps you could spare me a quarter to put our admirable theory into practice I” A Stitch In Tlmo. Dorothy was visiting her grandpa rents in the country for the first time. Seeing a quantity of feathers scat tered about the henyard she shook her head in disapproval. “Grandpa," she said gravely, “you really ought to do something to keep your chickens from wearing out so." - Delineator. Her Advantage. "I don’t know which is the tr hter gossip—Mrs. Lovenews or Miss Scan dalmonger.” "They say Mrs. Lovenews has a cir culation 2B per cent greater than Miss Scandalmonger."—Chicago Journal. Decision of character will often give an inferior mind command over a su perior.-Wirt. MB. PERCY’S GOUT. It Kept Getting Worse Until He Got to the Dootor. Mr. Percy was naturally inclined to be aristocratic. He kept on the walls of his library portraits of his ancestors as far back as he could bo sure of them and, furthermore, took unusual pleasure in recounting to guests their distinguishing vir tues, says a writer in the New York Evening Sun. The trouble began when Mr. Percy put on his shoes and found some little difficulty in laciDg his right one. It was a tight, close fit, and when he walked round the room ho limped a little. “What’s the matter?” asked Mrs. Percy as he limped into the dining room. .••<- -m > “Oh, one of my shoes pinches; that’s all.” ^hereupon he attacked the liver nnd bacon and sipped away at his coffee. When he had finished his breakfast ho put on his hat, picked up a walking stick which he had not used for months and months and sallied forth into the world. In the elevator of his apartment house ho met Mr. Stowe, one of his neigh bors. “Hello!” said Stowe. “Good morning,” said Mr. Percy. “What’s the matter with your foot? Gone lame?” “Ye-eh; shoe fits pretty tight this morning.” “Mebbe you’ve got the gout, huh?” Mr. Percy grinned. They parted at the door, Mr. Stowe going to ward the subway and Mr. Percy making for the elevated. “Good morning, Mr. Percy,” said the janitor, who was standing on the basement stops. “Morning! , How are you this morning ?” “Oh, I’m all right, but you seem to bo lame.” “Yes, seems so.” “P’r’aps you’ve got a touch of the gout," said the janitor. “I wish I could catch it too. But I can’t even afford to get the stomach ache, let alone the gout.” Halfway down the block Mr. Per cy met another of liis acquaintances. “Hello, Percy!” said this one. “What’s the matter? Got the gl>ut?” • -V .> Mr. Percy looked rather serious. “I don’t know what it is,” he said. “It’s swollen more or less, and it’s painful too. Every time I bring my foot down—oh, how it hurts!” “That’s the gout, all right. You ought to lay off from rich food and 6tuff like that and go it easy.” “I guess I will too. This is no joke, now, I’m telling'you.” And when Mr. Percy left his friend and moved on one more block his limp became more and more pronounced, and he even seemed to take a certain sort of pride in it. “Rheumatism, Mr. Percy?” asked a friend later on. “No, sir! Gout, sir!” <f Hurts ?" . “Excruciating pain, sir! Still, the Pcrcys have always had it, and I suppose I must put up witlfit. Oiu family infirmity, you know. I think I’ll get off here and see my physi cian. Well, so long!” He limped off and in due course of time limped into his doctor’s of fice and described his symptoms. “I see,” said tho doctor, writing a prescription. “We’ll soon get you all right again. Don’t worry.” “But—aw—doctor, isn’t gout chronic ?” “Gout? Yes, gout’s chronic. But you haven’t got the gout. You’ve got the chilblains.” “N-n-n-n-n-o-o-o-o-o!” said Mr. Percy. “Is that all?" Meanest Traders In the World. There is a colony of merchants in' Kingston, the capital of Jamaica, who can give cards and spades even to the bland Chinaman “for ways that are dark and tricks that are vain.” They take one match out of every box they sell until they have enough matches to fill another box and so make an extra cent. They shave tiny flakes off cakes of soap and boil them down to make other cakes. They put a thin layer of mo lasses on the bottom of the scoop with which they serve rice so that a few grains will stick to the bottom, These are only a few of their thou sand tricks to turn a dishonest penny. Without doubt they are the •■st traders in the world. _ Subscribe for Tub Progress. THE INDIAN’S BLANKET. Great Care Exercised In Choice of De sign and Coloring. There are two important factors that in the mind of the brave must be present to comprise a genuine Indian blanket, and the skill and judgment he exercises in making his selection are worthy of mention. Whether he is to possess one or twenty blankets hus nothing to do with the great care used in select ing them. His first demand is that the robe contain three colors—red, yellow and green, usually ono of the three being the prevailing shade. Secondly, he demands that the blanket have three hold stripes, all the same pattern and carrying the Bame colors, two being ten inches from each edge of the robe, while the third and center stripe is a trifle wider and also runs the entire length of the blanket. When the blanket is worn by the Indian the center stripe falls in the middle of the back, giving the tall and stately effect so much desired. If, perchance, the Indian is in mourning the pattern is not changed, hut the blanket contains only dark blue and black as colors. The manner in which the Indian wraps liis blanket about him de notes very often his state of mind. Grief or sorrow, for instance, would he marked by the blanket being drawn over the lower portion of the face, leaving exposed the nose and eyes only. There is no article of wearing ap parel as much used as the blanket by the Indian. As a saddle while riding his pony, a shelter or bed while hunting or fishing, carefully hung about the sides and bottom of his tepee during the winter and an indispensable covering the entire year, the blanket is ever in use. Even on the hottest summer days an Indian would be laughed at by members of his tribe should he leave off wearing his blanket. His theory is that if “it keeps out the cold in the winter it will keep out the heat in the summer.” While he may not care to buy anything else expensive, the price of a suitable blanket is never questioned, but it would be difficult indeed to deceive hin^ as to the texture of any robe. A squaw Will imitate aljnost any thing that pleases her fancy, but in the matter of her blanket or shawl she exhibits an unusual amount of individuality. With great care and patience she designs her blanket, and when she places the order with the mill man he does not dare du plicate it until she has had an op portunity to wear it. If she makes the request that it shall not be du plicated her wisheB are regarded, because it is the one article she pos sesses in which exclusiveness is much coveted and also because what would please one squaw would not appear at all attractive to another. The lightweight blanket or shawl is thrown over the head of the squaw, and unless she is able to pur chase a bright colored silk kerchief it will serve as her only bonnet as 'Well. It is just as common a sight now to see the papoose securely hound on tho hack of its mother by a portion of her blanket as it used to he to see the wee head of the In dian babe peeping from the “to- kas,” or frame cradle, which was carried on the back of the mother. —Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Learn to say “No,” and it will be of more use to you than to be able to read Latin.—Spurgeon. Keep Pounding Away Every blow struck ■ by a good, snappy, convincing advertisement in this paper STRENGTHENS YOUR BUSINESS >w *f» Your rut at it. APPLICATION FOR CHARTER. GEORGIA—Grady County. To the Superior County of said County:. The petitition of G. A. Wight, Ira Higdon, M. G. McManus, H. G. Can non, John B. Crawford, Walter Davis, L. C. Graham, J. B. Wight, L. L. Bar- wick, W. A. Walker, Wight Brothers Company, P. H. Herring, M. L. Led ford, Wight Hardware Company, R. C. Bell, Thomas Wight, W. T. Crawford, W. D. Barber, W. J. Willie, W. G. Baggett, W. B. Roddenberry, Joe H’g- don, J. A. Lindsay, Robert H. Harris, E. F. Dollar, J. J. Coppage, Roy W. Ponder, J. M. Sasser, F. M. Brannon. T. S. Copeland, W. P. Smith, Ira Car lisle, W. H. Robinson, J. G. Kincaid, J. G.' Moore, T. M. Chastain, C. G. Stephens, White & Stringer. J. W. Booth, W. C. Jones, W. A. Carr, L. O. Maxwell, C. H. Maxwell, H. J. Poulk, Pelham & Havana Railroad Company, J. L. Peebles and T. A. J. Majors, all of the County and State aforesaid, re spectfully shows: 1. That they desire for themselves, their associates and successors, to be incorporated and made a body politic, under the name and style of Progress Publishing Company, for the period of twenty (20) years. 2. The principal office of said cor poration shall be in the City of Cairo, state and county aforesaid, bat peti tioners desire the right to establish branch offices within this state or else where, whenever the holders of the majority of the stock may so deter mine. 3. The object of said corporation is pecuniary gain to itself and sharehold ers. 4. The business to be carried on by said corporation is the editing and pub lishing of a newspaper or newspapers in said county or elsewhere in said state, the doing of all kinds of book binding and job printing, dealing in stationery and all kinds of office sup plies, and the transaction of all such business as may be necessary in or in cidental to the conduct of a general printing and publishing business. 5. The capital stock of said corpora tion shall be Three Thousand ($3,000.00) Dollars, with the privilege of increas ing the same to the sum of Ten Thous and ($10,000.00) Dollars by a majority vote of the stockholders, said stock to be divided into shares of Twenty-five ($25.00) Dollars each, and to be non assessable. More than ten (10) per cent of the amount of capital stock to be employed in said corporation has been actually paid in. 0. Petitioners desire the right to have the subscriptions to said capital stock paid in money or property to be taken at a fair valuation. 7. Petitioners desire as a corpora tion, the right to sue and be sued, to plead and be impleaded, to have and use a common seal, to make all neces sary by-laws and regulations, and to do all other things that may be neces sary for the successful carrying on of said business, including the right to buy, hold and sell real estate and per sonal property suitable to the purposes of the corporation, and to execute notes and bonds, as evidence of indebtedness incurred, or which may be incurred, in the conduct of the affairs of the corpor ation and to secure the same by mort gage, security deed, or other form of lien under existing laws. 8. Petitioners desire for said corpor ation the power and authority to apply for and accept amendments to its char ter of either form or substance by a majority vote of its stock outstanding at the time. They also ask authority for said corporation to wind up its af fairs, liquidate and discontinue its business at any time it may determine to do so by a vote of two-thirds (2-3) of its-stock outstanding at the time. 9. Petitioners desire for said corpor ation the right of renewal when ana as provided by the laws of Georgia and that they nave all such other rights, powers, privileges and immunities as are incident to like corporations or per- missable under the laws of Georgia.* Wherefore, petitioners pray to be incorporated under the name and style aforesaid, wjth the powers, privileges and immunities herein set forth and as are now or may hereafter be allowed a corporation of similar character under the laws of Georgia. R. C. Bell and W. J. Willie, j • Attorneys for Petitioners. AugiSt 1910 fflCe ’ tWS thC 3rd day ° f J. M. McNair, Jr., Deputy Clerk. GEORGIA—Grady County. 1, J. M. McNair, Jr., Deputy Clerk Superior Court of said county do here by certify that the foregoing is a true and correct copy of the application for charter of Progress Publishing Compa- ny as the same appears on file in tnis office. Witness my official signature and the seal of this Court, this the 3rd day of August, 1910. J. M. McNair, Dejpu.y^ Clerk Superior Court, Grady