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r READING THE FLASHES.
Llththouses Are Open Cooke to the
Experienced Mariner.
Passengers uro generally astonished
.when on a dark night they hear the
■hip's officer remark to another,
"There’s 4 Egg rock,” or “Crabtree
ledge," or "Beaver Tail." as the case
way bo, naming some headlund or
shoal along the codst. The landlub
ber strains his eyes, nnd far awny
There appears from time to time a
flash of light, red or white. As these
flashes seem to the passenger exactly
like those from hundreds of other light
houses, he Is ustonlshed at the officer's
assurance.
It is renlly n very easy matter to dis
tinguish the American lighthouses and
lightships, of which there are about
H&00 along the Atlantic nnd gulf
•ousts if one is possessed of a copy of
the code Issued by the lighthouse
board. Every light is known by the
fixed light, the duration of flush, the
fongth of the eclipse or the number of
Hashes shown In groups. No light
houses within n hundred miles of each
•tber are ever similar In those par
ticulars. For instance, one guldopost
the sen may flash a white light
•very fifteen seconds, never varying,
♦flfie the next flashes a red light every
Ire seconds. The third may be an
VXfccmate red and white flash, with lri-
'Hfcrrala of ten seconds between the
jhurhes. and so on. The audible fog
MgnalB are Identified by the time bo-
Alreen the blasts of the siren aud the
psvtlnuance of the blast.
Plashing lights are preferred to fixed
*jbts for the reason that a fixed light
Wight be confused with some other
ftfbt on shore. Only white and red
lights are considered desirable in light-
looses, since It hns been found that
flic rays from lights of other colors
Cannot be seen at so great a distance.
flFhere Is but one green light—a fixed
one—on the Atluntic coast.—Harper’s
fWoekly.
i HELPED BY A HAMMER.
A Little Business Incident to Which
Hangs a Moral.
Two blocks apart In a certain street
fife two stationery stores. The owner
«f one hns abundant capital, has a
Wide, roomy place with a large stock
*f goods well displayed. The store of
the other man Is a mere hole in the
wall In a dingy building, yet this deal
er Is getting most of the business.
The following Incident may explain
it A woman who had Just moved to
the vicinity stopped In the larger store
•one evening to buy some picture nails,
but was told that they were not sold
there.
“Where can I buy'them?” she asked
politely.
“1 don’t know.” said the proprietor.
' The woman went to the smaller store.
This man had no picture nulls either.
“I have a bos of old nails that I use
myself," he explained. “Perhaps some
■of them might do."
The woman gratefully accepted his
offer and foiana sprue nails that an-
^wefretl Jn»> She remembered
men that she bad no hatuffipf. “I can
lend you one." said the shopkeeper, “If
you will bring it back in the morning.”
Ever since that time that woman has
walked the extra blocks to patronize
the obliging merchant. She has told
her friends of the Incident and influ
enced them to become customers.
The lesson taught by this insignifi
cant Incident Is one that Is only too
often neglected. It pays a small
tradesman to be obliging—it pays all
Us. Small favors bring large re-
£
ms.—Ctalcugo Tribune.
LONDON THEATERS.
Th* Hlstorio Pit That Is Fanosd Off
From ths 8talls.
In the orchestra of a London theater
there are only eight or ten rows of
Btalls, and Immediately behind them Is
the pit, which is walled off by a bar-
rier or fence that stretches clear across
tho theater. In the pit there are no
Individual seatH—merely rows of long
benches on which the people sit rather
closely together.
It is. of course, Impossible to reserve
seats lu advance, and people who are
going to the pit bave to come early on
the evening of the performance in or
der to secure the best places.
Hence In the ense of a popular piny
n loifg queue of people may be seen at
7 o'clock stretching from the pit door
nil along the sidewalk, waiting for the
house to open. They keep their places
very patiently In Hue. united by a com
mon mood of pleasurable anticipation.
One manager awhile ngo made the
experiment of selling reserved seats In
the pit at the usual price, but to this
the pit people objected strenuously on
the ground that they could seldom
know In advance Jast when they would
And tlminselves possessed of that hap
py romfeltintinn elf money and ah even
ing off which would permit of theater
going and preferred bo take their
chances -waiting in line when the for
tunate opportunity arrived.
The liW is patronized by people of a
very estimable class and Is often fre-
quenied by welt educated men and
wouaea vrito srisfe to save money and
do not -none To dress. Whereas a seat
in the stuffs costs half a guinea (or ap
proximately $2.50). a place In the pit
costs only two and six (or approxi
mately 00 cental, and the play can be
seen very nearly as well
In the pit the same program that is
Bold iu the stalls for sixpence is sold
for twopence, and the pit hns a re
freshment bar of Its own which Is
chenpwthan the main bur of the thea
ter. Of course the real reason why
there 4s<a pit (n the London theater Is
that there has always been a pit. That
In itsdT Is sufficient for the British
mind, tat it must be admittod that the
system toon grounds of common sense
on esnotxUugly good one.—Bookman.
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Dreacted Premature Burial.
, Meyerbeer, like many other notable
people, went in dread of premature
burial and left the most elaborate di
rections with a view to preventing
•uch a contingency. “My body is to
semula untouched for a period of four
days after my death Is certified, with
the face uncovered nnd tn exactly the
same position as at the time I am sup
posed to have passed away. On the
fifth day incisions are to be made In
the throat aud In the feet.” He also
directed that two men should be ap
pointed to watch over him day and
sight In case he should give any
togas of lifte and that bells should be
attached to his hands and feet.
He Remained One.
“It lfl true,” said a woman lecturer,
“that some girls, marrying men to re
form them, succeed. Some girls, too,
fail.
‘•The hostess at a tea once said to a
beautiful, sad eyed woman:
“ ‘Are ydtu fond of sports, Mrs.
Blank?'
“Mrs. Blank smiled. Her sad eyes
twinkled a moment. Then she sighed
and answered:
“ ‘Well, I suppose I ought to be. I
married one.’ ”
One Man’s Theory.
, “No, I don’t think women will ever
succeed as railroad engineers."
‘Why not?"
“They would lose too much time
holding up their trains at crossing.”-
[Boston Transcript.
It Is not what we take up, but what
-5£ S ive up ’ tUat maUcs us rich.—Beech-
mtmG IN DREAMS.
A S&nsstSion Like That Which Somo-
■.tmies Precedes Death.
The sn&flalion of flying is one of thei
enrliest 1» appear in \ the dreams of'
childhood. If seems y.o become less’
frequeat after middle age. Beaunlsi
states that iu his case It ceased at the'
age fff flUty. It fa sometimes the last
sensntifMHat the motnent of death.
To rise, to fall, to glide away has
Often been the last conscious sensation
recalled liy those who seemed to be
flyIng,ijM*ttiHve afterward been brought
back to Jtfe. Pleron has noted this
sensattoumt the moment of death in a
number of g»ses, usually accompanied
by a sauac of \wetl being. The cases be
describes wore mostly tuberculous and
Included -individuals of both sexes and
With atheistic as well as religious be
liefs.
In an fflie Inst sensation to which ex
pression xwoo given was one of flying,
of moving upward. In some death was
peaceful, tn others painful. In one
case a gtod died clasping the iron bars
of the bea, tn honor of being borne
upward.
Fiecoa associates this sens at Lon with
tbeeimiVdr sensatlan of rising and float
ing in tooams and wtth that of mov
ing upWwrfl and resting oa the air ex
perienced by persons in the ecstatic
state, fin ufl these cases alike life is
being •OBQocntrated In the brain and
central omgans, while the outlying dis
tricts of flhe body are becoming numb
and dead.
Bream -flight, it lfl neossaary to note,
is not usually the sustained flight of a
bivfl -or wi Insect, «w«l the dreamer
rarely or never imagines that he is
borne high iuta the air. Hutchinson
states tamt otf ail those whom he has
asked about the matter hardly one
hns evcciiktiswo himself to make any
high 9is&bi in his dreama. One al
most always Hies Vow, with n skim
ming manner, slightly, but only slight
ly, above -flic heads of pedestrians.
Boatnfls—from his own experience—
dCAorfbes a typical kind of dream
flight tut e senes of light bounds at
one or Wo ywrda above the earth, each
bound (Searing from ten to twenty
yards, i**c dream'.being accompanied
by a fiidtelous sensation of ease and
movement as well us a lively satisfac
tion at btong able to solve the problem
of aeriM "locomotion by virtue of su
perior organization alone.
Lafcaflio Hearn somewhat similarly
describes In his “Shadowings" a typt-
i cal and frequent dream of bis own as
I a series of bounds in long parabolic
curves, rising to a height of some tweu-
ty-flvo feet and always accompanied by
the sense that a new power had been
revealed, which for the future would
be a permanent possession.—Atlantic.
Notice to Farmers.
We have our two new English Gins for Long Cotton in op
eration at Dyson’s Ginnery in Cairo for this season
We will pay
Special Attention to the Ginning
of your long cotton. Will also have Bagging and Twine.
COPPAGE & CARR.
NOTICE!
I ajn strictly in the market for
Long Staple Cotton
both in bale and in * the seed.
Will pay highest cash price for
same. J. J. COPPAGE, Cairo, Ga.
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Ueglnald—Darling, I see by the pa
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week. Do you think It possible?
Rosalind—No, dearest, but I’ll be a
iiislcr to jout-Clevelaufl Leader.
One 5 - room house, comparatively new, paint
ed and ceiled, well furnished, on lot 105 x 210
feet, near Methodist Church in Cairo
I offer thisj>roperty for the next thirty days for
H only $1650 net cash
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