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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. # Ben Franklin was the best printer of his day. And we have some of the besf of this day. t|No matter how good a printer may be he cannot, and will not, get results from old worn out material. fflWell, all of our material is new and up-to-date and if you are “From Misouri" we can "‘Show You” just try and see. <1 We are like the n Baby Elephant" an Infant in age but a “Giant” in strength and size. <JJust keep on your mind that we are here to “Show Y ou.” Bring your Job Print ing to The Progress office. We have the best equipped plant in this section. 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. ^111111=11110 We’d Like to Have that Next Job of mwrg it ■ra I OM9 I PRINTING I A splendid assortment of newest and tastiest type styles and highest grade papers have just been in stalled in our Job Department. Good Printing costs but little more than poor work, and is much more satisfactory 1 I Let us figure with you on anything in the PRINT ING line. We’ll do our level best to please you. (The Process «£ PHONE 141. Co., n CAIRO, GA. 9^»^i<SUI«>iffiMK».K14miflMMMV!SMMM»9ii«lKNMMHMkWI« inline A IN REAL ESTATE fflEHSKHEr,' Wise Rosalind! Ueglnald—Darling, I see by the pa pers that a food expert says that it lfl possible for a family to live on $4 a 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 iEW&ifF-- ” ' • ”lra Higdon