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Grady County Progress
PUBLISHED WEEKLY.
CAIRO, GEORGIA.
Figures published by the federal bu
reau of education give evidence that
the rewards of genius engaged In the
educational flbld are considerably be
low thoso attainable In other of the
learned professions and in many Indus
trial: avocations. The highest paid
head of a state-aided Institution of
learning is the president of the Univer
sity of California, who receives $12,•
000 a year and house. The president
of Cornell university and -the Uni
verslty of Illinois, each receive $10,-
000 a year and house, and the pres!
dent of the University of Minnesota,
$10,000 a year without house. Other
presidents 'salaries run down as low
as $2;400. The best paid full professor
enjoys an Income of $6,000 a year,
and the least paid tutor struggles along
on an allowance of $50. When it is
considered that there are lawyers In
the country earning from $50,000 to
$100,000 a year, that some medical
men command almost as large earn
ings, and that many engineers, presi
dents of manufacturing concerns and
others engaged in industrial pursuits
are eqiialjy well rewarded, one may
well marvel that so many men of su
perlative intelligence devote their
lives to pedagogy.
There are almost two sides, to the
simple little facts of life. There Is
thlB rnatter of drinking water at one’s
meals.' It has been regarded as a mis
erable habit. The school textbooks
teach It that way, and they give very
Impressive reasons for it. It used to
be taught—drink at your meals, If
you feel like It; drink all you want;
it Is good for you; helps digestion.
Then came the opposite doctrine,
never drink at your meals, and not-
for ad' hour afterward, and that Idea
has prevailed and Is a part of our wise
school, knowledge these days. Now
cornea Professor Hawk of the Univer
sity of Illinois who has been study
ing the subject for seven years, and
his conclusion is that water-drinking
at meals helps digestion, principally
by utilizing the protein food, which Is
regarded as the most Important func
tion of digestion, says the Ohio Jour-
nay. Then, fluids help digest the fats
and throttle the bacteria that range
along the. alimentary canal and keep-
stirring up all sorts of tumults. So
the latest information is not to let
anybody scare you about drinking wa
ter at your meals. Just drink what
you want and forget about it.
Scientists say that the average
man eats 60 per-cent, more food than
he uses. This Is a violation of eco
nomic law. Hence dyspepsia and kin
dred ills. The best digestive tonic in
the world is hunger, actual, gnawing
hunger. Let the average dyspeptic
try It for a while and see how it
works. The only animal in the world
(hat eats when he Is not hungry Is a
hog—of one kind or another.
A Japanese steamship company Is
sues with each ticket sold a coupon
representing a certain seat In a life
boat and requests the passenger to ac
quaint himself with the location of
the particular boat to which he is al-
loted. Is there any harm In accept
ing a suggestion from the Orient?
A new benefactor of mankind has
arisen in California. He has discover
ed a concoction which robs roosters of
their ability to crow. A sharp ax
administered with vigor just where
the tail feathers merge into the comb
Is also effective.
The supreme court of Iowa has de
cided that tips belong to the person
who receives them, not to any boss
or syndicate .that grabs the privileges.
It would have been a better decision
to brand them as bribery and ille
gal, '
BRAVE ROXY O’FALLON
She
Is Called Miss Fireworks
Because of Her Many
Nervy Deeds.
A Brooklyn motor cyclist dying
from cancer has been pronounced a
victim of the jouncing of the machine.
But why blame the cycle for .Brook
lyn’s uneven pavements?
Baldy, a New York monkey, exam
ines his food to see whether it; is in
habited by. germs. Science .-has rob
bed the monkey of His gastronomical
pleasures.
Japanese school children are taught
to write with both hands. Just think
what journalists they’d have made
before typewriters were invented.
A railroad company is asked to pay
$200,000 for the death of a chimpanzee.
Must have been the missing link the
biologists are looking for.
By MAUD J. PARKINS.
Jimmy O’Fallon tried to straigliton
up and look his daughter in the eye.
Roxy waved her whip in front of him
airily, but decisively. ’
"You might just as well fall In, dad,
beoause I shan’t let you drive those
horses tonight. You’d run the whole
shooting match over the edge of Kit-
cat mountain, and I’d have the funeral
to manage. Put him to bed, boys.”
“I Buppose you can drive?”
Roxy turned on her little high heels
at the insult. With her eyes, clear,
sparkling defiant eyes, she took In the
full attire of this stranger who dared
to ask her, Roxana O’Fallon, whether
she could drive.
"I was born in a grub wagon,” said
Roxy, mildly. "I’ve driven horses all
my life. Why? You afraid to go
along?”
He looked amused. Ho was very toll,
fearfully tall, standing beside five-foot-
two of Miss O’Fallon. His heavy
storm coat hung to his heels, and his
fur cap gave him a ferocious look, too,
Roxy decided with inward irritation.
His mouth was wide and addicted to
smiles. His eyes were gray and he
appeared to be fairly civilized.
"I’m going. Do I have to ride In
side?”
Roxy considered, her brows drawn
tobether. Inside the coach were four
passengers, two Jap workmen for the
Orlenta outfit, and a couple of men
taking the short cut over the pass to
make connections for Rawhide at
Wagging Tail.
“It’s pretty tough going some places,
and there’s a storm- coming along
about ten.”
For answer he swung his grip up un
der the seat. It was heavy, and had
seen plenty of travel. Roxy cast one
farewell look at her „ father, sound
asleep by the big Stove, and followed
the stranger out to the waiting team.
“Only two horses?” he asked, cheer
ily, as they started up ICitcat’s petti
coat ruffles, as Roxy called the lower
ripple of foothills around the great
peak.
"This ain’t any circus outfit,” Roxy
retorted surlily. “You can’t match that
pair in Nevada. They’d go over this
road with three legs apiece and no
eyes at all. Where you from?”
"North.” His tone was pleasant, but
noncommittal. “Are you a Nevada
girl?”
"Yes, I am, but my mother was from
the east, Vermont. Father’s a western
er. • He’s no good, but he’s got nice
ways when you know him. Everybody
likes him along the route up here.
Once, in awhile he gets down and out
like that, and then I drive."
"Aren’t you afraid?"
"Of what?" Again her big eyes
questioned him with almost indigna-"
tion.
"You carry express parcels to the
Orienta mines?”
"Sometimes. What of it? You’ve
got the off night if you are after any,”
she laughed... “You don’t look like a
road agent. They’re sending up stuff
tomorrow, dad said. Suppose you stop
'"over and take a chance then.”
Silent for the next few miles, he'
thought of all he had left behind.
Dewey, the superintendent of the
Orlenta had wired him of trouble. The
Mexicans and whites kicked at the
Oriental labor coming in. They would
walk out at the lifting of a leader’s
hand. More, they would shoot the Japs
and Chinese at the drop of a hat. And
Bray ton liked the Japs and Chinks, as
he called them. They were faithful,
sober, steady nerved, on the job, as
Dewey said, while the others were for-
ever shooting up. the place,' and carous
ing. ‘He had come west to settle it.
If he could have had American labor;
it would have been all right, but this
filling the camp with the riffraff of
Europe and the border, he refused.
He glanced back at his baggage on
lop of tlio coach. Two trunks, long
and heavy, so heavy that back at the
station, the men who lifted them, had
spoken among themselves. So was the
grip heavy.
Presently Roxy spoke, almost confi
dentially.
“I know a real man when 1 see one.
You’re all right. So are the Japs, but
those other two! If I had money
aboard tonight, I’d drive with the
reins between my teeth, and a six
scooter in each hand. ' That’s only my
talk. Don’t mind it a bit. We’re all
right. They look like Italians, don’t
they?”
“They’re hot after money if they
are,” said Bray ton, quietly. "All you
have to do if they start trouble, is to
say, ’Here he is,, gentlemen,’ and
drive on."
Roxy smiled at him.
"Yes, I’d be likely to do that. What’s
your name?”
"Max Brayton.”
She whistled softly at'the name.
“So, you did come out, after all. I
didn’t think you had the nerve. They’re
starting things up at tho mine already.
Dewey got hurt last night. Oh, Just
through the shoulder," as he gave a
sharp exclamation.
"Why didn’t you think I’d come7”
"I don’t know.” Her glance meas
ured him again. “1 had an idea you
were pretty soft and easygoing. Dad
says your , father was a good fighter,
but he was a wostorner, wasn’t ho?
You’re from New York.”
"You bet I am," said Brayton, thank
fully. "Aud I'Ve come to stay and seo
this thing through. I’ll hire any work
man I want to so long as he is capable
and faithful and delivers the goods,
and I won’t put up with a pack of
snarling, unskilled, Imported yejp.ers
If they blow up tho whole mines to try
and make me.”
■ Roxy's palm swung out to meet hiB
"I’m your pal,” Bho said. "But dad
says they’ll surely get you if you come
herei”
"Will they?” repeated Brayton, grim
ly. "Well, I’m here.”
"Dewey is worrying because they
haven’t firearms up there. Dad and
I’ve been smuggling some in for him
The men hamed mo Fireworks. I don’t
care. Mr. Dewey’s been mighty good
to dad, and he’s straight, too.”
"You’re smuggling more in tonight,
Miss Fireworks,” said Brayton. "My
grip here’s full of bullets, and the
trunks are packed with rifle's.”
"Bully for you," gasped Roxy. She
leaned forward from the bCx as- the
coach turned a dizzy point -at the brink
of a canyon. It was getting hard to
see the road with the' first swirling
flakes of snow.
‘(There’s a‘ man' standing in the road
ahead,” said. Brayton.
"It’ji a tree stump. We’re five miles
up Kltcat. There isn't a living crea
ture up this way. Ouch! Did it get
you?")
She had ducked her head, at -the
whistling bullet. Braytpn was unhurt.
He tried to take the reins from her
as the horses backed. She gave them
the whip, and shook off his hold. As
the pair plunged forward there came
the sound of shots Inside the coach,
and a;high pitched yell. Roxy shoved
a, revolver into Bray ton’s hands.
"I'll drive,” she cried. “You keep
them off,”
.He fired at the figure that swung on
the off bay’s bridle, and it fell by the
road. A bullet left a sting of fire along
his cheek, and he turned to face a
rifle barrgl leveled from the rocks.
Suddenly there came an answering
report,-this ^lme from the top of the
coach. Behind the* two trunks
crouched one of the Japs, firing with
decision and much careful selection.
"One is finished,” he remarked.
“There are not many,”
With Roxy’s steadying, familiar
grip on the reins, the bays rallied, and
took the old turn without a break or
stumble, even with the shots humming
about-them, and below the road; : a fall
of 700 feet. Half a mile farther on
Roxy turned her head and mopped off
her forehead with one hand.
“I lost my hat,” she' said, regret
fully.
“Shall I go back for it?”' Brayton
laid one hand on the railing beside
him, ready to drop down. “You’re the
pluckiest little pal I ever knew. They’d
have had us sure if it hadn’t been for
the way you handled the horses.' The
Japs have wounded one inside, and
bound the other like a trussed turkey.
They are two of the men Dewey dis
charged. Tho Jap tells me the others
took to the hills here, ready to fall on
tho camp and wipe it off the earth.”
R<?xy nodded.-
"I knew,” she said, gravely. "Dad
told me about them. He saw them
last time he drove through the pass
here. And they said they’d get you
when you caine.”
“Did they know I was coming to
night?”
Again the nod.
"Somebody, shadowed you all the
way up from New York. Dad heard
some of the men talking, and he told
me. I knew yofl right away when you
got off the train, and so I wanted to
drive the coach tonight.”
For a minute he could not speak.
"Then, you deliberately drove tonight
to try and help me?"
"The horses mind me better than
they . do dad/’ she Baid, calmly. “He
gets awfully fussed up when there’s
any shooting.”
“Do you mind if I try to see you
when I come down after this trouble’s
over?”
Don’t rush'me when I’m driving. It
makes me awfully cross,” said Roxy,
severely.
Brayton grinned down at her proud
ly, delightedly.
“I’ll bet you anything I marry you
inside of six months, Miss Fireworks.”
"I don’t care If you do," she said.
"You can do all the shooting, if you
let me hold the reins.” ' s
(Copyright, 1912, by the McClure News
paper Syndicate.)
, ,( v That Occasional Chord.
There are chords in the human
heart, strange, varying things, which
are only struck by accident; which
will remain mute and senseless to apt
peals the most passionate and earnest,
and respond at .last to the slightest
casual touch. In tjle most insensible 1
or childish minds there is some train
of .reflection which art can seldom
lead, or skill assist, but which will re
veal itself, as great truths have done,
by chance, and when the discoverer
has the. plainest and simplest end in
view.—Charles Dickeons.
CROSS STITCH DESIGN PLAiN SKmTS NEVER
GOOD WAY BY WHICH TROUBLE
. MAY BE AVOIDED.
All Show Drapery Effect, and Here l«
One That Has a Few Touches
That Are Unique.
Precaution That Frequently Will Save
the Necessity of Doing the Entire
Work Over Again — Having
Proper Canvas la Important.
The most careful counter of threads
is .liable to unpleasant surprises when
-the end or corner or a cross-
stitch thread may ruin an entire de
sign and the. work will have'to be done
again.
There are two ways to avoid this
trouble. If- the finished piece need not
bo exact in measurements lay the hem
along one side ahd end. Begin in the
angle, thid formed and work the sides
as far as desired, stopping when there
is no more roorri to repeat the pattern
and add; the hem.
Return, to the angle and work the
end in the same way. Then lay the
other two | hems and .the rest of tho
design is accurately fitted. ; ,
When tho finished piece must be a
given I size/start the design from each
end ahd ; work toward the middle. If
there is! a discrepancy it is easy to
make up a, connecting figure that will
look Intentional. Treat the ends in the
same wfty. ' :
The secret of good croBs-stitching
is to have the cross-stitch always slant
in the, same direction. To insure this
mark the top of the worli with a few
sttiches run in the hem. This makes
mistakes in direction Impossible.
When the end and side are finished
turn ■ the piece entirely around and
work the opposite direction, which
gives the same general slant;
Much of the effect of cross-stitch
work depends upon the canvas. It
pays -to get that specially prepared for
this embroidery, as ordinary canvas
is uneven;-and may ruin the work.
The imported canvas from Germany is
best liked, as it is'even, fine, and the
threads pull easily.
For the fine work used in towels
and other Empire designs choose a
very fine canvas and-a lightweight cot
ton. The results are far daintier than
when bold, coarse, cross-stitching is
done. With the right kind of canvas,
this stitching may appear as exquisite
as solid embroidery.
Do not attempt to do your cross-
stitching directly on the material un
less on certain very open mesh
weaves. The threads are sure to be
iregular, and the work will n’ot be
accurate, besides being hard on the
eyes. The time taken to baste on
bits of canvas and pull out threads
when finished will be saved many
times over in working.
Unless Very proficient, do not at
tempt shaded cross-stitching without
a colored-pattern. These designs must
be regular, and do not lend themselves
to haphazard shading.
The plain-as-a-pipestem skirt
thing of tho dim and distant past,
skirts are broken up, If not by
erles, at least by tunics and panels
that give the general effect of
ery. This smart suit Of striped
mohair, intended for afternoon
under a big motor coat, has a
fully cut tunic which suggests
draped overskirt. The foot of
’
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(Aioto, by Underwood & Underwood, N. V.)
skirt is hemmed and underneath is a
second -hem of black satin which falls *
just over the instep of a patent leather
buttoned boot. Black pipings and
button loops and glass buttons trim
tho skirt and coat'effectively. The
line of the cutaway coat front, in di
rect contrast to the. line of the tunic,
is a new note and gives much individ
uality to the suit. -
Duplicating Patterns.
When duplicates must be made la
any part of a paper pattern, instead!
of doing -the work twice use carbon,
paper and mark with a hard pencil.
Thus your work is perfectly exact.
HANDKERCHIEF BOOK COVER
V
N A dainty article, which . only re
quires two handkerchiefs is a book
cover. The handkerchiefs should be
joined at one edge with narrow rib
bon run through tiny eyelet holes
worked just below the border, to form
the back seam. These are then fit
ted over the volume by means of plain
linen pockets embroidered upon the in
ner side and a portion of the top and
bottom edges of the handkerchiefs, in
stead of being seamed to the outer
portion, as is done in-the case.of i
erlngs made from materials hot
by the yard.
MOLESKIN STAYS IN FASHION
Not Until Spring Is It Likely That
This Popular Fur Will-Be Alto-.*
. gether Discarded.
Moleskin coats .will also be much ,
worn during the early part of the win
ter, but later, will give place to furs
of grqater . warmth aiid-’less perish
able-quality; Moleskin muffs, stoles,
and toques will, however, remain in 1
fashion until the spring.
.These latter- .iform-delightful ad
juncts to a cold weather wardrobe
and will have, as universal a fashion
as ever. The list or furs destined to
this service includes most of the
smooth close pelts just mentioned,
and in addition many of the Cull, long
haired varieties that -make such
charmingly becoming neck wraps. If
they are chosen with” duo regard to
the complexion of the wearer.
There will be fox furs in all quali
ties and colors. Black and blue,
which; strictly Bpeaking is not'blue at
all, but the loveliest and most delicate
shade of gray, are much to the fore,
and represents the most flattering
choice that a fair woman of freeh col
oring can desire to wear.
Naturally opossum, newly returned
to favor, fitch, fisher tail skunk, nat
ural squirrel, and Btone marten, often
called the sable’s nearest relative,
will all be exploited in several new
shapes, Including a sort of modified
pelerine for use with tailored walking
dresses. ■