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.a... 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 ’ ■ (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. ■