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BIRDS.
*fk» noddles That lira Bird lay,
' tht Sal# mJ Veilto,
Out In the gulf 01 Mexico slxty-llv,
miles from Key Wmt toward the net
ting aun rlae half a d nen barren aand
bars from the exqulalw tnrqnoiae blue
water*. One of theme, darden key, la a
.government fort and coaling elation;
-another la the Loggrrb-ad key, our laat
-outpost toward Cuba and Central
-America. Other Islet* are untenanted
■are when the great aea turtle* crawL
One alone. Bird key, la pre-empted by
(be bird*. It would be bard to And
a more desolate- or taolated region.
Though the dlmat* Is warm through
out the year. It la not until Uay that
the feathered boat* arrive from the far
south at this sandy rendesvou*. In the
van come the noddles, a few about the
1st of May and tho rest within a few
-day*. A week later the sooty terns
-pour In, and It Is said that within a
week of their arrival both kinds begin
to lay. At tbe time of our coming
nearly all the birds bad egg* and war*
devoting themselves to their family
carea.
To reach tbe buildings from the little
landing place wa had to pass through a
tract of bushes, and her* It was that I
saw tbe first neats of tbe noddle*. Up
on the tops or In the forks of the bodi
es each pair had built a rather rude yet
(airly substantial platform of sticks,
only slightly hollowed, and upon each
one sat a daQt gray bird. There waa
something about these graceful little
creature* that Instantly took me by
otorm, a ease of Ibv* at first sight The
noddy la very much like a dove-ex-
-cept for Its wobbod foot—In size, In
form. In tbe softness of Its plnmage,
the expression of Its large dark eyes
and Its gentle, confiding ways. There
Is no wild affright as the stranger ap
proaches. Just n shadow of fear Is evi
dent but tho birds alt quietly on their
neats, hoping and trusting, and do not
dy unless approached almost within
arm’s reach. Then they flit gently
away, alighting upon a neighboring
bush until the Intruder has withdrawn,
when they return directly to tbclr
charge. It seemed remarknble to find
birds so perfectly tame.-Outlng.
PITH AND POINT.
When a friend telle you of his wrongs
be wants sympathy and not an argu
ment
Before a man’s first baby Is a week
old ho knows more than be bad ever
dreamed about
Speaking of ’’secret sorrows,” It la a
good plan to keep them so, as telling
only multiplies them.
When a man wants to give you ad-
vlce you can’t lose anything by listen
ing, but you will make an enemy by
refusing.
A man occasionally breaks even.
When It come* to wall paper the wlfa
does tbe picking and tbe buaband does
the kicking.
Every one should have saved np
enough money to take things a little
waster by the time the age comes for
taking a nap In a chair.—Atchison
Globe.
Trained Tor to fees.
Japanese and Korean showmen In
addition to their skill aa Jugglers and
acrobats display a truly marvelous
aklll In teaching animals tricks. They
siot only exhibit educated Sears, span*
tela, monkeys and goats, bnt also train
ed birds and, what la tb^nore aston
ishing of all, trick fish.
One of the most curious examples of
patient training la an exhibit by an
old Korean boatman of a doxen drilled
iort^ses. Directed by hit songs and
a small v metal drum, they march in
line, execute various evolutions and
conclude by climbing upon a low table,
the larger ones forming of their own
accord a bridge for the smaller, to
which the feat would otherwise he la
possible. When they have all mounted,
they dlsposo themselves In three or
four piles like so many plates.
A LITTLE NONSENSE,
A LITTLE NONSENSE.
Buelneee Arrangement of e Men Whs I Ho Hold Up e T roln, but Twis Net of
Wet Too Hsavy.
The big man was annoyed.
“The fact is,” the tailor had told
him, “that yon are so mnch larger
than tbe arerago man that we’ll
have to males an extra charge for
your suit",
Tbs big man hid been np against
the same proposition before, and he
did not like it.
“Do ypu make a reduction to
small men?" he asked.
“Well, no; that isn’t our custom,”
the tailor admitted. '
The fat man felt that the tailor
thus scoured an _advantage that he
ought not to have.
“How much cloth docs it take to
make a suit for a man of good size,
but not too large to get* in at the
regular price ?” Tie asked. “In oth
er words, what’s the maximum that
you allow?”
The tailor told him,
“Suppose 1 order double that
amount of clhth made up into two
•uits?”
“Thai’s all right,” said theatallor,
*but I don’t see what good it will
do you.”
“I’ll get them both at the regular
price, won’t I?’’
“Certainly.”
‘“And it’a nothing to you wheth
er there irtho same amount of ma
terial in each or a lot in one and
very little in the other?”
«x
'No-o.”
“All right. Just take my order
for two suits. I’ve got it fixed with
a little skinny fellow in the next
block to go in with me on thia, apd
we’ll just about make the average
weight. I’d rather ‘divide what I
save with him than let a tailor glv,
mo tho worst of it.”—Chicago Poet.
Weary the Crook In Hard Luok.
The Study of Natart.
t con fens 1 have not much sympathy
with the laboratory study of nature ex
cept for economical purposes. Nature
under the dissecting knife aud the mi
croscope yields Important secrets to
tea .students of biology, but tbe unpro
fessional students want but little of all
this. I know a young woman who took
a ‘postgraduate course In biology at a
noted summer school, and the one
thing she learned was that certain ba
cilli were found only In tbo nqueons
humor of tbe eyes of white mice. Tbe
world Is full of curious facts llko that,
that have no bunmn Interest or educa
tional value whatever. — John Bur
roughs In Country Idfe In America.
. voting
Weary the Crook, “hand over that
fat pocketbook, please, at once.
the Railroad Variety.
The traveling men in the smok
ing compartment of the Pullman
were “reminiscing.” The conversa
tion turned to each man’s most
thrilling experience, and each sought
to resohnt a tale in which ho had
played the hero’a part. One told
how he bad carried a beautiful girl
down the ladder from'the Up .story
of a burning hosse. Another'gave
a thrilling' account of how he had
put two burglars to rout, pistol in
hand, at 3 o’clock in tho morning.
Still another told how in tho midst
of a train wreck he had extricated
two men from beneath the burning
timbers just as the flames were
about to engulf them. All the ex
periences, if not yarns puro and
simple, were highly colored by the
vivid imagination of the narrators.
The conversation had been listen
ed to by oitnall, mild mannered, in
offensive looking man and a “rank
outrider.” Seeing a smile hovering
about tho corners of his mouth, one
of the drummers turned to him and
said, “Perhaps you can tell us .some
experience of yours of this kind.”
"Well, maybe I can,” replied ttto
stranger in a way which seeped to
indicate that thrilling expfficnccs
wero to him an everyday occur
rence. “I’vo done several things in
my time. For instance, onco I held
up a train.”
“What I” came a burst of incrcd-
nlous surprise. “You don’t look it,
man. You all alono held up a
train ?” Their tone seemed to indi
cate wonder as to what ho was do
ing outside of a jail.
“Yes, alono and unaided I held
up a train.”
“Tell us about it.”
They crowded around expectant
ly and lighted fresh cigars.
“Oh, gentlemen, I don’t know
that 1 caro to talk about it. Are
you sure you want to hear it ?”
“Ccrtaidly. Go ahead,” came the
chorus.
“Well, I said that alono and,un
aided I held up a train. Yeu see,
it waa this way: I was nine years
old, and f was a page at my big
sister’s wedding. The train was
pretty heavy, but”—
He got no further. For onco the
laugh was on tho drummers.—Now
York Times.
The Luok ef Lucky Lucas.
I
’Clews and notes
3
Carnegie will be compelled to
testify in the Chadwick case.
The town of Port Arthur is
.now being demolished by (lie
Japanese.
Judge Swuyne of Florida is to
bo impeached.
Mrs Chadwick seems over
whelmed by news of indict
ments.
Two duck hunters frozen to
death near Wilmington, N C.
Tho Citizens Bank of Wrights,
ville, Ga., has suspended busi
ness.
Hussia seems to bo a house di
vided against itself.
Governor Vardman, of Mis
sissippi, says: •• ‘Wo tried for
many years to live in Mississippi
and sliaro sovereignty and' do
minion with the negro, and wo
saw our institutions crumbling,
we raw the public funds squan
dered, we snw tho civilization
that our forefathers had taught
for passing away, and the law of
self-preservation being the first
law, we observe it, we rose
the majesty and. highest type of
Anglo Saxon manhood and took
the reins of government out of
the hands of the carpet bagger,
and negro, and, to help us God,
from now on wo will-never slmro
any sovereignty or dominion
witli him again.’ ”
< “That’s right. Now, I sKbuldn’t
be surprtafl if it contained a cool
hundred in bank notes. It’s fat
enough.”
Kane Defter.
Mrs. Wise—I wouldn’t bnve bought
cigars (or my iqisbuinl If 1 were you.
A tn:tu doesn't 111id bis wife to do that
Mrs. McBride—1 know It’s risky unlaaa
you're very careful to get tbe bosL but
.1 waa careful. Mr*. Wise—Were you?
airs. McBride—Vos. I picked out a box
•.ailed “Finest made.” There couldn’t
possibly be anything better tban that,
you know.
Pride of Ancestry.
**We can't afford to recognize them.
Their ancestors were in trade.’’
"Weren't ours?” ’
“Of coarse, but onr trade ancestors
arc two generations further back tban
Jbelra’’—Chicago Post
llut-it didn’t. It only contained
u lot of advertisements for situa
tions vacant which that young man
had meant to apply for.
Unfortunate Phrase.
“Oil, John,” cried Mrs. Subhubs
(ho moment he got home, “you told
the cook tliis morning to clean up
the silver, didn't you?”
“Yes,” lie replied. “Why?”
“Well, 6he cleaned up the silver
and a lot of other things and#he’i
f pnc with them.” — Philadelphia
'rcss. * • •
Cause and .Effect.
“She’s terribly troubled with
corns.”
“Why, she told me she hadn’t
one.”
“I know. They’re her husband's,
and they make him too cross for
anything.”—Philadelphia Bulletin.
“What’s that ?’’ cried the motoriat
as his tire exploded. “Broken bot
tle, eh? I believe that—
It would he reasonable, under
tho circumstances, to suppose
that Mrs Chadwick had hoped
for the death ofjAndrew Carnegie
before those notes ramo to light.
$100—Dr. K. Decthon's Anti-.
Diuretic may be worth to you
more than $100 If you havo a
child who-soils bedding from in
continence of water during sleep.
Cures old aud young alike. It
arrests the treuble.at once. $1,
Sold by the Gem Pharmacy, Way-
cross, Ga -
LAWYERS.
L AW °TL E 8°£eaTA80R
Oflles In Raw Lott and Bitch Building.
Anoaaav'a A Cotm.sioaa at Law.
Loll A Bitch Building, Waycroas, (la.
OfBc* In holt A Hitch building.
Soltdtor-Oen.ral of •>* Brunswick Circuit
Waycroas Os.
—“fliat fellow put it thcro on
jiuqmsc. I’ll mnko an cxamplo of j
New I ott Building!
Wayeroai. Oaorsla
—just then tho motor started off,
and tho motorist was so busy run
ning after it (hat—
Mesa.
Mias Mdgley-I always try to retire
before midnight I don't Ilk* to ml**
-my beauty sleep. Mias Pepprey—Ion
■really abonld try harder. Ton certain
kj coa t get enough of It—Exchange.
a*fs never any pity for conceited poo-
gbe, hectnso I think they carry thalr
comfort shout with them. —decrx*
Little Willie.
' Willie—Mr. Oldboy, why do they I Lucky Lucas.
! jay you are in your second child-'
' hood?
Mather—Willie 1.
Willie—Oh, I know; it’a because
you are baldheaded, just like baby
Dick.—." ' “
—he left his coaf and hat and a
nice fat pocketbook in charge of
-Boston Transcript
The Great Condition.
Lover—Hay I have your aazwcr
now?
Father—Can you keep my daugh
ter supplied with expensive automo
biles aa she has heed used to?— T
troit Free Press.
An Available Excum.
lie—I’m afraid my picturo of
Mitt Gotrox was not quite satisfac
tory.
She—Oh, well, art should not be
held responsible for nature.—Puck.
WALTER BKNNKTT.
JaAWYlJR.
Watckou, _ • - Okoumia.
Loll A Hitch builUlntf
PHYSICIANS.
WALK HR A IZLAIl
Office up tUira Walter A Mtf'ul.aj
block: Office hour* !i to 10 a. ni., 3 to 4
p. m.. aud (ito 8 p. n>. Dr. Walker'*
residence on Gilmore street. Dr, IiWf
reeideuce Gilmore etreet. Telephone
motion* at office* end rceidcncea.
Order* Bhonld be left et 8iel* I’harmaet,
Office et Residence, LRrunel Htn-et,
Telephone No. 140
Office over Hter Clothing? Store. Keen
denee next corner. Office bonr* H U
• a. m It to 1 p. m.
W. W. An'ley. Collector.
DENTISTS.
Quit. Nactssary.
Hr. Swift—Why on earth art you
taking my revolver to the party?
Ibe. Swift—It is a card party,
my dear. — Cincinnati Commercial
Tribune.
up stain in McCnllty A Walker's
tend*!* hi* professional sarvloas
Waycroas, Gaoftl*
G U. LOVELACE, DaoUsL
a Ofiks ttMtain, Rsddinf Bulldln*
Plant Avenue.
Baaldaon* at Mis. Olaman’A
I twill b* to venz intaraat to as* m
bafor* haying work don*
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OUR CELEBRATED COBB COUNTY CORN
18 GUARANTEED 3 YEARS OLD.
Copper distilled lx (he good eld fashioned style
owe* a open tmrmeoe, which gives a d.lloaoy of
■avow not to fee bad in other bnusds.
Order to-day sad wo will ship la plain ooao aoo
gallon of thle exo.ll.at Whiskey exproaa pr.-p.IS
ter nab.
Harris Favorite Rye
« 11 Years Old
4 Full Quarto, Express Prepaid, $3.00
This fla* old Rjro Wkliktjr 1mm no nuI bo matter
what yon pay. It ia tho kind of mallow taste,
Rood, too, for medicinal u*. Wo will also ahlp 1
f illoa Cobb County and 1 quart Harris Favorite
yo together for 93.00, axpraee prepaid. Sand u
your trial ordar to-day.
OUR GUARANTEE If yon are not antlroly
s pleased and onr Rood* are nut as represented, wo
refnnd yonr money by nert mall. Wo moke no
C. O. D. shipments. Onr refsrenoest Third National
Bank or Express Office. Send Express or Postoffioe
Mono * Order.
A. H. HARRIS.
It Walton Street, ATLANTA. CA.
II Whore Are You Going
* My pretty maid? I’m goioglo Tybee, Siv, she H P .
• P said. And that’s the place where the people are “
Pj '"g”ing this year to have a good lime,
| HOTEL TYBEE
* P. With its many attractions, its fine orchestra, its H P
j ^ splendid bathing an i its excellent cuisine is the ’j P
▼ most Dopulav - easirfc resort on the South At
lantic Coast. Rate-, 82.50 per day; $12.50
and ^15 00 per week.
THE PULASKI HOUSE
* It tht .newt popular place In 8avani>|b and sbouldjbe you^beadquar-
ter* wlwn In tbe city. WRITEjJFoR ILLU8TRA ED BOOKLET.
# CHAS. F. GRAHAM. Prop.
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