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It seems that the most serious
charge Mr. Daniel is making against
John Temple Graves Is that be is too
fond of flattery. If hanging were the
penalty for this crime who weuld be
left?
Senator Bacon is attending to his
business in Washington and is not
bothering with small and ambitious
politicians. The senator 1b one of the
Htrongest senators in the senate and
the electorate of Georgia will keep
him there as long as he wishes to stay.
--Brunswick News.
Chairman Yoeroans of the State
Democratic Executive Committee
m;t>:«*s the statement that he will soon
call a meeting of that body for the
purpose of setting a time and rules
governing the coming state primary.
8EX IN HANDWRITING.
The makers guarantee: ‘‘Money
bark’’ If Blue Ribbon I^emon or Va
nil In falls to please. Absolutely pure
Goes twice as far and gives desserts
the # "Blue Ribbon Flavor.”
Mr. H. F. Critser, of Haweavllle,
Ky., who came here prospecting and
to visit bis cousin, Mr. M. H. Connor,
has accepted a position with the Dar
ling Construction Company and will
make Waycross his home.
Mr. Earl M. Donaldson, a prominent
Balnbridge attorney, spent last eve
ning in this city, guest of Phoenix
Hotel, en route home after spending
several days in Brunswick on legal
bufdness.
As Iitmatlac Little Kaperlwent (•
Prove a Theory.
It is • curious fact that one of the
only things which even an expert
graphologist does not guarantee to <114-
cover In bandwriting is the sex of the
writer. We are accustomed to think
that the feminine or masculine tem
perament will readily betray Itself in
the written word, but in the majority
of cases such is not the case.
Writing bold, black and firm, most
masculine appearing in every way, will
frequently be found to emanate from
the pen of a woman, while delicate
tracery, with the regularity suggestive
of precision and method or the dash
and spontaneity which indicate a live
ly fancy almost unmistakably femi
nine, one says on examination is discov
ered to Indong to n writer of the oppo
site sex.
An Interesting little experiment prov
ing this theory can l>e made In this
way: Take twelve or twenty
PRIZED HAIR ROPE8.
THE BACKBONE.
TImm hr the Dsriac Egor G«tfa- Ka Bteterr Linked With a Theory of
erers of St. Kllda. Animal Evolution.
An Irish paper not Jong aince offered Ww tdntory of the backbone, like that
$150 for a genuine St. Kildean hair of most life, is not altogether u majes-
rope, such as is used by egg gath- tic upward evolution. It has Its trage-
•rers. On the lonely island of St. KIJ- dies and its setbacks. Its hopes uud fail-
da tiie most appropriate present a urea. In the waters along our seashore
youug woman can give to her fianc* are creatures, some spouge or Ucheu-
Is a rope made of horsehair, or, better like, others with strange bulbllk*
•till, of human hair. The rock scalers | bodies, growing on the end of long
of this island consider themselves rich stalks. But they bold a secret from
above motion if their brides are able j the crabs and snails which crawl .about,
to make them such gifts. The rope/ . uud when the Ashes brush against them
are of various lengths, a good one be- —Jf their poor, dull sense only knew
log forty or fifty feet long. It—they might claim a blood brother-
According to a woman traveler who i hood. When they were young, for a lit
tle while n gris'ly cord was theirs also,
but this, with all t ie hopes that such a
beginning brings, of fish, of bird, of
man even, soon melted away, and theft
they nod and sway in the watery cur
rents. never to know of the opportunity
Hilda begins very early in her child
hood to save her hair combings—uud
opes written in eblrogrnphles you arc j U * MU to dry »nd bleach certain rough
tp of nnd number each scrap clear- I ffrasaea that gr
the wind swept
M. O. Cllgglns. a St. Louis million
alre, killed by runaway hors*;.
Judge Perham filled the honorable
office of Ordinary of Brooks county
for many years, and no county over
had a more faithful and efficient offl-
cor. Wo were not old enough to vote
for him In those days, but wo have the
pleasure of knowing that onr fathers
supported him for the office ns long as
ho asked for it.—Thomasvllle Press.
Jy. Pass them around and sec how biland. The fibers make the cable
many of your friends will correctly I stronger, end the elastic quality of the
guess the sex of the different writers. ! ’ l' 1 '' chafing against the rude
which may he written down nnd num* ' *be rock scaler's descent,
bered like the envelopes. It will sol- 1 ^ Curiosity collector wanted to buy
dom prove that more than one-third of J0 these ropes, which are used by
the guesses at most are correct-Ex ’-he St. Hilda egg gatherers. He of-
change.
CAPTAIN KIDD.
Senator Bacon .*
his record and t
stood on a firm**
wick News.
tvs ho Is standing on
tirely no man over
foundation.—Bruns
When you see two men with arms
ontwired In sweet conversation, while
one tolls the other about Ills health
his family, etc. think not that It Is
the meeting of two long-lost brothers
or boyhood friends. One Is n voter
and the other is a candidate, says the
Nashville Herald.
Mr. Vf. H. Googln, Inspector for
the Mergenthaler Linotype Company,
of New Orleans, spent Saturday In
the city. Mr. Googln Is not only thor
oughly familiar with the wonderftfl
linotype machine, but is an affable,
eourtecua gtn'.lcumn. His territory
covers runny cities and he is well post
ed as to the Improvements being made
by the various newspaper and Job of
fices throughout the country.
John Duncan, a negro, who waa ar
rested here some days since by Dep
uty Sheriff L. B. Anderson, was car
ried to Tallahassee, Fla., today by
Sheriff Hopkins, who came after him.
The negro Is wanted In I*ou county
on a charge of grand larceny.
York Miller, a negro from IJberty
county, was also arrested by Deputy
Anderson and is being held for Sher
iff Brewer, who is expected here to
day from IJberty. This negro li
wanted upon a charge of criminal as
sault upon a negro woman In Liberty
county.
The Career and (he Eadlag of tfi
Panionn Pirate.
Captain Kidd, the famous plrnti
started his career with the Intention .
suppressing piracy. In February, If
he left the Hudson In the Advent"r
Galley with n crew ol 150 men wit
tills Intention. This expedition ha !! oe
equipped chiefly at the expense of the
Whig ministers, and its comn. .trier
carried with him. ‘‘Iiesldes the or ;:»ary
letters of marque, u commission ;.nder
the great seal empowering him ‘ • seise
pirates and to take them to so:- •* (dace
where they might lw> dealt with ac
cording to law."
The king's right to the go »'» found
In possession of these icnlof: <: irs was
granted by letters patent t • the sup
porters of Uie expedition, I' majesty
securing only one-tenth of the spoil.
Kidd, however, soon flndir r ?lint little
was to lie gnlued by tli • •dventure.
threw off nil disguise nti ! I.(listed the
Jolly Roger.
His rapacity and cruelty were un
bounded. nnd In less thr.i. (wo years lie
amassed the sum of £: '>.000. With
this he thought to make Ids pence with
the authorities nnd end !'a days In lux
ury. hut ho was arrest ■! at New York
rid brought to Engki !. where he was
tried and hanged at I volition dock in
1701.—London Saturday Review.
Prfnre \npolron.
Prince Napoleon In 187<> was some
thing of n prophet. When ho heard of
the eiuperor's declaration of war he
hurried to St. Cloud nnd had a jtortuy
Interview with the emperor. He didn't
hesitate to say. "It Is the emperor who
has brought this upon us," and the em
peror. while offended at his frankness,
admitted that "your presentiments |*or-
hnps correspond with mine." Then the
prince fired Ilia last shot nnd showed
that, though he might go nstrny In
many things, he knew of the weakness
of France nnd the strength of Ger
many. He turned on his bee) nml. with
that bitterness which he didn’t hesitate
to exhibit when occasion required, said:
"So lie It: so lie It! lA*t us, however,
make haste to pack our |»ossessious. for
we are already beaten." And so the
result proved.
has spent much time at St. Hilda, the
ordinary rope consists of a stout hemp
en cord wrapped round nnd round with
■beep's wool, then with horsehair and
finally on the outside with human hair
It is the work of years to inauufur- w ^ f
ture such ropes—and the maiden of St. I which nature has snatched from them-
why. who can tell?
In sharks the backbone has become
Jointed and flexible and a rude kind of
skull Is present, but still more Impor
tant is the presence of four fins, which
correspond to the four legs of lixard>
and to the wings nnd legs of birds.
curious basket-like skeleton protects the
delicate gills, and it Is probable that
this existed lodg before the limbs ap
peared. All Is still of gristly cartilage.
In the higher fishes bone replaces the
cartilage, and when the lowly tadpole,
flshlike at first, swimming about by
means of the fin around his tail, pushes
forth his legs and climbs upon the land
our skeleton Is well on Its way back
ward. Reptiles of old took to trees.
Tlielr backbone grew less flexible
that they might safely sail through the
air. feathers replaced scales, two fin
gers of each hand were lost and one
from each foot, teeth disappeared,
beak of born proved best Intelligence
Increased and the forehead rose high,
and behold—n bird!—Outing Magazine.
' fered $1(J0, but the amount waa re-
; fused scornfully.
THE ESKIMO SMOKER.
Me Dearly Love* Tobacco and Not a
Mlta of It la Waated.
"No nmu is fonder of tobacco than au
Eskimo,” said an arctic traveler. ’The
Eskimo depends for bis tobacco solely
on the white man. For a pound of it
be would sell his oldest son.
"It is odd to see an Eskimo smoke.
He chops his tobacco fine and mixes it
with chopped willow twigs so ns to
mnke it go further. Then be cleans out
with a picker of bone the small stone
bowl of his pipe, and then be plucks a
lock of hair from his deerskin suit aud
rains it down In the bottom of the pipe
bowl so ns to prevent any of the finely
chopped tobacco from escnplng Into the
stem.
“Finally he lights the pipe and smokes
It iu a swift series of loug, stroug puffs
so that there may be no waste. Each
puff Is inhaled deep down Into the
lungs, nnd the first puff’s smoke Is still
streaming from the nostrils long after
another puff has been started. There
must be, you see. no waste. There
must be none of that vain combustion
of tobacco without benefit to the smok-
• which goes on cautinually among us.
“Often the most exfierienced Eskimo
will smoke so iwml nnd fast that tears
rill stream from Ids eyes, he will cough
Intently, and sometimes vertigo nnd
nausea will seize him.”—New York
ress.
Enenilc-M.
Ith an in-
animals,
by young
TWe mull 1 vat nf the mult Sena.
Home idea of the snltuess of the wa
ters of the Dead sen may be gnlued
from the euuiparlsou made t>clow. The
Dead era la situated In Palestine, ‘JO
miles east of Jerusalem. It is 35 miles
long and from 10 to 15 miles wide, with
ivernge depth of 20 fathoms (120
feet). Common ocean water contains
but :\) parts of unit to the 1.000. Those
of the Dead sea contain 250 parti to the
1.000, whtcli makes the briny solutiou
exaetly one fourth salt.
On Thursday David Thornton, of
‘Waycross. paid his best respects te
eur city.—Fitzgerald Eaterprtme.
Mr Robert F. Flowers left yeater
*iny for a visit to relatives at Willis-
ton. Florida.
Waycross has much prosperity to
•lore for her In the future.
Another bank for Wayoroa is among
J»e new enterprises being spoken of.
Broxton Is to have an exposition
this year. Not « fair, mind you, but
an exposition.
Tlir Cut I bur Heim.
The famous Calabar Iteno is said to
l>e worse than strychnine. The natives
use It for an ordeal. If a |*»rson la ac
cused of a crime he is made to eat one,
being adjudged to be guilty Iu case of
death, which Is almost Inevitable. An
other seed employed for a like purpose
is that of the ordeal tree of Madagas
car, said to be tile most deadly of vege
table products. One of these sci*d*
about the size of an almond will kill
twenty men.
n I nml* That Are AltTnyn
Many animals are born i
heront antipathy for othe
The excessive fear shown
rabbits which for the first time smell a
ferret nnd of young turkeys which
hear the shrill cry of a hawk they
have never heard or seen liefore, are
pro veil examples of the strength of
these instinctive antipathies. But the
case of the.weasel and rat is, perhaps,
more to he noticed because of the great
er equality of the antagonists. The
feud is so bitter that a meet lug be
tween them almost certainly means
death to oue or both. Friendships are
not uncommon between the cat and
dog nnd have been known between a
dog and wolf, but the mutual attitude
of the weasel and rat Is Invariably war
-war that is waged to the death.
BATTLE OF MARATHON.
castori#
lot Infant* a; 1 '■hildren.
;The Kind You Have
Always Bought
Bears the
Sia?.atrru
in
Use
For Over
Thirty Years
CASTORiA
The Word *‘Nn*C*t."
"Nugget" was formerly used to sig
nify a bit or lump of anything, ns n
"nugget of tobacco." Nowadays, how
ever. It Is used principally of gold na it
cornea from the mine. This nse Is Aus
tralian. Governor Sir Wllltum Deni
son of Australia wrote In 1852, "In
many Instances the gold is brought to
market In lumps or nuggets, as they
are called." In Queensland there Is
g peculiar use of the word unknown In
the reat of Australia. There, when a
man appropriates unbranded calves, he
Is said to be "nuggctlng."
Curly Hair.
Curly hair la a coustltutlonal. hered
itary phenomenon. The curly hair curls
because It Is flat. Straight hair la cylin
drical. Being fiat, ;hc hair has a nat
ural tcndcucy to assume a spiral shape.
Cutting has no effect, as the cause of
the flntuois lies In the shape of the fol
licle. Hair Issuiug from a slanting,
crooked follicle la bouud to be flattened
nnd twisted.
Natural Inquiry. •
"I had a coustu who was in one post-
ttou for thirty-four years, and"— be
gan HI Spry.
"HoMlu* a gover'ment Job or playin'
a game o* chess?" Inquired Okl Codger
In hU usual grim way.—ruck.
knbarruitluz.
Rich Fiancee—Ob. this tiouquet Is too
costly! You must take it back to the
lieutenant! Valet—Oh. that’s all right
miss. Since,my master is engaged to
you be has been able to get thinga oo
credit—Fllegeode Blatter.
In the true life of the individual each
day It the bcgtnntng of a sew year.—
Jordon.
He (■'■Oerulood.
Paul Louis Courier, when bitterly as
sailed by a French professor, quietly
remarked: "1 fancy be must be vexed.
He calls me Jacobin, rebel, plagiarist
thief, poisoner, forger, leper, madman.
Impostor, cnlumnlotor. Ilbeler, a hor
rible. filthy, grimacing ragpicker. I
gather what he wants to say. He
means that he and I are not of the
same opinion, and this la bis only way
of patting It"
The Noil UcclKlve Day In (he HI*,
(ory of (he World.
The single day in the world’s htaiory
which was fraught with the most tre
mendous consequences to mankind was
the day on which the battle of Mara
thon wus fought. The handful of tiny
states that inhabited Greece had devel
oped faculties which Indicated that
man had advanced another stage to
ward the highest ideals.
Foremost among those little nations
was Athens, which state, too. contained
the germs of human freedom. It was
the forerunner of the democracies of
the world. But the very existence or
Athens nml Greece was threatened by
the huge barbaric empire of Persia.
Darius had sent out Ills hordes of war
riors to add the Grecian states to his
vast dominions. Face to face his forces
met the Athenians on the plains of
Marathon.
Hitherto Invincible In the field, the
Persians looked upon the little army
opposed to them with contempt. The
Greeks themselves hesitated to hazard
battle with the conquerors of the
world. Their generals debated the
question, nml the decision to fight the
Persians was caused by the eloquence
of the Immortal Miltindes. He led his
10.000 Greeks against the Persian host
aud gained a decisive victory. The glo
rious day of Marathon beat back the
advancing tide of eastern despotism
and barbarism and saved the freedom
ind civilization of the western world.
—Pearson's Weekly.
Romes’s Fate Not Ours Just Yet.
(From the Chicago Journal.)
The Roman historian who sees in
Theodore Roosevelt another Augustus
Caesar frantically trying to save his
decaying country, sick with too much
salth and luxury, Is nunecessarlly
alarmed. We have wealth and luxury
In America, but the wealthy and lux
urious have not learned to be idle.
is still the fashion, and our rich
and their sons are not yet in danger
of imitating Lucuilus.
The historian might find excuse,,
however for his parallel by looking!
for his parallel by looking elsewhere j
than the United States. On the same
brow,” who never owns a home or
enjoys the luxuries of life. He always
has a kick coming, and never lets a
chance to kick go by. Everything
goes wrong with him—when he Is a
man. Parents should use every poss
ible means to make graduates in econ
omy of the boys and girls.
A Kins'* n«c.
Alfonso, king of Aragon, was one
day examining the different articles In
his Jeweler's shop In company with
many ladles of his court He had
scarcely left the bouse when the Jew
eler missed a diamond of great valne
aud ruu after him, complaining of the
theft. The king, not willing publicly
ta disgrace any of his attendants, com
manded a large bnslu full of sand to
be brought him. Into which he directed
each person to put iu the hand cliuched
aud to draw it out flat By this means
tlie diamond wns left In the sand, un
known by whom.
CtlfilM.
Calcium was first made In minute
quantities by Humphry-Davy. In the
new process chloride of calcium Is
placed In a receptacle and fused by
electrolysis. An iron cathode forms a
basis upon which the molten calcium
deposits Itself, and the once rare metal
bulkls Itself np Into an Irregular rod
resembling a cabbage stalk. When the
•talk has grown to the right length It
It chipped off aud dipped In paraffin
wax to preserve It from the action of
the air.
The Atlantic & Birmingham Rail
road Company expects to spend one .
half million dollars on terminal im
provements In Brunswick and will
proceed with the expenditure as soon
as we can get fee to the property of
a valid agreement to that effect from
(lay that nn ‘association ot~hla*charita*!^*' clt ^' Thla compan - T wl>h «
bio subjects petitioned King Edward j make these '“fovements 33 a »
-to set an example by leading a simpler pos8ib, ° and win agree ,0 d0 tb0
life, St. Paul cathedral was Invaded j *' ork promptly eIp * Ildln * n0 ‘ ,es5
by a horde of starving men and wo-j 1
men, hoping to thus call attention to]
their misery . It Is estimated that, at j ■■■■
least, a million persons are without' Newspapers which publish the re>
work or food In England, where al-! suits of church euchre parties where
ready another million are in the poor- i prizes are given away may be exdud-
houses. And yet the British leisure j ed from the malls by Postmaster Gen-
class, composed of families many of I era] Cortelyou. This is to apply only
, ■' than one hundred thousand dollars In
j twelve months.—Brunswick News.
which have $500,000 a year, does noth
ing but look for pleasure, just as the
kindly king himself does. If America
Mr. Charles F. Smith, consulting
engineer, representing Mllllken Bros,
general contractors, of New York, is
In Waycross today looking over the
grounds where the Atlantic Coast
Line shops are to be located. Mr.
Smith's firm Is bidding for the gener
al construcUon work of the shops, and
os they expect to be successful, the
matter of obtaining sufficient help In
this section of the state is being look
ed Into. Mr. Smith will wait in this
section for several days awaltbig In
structions from his firm.
Editor A. P, Perham, Sr., of the
Wnycrcss Herald, has been appointed
to such affairs as charge an admission
fee. Parties where the.players are
not required to present tickets do not
come under the ban. The attorney
general for the postofflee department
says the rule will not be made to
work an injury to any worthy enter
prise, but adds that It will be best
for the press to refrain from printing
lists of prizes of affairs where admis
sion fees are charged.
And now they say our old friend
Perham, of the Waycross Herald, has
consented to “stand” for the legisla
ture. How the mighty have fallen!—
Grady County Times. "There may be
something in that" friend Hale, as the
girl *sa!d.
Tkrft Kningf and Remarkable Men. j
As Dumas. the grandfather, prided j by Governor Terrell a. the trustee
himself more upon his wonderful from the Eleventh Congressional Dls-
strength »°d .ktn U ■thlrilm than ' Mct the confederate Soldier."
his generalship, as Dumas the second .
prided himself mere upon bl. know! 1 Home at Atlanta, *nie appointment
The Kind .he Wonted.
Husbiuul — Anything you want In
town today, my dear? Shall 1 order
some more or that self ruing flour?
Wife—We have plenty left but I wtib | edge of cookery thnn the authorablp of j a pood one and the honor—for It 1.
you would .top nt a registry offlee and j -The Three Musketeer.." >o Duma. I
order me a self rising servant girt- the third prided himself more upon Ida
Illustrated Bit.. i knowledge of ert tbnn upon the writ
ing of “La Dame mix C.mellaa." They
were three .trnnge and remarkable
men.
Pttpsrls. the soil.
"I notice the young Widow Pretty-
man doesn't have her wldow’a treed.
m much tn evidence now."
N'o; die', clearing those weeds away.
an honor—is worthily conferred. The
Eleventh congressional district ha. no
better man tn It, taking men a. they
are and considering them "all in all,'
than A. P. Perham, Sr., and bli -war
record la na good na the be»L—Albany
Herald. Now. that's the kind of com-
At Their Own Eipease.
"Do you joke writers eTer make jokes
I believe die sees sign, of a second crop at your own expense?"
orange blossoms.- — Philadelphia "For the first few years all our Jokes P n m ent we like. To be lust about as
are made that way. After that If . ,
we're lucky, we get paid for 'em."- S°° d “ the oommon ™» of P eop,e
Ledger.
That's Why.
"You aay you conceal nothing from
your trifer
Abeolutely nothing.”
‘And why do you not?"
'It la evident that you do not know
my wife."—Ilouatoo Pott
Cleveland Leader.
Nothing can bring you peace but
yourself; nothing can bring you peace
but the triumph of principle*.—Enter-
The Barmls.
"You ought to take this hone- enld
the dealer. "He la a bargain."
"Well, then. 1 don’t went him,- said
the customer "I want something to
drive, and I never coo Id drive n hep-
gate."
The meet manifest sign ot wisdom
Is e continual cheerfulness—Montaigne.
and not better than anybody else, Is
about ss high as our ambition goes.
The boy who saves his money, be
comes the banker, the merchant, the
professional man. The boy who never
saves a cent makes the man who
“eeras his brand by the sweat of his
In an editorial on the gubernatorial
contest, the Douglas Enterprise has
this; "In the wind up It Is believed
the home-run will be closest between
the two greet newspaper men, Howell
and Estill. Both are men with spot
less records In private nnd public life
nnd while Ur. Howell has the advan
tage of all candidates nt this time, the
Estill cyclone that swept the country
a few years ago, having an earlier
start, now may, leave tn the track the
fallen timbers and demolished cast leg,
of all that opposes its fnry.”
Mr. Donald W. McDonald, repre
senting the Southern Presbyterian
which la published In Atlanta. la in
the city. Mr. McDonald occupied the
pulpit at the Prenbytnrian church yes
terday morning nnd delivered a flue