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VANISH 1 NG JACKALS. InNlInrf Mn K«- Marvel" lug l- tin tin- .1. K. Fight will IU-I'llll-llt :■ till! g ncriih- tli Jun»;J«- Hi- very Inst ’Hu-. mill the ' elrnr I i;t lllll. t, .l.'ieknl vli I'M' I' L obliged ' litit rn-ii- I until Then tlif A n I in ii I n to ,rlnn luvlulhle. , . fill III 11H work ,. Iii-il met \\ llieli tells tu i-tTilie Itself from • r tine.ileus. Vntl limy ll-IHe lllllf M ilo'/.en of !>: evil liensts trntlliii . I weeu jintelies ol the e;i it. hut m that \ , use In he there. • fair sized dogs, though rough. is iml. s ali-l single inn I in rt of He ground Thin i lar itil.-i|>ta: of the sill-1 A ires of evi tills |"lfeit Ill'S llllllltN t rub your a sis'll of :, eld nun yotl sa w a ido -e they \\ ill lie i . itler fur shelter. >11 stand the 1111 its |< m .H'Uals have become -.1 the hare brown i-hlevi it by tile |ieeul a ii- tli'-ir eolorltiu to that e til till- Sllll I III Ill'll soil . >iiIon have brought about III . li d bet Ween tile Jack .. it-, surrotinillnus. After the rains In India, when lush veuetntIon s|i|-lti : I up everywhere and fond aboninls in il. the Jackals need never allow thelilselves out of cover, but In the Iml weather, when the land Is blistered brown, the Jneliitls must often wander far Into tin* open to be early at the f< ist upon the starveling goat that Inis died oil the dusty track to the village There the matter Iiiluht end, save that NiinictlincH. from the llendlsh olttm or whleli the Jackals make at nlulit when the lie d renders sleep almost Im possible. Mill tie tempted to touch them to give ymir tent or bunualow a wider berth on their way to and from their f coding KriillllilM Tills may have been the feellnu of a mail who was camped out In the Jtiuul" on business of the uovernnient of In din as lie sal at Ills tent door, rllle In hand, scanning the dry slope of stunt I'd brown scrub Houietlmes be saw one tilt like a shadow from cover to cover, lint whenever lie used Ills Held glasses or half raised Ills rllle there was not a slim of life or movement anywhere So dual, fell. II 11(1 another sleepless llluht followed not solely caused by the jackals, lot' the carelessness of the native servants in cooking their meal In tlm did stream bed below bad set the hillside lllll, classed as govern incut “forest" in Ids map, on lire tin tin' following aflernoon, when Ills solllai'.i dii.i's work was done, lie sat again ot III- tent door opposite the brown -lope with Its new disfiguring spl i di '-I black marking the scene of tli it lull I ’resent ly. almost as cun . ii up. i a black I lie on a white taldei loth, i gray brown Jackal furtive l\ Iroti d on I" the blackened ground At tin movement of the arm whleli ral-i'-l the idle the jackal Instant line oiihIj i roi!<-Iii'iI to the black sill'faee, and there, silhouetted distinctly, It lay I m it Ii ii di'«H lint i 1 the rllle spoke, when II kicked once and died A second came with like result, except that It did not ••veil kick once, hut the third struggled over and over and needed a second shot to ttnlsli It I .muIon Answers. Iloiv to Cook liter. l’hysleiaiiH and others who have eat en rice cooked by a Hindoo, a t’lilnil- liuili or a southern darky must have re imukcd the dlll'erenee between the re suits obtained by these artists and lliose of the benighted cooks of the north. \Ye learn from an authoritative source that the secret ties In the fol lowing recipe: The flee should bo care CAREFUL OF THE FIRE. Mm* K#»«*|»«*rn of Spain aii.tl Soil t !i«»r ii In the smaller hotels of southern Italy and of Spain, writes Mr. Hart In "Two Argonrtlts in Spa n." the mi fortunate murids slowly freeze. The landlords display a touching solicit tide iihmit the stove*. On days when lire |< ITillly l|'"slc.| I i k " ,i the gue t warm they sometimes spend half 1h"lr time trying to keep the servant* front putting ta i much fuel on the tire. To prevent Auioi'h'.'ins and other pyrmni.nhies from meddling with the fuel they often keep the coal lllll lock ed. Il I- a touching spectacle to s" • n group of Americans sillvorlii" round a little stove; to see the servaTTt elite:', take out a key, unlock the coal bin. put l.\vo or three spoonfuls of coal In tlio slave and then lock the bln again; to see the gimlet eye of a Urntiada Im111111utI fastened on him from the of lire; tlien to see the hapless Americans sink hack Into their overcoat collars and wish they were hack home. As an Instance of the desperation to which these cold hotels drive people 1 once In a i.cvnntlne hotel saw nil elderly spinster sent herself In front of the stove in the men's smoking room, with her hair down, while an elderly female friend gave her a dry slintnpoo. To the suggestion of the scandalized servants that she should finish this Intimate toilet operation In her own room she replied briefly that she had found the only warm place In the ho tel and proposed to finish the shampoo there, which she did. DREADFUL POISONS. The Fumes of Mercury Methlile Will I'roilure InenrHlile lilfloef. "The more dreadful poisons,” said n chemist, "are only known to n few men. Mercury methlile, for Instance, the Inhalation of whose fumes pro duces luciirablu Idiocy, can lie manu factured by two Italians and by no one else In the world. "Idintoora Is a poison used In India. It, too, produces Incurable Idiocy, A British army officer told me of a sail case a case of two rival tailors, one of whom gave the other a hhuiII dose of dluitoora. The victim of the drug remained an Idiot all (lie rest of Ills life, lie sat and moved Ills empty llllllds Its lluillgll lie were sewing, lie was a formidable rival no longer. ".Mercaptan produces a melancholy so great as to terminate nearly always In suicide. No government would per lull the maiiufacturo and Niile of tills poison. "I dinlonrn, mercury met hide, mer captan and some twenty other poisons are nellher made nor sold In any puli lie way. They are only experimented with. Kiicli poisons would lie I'ormid aide weapons In unscrupulous hands. Driving their victims to suicide or to Insanity, they leave behind them noth lug suspicious or untoward. The giver uf these poisons Is secure from tiny fear of punishment. "lienee it Is no wonder, Is It, that the learned men who know such poi sons keep their knowledge to them selves. Chicago Chronicle. A lilt of Stoll,'. "There Is no Italian town more pie luresipie than the Sicilian capital. Pa lermo." writes a traveler. "In Its port lie crowded the queerest coasting craft 1 have ever set eyes on. Sailing ships of all rigs, their hulls painted all tin A FIRE IN BURMA. It 11 utrnrfil n VIIIiikc. nml the In- hnbllnnfs I'njnyffl It. It s not easy to guess what a native of Burma would think of the quick ac- tioii and spccil of an American lire on glue and Its cimpiiiiy. Whs! an Amer ican thought of Iturincsc custom at such time of Hood is recorded by Mr. II I >. Cuming In his hook, "In the Shadow of the Pagoda." Mr. ('tuning was inter cstcil in a mill situated near a small Burmese village. Dm* morning a tip broke out among the lightly built hum boo lints and rapidly spread. I ordered out the little mill lire en giuc. had tin; hands sunimonc I and ran the engine to the hunting vllllnge, sa,i> Mr Cuming. It was blitzing as only bambini and dliunny (batch can blaze One bouse after uliotlicr catlgld in rap Id succession. The men nt the engine pumped until they were tired out, and tlien I called on the villagers to re Hove them. No one moved sin e to urge others. 1 called again. An old man who was a petty government ofliclnl, and so prob ably felt a slight responsibility, rose, girded up Ills loins and called for men. Ills son and one other got up unwill ingly, carefully laid aside their cheroots and took hold of the handles. The rest of the population squatted and laughed. I turned to and worked, though weak front a long fever. The old man soon pumped himself out, and when be left the others left. I pounced on two men and made them take hold. As they began to work n flight of paddy birds streamed overhead. The Unities gleam ed rosy on their white feathers. "lied paddy birds! Look! lied pad dy birds!" shouted the population. 'Mils was too much for the men at the handles. They squatted on their heels nml stared up in delighted astonish ment. I grow desperate. "Whose house Is (tint7" I asked, point ing to ouo Just threatened. "Your honor, that Is the house of I’ho Kuo." "Where Is he?" "Here,” pointing to one of the men 1 laid driven to pump. He was crouched on the root of a tree, smoking. "Is that your house?” 1 asked him. He nodded and smiled pleasantly. "It will be on lire in a moment.” "Yes, your honor, 1 think so,” he re sponded alYably. looking at bis dwell lug with a disinterested ulr. I burst mu laughing, and the natives Joined, king to anil fro, roaring with amusement, as if the Idea of trying to put out a lire was the greatest joke In the world. I told the men to coll up the hose and take the engine home, and I restdved not to spoil the Innocent pleasure those light hearted people took In witnessing the destruction of their village. From Chicago, every day, March i to May 15, 1905,10 San Francisco, Los Angeles, Santa Barbara, Sacramento and many other points in California. Tickets good in tourist sleeping cars. Rate for double berth, Chicago to San Francisco, Los Angeles, Santa Barbara, Sacramento and many other points in California, $y. Through train service from Union Passenger Station, Chicago, via the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul AND Union Pacific-Southern Pacific Line If you are thinking of such a trip, this is your opportunity to make it at least expense. Handsome book descriptive of California sent for six cents’ postage. F. A. MILLER, General Passenger Agent, 1245 Railway Exchange, CHICAGO. or, W. S. HOWELL, General Eastern Agent, 381 Broadway, NEW YORK CITY. Complete information will be sent free on receipt of this coupon with blank lines filled. Coupon should be mailed to-day. Name. Street Address. City . Probable Destination. Stt,te Siltin' I’o»|ili> \ri' 111 I ii it to rbiiniT., It Is 11 dangerous thing to wait for op purl unit low until it becomes a lmblt Kucrgv nml itu'llmitlmi for hard work »i’P«in"g m ooze out In llie* waiting. Opportunity '.'J', 1 , becomes Invisible to those who nro do ing nothing or looking sonu'whiTi' else for It. It Is tlio groat worker, the limn who In alert for elmnees, that soon them. Some people become no opportunity blind that they ennnot see ehnneeN any where they would pass through a gold mine without noticing anything pro clous while others will And opportuni ties In the most barren and ont of the way places. Itunyan found opportunity In Medford Jail to write the greatest al legory in the world on the untwisted Appendicitis Its Causes. C. W. C. Its cure colors of the rainbow, nose up against | that had been used to eork his boiling water, whleli should he set on the bark of tlte range over n low lire, where the rice should simmer slowly until doue. Ktlrrlug Is not only use less, but harmful. If there Is nuy wa ter left It should ho drained off care fully, and the rlco should then stand In a hot plaee for some time. Nothing should be added during the rooking no salt, sugar, milk or butter. If the cooking Inis b»i'n done properly each grain of rice will stand out by Itself, plump, dry and beautiful. Served very lud at the table, the rlee should tlien be reverently treated with cayenne pep per and butter. Medlenl Journal. Tlie Secret of llnpittne... The man who eon drill Ills thoughts so as to shut out everything that Is de pressing and discouraging and see only the bright side even of bis misfortunes and failures has mastered the secret of happiness and success. He has made himself a magnet to draw friends, cheer, brightness and good fortune to him. Every one Is pleased to see him. Ills presence is like a sunbeam on a dull day There is no accomplishment, no touch of culture, no gift, which will add so much to tin- alchemic power of life as the optimistic habit the determination to he cheerful and happy no matter what comes to ns. it will smooth rough paths, light up gloomy places and melt away obstacles as the sunshine melts snow on the mountain side. O. S. Mar- den In Success Magazine. 1 Fruits ns Foml. According to a celebrated health ex pert. blanched almonds give the high er nerve or brain and muscle food, and the man who wishes to keep his brain power up would do well to Include them In bis daily bill of fare. Juicy fruits give the same In less proportion and are eaten by all men whose living de pends ,m their clear headedness. Ap ples supply the brain with rest. Prunes afford proof against nervousness, but are not muscle feeding. They should bo avoided by those who suffer from the liver. Milt it lias been proved that fruits do not have the same effect upon every body. Some men have never been able to cat apples without suffering the agony of indigestion: to others straw berries are like poison. the quay, wlmre mule carts, whosi drivers are shouting at the top of tliclr fully washed and placed III n kettle of voIccn, wait to take away the liter elumdlse. The narrow street where the custom house otfleers examine the goods brought nslmro is n placo of ter rific noise. When n driver, two clerks and two custom house otfleers are dis cussing the contents of a bale or n cask It seems as though murder must he committed within tho next few sec onds. But somebody signs something, the eart moves on, and everybody I laughs." Volnr of Decayed Forests. The decayed vegetation of forests has furnished to the fields their present fertility, upon which man depends for food. In the tree growtli of virgin woods and In the floor of rotted foliage beneath art* stored the accumulations of centuries. Nature does not care whether this growth Is useful to the human race or not. It is left for us to encourage the growth of such lives as we find valuable to the exclusion "f others. Thus an economical use Is made of the resources at hand, and a now conception of the forest arises. The forest primeval becomes "woodlands." while the new "forest" Includes only cultivated woods. Ttie l’ntlinlroim*. A palindrome is a line or phrase that reads the same backward as forward. Tho Latin language Is full of such lin guistic freaks; the English lias but few. One at least Is inimitable. It rep resents our first parent politely intro ducing himself to Eve In these words: "Madam, I'm Adam.” From the Latin we have, “Roma tibl BiiUto motlhus iblt amor" (Rome, love will eouie to you suddenly with vio lence). bottles of milk. A Theodore l’arker or a Lucy Stone sees nil opportunity to go to college In ft cluinee to pick berries. One hoy sees nn opening to his nmbl- tlon In n chance to chop wood, wait on table or run errands, where another sit's no chance at nil. One sees nn op portunity to get nn education In the odds and ends of time evenings and Tim alarming tmin'iiso of this disease, tho iqipalling mortality i-i sultlng from it, and tlio iiiii'h.- with whleli it lays the hand of diiatli on its victims ill every walk of life' from president or king to the humblest subject in the realm, irrespective of age or local condi tions, 1ms aroused the whole medical world to earnest research and Investigations, todiaeovor if pimsilile, the eauso of lids disease and find for it some effective remedy. Eminent Physicians have shown that thrum Indy is larmdy triiccublu to indiKcmtion, whioh produooH a p«*culinr form of constipation that effects the ascending colon; or upper lx>\v* cl, canning the dreaded Obstruction which has to bo removed by tho Hurgoon'H knife. The ordinary purgative acta on tho lower bowel only, and physicians everywhere hav been nt a loss to know what to use to correct the difficulty, and therefore, resort to the knife. There is a remedy, however, known as Atlanta & West Point Hailroad Co. The Western Railway of Alabama. Dii-ict Lines Between North, East, South and Southwest. U. S. Fast Mail Route. Through Palace Sleeping Cars. Dining Cars. Tourist Sleepers to California. c. w. c. That Cures Appendicitis Stayed the Surgeon's Hand. For ten years I liail a severe stomach and half holidays, which another throws bowel trouble, and could not cat enough to away.—Orison Swott Mnrden In Sue- keep me going. I tried all the known remedies cess Magazine. and many of the best physicians, without ob- mining any results, growing from bad to worse Took Alh.nt... of the Oocslon. culminating ill wlmt my family physician A barrister with a long experience of pronounced "Appendicitis, and that my . , , . „ , only course to save my life wbh an operation. Irish Juries tells the following limns- 8ubmUt , nK to an operation, however, I Ing story ns illustrating their eecen- WBg induced by a friend to try Camp’s Wonder trielties: fill Cure, for Indigestion and Dyspepsia, which A man was charged with committing i eagerly took according to directions. I am a murderous nssnult upon another as a now convinced that the symptoms that wor result of some political differences. ril'd mo so wore eausis! from indigestion of Tile nssnult having been committed the stomach and bowels, as they begat]i Rrndu- n ally disappearing from tile first doseof C. \\ . RKAI) DOWN SCHEDULE IN EFFECT NOV. 20, 1904. No 10 No HI, No 8ft 11 uBp 5 00ft 9 ‘25a 1 25 p j 12 15p ... 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Connections at New Orleans for Texas, Mexico, California, At Chehaw jorTuskegee, Milstead for Tallahassee. LaGrange accommodation leaves Atlanta daily, except Sunday at 5:80 p. m. Returning leaves LaOrange at 5:50 a. m. arrives Atlanta 8:15 a. m. Trains 85 and 3ft Pullman sleepers New York and New Orleans. Through coaches Washing on nml New Orleans. Trains 87 and 88 Washington and Southwestern Limited. Pullman sleepers, compartmen ars. observation and dining ears. Complete service New York and New Orleans. Train 97 United States fast mail. Through day coaches Atlanta and New Orleans. Write for maps, schedules and information. J. B. HEYWARD, J. P. BILLUPS, D. P. A., Atlanta, Ga. G. P. A., Atlanta Ga. CHAS. A. WICKERSnAM, Pres, and Gen Mgr., Atlanta, Ga nt night, there appeared to be some ditHoulty in Identifying the assailant, and, ns a matter of fact, the counsel for the defense made out an excellent case for the prisoner, calling witnesses U-.and soon left me entirely. There must be many sufferers from alleged “appendicitis,” whose troubles are due to the same cause mine were, and to them l would say : Don’t submit to an operation, but take a tew doses of U. W. O. as 1 did, and see how readily your ‘‘appendicitis” will leave you. to tost ifv that he xvns nowhere near pm-o trii-rt and vim will never bo without * bottle in your house. Since I began the use of (\ \V. i am glad to say that I can eat any. thing 1 wish, and have had to further trouble in digesting whatever I eat. I give this testimo nial in the interest of others who may suffer as 1 did ENOCH S. LYLE. Carrollton, Ga. Terms. “Now, me good man," said the pom polls stranger who hnd signed "Vis count Hardcnstle, London," on the reg Ister, “wlint are your terms here “rash in advance,' .shrewd hotel clerk promptly.—Des Mollies News. the spot where the assault took place on the night in question. Everybody concerned fully expected that the jury would bring in a verdict of acquittal, yet to the general aston ishment the foreman announced that the prisoner hnd been found guilty. "But," he added, observing the general Tho combination of vegetable and essential consternation created by his stnte- ; nils in this marvelous cure is such that tho en- ment, “not guilty of this nssnult, ino tire alimentary canal, as well as the region of lord This Is the spalpeen who stole 'he appendix, is kept strong, vigorous and Biddv McCarthy's pig last year, and C. W. C. will^correct any difficulty ... that mav exist, and make it absolutely impos- we follld him guilty Of that! s ? bl( , for the appendix to become congested ! or diseased. 5Vc»t Point'* ltnttle Monument, C. W. C. should bo iti every household. It Oil tho shaft of Rattle monument at is worth its weight in gold, but can be bought West Point appears the following In- at Holt A Cates, Newnan, Ca., at 30c script ion: "In memory of tho officers and 41.00 bottles. WATER MELON SEED' grown in the sunny south. * xtS5 ® !(//.'" Green rind, rad meat full of Juice and to sweet," Tf you want quality, sweetness, and the best meloitB that it te-j, possible to grow, plant our southern-grown melon seed. Northern .3 or western-grown melon seed doesn’t.begin to compare, when you Vi g/’consider the quality and product of the fruit produced. ..y,\\|) Wood's Descriptive Seed Catafseue tells about the best southern melons, ra and all other Farm and GardenBeedS. It's mailed free for the asking, Wt, We are headquarters for Cew Paaa, Sorghums, Seed Corn, Ensilage , ' Corn, nillet, Sole Beans, Valvat Beans, etc. Special price , ' list of Farm Seeds mailed on request. U. W Wood & Sons, Seedsmen, Richmond, Va, and men of the regular army of the United States who fell In battle during the war of the rebellion this monument Is erected by their surviv ing comrades.” On the pedestal of the fuonument appear the names of all the officers of the regular army who wore CAMP DRUC CO., Prop’s Carrollton, Ca. For a Weak Digestion. GREAT INTEREST IN FARMERS’ MEETINGS Great interest is being taken all through the South in the meetings which are to be held in every county on the first Tuesday in He'd Square the Circle. "I understand that you are a geo metrician. Can you square the cir cle?” , ... No me<Hcine can rp l >lace f00d ' but i May. The officials of the South- replied tte ki , UHl in nctlon iu the civlfwar or who Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Tab- ^ Cotton Association are doing died ns a result of wounds received in lets will help you to digest your food. , 6 notion. The names of all enlisted men It isnotthe quantity of food taken that! a '* ln tneir power to tiring these who were killed in action or who died gives strength and vigor to the system, meetings to the attention of farm- ns a result of wounds appear on v> u t the amount digested and assimilated, ers, and are urging a full attend- i bronze girdles surrounding granite if troubled with n weak digestion, don’t .... Tt U helieverl tint at these spheres which form a part of the base fa j! t0 g, V a these Tabiets a triai. Thons ^ 15 belleved that at these 1 of the monument. The shaft is sur as errained from the farmers, and as soon as this information is se cured it will be officially announc ed by the Southern Cotton Asso ciation. By the first Tuesday in May nearly all of the planting will have been completed and it will be pos sible at that time to secure infor mation as to the amount of reduc tion.—Athnta Journal. A man may buy the reputation Yes, if I hnd a couple of thousand I ^o^t^Thy'afigure of Victory design- »m1s hnve been benefit ted by their use. meetings the exact amount of the 0 f being a philanthropist, but he dollars I could square my circle °* i Frederick Macmonnies They only cost a quarter. For sale by reduction in the cotton acreage, j can no t buy the real philanthrop- ireditors.”—Dallas News. * * Holt & Cates, Druggists, Newnan, Ga. and the use of fertilizers can be 1 j s c s character.