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Local News of Newnan' • G. R. Bradley is, spending the week at Borden-Wheeler Bprings AMUSING JOKES. That Ha< • ■*»» Fl«y«# NtuMn a( lrl*»llt« ■o»l«tl Nothing is bo funn>—to the Joker—i the development of it practical Joke or hoax, and the moat learned are souic- tluses'fooled 'tn this'way, to their great discomfiture. An amusing hoax was perpetrated on the learned members of Master James L. Girardeau, of the Dumfries Antiquarian society of Atlanta, is visiting George Bay j London, when an alleged Greek charm, L-| Mainly AW People \ pi—** T ________ _• Black. i mikl to have been taken from the dead 1 body of a Bedouin, who presented -for K. W. Mattox, of Florida, came j their inspection and admiration. It up to be present at the funeral of wus said to have been un heirloom in Lieut. S. G. Orr. the Bedouin’*, family for many reutu- rle* and consisted of a scrap of skin on Frank Dial, Esq., of Cullman, which wae transcribed a mysterious GOOD RED BLOOD. Ala., is visiting relatives in Cowe ta County. Miss Louella Perdue, of Senoia, is visiting the family of L. A. Per due, Estp, this week. Howard Davis, of Washington BENE A. TtT. Tit. TSST. ONERE. FOB. ET. H. CLAUD. COS TER. TRIP E. SELERO, F. IMP. IN. GT. ONAB. DO. TH. HI. S.C. ON. BOR. T. J. A. N. E legend. It was circulated among the members of the august body of the An tiquarian society until It fell Into the hands of Dr. Semple, who, amid much amusement, deciphered the hieroglyph ics as "Old Bob Itldley, O," the refrain of an old song. One of the best of these Jokes was practiced with considerable success by City, is spending a month with pel- 1 an eighteenth century wit. who pro- atives and friends here. j fesBed ,*» un « , « h 1 ed * u memorial slab on which this epitaph Mrs. W. S. Wyche, of Atlanta, was Just decipherable: was the guest of Mrs. J. L. Barge, several days recently. Miss Mary Summers returned ; home Saturday, after spending a month with relatives in Atlanta. Miss Margaret Summers return- j ed to Atlanta Sunday, after spend- j ing two weeks with her father's family and other relatives. Dr. T. S. Hailey returned last Sunday from a trip to Boiden- W heeler, Lithia and Powder Springs. For Sale—One six to eight horse power steam engine; can lie seen in operation any day at Goodwyn's roal yard. 8-ll-4t For Sale—50-saw and 60-saw Van Winkle gins and Cole press Miss ;Glare >Holine* is in Carrollton. Joe Clay Colquitt, of Atlanta, is in the city. ^ John Faver lias returned from a trip to Atlauta. Miss Mary Gibson is spending a while at Mt. Airy. Miss Martlm Orr lias returned from Hognusville. Mrs. J. S. Gibson and children are at I Tate Springs. Mr. Alonzo Norris has returned from j College Park. Messrs. I. P. Bradley and Jim Arnold j are in New York. Mr. Titos. Hughes, of Atlanta, was ill j the city this week. Mrs. E. 1. Weonts and Miss Elinor Barrett are in Amerions. Miss Elizabeth Graves returned to her homo in Sparta Monday. Mr. B. T. Thompson tins returned j from Borden-Wheeler Springs. i Miss Susie Barr is lit home again, nf- . ter a delightful visit, to Opelikit, j Miss Kate Snead is visiting Mr. and | Mrs. Ed Snead at Oakland City. Miss Annie Davis has returned from I a visit to relatives near Franklin. ■ Mrs. I. F. Murphey and Miss Neila “CUTTING OVER.” In vain did archaeologists and lin guists rack their brains to find a solu tion of tills cryptic Inscription, which its discoverer “humbly dedicated to the penetrating geniuses of Oxford, Cambridge, Eton and the learned So ciety of Antiquaries." and It was only when it had driven the cleverest men . . T u . ... „ in England almost out of their wits ! Walton are at Indian Springs. that the following reading wus sug gested by tlie hoaxer: “Beneath tills stone roposeth Claud Coster, tripe sell er, of lmplngton, as doth his consort Jane.” That, too, was a clever, If .rather heartless, Joke which Stoevens, (he Shakespeare scholar, ployed on Gough, known to posterity as the author of “Sepulchral Monuments.” Gough had criticised a drawing h.v Steevens ra ther mercilessly, and the latter forth with plnuned n revenge which should E. E. Dfivis aud son, Willie, liavo been visiting relatives nenr Hoopvillo. Miss Jessie May Roan, of Fairburn, is visiting her sister, Mrs. A. W. Stubbs. It 0«s«ntn Good Manners, 6«»l Morale and Good Morning. Every morning Is A good morning to one who is feeling well. There is no snob thing as bad weather. There' are no blue Mondays or gtooniy Buntlnvs to any one who is living the right sort of life. The good cheer of health, combined with a pure life, serves to turn every morning into a good morning and oven evening into a good evening. The best way to wish any one good morning or good evening is to set lie fore him the example ol’ right living. | for It Is through right living that good | morning and good evening come. It Is of no use to say grace over a 1 badly cooked meal. The grace will not I make it agree with the stomach. There is no use to say good mfirulng or good evening unless we do the things that will make good morning and good evening. Tt is, Indeed, a good morning for any one who has doin' an honest day’s labor at some useful employment and lias found eight hours of sound and refreshing sleep. Of course, It Is a good morning w hen one does that. There is one tiling (lint Is needed, and that Is to * gel rigid or to become adjusted to nil- i tore. We like (he weather When we nrr ad Justed to ihe conditions about ns. There is nothing wrong with the weather. The blnnlc Is with ourselves. The anaemic, nervous woman shudders lit the touch of the spring zephyrs which would be refreshing and grateful to tlie healthy person. The constant fear of drafts, repented dread of exposure to cohl or licut are symptoms of had healtli. If we would behave ourselves as well hs tho weather does there would li(> no cause for complaint. 1( is re freshing to come Into the presence of the man or woman who can honestly lay good morning, good afternoon, good evening who can say it in such a way : that, you feel that they mean It. Good feelings are contagious. An ex I cess of vitality Is catching. Good bu- iSuor that hubbies over, that cannot he Mary, tho little daughter of Mr. and I . Mtl . n , nwl ev< ,„ ln the'presence of un Mrs. M. B. Mooney, is ill witli scarlet j fever. j Mrs. Jurnignn and little daughter, of ! Atlanta, are visiting Mr. and Mrs. P. L. Sutherland. for sale cheap. Apply ^to G. 8. hold up antiquity to ridicule. Procur- Fincanon, Newnan, Ga. * Dr. A. Smith, Veterinarian, I Inscription, “Here Hardcnut drank ing a flat piece of stone, he scratched on it, In Anglo-Saxon character*, tlie Dr. J. S. Todd, of Atlanta, whs in the city Wednesday in consultation with Dr. T. B. Davis. , congenial company, Is wholesome and health fill. i Lots of good red blood is conducive j to good manners, good morals and good morning. Any person who can honest ! ly say good morning lias had a fairly decent sleep the night before. A hearty good morning Is a eertlfleate of self re Niraiul and a clear conscience. Mow Telephone Moos Are Move# From One Itefcttoni’d to Another. "Cutting over” is the technical phrase applied to moving the wires in a telephone central office from one gffltchtioftrdvUo <o.hotl\er. If you will reflect that many of the Switchboards of the type used in, the Bell exchanges of large cities carry tt.tlOO lines, you will see what a task transferring such n mass of wires is. Indeed, there are few mechanical operations which more impress one with a sense of absolutely perfect forethought ami organization. When un exchange is to tie “cut over,” all the outside lines coming Into it, both overhead and underground, are tapped and practically connected with the new hoard while the old one is still i In use. That Is to say. they are brought lido the main distributing frame, which is the liig rack through which flic outside lines aro separated and linked to the proper inside lines which run directly Into the switchboard aud terminate In tin* "Jacks.“ liy means of j which the operator is enabled to put any two subscribers Into communion tlon. I The opportunities fpr confusion and mishaps III thi“ work are evident, and 1 it speaks much Cor the painstaking care with which it is d >oe hat a subscriber Is practically never lost,’’ as the teli phone engineer e:. is t, It one of the lilies Is teiupnrnri’.v u ihc nuicetod. ’to secure such perfection Innumerable tests are liecess: ry not only of the out side lines, hoi of cvor.v switchboard line, ami these are conducted over a long period so as in no nay to disturb the service of the -elisor her. The operators art thoroughly drilled in the i|ko of the new hoard, and when it comes to the actual performance of “cutting over." which generally lakes place some hour In the night when business Is always light, both hoards have a full fojco to work them. The tlnul step Is to cut the old connect Inns and complete the new ones at Ihe same Instant. This Is usually done by pull ing out from the hoard to he abandon ed the heat colls which are put Into every circuit in the distributing frame ; iih a protection to the apparatus against ail overload of elei Irlcity from light ning or from the crossing of wires, or | what not, and simultaneously pushing colls Into the mechanism that replaces I It. Ho rapidly can skilled men perforin the operation that one of them can put j flOO or 700 coils In a place In thirty t reals all diseases of domestic ani trial Office at Gean eld's livery stable. Mrs. Geo. A. Baltzell, of Platts- burg, N. Y., will arrive in New- nat) on Aug. 17th, to be the guest of her mother, Mrs. \Y. Y. Atkin- wlnchorn dry, stared about him ami 1 , died," and had It exposed in a shop Galls answered day or night j which Gough was in the bnblt of visit ing. A few days inter Gough called nt tile shop, saw the slab, which, he was told, had hern found in Kennlngton lane on the supposed site of Hardlcanutc’s pal ace, and, overjoyed at Ids good fortune, carried it off in .triumph as a discovery of rare antiquarian value. He showed SU,K i it with pride to ills fellow member* of Brown Summers, < l>f Atlanta, ' the Society of Antiquaries, a paper . .. was written on it, a learned discussion * (‘nine down Saturday to sqe lattiei, ; a ,„i q„, tnscriittlon was pub- and went to Klim church and to i lishcd in the Gentleman's Magazine, see his grandmother Brown, and Stoevens’ triumph was complete when | turned to Flori . ,, , ,, , ... he took the public Into his secret and - v i #i , *„ .• H liitivos | returned to Atlanta Sunday night, i w pj, (hem, hut what ids vie- H. 1). Owens has sold his resi dence in this city to T. B. Parks. Mr. Owens, who is proprietor of the Progressive ‘Portrait House, will leave Newnan at an early date. J. B. Gopeland has gone to Tacoma, Washington, to visit relatives and for the benefit of his health. He will begone several weeks anil on his return will re enter Mercer University. If you wish to rent,buy or sell a home, vacant lot or farm, or any other kind of real estate call on or. write to J. T. Holmes', Beal Estate and Renting Agent, Newnan, Ga. Office in store of J. \Y. Stripling & Son. tf Every man owes it • to himsell laughed tlin’s folding* and language were II would not have been possible to ex press in print. Something over fifty years ngo the ingenuity of nntlqunrinns was tested by u legend faintly traced on a time worn slab of stone which, so Its dis coverer said, had been unearthed dur ing some excavations In Cumberland. This was the Inscription: Til. IHL SAHAR. DNU. TOC. RA C. K. But what language was It and what could it ineunV The accepted opinion wnR that the legend referred in some way to Hardlcnnule or Horduut, but beyond that speculation even was duic.li, until the wicked Joker had -the effrontery to ixmfess 'tlidt be‘himself chiseled the fiiscrlptlon/of which the true translation wus: "This Is a hard nut to track." And so it wns,— London Answers. Mrs. R. W. Mattox will spend tlm re mainder of summer in town, tlm guest of Mrs. Sanders Gibson. Mrs. Siunnnl Lumpkin and little son. Joseph, of Tnskeogee, Ala., returned home Monday afternoon. Miss Hattie Ellis will leave for Lone ; Oak Saturday. Before her return will visit Grifiin and Oakland. Messrs. Sam Hill and Tom Hughes are spending the week most delightfully with a fishing party on the river. Mrs. VV. M. Mattox and children re ida Wednesday, after a in Coweta County. Mrs. W. O. Wright imd Mrs. Mamie Johnson and children are visiting Hon. and Mrs. Gordon Lee at Chicanmugn. Rev. V. E. Mangot, Sr., and Miss Hallie Munget, of Marietta, are the guests of Mr. and Mrs. D. T. Munget. Mrs. Louise Herring Striokhuid, who has been the guest of Mrs. Sam Hill, re turned Tuesday to her home in Seneca, 8 The city of Newnan has bought a tent The devotee of sensuous pleasure him hccoihIh, aud the whole process of "cut- rarely the honest right to say good , morning. There are no good mornings j for him. Dissipation has soured the at mospherc aud poisoned the snnrlso for him. If lie says good morning lit all lie lie*. 11 Is iflerely u perfunctory remark. Ills languid manner mid ley loueli ex pose (tie falsehood covered by the words "gnisl morning." Good morning is the sequel of good behavior. The price one pays for a real good morning is a good day’s work. Good sleep, early to bed, up early 111 the morning, (hen Indeed 11 is a good morning. Every morning Is n good morning 1o such persons. They have paid the price for It and arc\entitled to It.- Medical Talk. Reform That Was ’loo Thorough. Old Lndy Colburn wus giving her granddaughter some gomi advice the week before tier wedding. "Now It’s all very fine for you to have these I pluns for making John over—If he needs it,” said the old ludy. "He may have some ideas about reforming a few little habits of yours, my dear—hilt you don’t w ant to go too far, either of you. When I was u girl somebody told ting over" in u large other occupies not more Hum two miniiles. '1 lfere is no III lorruptioil of sendee, however, for one group of wires is dealt with nl u lime, so Unit no circuit Is out of commission more than half li minute ul the longest. (lie h In . i me the story of a young woman who sufficiently large to cover acemetery lot u)||de Hle J0 , iug mun „| ie married to lm used when needed on funeral oc- i promise her he would have nothing to cantons. ! do wllh smoking. Well, that was all had looms with Mrs. John AskfeW, are I jp|lo soollilng he’d tieen accustomed to Welch Jvaloae at ImaKlnary 111*. "Talk of a woman’s Jealousy of her husband." said a physician of long aiul hits family to master a trade or j experience In New York. “It Is noth ing compared to her Jealousy of an other woman’s chronic aliments. Half occupying the old Temple Avenue. Mrs. Florrie White and Miss Betti* Lou leave Friday for Macon, where j : Mrs. White lias a responsible position at Wesleyan College. home on K< , ( f roin p| s pipe once in uwhile. | “But If ever she saw 1dm looking at It she’d remind him, ‘You promised me never to have anything to do with Does Fn Hilly “C»mit t" "I go u great ileal un family." iiuirkcil th*' Ward McAllister ol community. "I tell you there's lot blond; family counts." All, does it V Ahriilmm Lincoln's father was so poor that, the negroes culled him po' while trash, and Ahe himself was horn In n log lull with cracks In the walls so wide that you could throw a dog through them, and tils mother’s name was Nancy Ilanks. The father of John Adams ran ii cor nor grocery. John Qilluey Adams, how ever, tniil "family’’ hack of him. for tils father, John, lmd been president of the United Slates. James K. Folk grubbed roots out of a new farm In North Carolina until ho got too strong to work for his father, Mien lie managed to secure a Job In u country store. Andrew Johnson married “family," for Ids wife knew enough to teach him how to read. John Kents wus the son of u hostler unit was horn In u livery stable. Rare Ben Jonson laid brick while he wus learning.iMlfii. ' Napoleon Bonaparte once remarked, "I am my own ancestors.*' Did you ever happen to hear who was CLEMENTINA GONZALES, OF CENTRAL AMERICA, RESTORED TO HEALTH. PE RU-NA THE REMEDY. r Miss ClomonMna Gonzales, Hotel Pro- vincltt, Guatemala, O. A., in a runout letter from £47 Cleveland Ave., Chicago, ill., writes: “# took Peru no loro worn-out con dition. / w as so run down that I could not sleep at night, had no appetite and Mt tired In the morning. ••1 tried many tonka, but Parunm m an the only thing whkh helped me lm the leant. After J had taken but a half bottle I felt much better. I continued Its uae for three weeka and I waa com pletely restored to health, and waa able to take up my stud lea whkh I had been forced to drop. There la nothing better than Peruna to build up tho ay ate m. ’’—Clementina Oonaalea. Address The Peruna Medicine Ga* of Columbus, Ohio, for instructive free literature on catarrh. Largo Increase in City Ta« Returns. The total • value of Newnim property returned for taxation th - year is #2,.'175,270. Last year the figures were s’", I 17,UH5. The gam is #227,1)115. The value of personal property thin year is ¥1,128,010; last year it was #005,285; value of realty this year, #1,217,200; last, year, #1,182,050, These figures are given out l>y City Clerk E. D. Fouse, who D just completing his arduous labors on 1he tax hooks, and who is t* highly gratified (an the people o 1 ' th»> city will lie when they see the figures) at the excellent showing made hy the tax returns. Will Organise Farmers. Mr, VV. S. Copeland, one of oi.i leading citizens, has lieen selected by 1 he Gotten Growers’ Assoc.a tion to do some organization wort, in the several districts of CJowelu t 'ouijty. Mr. Copeland will solicit mem tiers for the organization and will the fattier of Homer or of Hliakcspeure . . , or of Gladstone or of Hoc rates or of address the people m reference to ! pipes or smoking whop we were mar ried.’ Then one day the kitchen stove aet- Wnlt Whitman? Portland Oregonian. profession. Bead the display ad vertisement of the six Morse the doctors would starve If It were Schools of Telegraphy in this is- ; uot for the prevalence of Illnesses that ' are purely Imaginary. Of course, It does not do for us to tell a woman who lias firmly made up li^r mind that she is 111 that she Is not 111. In nine cases out of ten she would lose her temper and consult another doctor. Among certain women invalidism . . , gives them a distinction which is 8:30 o’clock sit her home in i olJc^c . to their sHf love. They muy Park. The party will be given in literally herald to ‘enjoy poor health.’ honor of Miss Mattie Kate Chris- They look' for the rtortort visit to 11 J # . them or their call at hlR office «« the tian, who will be married to All. exciting event of the day. If James Bacon, August 15, at the they know him well enough, they im plore him to waive professional eti quette and tell them about ailments of other women v. ho consult him. Wo men of this description-awl they are legion—have a craving for martyrdom, which dociwring an imaginary illness seems to satisfy.”- Now York Times. The friends of Mr. and Mrs, W. L. ! ■»“> possessed-filled the room full of smoke. Hlie tmlil she thought Welch will be glad to know that their Jittlo son, Theron Stacy, is recovering from his recent illness. I tho stovepipe needed cleaning, hut he— j he wins kind of stubborn, same as most men are et times—be Just sat sue, and learn how easily a young man or lady may learn telegraphy tnd be assured a position. A4-4m Miss Annie Laurie Brewster will entertain Thursday afternoon at Mr. and Mrs. Wade Do.nt returned j there and said, ‘I promised you when Wednesday from Michigan. They will | we were married never (o have un.v- he with Mr. and Mrs. Epli Dent until '“W t0 ri< > w ‘ 1h <> r a,lU 1 this comes under both bends. their home on pleted. Sikesvillo Street is oom- Aud she had to go for the stove : man herself, though he was a real con- Hou. anil Mrs. Frank Clark, nocom- , sklerate man, most ways, her husband pa.ned by their son, Frank Clark. Jr., j waa. You Just bear In mind that little are spending the mflnth of August at | Hot Springs, Ark. They will spend September with friends and relatives in 1 Newnan. circumstance when you’re making Joint over.” home of Mrs. Alonzo Richardson, in College Park.—Atlanta Jotii ntiJ. Dr. Nunnally was called home from Mt. Airy, where he ami his family are visiting, to attend the funeral and burial of Capt. S. G. Orr. He reports his company do ing well. With many of his old parishioners from Rome and Eu- fauia, Ala., it seems very home like. The elevation of Mt. Airy give- them a view of Stone .Moun tain and Atlanta south oi them, and the Blue Ridge on the north, with nothing but the stars and heaven above them. Mt. Airy is an Eden for women, a paradise for mothers and an Elysian field for children and an incubator lor ba bies. At the A. R. I*. Cliuich at White Onk Rev. C. O'X. Matindnln today (Friday) addresses a Young People’s Convention linii|>|ir«-< lnlc*l Courage, In the Tennessee mountains lived a little hunter named Hiram Gates. Al though small in size, Hiram was noted for his bravery for miles around in tLi.t •lion of tho country, where eourugi M(mi)sr«- Sl«mr>r Cnilon. They have n novel method In Rlnni of getting rid of the lushes of paupers and criminals. In one of the Jemples Is kept n flock of ii hundred vultures, and the bodies, Instead of being buried or burned, are given to (hem ns food. As soon as they catch Might of u body tlie rapacious creatures gutlier around it, and It only lukcs them u minute or two to pick nil the flesh <>IT It. A repugnant night It is, but, accord ing to Siamese phyalclans, It Is un ex cellent sanitary measure. The soil **f Siam, they point out, is generally moist, und hence it is much better that bodies should he treated in this way than re placed in the ground, for, If hurled, they would surely prove more or less of a menace to the public health. After the vultures have finished liicir feast the skeletons are placed in wooden boxes and burned. on “Tlie Land of tile Bible,” anil no:;! » xviih a common asset. Once while bunt- Tl>e One rerunli. There was a certain old New Eng land minister who had a blunt way of getting right at the bottom of tilings. With a solemn air lie announced from tho juilpit one day that a button hail boon found in the collection, "Only one individual in the church could have lioen guilty of this trick,” ho said, "arid I shall expect this person to replace the button with a coin.” After service a member of the church owned up to being tlie culprit and tfsicpd: “How did you know I was the man?” “I did not know,” said Ihe clergyman. "But you said only one person could have done it.” "just so,” was the reply. "Two persons could not have put th* same button on the plate.” Sabbath morning and night preaches at the Presbyterian Church nt Turin. Mrs. B. N. Barrow, of Griffin, -Judge K. G.Cfgiu and Mrs. George Grain, of Franklin, Hon. W. C Adamson, of Carrollton, Mrs. M. C. Nixon and Mr. Pennington Nixon, of Rome, and Mrs. T. P. Zellars, of Palmetto, were, in the ity Tuesday to attend tlie funeral of Lieut. S. G. Orr. J. W. Strip'ing & Son have added a gallery, (i to l i feet wide and 8Qj feet long, to the floor space of their mam moth store. As their building ,is 11-4 feet in length they now have one of the largest store* in town. Mr. J. W ing he tracked a hear to a smuli <uye. Now, a man hasn't one chance in a million lighting a hear in close quar ters, hut this fact didn't dihr Hiram for a minute. Throwing down his gun, he put Ids knife between his teeth and crawled Into the dark hole after the animal. By the greatest of good fortune he / Kueeceili.'il in‘killing it, for the reason Hail tiie cave was so small that the hear couldn’t turn around to defend himself. Otherwise there probably would have been a different story. Hiram skinned the hear and then went home, where lie explained the manner of the killing to his father. The old man listened quietly until the talc came to an cud aud then, in Association plans and purpose*, lie will speak at ii^fits anil hn* announced the following appoiV incuts for the immediate future: At Grantville, Aug. 14th; Young’s Tan Yard, 15th; Haral son, Jfith; Senoia, 17th; Turin, 18th; Sharpshurg, I9th, A Wheel Bargain! Stripling is in New York City buying high pitched, quavering voice, said: merchandise, and this firm will show for fall and winter trade one of tlie largest stocks of merchandise ever seen , in Georgia. "Well, Hiram, I like a brave man as well as anybody, but you’re an infernal fool!” Two ( uriouM Kiilvcn. When Sheffield first became fatuous for its cutlery u peculiarly shaped knife, designed for a variety of uses, was made with great core and sent to the agent of the Ciiller’H company in London. On one of the blades was en graved the following challenge: London, for thy life, fihow tu' hoi 'n ,-n.other knife. The London cutlers, to show that lliey were equal to their Sheffield brothers, made u knife with a singio well tempered blade, the blade having a cavity containing a rye straw two and a half inches in length, wholly sur rounded by Ihe steel; yet, notwithstand ing the fact that the blade was well tempered, the straw was not burned, i singed or charred in the least! It is . needless to add that the Sheffield cut lers acknowledged themselves outdone in ingenuity. We lmvo only quo bicycle Jeft in stock. J t’u a beauty —a J‘.)()5 model Crescent, with Pope double tube tires and I’opo coaster brake. This wheel never sells for less than #85 and is worth the money. If we find ii purchaser for it at once, the price will lie only #20. Whnt do You-'think that? of H. S. Bant a, • The Jeweler. SU.