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HIVE IN AN AQUARIUM.
Way of Seelac How the Llttlt
Bony Bee Works.
Everybody is curious to see bees Re
ally at work. Take n rectangular
ass aquarium and place It on a win-
w sill, elevated slightly at the side
learest the window, so that when the
latter Is raised an Inch the bees may
pass in and out. If desired, the bees
may he kept for some time In confine
ment by raising the aquarium an Inch
on blocks aud using a strip of wire
•creen cloth to prevent the bees from
neaping.
When confined the bees should be fed
0 sirup of equul parts of sugar aud
Water. A frame or two of bees may
be purchased for a trifling sum.
Tut within this glass aquarium some
rustic supports to represent projecting,
undecayed portions of the inside of the
hollow trunk. Keep all covered by an
opaque cloth when not observing what
Is going on within this glass bee home.
Then the bees will be free to work
and to adapt themselves to the envi
ronment. They can suit their own
fancy about attaching eoipbs to the
Sticks; they may build diagonally or in
any other form that they muy prefer,
and they may attach the comb to sides
or ends Just when and where they
think It is necessary.
In the artificial hives the combs are
attached only nt the edges, but in nat
ural conditions wltidn the bee tree or
In its counterpart, as represented by
the old fashioned box hive with opaque
Bides and In our transparent Inverted
aquarium, the bees cun build combs
and attach them iu any way that they
Bee fit.
One of the most Interesting objects
for study Is to note when the bees
think it necessury to put out a side
support from a long comb. Thoy seem
to believe that thoy aro really within
a hollow tree and that It is likely to be
swayed by the gales. Of course when
so swayed long combs laden with
honey or witli young bees would be
too much for the unyielding rigidity of
the upper pnrt of the combs. These. If
' they have no side stays, would beud,
< crack and bo crashed against each
other.
That bees have learned tills aud give
tlio combs u fine support whenever It
Is necessary. They do this, It Is true to
a certain extent, iu the regular eight
or ten frame hive, hut not with the
t® naturalness with which they do It iu n
*■* large, unobstructed space.
Not long ngo a veteran beekeeper
took a colony of hoes from an nttle,
where they had been for many yours.
"Well,” said lie, “you should liuve
seen the funny forms of those combs—
most Interesting tiling I ever suw.
There was one pillar almost round—a
solid center right and several feet long
—and these combs nround that; the
most fantastic shape you ever saw.”—
Suburban Life.
An Iitrnlraa AMSMfln.
“The favorite horse of the Chinese
Emperor Tsl,” said a Chinese states
man, "died through negligence on the
part of the royal master of the borne.
The emperor was so enraged at thia
that he drew his sword and would
have run the eareless functionary
through the body.
“But the learned mandarin. Yen-
toe, struck up the emperor’s sword,
saying;
“ ’Sire, thle man has not yet been
formally accused of nny crime. He de
serves to die, but his accusation should
come first. It Is the law.’
“ ‘Well,’ said the emperor, ‘tell me
What he has done.’
s ‘ ‘Listen, you rogue,’ said the man
darin, turning to the trembling mnster
of the horse—‘listen to a catalogue of
your heinous offenses. In the first
place, you have allowed a horse to
pertah that hie majesty had Intrusted
to your care. In the second place, it
la on your account that the emperor
became so exasperated that be was
actually on the point of disgracing
himself In ail hie people’s eyea by
killing a man tor the sake of a horse.'
" ‘Enough,’ said the emperor, appre
ciating the rebuke. ‘Let him go. He
la pardoned.' "
Bmklss It Onltf.
i “Laura,” said Mr. Ferguson as he
1 battered. a btacult and passed bta cof
fee cup for a second filling, “1 don’t
i arise anything, but after I had come In
| last night, about 11*), I found the
I boose hod boon broken Into. Some
body had smashed a pane of glass to a
basement wtndow, crawled Inside and
made hie way up the stairs to the first
floor. There hasn’t been anything dis
turbed In the pantry, the china closet
or the sideboard, has there?”
“No," answered Mrs. Ferguson.
' “But, mercy, who could It have been
and what do you suppose be wanted?”
! “t suspect,” he rejoined, clearing bta
throat, “that I—er—did It myself and
tha4 I wanted to get Inside without
disturbing anybody. Yrfu had all gone
to bed, and I bud left my latchkey la
my other trousers. It will coat nbout
25 cents to repair the basement win
dow. The weather man, I see, pre-
dicta possible showers for today."—
Chicago Tribune.
PERSONAL FAILURE.
Kxtortlnw Ctinrltr,
A philanthropist said of u banker;
“Brown is a mean man, Onco I
made him shell out, though. Listen.
"Two ladles, representatives of a
children's fresh nir fund—a noble
charity—called on Brown aud asked
him to contribute. lie gave a dollar.
With all his millions, he gave $1 ex
actly.
“ ‘It's all 1 can afford,’ ho whined,
"My otHce is in Hie same building ns
Brown's bank, and a few minutes later
the two ladies came to me. When I
saw Brown’s name down for only a
dollar I was mail.
‘“Ho says it’s all ho can afford, eh?'
I began. 'Well, ladles, just wait here
a minute.’
“And I called my head clerk, ascer
tained my balance in Brown’s linuk,
and wrote a check then and there In
the clerk's name for $273,040—the en
tire amount.
‘‘‘Draw tills at once,’ I said.
“The clerk departed, and a minute or
two inter Brown himself rushed in
breathlessly, the Check in Ids hand.
“ ‘Hurry,’ lie said, ‘what Is the mean
ing of this?’
“I pointed to the ladies’ subscription
list.
“.‘I have just learned,' 1 said, ‘that
you cpuld only afford to give a dollar
to the children’s fresh air fund. Tills
innde me think that tilings wore look
ing pretty jisliy at the bank. I decided
I had better draw out.’
“Brown had to add two ciphers to
his subscription before I would con
sent to tear up the chock.”
Thrw Kinds of l.l(tli tnln«.
The Etruscans of old believed that
there were three kinds of lightning—
one ineapnble of doing any injury, nu-
oUier more mischievous In its character
' nud consequently only to be Issued with
tho consent of a quorum of twelve
gods, aud u third carrying mischief Iu
Its trnln and for which a rcgulnr de-
; cree wus required from the highest di
vinities in the Etruscan skies. Curi
ously enough, modern scientific men
agree with the view tliut there are
three kinds of lightning, but their vari-
: etles differ from tlie Etruscans. The
first is known ns forked lightning und
runs in zigzag lines, the second as sheet
i lightning, because it is seen in a body,
! and the third us globe" lightning, as It
sometimes runs In the Bbnpe of a ball,
Tho lutter variety is rather slow in
moving.
|
The Word “Nice.”
I “Nice" is one of the exceptional
I words which have risen on the scale
and improved with age. It is from the
Latin "nesclus” and originally signi
fied ignorant. To Chaucer It regularly
meant foolish—“wise and nothing
nice." In Spenser’s time it still meunt
effeminate. From general foolishness
there was probably first a si>eolallxa-
tlon to foolish fussiness about trifles.
Then the Idea of lgnorunee dropped
out, and tho word meant particular
about details, accurate. It was credit
able to be a “nice” observer or to
show "nice” Judgment. And so in the
end the positively ngreoable meaning
of today was evolved.
A Snvnve Poison.
The Juice of the green pineapple is
accredited iu Java, the Philippines
and throughout tho far east generally
with being a blood poison of a most
deadly nature. It is said to be tho
substanco with which the Malays poi
son their k reuses und daggers and to
be also the "finger nail” poison for
merly In use uinoug the aborigine Jav
anese women almost universully.
These women cultivate a nail on each
hand to a long, sharp point, and the
least scrntch from one of these was
certain deuth.
Dlaraell'* Keen Baalneia Instinct.
When the Hon. Mr. Ward wrote his
novel “Tremaine,” he was fearful of
acknowledging himself the author, un
til its fate should have been ascertain
ed. He accordingly, the better to pre
serve his Incognito, sent the manuscript
copy by the wife of bis attorney to Mr.
Colburn. The work, although accepted,
was not considered likely to pay ex
tremely well, and consequently a
trifling sum was given for It. Contrary,
however, to Mr. Colburn’s expectations,
It ran to three editions.
The ingenious author of “Vivian
Grey,” then twenty-two years old, hav
ing heard of the circumstances, deter
mined to use it to advantage, and accord
ingly having arranged his work for
publication, he proceeded to find out
the honorable gentleman’s fair messen
ger. This he quickly effected, and upon
a promise of giving her £20 induced her
to be tiie bearer of his novel to the
same publisher.
.Tlie woman was instantly recognized
by Mr. Colburn as the samg person
who brought him “Tremaine;”'and rec
ollecting the great sale of that novel,
he leaped at the manuscript presented
to him with the utmost eagerness. It
was quickly read, and a handsome sum
given for the copyright. A short time,
however, enabled Mr. Colburn to find
out his error, but too late to' remedy
himself. The work was not successful,
and a considerable sum was lost by its
publication.
The Meene.t Man.
The meanest man has been located
In Philadelphia. He dropped a large
roll of bills on the street, and a boy
who found It returned the money to
blm. Counting the bundle carefully,
the owner put it in bis pocket. “My
son,” he said benignly to tbe boy, “I
am rejoiced to aee that you are guided
by lofty principles, and as an earnest
of my approbation shall refrain from
charging you interest for tbe time you
bave had my money."
A Coall.(.o< Vtmm*.
They were from the country, on
their first visit to London, and a notice
in their hotel puzzled them consider
ably. It ran: “Breakfasts. 8 to 11; lunch
eons, 12 to 2; teas, 3 to 5; dinners, 6 to
8; suppers, 8 to 11.” “Bay, Garge,”
said one to the other, “ 'cordin’ to this
yere, there bean’t so vary much toime
fer solghtseein.’ ”—8t. James’ Gazette.
People Who Are Always Driving Sno
res* Awny From Them.
One of the strangest paradoxes in
human nature is that men aud women
struggling, apparently with all their
might, to succeed are yet constantly
doing tilings, saying tilings and think
ing things which drive the very success
they nre nfter away ffom them. They
are all the time counteracting their
efforts by some foolishness or weak
ness or Indiscretion. They aro saying
things which prejudice people ngalust
them and doing tilings which destroy
confidence. Although they apparently
try very hard to build a foundation,
they nre all the time uudcrmlultig
themselves.
Men work like Trojans to got a cov
eted position and then, by getting
puffed up with conceit or by some fool
ish or weak act, knock the scaffolding,
which they have been years In build
ing, out from under them, and down
they go. Their lives aro a aeries of
■uceessive climbs and tumbles, so Hint
they never get anywhere, uever accom
plish anything worth while. Always
tripping themselves up, neutralizing
their work—this is their greatest stum
bling block.
I know a powerful editorial writer
who wields a strong, vigorous pen, but
who at sixty years of age is just where
Ife was nt twenty. He lias had scores
Of good positions, but he could not
keep them because of his Indlscrotlons,
because of a hot temper nnd a ssusitlve
nature which wns ulwnys being
wounded by trifles. There Is no
harder worker than he Is. Every Urns
he gets knocked down he begins at the
bottom nnd stnrts planning nud re-
cllmliing. only to fall back again like
the fabled frog trying to get out of the
well.
Now, If this man had taken an inven
tory of himself In his youth nnd
strengthened two or three little weak
points, ho would have been a giant in
the field of letter's.
, There aro thousands of men who lire
forking as clerks or in very ordinary
salaried positions who might have been
Employers or proprietors themselves
lint for some unfortunate weakness,
some little deficiency In their natures
or Home peculiarity—something which
might have been remedied by n little
discipline nnd self study in youth. It Is
not an unusual tiling to see a man Iu
some subordinate situation who but
for one of these little lacks would havo
been a bolder man than Ills employer.
And so ho has to submit to tlie humili
ation of plodding through life In n me
diocre position when lie feels conscious
tliut he bus superior ability to those
who are over him.
It is tragic to see thousands of peo
ple constantly pushing away from
themselves through life tho very suc
cess they are trying to achieve, push
ing It away liccnuse they do not con
trol a hot temper, because of some lit
tle Indiscretion or other weakness or
lack in their untune.
Others are always driving success
away from them by their doubts, their
fears, their lack of courage, their lack
of confidence; driving It nwny by
thought hnlilts which repel success con
ditions. They never make themselves
magnets to attract success, but keep
so ninny enemies of achievement in
their mind that there Is no home for
harmony there, no place for n strong
purpose. They hold the failure thought,
the doubt thought, the poverty thought,
instead of clinging to tho success
thought, the thought of abundance, un
til they attract achievement aud plenty.
—Success Magazine.
Foreatry Work.
Tlie young follow who Is “looking
for a soft snap” ’ need not apply, for
the work of a student assistant Is by
no means easy. Nor will tlie govern
ment ufford a pleasant vacation in the
open air for young men in broken
health. It Is not n picnic In tho cool
woods that the student assistant will |
have. Ho will lie In tlie cool woods iu
summer nnd the cold woods In winter,
lie will live In a tent, keep lumber*
inen’s hours, as the somewhat discour
aging official bulletin, entitled “Sugges
tions to Prospective Forest Students,”
reads. He will work with a "gang,”
get up ut break of day, tramp tlie for
est, swing an ax, measure with cull-
pers, count “rings" on stumps und set
down figures in a book when ills lin
gers may lie so cold that the figures
he makes look like chicken trucks. lie
will do tills day In and day out. At
night, perhaps too fur away to return
to his tent, he will build a fire, eat ba
con and liard tuck, wrap himself In the
blanket which lie has carried ull duy
aud dreuni of the folks at home. It is
likely tliut he will do tills tbe next
day und perhaps severul other days.
8o there is good reason for tlie none
too encouraging words of the bulletin,
"Bodily soundness nnd endurance are
absolutely essential for those who take
up the work of a forest student.”—
Header.
Advantage of Bring a Bralr.
“Do you think animals feel pain as
deeply as we do?”
‘T’ve never studied the subject, but
it Is safe to say that they don’t worry
as much as we do over pains that have
not yet been felt.”—Chichgo Ileco»d-
Herald.
In our relation with one another we
are apt to neglect the Uttle things
, which count so much to making oar
. lives happier.
Force of Habit,
An honest hog buyer sturted up in
business and guaranteed tbe fanners
a fair deal, lie always weighed the
porkers twice to guard against mis
takes. Once in weighing a bunch of
pigs the second time he found their
weight had increased to the amount of
1 200 pounds. He was at a loss to ac
count for the condition until an em
ployee confessed thut ut the time of the
1 first weighing lie had Inserted the toe
of his boot under the scales and pried
I It up, thus cheating tlie farmer out of
one hog. The buyer was Indignant.
I “What did you do a trick like Hint
for?” he asked. “You couldn't have
; profited by it anyhow.”
| “I know it, John.” said the guilty
. man, “but I just couldn't help it."
It had always been tbe custom to
cheat tbe farmer and the man couldn’t
i bear to see the old customs passing
I awa y- . -
Special Fall and Winter Sale
OF
H. T. DANIEL
Palmetto, Ca. 1906 Palmetto, Ga.
In making this my fall announcement for tlie season of 1906, 1 beg leave to thunk
my many friends and customers who have stood by me in tho past, and have
shown their friendship by their liberal patronage. We shall endeavor by fair and
honest dealing, not only to merit a continuance of our already large trade, but to
increase our sales by reaching sections we havo not reached before. The motto,
“Goods well bought arc half sold,” is ever before us. Therefore we are constantly
watching the rise and fall of the market, in order to take every advantage, and
buying in such quantities as will enable us to sell at the lowest possible prices.
Our stock is larger than ever before, complete in every detail.
Dry Goods.
To this department we have given special care in selecting the latest, novelties ol" the season,
consisting of ladies’ broadcloth, panama cloth, voiles, brilliantinoH, mohair, serges, French flan
nels, and a full line of taffeta and Chinese silks,'‘percales, ginghams, prints, outings, teazle downs,
kimono suitings, Manuels, jeans, cassimores, ropellants, cheeks, sheetings and shirtings. In fact,
the most complete line ever shown in this town.
Clothing.
To tliis line we can point with pride, having in*
creased our sales for the last two years over one
hundred per cent. In style and make up our
goods are excelled by none. We handle nothing
but custom-made goods of the noted Kantbcbcat
and Shield brands. In men’s, boys’ and chil
dren's suits and overcoats, we can save you money
if you will only give us a chance.
Shoes.
TiCoaCi,
In supplying the large and increasing demand in
this line, we have been careful in selecting such
brands as have been tried and not found wanting.
We realize the fact that shoes are high, but it lias
been our good fortune to place our orders early,
and thus save a large per cent, of tlie advance.
In our stock you will find the most prominent and
best makes, such as Hamilton brown’s, f.'rossett’s,
Courtney’s, Kiser’s King, ete.
/Cj<x^lLU4>^'to
Notions, Hats, Caps, etc.
The carefully selected stock in this department consist of men’s and ladies’ underwear, hose
and half hose, handkerchiefs, suspenders, etc. In hats and caps we can show you a lieautiful
Ijne of the latest styles. Our ready-to-wear department is large and complete, to which we call
the special attention of the ladies.
Groceries.
We handle a full line of groceries, always buying from first hand, enabling us to sell at the
very lowest prices.
Furniture, Coffins, etc.
The increase in our business in this line during the past yeai has been very gratifying, and
we are glad to state that we are able to show a much larger variety with styles and prices to suit
all. A cordial invitation is extended to all our friends and customers to call and see us when in
town. Remember Tuesday is always bargain day. Yours for business,
H.
DANIEL