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I oocooocoooooooooooo Capturing a 9 ft* V ,. „ ii jla Failure Meant Death. i!!er o o o o o o o o (3 o o o o By ESTHER VANDEVEER o a o a c o o o o c> o o o o o o o o CJ uooooocooocooouoooo On tbu wcsttmi eoast of Central America is a tribe of liulians who are •very proud of their a pops try, tracing it to the Aztecs, who were a semi-civ- ilitsed people. They trade with other races, hut marry ouly among them selves. Nature in tropical climates supplies food lu such superabundance that the natives may exchange what they don’t need for what will provide other necessaries than food. The principal food produced among this tribe of Central America is cocoa- nuts. The Indians do not need to climb the trees to gather them, for when they are ripe they fall to the ground. All day at the harvest season there is a constant dropping, and at night one who Is unaccustomed to the sound will be kept awake by it. There .seems to be a natural law that those who don’t have to work for a living consider themselves better than those who do. Whether it was tills Im munity from labor or the fact of the blue Aztec blood in their veins, these Indians would admit of no union among their people with any other. Their cocoanuts brought ships to their shores, ami the sailors necessarily came ashore to load them. This was always done by daylight, but when night came every man on the island must leave. The Aztecs described by the Spanish conquerors were a delicately made race, and some of their women In their dusky wuj were beautiful. So it was with these iudiaus of Central Amer ica. They would go to the shore in groups while the sailors were loading their boats with cocoanuts, and doubt less there were glances between them and the Jack tars. But the girls knew that there must be no further courting, for should there be the life of one or both would be forfeited. One day a ship was loading cocoa- nuts on the shore of these proud people. Several gills stood on the bank watching tile yawls come to the bench, take on a load of cocoanuts and start back for the ship. This getting a boat over the breakers is always an entertaining sight. Several men walk ing in the shallow water would pull the boat out to where the oars might take hold; then the oarsmen, watching nn opportunity between waves, would pull lustily in order to pass the uext wave before it broke. Unless the boat was skillfully handled it was liable to be capsized. The morning when the girls were watching the sailors the breakers were quite high. The rudder of a boat com ing from the sldp was anshipped by striking a bar a short distance from the shore, and. the coxswain not being able to keep ber straight for the shore, her side was turned to the incoming waves, and she was capsized. Some of the men in her got ashore, and some were drowned. One was washed ashore some distance below where the boat was to have landed. There he lay, rolled hither and thither by each succeeding line of foam that slid high up on the beach. The men who succeeded in getting ashore alive were helped by the girls, who waded into the water for the pur pose. One girl, seeing the body that had been washed ashore some distance from tlie others, ran to him. Lying unconscious on the sands, his light curly hair stirred by the ever moving water, he was a picture of manly beauty. He was Ned Phillips, considered by his mates the daredevil of their number. He never went ashore that he did not get into a scrape and on several occasions had been saved by some of them from getting killed. The girl kneeled by him and lifted his head In her arms. Whether it was their warmth or the change of posi tion or that he had been revived by the air, he opened his eyes and looked Into a dusjty face with sympathetic eyes, all of which seemed very beau tiful to him. He had become exhaust ed shortly before being thrown up on the beach and was therefore not very far gone. He returned the look of sympathy with one of gratitude, admi ration, love. Then, staggering to his feet, he pulled himself together, and the two rejoined the others. But Ned was not in condition for anything but rest He lay down on the sand, and the girl who had raised him from the water sat by him and fanned him with a tropical leaf. For a time the other girls stood about them looking down ut Ned’s pale face and limp figure. But young people soon detest the mating of those about them, and one by one the girls stole away and left them together. Presently one of the other girls came and whispered something in the ear of Ned’s mate, and with a frightened look she rejoin ed the others. Some native men were coming. In due time, the sea having gone down, the process of loading was re sumed. Phillips, with two other men who had suffered by the spill, was left on shore to recuperate. This was bad policy so far as he was concerned, for the girls resumed their position as watchers, aDd Ned caught a few mo ments when no native men were present to endeavor by signs and a ! few Spanish words ho knew some ot i which tin. girl who had taken him in ; her antis understood that he was I grateful. Fin 'bltlili* i fruit 1- < tlu* nw t*t Host. Tills Ktrl Uiipw that |. y on Irolir ■'.UtlltH tilts white* Hum she wa * hi'li r upon her self t he tut It y of tloai i lit Mil i! Neil, too was mvart * of tile iMOl. \Y bill* hath* tm*n wore present Itnll 1 \YO •re elivttoi (port : who ■n no eui s' e.\< 1 milors sai' 1 hem t l)i\v fnlletl l O (MU tlTJll till* llOtli’s that wore qlliriily r l'omul aroiiml them An old tuhltre I s “l zove lauphs ai lories mltlis ." Thor t* We n» in i looks anil keys Tor i lies,* lev ors. but there were plant y *»r persons to note what Wits trotn,•: r on he! ween t In* in. How they managed to secure a few moments now am! again without being scon by any of the natives or whether they wore seen by some who did not betray them Is tt matter which does not appear. The ( sailors would do anything in their pow- i cr to protect Ned. and it may be that | the girl had friends of hot 1 own sex \ who would screen her. The weather proving at times unpro- pitious the loading ol’ the ship was de- I Inyed, and Ned Phillips' love affair ! had time to grow strong. Kit her luck ■ favored him or friends hel| Ji * the pair I to avoid detection until the ship was ! ready to sail; then the storm broke over the heads of the white sailor and the Indian girl, Ned had become so infatuated that he resolved to attempt to carry his love away with him. The girl, though loath i to leave those who had boon till the world to her for a new life of which she knew nothing, was ready to make the plunge, though site realized that If J she failed in the attempt her life would be forfeited. The evening before the ship was to sail Ned pulled ashore alone in one of the ship’s boats. The Indian girl was concealed in a grove of cocoanut trees some fifty yards from the verge. She had recently been ; suspected and was watched by one who saw her enter the grove. When tills person saw Ned coming he gave I the alarm, hut too late to prevent the , girl from getting into the boat. | There was but little sen rolling, nud Ned was pulling from the shore when a short distance up the beach the girl ; saw a pnrtv of Indian men hurrying a canoe to the water. A race was at ! hand, with two lives at stake. Ned's muscle was equal to a spirited pull, and he gave way at once with all his 1 strength. The girl sat in the stern and 1 covered her face with her hands. A ship’s boat is not usually made for one pair of ours. Although Ned had j the smallest one of the lot. It was very heavy. But so much depended upon | the effort that lie bad strength far beyond what was natural to him. Ills distance from the ship was a trifle less than that of the natives, but they could pul! much faster than lie. They were gaining on Inin, and he saw that despite the marvelous effort he was putting forth they would intercept him when the girl, who faced the ship, took her hands from her eyes, and a newly awakened hope shone in her face. Ned burned to have a look ot what she saw. but dared not cease rowing long enough to do so. But by signs she con trived to tell him that a boat was be ing lowered from the ship, and in an other moment it was full of men and coming toward them. There were now two points at issue- first, to save their lives the lovers must meet the ship's boat before the In dians could overtake them; second, if they succeeded in tills n fight must occur between the rescue party and the pursuers. On came the sailors, now and again some one of the oarsmen ,in his haste striking the water and sending up the spray. On came the Indians, paddling carefully, but rapid ly. Ned could see only the latter and knew that unless his friends were pret ty near it would be all up with him and his love. He saw a man in the bow of one of the canoes raise a spear and aim it at the girl. While it was coming from the canoe Ned turned ttie boat just in time to save her. The man took up another spear and was about to hurl it when there was a report, and the spearman dropped. lie had been shot from the ship's boat. The three boats now came together. The canoe contained, amoug others, the father of the girl, who was bent on killing both his daughter and the man who was carrying her away from her people. The sailors, not wishing to kill the Indians, fought with their oars. The Indians bad bad time only to collect a few spears, and they were soon sinking to the bottom without buving done any serious damage. Ned kept his eye on any one who showed signs of injuring the girl, and no soon er was a blow aimed at iter than he parried it with his oar. Finally with a blow lie sent one of her enemies into the water and upset the canoe. This ended the fight While the In dians were hanging on to their canoe a man in the ship’s boat threw Ned a rope. All gave way. and Ned and the girl were pulled to safety. When the lovers were taken aboard the ship the crew, who had been watching the flight and the fight, greeted them with a lusty cheer. Even the captain, whose duty it was to keep his men from interfering with the na tives. with whom he traded, could not refrain from a hearty welcome. Contrary to whnt might have been expected, the match turned out a hap py one. Ned concluded to leave a sea faring life and settled down on the const of New England, where he en gaged in fishing. He has accumulated some means and owns the house in which he lives. He has several sutl- wnrt sons and comely daughters of a darker hue than himself, but lighter than their mother, to whom he has of ten told the story of how she was cap tured with a death penalty hanging over ber. ANIMAL TOILETS. Cleanlinass Rules mid Sonio Crcaturos Wash Each Othor. Most atiinrlIn love cleanliness. Wo have nil seen sparrows ilil their tenth era with dust and then shake them selves Until they are clean Tills Is inn* of their ways of wunhitig. And we have all watched the cat lick her self till she Is spotless and shining For-her toilet the cat makes use of her tongue, mil and her paws. A cat's tongue is rough, having nil over it tiny hot’n.v papillae that are directed In ward. Fussy brushes herself all over with her tongue, using the hard rough pads under her paws upon those purls that are beyond the reach of her tongue, tier claws sin* uses as a comb to take tangles and matted foreign substances out of her for. She also picks her teeth with her elaws. The cat uses the pads of her feet like a sponge, moistening them with sa liva and passing them repeatedly over her head and face. Finally, to com plete her toilet, slur gives herself a few whisks with her tail. Sone animals wash each other. Con dors, vultures and eagles alter a feast of carrion lly to the nearest water and splash about in it until their feathers are clean. The care that animals which live together in communities take to keep their homes clean is as tonishing and Is well seen in the nests of moles and especially among the bees and ants —New York World. SAFETY FROM FIRE. A Method For Insuring Escape From a Crowded Building. lu discussing tlie best means of emp tying a loft or factory building of lls occupants in time of fire or panic, 11. F. .1. Porter, expert on safety from fire and known as the father of the tire drill, points out a method for solving the escape from a crowded building. This method Is a fire wall so arrang ed on a building as practically to bisect it. Tills wall must lie continuous from collar to roof and be provided with doorways on each floor, closed liy iiuto- lnatie fire doors. The building must be designed with two sets of egress facili ties of ample proportions, one set locat ed on each side of the wall accessible from each floor. No lire Is at till likely to occur on both sides of this lire wall simultane ously*. unless it is of Incendiary origin. Should a lire occur the alarm sounds, and the occupants of the building on tlie side where the fire is merely have to pass through them and be perfectly safe. A fire drill will empty either side of a building so equipped, no matter bow many stories high, in a minute. The refugees remain in the safe side of the building until the fire lias been put out, or they may at any time without haste use the egress facilities provided there, which would be free from smoke or tire.—St. Paul Pioneer Press. Just Why We Sneeze. Sneezing may be due to one of a number of causes. A bright light will cause many people to sneeze, as also the pollen of certain plants, while there are few people but will sneeze lu the presence of dust. When you have a cold the sneezing Is due to an attempt by nature to cure you. She is trying to make you sneeze for the same pur pose that she wants you to shiver—to genernte heat for warming the blood and preventing you from taking more cold—to help relieve the cold you have. For one does not sneeze with ills nose, but with the entire body. During the act every muscle of the body gives a jump, us it were. It goes into a Bortof spasm that warms the entire system.— New York American. firm STOPS ROOT Kill State Bo.nrd Dlteaec Atluniu. O Entomology Tells Of That Attacks Many Plants. Forgot Her Sister. A woman from a small town, In tlie city to do some shopping, stepped up to a clerk at the hosiery counter in one of the department stores. “Say,” she said, “1 want to get two pairs of stockings like my sister from Kentucky bought here last August.” “I don’t know your sister, and I probably would not remember wbnt she bought, even if I were acquainted with her," explained the clerk. “You must remember my sister,” in sisted the customer. “She is n little, heavy set woman.”—Indianapolis News The Duke's Walk. “To meet one in the duke's walk.” This is au invitation to fight a duel. In the vicinity of Holyrood house, Scotland, there is a place called the duke’s walk, so called from its being the favorite promenade of the Duke of York, afterward King James II. This walk is said to have been tbo common rendezvous for settling affairs of honor, as the site of the British piuseum was in England. Revenge! “Why are you so crazy to take mud baths? There’s nothing the matter with you.” “It’s this way, doctor. I was brought up in u lace collar and a Fauritleroy suit. And I always vowed tiiat I would get my share of playing in the mud some day.”—Louisville Courier- Journal. It Made a Difference. "Buffers is always talking about his love for the plain people.” “Yes?" “Well, the other day somebody called his daughter plain, and he was hotter than a red headed hornet.”—Cleveland Plain Dealer. (In (Special.) -Georgia cotton planters, especially where tho I soil is sandy, have had eonsldertihlo trouble with the disease known as root knot, caused by minute eel worms or nematodes, which bore Into tin* , roots and live there. The ll'ritutlon of their presence results in the formation of irregular swellings or galls, varying in bIvic from liny enlargements on the smaller roots to knots an Inch or more in diameter on the large ones. Unlike wilt, or black root, root knot attacks a very large number of plants, many of which are important farm crops, says State Entomologist E. Leo Worsham. The crops most severely at tacked by root knot Include soy beaus, boots, cantaloupe, carrots, celery, bur clover, crimson clover, cow pea (all varieties except iron and Brabham and other Iron hybrids), cucumber, eggplant, tigs, lettuce, okra, peaches, i pecans, pomegranate, potato, salsify, ! squash, tobacco, tomato, watermelon. I Platjts less severely injured by root. I knot include the following: Alfalfa, j asparagus, lima bean, snap bean, cab bage, sweet clover, collat'd, cotton, ! mulberry, onion, garden pea, sweet po tato, radish, spinach, strawberry, su- | gnr cane, common vetch, hairy vetch, j Tlie male worms are too small to be seen by the naked eye, but tho female when full of eggs assumes a spherical shape and may be often dis tinguished in freshly broken roots as glistening bodies half the size of a pin head. Each female lays sevornl hundred eggs. Boot knot is essentially a disease of light or sandy soils. It may be transferred from one field to another by any agency which will car ry the nematode or their eggs. It may be spread by drainage water or introduced by nursery stock. Controlled By Rotation It has been repeatedly demonstrated by many farmers that root, knot can be controlled by tho use of proper crop rotations. Tho principles on which such rotations are based are the use of crops immune to nematode attacks until the nematodes are suf ficiently reduced so that crops sus ceptible to them may be profitably grown; and in the second place, tho removal of all weeds subject to root knot. The use of crops that will re turn a profit and the building up of the fertility of the soil are also import ant considerations, if the land is very badly Infested with nematodes as well ns wilt, a two or three year rotation with immune crops is rec ommended before susceptible crops in cluding cotton ure grown, in one or two years thereafter the rotation with immune crops should lie repeated. Im mune crops, alternated with suscepti ble ones, will reduce the nematode in jury to u minimum. Tlu* following crops are largely or entirely immune to root knot: Bnrley, velvet bean, beggar weed, cliufas, corn, Brabham cow pea, Iron cow pea, Iron hybrid cow pea, bermuda grass, crab grass, grasses (nearly all), kaf fir, millets (nearly all), milo, winter oats, peanut, rye, sorghum, wheat. The farmer generally will have to work out Ills own problem as to rota tions, depending on location, but the State Board of Entomology will ho glad at. ul, times to furnish any pos sible assistance or information. Curious Old Custom. In Peru it was once the custom for iomestie servants to have two of their upper front teeth extracted. Their ab sence indicated servitude. Loyal to Aunt May. Aunt May was the favorite aunt of little Ellen. One day the former said to her, naming three other aunts, “Which do you like best, Aunt Anna, Aunt Emily or Aunt Palmer?” Little Ellen looked thought fill a moment and then said, "Why, 1 like Aunt Anna better than Aunt Palmer, but 1 don’t like anybody best what isn’t vott.” Horse Chestnut Tree In Bottle. Horse chestnuts can he grown in a bottle of water. Use a bottle with a neck wide enough to hold the chest nut, adding water to just touch the nut and stand it In a window. Boots will form, followed by a stem and leaves. If the water is constantly supplied the tree can grow for years in the bottle. ; ./id ■■tomJrkc <5.•. EISEMAN BROS., Inc. 11:13-15-17 Whitehall Street, Tho South’s greatest outfit tors’ entire stock of the highest class Men’s unci Young Men’s suits, Furnishing Goods, Hats and Shoes, etc. Boys’ and Children’s wearables including aii the new Spring and Summer EVierchanciise now on sale, at the most astonishing reductions ever offered in the clothing history of the entire South. In order to complete our future plans of a Modern Department Store, this high grade stock of Men’s and Young Men’s outfitting.*?, must be converted into CASH AT ONCE. The new corporation who recently took over Eiseman Bros., Inc,, purchased the stock of merchandise out right tit practically one-half the original whole sale cost and it is now being sold at correspond ing reductions. It is not necessary to go into detail relative to the hiyrh class merchandise carried by this great institution. Practically every standard line of men’s wearables made in the United States, is now being sold at re markably low prices, including Fruhauf, Naumburgand Hirsh-Wickwire’s, world renowned clothes. Manhattan and Artistic Shirts. Hess and Eiseman Bros. Low Shoes. John B. Stetson and Crofut-Knapp and Eiseman Bros, special hats. “ Piccadilly” American Hosiery and Scriven Underwear and other famous brands. The reputation for high class merchandise, courteous treatment, and honorable dealings that Eiseman Bros., Inc., have enjoyed for the past fifty years, which has made them the LEADING CLOTHING INSTITUTION OF THE ENTIRE SOUTH will be strictly adhered to during this gigantic sale. A Few of the Many Bargains Men’s $18 Suits $12.45 Men’s $25 Suits $16.45 Men’s $20 Suits 14.45 Men’s $50 Suits 19.45 Men’s 50c Work Shirts . . . 29c Men’s 50cHo.se 29c Men’s 75c Silk Hose .... 39c Men’s $1.50 Silk Front Shirts . . 95c Men’s $3 Hats $1.95 Men’s $'4 Low Shoes . . . 2.95 Boys’ 50c Knee Pants 33c Boys’ 50c Waists 35c Boys’ $6.50 Suits $3.95 Boys’ $7.50 Blue Serge Suits with 2 pair Pants 4.95 Men’s $5 Pants $2.45 Men’s $5 Silk Shirts 3.45 Thousands of other values we cannot quote here. Ail to be sold at greatly reduced prices. Every transaction is bonafide. Every article is guaranteed as advertised— or money refunded. EISEMAN BROS., Inc., 11-13-15-17 Whitehall Street, Atlanta,. Ga. How to Secure Railroad Fares. Buy round trip tickets and present the return stub. Railroad fares paid BOTH WAYS to purchasers of $25 or over for a radius of fifty miles. & When a House is For Sale There is Always a Reason It may be a good one, and it may not. That is why you will find it advisable to consult us on real estate matters. We know the reasons— the real ones. We have saved many a man from buying the wrong house. Most likely we can save you from making a similar mistake. All kinds of insurance—fire, life, casualty, strongest companies in the United States. We negotiate loans on farm property. Q. 1L. Parks Insurance Phone 325 11 1-2 Greenville St. tornado—in the oldest and &■ Realty Co. Newnan, Georgia J