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VOLUME I.
LIVES UM’S LIFE
Degas, Greatest Living French
Artist, Becomes a Recluse.
Well Known Painter Calle Plcturee
“Murmured Prayer*” and Rarely
Opens His Doors for Visits
of Strangers.
Paris.—Degas, who has suddenly be
come famous to the larger public at
the age of sixty-nine, through the sale
of one of his paintings for $86,000, is
very much of a hermit.
Failing eyesight has prevented him
from painting for some years now, and
• his door is rarely open to strangers.
Art discussions do not interest him.
“No. sir,” he once said, "I cannot
talk painting; no one does who is a
real painter. It is discussed in omni
buses, in cases, in drawing rooms. But
not here. Painting is like a mur
mured prayer.”
After the sale in which his picture,
"Les Danseuses a la Barre,” for which
he originally received only SIOO, sold
for $86,000, he went to Neuilly, on the
outskirts of Paris. From the window
of a friend’s house he looked in aston
ishment at the peopled avenues. “In
my time,” he said, “there was nothing
here.”
As a rule he stays in Montmartre,
and knows nothing of the newer parts
of the city. Though he is the greatest
living French painter, he never has
been decorated. His hobby is collect
ing the pictures of Ingres. Every
scrap of drawing of the great academic
artist he treasures, which practice is
an example of his contradictions, for
he is one of the founders of the oppo
site school.
Nor is he kind to contemporaries,
labeling one “The Little Steam Wat
teau” and another "The Rag-Pickers'
Raphael.”
Some residents of the aristocratic
Faubourg quarter and other Royalist
partisans who do not like the republic
are showing their opposition to the
government by Issuing stamps—like
the French feminists and the anti-al
coholic league—lnscribed with more
or less scurrilous sentiments.
The government, however, does not
give them much chance to have po
litical effect on the citizen; letters so
decorated will in future not be deliv
ered. It had become a common cus
tom for Royalists to adorn their let
ters, especially to soldiers in the army,
with seditious labels.
Sometimes the Duc d’Orleans figured
on the stamp; sometimes an unflatter-
HAD FIRST WIRELESS
African Tribes Used Drums, Etc.,
to Convey Messages.
News of Important Events In Heart
of Sudan Sent to Trading Posts
on the Coast —Had Their Own
Telegraph Code.
Paris. —The principle of telegraphy
would appear to have been anticipated
by the savage tribes In the heart of
Africa. This barbaric system of com
munication, at once practical and ef
fective, survives to this day, and its
value has been tested many times.
French explorers seem to have been
the first to bring this system to the
knowledge of civilized people. By
means of it news of important events
in the interior of the Sudan reaches
all the trading ports on the coast in
a short time.
The communication Is made by
means of various Instruments, the
most common ones being horn, tom
toms and whistles. The horns are
made of solid ivory, hollowed out of
elephants’ tusks. The mouthpiece Is
at the side. These trumpets are of
SO BRAVE WAS THIS SLEUTH
While Sheriff’s New Deputy, Mouquln,
Made Peace a Rude Thief
“Touched" Him.
New York. —Louis Mouqin, the res
taurateur of 149 Fulton street and 454
6th avenue, boarded a Broadway car
about 7:30 the other night The heart
of Louis beat high, the chest of Louis
expanded with pride, for on said chest
there reposed a brand new, glittering
silver badge.
That very day had the sheriff of
New York, the justly famous Julius
Harburger, called Louis Into his of
fice and with mystic rite and solemn
ceremony induced him into the
ranks of his duputles. The brief but
impressive episode had a profound
effect on Louis, and he burned with
zeal and devotion.
“Allons!" said the new deputy to
himself. "Would that some so dar
ing breaker of the law would ven
ture to show his head here now! Ah.
but I would show my valiant chief
that he had not unworthily bestowed
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ing caricature of President Faiieres,
or an ugly-looking female to represent
the republic. The propaganda had be
come so active that the government
decided to take action.
The biology of the bathypelagic ani
mals or creatures who live in the low
est depths of the ocean is little known
and mostly hypothetic. In a recent
communication to the Academy of
Sciences, M. Bouree, who accompanies
all the oceanagraphic expeditions of
the Prince of Monaco, has given the
various sizes, but the favorite ones
are very long and give seven distinct
notes, produced by plugging the
mouthpiece with corks of different
sizes. The ordinary tomtom is a
hollow bit of wood, with a goatskin
over one end.
The following instance illustrates
the manner In which the native tele
graph is employed. The post com
mander at Stanley Falls was once in
formed by a native of a neighboring
village that a provision train had been
attacked two days before at a point
180 miles further down the Kongo. A
week later the party arrived and con
firmed the story in part.
They had reached the scene of the
alleged attack at the time reported,
but the shots that the natives had
taken as indications of a conflict with
robbers had been fired at a herd of
antelope.
At a later period, when an officer of
the French Kongo came to grief in the
rapids, the accident was reported the
next morning at a village 186 miles
distant.
Among the Bengali tribe a sort of
xylophone is used with four notes, by
means of which the natives communl-
his trust! Perhaps it would be bet
ter to conceal the shield, lest the
canaille become alarmed and escape
me.” ]
But such a sacrifice was too, much
to expect of a newly sworn deputy.
The shield remained where It was.
Just then a small riot broke forth
at the upper end of the car. A man
arose from his seat and dived head
long into the forest of legs that cov
ered the car floor, shrieking, “My
dime! I have lost a dime!”
When some of the passengers ob
jected to the man's actions. Deputy
Mouquln, badge well to the front,
restored peace. *
“Whew, also corbleu!" mused the
new deputy as he mopped his brow.
“That shows how an efficient of
ficer of the law can suppress dis
order. Why, if I hadn’t been here
somebody might have been touched
for bls roll."
Then he put his hand in his wallet
pocket, but the wallet was missing
“What, alreadyt" said the sheriff
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IRWINTON, WILKINSON COUNTY, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, JANUARY 31, 19*3.
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This is the new rotary postage
stamp press of the United States bu
reau of engraving and printing, and
its Inventor, Benjamin R.’ Stickney.
Heretofore stamps have been printed
by hand on flat-bed presses. This
machine does the work better than the
old method and at a saving of 60 per
cent.
results of his observations on the mi
grations of these animals.
He has observed that many species,
notably the fish whose normal lair is
during the day at a depth varying
from 4,000 to 6,000 yards, rise during
the night to a short distance from the
surface.
Similar migrations had already been
observed among the smaller species
known as plankton, but had never
been noticed in the case of creatures
of a larger order.
cate over great distances in a kind
of telegraphic language.
Au American missionary working
among the Basutos discovered that
the villages had means of conveying
messages from one chief to another
or of transmitting the intelligence of
defeat or victory.
The Basutos hollow out a large
gourd and thoroughly dry it. Then
kidskin as hard and as thin as parch
ment is stretched across the hollow of
the gourd. When beaten with a pad
ded drumstick this gives forth a sound
that may be distinctly heard at a dis
tance of from five to eight miles.
In every village here Is a class of
men who are utilized as scouts. Among
these there are always some trained
to the use of the gourd drum. The
code Is what might be called an Af
rican Morse alphabet and is beaten on
the drum in the open air.
The sound, is carried across .he val
leys and glens to the next village,
where It is interpreted by another
scout If the message is for a distant
village he repeats it on his drum,
and n this way it is carried from vil
lage to village, with very little loss
of time until it reaches the person
for whom it is Intended.
The most mysterious thing in the
world is a woman who has just found
out something about Other woman.
when he was informed that his new
est deputy had been relieved of sev
>feral hundred dollars. “That’s the
quickest work yet. I guess before
long they’ll be waiting outside the of
fice to get my deputies as fast as I
make ’em.”
. Helps Peddler; Gets SB,OOO.
Harrisburg, Pa.—Margaretta Jane
Brown’S; kindness four years ago in
helping an old peddler on to a trol
ley car, here has won her are Ward of
SB,OOO. The young woman, who re
cently became Mrs. Ray Mason Knasel,
received in her mail a check for this
amount and a note addressed “To the
little girl who helped me on a trol
ley car four years ago." She had al
most forgotten the incident The re
ward was from Valentine R. Cortlas
and wap mailed from California.
Finds $90,000 in Rubbish Pile.
Winsted, Conn.—Over $90,000 in
bills was found in an old suitcase that
was about to be thrown into a rub
bish pile ana which was the property
of Mrs. Bmlline C. Mills, who died a
few days ago.
MYRICK’S
RED ARROW SALE
Greatest Clearance Event of the
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woman and child will attend this sale.
Read all of this advertisement, it means
dollars saved.
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The policy of this store is to clear
the racks, the counters, the shelves of
fall merchandise at the end of the sea
son. Follow the Red Arrow to our
store. Follow the Red Arrow through
our store, it will lead you to real bar
gains and good merchandise.
Misses Coat Suits
2 Lots of Misses Norfolk Suits. Lot
I—sls and $16.50 values for $11.90.
Lot 2—s2o, $22.50 and $25 values
for $15.90. ;
1 Lot of Junior Stiits, in Brown,
$12.50 values, for $8.90.
Ladies’ Coat Suits
All S2O and $25 Coat Suits for
$15.90.
All S2B and S3O Coat Suits for
$18.90.
One Piece Dresses
1 Lot of one piece Serge Dresses,
sailor collars, satin trimmed, sls and
$16.50 values, for $9.90
1 Lot of Silk Dresses, $lO values,
for $6.90. 1 Lot of $lB and S2O
Dresses for $14.90. A few $lO Dresses
left to close out at $5.90.
1-2 off on our entire stock of Milli
nery—this is a great opportunity. Don’t
miss it.
1-4 off on our entire stock of Men
and Boys’ Clothing, Overcoats,, Odd
Trousers and Fancy Vests.
The W. S. Myrick Co. Inc.
Milledgeville, Ga.
Middle Georgia’s Best Store. v
SI.OO A YEAR.
