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THE MURRAY NEWS
,.vKKiK,S:5r?K v.,u\i to tt.c interests of Murray County.
OiHcial Organ of City and County
Sub*cri|*tion, ,1.00 per year; M* months, 60c;
t.iree month*. Z6c.
J. KD. JOHNSON, EDITOR,
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retormatoiy . na .
A State
Wen established near
t (Igeville with accomr.iod.l*
t.ODS „ for tor aROUt nhntit thirtv tnlrc y bovs. r
'This is something Georgia
ha* been needing a long time.
Tins world expects great
tilings from the two Yale stu¬
dents who have taken up the
business of transferring bag
Edge for their fellow students
for the sole purpose ot mak
i ,g irrmey with which to get
an education.
The soldier boys have gone
t > Cuba to stop the rebellion
w iich has arisen among the
..Gives. We don’t envy then
their trip for but one thing
u id that is, if we were where
they are, the climate would
fuitour wearing apparel much
better than it does here.
Next week is fair week in
Dalton and all who go will be
entertained to the full amount
of the money spent for see
ingthe sights. The officers
of the fair association havt
been untiring in their efforts
to make this event one of the
greatest ever held in that city,
the birth place of county fain
in North Georgia.
The North can talk about
the down-trodden colored
brother and all such thing.
but when he commits the
greatest of all crimes it is
as quick to resort to mob law
as the people of the South.
The Caucasian race wilt never
submit to outrages on its wo
men, no matter in what land
or clime it happens.
On October the 26 th bids
will be received bv the trus
tees ot a proposed school of
Agriculture and Mechanics
Art for the 7 th congressional
district. The county furnish
ing the best location and do¬
nating the mist land and
money w ill get the school.
While Murray county will, of
course stand a very small
show toward getting the pro
posed site she should send in
her bid and by so doing show
a willing hand. The sealed
proposals will be opened at
Rome.
WE have been having some
complaint lately from subscri¬
bers from certain postoffiees
throughout the country that
they do not receive their pa
pers regularly. This com¬
plaint does not apply to all,
but is limited, possibl) , to two
or three. Now, if we were
in fault, the trouble would be
at all places alike and not
confined to any certain local¬
ity. We have ne%*er failed to
mail every paper to every sub¬
scriber on our list and if
fail to reach their destination
It . . fault - , r ours. ,, 1 ,
IS no OI UO
fishers of newspapers have to
t * av postage r the same as other
-
people and , their , . publications . .
should demand *i,~ the ,„ 5 r,#rt
that a letter does.
VARIETIES OP MAPLE
ARE FIVE DIFFERENT KINDS
OF THE NATIVE SPECIES.
SflRor Maple Han Well Defined
dmradei'hflc* of Own, nnd
Thene Will Alw«*y» Poove an ta
fafliuK M*»«» ot Iileza (Ideation.
Although the family .resemblance be
the dlffercm maple species is
the »u ...,r nu.p.e baa definite
of its own, and these
ore an unfailing moans of identiUea
ilon. It la a tall, erect tree, with
ooth branches, bard bark, which
rov ,-u twig*. 'ihc leaves me opposite
otbw ' 011 tbe stcm, nml in
If one looks carefully, the , scars ot Uc
inay be seen and even the tmi
left by the small fibers which
the leaf in place.
The buds ore brown and sharp po.nt
with small overlapping scales, uuu
the terminal bud, at the tip of tit
branch, If larger than the lateral ones
which grow opposite each other ou the
stem. Always hold firmly In tntod the
fact that the sugar maple has brown,
pointed bads, for even in summer they
serve to identify the tree after the
season’s gruwth has been completed.
The buds and the peculiar appearance
of the bark, which looks us if It had
been plowed, are the most distinctive
characteristics. the
The lour other native maple,: are
red, or swutup, maple, the one from
v.-uich Thoreau In his youth succeeded
lu extracting a small quantity of sugar;
rile white, or silver, maple, a water lov¬
ing species; the tnoo.-c.vood. or striped,
maple, a beautiful tree, and the spik¬
ed, or mountain, maple, a roadside
shrub. of
The red maple, tbo most brilliant
the family both lu spring aud autumn,
and the sugar maple are quickly told
apart. the red,
One has only to contrast
rounded buds of the former with the
brown, slender, pointed ones of the
sugar maple to see how widely they
vary, and, since n multiplication of di¬
verging traits tends to confuse the
memory, let this unfailing proof suf
Bee.
The silver maple grows lu a loose
jointed manner peculiar to Itself. Its
branches sweep down and the tips
curve up, making half circles, very
different from the compact form of
growth of the sugar maple. Its buds
are identical with those of the red ma¬
ple, so again we have only to appty
this tost when there is any doubt
whether the tree Is a sugar maple or
not.
In a natural state the silver maple
grows by the banks of clear, sandy
bedded streams, and then the down¬
ward drooping brunches fairly touch
(he water in graceful pendulous curves,
The bnrk flakes off lu loose atrip;: from
the trunks of old trees, unlike the close
furrowed bark of tho red maple and
unlike that of the sugar Maple.
The striped maple and the mountain
maple will not often trouble the stu
deut by causing confusion with the
sugar maple, because they never grow
to be large trees. In early youth, liow
ever, among saplings In the woods
there may lie difficulty, and then the
brown sugar maple buds, sharp point
ed and with numerous scales, lustantly
serve to distinguish that maple from
the two others, with their red, rounded
buds covered by a pair of scales only.
The vivid green bark ou the trunk and
branches of the striped maple and the
shrubby growth of the mountain maple
prevent any chance of confusion when
the trees are older.
In the country these four species of
maples only nre to be seen, but in vil¬
lages, towns and suburban districts the
Norway and sycamore maples from
Europe nre frequently found.
The Norway maple has dark reddish
brown buds, much larger and rounder
than those of the sugar maple, and its
stems also are coarser. Inside these
buds the small leaves are closely in¬
folded by scales covered with dense
brown hair, like sealskin fur. and so
delicate, pretty and soft that one is
well repaid for the trouble of opening
the bud with a penknife to see them,
When a stem of recent growth is bro¬
ken off the Norway maple, a white,
milky juice exudes from the wound—a
characteristic which helps to distin¬
guish the tree both In winter and sum
mer.
The sycamore-maple— the tree which
figures so often In English literature
as “the sycamore"—Is easily recognized
by lis largo round buds of a vivid shade
of green, nnd this color remains un¬
changed throughout the leafless season.
The sweet harvest of the sugar maple
Is the only harvest In the world to
rfla-n in the bleak, wind swept Hays of
March.—Annie Oakes Huntington in
Youth’s Companion.
A Man nnd Ml* Wife.
Alexander Muir of Toronto, author
of “The Maple Deaf,” Canada's na¬
tional authem, was interested all bis
life lu the divorce laws, which were
too often, he claimed, unfair to wo¬
men. Mr. Muir frequently declared
that men, not their wives, were in
nine cases out of ten responsible for
unhappy marriages. “The trouble with
too many husbands," he once said, "is
that they treat their wives as a To
routo used to do. This man, sit¬
ting In his drawlug room on a coollsh
evening, cried out fiercely.
“’Shut that door, confound It! Whnt
i g tUe matter with you anyway? Do
you want to freeze n»?
“The cook appeared calmly in the
open doorway.
'Do you know who you are speak
ing to, str?* she said in a stern voice.
“The man < fallen aback, stammered:
M , oh eicuw> me , x th0Mpht it was
my wife.' **
TJ3R MURRAY NEWS, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 12, HHffl
THE WAYS OFHOGOTA
PECULIAR CUSTOMS OF THIS SOUTH
AMERICAN CITY.
Conrteon* Method* of Denllna W!*l»
Ifw ViiKt Army of lU'KRar *—Value of
Created Gown*—How Youotf People
Court Bnch Other.
xiie house in Bogota In which I lived
f 0l . fifteen months was one of the old
^ an( j t j, e largest In that Spanish
| )U |j t e j t y jf was t W o storied and hod
fim-ty-four rooms, surrounding three
p atio9( 01 . courts. The ground floor
roonJa -were shops and storage places:
^7ITS ™ZZZZZ
a p ar tments looked on the street; the
others opened off corridor:? which ran
around the patios. I rota the street one
eu tered by enormous double doors of
|, oaV y oa ]j | u to a shirt stone puss;;'to
wav ot . vestibule; tin*.we a smaller t.oor
)eJ , ut0 tJie flrat |Wtu ttM ijc . ,., v . a ..., r
witli a fountain In the center an
growing everywhere,
Into this patio every day of all ti.>
mouths that I lived in the place emu
beggars with their baskets, us n.,
room opened off the corridor above .
could sit within my door and hear th
very characteristic manner la whim.
alms are solicited—and refused—in Co¬
lombia.
The street doors were never fastened
except at night, so in would walk the
beggar (usually an aged Indian wom¬
an) without knock or ring. The seaora,
through the open door of her room off
the corridor, would look down and see
the suppliant standing Inflow In the
patio. An Anglo-Saxon woman In those
circumstances would either at ouce
have tossed some dole to the beggar or
have said curtly from where she sat,
“Go away; I’ve nothing for you!” and
tliut would have ended the matter.
The Spanlsh-itmerlcun woman’s meth¬
od of dealing with the situation was
far otherwise. It did not matter If
twenty beggars had already been there
that day, and if there were every rea
soii to suppose that twenty more would
some during the afternoon, the cere¬
mony (It was nothing less) of the re¬
fusal to give was never curtailed nor
varied by one word or Inflection of the
voice.
First the senora would get up, leave
in' embroidery or wliatev&r she was
doing, go out from her room to the cor
rldor, and, leaning over the railing,
would say to the beggar very cour
teottsly:
“Good day!”
“Good day, your gractousnesa,” the
l>eggar would respond. “How do you
do r
“I am very well, thank you.”
“And the gentleman, your husband?”
"Also very well, thanks be to God.”
“How good that Is! And your fam
j j|y?»
.. They nre a u well, thank you very
mu( . h A uii you ? h 0 w do you do?”
j j atu os usual, your merclful
’u (!ss; many, many thanks to you.”
j Then tho senora, as if she had never
seen a beggar before and had no idea
1 f or w hnt purpose this woman had
tome Into the patio, would Inquire;
"And whnt Is It that you wish?”
'“For the love of God, your grace, the
very least thing that you have to give
— a very small piece of bread."
The senora appeared very much sur
prised to learn the visitor’s errand aud
at the same time was overcome by re¬
gret that she could not possibly comply
with the request.
"A place of bread?” she would re¬
peat. “How much pleasure I should
have in giving it to you! It Is really
almost too unfortunate that you come
today, when we have not been able to
get anything from the market, aud the
cook Is so 111 that wo have scarcely
had meals for the family. Any other
time 1 would give to you gladly. There
Is always, enough, except this oue un¬
happy day on which you come. It
gives me pain to refuse you, but"—
spreading out her hands—"what can I
do?”
The beggar would take it nil as If
she had never heard It before and be¬
lieved every word of it to be true.
"Ob, well,” she would say, “it is
nothing. i>o uot let your grace be dis¬
turbed. Another day will do quite as
well. So, then, lmsta luego ’ ( uutil a
(ittle while’),
“Hasta luego.” said the senora. “due
te vaya iwuy bleu' ("May you go very
well").
"Many, many thanks, and yon also
and your family.”
So the beggar would go away none
the richer. The senora was poorer by
ten minutes of time, but what is time
to a Spanish-American woman?
It was quit* a while before I learned
to take the pretty speeches of the
Colombians for what they were worth.
The men used to assure me, “Soy a los
pies de usted” ("I aiu at your feet"),
when, as a matter of fact, they were
nothing of the kind. If I expressed
the slightest admiration for anything,
from a hairpin to a diamond necklace,
it was immediately offered to me with
the protestation that It was mine, as
the owner cared nothing for It and 1
should be doing a favor by accepting
it. No oue would have been more sur
prised than that owner, however, if I
had taken him at his word. Soon after
my arrival in Bogota I was Invited,
with the‘family with whom I was
rtaying, to spend the evening with
some of their relatives, tt might al¬
ways be taken for granted that our
entertainers would be relatives, for the
Caravallos had so married and inter¬
married that there was scarcely a
person amoug the upper classes that
was not some kind of a cousin. The
marriage of those closely connected by
blood Is very much more common than
it Is with us.
On the morning of the day of the
little party to which we had been bid¬
den 1 took out of my trunk tbe dress
that I intended to wear, and as It had
l oon packed during the whole cl Die
five aud a half weeks of our journey
from New York to the Co!on:blr->i cap¬
ital, ) naturally found it full ot 11
and creases. I shook it vigorously and
then hung it over the roiling of the
corridor outside my room, hoping that
the air in some measure would restore
the freshness. To have had It pre x-d
would have been out of the question,
as all of our laundry work was done
at least two miles away from the city
and there were no Irons in the house.
In a moment or two Sofia came from
|K»r room out to the corridor. “What la
this?" she asked when she saw my
gown over the railing.
“Well,” I said, “it Is the dress I am
hoping to be nble to wear this evening.
It la terribly mussed, as you see, and
1/ the air does not take out some of
the wrinkles you will be ashamed of
your American friend.”
To my utter amazement, Sofia darted
at the garment, removed It from the
railing In the twinkling of an eye and
had It back Into my room again before
she took time even to speak to me.
“What in the world are you doing?”
I gasped,
•T>o you want people to suppose you
have your clothes made here la Bogo¬
ta?” i?he demanded.
Then she went ou to explain; "Every
one who can afford It has her dresses
sent from New York or Baris, and of
course the things are wrinkled when
they get here. We are very glad when
they are, because that shows that
they're Imported. If I have a gown
made here, I always put It under my
mattress and sleep on it for a night or
two before I wear It. Then it looks as
If it had been packed and sent from
abroad. And you would actually have
put your real New York dress out in
the air!”
I went that evening looking, as I
thought, a fright, hut I believe Sofia
was very proud of me.
About thirty persons were at the
party, and only two besides myself
were not related to all the others.
There were six engaged couples pres¬
ent, and they sat—as l afterward found
out was the Invariable custom—-side by
side on sofas, as far as the sofas held
out, and thoee who arrived too late to
secure sofas had chairs placed two by
two as close together as it was possible
to put them. Thus the couples sat Ini
j movable each throughouj other In low the tones, evening, perfect- talk¬
|,ig to
jy oblivious of the rest of the company,
jj was oao 0 f the fuuulest things I
ever k !le w to look around the room and
see those six pairs gazing into each
other’s eyes and forgetling that there
was any one else in the world but
themselves.
But engaged couples can never, never
see each other alone, not for cue mo¬
ment, and If they did uot sit and talk
together In public they would uot talk
at all, so who can blame them for not
wasting any of the little time that they
hove In each other's company by con¬
versation with outsiders? We had ch»>
rudes that evening, and the unengaged
young people went out of the room
aud then came back and acted, but the
pairs never moved from one end of tho
i affair to the other except when they
were obliged to go Into the dining room
to get something to eat.
If a girl's fiance chances to call when
she is aloue In the house she must in
struct the servant to say thnt she is uot
at home, for she could not possibly re¬
ceive the man without a chaperon. It
was a mystery to me how young peo¬
ple ever got engaged, asked Sofia,
aud she said it was usually at a dance,
In the midst of such a crowd that the
two were practically alone.
"Do they never, never kiss each oth¬
er, then?” I inquired sympathetically.
"Oh, well,” said Sotta, her eyes cast
down, “sometimes there is a way,”
|t goes -without saying that the pre¬
liminary courtships are carried on be¬
fore the eyes of the World*, indeed, most
of the wooing up to the time when the
man goes to the bouse and formally
asks the father for the girl’s hand Is
done lu the street. Whenever the girl
goes out to walk, with her mother or
other chaperon, the man walks a little
distance behind or sometimes on the
opposite side of the street. If the seno
rita Is favorably inclined toward her
follower she lets him know it by a
glance now aud then or the slightest
j j )oss jpi t , turn of the head in his direc
t j 0I1 When she is in the house her
• 8uitor walks aud down under her
up
i>aloony f or pours at a time, while she
I i>eep8 out at him through a shutter.
The lover always has a friend (called
Ills ‘-‘gandelero”—literally, candlestick),
Who accompanies him and helps him
with bis courtship. Thus, when the
principal }s forced by bis duties else¬
where to leave his post under the girl’s
balcony the candelero remains in bis
place, and should the girl come out of
her door in tbe time of her lover's ab¬
sence the candelero hastily seeks his
friend and informs him of the direc¬
tion that the girl and her chaperon
have taken; then both hurry after as
fast as they can go. This sort of woo¬
ing is kept up for weeks, during which
time not a word is spoken between the
couple until at last the admirer finds
some way of being introduced into the
girl’s home.
When the young couple become en¬
gaged a betrothal dinner is given. On
the afternoon of the day of the din¬
ner the man sends that' the girl an engage¬
ment ring. One I saw was sent
with some rare and beautiful flowers,
made Into a fan, die sticks of which
were tied with ruby colored ribbon,
and |n the knot of the ribbon was the
ring, a large ruby surrounded by dia¬
monds, The whole thing was carried
on a tray by a servant to the girl’s
house. Fancy an American man giv¬
ing an engagement ring In that man¬
ner! At the dinner the couple ex¬
changed plain gold rings, but no ring
is used with the marriage ceremony.—
Mary B. Sheldon in New York Trlb
une.
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%\rIIEN W you buy a suit here you are not merely sec 5 i C g
so much value in fabrics, )’ou are getting truly tai o r 4> d
more than mere cloth and linings sewn
It’s the tailoring that makes clothes; otherwise it
would be cheaper to buy goods by the yard and let }our
wife make your clothes.
$ 7 . 50 . $ 10 . 00 . $ 15 . 00 .
A THE STORE OF LITTLE PRICES
NEW GODDS
ARE
Daily Arriving
And I am making prices that are
astonishing the natives, my line
composes everything that is needed
in the way of wearing apparel and
at figures that are really surprising.
I have a large line of
hardware that is cheap
And also Glassware, Tinware,
Woodenware and things in this line
are er< rt reduced in prices
Nellie King
is the name of as fine flour as
there is made. There is none
better and we handle it. The
beauty about it is that it is 30
cents on the hundred cheaper
than other high grade flour.
NULL KERB
DALTON, QA.