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THE FIRST DIRECTORY.
Qnaint Olden Time New York I!u«t*
lies, and Social Addresses.
In the first directory of New York
city, which was issued iu 178‘j, there
are some peculiar and quaint entries.
For Instance, in those days it was not
uncommon for medical practitioners to
scfii drugs, as is shown by the following
address. “Samuel Bredhurst, physician
and apothecary, 04 Queen (now l’earl)
street.”
Clergymen of that period were ex¬
ceedingly precise regarding their titles.
Thus, "Abraham Baehe, reverend of '
the Church of England, 2D Smith
street,” and “Joze Phelan, clergyman
of the Church of Rome, 1 Beckman
street.”
Lean Rogers, tailor, of 5 Broadway,
was .described as a "breeches maker;”
John Beau, 00 Broadway, as “surgeon
and tooth puller;” S. Crygier, 00 Cherry ;
street, “punch and porter house;” Jo
Deleplaue of 132 Queen street, “Quaker
speaker;” D. Hitchcock, 80 Queen
street, “house carpenter and undertak¬
,
er;” John IIog!and, 03 Queen street,
“fiddler, etc.;” Henry H. Kip, 23 King
street, "inspector of pot and pearl ,
ashes;” John Nitehie, 7 Garden street, :
“.starch and liair powder maker;” Sam¬ j
uel B. Webb, 20 Lower Dock street |
“gentleman.” great |
In those days, too, there were a
many “gentlewomen” and a few “wash¬
women." All teachers were thou ad
dressed either ns “ scho olma sters" or
“schoolmistresses.” The retail dealers
Broadway and Wall and Queen
streets called themselves “shopkeep¬ j
ers,” the hotel men were “tavern keep¬ j
ers,” and the policemen were “watch¬ |
men.”—New York Post.
;
WATER ORDEAL. I
THE COLD |
Wan Once an Important Test of j
It j
Guilt or Innocence.
The cold water ordeal was one of the
most important tests of guilt or inno¬
cence a few hundred years ago. If the
accused floated, lie was guilty; if he
sank, lie was innocent. In the twelfth ;
altar vessels were stolen I
century some the .
from the cathedral of Laou, and
learned Anselm proposed that a child ;
from each parish and then a child from
each household should be put to the
test and so on until the guilty one was
found. The proposition raised a great
- outcry, and the people clamored that
those who had easiest access to the
church be tiie first to undergo the or¬
deal.
This looked reasonable enough. So
the bishop ordered the six priests of
tiie cathedral to prepare for the test.
In the meanwhile Anselm thought to
try the experiment himself os a pre¬
liminary test. So he was hound and
placed in a tub of water. To his great
satisfaction as well as discomfort he
promptly sank. Tiie day arrived and
with it an immense crowd to see the
trial. The first priest sank, the second
floated, the third sank, tiie fourth float¬
ed, the fifth sank, and then Anselm
himself—wonder of wonders—iu spite
of experiments and protested innocence
floated around with the buoyancy of an
air bubble. While he was serving ids
sentence in prison Anselm found time
to write a learned treatise on the “In¬
expediency of tiie Water Ordeal and
Us Failure In Many Car-os,”
Sew Zeals ivtl Mocking Birds.
The Poe honey eater is one of the
commonest and at the same time hand¬
somest of the New Zealand birds. The
neck is ornamented with a frill of curly
feathers of a greenish color with white
centers, and the throat is adorned with
a tuft of white feathers, which has
gained for it the popular name of “par¬
son bird,” an appellation appropriate
not only because of this decoration, but
because of the resemblance of its pe¬
culiar attitudes when singing to the
gesticulations indulged in by exuber¬
ant lecturers when wishing to drive
home their points. The bird is an ex¬
cellent mimic and can be taught to re¬
peat short sentences with extraordina¬
ry clearness and also to whistle short
songs quite as w-ell as a parrot.
Queen Beips’ Giant.
Queen Elizabeth had a Flemish por¬
ter who was over eight feet high and
of great strength, and lie was an ex¬
tremely good natured man. W benever
he met any one who was abnormally
tali he used to patronize him in a
friendly sort of way, and on one occa¬
sion when he met at an inn two sol¬
dier.? who were over six feet in height
he said, “Come under my arms, my lit¬
tle fellows.” And, taking them up, he
walked down the room with them un¬
der his arms r.s if they had been chil¬
dren, much lo their disgust.
Willing to Oblige.
Uncle (to little Bertie, aged five, who
is being taken off to bed)—Good night,
Bertie. Of course you always remem¬
ber your aunts and uncles in your
prayers? Bertie—Ob. yes, Uncle Felix’.
Shall I tell you what I say? I say.
“God bless Aunty Kitty and make ber
thin, and God bless Uncle James and
make him fat, and God bless Uncle
Felix and”—which do you want to be,
fat or thin?—Punch.
A Fan! Train.
“Is this a fast train?” asked a pas
senger who was tired of looking at a
station at which the train was not sup
posed to stop. the conductor’s
“Of course it is," was
reply. mind
“I thought so. Would you my
getting out to see what It’s fast to?”
Always tiie Same.
Tailor’s Little Boy (walking with his
f;iher, sees a street roller)—What’s
that, papa? Tailor—The street's being
newly ironed and pressed.—Figaro.
“Some men can take new furniture
and make it look as if it was made a
century ago,” says a Journalist. So
can some children.
MAKING OLD GLORY.
The May Fla;; Vic Turned Out Witt,
Mod ora M a c !a 2 n ex*y.
By the aid of modern machinery only
an hour is required for the mannfae
ture of a silk or woo! bunting Amort
can flag 0 by IQ foot in size. This
task Includes fourteen different
tions jind twenty years ago required a
nay , and a half to accomplish. , iho
decade has witnessed the introduction
of splicing and emting machines as
well as improved sewing machines.
These have revolutionized the flag
making industry.
The first step in making a flag, says
the New \ork Snn, is to cut ihe
stripes from huge rolls of red or white
silk or wool hunting. Machinery ae
complishes most of this, although some
operatives equipped with huge shears
are still empire d. The stripes are
given over to the machine operatives,
by whom they are sewed t >getber with
ltghtningiike rapidity. The lock stitch
is used and the thread fed from spools,
each of which holds 24.000 yards.
The strips sewed together, the flag
is ready to receive the union. The tin
Ion Is the blue field at the loft upper
corner of the flag bearing the forty-six
stars, a star for every state, although
most of the (lags seen for some months
will show only forty-live stars.
Stars of wool Minting flags am of
muslin, although the union Itself is of
the same material as the body of the
ting. A star is always half the* width
of a stripe of the flag it adorns,
Muslin star:; are cut out by maehin
ery at the rate of 3,000 an hour. A
star is five pointed, each being precise
!y like Us fellow. As fast as the stars
are cut out they are passed to girls
who, standing at long tables, arrange
them o:i the unions. Then they are
basted in place by hand find turned
over t.) the machine operatives.
Placing the union in position follows,
two unions being required for each
flag, otto o;i either side. Stripes and
union joined, the finishers take the flag
in hand. Strong canvas bands are sew
eJ across the headings, the bands hav
it;;; grommets, or eyelets, in the eor
ners. In the ease of large flags for
staffs the halliards run through these
grommets.
AlUs:> U every year more titan 4,000,
000 American flags are made In the
fashion dv.sct ibed, they form only a
small proportion of the total number
untuufaet'.nvil Millions of printed
flags come into existence every year,
and their number is constantly in¬
creasing.
Jllulre end nn Appropriation.
When James G. Blaine was speaker
of the 1 ouse lie cleverly got through a
resolution appropriating $42,000 to the
needy widowed daughter of President
Zachary Taylor. This lady got as far
as Washington on her way to Paris to
see a si-.-k daughter amt, being destitute
of money, appealed to ber only fi-iend
at the capital, General Sherman. His
purse was always open to the distress¬
ed, but he had not funds at all ade¬
quate to relieve iter necessities. In this
emergency lie thought of Iilaine. The
man from Maine entered into the spirit
of the occasion as soon as ho heard
General Sherman’s statement, Ho
called another lo the chair and made a
five minutes’ speech that fairly eleetri
iled tile house, which passed the reso¬
lution Blaine had penned only a mo¬
ment before. lie took the resolution in
person to the senate, where it was also
immediately passed, hud the president
to sign It the next day, and on the fol¬
lowing day the beneficiary got the
motiey. General Sherman always in¬
sisted that Blaine would have made
the grandest actor that ever lived and
in adapting his career to politics he
robbed tiie stage of a born star.
Horses and Fur,.
er ship horses to New York in
the fail or winter if you want to make
a good sale,” was the advice that was
handed out to a western man who had
a number of horses that he wished to
dispose of at the Horse Exchange.
• Thoy'll make a better showing iu the
sprlfig or summer,” explained a trader
on the exchange, “and impress the
prospective trader with a sense of safe¬
ty. it is more difficult to break in a
western horse in New York ways iu
the winter than the summer. It really
doesn’t take him long to become used
to the crowds and noises of the city at
any time. The thing that throws him
info panic is the sight of fur. In his
mind furs arc associated with some
enemy or tormentor of the animal king¬
dom, and the sight and smell of far
garments arouse former fears. Sumo
horses never do - get over this weak¬
ness, and many dealers can vouch for
■ uses in which horses that are other
vise perfectly satisfactory bring com
ilaint from the purchaser on account
,f their dislike of furs.«—Cincinnati
Enquirer.
“Xot One* Cent For Tribute#"
The copper piece with tiie legend,
•Millions for defense, not one cent for
tribute,” is not a coin at all, but a
nedal commemorating our
with France during the Napoleonic
wars. Resenting our Jay treaty with
Great Britain, made while George
Washingtou was president, and angry
because we would not take sides in
those wars, France, In 1797, began to
attack our merchant ships, and we
came very near becoming involved in
war with her. We sent a commission
over to try to arrange the trouble, and
the French prime minister* Talleyrand,
gave them to understand we could ar¬
range it only by paying a bribe or mak
Sng a loan to the French government.
To this it was said that Charles Cotes
worth Pinckney of South Carolina, a
member of our commission, replied in
the words uoted on the medal. This
lie denied, however, his reply being
simply, “No, no, no; not one sixpence.”
—St. Louis Republic.
THE MURRAY NEWS, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 2:1,4907
LEGEND OF THE TOPAZ.
Why the Jewel Is Culled the Stone
of Gratitude.
The topaz is called the stone of gratl
tilde, and (he old Roman books record
the following legend, from which the
derives this attribute:
The blind Emperor Theodosius used
to hang a brazen gong before, bis pal
ace gates and sit beside it on certain
<f U y S hearing and putting to rights the
; grievances of any of bis subjects,
Those who wished for bis advice anil
help hacl but to sound the gong, and
immediately admission into the pres¬
ence of Caesar was obtained. One day
(1 gvont snake crept up to the gate and
strtiol-c the bra son gong witii Iior coils,
and Theodosius gave orders that no one
; j should Inoiest the creature and bade
her xoll him of her wish,
The snake bent her crest lowly in
homage and straightway told the fob
lowing tale:
Her nest was at the base of the gate
way tower, and while she had gone to
find food for her young brood a strange
: beast, covered with sharp needles, had
invaded her home, killed the nestlings
; and now held possession of the little
dwelling. Would Caesar grant her jtis
tice?
The emperor gave orders for the por
etipine to be slain and the mother to be
restored to her desolate nest. Night
fell, and the steeping world had for¬
gotten the emperor’s kindly deed, but
with the early dawn a, great serpent
glided into the palace, up the steps and
into the royal chamber and laid upon
each of the emperor’s closed eyelids a
gleaming topaz.
When the Emperor Theodosius awoke
he was no longer blind, for the mother
snake had paid her debt of gratitude.
PASSPORTS IN FRANCE.
The Kind That Were Issued In the
Time of t.ouls XVI.
The mysterious cards of the Count
de Vergetmes each contained a brief
history in cipher of those to whom they
were given. I)e Vergennes was Louis
XVI.’s minister of foreign affairs, and
when strangers of a suspicious charac¬
ter were about to enter France he is¬
sued to them these strange cards,
which acted as passports, and were
also intended to give information con¬
cerning the bearer without his knowl¬
edge.
In the first place, its color indicated
the nationality of the man who car¬
ried it. The plrson’s age, approxi¬
mately, was told by the shape of the
card. A fillet around the border of tiio
card tohl whether be was a bachelor,
married or a widower. Dots gave in¬
formation ns to his position and for¬
tune, and the expression of his face
was shown by a decorative flower.
The stranger's religion was told by
the punctuation after his name. If he
was a Catholic it was a period, if a
Jew n dash, If he was a Lutheran a
semicolon and no stop at all indicated
him it nonbeliever.
So a man’s morals, character and
appearance were pointed out by the
pattern of his passport, and the author¬
ities could tell at a glance whether lie
was a gamester or a preacher, a pity
alciau or a lawyer, and whether lie
was to be put under surveillance 01
allowed to go free.—-Sunday Magazine.
Materialistic Mail.
Sir Janies Crichton-Browne, the 'ring
lish physicISn, speaking before some
members of his profession, protested
against the tendency to adopt too mate¬
rialistic an explanation of man. The
raw material of a medical practice be¬
came a mere contrivance of matter and
force; tlio bruin of tills poor consumer
of pills and potions a “glue-like sub¬
stance, nine-tenths water, with a little
phosphorus thrown in.” “They left ns
man,” said Sir James, with a smashing
figure, “a motor car, self made and self
started, with no passengers and no
chauffeur, moved by a series of explo
slows or redistributions of energy, and
rushing on to inevitable destruction.”
A Prayer.
Send some one. Lord, to love the best
that is in me and to accept nothing loss
from me, to touch me with iho search¬
ing tenderness of the passion for tho
ideal, to demand everything from me
for my own sake, to give me so much
that I cannot think of myself and to
ask so much that I can keep nothing
hack, to console me by making me
strong before sorrow comes, to help
me so to live that while 1 part with
many things by the way i lose nothing
of the gift of life.—Hamilton W. Mu
bie.
Maaile V'/zh 'WilllTijg,
A Strict housewife dm id to a now
maid, “I forgot to tell you, Maude, that
if you break anything I’ll have to take
it out of your wages.”
: But Maude, whom two days had
heartily sickened of her berth, replied,
j with a merry laugh: “Do it, ma’am; do
it. I’ve just broke the hundred dollar
vase in the parlor, and if you can take
that out of $4—for i’tn leavin’ at the
C nu of the week-why, you’ll be mighty
clever.”—Argonaut,
\ The Other One.
: “What is the meaning of ‘alter
ego?’ ” asked the teacher of the begin
ners’ class in Latin,
“The other I,” said the boy with the
curly hair.
“Give a sentence containing the
phrase.”
“He winked liis other I.”
Long? Sighted.
New Nurse—But why don't you want
to take your bath, Johnny?
Little Johnny-’Cause somebody said
the good die young, and I don’t want
to take chances on being drowned,
See?—Exchange,
Anxiety doss not empty tomorrow of
Its sorrow; it empties today of its
strength.—Maclareh.
SHAFT TO FORRESi AT
ROME ORDERED BY WOMEN
Hill City Will Honor Memory of
Peerless Genera! Who Saved
It from the Torch.
Romo, (hi., Feb. 10.—The mon¬
ument lo General Nathan Bed¬
ford Fern st, to be erected by the
little chapter hearing his name
in Rome—N. B. Forrest Chapter,
U. I). 0.—is a delayed honor of
-10 years, and the younger women
of the Out federac-y proudly can¬
cel the debt of honor Rome owes
this peerless general.
On Sabbath morning of May 8,
18(58, General Forrest and his 41(5
men brought captive into the lit¬
tle village General A. 13. Straight
and 1,982 soldiers of the federal
forces.
It was a remarkable achieve
meat of strategy, a penchant that
made Forrest “the wizard of the
saddle,” the most dreaded an
tigonist his foes ever met. In
the symbolic gray of granite and
the purity of white marble the
wonderful story will becommem
oi at 'd.
The N. B, Forrest chapter, of
which Miss Mattie B. Sheebley
is the president, has given an
order to the McNeal Marble Co.,
of Marietta, for a massive memo¬
rial stone that shall stand 25 feet
high. The well proportioned
shaft will be of solid granite, the
entire ornamentations emblem¬
atic of the cavalry service. The
broadest base will be 10 feet.
As a capstone a perfect figure
clad in the uniform of a cavalry¬
man, booted and spurred, done
in pure, unblemished Italion
marble, will stand straight as an
arrow six feet two inches tall, a
fac simile of General Nathan
Bedford Forrest. The statue will
be modeled in Italy and ten
months will elapse before the
McNeal company can receive the
figure from the sculptor’s hands.
To see this monument rise in
symmetry and beauty on Broad
street as a result of their labors
lias long been the cherished
sire of the membership whose
“sponsor general” N. B, Forrest
i--. Rome, too, will proudly look
upon the finished work and coin
mend the bravery of the little
band so faithful m achieving,
“Well done, thou good and faith¬
ful servants.”
The question of a site lias not
yet born agitated, but it is
known that the city will grant
space wherever most advanta¬
geous.
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Nothing will relieve huliges
tion that is not a thorough di
gestant. Kodol digests what you
eat and allows the stomach to
rest—recuperate —grow strong
again. Kodol is a solution of di¬
gestive acids and as nearly as
possible approximates the diges¬
tive juices that are found in the
stomach. Kodol takes the work
of digestion off the" digestive or¬
gans, and while performing this
work itself does‘greatly assist the
stomach to a thorough rest. In
addition the ingredients of Kodol
are such as to make if a correct¬
ive of the highest efficiency and
by its action the stomach is re¬
stored to its normal activity and
power. Kodol is manufactured
in strict conformity with the Na¬
tional Pure Food and Drug Law.
Sold by S. II. Kelly,
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PENINSULAR
>
We have about $250.00
worth of Guaranteed
Cooking Stoves. We will
sell them on the install*
ment plan or one=third
cash and balance this fall.
We sell more stoves be*
cause we undersell others
MfllJitfkimb Brek
i j ^ : Sfom- of LtrrU PRICE
Jim McCarty’s Place
heal Quarters for
Foreign and Domestic Wines, Liquors and Beer
It is a recognized fact, that till good corn whiskey is fust,
becoming the most popular o drinks, which is mainly
attributable to its excellent in-■!Irinal qualities, and its
lack of disagreeable “after e;iV» n” My genuine
Old Georgia Corn
meets all requirements of the no : 8 incriminating drinker.
It is double copper distilled, --villi o| on wood fire furnace
heat, and has been aged in wood until it in smooth and
yellow. I quote my patrons Ihe following low prices on
ten of the best grades of whiskey on the market :
CORN WHISKEYS
OLD WILD CAT
O 4 QUARTS GALLON JUG
CM Z.oo 1.85
GENUINE OLD GEORGIA CORN
6oc 2.3o 2.oo
NORTH CAROLINA SWEET MASH
65c 2.50 ISl
SUGAR VALLEY (OLD)
eva
HAND MADE SOUR MASH
1=2 Cm!ion, 75c 1.50
RYE WHISKEYS
QUART 4 QUARTS GALLON JUG
OLD MILFORD
l.oo 3.5 a 3.oo
4X MONOGRAM
■vl 2.5o
4A LINCOLN COUNTY
Cm 2.75
DEEP SPRING
1.00 3.5o 3.oO
PURE, but old, RYE or LINCOLN COUNTY
50c 2.00 1.85
No matter what price you have been paying for
Wines, Whiskies, etc., I’ll guarantee to soil yon some¬
thing BETTER for the same money. Send mo your
orders. I’ll sure treat you right
Yours for Business and Pure Liquors,
jim McCarty,
No. 259 Monhromery Avenue,
Chattanooga, Tennessee.
Distance Phone No. 1103.
WE Are Here to Give
Our patrons what they want. We do not try to induce
them to take something else. If a customer wants Hood’s
Sarsaparilla, he gets Hood’s Sarsaparilla. He is not im .
portuned to take our own make. We like to treat our
customers right. It is both pleasant and profitable. We
have built up the largest drug establishment in Dalton by
gratifying ou£ patrous’ wishes. should There is no rea&mi why
everybody in Murray County not trade here. We
can give them decidedly the best service and our prices
are fixed altogether according to what things are worth.
a S 9 Fincher & Nichols
Nice Rooms Comfortable Beds F ree Sample Rooms
JOHNSON HOTEL -fi,
mmmtmx*
MRS. J. E. JOHNSON, Proprietress
Spring Place, Ga. fin It
Do Wo Treat Yon Right? Ask the Traveling Man.
Good Eating On Public Square Rea stumble Rates
THORNHILL WAGONS I M
Are ihe Best Wagons in this Section.
i w
If you need a good wagon and want it very a
cheap, be sure and see ms before buyine. $
THOMAS . BRYANT,
DALTON, GEORGIA
Remember the Foil Paine
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