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ALBAN* 9 Uludo ! fortune _(>’ the attict ootlreil * gut a lailv filter with a hiiudl ami uU'j'oat teat Hlie liked to pkiw hurmilf so foiryliku supports were t visible; while the lady with the misshapon hoofs and bulky isos kept her feet out of sight every time. From this he inferred that the lat ter person would much prefer to ItnwA Ititn omn 11 nml Imtnlt have two small and lovable trotters want to conceived the them; and then be ition of kee] fag feet on hand, and supplying then customers who needed them. i to He has a dozen pairs of thorn- small wooden feet with adorable boots on them. The huly with the generous extremities is planted iu the chair with her massive limbs and copious boots bidden ns far back as they can go without dislocating her knees, nml then the artificial feet nr.> carefully hooked on to the inner hem of hor dress.—Chicugo Inter SMi ~ Tbe Street Cer 1 A Maryland Duck Story. Story telling was in order among the enthusiastic sportsmon of tho Hr. I tlmoro Gun club.* Rufus A. Drain ard related this cxporicnco: “When I was a boy I borrowed a flintlock gun, and was at Frog Mortor shore shooting with my undo. Early one morning I saw thousands of canvas back ducks close in Bhore. I run to the blind, and leveling my gun 1 banged away. The ducks arose In a mass, and not one remained on the water. My uncle, camo to me and “Git out, git out. git out!” Take a ride up Broadway on the front end of a street car, on a busy afternoon, listen to the driver and this is what you will hear: “Git out, git out, git outl” This to a truck driver, near by. The truckman starts to grimace; the cor man koops up- his call in a mo notonous voice; “Git out, git out, git outl” Then tho teamster ahead gets too slow. Our man flurries his whip, whistles and shrieks, holds in his horses, wildly gesticulates and goes on hello whig; “Git out, git out, git outl" A bicycle rider is caught in the jam, under the noses of the team. A dozen trucks block the track, zig zag, and a hundred people scurry right and loft. Yet the car koeps right ahead. The driver never dreams of hauling up, other than for a passenger, and that only for a fleet ing second—always at it; “Git out, git out, git out!" Then he hums a tune, stamps his feet, chows tobacco, twirls the brake, nods to a woman occasionally, bangs the tonin, swings lii3 lash, whistles at tho jam, roars, bellowB and shrieks, and in other ways earns his salary, while tho passengers on tho front end stolid about in perfect oblivion, not even hearing, apparently, tho singsong interlude that floats in be- tlYCGIl ' "Git out, git out, git outl"—Now York Recorder. scolded me for not waiting for him. I saw something strike thi io water, looked up and noticed dead ducks falling through the air. You see the ducks wore so closely massed that tho livo ones canned tho dead ours i with them. • Wo pickod up forty tnreo ducks when all had dropped Some crippled birds which could spread their wings wore carried oil' by their follows. Thore wore lots of ducks in thoso days.” The claim of forty-throe dead ducks “ d that Mr, Brainard was up in ng, ns no gunner, when tollin;; ory, ever kills nn oven number of i or birds.—Baltimore Sun, He Hail No String. Wo were camped on tlie Boar river, ' in eastern Utah, when a prospector came along ono morning on a mule. Ho had his jaw tied up and at first lie Seemed inclined to pass on without ., word. On second thought, however, ho halted and gruffly queried: "How fur to Salt Lakot" “Three hundred miles." Tumpli I” "Traveled far?” “About 800 mllos." “Get your jaw hurt?" Education Increase* Pain. Education increases the natural susceptibility to pain. The agricul tural laborer is much less sensitive of nerve than the artisan; and the artisan than tlie scholar and the brain worker. For education, which is only civilization carried on, results in a still further development of tho brain, and consequently of the nerv ous system which depends upon it; and the prico for increased intelli gence is paid in increased sensibility to pain. So that an injury which to the man of intellect may mean posi tive agony, by the plowman will be not only endurable, but scarcely no ticed at all. For it is the brain, and tho brain alono. that foele, although the actual sensation is localized. Cut the trunk nerve which con nects tho sent of tho injury with the brain, and tho pain which that in- ; ury produced instantly censes to be l eli For the nerves are as telegraph wires, which communicate the fact of tho injury to tlie brain, and re- coiyo in return the sensation which it experiences. And it is therefore easy to understand how the degree of development to which the brain has attained affects and controls the degreo Of intensity of possible pain, —London Sunday Mngnzino. "No. It's just mi iufornql toot'.i he, and I'm a-ridlng BOO miles to tit pulled." Wo invited him down and one of the crowd got a piece of string around tho tooth nml jerked it out as slick ns i please. After tlie overjoyed man 1 ceased dancing nbout I queried Why didn’t you try the string be 9 starting out on such a long ride <" fast kind of reason, sir. I hadn't fa string. "—Now York Telegram A Ludicrous Proceeding. nong tlie Portuguese at Fayul. re I once spout a winter, the gentlemen were expected to black trousers to parties iu winter and white in summer, but to decide on which particular evening • summer began was the point of diffl. eulty; bo the young men would sonio “TS times go to tlie house in black, with the white garments under tliolrnrms, ready to peep in through the windov and take n hasty census of black mill white legs. If the latter prevailed they would make their toilet afresh in tlie bnslics outside. It was not n matter of social caste, for they were all of thesamo caste; it was only n wish not to tie singular. —Colonel . Higgiuson in Hnrper’s Bazar. Two Way* to Win. Messenger Boy (to comrade)—Say the woman where I took a letter gimme a quarter. “Wlint for doint" “Nothin. She Bed I was ‘a little gentleman' for keepin my cap off in her house." “Ueewhitaker! five nickelH for thatt” "Yes. but 1 didn't tell her the fol ler that sent the letter gimme n quarter to keep my cap off so’s none of 'em in the house could Bpot my number.” -New York Tribune, Tho Benefit of the Doubt. Mrs. Gadabout—What made you say that Mrs. Youngwife’s baby was pretty and resembled its grandmoth er? You never saw her and the baliy is homely. Mrs. Readytongue—I dare not say that it looked like its father or motli er, so I gave its grandmother tlie benefit of. the doubt.—Westfield (N J.) Leader. Kit- 5 *'.;/• Sight end Smell In » Cat. A few simple experiments with n cat will convince any one that she cannot distinguish a hand, with empty fingers, held toward her, from one conti ous edible. ' BLOCK. i Think Ton Shaving In Egypt. Tho earliest reference to shaving of the beard is found in Genesis xli, 14, where we rend that Joseph, on being summoned before the king, Bliaved himself. There are several references as to shaving in Leviticus, and tlie practico is alluded to in many other parts of tlie Bible. How ever, Egypt is the only country men. turned in the Biblo where shaving was practiced; in all Other countries at that time such on act would have beon considered ignominious. Herod- otUB mentions that tho Egyptians al lowed their beards to grew.when they were in mourning. So partial lor wore they os to shaving at nil other times that to have noglocted it was to make one’s self tho butt of course and ridiculous jokes. Even in this day and age, when tho Egyptian wants to convoy tho idea of a man of low condition and slovenly habits, they always picture to you a man with a full beard. This notion is very ancient, a fact attested by works of art found in burial uion uments dating back thousands of years.—St. Louis Republic. WITHIN THE CHARMED I Advantage! or Having r Live Near Fifth There may he noi but there is a good deal in a number sometimes, especially when it desig- nates the place where you live in this city. Characterize as you will the sentiment which causes most people to respect tlie tact that you live within the charmed half block of Fifth avenue, the feeling is there nevertheless. Up above Fifty-ninth street, on the west side, the numbers of tbe streets begin at Eighth ave nue, or Central park west, as the avenue is now called, and this fact leads to many amusing mistakes, es pecially on the part of tradesmen. A newspaper man who lives in a mod est but neat flat, which is numbered under ton, in a street above Fifty ninth street, told tho writer the other day about some of the peculiar ex perienccs which he hod had. “I tell you," he said, "there are u great many advantages sometimes In sailing under false colors. Now don't pretend to have a command;;', presence, nor do 1 dress particularly well, so when I go into a store I can not and do not expect the clerks to fall over themselves to wait on me. go ahead awl give my order, nnd after the clerk has put it all down he usually says in a weary Bort of way Shall I send them home, or will you take thorn?' “ ‘You may send them to — Worn — street,' 1 reply. "Well, you would bo surprised to see the change which comes over the demeanor of that clerk at once. Tin. effect of that number is magical. He brightens up immediately and is ah attention. " ‘Oh, yes, yes; will send then, right up,' ho says as lie sings out Cash!' with more vigor than he has displayed bofnre during tho time 1 have beon making my purchases. ‘When tlie cash boy comes he tells him to hurry up and not be so slow, 'because the gentleman is waiting.' “That is only ono phase of the ad vantages derived from living at such a numbor,” bo continued. “Wo got all sorts of things through the moil which we never would receive if we livod in a bouse with a less proton tious number. For example, we get fine calendars. Illustrated catalogues of sales of paintings and other works of art, liesidos innumerable samples of all kinds uf household articles sent out ns advertisements. Then wo get plenty of begging letters, too. and circulars from hospitals and charitable institutions asking for gifts! Unfortunately we are not able to sustain the reputation which tlie city directory gives us by respond ing to these calls on the family ex chequer. 'The other day my wife and. her tmnmrried slitter went to d Store in Twenty-third street to get some visit ing cuds printed. I ought to say that my sister-in-law does not live within tho charmed half block from Fifth avenue'. Well, both packages of cards were delivered on the same day. With those which came to my wife was a beautifully bound book or samples of notejiaper. Needless to say, nothing of the sort accompanied those which my wife’s sister received on tho samo day. The respect in which you are held by tradesmen seems to increase in an inverse ratio os the size of the numbor on yoUi doe-plate decreases." - New York Tribune. Parrot* Arc? Yegcturlitn** Parrots arc vegetarians. They live chiefly upon a light but nutritious diet of fruit and seeds, or upon. tho abundant nectar of rich tropical flowers. And it is mainly for the sake of gotting at tholr chosen food that they have developed tlie largo and powerful bills which character ize the family. You may have per haps noted that most tropical fruit eaters, like the hornbills and the toucans, are remarkable for the size and strength of their books.—Com hill Magazine. In Knglaud Over n Hundred Years Ago. In the time of George H, it you wanted a place under government you could buy one. The sum of £500 would gat you a comfortable berth in the victualing office, for instance, where the perquisites, pickings and bribes for contracts made the service worth having. Members of parlia ment, who had the privilege of frank ing letters, sometimes sold the right for £800 a year.—Walter Besant in Harper’s. ’ increasing dm of Rubber Tires. The application of rubber to wheel tires has proved a. great boon to bi cyclist*. and the Increase tn this branch of Industry Is remarkable. There are 100, olio bioycles made every year In this country, and 40,000 more are Im ported. A* all these have tires of the best rubber. It can be seen that a good percentage of the world’s supply is ab sorbed In tilts way. Each tire weighs on an average between three and fonr pounds, and this,' together with renew als, Involves a yearly consumption of not far from 1,000.000 pounds. Tbe solid tire was first used, bnt the cushion and tbe pneumatic are now the popular forms. Each of these, however,' Is being further modified and improved, and tbe comfort of bicycle riding is being doily increased. Tbe cushion tire is not liable to puncture, and takes tlie jur well, but its weak point ut present is its, liability to crack at tlie sides in tbe interior. The pneu- mntic consists of a rubber tube jack eted In a stout canvas Back, which pre vent* Its being burst from overinfla tlnn and other accidents. The whole is covered with a larger Incasing tube of rubber. Tlie canvas sack Is cemented to tlie outer rubber tubing, und the interior is inflated by an air’valvo. Tills form of tire, which Is not yet perfected, lips tlie advantage of being easily repaired by tlie rider in a few minutes by tbe road- Tlie repairing outfit consists of a hidden pressure tube filled with quick drying solution, rubber for patches, and a supply of canvas. These adapta tions of rubber enablo the rider to travel long distances day after day. with but little ill effect from the con cussion which once nffected so matcri ally the health and comfort of tlie blcy cllst;—New Vork Commercial Adver User. Good Frolght lint on. Tho discovery of gold has beau ii great thing for the Boni negroes on ... j . - - the Maroni river, in French Guiana. They were terribly poor before- the placer mines were discovered in 1888. Since then they hnve been getting rich in tho transport service. They carry all freight around the rapids to the placer diggings at tho oner pious charge of ninety francs a bar rel. Owing to their curious method of computing barrels they greatly in crease their earnings. Each box is a barrel. Each man is a barrel. Demijohns and handbags are barrels. Thus they got abou $200 a ton for carrying freight n dis tonco of 180 miles, which is niuc: higher than the rates on the Congo Tho miners say that $00,000 has been distributed in the past two years in the shape of five franc pieces of ,na tive gold among the Bonis.—Philii dolphin Ledger. Letting the Cat Out’of the Bag. A large manufacturer took into his office a nephew who, to put it mildly, was rather feeble minded. One day the nephew came to his uncle and complained of the head clerk, Jones. “Uncle, what do you suppose tbe head clerk, Jones, has been telling people about me?" “I have no idea.” “He has been telling everybody that I am a fool 1” “I will see him about it, and tell him to keep quiet about it. He has no right to expose the secrets of the office."—Texas Siftings. j any not too odorifer A hull makes no distiue tion between the display of a rod t handkerchief and the shed An Observing Friend. Winks—That job you have now is a soft snap, isn’t itt Jinks—Um—rather. “Nothing at all to do, have you?” “Well—er—not much.” ? “Good pay too?" “Very fair. How do you happen to know so much about my job?” “1 notice you Stick to it.”—New of blood.—London Globe. York Weekly. ‘ ~ ■ muiiuiU.i eialv " One ot Tho*© Afrful Moments. When we are telling some man ot the grand and brilliant schemes we are working whereby we are coining money so fast that we scarcely know what to do with it, it is a real source of annoyance, rather than pleasure, to call to mind the fact that we are owing him a “fiver" which we her rowed of him a long time ago, but which we cannot pay because we have not got that much ready cash to our name.—Chicago Tribune. Whether Women Should Fropos*. I must confess it is no little ques* tion whether both men and women should have the right of the initia tive in love—at least, whether it should be so habitually or by com mon custom, without any restraint of sentiment. Perhaps something might be lost by such a common par ticipation-something delicate, ten der, poetical, valuable. It may lie that an inexpressible, indefinable, but very valuable, sentiment may depend on some patience, anxiety, canonical delicacy, conventional reserve on the one side, to meet action, judg ment, choice, decision, initiation on the other. It may be that an equal, unre strained, similar and open access to each other for initiative or confes sion of love might wear mvoy much bloom, wonder, sanctity, which is preserved by the difference of rela tion of the two to the beginning and avowal. A seeker and a sought, a proposer and a consideror, a leader nnd a fol lower, a petitioner and a giver may be a fairer sight and more whole some to love than two who may challenge each other equally, who therefore have no defined duties - or Bweet reciprocities regarding each other, who perhaps may delay for each other—the stupid situation—or may strive to got the start of each other—nh utterly demeaning nnd un doing rivalry—or may scramble to forestall others—a jirofane haste which often is bad enough now.—St. Louis Globe-Democrat. TBE STATE SHUT, KENT. mpuns’ <*• Els*A H ASvieery Bull'd, The following is the programme fixed for the State military encamp ment by the Advisory Board: The camp will be occupied at 10 o'clock a. m., standard time, on May 24. The rotation of troops will he: First week, May 24-81, First and Fourth 7-14; regiments; second week, June . Second regiment and DuBignon vdfr unteers; third week, June 14-21, First, Third and Fourth battalions and the Atlanta Artillery; fourth week, July 5-12, Fifth regimDnt Georgia Cnlvary and First battalion. The permanent encampment site has been christened Camp Northern One thousand dollars out of the $25,000 appropriation was set aside for music and $1 per day was fixed as the per dieln with 25- cents fob officers’ horses. THE ONLY ONE EVER EIlINTEIly Cnu You Find th. Word? There is a 8-incli display ndvertise- | his wee meat ill this paper, tills week, which has no • two words alike except one pt word. The same is true of each new one appearing eaoli week, from the Dr. Harter Medioine Co. Tills house pinces n “Crescent” on everythingthey make and publish. Look for it, send them the name of the word, and they will return you book. Teasing a Lion. In a field at I.atl, a village about three miles distant from Prabhas Patau, a lion, tlie largest ever seen in those parts, made its appearance one morn ing. The villagers of Lati and the police from Prabhas Patan, on hearing this, went in the direction of tho field. Among the lot was a young Rubari, wiio told the people that tbe lion was his mama (unole), and had come on a visit to him only. Saying so, the man advanced, and, standing at a distance of some fifteen or twenty puces from tlie animal, threw a stone at him, not withstanding tlie dissuasions of the vil lagers. This the lion did not mind, and quietly lay stretched on the ground at its full length. Encouraged by this the man threw another stone. This also the lion did not mind. On his throwing the third •tone the lion gave a terrible roar, at which the villagers, including the nephew, took to their heels. At a bound tbe lion pounced upon the man, who, being too near him, aould not clear away as the others did, and. inflicting only n slight Injury on him with Ills paw, lie hurried away to a cotton Held, where a large number of women and children were picking cotton. He passed by sorno children who were taking their food, and rolling awhile on a large cot ton lieap, majestically stalked out of tbe Held nnd disappeared In tlie (fir forest. Tlie injured man expired the same evening about 8 o'clock. The villagers of Ijati, Kadver nnd Hamoshn had nil assembled, but no one dared to up proach the lion.—Kathiawar Time*. • M»n'« Inhumanity to V/onmn. There is a young married woman in this city who declares that men are heartless brutes in general, and that her own husband is tho most heartless of his race. She and hor husband went down to the Boashore one Thursday morn ing with their only child, a sturdy little boy of three years, and a nurse, and after Beeing the others comfort ably fixed the husband returned to the city. On Friday afternoon, ns he was Seated in his office chatting with a medical friopd, he received a tele gram reading: “Deal- Harry—Little Jack has swal lowed a silver five cent pioco. I am almost distracted. Telegraph me what you think had better be done." The dispatch was handed to the doctor, who said; “As there’s no danger at all, it will be all right if the youngster’s given a dose of oil.” With a sigh of relief the relieved father thereujion wired: “Dear Edith—Don’t worry. Ihave sent another five cent piece by this evening’s post.” Later on he telegraphed nbout the oil, but the awful mockery of his first dispatch was too much for tho young mother, and she declares she will not forget it for a long while, “if ever.” —Portland (Me.) Express. Accobding to a Washington corres pondent who ought to know, tlie days of “cold tea” ill the Senate at ■Wash ington, when the friendship of Harri son nnd Sewell \vns cemented so (irmly in the oosy (inte-rooms of the Sjjngjtt over this beverage, have pnssed. Cold tea is no longer nil et cetera of Con gress. PInin, every-day whisky, wine, beer niid mixed drinks have taken the place of this far-famed Congressional beverage. In other words, Congress men no longer take their whisky out of tencups. There is this much re form : that tlie sin of hypocrisy is not now ns prevalent ns heretofore. But this is not n. drunken Congress, nor, even in n conventional sense, a drinf ing Congress, it is one rather of coi moil-place sobriety, with a drink now and then for digestion. Furniture on the Installment Plan. There Is no business In which credit Ib so universal now as the retail furni ture trade. The time payment plan has, of course, led up to the present condition of affairs, but It ho* also in creased the sales of furniture far more rapidly even than the city has grown. A few years ago young married couples had to save for a considerable period Where Leeches Come From, Tlie large leeches, such as those of Japan, which reach two feet in length, are not in common use, nor are certain poisonous sorts, such as the small black leeches of Australia. The thick, fat, fierce worms of Hun gary, Sicily and France are preferred by practitioners who use leeches, nnd it is from those countries that the rest of the world is supplied. The San Francisco leech farm is formed by placing quantities of the ooze of the Bordeaux swamps, especially im ported for the purpose in largo boxes with tight covers. The leeches bore nbout through the muck until wanted for sale, whon tlioy are counted out, washed off and disposed of, ready to bite any living thing, and hang on until they are swollen to eight or ten times before they could go to housekeeping, . ,. . but now it Is quite usual for earners or (wjJfaMT KIK0 - Th° n *-hoy drop small wnges to buy and furnish a house on time and then secure a mistress for it. The soles of furniture on the install ment plan are now very large, amount ing to many hundred tliousniidsa year, but tlie bad debts or' seizure of furni ture are very rare. Mechanics iu steady work lire the best pay ns a rule, and if they get u little In-hind In winter they pick It up quickly in the spring und ure never behind in summer. Colored people are ulsogood pay. Actuul losses on trades of tills kind ore very rare in deed. and iu nbout 05 per cent the bargain Is carried out and tlie last in stallment met on or before maturity. — Interview In St. Ixiuis Globe-Democrat off and lie dormant until assimilation shall have been finished and hunger again arouses them.—San Francisco Examiner. At the Theater In Tuklo. At church, tlie theater and other as semblies the Jn|stuose take off their shoes "At tlie large theater iu Trukiji, Tokio," says u correspondent, "tlie rush for shoes is sometimes tremendous. Imagine 2,000 people after it matinee crowding and elbowing and pushing to get at their slioes. so os not to be late for their supper! Further, imagine wlmt anxieties and distress of mind the. attendants must undergo who have in charge the'tosk of getting the multi tude properly shod. Tbe famous prob lem propounded by Carlyle in the open ing chapter of ‘Past and Present’ of ‘getting tbe tbousands of shirts on the thousands-of backs' doesn't offer more difficulties.” Th. Call at Eleven. Early In the century the old church bell on Meeting House hill, in.Pprobes- ter, used to ring at U o’clock every forenoon to announce to the wprkiPg people of the neighborhood when it was timo to take their 11 o’oloslt drink —LowcUCowLr, Does Humanity Degenerate If Left Alone? We find no instance yet of the wnlt evolving itnelf into life human, inn we lmve instances of the huuim easily losing its most essential chili- acteristics and taking on the type uf the wolf. Does the human life IW to itself find degradation more nut ural than development?—Rev. J. H Seeley in Congregntionaiist. fat . or, I ik-AI If the banner of the Democratic party of the Second Congressional dis trict is committed to the hands of Col. C. B. Wooten it will be carried to vic tory, nnd when it gets there there will be no mud on it, either. INSTITUTE Bookkeeping, Pliotogrnpho,' gilt by experience teiujfferii phy,. tnu Term erms easy. Call on or address, G. W. H. STANLEY, 12B Broad street, Thomasville, Ga. i-Om. CITATION. Application will uu Hindu to tlio Court uf Or- $ dinary of Dougherty County, Ga. on the first ,, " J " . jot) pt private Monday in May next, for lea ve to s Halo the wild land* belonging to tho estate « Nelson Tift, late of said count}*, deceased, far the beucllt of heirs and creditors of said no-v ceased. . SAMUEL W. SMITH, J nptMv4t I9.UU LI Cl JJ ll i Oill I A 11, Ordinary -Dougherty Countyi Notice of Application to Sell Lands. STATE OF GEORGIA, DoroiiKHTY county. To All Whom Jt May Concern: Nelson F. Tift, .Tames M. Tift Itiul folk, administrators of Nelson Ti have applied to mo for leave to sell said deceased, which application will be heard... May.next. 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