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triumphs of the brain
OVER THE BRAIN AWAKE.
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Dramatic Achievements That Owe
Their Being; to the Sij-sterlons
Workings of the Mind Vnder the
Snbtle Influence of S1 tim her'.
There are numerous authentic cases
in which, inspired by a dream, a per¬
son has achieved in sleep something
that he had utterly failed over when
awake and certainly more than one
where an artistic triumph has resulted.
No doubt, too, there have been in
itances of the kind where the mystery
of such an achievement has remained
an irritating problem, ns very nearly
happened in respect to an artist whose
pictures sold well and whose genius
for color combinations was considered
as astonishing as his output.
The painter used to tell the creepy
story of how, going into his studio aft¬
er breakfast, he would often stand
spellbound at the fact that some super¬
natural “double” had been hard at
work upon his canvas during the night,
more than once obtaining cleverly an
effect in scheme or coloring that he had
strained after for days in vain. Here
was something to make the strongest
brain reel.
As it continued at intervals after lie
had tried locking the studio door and
placing the key under his pillow, the
effect can be better imagined than de¬
scribed, and it was only a chance acci¬
dent that at length burst the bubble.
He got up one morning to find his
dressing gown streaked with a dry car¬
mine pigment, and fragments of the
same material lay strewn about his
easel below. Impelled by a dream, he
had gone down there in the night to
paint, trodden upon the pigment, and,
ttutomatoulike, picked up the pieces be¬
fore retiring again. And precisely the
same thing is known to have happened
to a well known worker in mosaics
eoino years ago. His mind continued
to work out schemes after his body
had “struck,” aud he would proceed to
his workroom and arrange designs, the
effect of which simply stupefied him
next morning.
At least one enduring piece of music
owes its inspiration and production to
a dream in the same dramatic way.
The singular distinction, in fact, is
claimed for several. It occurs at the
end of a famous Russian opera. For
weeks the composer had struggled with
his finale aud had all but given it up
in despair. The spirit of a certain
theme danced vaguely through his
overworked brain, but always eluded
him when lie went to set it down for
the orchestra.
One night, as he lay asleep, it came
to him, grandly definite. lie dreamed
that It was an accomplished fact on
paper. Events showed that ho must
have gone down stairs, played it tri¬
umphantly over on his organ several
times and then written down the
chords that had caused him so much
anxiety. Next morning the score sheets
were found uently dotted and the finale
a great success; but, although his wife
had heard the organ going and even
remembered the tune played, the com¬
poser himself could only recollect the
dream itself and was absolutely at a
loss to account for the position in
which he was found—fast asleep over
the keys. The brain had succumbed
immediately the dream Inspiration had
taken a practical shape.
Equally dramatic, again, Is the sto¬
ry often told of a struggling musi¬
cian who had written a song which he
could not Induce any music publisher
to risk publishing. The fact had prey¬
ed on ills mind. One night he dreamed
that ho had written a pathetic letter to
a popular singer, inclosed it with his
scorned masterpiece, walked all the
way to the vocalist’s house at Hamp¬
stead and pushed his envelope through
the letter slit there. He recollected lit¬
tle of it next morning, not having oc¬
casion to nflss his manuscript, and
stoutly denied his landlord’s assertion
that he had left his bedroom and gone
for a nocturnal stroll. Shortly after¬
ward, however, lie was astonished at
receiving a check and a ticket for a
concert, and then, especially when he
heard his own song rendered at the
concert. It all flashed back to him. Ho
had unconsciously neted upon his
lb-cam— owed his stroke of luck purely
to a somnambulistic inspiration.
It goes without saying, too, that the
most humorous things are occasionally
done by persons who retire to rest with
a fixed Intention for the morrow in
their minds and are discovered work¬
ing out the scheme In their sleep.
The writer knows a gentleman—nev¬
er suspected of acting upon inspira¬
tions evolved In his slumber—who had
laid In a stock of enamel paints, with
which he intended to decorate his
rooms after a pattern not yet decided
upon. Some fantastic notion presum¬
ably must have presented itself as lie
slept. All unconsciously he proceeded
down stairs in the small hours, mixed
all the colors together in a bowl and
started to daub the doors and walls
with considerably more determination
than taste. The result was a polychro¬
matic chaos, to say nothing of a bad
shock for the gentleman, who sprang
out of his dream at the sound of a cry
from his startled wlfe.-Fhiiaaeiphia
A I'icitia Economy,
“Sure,” said the washerwoman, bend¬
ing her broad back over the tubs; “sure,
an It’s a deefleult matter, workin out a
dollar a day to support ’em—seven chil¬
der in all. Au the clothes, ma’am, an
the shoes!” She raised her dripping
hands nnd let them full with a souse
Into the soapsuds. She was a big, vig¬
orous woman, with a good humored
face.
One afternoon she revealed the trend
of her financial management. An or¬
gan grinder was playing on the street,
nnd a group of children danced on the
walk lu front of the house and hung
about the fence watching tlio monkey.
The washerwoman stepped out to have
a look.
“Here, my deur,” she called to one of
them, “won’t ye be for glvin him foive
she put a nickel Into the
child’s hand.
Y ell,” remarked the cook when she
came back into the kitchen, jou give
aivay your 5 cents ensler’n I would.”
“•
"it would buy a loaf of bread for
' : ’ our cbiWren-” said the eminently sen
»>ble cook, somewhat annoyed.
“An how far,” replied the good na
tured crcatUK, laughing, with her
hands on her eside, “how far, tilers yer
innocent heart, would a loaf of bread
go among my seven eliilder?”—New
j York Commercial Advertiser.
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LILIES.
I-fltes, white lilies, j-c calm my soul.
For the waters are wild and the billow* roll.
And love and trust have drifted away
Like tlie distant sail on the breast of the bay.
In a moment more 'twill hate drifted from tight
And be hidden away in the waste of night!
And then ye came a ith your pure, sweet gaze,
Vith your dainty, . loving ways,
,
And crept like a dear dream into my heart.
I could not bear to send thee apart,
For the fragrance that floats on your balmy
breath
To me whispers “peace,” (hough the world calls
it death.
—Rose Van B. Spcece in Scranton Tribune.
COULDN’T FOOL HIM.
This Man Knew a Steamboat When
He Saw One.
The agent of one of the ocean steaiu
siiip lines, says the Chicago Tribune,
told the following story of a St. Louis
man who got into New York the day
after the maiden arrival of a great
liner:
After gazing at the vessel from the
pier the St. Louisan said to the man at
the gangplank:
“Purty good sized steamboat.”
“She’s a liner, ocean liner,” was the
lofty reply.
“She’s purty high up, ain't she?”
“Ocean liners have to be. But when
she is under way she doesn’t look so
high.”
“Her chimneys ain't very high,
though."
“You mean her funnels. No; they
never make them high for liners.”
“Hinges on ’em?”
“Never heard of hinges on a funnel.”
“How does she get under the
bridge?”
“What bridge?”
“Why, any bridge. Steamboats out
our way have hinges on their chim¬
neys, and when they come to the
bridges over the river they lower the
chimneys, and she scoots under like
she was greased.”
The man at the gangplank observed
the St. Louis man with lofty indiffer¬
ence.
“She ain’t got any wheelhouses on
her sides nor none at her stern,” re¬
marked the St. Louis man after he had
made further inspection.
“Liners have propellers,” said the
man at the gangplank, and his nose
turned up visibly.
“Well, I’ll bet she can’t run. It takes
two wheels and a bow like an arrow¬
head and a scant Hold to give a steam¬
boat speed, sonny, aud don’t you forget
It. If this steamboat was to got into
the Mississippi, she'd go hard aground
first clip.”
“I have told you this is not a steam¬
boat.”
“Shucks! You can’t gimme that . I
saw a picter of her in one of our news¬
papers before I left home, and the
priutln under it said ‘steamboat.’ Do
you think a St. Louis editor don’t know
a steamboat when ho sees one? You’re
not on to your job yet.”
SOWN BY GUNPOWDER.
A Cartons Way ot Covering a Rocky
Crnst With FInnt Life.
In the grounds of the Duke of Athol
aud near Blair castle, England, stands
a high, rocky crag named Craigiebarns.
It looked grim and bare in the midst of
beauty, and its owner thought how
much prettier it would look if only
trees, shrubs, etc., could be planted in
its nooks and crannies. It was consid¬
ered impossible for auy one to scale its
steep and dangerous acclivities, and uo
other way was thought of to get seed
sown.
One day Alexander Nasmyth, father
of the celebrated engineer, paid a visit
to the duke’s grounds. The crag was
pointed out to him, and he was tolu-bf
the desire of the duke regarding it.
After some thought he conceived how
it could be accomplished. In passing
the castle he noticed two old cannon.
He got a few small tin canisters made
to fit the bore of the cannon and filled
them with a variety of tree, shrub and
grass seeds. The cannon was loaded
In the usual way and fired at the rock
from all sides.
The little canisters on striking the
rock burst, scattering the seeds in all
directions. Many seeds were lost, but
many more fell into the ledges or
cracks where there was a little moss or
earth. These soon showed signs of
life, and in a few years graceful trees
and pretty climbing plants all sown by
gunpowder were growing aud flourish¬
ing in nearly every recess of the for¬
merly bare, gray crag, clothing it with
verdant beauty.
Diogenes, being asked, “What is that
beast which is the most dangerous?”
replied, “Of wild beasts the bite of a
slanderer and of tame beasts that of
the flatterer.”
If the average man could, read the
story of his life he wouldn’t believe
it.—Chicago News.
No wonder they call it roasting a J
man to rake him over the coals.—Phila¬
delphia Record.
The man who is afraid he may work I
too hard never does.—Chicago Times
Berahl. !
Telegraph In Argentina.
A peculiar hut very serious difficulty
besets the operation of telegraph lines
in the Argentine Republic. The small
spider, of the variety that spins a long
cobweb nnd floats on it in the air, is
so plentiful there that the floating
webs settle on the wires in enormous
quantities. As soon as dew falls or
a shower of rain comes up every micro
seoplc thread becomes wet and estab¬
lishes a minute leak. The effect ot
thousands nnd millions of such leaks
is practically to stop the operation ot
the lines, and the government tele¬
graph department, especially in Buenos
Ayres, lias been put to vast inconven
SSStoHa^SSTtrii.ta^S
avail, on the important line between
jj ueno s Ayres and Rosario the effect
0 f the spider webs Is to cut down the
8peeil of working from 300 to 400 to 30
messages an hour. The government
j, ttg j Ug t determined, as a last resort
CATCHING A MOUSE.
A Yonr.i? Carried Couple Have an
Interesting; Time Over It.
There was nothing for it hut a mo use
trap. They had stood the pest of mice
as long as patience allowed. The jani¬
tor had made one or two ineffectual
attempts to abate the pest, but as the
agent of the building would not allow
him to use poison for fear the victims
would hwve the bad taste to die on the
premises the head of the family, spur
red on by the protestations of his wife,
went out to a hardware store and
called for the needed article. He had
supposed that buying a mousetrap
was a simple thing, but when he saw
the number of patterns he was bewil¬
dered.
“L>o you want to catch them alive?”
asked tire clerk.
“Well, I should say 1 did. If 1 want¬
ed to catch them dead, you don't sup¬
pose I would require a trap, do you?”
replied the head of the family.
“I mean,” explained the clerk, “do
you want a trap that will kill them?”
“Of course I do. 1 am not collecting
mice for exhibition purposes.” He se
lected a small steel cage of the ordi
nary garrote pattern, for which lie paid
15 cents. That night he showed it to
his wife, and they proceeded to set it.
“What shall we bait it with?” he
asked.
“Do we have to bait it?"
“Oh, no. You catch mice by sending
them an engraved invitation.”
“Oli, I suppose it ought to be some
thing nice and tempting."
“Yes; lobster a ia Newburg.”
“Oh, George, I believe you’re teasing
me! What do they like most?”
“Cheese, you sweet ninny!”
“Of course! How stupid of me! But
we haven’t a bit of Roquefort in the
house."
“My dear, if we had Roquefort, we
wouldn’t need the trap. The cheese
would kill them.”
“Just plain American cheese?”
“Of course! These are just plain
American mice. You might make a
Welsh rabbit for them. That would
certainly do the business.”
Slio got a morsel of cheese, and the
trap was baited and set.
That night a mouse was caught, but
Isabel fainted at the sight of the dead
victim, and George was obliged to give
the trap away to the janitor lu order to
save her nerves. The next day he
brought home a trap of another’ pat- i
tern. It was baited with cheese, but
,, the mouse was not killed by its eapttv- .
1 '
ity. After ... It had eaten the cheese , it
fount! the o„„, Ooor M a
tSSLSST, ‘ tlitj found 1 Mi. Mouse the **■** next
morning. He n as paddling around in
ho w^v.mnilv'lUi’ " h U ■” r" U !' U T
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her hands at the right.
“Isn’t he too cunning for anything?
But what shall we do with him?”
“W'e might give him to the baby to
play with,” said tlio unfeeling brute,
“or we could attach the cage to the
sewing machine and get the benefit of
his energy. We will drown him, of
course.” Isabel hhl her face in her
hands.
“In the lake, George?”
“Yes; I see myself walking three
blocks to drown a mouse iu the lake.
No; In the bathtub.”
“George Harrison, if you drown that
poor little helpless mouse in my bath
tub I’ll never”—
“Batlio again?” finished her husband.
“Oli, yes, you will!” And off lie start
ed with the trap for the bathroom,
When he had accomplished his design,
ho gave the trap and its dead contents
to the janitor and returned to his wife,
“Did—did it suffer much?” asked Isa
bel.
“Its death agonies were very dis
tressing, and I shall never get Its last
words out of my ears. I”—
“You're a brute!” said Isabel, ntid
she flounced out of the room.—Chicago
Chronicle.
Man Comparer!.
If man grew' as fast iu proportion as
a silkworm, ho would be bigger than
an elephant In two months. If he
could navigate ns fast in proportion
as the average house fly, he could cross
tho Atlantic aud back in tbe time It
takes him to cat his breakfast. If he
hnd as many eyes ln proportion as the
butterfly, he would have 40,000, to say
nothing of an extra pair In his head
for skylights. If ho could spring as
far In proportion as the spider, he
could jump over the tallest tree iu
California, and it wouldn’t bother him
in the least. Man isn’t tbe whole thing
after all.—Freeport Journal.
fie fall
f ride Begins
We want to do our share of it, an d to that end we
opened up a choice line of general merchandise at
that will commend themseves to bargain hunters.
Our Stock Includes Dry Groods,
TSTotions. Slioesi Groceries- Etc.
Everything Eresli and Clean.
Examine particularly our stock of SHOES direct
from the factory with the middleman’s profit saved to
the Consumer. *
Just think of
$3 Gents Tan Shoe For $2.35
WE HAVE IT. Complete line of Ladies, Gents and
Shoes at Lowest Prices.
We pay highest market price for country produce
, all kinds, and invite you to call on us when youeome
to town,
HODGES & CLARK
Next door to J. W. OUiff & Cab Buggy House.
HUMOR IN ENGLISH SIGNS.
Apt Quotation* t'acd hy Tradenmen
to Attract Attention.
There Is Quite a harvest of wit and
wis dom to be gleaned by the observant
eye from the notices with which
tradesmen seel: ;o attract custom, and
it might also be worth the while of
out of the way things to make a col
lection of tjiese wayside gems, many
of which blush almost unseen. Many
of the cleverest ef these notices which
The writer lias added little by little to
his collection consist of really witty
adaptations of well known quotations
and proverbs.
An enterprising cycle dealer in a
Yorkshire town, whose name is Net
tie, turns his prickly cognomen to
business account in this singularly apt
quotation from “Henry IV,” “Out of
this nettle danger I pluck the flower
safety,” while a costumer in the same
town, whose sympathetic name is
Lore, informs his customers in let¬
ters half a foot long that “Love hath
a large mantle.” If capacity dje a vir
tue iu mantles, Mr. Love deserves to
have a large sale.
A provision merchant, again in a
north country town, turns the same
name to useful account by this an¬
nouncement, which “speaks for itself:”
“George Herbert says ‘Love is a per
sonal debt,’ but tills Love’s terms are
strict cash.”
Business rivalry often develops quite
unexpected resources of wit and wls
dom lu men of business. A few
months ago a grocer aud provision
dealer called Little had a practical
monopoly of the custom of a small
town iu tlie Midlands, when, to his
natural annoyance, a rival settled iu
the place and opened a shop under tlie
name of John Strong. Within a few
days this dignified protest appeared
In the outraged grocer’s window: “Man
wants but Little here below” (Gold¬
smith). But tlie newcomer was a man
of at least equal learning and powers
of quotation, for on tiie following day
tills supplementary notice appeared iu
his window: “Nor wants that Little
long” (Goldsmith).
A similar story is told of two rival to¬
bacconists, tlie latest comer of whom
was named Farr. He opened fire on
his opposite rival by placing in his
window this notice: “Tlie best tobacco
W ‘n® '7, I 00 ” “U
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TZ T ! Far better tobacco ,
11 p" 'l t
Perhaps smarter still were the rival , ,
notices of . , two watchmakers, . , , ’ one of .
whom , was called ., , I. Wise. Mr. Wise
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tlon from Wordsworth: “He is oft the
wisost matl >v j 10 j s uot W ise at all.”
Mal »- business men make attractive
advertisements by humorous play on
jhejr to this names purpose. when they The lend proprietor themselves of a
wayside Inn In one of the home coun¬
ties makes clever use of his name,
Day, to attract custom. On a swlng
!ng sign, under a highly colored plc
ture of the rising sun, appears this leg¬
end in gilt letters:
Won't you come into my parlor.
Gentle stranger, pray.
For you'll liave to travel farther
To pass a happier Day.
Another publican who boasts the cu¬
riously Inappropriate name of Isaac
Drinkwater has adopted this motto:
“I. Drinkwater, but my customers
drink the best of ale.”
Mr. Knott, a draper in a west eoun
try town, makes this appeal for ens
tom: “Many drapers are extortionate
in their prices. I am Knott.” And not
many miles from Mr. Knott is a village
tinker whose name is Dunn and whose
modest motto is, “What is done Is done,
but it’s not well done unless it’s done
by Dunn.”
By no means tbe least clever of these
humorous trade announcements was
that of a bookseller called Hart who
supplied for many years all the books
used in a local grammar school. Mr.
Hart's business motto was this couplet:
Who in life’s race would fain a good start
Should always get bis “books by Hart.”
—London Tit-Bits.
An Austere k'hiiosopby.
“Keep working,” said Senator Sor
ghuin earnestly. “Don’t be discourag
ed by failure, but try, try again. Re¬
member that good old maxim ‘Persist
ency’s a jewel, > >»
“Are you sure it’s ‘persistency?’” in¬
quired the young man mildly. “Isn’t
It‘con’instead of‘per?’”
“Well,” he answered thoughtfully,
“as life goes nowadays I suppose
there’s got to be more or less ‘eon’ ln It.
But It isn’t considered polite to lay too
much stress upon it.”—Exchange.
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THE CRIMINAL CUCKOO.
He !« the One Exception to the Kind
ly Antul-e of illrils.
Bad temper and cruelty are perhaps
the most obvious signs of mental de
generation in the beasts. The larger
monkeys, for instance, become as bad
tempered as a violent man when they
grow old, and many In their treatment
of other animals are cruel as we use
the word in regard to man. Among
the carnivorous boasts the cat ninuscs
itself by torturing a mouse, and the
weasel tribe kill for sheer love of kill
ing. No such cruelty Is seen among
eagles or falcons. Fierce as their tein
pers are, they do not torment other
birds which they catch or kill for kill
ing's sake. Good temper is general
among birds.
Except tbe cuckoo, such a thing ns
an ill tempered wild bird is unknown.
Nowhere in the race can a temper like
that of the Tasmanian devil or the
wild hunting dog or the Cape buffalo
or the baboon be found. Even those
which In spring arc thieves and egg
robbers are not mmivnis coueheurs at
other times. Good temper aud good
fellowship in society, a personal affec¬
tion to each other to which the beasts
offer no parallel, Industry and inde¬
pendence, Intense devotion and fore
*ight iu tending their young, with oth¬
er very human aud engaging traits of
character, must all be credited to the
race of birds.
Among these kindly and simple na¬
tures the cuckoo Is a monster, Lct
there be no mistake on this subject,
lie unites in his life and character,
from the egg to tlie adult bird, prac¬
tices and principles to which the whole
racg of warm blooded animals offers no
parallel, lie Is an outrage on the mor
al law of bird life, something so fla
grant and so utterly foreign to tbe way
of thought of these kindly beings that
if he did not exist he would be lncon
celvnble. It Is not merely that lie Is a
supplanter and a ehnngeling. IBs
whole nature is so evil that lu the
world of birds he is an incarnation of
the principle of ill, an embodiment of
vices which would if understood or
adopted by other birds put an end to
the existence of tlio race. — London
Spectator.
TRAINING WATCHDOGS,
Tlio Method That I* Used liy a Ger¬
man Inatractor.
Although It is generally believed that
watchdogs a re “to the manner born,”
It seems that a certain nmount of train¬
ing helps very much to turn out a real¬
ly good one. This system of training
has developed into a regular business
In Berlin, where one Herr Straus lias
an academy from which watchdogs
are turned out by the hundred every
year.
His system is edncntionnl and is ap¬
plied to almost every kind of dog. Be
first teaches the animal obedience by
training it to perform certain “tricks”
at command and then trains it to dis¬
tinguish between a visitor and a bur¬
glar and what part of a man’s body
should be attacked to render the man
helpless.
Outside of the gate the trainer places
a dummy representing the burglar, aud
to the latch Is attached a string. By
means of the string the gate is opened
slowly, until the head of the dummy
becomes visible, when the dog is
taught to fly at Its throat. Herr Straus
is very particular about this. He makes
his dogs attack the thront or tlio upper
part of the body always. Sometimes a
real man well padded takes the place
of the dummy, and of course he Is well
paid for his services.
All dogs, It seems, may bo made good
watchdogs, but the St. Bernards nnd the
Russian wolfhounds are the best where
property of great value is to be guard¬
ed. For dogs uot so fierce as they are
a different system of training Is used.
They soon learn to guard anything
committed to their care, but are not so
quick to attack an Intruder as the
fiercer dogs are.—Philadelphia Times.
Indian Compoaltiona.
New "composition” stories are fur¬
nished by two young Indians whose ef¬
forts iu tills difficult Hue are reported
by The Southern Workman.
The subject assigned to the first boy
was tbe life of General Armstrong, Re¬
ferring to the general’s boyhood among
the Idolatrous, ancestor worshiping
natives of the Hawaiian Islands, he
wrote as follows;
“The people of the Sandwich Islands
worshiped the Idols of their aunts’ sis¬
ters.”
The second boy, a member of the
cane class, writing utm a .different,
phase of the same subject, got the city
of Washington confused with the man
for whom the cit£, was named. Refer¬
ring to tlio retirement of General Arm
strong from the service after tha war,
he said:
“When General Armstrong finished
the war, lie wrote to Washington and
asked him if there was anything more
he could do for him.”
Periodical Famine* Expected.
Since tlie first great famine of which
there are records devastated the iund
lu 1770, when 10,000,000 perished In
Bengal alone, India lias scarcely pass¬
ed a decade free from scarcity of grain
In one district or another. Tlio British
government expects a drought about
twice In every nine years, a famine
once In every 11 or 12 years and a
great famine about twice iu a century.
—Review of Reviews,
Tlie Inarntctvl Cuckoo,
To hear tlie cuckoo’s cheery note you
might tliiuk he had the clearest con¬
science in the world. He can have nei¬
ther memory nor moral sense or he
' vol, ld n °t carry It off so gayly. We
1 sa - v nothin#? of tlie “raptores,” who nre
a race apart, but the most disreputable
of 1,ilds - uy « '' ulc . aa* guilty of noth
ing worse than peccadillos. The jack
dnw will steal for the mere fun of the
thing, ror lie can make no possible use
of plate or jewelry, and sometimes un¬
der temptation may make a snatch at
a pheasant chick. Sparrows are, of
course, notorious thieves, but they rank
no higher iu crime than the sneaking
pickpockets. But the cuckoo, so to
speak, Is a murderer from his cradle.
He violates the sauctity of a hospitable
hearth. His first victims are his own
foster brothers, and before he tries his
" |[1 S S 0,1 flrst A'S** he Is Imbrued
ln fraternal blood, like any Amuratb or
Bazajet.—Saturday Review,
A Colonsiil Iinmtnom Crab.
Indian Journals tell of a luminous
crab captured by a dredge of tbe Zoo¬
logical society of Calcutta In tbe In¬
dian ocean about a mile off tbe coast
and 45 fathoms deep. It Is nearly two
feet In diameter, and Its longest-elnws
arc about a yard lu length. It has pro
jecting eyes, like those of a lobster, aud
Is very voracious. It was put Into n
tank of sea water, and in two hours It
devoured some 50 other crustaceans
and fishes. When darkness came, It
proved phosphorescent, emitting pecul
'nr white rays nnd illuminating the
whole tank. The crab was sent to the
aquarium at Calcutta. Luminous flow¬
ers, fungi, worms, fishes, etc., were
known to science, but not, we believe,
a crab, or, at least, one so large, be
|ore.—London Globo.
Artificial Siionttee,
Artificial sponges are made In Ger¬
many by treating pure cellulose with
zinc chloride. The product swells In
water nnd on drying becomes bard.
But to prevent this action alkalihnloids
are used. A pasty mass Is thus obtain¬
ed, which, being treated with rock
salt. Is then placed in a mold. When
removed, It appears to be traversed
by canals In all directions, and after
having been washed In alcohol and
water the sponge Is ready for use.
Easy Choice.
, “Did you have any trouble In select¬
ing a name for the baby?”
“None at all. There’s only one rich
uncle in the family.”—Richmond Dis¬
patch.
“Much learning maketh a man sad,"
says one proverb, and another says,
“A little learning Is a dangerous
thing.” So what nre you going to do
about It?—Chicago News.
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Church Directory.
M.'E. CHURCH, SOUTH.
Rev. W. J. Flanders, Pa»tov.
Preaching ( las* cadi Sunday at 11 a m and 7:80 p m.
Sunday meeting each Sunday at 10a m.
school each Sunday at a p m.
Prayer meeting each Wednesday at 7:80 p in.
STATESBORO I - 1, T CHURCH.
month Preaching 11 on the 2nd and 4lh Sundays In each
at a m and 7:30 p m.
^Pra^er and Praiso service every Thursday evening
Parker, Sunday school every Sunday at 10 a m. W. C.
Sunt.
Bnptlst Young People’s Union every Sunday after¬
noon at 8 o’clock. R. J. H. DeLoaeh, President.
PRIMITIVE BAPTIST CHURCH.
Eld. M. F. Stubbs, Pastor.
each Preaching every 10 2nd Sunday and Saturday in
month at a m.
presbyte; church.';
W. H. McMeen, Pastor.
Sunday Preaching 1st and 3rd Sundays 1 1 a. m. and 7 p. m.
school every Sunday at 10 a. m.
Prayer meeting every Tuesday at 7:30 p. m.
TownjDirectory.
Mayor—J. W. Wilson.
Councilman L.. I. McLean, J. H. Bllteh, W. H.
Simmons, B. T. Outland, J. t„ onm.
Recorder arid Treasurer- W. II. Elite.
Marshal- J. F.Olllft.
Connell meeta second Tuesday nights.
County Directory.
Sheri IT John II. Dnnaldaon, Stateaboro, (la.
Tax Collector—P. It. McElveen, Areola, (ia.
Tax Receiver A. .1. Iler. Harvllle, Ga.
Treasurer- Allen Lee, Areola, Ga.
County Surveyor-H. J. Proctor, jr„ Proctor, Ga.
ScPERion Court—I th Mondays In April and Octo¬
ber; B. I). EV” s, Judge, Sandersville, Ga.: B. T.
Rawlings, Clerk, Solicitor General, SundersvlUe, Ga.; S. C.
Groover, Statesboro, Ga.
county court— Monthly sessions on Wednesdays
alter first Mondays In each month. Qarterly sessions
Wednesdays beginning after first Month In each three months
iu January. J. F. Brunnen, Judge;
J. II. Douoldsou, Bailiff, , Slnteslxirip, Ga.
Ordinary’s Court— 1st Mouduys In each month
C. s. Martin, Ordinary, Statesboro, Ga.
JUSTICE COURTS
Hth District—Shop Rus/ilng, J. P., Green, Ga.
It. H. MeCorkle, N. P„ Green, Ga. Court day, first
Saturday In each mouth.
45th District -G. R. Trapnell, J. P , Metter, Ga.
J. Everitt, N. I’.. Excelsior, Ga. Sc. ond Saturday.
40th District—R. E. Stringer, J. P„ Echo, Ga.
R. G. Lanier, N. P„ Endlcott, Ga. Second Friday.
17tli District— U. M. Davis, J. P., Jvanhoe, Ga
P. H. Branncn, N. P. and J. p„ Irlc, Ga. Feurt
Friday.
48th District-A. W. Stewart, J. P„ Mill Huy, Ga.
C. Davis, J. P„ Zoar, Ga. Second Saturday.
1820th District—T. C. Pennington, J. P„ Portal
Ga. E. W. Cowart, Portal, Ga. First Friday.
1310th District—J. C. Denmark, N. P. and J. P ,
Ena). Ga. Fourth Saturday.
1023rd District- Z. A. Rawls, J. P., Rufus, Ga.
W. Parrish, N. P„ Nellwood, Ga. Friday before
Saturday.
1547th District—W. J. Richardson, J. P. and N. P„
Harvllle, Ga. Third Friday.
1200th Dfstrlct—J. W. Rountree, J. P., Statesboro,
J. B. Lee, J. P. uud N. P„ l tesboro, Ga.
Monday.
1570th District-W. P. Donaldson, N. P„ Bllteh,
M. E. Cannon, J, P., Bllteh. Thursday after third
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