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fi ELECTRICITY.'? Some Things the Trolley Car Con ductor Must Be and; Do. The successful conductor joins to the chivalry and impressiveness of a policeman the savoir faire of the gentleman behind the silk counter, for persons’who go home from clubs at 2 in the morning may have to be persuaded in six different ways be fore they offer anything to “ring up,” says Charles M. Skinner in the Atlantic. . The conductor must keep fifty or sixty streets in mind. He must be sure to let the elderly lady off at the one sh,> has been thinking of, and when she foils him he must not impeach her veracity if she “just knew” she. told him. He must not allow the man who. immerses him self in a newspaper to forget an ob ligation of 5 cents to the company. He must curb a natural inclination to embrace the wives of strangers when he lifts them up the steps. He must call the attention of for getful persons to the fact that they are chewing tobacco or are drunk. He must arbitrate between the man who opens the window and the wo man who wants it shut and shut it. He must insinuate himself up and flown the aisle of his car without tipping standees into the laps of irascible bankers or treading on the corns of such as wear them. And while others clutch at straps or dashboards or doorknobs or the cord he rings his fares with, when the motorman is seized with a sud den frenzy for action he must never lie down on the floor or lose his dig nity. He can be philosophic after he grows used to it and find advan tages in his wild career. As a con ductor remarked: “The worst of go- in' by ’lectricity is it 'most shakes your liver out. But you never get dyspepsy.” Gypsy Notions About Mountains. In some of the gypsy tribes living about central Europe the moun tains are called bar, “rags,” or muchlyis, which last term usually means “clouds,” “mist,” the same name being applied to the clouds as the mountains, the latter being re garded , as a kind of pathway to heaven. According to gypsy ideas the clouds are daughters of the mist king, and the lightning flashes the sons of the . fire • king, who would soar up high into space, but the wind king comes and drives them down to the earth, their grand mother. In .their flight before the wind king the lightning and its progeny very often lose the road to their father, the fire king, who dwells deep in the earth, and fall prostrate in the wrong part of the earth, where they are changed to stones. Such lightning stones, known in Germany as thunderbolts and weather stones, are pushed out of the ground after nine years, and whoever finds such a stone on a mountain will be rendered lucky if Ee always carries a little bit of this stone with him. The Grave of St. Swithin. St. Swithin, by his express re quest, was buried in the open churchyard, “thinking no vault was so good to cover his grave as that of heaven.” When he was canon ized, however, the monks of Win chester took it into their heads that his body ought to have a more dig nified resting place, and resolved to remove it into the choir, fixing the 15th of July for its solemn trans lation. It rained, however, so vi olently on that day and for forty days in succession that they aban doned their design as contrary to the divine will and instead. erected a chapel over his grave,, at* which many miracles are said to have been wrought. Summer complaint is unusually prevalent among children this season. A well developed case in she writer’s family was cured last veek by the timely use of Chain- serlain’s Colic, Cholera and Diar- 'hoea Remedy—one of the best latent medicines manufactured md which is always kept on hand it the home of ye scribe. This is rot intended as a free puff for the jompany, who do not advertise ivith us, but to benefit little suf- ’erers who may not be within easy iccess of a physician. No family should be without a bottle of this medicine in the house, especially in summer-time.—Lansing, Iowa, Journal. For sale by dll dealers in Perry, Warren & Lowe, Byron. A PET SHOEBILL STORK. In the ground^ of the sirdar’s palace at Khartum there is now a gigantic pet bird, originally de scribed as an abnormally large pel. ican without a pouch. This is a shoebill stork which was shot in the wing by a sportsman last summer about a hundred miles above Khar tum. As the bird was unable to fly, it was captured without difficul ty and now stalks about the grounds with the dignity befitting a bird which when adult stands five feet high and has a monstrous bill, which has been compared to a whale’s head, a boat turned upside down and a shoe. Only two speci mens have been brought alive to England. These were sold to the Zoological society in 1860 by Con sul Petherick, who after several failures to keep young birds taken from the nest hatched out some eggs under hens, though only two reached London, and these did not live long in confinement. — West minster Gazette. Wall Paper From Old Shoes. Old shoes are not waste from the standpoint of modern industry. Aft er they have done their service and are discarded by the first wearers a secondhand dealer restores the worn shoes to something like their for mer appearance, and they are sold again, to be worn a little by the poorer classes. When the shoes are finally dis carded by them, they are still good for various purposes. In France such shoes are bought up in quanti ties by rag dealers and sold to fac tories, where the shoes are first tak en apart and submitted to long processes, which turn them into paste, from which the material is transformed into an imitation leath er, appearing very much like the finest morocco. Upon this material stylish designs are stamped, and wall papers, trunk coverings and similar articles are manufactured from it.—London Answers. Football In Japan. Among the many things that Ja pan. borrowed from China- was foot ball, said to have been introduced, as early as the middle of the sev enth century. The-Emperor Toba II. was an expert player and got up a club at his palace. But as most But as mos oriental races are averse to hard work and active games football must have been played in a different manner from that in which Ameri can boys play .it. Nevertheless the Japanese form, seems to have been popular, and we may trace the be ginning of professional guinea to an emperor and his court. The Sun Spots Coming Back. Evidences of the gradual revival of solar activity, as manifested by the presence of dark spots on the face of the sun, are becoming more numerous and conclusive. It is con sidered certain that the sun has now passed the minimum of the spot period, and during the preserft year many spots may be seen. The increase of a sun spot period is more rapid than its subsequent de cline. The minimum just passed has been somewhat long drawn out, and the return of the spots has been awaited for a year. Ip. March the first spots bearing all the traits of 'those that belong to a new period were seen in the sun’s northern hemisphere in latitude 25 degrees. It is characteristic of a new period that its first spots appear far north or south of the equator, while at the end of a period they are near the equator.—Youth’s Companion. Society For Society. “I say, coachman, whip up your horse a little faster.” “Impossible. I am a member of the Society For the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.” Ten minutes later at the jour ney’s end: “Come now, passenger, a little larger pour boire!” “Impossible. I am a member of the Temperance society.” — Paris Figaro. Leads Them All. “One Minute Cough Cure beats all other medicine I ever tried for coughs, colds, croup and throat and lung troubles,” says D. Scott Children of the West Indies. Hundreds of little men and wom en, unfortunate little negro chil dren, were destroyed' in the terrible volcanic disasters that came to the beautiful islands of Martinique and St. Vincent a short time ago. They were happy youngsters) and if their liyes had not been snuffed out they would have grown into happy negro men and women, for happiness is a trait of the natives of the West In dies. The climate is so mild that children never think of wearing shoes and can play out of doors all the year round except at intervals in the short raipy season. A group of six of these island youngsters is shown in the accompanying illus tration. They have been out m the fields for wild flowers, which gfow abundantly on most of the islands. HAPPY YOUNGSTERS. The rickety cart is serving the younger girls as a carriage, and the little brother of one of them has been impressed into service as a horse. These particular children do not live in the belt where the volcanoes have been active, and it is probable that they do not know that thousands of their neighbors have been killed, for West Indian children do not read papers, as do American boys and,girls. In the first place a great many of them never learn to read, and then they have no papers.—-New York Trib une. Currin of Loganton, Pa., One ‘ C< ’ ~ ’ ’ minute Cough Cure is the only ab solutely safe cough remedy which acts immediately. Mothers every where testify t^ the good it has done their little ones. Croup is so sudden in its attacks that the doctor often arrives too late. It yields at once to One Minute Cough Cure. Pleasant to take. Children like it. Sure cure for grip, bronchitis, coughs. Holtz- claw’s drugstore. The Georgia Soldiers’ Home in Atlanta will be completed and ready for occupation by the veterans by August 15th. There has been twen ty deaths of veterans who entered the Home since it was first opened. If You Suffer from Kidney Troubles Use Smith’s Sure Kidney Cure. Noth ing like it for diseased kidneys. 50 cents, at Cater’s Drugstore. Beauty is born in the blood. Beauty is more than “skin deep,” it is blood deep. When the blood is tainted by disease the flesh will feel it and the skin will show it. Sallow or muddy complex ions, pimples* blotches, and erup tions are only the surface signs of impure blood. Face washes, lo tions, complexion powders, may palliate the evils but they cannot cure the disease. The only cure is to cleanse tfie blood of the poisonous matter which is the cause of the outbreak in the flesh and skin. Impure blood can be absolutely purified by the use of Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Dis covery. Its effect on flesh and skin is marked. Sores heal and disappear. The skin becomes smooth, and regains its natural color. The eyes brighten and sparkle, the whole body, is radiant with the brightness and beauty of health. “Golden Medical Discov ery” contains no alcohol, whisky or other intoxicant, and is abso lutely free from opium, cocaine and other narcotics. The use of Dr. Pierce’s Pleasant Pellets' - , as sists the action of the “Discov ery,” by cleansing the system of clogging matter. Col. ©liver Hazard Payne, the Standard oil magnate, who owns a palatial winter home near Thom- asville, containing about 2,000 acres, has bought 1,576 acres to add to his present estate. The price paid wa’s $27,147.15. Stops tlie Cough and Worlis of £ the Cold. Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets cures a cold in one day. No cure, No pay. Price, 25 cents Hardware, - Harness, - Saddlery. • . Fall line Agricultural Implements.- BEST GOODS. CLOSEST PRICE. Harness Repairs a speciality. 463-465 Third St, •MACON, CFGRG Tha Ba. . OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE * I STATE ASSOCIATION. ) Iwjg Subscription Price 50c, a Year. ——*-ADDREB8 GA. POULTRY HERALD, VALDOSTA GEORGIA. , . The Herald FREE one year to every Home Journal subscriber who pays &1.50 striotly in advance. i’A. .1 —■■'IN l«'HI . 11 "l C. HUHN, DEALER IH SPORTING GOODS.: Bioycles, Baseball Goods, Fishing Tackle, Guns, Pistols, eco. Hand some Specialties, Pocket and Table Cutlery, Mechanios’ Tools. 620 MULBERRY ST. SR Repairing of Guns, Bicycles, Etc. 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