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HE GEORGIA CRACKER. SATURDAY, JUNE 8, 1901
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Shag Feeds Water Hens.
“Baring a recent trip through the
lower western section or the cotin-
try,” said a young man who had
recently returned tp New . Orleans,
according to the Times-Demoerat,
“ T believe I discovered the laziest
and most stupid form of life to be
found anywhere on the globe. It
was an aqaatic fowl, with a big.
clumsy ^looking beak ipform some
thing like the dodo, no v extinct.
I have spent some time in watch
ing this fowl, which is found in
some of the shallow lakes, and the
chief point of interest to me was
the startling stupidity displayed.
They call them shags, I believe,
out west. They generally squat on
stumps or logs in the lake and
watch for the smaHer ^fish that
play around the surface of the wa
ter, They are tairly cleVfer in
catching what they want, and they
throw out their bills with consid
erable precision when they dig for
Same, and they never get to eat
what they catch until they have
fed at least one and maybe more
than one member of another kind
of water fowl. Whenever a shag
begins to catch fish a long-legged,
long-necked water hen will take a
place immediately behind him.
When the shag lands the fish the
water hen simply reaches over and
gets it.Withont any show of resent
ment and without turning around
the shag will continue its watch
for fish, and this is kept up until
the water hen has finished its
meal, and then, if no other enter-
prisiug member of the same tribe
comes along, it is permitted to
enjoy the product of its own sleepy
efforts. I have seen three water
0 ns fed before the shag ate a sin
gle fish. It is certainly a singular
niplay of stupidity, and after hav-
ln g watched the performance a
number of times I am convinced
the shag is actually too dull
0 even know that the water hen
8 & nd3 behind him to steal the fish
out of his mouth.”
An Agnostic Marriage.
Cincinnati, June 2.— The first
“agnostic marriage’' in this coun
try occurred here today and formed
the feature of the agnostic Sunday-
school that has been established
here. The contracting parties
were Frederick Federle and Miss
Martha Seaman. Justice Alexan
der Roebling performed the legal
part of the ceremony, then both
narties made their pledges, includ
ing one not to resist divorce pro
ceedings. The bride also repeated
the words: “Should I discover
that we are uncongenial or misma-
ted, I hereby pledge that I will
not bear children that are not
born of affection, ” U
Pointing a Moral®;
When our heads reach the stage
when a foot tub will about fit us
for our hat it’s a mighty good thing
to, have some wise friend or relative
put ’em under the pump and hold
them there until the swelling sub-
iffide s,' says the Wilmington
(Del.) Star. A nice young felloe
here married into a society family.
His father was one of those blunt
sort of men who had accumulated
a pretty good fortune by hard la
bor, and who had no nonsense in
him. The young couple, began
soon to put on fancy trimmings
with the old man. He was not
invited out when they had a pink
tea or green breakfast, but was used
to fill in the chinks. Well, the
old man wouldn’t have enjoyed it
anyhow, for he was used to plain,
substantial cooking and a supper
of little cakes, ice cream,; one cro
quet, a dab of salad and a glass of
frappe'would floor him. When he
bad suppers there would be a big
dish of birds, hot biscuit, - pickles
and preserves, coffee, old sty
chicken salad and a hot punch
afterward. But the old man stood
'the change in the boy for a while
Tin til one day he came deny n home
and asked him to give his wife
chiffonier, pronouncing it “chee-
fon-ee-ay.” This was t^o much.
“GeJ in the buggy with, me,’’ said
the elder, sternly; “I want to drive
you to see something. ” The son
complied, and the two drove up
Green street until they came to a
little, old tumble down cottage,
much the worse for age. “There,
sir, ” said the irate parent,, “there’s
where you was born. Don’t forget
it again and be talking to me about
your wife’s scheefong yeas”
“There is no place like home,”
but we don’t care to be reminded
of the earliest one we had.
Henry M. Stanley,s Big Head.
An old newspaper man who used
to work on the paper that sent Sir
Renry Morton Stanley to find
Livingstone tells this story of the
explorer’s return, says the New
York Press. “A messenger came
into the office with a note from
Stanley, saying, ‘I am registered at
the Astor House, and may be seen
there by representatives of the
Blank. 5 Two of us were sent across
the street to interview the great
man. Id the course of conversa
tion he helped himself to a cigar
out of a box on the table, lighted
it and began to smoke. It didn’t
occur to him to invite us to join
him. By and by he said, ‘Gentle
men, excuse me a moment,’ and
pressed a button on the wall. To the
boy responding he said, ‘Fetch me
a Manhattan cocktail,’ and when
the mixture arrived drank it before
us without so much as saying
‘How.’ ”
No wonder Stanley suffered from
the big head. A peculiar kind of
greatness was thrust upon him so
suddenly that be couldn’t stand it.
His beginning was most lowly and
humble. A friendless fVelsh boy,
he was placed in the poorhouse at
St. Asaph when he was 3 years old,
remaining there and being educa
ted for ten years. His name was
John Rowlands, or as near as that
can be spelled in Welsh, but at the
age of 15 he sailed as cabin boy to
New Orleans, where he was adop
ted by a merchant whose name he
took instead of his own. Stanley
was absolutely without convictions.
After fighting on the confederate
side and being taken prisoner he
joined the union forces. It the
Patagonians had captured him he
would have fought for Patagonia.
I doubt if he cares a rap which
political party he belongs to in
England. But taking him all in
all he is a very wonderful man.
Stories of the Panic,
Although the excitment over the
cornering of the Northern Pacific
has died down, stories of the for
tunes that might have been keep
coming in, says a New York dis
patch to the Chicago Inter-Ocean.
One of tjie most remarkable of all
the tales comes from Philadelphia.
A woman there owned 200 shares
bought years ago. when the stock;
was selling helpw par. The stock
was located by somebody in New
York, and on the morning of the
panic she was advised to sell. She
concluded to follow the advice.
The transaction represented, a
profit of considerably more than
$>100,000. The woman read about
the panic and the corner, and the
great losses they had .caused. Her;
concience fell to work, and she
refused to accept the check. The
broker still has the cheeky and is
at a loss at present to know just
how the trouble which the wo
man’s conscience ha$ - occasioned;
can be adjusted.
When the world' was being
combed for the stocks in th9 days
immediately preceding the panic
it was learned that a certain fash
ionable New York widow was the
possessor of something like 400
shares. On Wednesday evening
of last week a broker called up the
woman’s residence on the tele
phone.’ He learned that she was
at a dinner party. The hostess
had a phone, and the broker final
ly succeeded in * getting the wo-
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man to it. He told her that her
stock was wanted, that she could
realize a small fortune by selling,
and asked if he might soil the
stock. The substance of the re
ply he got was:
“This is the greatest piece of
impertinence I nave ever heard of.
You have actually called me
from a dinner party to dissuss a
matter of business. Please be
good enough n9ver to annoy me
like this again.”
Then she hung up the receiver,
and the broker, as he hung up his,
said to himself what he would not
say to a woman. Later be had
the satisfaction of knowing that
widow regretted more than she
will ever be able to tell that she
did not sell the stock.
When me
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accompanied by
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OB 1(1 and bones, the disease is making
rapid headway, and far worse
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Mistaken for a Great Man.
Justice Gray in point of years
is the oldest member of the su
preme court. He was 73 years of
age on April 20, says the Phila
delphia Press, and if he lives un
til next December will have been
on the Supreme bench just twenty
years. He is a man of imposing
presence and one of the grea t
sticklers for the dignities and pre
rogatives ... of the con rt. Woe be
tide the reporter who would seek
from Justice Gray information
regarding the business of the court
or about a decision delivered in
the court room. At times, how
ever he lays aside this great digni
ty, gild is genial and affable. He
tells a story on himself illustra
tive of the varying standards of
greatness in the public mind. He
was out West several years ago,
just about the time John L. Sulli
van had reached the zenith of his
pugilistic fame. There was a
stop-over of an hour at a little
town in Colorado and Justice
Gray embraced the opportunity
to stretch his legs on the station
platform.
The natives saw this great big
man walking up and down and
began, speculating about him.
some one suggested it was John
L. Sulivan, and immediately the
whole crowd recognized the pugil
ist. They gazed in open-mouthed
wonder, and the word that the
champion fighter was at the sta
tion quickly spread, until half the
population of the town was crowd
ing about to get a glimpse at the
big man. The Justice could not
understand the meaning of such
demonstration in his honor until
one of the citizens, not altogether
satisfied on the point, said: “Be
you really John L. Sullivan, the
prizefighter?”
“Crier your grandmother!” ex
claimed the other. “You’ve been
drinking Beal street whisky, man.
“Not much. I know he was the
town crier, for I heard him a-call-
the state of the weather, or rather
the forecast foi to-morrow. li
nearly gave me a conniption fit,
for I thought the weather here was
of the Christian sort. What did
he say? Why as I passed a fellow
down on Main street, a chap in
uniform with a big copper lantern,
he sung out: ~ j
‘Hot to-morrow ! Hot to-mor
row! Hot west wind.’ ”
Poor, abused tamale man!.
Southern Prognostication.
The tamale man has again be
come the subject for a good joke
that is goii g the rounds, says the
Memphis Scimitar. Among the
crowds that came to Memphis to
see the president was a long, gaw
ky specimen from the wilds of
Kansas. That night he stopped
to talk a few minutes with a
chance acquaintance in the lobby
of the Arlington and made the
remark that there were some queer
customs in vogue in Memphis.
“How so?” asked the man he
was talking to.
“Why gosh ding it,” said he,
“you folks have still got the town
crier.”
The Athens Centennial.
Athens, Ga., June 2.—The
month of June, 1901, will be me
morable in the history of this city.
It marks the century point in the
history of the city, county and
University of Georgia, and the
centennial of these three will be
celebrated fiittmgly.
It will be an educational feast
at which hundreds of Georgians
will gather. The opening will be
next Friday, when the exercises of
Lucy Cobb Iustitute commence.
These exercises will embrace exhi
bitions of art, music and oratory.
The Cobb commencement exer
cises will conclude on the 11th,
and the next day the Univer
sity centennial week opens with
the celebration of the centennial
of the city of Athens and the
county of Clarke.
The cornerstones of new
buildings will be laid with im
pressive ceremonies. Grand Mas
ter Max Meyerhardt of Rome,
officiating together with Mt. Ver
non Lodge of this city.
The session of the alumni so
ciety on June 17 will be of rare
interest, as the report of the en
dowment committee, of which
Hon. B. A. Denmark of Savannah,
is chairman, will be made at that
time. That night the alumni
banquet will be held. Over 200
alumni have already responded,
stating they would be on hand
and probably 800 more will do so.
McLaurin’a “commercial de
mocracy” won’t go down with the
South *Carolinians.
Thousands Have Kidney Trouble
and Don’t Know it.
How To Eind Out. ' v
Fill a bottle or common glass with your
»vater and let it stand twenty-four hours; a
sediment or set
tling indicates an
unhealthy condi
tion of the kid
neys; if it stains
your linen it is
evidence of kid
ney trouble^ too
frequent desire to
pass it or pain in
the back is also
do wincing proof that the kidneys and blad
der are out of order.
What to Do.
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