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Cod Liver Oil From Beans.
During the wait between acts a med
ical student and a young woman who
sat together became slightly embar
rassed for topics of conversation. Fi
nally and not unnaturally in view of
the nature of the young, man’s studies
their talk drifted to the subject of dis
agreeable tasting medicines. -Among
the horribles they mentioned were cod
liver oil and castor oil. -
“I don’t see,” mused the young wom
an,, “how any one can bear to^eat the
beans that stuff is made of.”
“What kind of beans do you mean?”
inquired the young man.
- “Why, cod liver oil beans, to be
sure.” *
“Aren’t you thinking of castor
beans?” ventured her companion.
“Why, I always thought cod liver
oil was made from beans,” she said,
and the good breeding of the young
man was shown by the fact that he
didn’t even smile, but several of those
who sat near by hadn’t equal control
over their features. — Philadelphia
Ledger.
A Fastidious Dog.
“Yes,” said the manager of the de
funct “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” company,
“it was bur dog that broke up the
show.”
“The dog, eh? What was the matter
with him?”
“Too fastidious. You never saw such
a hound in your life. You know the
play, of course. We tie a piece of
meat in the folds of Eliza’s frock, and
that’s what draws the dogs after her
When she runs across the blocks of
ice. Well, what do you thing this dog
demanded?” •
“Can’t imagine.”
“Porterhouse beefsteak, sir, and with
the tenderloin left in! Yes/sir. Haw’s
that? And you couldn’t fool him. He
wouldn’t chase Hiiza a foot-unless the
meat was a choice cut. No, sir. "And,
by gum, sir, our company had to live
on liver and bacon so that blamed dog
could have his steak. Yes, sir.”
“The demand was too much for you,
was it?”
“No, it wasn’t. That is, it Wasn’t
until he began to insist upon mush
rooms with his steak. Then we just
threw up our hands and quit.”—Cleve
land Plain Dealer.
Aik Astonished Woman and a Still
.More Astonished Animal.
Kula is a district in the Himalayas
consisting of a chain of the most lovely
valleys conceivable, with this draw
back, among others, that each hill path
that runs by the inhabitants’ huts more
often than not contains a lurking leop
ard. One day a worthy Kula house
wife came out from her cooking and,
standing on the edge of rock, emptied
a pan of boiling water .into the rank
herbage growing below. It fell splash
ISn the back of a sleeping leopard,-who
jumped perpendicularly into the air as
high as the roof of the hut.
What might have happened next who
can say? But the astonished woman
dropped the pan with- a clang on the
rock, and the leopard took one leap
down hill* The pan followed, and the
Mazzihk says, “Labor is the divine
law of our existence.” This is little
more than commonplace, but when he
added, “Repose is desertion and sui
cide,” the commonplace was transfig
ured into a memorable illustration.
A French writer said, “Tbe really ef
ficient laborer will be found not to
crowd his day with work.” That seems
to be forgettable. When be adds, “He
Will saunter to his'task surrounded by
a wide halo of ease and leisure,” the
halo serves the purpose of an explana
tory illustration#- ■ *
President Garfield once said, “Nine
times out of ten the best thing that can
happen to a young man is to be tossed
.overboard and compelled to sink or
swim for himself.” The tossing over
board was the illustration. The saga-
■ffECT FEBRUARY 24t&., 1901
ft SOUTHWAR D
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Lh’ton, N& WSBJ —
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Fu — “ Ml 99 n m
Chinese Honesty.
As for the honesty of these people, I
appeal to every English merchant or
banker from Peking to Hongkong to
answer if he ever heard of a dishonest
Chinese merchant or banker. So far
from that, not only has every English
bank two Chinamen to receive and
hand out money, but every bank in
Japan has the same. The English will
tell you, half in jest, that the Japanese
is an oriental Yankee and does not
trust his own people, and they will tell
you, half in earnest, that the English
bankers employ Chinese to handle their
money because they never make mis
takes. •
These people of China have never
had anything like a bankrupt law. If
a man cannot pay his debts or some
one does not secretly come forward
and pay them at the end of each year,
he has “lost his face,” and so he dies
by his own hand. Yet, with all their
piteous poverty, they have no such
words as .“hard times,” for everything
must be settled up at the end of the
year. There can be no extension of
time. Confucius forbade it.—Joaquin
Miller in North American Review.
A Clarions Name Combination.
“What is in a name?” has been a
question sufficiently unanswered to still
remain a subject for discussion, but
what is in two names should have a
double interest. If you don’t think so,
take two names as well known as any
in American history and look at them.
They are the names of Lincoln and
Hamlin. Of course there is nothing
peculiar about them as they stand, but
set them differently and observe the
result. For an instance, place them
this wise:
* HAM LIN
LIN COLN
Read up and down and then across.
There is something in that, isn’t there?
Now, again:
ABRA—HAMLIN—COLN.
Can you find two other names of two
other men whose official lives and
names combine as these do?
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Santa J 44 I
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ibilc, l & N j
wOrleans, L&NJ
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Joe’s Revelation*
Not long ago a nice young man was
Invited to'dine at the home of an east
end young woman and accepted the
irritation with pleasure. It was just
a family dinner, and everything was
passing off well when-an unpleasant
and quite unforeseen incident occur*
red.
They were all discussing the pie,
when the young woman’s little broth-
er, who had been regarding her close
ly, suddenly spoke up.
“Gee,” he said, “loolj at Marie tryinV
to put on style just ’cause Joe is here.
She’s eatin’ her pie with a fork!”
It is needless to add that the cheru
bic child experienced a very unpleas
ant quarter of an hour after Joe had
gone.—Cleveland Plain Dealer.
SOME METALS
Iridium, yrorth more than $780 a
pound* is the hardest metal known and
is used to tip gold pens.
Lithium, worth more than $1,100 a
pound, is used only in medicine, Its
salts being valuable in rheumatic af
fections.
Tungsten, worth 80 cents a pound, is
largely used in matallurgy and gives
to steel qualities similar to those im
parted by molybdenum. ^
Molybdenum, worth $L44 a pound, is
used in metallurgy. Molybdenum steel
possesses the rare quality of preserv
ing its hardness even when heated to
redness.
Selenium, which has the curious prop
erty of losing Its resistance to the elec
tric current under the influence of
light, is used in the teleiectroscope and
is worth $22 a pound.
Uranium, worth $86 «a pound, is used
in the glass and porcelain industries.
It has been found that uraniuin car
bide is superior to nickel or tungsten
In the manufacture of high grade steel.
Palladium, which has the smallest
coefficient of dilatation, Is used for the
mounting of astronomical Instruments.
The standard meter of France is made
of palladium. The pure metal costs
Cha.nipa.Kne and Cancer.
There is a remarkable coincidence be
tween the spread of cancer and the
largely increased daily consumption of
effervescent wines and waters among
the wealthy classes. Prior to the six
ties champagne as a drink was, even
in higher circles, partaken of but occa*
sionally, nor wtere aerated waters con
sumed in anything like the quantity nor
with the frequency that they now are.
These beverages, and Indeed all effer
vescing drinks, owe their sparkle to v the
carbonic acid gas which they contain.
My contention is that the upper classes
by their habit of constantly imbibing
effervescent beverages,^which are solu-
i:iohs of carbonic acid of greater or less
strength, so prepare their mucous tis
sues as to make them a favoring host
to the cancerous fungus, if fungus it
be.—London Medical Times. •.
Grandma’s Care For Dandruff,
“We often scoff at the ancient grand
mother remedies,” said a physician the
other day in conversation with a pa
tient, “but our forefathers used to get
a power of comfort from them never
theless, and cheaply too. Science h£S
Presbyopia.
Old sight (presbyopia) begins at about
the age of forty. It is first noticed *by
the tendency to hold the paper farther
off. The glasses should not enlarge the
letters, but simply render them clear
and natural at the ordinary reading
distance.
Leather Eating Ants.
It is said that in Rhodesia white ants
destroy boots-and articles of clothing
left on tables or hanging on nails. The
following is from a letter received re-
[ On awak-
Whatever the ocular defect
the proper glasses should be obtained
as soon as it is discovered.
J &S. RAILROAD
cently from South Africa
Ing in the morning you are astonished
to see a cone shaped object on the
brick floor a short distance from your
bed with two holes at the top. On
closer examination you discover that
the holes have just the size and shape
of- the inside of your boots, which you
incautiously left on the floor the night
before. They have given form and pro
portion to an ant heap, and nothing is
left of them except the nails, eyelets
and maybe part of the heels.” *
IYAL AND DEPARTURE OF TRAIN
[. AT GAINESVILLE, GA.
Schedule in effect jan* 20, 1901.
•stem Standard (75th (Meridian) Time,
^leaves 7:17 a. m. for Social Circ
«leaves 12,301>. m. lor Winder,
u leaves 3:00 p. m. for Jefferson and Sd
hrcle.
j®leaves 7,55 p. m. for Jefferson.
87arrives;from Jefferson 8,18 a. m
»• arrives from Social Circle 1,37 a.'m.
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1 arrives from Social Circle 8,37 p. m.
SUNDAY TRAINS.
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eaves 3.40p. m. for Social <2irc
t lea y es 4-00 p. m. for Jefferson.
arrives 8:45 a. m. from Jefferson.
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arrives 2, 45 p. m. from Social Circle.
i Connections.
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gSSf Athens 10.11 a.m.
^connects at Social Circle with Ga. R, B
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[ gUSta 2 25 P- »•; Arrive Atlanta 135
^ connects at Winder for Athensfiand
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Eye Pranks.
Witness—He looked me straight in
the eye and—
Lawyer—There, sir, you flatly contra
dicted your former statement!
Witness—How so?
Lawyer—You said before that he
bent his gaze on you, and now you’ll
please explain how he could look you
straight in the eye with a bent gaze!
The Test of Greatness.
When Elliston went from London to
his own theater at Birmingham, he
was known to scarcely a member of
his own company. On reprimanding
one of them sharply the irate actor
threatened to kick him off the stage.
He rushed to the stage manager and
asked who that man was.
“Mr. A——,” said the manager.
“A great man, a very great man,”
said Elliston, “He threatened to kick
me, the lessee of Drury Lane; Such a
man as that must go to London. He
mustn’t waste his energies here.” And
he engaged the actor on the spot for
Drury Lane. -
Italy’s Marriage Brokers.
Marriage brokers are a regular insti
tution in Italy. In Genoa there are sev
eral marriage brokers who have pock-
etbooks filled with the names of the
marriageable girls of the different
classes, with notes Of their figures, per
sonal attractions, fortune and other cir
cumstances. .These brokers go about
endeavoring to arrange matrimonial al
liances in tbe same offhand mercantile
manner which they would bring to
bear upon a purely business transac
tion/and when they succeed they get &
commission of 2 or 3 per cent upon the
dowry, with snch extras of bonuses as
may be voluntarily bestowed by the
party.
The Water Pump.
The most ancient description we have
of a water pump is by Hero of Alexan
dre. There is no authentic account of
the general use of the pump in Ger
many previous to the beginning of the
sixteentircentury. At about that time
the endless chalii. and bucket works
for raising water "from mines began to
be replaced by pumps.
The Three Meal Hal»it.
Our three meal habit is a fearful tax
on our working capacity. It trebles the
temptation to overeating. Our cham
pions stagger under the weight of a
physiological handicap. One-half the
functional energy of the system is di«
verted by the exigencies of digestion.
No other hygienic mistake has done so
much to make Us a generation of dys
peptics as the custqm of after dinner
work. Its victims, moreover, incur the
risk of contracting that form of,moral
dyspepsia called pessimism, it tends
to rob the working day of its revfard.—
Dr. F. L. Oswald in Success.
The Other Half.
Some one has said, “Half the world
does not know how the other half
lives,” and some one else has retorted,
Much Fiction.
“I say, is this the novel you advised
me to read?” said the cabman to the
librarian.
“Yes,” replied the librarian; “that’s
the one.”
“Well,” said the cabman, “you can
just take it back. There’s nine people
r Augusta a; in the first four chapters who hired
j cabs, and each one of ’em when he got
for Atian t • ou t ‘flung his purse to the driver.’ Now,
when I want that sort of literature, I’ll
Dunlap, to Jules Verne and get it pure.”
Charitable.
Artist—I’d like to devote my last pic
ture to a charitable purpose.
Critic—Why not give it to an institu
tion for the blind?—New York Herald.
' Her Smile. . ;
He looked despairingly into vacancy.
“I have had my misgivings,” be said
In a dull, passionless ’voice, “but now I
ain sure. Your laugh shows me you are
utterly hearflesA” ; * >
She turned pale,
“Heavens!” she cried in terror. “Did
I open my mouth as wide as tiiat?”
His Great Love. ;
. “But I am not worth a million in my
own right!” faltered she sadly, for she
had read that manly men abhor the
.thought of marrying rich women.
“I love you for all that,” he cried
generously.—Town Topics.
Origin of'Word Gringo,
The word “gringo,” which Meccans
apply to Americans^when speaking of
them with contempt, Is said-to have
had its origin thus: During the Mexi
can war our soldiers got into the hab
it of calling the simple Mexican sol
diers whom they took prisoners ‘green-
ies” to signify their ignorance of
things in general and of military tac
tics especially. The Mexicans retaliat
ed by calling tbe Americans “greenos,”
and this word finally degenerated into
—- ■ * -
^Eiioals In Turkey.
r ey f^e partridge Is detested
, nce betrayed the prophet to
es> its legs are red be-
y were dipped in the blood of
is m mau kfiis a panther, he*
i j, j for twenty-four hours
a Handsomely .rewarded. The
^Peeted, and it is a crime to
••V - Rales For Dress.
Dress yourselT fine where others are
fine and plain where others are plain,
but take care that your clothes are well
made and fit you. for otherwise they
will, give you a very awkward air.—
Lord Chesterfield.
It Veal' Masquerades as Turtle.
Cassidy—Why d6n’t ye ate yer din
ner?
Casey—Shure this Is Frolday, an’
O’im wonderin’.
Cassidy—What are ye wonderin'?
Casey—Is turtle soup fish whin it’s
made out of veal?—Philadelphia Press.
not read all of Shakespeare's plays?”
“No,” answered Miss Cayenne. “To
tell the truth, I did not mean to say
it. As in the case of most people,^ the
confession slipped out quite by acci
dent-”—Washington.
•Atchison Globe.
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pfDaily pxcept Sunday,
lesvilie, Jeffersdh and Southern trains
leQnne-tion at Winder with Seaboard Air
[Kailway to and from all points North.
pouth and Southwest
—Vestibuled Limited
pralTime. g Eastern Time.