Below is the OCR text representation for this newspapers page.

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 Daily No 31 Lvork, P R R ! !2 55 P m Eadelphia, P R R I § 29 p m Jifflore.PRR j 5 45 pm b;hinfrton, P R R i 6 o5 p m Ko?d.SAl.Ry; }0 40 P m ketersbuig, ..! 1131pm Una “ i 2 05 a m Uderson " j 2 30 am Lijjprh i ® 46 a m bntbe-n Pines “ [ 5 37 am tv York, N Y P & N J |7 55 a m liladelphia “ J 10 20 am LYork. 0 D S S Co! f3 00 pm Ltimore, BSP Co { Lh’ton, N& WSBJ — Umoutl.SALRy! 9 00 pm 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? jeldon brlina Uderson “ 1 Weigh “ I [athern Pines “ { hilet “ ! slmington “ { larlotte “ j [ester “ | [eenwocd 4 } pens 44 ! Santa J 44 I Usta, C & W C j Icbn.CofGa } jntg’ra’rv A & W P j ibilc, l & N j wOrleans, L&NJ sbville NC & St LI imphis | 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. “arrives from Social Circle 4,35 p. m. 1 arrives from Social Circle 8,37 p. m. SUNDAY TRAINS. i eaves 7,35 a. m. for Social Circle.J eaves 3.40p. m. for Social <2irc t lea y es 4-00 p. m. for Jefferson. arrives 8:45 a. m. from Jefferson. L arnves 10:20 a.m. from Social Circle arrives 2, 45 p. m. from Social Circle. i Connections. L? ? 0nnect8 at Winder«9,30 a. m. for Ath gSSf Athens 10.11 a.m. ^connects at Social Circle with Ga. R, B L... a 26 a - ^ For Atlanta 11.55 a. m [ gUSta 2 25 P- »•; Arrive Atlanta 135 ^ connects at Winder for Athensfiand Want P-“>•; arrive Athens 2.50;:p. in.; ar F^fa 3.00 p. m, '.“connects i [J** arrive A p connects 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. NORTHW ARD Daily ! Daily No 402 No 38 lemphis, N C <ft St L 100pm 8 45 p m Ishville, 10 55 p m 9 30 a m |ew Orleans, L & N 7 45 p m pbile, L & N 12 20 a m lontgom’ry A & W P 6 20am 1 30 pm bcoa, C of Ga 8 00 a m | 4 20 pm pgusta, C & W C 9 40 a m | [lanta. J S A L Ry 12 00 n’n J 8 00 pm [hens, • ‘ 2 48 d m ! 1123 pm ieeu wood 44 4 50 p fit | 2 04 am tester, “ 6 43pm S 4 25 am larlotte 4 44 - 6 30 d m i 5 00 am Slmington, 41 3 80pm 1 iralet, 44 9 50pm ! 8 10 am them Pines, “ 10 55 p m ! 9 03 am tleigh, * “ 100am } 11 30 am uderson 4 '* 2 27am i 1 00 pm pina, SAL Ry 3 10 a m f 2 00 pm pdou, “ 4 20am i 3 10 pm irtsmouth, 44 7 00 a m | 5 50 pm ph’tou, N & W S R —— - - 1 6 55 am ltimore, BSP Co } +6 45 am fw York, OD SS Co — | fl 30 pm [ila’phia, N Y P & N f5 46 p m | 5 10 a m pw York, “ 8 40pm i 8 00 am No 44 j No 66 jamlet. " 9 40pm ! 9 20 am hherii Pines, “ 10 32 p m } 10 09 am Weigh, “ 12 28 a m [ 1207 pm pderson, 144a m J 127 pm brl na, “ 2 lO'a m J 2 15 pm [tersburg “ 4 09 a m 4 43 pm jchmond. 44 4 56 am 535 pm phiugton, P R R 8 45 a m 930 pm fitimore, P R R 10 03 a m 11 25 pm f’ladelphia, P R R 12 27 p m 256 am F York, P R R 315 p m 6 30 am 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.