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a xa yd ‘3NiaaiHiH3avn 3H1^ | ^ y ’ ga - January i, 1920 .
EZRA PROVED TRUE PROPHET
His Prediction That Funeral and Mar
. riage Were Before Him Turned
Out to Be Exact.
Last week a frit*rid drifted In from
(he Old Home Town, now 20 years
hack of me, and we had a season of
gossip about the old acquaintances
which was aoul satisfying. Some of
the stories were pathetic, some were
sordid, some were humorous, bnt ail
of them, illustrated -phases of life la a
country town. Perhaps this one about
Ezra was the best.
When I left the Old Home Town
Ezra was the possessor of a wife
whom he had had for 25 years or
more, and who was In fairly good
condition, although a little deaf, as
might well he, for no woman ever
talked more fluently or more willingly
than did her husband. For some rea
son she was taken ill and died, and
Ezra mourned her for a time, not an
exceedingly long time, and then he be
gun to take notice and presently mur
ried again.
Tills wife No. 2 was, of course, a
later model, hut she, too, fell ill, and
the physician advised an operation.
Ezra hired an automobile and went
with her to the hospital, where the
physicians told 1dm that there was lit
tie hope that she would recover. He
went home sorrowfully, and finally he
“Good broke out to the driver In this way: J j
Lord, I’ve got to go through It
all again—bury this wife and then get
another one!”
And he whs h true prophet for
things happened just as he predicted,
—Hartford Courunt. ;
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ANY FOOL CAN FIND FAULT
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Rractically Impossible for Any Prop¬
osition, However Good, to Be
Absolutely Without Flaw.
There is nothing however good hot
a person may find some fault in it it
he Is determined to do so. There is
nothing perfect that is of man’s mak¬
ing. There is nothing that mail origin
ales or performs hut what contains [
more or less of his weakness. Worth,
like water, must stay below the level |
of its source. It Is quite naiiirai that ■
a person should dissent. The scientists ;
dispute as much as the theologians, j
Every time one ^hiatus a new stand- |
point he changes his opinion, Kvery
tinie he meets a friend he finds yiat
he differs.
So we must make up our mind* to
disagree in the right spirit, observes
the Ohio State Journal. Tf we don’t do
that: and our disagreement fulls into
111 will and anxiety, then we become
enemies of the truth and social pests
besides. The person we earnestly and
candidly disagree with may be right
and ourselves wholly wrong. It would
make us feel very absurd sometimes
In the midst of a violent controversy,
to have a sudden light let in on the
controversy and show our adversary
entirely right. The safest thing, so far
ns one's conduct toward hint Is con¬
cerned Is to remember lie may be right
and treat him accordingly,
Markings of Horae’s Coat.
It Is found that there Is a very defi¬
nite connection between the coal color
of horses and the frequency with
which white markings occur. Thus
the latter are by far the most com¬
monly associated with the chestnut
color. And not only are they the most
prevalent In chestnut horses, bnt it is
also, of course, a well-known fact that
the markings are apt to bp more ex¬
tended In nature in the case of this
color than in that of any otlfer. Chest¬
nut, therefore, apparently possesses
• so to speak, a special affinity for these
markings. Bay ranks next as regards
the degree oT frequency with which
white markings appear in horses of
this color, although it comes a good
way behind chestnut in tins respect.
Then follows brown, while the white
marks are met with less frequently
among black and roan colored horses.
Why Strike Collapsed.
Two telegraph operators worked in
the office of the Milwaukee Free Press.
Both were employed by the press as¬
sociation and not by the paper. They
came soused one Sunday Bight, de¬
cided to strike, making demands for
more pay and shorter hours front the
managing editor of the newspaper.
They were told to make their petition
to their employers. The telegraphers
retired for a council of war, put the
strike into effect aud decided to picket
the office. The office had but one en¬
trance, but there must be strategy;
so one of the strikers posted himself
directly in front of the office and the
other around the corner, the two be¬
ing out of sight of each other.
Then each had the same hunch of
getting another drink. They left their
posts aud that was the end of the
strike. Other operators were called in
and the wires buzzed merrily on.—
Pep. '
Novelist’s Wife Puts In.
“She regretted the bath. She missed
it, anti so must we all. In modem his¬
tory, as in modern fietiou, it is not
uice in the ieast for the heroine—even
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such a dubious heroine as Maruise—
to have a bnthless day. As for heroes,
in She polite chronicles, they get at
least two baths a day—one heroic cold
shower in the morning and one ho:
tul) in the late afternoon before get¬
ting into faultless evening attire. This
does not apply to heroes of Russian
masterpieces, of course, for they never
bathe. (‘Why should they, my wife
puts in, since they’re going to commit
suicide* anyway?*)”—“The Cup ot
Fury,” by Rupert Hugh es.
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BRAVE MEN AND OTHERS.
•Y*m fond of bravo people,' said old
Cap'n BUI.
“I like to near tell of adventures that
thrill.
1 take off my hat to the men ot rne
past.
Who felt the ship winkin' an’ stink till
the last.
But when I see folks that jump in where
, it’s deep,
And laugh as the treacherous waves
’round them creep,
There's one class of humans I say could
be spared:
Tlie people who haven’t the sense to
be scared.
“A man who haa fought in the trenches
will run
When he sees a tool friend start to play
with a gun.
The stanchest and steadiest seaman
afloat
is afraid of a summer boy rocking a
boat.
The man who Is Attest to plan and to
serve
Is the one who knows danger and
braces his nerve.
The worst of the hardships in life are
prepared
By people who haven’t the sense to be
scared.”
MAKES SURGICAL WORK EASY
Recent Invention Quickly Locates the
Presence of a Foreign Body in
Human Tissues.
The difficulty often encountered In
attempting to remove foreign bodies
from the tissues is well known, writes
Dr. A. G. Bellman of Portland, Ore.,
in the Journal of the American Medl
cal association. Even when Roent
genograms are at hand or when flu
oroscopy has been done, there Is fre
quently great difficulty in removing
the foreign body.
By the use of transilluminntlon any
foreign body that will cast a shadow
may be located In a surprisingly short
time.
Having cut down to the supposed
location of the foreign body mid hnv
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The Operator at Work.
lng arran^d the light, the operator
looks through a tube at the tissues,
which may be held tip or otherwise
suitably manipulated. A dark room is
unnecessary. When once the foreign
body is located, it Is a simple matter
to remove it.
The tube may be of any suitable
material, brass or other metal or a
darkened test tube; a roll of paper
may be used In an emergency.
The angle at which the tube is used
may be varied to meet conditions.
A Sheeplike Vegetable.
A euvious plant growing iu Peru la
known to the native as “yareta” or
“vegetable sheep." It grows abundant¬
ly among rocks at high altitudes along
the Andes of Bolivia and Peru, where
it constitutes a conspicuous feature
in the landscape because of its pecu
liar manner of developing the so
called “polster,” or cushion formation.
The “yareta” forms hillocks or small
mounds often three feet high and
sometimes several feet In diameter.
Moreover, the entire mound is made
up of a single plant, not of a colony
of individuals, and it attains this
enormous size and extreme compact¬
ness by a. process of repeated branch¬
ing, so that The ultimate branches are
closely crowded and the outer surface
is continuous. The flowers of the
yareta” are very thin, only about
one-eight of an inch long, and are
borne in small clusters near the tips
of the branches. The fruit resembles
a miniature caraway seed. The na¬
tives use the plant as fuel.
Glad-to Go Back 7
A large draft of negroes came Into
one of the replacement camps in this
country. The exasperated personnel
staff was having its troubles, and one
of the men whose duty it was to find
out the men’s home addresses, asked:
Where did you come from?”
«< Oh,” was the reply, “Ah just got
off’n the train out hyer.
<• Damn it all, I know you just came
in, but where from? ft
“Does y’all mean where Ah was
before Ah come hyer?”
“Yes, that’s what I mean. M
tt Oh, Ah was in jail, in Pine Bluff,
doing time.
Another Waste Is Checked.
The manufacture of waxed papers
and carbons has heretofore been at¬
tended by a great waste of material
consisting of a mixture of wax and
paper pulp. The government officials
have recently discovered a method of
separating these and making use of
the material.
Simple Tastes.
“Do you care for pastels, Mrs. Caw
her? II
“T can’t say that T do. The children
like to go to one of them French pas¬
try shops and buy dabs of this and
that, but old-fashioned cookies and ap¬
ple fritters are good enough for me.”—
Birmingham Age-Herald.
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Raw and Reeking.
“Yon gotta quit feeding me on oat¬
meal,” declared the hack writer.
Beef is too high,’’ retorted bis
wife.
“No matter. My publisher says he’s
got to have some red-blooded stuff.”—
Courier-Journal.
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INCOME TAX REPORTS
Those desiring my help in making
out Federal income tax returns will
please register their names in my
office, and I will notify each one
when ready to prepare his return...
It will facilitate matters if ■*-.*—■ ru
will register early so I will know
just what is before me. To do justice
to those I prepare I can’t undertake
more than 200 returns in the limited
time allowed for this work, so that
when that number have registered
I can’t take on any more.
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Fort Valley, Ga*