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THE BRIEF TlMfe.
Brief time to sing, my dearie, brief time to sing
and sigb;
We only- fay good morning and then good night—
goodby!
The *liadow in the sunlight o’er all the wide
world glooms;
A moan is in the music; the blight is in the
blooms.
Brief time to love, my de*rie, in springtime’*
rosy beams;
To drink the honey sweetness, to dream the old,
sweet dreams;
The shadow in the sunlight move* to the breath
of sighs,
And unseen spirits ever kiss down our dreaming
eyes.
Oh, dreams, like phantoms flying where only
shadows throng!
Ob, life too brief for sighing, and life too brief
for song!
And the green world at our feet, dear, and over¬
head the sky.
And love that say* good morning only to weep
goodby!
—Atlanta Constitution.
DRESS THEIR OWN WOUNDS.
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Some Birds Tint Possess Great
Knowledge of Surgery.
There arc not a few birds that
possess a knowledge of the prin¬
ciples of surgery that is not far
from supernatural. The woodcock,
the partridge and some other birds
are able to dress their wounds with
considerable skill. A French nat¬
uralist says that on several occa
sion#. he has killed woodcock that
ucre, when shot,'convalescing from
wounds previously received. In
every instance he found the old in
jury neatlv dressed with down
plucked from the stem of feathers
and skillfully arranged over the
wound evidently by the long beak
of the bird. In some instances a
solid plaster was thus formed, and
in others ligatures had been applied
lo wounded or broken limbs.
One day he killed a bird t^pt evi¬
dently had been severely Mounded
at some recent period. The M ound
uas covered and protected by a sort
of netM’ork of feathers which had
boon plucked by the bird from its
own body and so arranged as to
form a plaster completely covering
and protecting the M-ounded sur¬
face. Jt had evidently acted as
hemostatic in the first place and
subsequently The as a feathers shield covering
fhe wound. were fair¬
ly netted together, passing alter¬
nately under and above each other
and forming a textile fabric of great
protective Birds power. found whose limbs
are often
have been broken, bv shot with the
fractured ends neatly joined and
ligated. M. Dumonteil tells of a
woodcock that had been shot by a
sportsman on the afternoon of a
certain day. After a long search
the bird was given up, but it was
discovered the next morning by an
accident. In tho meantime tho
wounded legs were found to be neat¬
ly ligated, having an exquisitely been neat band¬
age each limb. The placed around
poor bird had in
dressing its wound entangled its
beak with some long, soft feathers,
and had it not been discovered it
would have died of starvation.—To¬
ledo Blade.
The Race of Life.
I find the great thing in this :
World is not so much where we stand
ns in what direction we are moving,
To reach the port of heaven we
must sail sometimes with the wind
and sometimes against it, but we
Jmist sail and not drift, nor lie at
anchor. There is one very sad
thing in old friendships to every
mind which is really moving on
Ward. It is this: That one cannot
help using his earlier friends as the
Beaman uses the log to mark his
progress.
Every now and then n-c throw an
old schoolmate over the stern with
look—I ft string of thought tied to him and
am afraid with a kind of
luxurious and sanctimonious com¬
passion—to see the rate at which
the string reels off while lie lies
there bobbin? up and down, poor
fellow! and we are dashing along
with the white foam and bright
bosom sparkle at our bows; the ruffled
of prosperity and progress,
with a sprig of diamond stuck in it!
But this is only the sentimental side
of the matter, for grow we must if
we outgrow all that we love.—Oli¬
ver Wendell Holmes.
The Parched Mouth.
It ' tn not alone -zr weather or,
bard Si ork that m 7T ;our mouth I
tlrv. Uy, Anxietv, will patch serious trouble gen- |
era your mouth and :
throat more quickly and effectively
than anything else. J
There are persons who will not !
betrnv in the least degree by their
looks and general demeanor that
they are worried. Many criminals,
/or instance, appear as cool as cu
although, tjiey jtre inM^ard-
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- y much perturbed, but to , an at jr fen- .
tire observer the state of their
mmds is made clear by the parched
ni01 h
Y . take , . it ... for granted , . that ,
ou may
a person who is a prey to deep anx
lety will show signs of difficulty m
must lie n very cool individual who
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A DRUMMER TENDERFOOT.
Ha Wert through an Ordeal That
Sorely Tried His Nerve.
“I was sitting on the veranda of
a far western hotel one afternoon,”
said the Boston drummer, “and was
lazily smoking one of the nicest
meerschaum pipes you ever saw
when out of the’ tail of my eye I
saw that a native down at the other
end of the veranda had his gun
sighted at me. Tlmy were a wild
lot around there, and I couldn’t tell
whether he meant to shoot me or
tire pipe. The chances were in fa¬
vor of tire pine, however, and it
seemed a good chance to test my
nerve. I made up ray mind to let
him shoot and pretend a careless
an-, but I’m telling you that in the
10 or 15 seconds of waiting the
sweat came out at every pore and
my heart pounded my ribs sore. I
felt a sort of tick at the bowl of
the pipe, heard tfre crack of the gun
and knew that the bullet had passed
through the pipe. I got a brace
with my bands and feet and waited
for a second bullet, and it went
through the bowl after the first. I
sat there until his fourth bullet had
hit the pipe and knocked the bowl
off the stem, and then the shooter
sauntered up to me and laughingly
said:
“ ‘Excuse me, stranger, but I
thought it was imitation.’
“‘Same as you are,’ I replied.
“My gibe hyrt him,but he was man
enough to tell everybody about my
nerve, and the boys chipped in suffi
cient nuggets to biry me this $50
smoker. Ferre! Say, do you
know what happened to me when I
made an excuse to go up stairs after
mv old corncob? I had no sooner
got into my room than my knees
gave out. eh ills galloped up my
spine, and I'll be hanged if I didn’t
faint away and lie there for ten
minutes. It bad suddenly occurred
to me that the bowl of that pipe was
only six inches from my nose while
the fellow was doing the shooting,
and I hate not yet got over touch
mg my nasal organ now and then
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Siin.
Affection of Storks For Their Young,
The story 1 O stork that per
ished in the cJ lire at Delft
rather than desert her
young is well known. The storks
that continued to feed thc-ir lies
through , the , fearful , , , , bombard-
111011L Sti assburg in the 1- ran co
J h| j . erman s ^ or .'- war ^ hero a!s0 are deserve two a pictures, place in
J^ photographs from which we saw
fcrc lcn ktrassburg, of the nest be
aiK * af \ cr Prussian shells
kad poured into the town. It was
P laced on a large chimney stack on
°f the highest houses.
-TAe. first picture shows the.lour
WEEKLY - BANKER-
Young \ ones ■comfortably seared in
u one o](1 bird stan ding close by
while her mate is flying down with
, h his | s fishing, cr0]? hcavy in witll the second the reS ults picture of
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tho roof of the house ha bocii
pierce d by shells; an entire house
d(Mfe by bas been burned out , half
haYe '
d the remaini th
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the. . post. Chambers , , Journal.
Before Marriage and After.
Dr. Temple, the archbishop of
about Canterbury, is a notable personage
> whom many good stories have
been related. Some j’ears ago a
young curate seeking to be licensed
was bidden by Dr. Temple to read
a few verses of the Bible in order
that his fitness for conducting pub¬
lic worship might be judged.
“Not loud enough,” was the criti¬
cism _ of the bishop when the 3’oimg
man had finished.
“Oh, I’m sorry to hear that, my
lord,” replied the curate. “A lady
in the church yesterday told me 1
could be. heard most plainly all
over.”
“Ah l Are you engaged?” & Sud¬
denly asked Dr. Temple.
“Yes, my lord.”
The bishop smiled rTiiniy and
said: “Now listen to me, young
I man. While you are engaged don’t
believe everything the" lady tells
you, but,” he added with a deep
chuckle, “after you are married be
lieve every word she says.”—London
Truth,
The Tail of a Rat.
A. rat’s i tail is a wonderful thing.
The great naturalist, Cuvier, says
that there ;we more muscles in this
curious appendage than are to be
found m that part of the human
anatomy which is most admired for
Ds ingenious structure—namely,
*^, tail e ! lfm d. To the rat, of in hand, fact, its*
serves as a sort by
means of which the animal is en-‘
^Dlccl to crawl along narrow ledges
or °thcr difficult passages, using it
t° balance with or to gain a hold,
It prehensile, like the tails of
lid B 01110 tie monkeys. beast By means of it the
otherwise inaccessible, can jump up heights
projectile spring, employing it
as a
PROFESSIONAL EATERS.
A Peculiar Custom Observed by the
Devil’s Lake Sioux Indians,
One of the most striking cus
terns of the past that are preserved
by the Indians of today is found
among the tribes of the Devil’s
Lake reservation in Forth Dakota.
The supervisor of the Indian serv
ice gives the following account of
this peculiar practice:
“From time immemorial the
Devil’s Lake Sioux have adhered to
an old custom in regard to the treat¬
ment of a guest. According to their
etiquette, it is the bounden duty of
the host to supply his guest with
all the food lie may desire, and, as
a rule, the apportionment set be¬
fore the visiting Indian is much in
excess of the capacity of a single
man.
“But by the same custom the
guest is obliged to eat all that is
placed before hiuvelse. h e ZXCfeatly
Conyers Public Schools
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by steam .
The following excellent corps of teachers will be
in charge, viz:
PTf DTV Ma 1LI31FCEEE1L Supt. and Prit cipal.
II§. Mo Bo Asst.
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MISS IBESSiaS MUTCMjEIWK l *
MISS ol DSEiPUMKE “
Parents having children to educate will do well to investigate
our school. Tuition m the Primary and Crammer gra les free to
all resident pupils.
SCARED BY THE POPE.
Oca Occasion Whs a Kslccr Wilhelm
Lost His Self Possession.
Kaiser Wilhelm, always a self
possessed character, was even as a
lad equal to almost any emergency,
but there was one time in his life
when his aplomb failed him com¬
pletely, and that was when he was
received in a private audience by
Leo XIII. Strange to say, the self
possessed young emperor felt com¬
pletely overawed by the presence of
the holy father and his entourage.
A gentleman who was present and
witnessed the whole scene said that
a student coining before a row of
examiners or a culprit appearing
before a court could not have look¬
ed more frightened than did the
emperor when he stood between the
folding doors of the audience hall
as they opened before him.
As he caught sight of the Pope
in white garments, stiff, immobile,
almost unearthly, surrounded by
half a dozen cardinals in red robes,
who -were looking at him curiously,
his half powerless right hand-, in
which he held his present for the
pope, a gold snuffbox, with his own
portrait framed in rubies, shook
so violently that he dropped the
treasure. The monsignore who was
nearest, in stooping to pick it up,
bumped his head against that of the
emperor, who was similarly engaged,
and the shock so unnerved his
majesty that lie quite forgot the hel¬
met which he held in his left hand
and which fell to the ground in its
turn.
At last* everything was put
straight. Tils holiness was still
quietly smiling his everyday smile,
and William advanced a few steps
to deliver his little speech, which
he did with a sulky voice. He look¬
ed as furious as if lie just suffered
from the awkwardness of somebody
else, and they sav that 24 hours
afterward his brow remained as
closely knitted as those of a bear.—
Modcra Society.
insults his entertainer.' jr m»
found that this practice would work
a hardship, but instead the of dispepfr Iflili*
. with the custom
mg applied,j
method.of reasoning was profes¬
and what is known as the
front. sional eater .was brought to the j
“While the guest is supposed to]
eat all that is placed before hint L
serves the same purpose if his neigh¬
bor assists’in devouring the bounti¬
ful repast, the main object being to
have the plate clean when the mw
is finished. practicable
“It is not always Mi
depend upon a neighbor at table to
assist in getting away with a lar?
dinner, and in order to insure the
final consumption of the allottc
portion visiting Indians call up oC
these professional eaters, vnos'
duty is to sit beside them throng
a meal and # eat what the go*
loaves.
“The professional eaters ar
light , <
never looked upon in the
guests, but more as traveling c0 ®
panions with a particular duty
perform. receive Horn P » ,
“These eaters meal
$2 and even $3 for each vrne
they assist. It is stated by
agent at the Devil’s Lake reser'
tion that one of the profession* dispose
eaters has been known to
17 pounds of beef at a sitting, almost
they arc capable of eating an
fabulous amount I myself can
tifv ”
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