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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. * 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- s m 9 Cur A k Ci# V suu I A k RANTEED A J 1HE GAILEY DRUG CO. - 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 c ‘ m |,n “ ' 1,1 sl, ' n °‘* M1C '' 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 06 18 Safe ’ * ork 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 i * 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 ™ cl tl,e P ar ™ t b irds ” re Etm nl1 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 fill TVZ'p VpZlfji 5K|t % ditu j ^ ^ , T A ' n* w»*» iw» b eeri “py* iirmroJ ed. The supp . ied with the latest roonas are lj ed single Seats and Desks. The building is ! 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. MBS. UUT M- ISAITTS MISS 1FWMRBIE MEJE 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 ” castoria For Infants and Children. 4*n* aywesse ' A FRICANA will Syphilis *n d 01/ cure Sore* to Stay Cured. Kodol Dyspepsia Cur* Digests what you ea**