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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN é “w:e. 9
"T;he Slorc.W ith the Stock."
Our Semi-Annual Reduction
- Starts Saturday
This includes our entire stock of this
season’s smart, soft Felt Hats—buy one
Saturday for early spring wear—note the
savings. :
$4.00 Hats Reduced to. .........$2.95
$4.50 Hats Reduced t0..........53.35
$5.00 Hats Reduced t0..........54.45
SB.OO Hats Reduced t0..........55.95
VELOUR HATS
$ 650 Velour Hats at ... .. ......$4.85
$ 8.50 Velour Hats at........... 56.35
SIO.OO Velour Hats at . . ........$7.45
¢ $12.50 Velour Hats at........... 39.35
ALLEN M. PIERCE
Haberdasher — Hatier — Clothier
Atlanta Home of Hirsh-Wickwire Clothes. »
zTriPOD PAINT CO
*@ MANUFACTURERS
-2 Wholesale and Retail
|
iy 4fie Corner North Broad and Poplar Streets |
1 " g—a Phone—llvy 516 4
remains in which to take advan
g tage of our great value-giving
sale of high-grade, stylish
boots, which will be worth dou
ble next season. There s
every wanted leather, also
/ noveity effects, more than a Values up to sl2
dozen styles to select from, with $ .85
your choice of full French or
Military heel.
These are the serviceable eight
inch walking boots of the mil
itary type that are so popular
because they are also stylish. .
In the lot are boots in brown
kid, fieldmouse kid, black kid
and gun metal with mat kid Values upéoss7-50 '
top. They have medium- F
Lriag 1! "“i~o soles and the $4
rv heel.
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27-29 WHITEHALL ST
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Campbell Announcement
W. want the pubh\c to know—
That the R. O. Campbell Coal 3
Company is operating the Camp
bell Paint Store, and that in this
Paint Store we are handling every
thing that is expected to be found
in a store of the kind. Paints, Oils,
Vaminhe‘, Shim, Leld, Turpen.
tine, Wall Tints, Brushes and
Painters’ Supplies.
he Campbell Paint Store
Owned by
The R. 0. Campbell Coal Company
Main 149 228 Marietta. St.
Wonderful ‘Half Man,’ ‘Bearded
. . . .
Lady’ and ‘Missing Link’ in
Sunset of Lives,
By MADGE ARTHUR.
NEW YORK, Feb, 27.—Sitting on
‘the handsome mahogany shelf which,
until recently, served as bar in the
establishment, a gray haired man,
78 years of age, now looks down
with somewhat contemputuous ex
pression of features upon his fellow
lmorl.ul.s of both sexes who from time
to time dribble in and out of this ex
saloon.
At first glance you would notice
nothing peculiar about him as he sits
upright in a lowback chair, and then,
as a shock it would come upon you
that below his trunk is nothing but
a pair of naked feet! No legs! No
ankles as far as can be seen. Noth
ing but those bare feet, which ap
pear to grow just where the thighs
should end. .
He is Eli Bowen, who for more than
sixty years has toured the entire civ
ilized globe as the wonderful “Half
Man.” There is scarcely a country in
which this now aged American-born
frogk has not been on exhibition amid
all the gaudy paraphernalia of some
mammoth traveling show., He will
show you with prftie a photograph of
himself and the “Armless Weonder"
seated on a tandem bieycle—he, in
front, steering, and thé armpless man
pedaling—by which method of loco
motion they toured the chief thor
oughfares of the leading cities of EKu
rope before multitudes of astonished
beholders. 3
FEATS SEEN BY MILLIONS.
Royalty has condescended to peer
with interest at his legless feet, and
millions of persons have witnessed
the prodigious feats he was able to
perform upon trapese and horizontal
bar, He is now within two years of
80. He can no longer ® display the
amazing strength which dwelt in his
‘arms as compensation for the absence
of legs. He merely sits, with a silk
cap upon his whitened locks in what
was but a few weeks ago a Broadway
barroom, and endures the slowly
passing hours.
At the other end of the former bar
is seated Mme. Gilbert, she who as
tounded my mother before 1 was
}born. as 1 well remember to have
heard my mother say. Mme. Gilbert's
claim to remembrancg at that time
was a light brown silken beard that
hung well down upon her girlish chest
and through which she frequently ran
her slender fingers to prove that it
was not of artificial attachment.
She was the first, the original
“Bearded Lady,” and here she sits to
day, stroking her unusual possession
as she did in my mother's time.
But the beard-is no longer brown
or silken. It is a huge grizzled col
lection of hair not pretty to logk at,
which thickly covers both cheeks and
hides the front of her gown almost to
the waist. The hair upon her head
has whitened with the years, and the
beard will soon match it. She, too, is |
a much traveled person, and in the
days of Barnum is said to have as
tounded court circles,
Other bearded women have devel
oped (possibly through the aid of
nostrums) since Mme, Gilbert firkt
stepped from the seclusion of her
family circle, so that her vogue has
long ceased to be what it was at the
time of her debut; nevertheless, one
can not help wondering what visions
of past glory arise in her mind as she
sits (not amid the blare of music
from the neighboring “round-top")
quietly in a moderately sized room
from which John Barleyeorn was re
cently evicted. I also wonder what
some former customers of this par
ticular saloon who, not having learned
of prohibition, should ‘enter the place
in search of a drink, would think of
these startling substitutes for the
glasses and decanters that formerly
adorned the bar.
Of one thing T am certain, he would
be pretty sure to believe he “had 'em”
if his eyes alighted first upon thn'
figure that sits between the “Bearded
Lady” and the “Half Man.” This is
the creature that was first introduced
to a startled world in my grandmoth
er's days as Barnum’s “What Is It?”
or “The Missing Link.”
I myself saw this creature when 1
was a little girl, and he looks pre
cisely the same now as he _did then.
If you have ever seen “Zip"fin his, or
its, travels about the globe vou will
have no difficulty in recognizing him
perched on the bar of this ex-case,
SAME TIGHT-FITTING SUIT, :
He is clothed in the same tight
fitting suit of imitation bark, his long
arms have the same baboon-like ac
tivity; the top-knot of hair on the
*summiit of his flat-backed head sticks
up like a rooster's comb, just as it
always did; his vanity is as pro
nounced as ever, and he still emits
the gutteral sounds that have always
been claimed to be his only form of
speech. Nobody pretends to know
how old “Zip” is, but his age is fixed
‘somewhere near 90, He prances about
the bar with the agiilty of youth, and
looks as if he might live years on
years longer,
However impossible it is to avoid
the feeling that there is something
pathetic in the circumstances . that
now surround the auvtumn days of
these other two aged freaks, no sym
pathy need be wasted on old “What
Is It?” He represents quite as much
the attributes of perpetual, careless
joy, as were to bhe found in any of
the Dbottles which formerly stood
where he s now exhibited.
Other freaks there are in thig for
mer temple of Bacchus, but thig trio
chiefly interested me, Whether New
Yorkers will take to the collection
as a substitute for strong drink I am
sure I do not know,
W.O.W.&W. C
Atlanta Camp, 430, W. O. W, meets
;;‘tr,y Friday night, 104 W. Mitchell
3 n hall step
‘ slel s B Dot
New spplieations solicited, Exnm.
inntions, SI.OO, Strangers lovited,
Transfers accepted,
Fine music und dancing every Wed
'] nesday and Satarday nights,
JOHUN . QUINN, Clerk,
Phone Ivy G3BO, i Silvey Pidg,
] llndnma‘r'"l Wlé?n-n’ Cirele
(Indies’ branch). KS, CLAEBA B
l CHERRY, State Mgr,
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