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from our hJph pegr®®.
f«il»j»ed hy piinpfi’b finfifrrH, i
You breathe of iikt? than “burnt rappe©.**
Round >ou a memory lin^ern:
Of tbofRrwild days of wine and wit,
Of j/«fich. peruke and intiion,
Whon uprightly Oldfield ruled tho pit
And Kervey led thft faMhUm,
Whf»n We'lpole trimmed the ship of state*
To meet ;h Tory billow.
When “jAX t Pug” lampooned tho gronfc,
Wh n putt* ru’y playod Bpndillo,
Whfin “ worth leu: Moll" amused the oourfc
With philosophic chiitttr,
When Boiiru'brokf ph*dfc*d tlcHp in port*
“Tho u tho wo tor. ”
Wh* n fUftBtx d the lightnings of the doan
To lu'nd the ey ©m of Btoila,
When f&tftug Gonjfnrre towed with nploon
Th*' worm, of Gay pi unulla,
Whon, f«t*ff4 with tho board's delights
(F**r Gkorgi m bucks were giutTons),
Tho tawn wparkfi sought tho nhades of
‘*TVhi teV
Or tonal -1 the dice ut "Biittosi'A”
V7hon Wt hi net a were all f ho vogno
For ffcfninhio adorning,
When Biddy raised hor Ur* gun .
AndVlaok* d her paila at rooming.
When loh^piul loud ihooontltet retted
tho Macaroni
A« < neb hiw diva’s canae engaged-—
Faustina otf OoxMoni.
DM unalR ox, ooulfi you thrill to speech,
In go: . ip none wore greater,
▼Tho.*- ohronicltw* exceed the reach
Of Tath or twfKjc’.ntor,
Eiiv. ah, jih dumb as dead Queen Armc,
You ij ■, a. ponce Unbroken,
A rouiPKbt *>f the Georgian span
A Han >Vi.ruaj loken |
—Louis ^HoQuilland in Hatufdny Itoviow.
Hlfl Two Books.
A half doacn Wasbington corre-
apondents were discussing literary
suocesses and failures when some
one of them laughed softly in rem-
inisoance and mentioned the name
of the late Melville Ford of Miehi
gan, than whom no man ever in eon-
gross was more popular with men of
all classes.
“I just bnppened to recall,” bo
said in response to scverul inquiries,
“heari n "M™ r Mel Ford tell about
how di lHY!Ttl L be found it to write a
book— 1 «.fact, to write two books.”
"Wo didn’t know he ever wrote
uny,” put iu several.
“He didn’t exactly," continued
tho speaker,' “but be tried to. As
he said to ufd on one occasion: ‘By
Jove, I have begun two books and
quit on both. Tire first- one begun,
“Tho ltt:40 train was tea minutes
late,” gfjwith and that was as fur as I could
ever it. Then I tried an-
other, it began, “‘My God,’cjacu-
lated Eliza,” andt I never could get
ireyond that point If 1 had been
able to have got past that 1 might
have become a real author ’
“That was hii little ioko " con
tinned tbe correspondent “and per-
haps over yonder where there is
everything Mel'liu* the‘heart may desire
found a fitting conclusion
for his two novels so vigorously bo-
gun. ’’—Detroit T Free Breaa
Mon Wh. tho vvi(r.<t* uo E<mnfi.
There are, of dhirnc, 1 many men
in bush), us pursuits who devote
then;, Jv, js to single branches of
trad '. just as there i-.vo men who are
do'uttvl to single branches of
science. A reporter who wrb seek-
mg definite information concerning
ni s i tain article of common use whs
told that Bo-and-so knew all about
it, a statement that was oontii u:ou
by another man, who said of bo¬
und Umt ho WiiH “us much inter-
ested" rn ins. specialty “as Hie re¬
porter was iu types.”
There uio plenty of such men that
the public lteiser liears of; men that |
devote their lives to special lines of j
goods, or it may be to ainglo arti- j !
cles, who are exports and men of I
Authority iu tiioir respective busi-
nesses and very probably ntou of
high Mklary or considerable income;
uien of energy, capacity and coq- I
centration, who succeed iu what
they undertake, Whose efforts make
the successful business house.—New
York tjun.
... vioturiw* rhotosnmiu.
Tho qu.cu of Knghmd keeps all
the old pnotbgruphs of her children j
which have ever been taken. At !
bniidringhaip there are screens in :
tho living room which are simply
oovet cw with photographs of royal i
relatives, friends, politicians, art-:
ists— celebrities of all kinds. But ;
tb.t Prince:.s iieatiiuo is the greatest j
collector of all. It is told that she
bus disposed something like 800 i
photograph* about her rooms, to ;
Buy nothing of several thousuuds I i
etored away in a box.
In a Maine — v ---- town there is custard j |
a
pic association. It originated in a j
pie eating match between two farm- j
ers nearly a generation ago. Since
that timo it bus held an annual fes- j
tival with custard pie as tho piece
do resistance. The “unrivaled deli- i ,
cacy is washed down with cider.
legion tv ^ former u, u*
because the could not '
bi maneuvered save on flat, open
ground, while the legion could oper-
uw many kind of country 1
lu sixteenth centurv fencing the !
sword was held in the 2 right LJJ hand 3
.,.. 1 a.w,to,h„
blows. !
The fisheries of the Ignited King¬
dom are worth #‘.>2,600,000; those iff
England alone, *21,250,000.
English coin was first made a legal
fonder in 1216. Before this rents
had beau paid in produce.
TOLD BY THE CIRCUS MAN.
Tin Klg G!raff«: Cutclif* ft Cold, WhiHb
attics I.i lt« Keek.
“Scorns to me I told you once,”
said tho old circus man, "about the
giraffe haring a sdre throat? It is
it serious matter for any giraffe to
hare a sort) throat, bad for the gi-
raffi; and bad for the owner. When
you come to take an 18 foot giraffe
like ours, a sore throat meant large
expense and a large amount of trou-
hie, and the big fellow hadn’t rnore’n
got over this before something else
happened to him that gave uh oven
more trouble. He caught cold, and
the cold settled in his throat. I sup¬
pose he was still sensitive there, and
it gave him a stiff neck, so that he
Couldn’t bend his neck at all.
“You aan’t have any idea what a
stiff neck means until you see a gi¬
raffe afflicted in that way. We’d
had all sorts of trouble with ani-
rnals in one way and another, but
for, real bother this beat ’em all.
We discovered it one day on tho
road. The giraffe always ducked his
bead under the branches that hung
down, sort of Lko a swan or a goose
does, but this day, carrying his
Lead right up straight in the air, he
brought up against a branch that
was at least 15 feet above the
ground. That was such an amazing
thing tlintwe knew something must
bo tho matter, and when the gi¬
raffe’s keeper come up and spoke to
. . , ,, . ^ , ..... 1,en<1 bis
llm ’ a * e l! "’ as
nose down and look down, why, wo
a ;‘ w he c ° uldu 4 bend hie neck, and
then we knew what was tho matter.
“Well, of course, the first thing
we did was to set a man to march
alongside of him with a tent polo,
with a crutch iu tho end of it to lift
the branches for him. Most of the
time—almost all the time, in fact—
we could steer him clear of over¬
hanging branches, and of course lots
of the way there wus long stretches
where there wasn't any trees at all,
and then we’d oome to places wnero
the man would have to lift a branch
to let the big giraffe go under, and
a great pity it was, too, to see him
compelled to go about in that man¬
ner!
,, He tI went . tha .. . way for . about . ten
. used
we to P ut
bis feed foi him on top of uu unirnal
cnge ‘ 80 that he w " al, ln’t have to
bend down more than eight or ten
but he couldn’t do that now.
Bo w « sot a rlhg iu tbe center polo
18 feel from tho ground, and wo used
to r MV ° u vo ' ,e trough that and
^akeoneend , fast to the bucket
™ ith ua food or tlrink lu 11 «•»'
hoist it up and , lot him tat there,
On the road we used to throw that
r0 I lfl over ,! ‘e crotch of a tree at a
suitable height. For his entry into
tbo 8 reilt tent at show time we had
to cut a grout slit in tho canvas, but
we regret that because it was
n niiglity impressivo thing to see
him march in in that way. It made
^ inl look 3,i f * 5nt instead of 18.
“Twice a day a man used to go up
on a ladder and put a strap around
his bowl, and we’d hook on a fall
with a bo’sun’s chair, and a man
would ride down his neck and rub
in liniment. He used to like that
very much, and it helped liimgreat-
Ub too, and one morning when tho
went out to givp him the usual
rub the y were delighted to see the
oltl clln P with his head down pretty
neur to tlu ’ ” oof of the grizzly bear
ou S e - which stood next to him,
w liicli showed that his neck was
coming around all right, and also
Indicated that he’d take his break-
fast thlB looming in tho old way, if
you please.”—Now York Sun.
----"
Canaiou rictures.
The celluloid films used in tho
veriscope and vitascopo may be the
source of danger if not carefully
guarded. Celluloid is extremely ex-
plosive and inflammable and a spark
may setit off with most terrific re-
suits. It would seem that some other
materia) should be chosou tor all
purposes where intense light and
heat are employed. Even the harm-
less looking dressing comb may en-
danger liie if, while my lady is
making her toilet, she brings it too
near to the light. In many bourns
celluloid articles aro strictly probib-
ited for this reason. Especially
should this be noted where there m o
children who cannot understand the
necessity for extreme prudence.—
Now York Ledger,
strictly practical,
“What’s dat you all is study in I"
inquired Mr. Erastus Pinkney,
“RiAuotick," tepliad
“Hffmetiok,” quoted tho boy flu- | j
ostljj, “is do science obnumbets.”
“ NV,!! ' las’night 1 dream oh cr
bowlegged buzzard an or chickeu
w.f or glass eye.” ;
"Spos’u.joh didl"
“'Veil, I'zc gwintcr »•«.>-«/»»™» tost yer cduca-
«»', yoh ter 1 tell me whut numbers dem
is de signs ob"—Washington Star.
It* Motnlug.
Little Elmer—Pa, what does "re-
quioseat iu pace” meant
Professor Broadliead — "Pleaee
stay dead" is near enough.—Loudon
Tit Bits. .
DRAMA AND LITERATURE.
Tht It ni.sU»«itioof and the Knlatioa fcf
the One to the Other.
The painters ha ve long protested
against any judgment of their work
in accordance with the principles of
another art, and at last they have
succeeded in convincing the more
open minded of us that what is of
prime importance in a picture is the
way in which it is painted and that
its merely literary merit is quite
secondary. They are not unreason¬
able when they insist that the chief
duty of a picture is to represent the
visible world, not to point a moral
or adorn a tale, and that in the ap¬
preciation of a picture we must
weigh first of all its pictorial beauty.
Nor are the sculptors asking too
much when in a statue they want
us to consider chiefly its plastic
beauty.
Now, the orator and tho dramatist
ask for themselves What has been
granted tho painter and the sculptor
—they request that an oration or a
drama shall be judged not as litera¬
ture only, but also in accordance
with the principles of its own art,
and here the literary critic is even
less willing to yield. He may ac¬
knowledge his own ignorance of
perspective and of pigments, of
composition and of modeling; he
may confess that here the painter
and tho sculptor have him at a dis¬
advantage, but he is not ready to
admit that he is not to apply his
own standards to the works of the
orator and of the dramatist
On the contrary, he maintains
that the speech and the play, if they
belong to literature at all, are, by
that very fact, absolutely within the
province of the literary critic. He
cannot see why that which the ora¬
tor and the dramatist may write is
not to bo rend and criticised exactly
ns that which is written by the nov¬
elist and the essayist and the poet.
Indeed it is almost a misrepresenta¬
tion of the literary critic's attitude
to suggest that he has need to main¬
tain this position, for it is rarely
even hinted to him that he is not
fully justified in employing the
same tes<8 in every department of
literature.
Yet nothing ought to be clearer
than the distinction between the
written word and the spoken, be¬
tween tho literature which is ad-
dressed to the eye alone and that
which is intended primarily for the
ear and only secondarily for the
eye It is the difference between
words written once for all and
words first spoken and then written,
or at least written bo that.they may
bo spoken. When this distiffetton is
seized, it follows that oral discourse
is not necessarily to bo measured on
the same scale as written discourse,
It follows also that the speech and
the play may be very good indeed,
each to its kind, although tlioy may
fail to attain the standard of strictly
literary merit which wa should de¬
niand in an essay, a story or a
poena.—Professor Brander Mat¬
thews in Forum,
Th© daily ii Aired Juror* I
_. I. . not . generally ,, known
is that j
there is a well defined prejudice
against curly haired men when it
cornea to choosing a jury to try
criminal cases. The prejudice, when
it is manifested, comes from the do-
tense. When asked to explain tho
objection to early , . haired , .
men, a
pi eminent practitioner said: “When
I was just starting, my legal mentor (
inculcated that idea in me. Ho said
r“ at cu Ui’ haired men had almost j
invariably been tha pampered dar- i
lings of their parents, and m their j
youth nad been so used to saving.
thoir own way that they had come
to believe that everybody on earth 1
was wrong except themselves. Iu ‘
this way the seeds of opposition
were sown, and when they grow
older they make it a point to ilisa-
groe with everybody and every-
thing. If everybody else on the
jury votes for acquittal, they vote
for conviction us u matter of course,
They live on combat and are as stub-;
born as the days are long. A curly 1
ha.retl man never gets on the jury j
whoa 1 am defending a man if I oan
soo him in time. New Orleans
Times-Democrat.
What She Coat*
w eliding a OCC methodical ;f°r TtH English 3 ,; f ! hus- den .
band figured up from his carefully
kept accounts what his wife had
cost him. He had an assured income
5SS ‘JZ
went, cost him *600. Her share of ;
the household expenses was #636 a j i
year. Her clothing and linen cost
#250 yearly. Presents, medical at-
tendance, amusements and summer I
excursions amounted for her share |
to #150 annually. He therefore spout
«<*h«rto M ms*
-
a ut«.»n» Trad^.
Miss Wabash—Your friend who
has just loft us is something of a
pessimist, I imagina
Miss Halstead—Indeed he isn’t
He’s an optician, and he has the
cream of tbe west side trade.—Chi-
i 1*1 L 3IUC.NI SISTER^.
Xtrer n Wt»rd Ii Spoken la This Gloomy
Fr«n< ii Convent Near Biarritz.
Near Biarritz—happy, brilliant
Biarritz—stands the lone, yew em-
bordered convent of the silent worn- !
en, the sceurs silencieuses.
Hero, not far from the sounding
waters of the bay of Biscay, 67 la¬
dies of birth and breeding havo seen
fit to immure themselves in what is
nothing less than a living tomb.
Woman’s tongue has, justly or un¬
justly, been a centuried byword, yet
the scours silencieuses voluntarily
resign their right to speak and sen¬
tence themselves for the rest of
their natural lives to absolute, un¬
broken silence.
The convent, which is modeled on
that for men at La Trappe, was
founded many years ago by a lady
of the French oourt who, in. com¬
pany with some friends, sought this
solitude and gave her life to God.
Who she was, her very identity, is
in dispute. Indeed it was hor own
wish that the authorities of the
Catholic church should preserve her
name a secret, and all the women
who have followed her into seclu¬
sion here have likewise endeavored
to sink their identity.
A league from Biarritz, in the di¬
rection of the^Pyrenees, one turns
aside from the direct road and en¬
ters a narrow ravine stretching to¬
ward Mauleon. Through woods of
beech and wild olive an ill kept,
deeply rutted lane leads to a high
walled inclosure. Over the walls
there is a glimpse of yew trees, and
if the visitor be a man that is all
he oan see of the silent sisters’
home. Even women travelers are
rarely admitted past the heavy
wooden gates, with their lunettes
for lay sisters to peer through.
The convent walk is laid out in
long, straight walks, planted on
each side by yew trees. Each nun
has a walk to herself. It is allotted
hor when she enters, and she paces
it until her death. Up and down
the walk she goes, with silent tread,
never raising her eyes, sav6 in
prayer, and neverexchanging a syl¬
lable with mortal being.
A recent visitor to the convent
thus describes what she saws
“The lay eister who received us
(lay sisters do all the household and
garden work and are allowed to
talk) would not allow us to ap¬
proach near enough to the nuns to
get even a glimpse of their down¬
cast faces. We saw, however, that
they wore long black oowls, with
great white crosses between the
shoulder's and reaching to tho hem
of the gown. Save for the crosses,
they wore arrayed wholly in black,
and black veils draped their faces.
"As we watched the chapel bell
tolled out, and the scours silencieuses
moved toward its open door. We
were admitted to the ganery and
saw them kneeling in the half light
below us. A man’s voice was read¬
ing prayers, but no man could we
.see. Afterward we learned that he
spoke from behind a screen. He
was admitted to the convent chapel
by an underground passageway
leading beyond tho walls,
“At present the chaplain is a rev-
erend abbe of nearly 80 years of
ng0i who en j oys n reputation for
ascetic sanctity throughout Na-
V arm The only time tho nun 3 soe
i S when ho celebrates mass.
"In chapel they bend almost to
tho floor, their hands crossed upon
their breasts. They eat only vege-
tables and drink only water. In the
entire history of the order, it is
fia ],p there was but one nun who
failed; to obey the rules of silence
iin j svibuiission. The poor women
t h e j r own g raveS) aE( j w fc en
they are buried, no marks'their cro«s or monu-
ment.of any kind rest-
lug place. ik
“It very wholesome for tho gav
belles of Biarritz and Pan to virdt
the scours silenrionses and thoir con
vent occasionally Our party could
not get the remembrance out of
their heads for weeks after. Itpur-
guC( j U8 a haunting horror,
"Last season some of the Catholio
ladie6 at Pau aFkeci leav0 to make
what & caHed a ‘hotroat’ at the con-
V ent. They received a brief note
from tbe mother superior, which
read, ‘My children, when you join
ns, it must be for life. ’ The idea of
the‘retreat’ whs quickly ubaudon-
od .-^Boston Globe,
Master of a Trade.
. mu___i „, .
anTso^anvsmier rr
transformed p
th ^ j im fortanc 0 of” thisTdoa
_1 nl , , 1 . asex
' ‘
l5 ns e\ r was, smi-
, ,■ IT- ArS
economic cuuaitioua — Lhnstian
v>oik.
I>onk»'j* In IH.ilw, -
Donkoys are a large part of the
City of Mexico’s capital. With their
drivers they are everywhere They
will take yon across a muddy street j i
for a small fee or take your bundles
home or take you home. 1
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Our Stock of Goods.
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’ Hose
That you pay 40c per pair for, we sell for 25c. Another pair worth
Ttc’anyihl 1 !;. ^ ^ ^ an0tW h ° 8e at 5s " that ^ P»y 10 and
Towels and Doilies.
Towels at 75c nor pair, worth $1. Best linen doili at $1.50
es a dozen
Handkerchiefs.
We have one of the handsomest lines of Linen Handkerchiefs
ever
brought to Morgan. They are going at 5, 10 and 15c, \V have finer
0 a
quality at 25c.
MILLINERY.
It is impossible tor us to quote you prices
on our tflillihory, as wo
have such a varied assortment. But we promise if
you will como to see
us we will show you the handsomest lines in southwest Georgia.
Prices
as ow as lowest, Yours to serve,
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