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VOL. IV
Teethkm
Then the baby is most like¬
ly nervous, and fretful, and
doesn’t gain in weight.
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for teething babies. They
gain from the start.
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PUZZLES FOE JUDGES
SIMPLE WORDS THAT HAVE TANGLED
UP ENGLISH COURTS.
I»nie Terms of Almost Everyday
lise That Proved to Be Too Pro¬
found For the IntelliKenca of the
Learned Bench and Bar.
In a case that came before a famous
lord Justice some time ago the counsel
for the prosecution in the evidence had
to mention a "blouse.”
The Judge asked what a blouse was,
and it was explained that this was part
of a lady’s dress. But the case came to
a dead stop for the time, for the judge
did not know which part, and after
some hesitation the barrister admitted
that he wasn’t sure. Several learned
brothers gave their opinion, some opin-
lng a blouse was the upper half of a
lady’s costume, while others insisted it
must lie the lower half. The entire
court, filled with learned celebrities
whose heads held all the laws of Brit¬
ain. from pitch and toss to manslaugh¬
ter, argued it out, but nobody was sure.
The judge thought it was the lower
half, but a junior barrister who had
lately been married said he thought
that that half was called a skiit, but
did not feel certain. At length : lady
was calk*'], who set the court right.
Another odd dilemma Uobson'"'“horse happened not
long ago when in the
faking” case the word “fetlock” arose.
A fetlock, as everybody knows, is the
ankle of a horse. The court asked
what it was. however, and the prose-
outing counsel was nonplused. The
witues.ses were out of court save one.
and he knew nothing, The judge
thought a fetlock was a sort of hind
knee, otherwise “hock," lint one learn-
ed brother was quite certain it was tli
lock of hair that hangs over a horse’s
forehead. The defendant’s solicitor
opined it was that part of the harness
which slips over the tail, the crupper,
and another legal celebrity agreed with
the Judge. Finally the court had to call
a stable groom to clear up the mystery.
In a case that was settled some years
since the recorder was brought up
short by a phrase used by the counsel
for defense, who spoke of a transaction
concerning a pound of “blacklead.”
This is a common and useful article,
hut the counsel on being asked to ex¬
plain Its nature said it was a black
substance used for boot polishing. The
recorder thought it was a mineral used
in lead pencils, but another barrister
asserted it to be a “tough kind of lead
used for roofing houses.” The case was
brought to a standstill, and one lawyer,
unsurpassed Id legal knowledge, de¬
clared that blacklead was a slang term
for pig iron as produced in the north
country. A fourth expounder of the
law vaguely suggested it was the op¬
posite of white lead, and finally a do¬
mestic servant put the court right, and
the assembly at last learned that it was
used for blacking stoves.
Another dilemma was produced a lit¬
tle while ago on the western circuit by
the introduction of the words “dry
nurse” in an address to the court. This
bewildered the judge, who asked if a
dry nurse was a nurse who dried ba¬
bies after they bad been washed. That
solution did not occur to the learned
counsel, who, after some hesitation,
said he thought it meant a nurse who
was not addicted to drinking and there¬
fore most suitable to look after infants.
Nobody seemed to know what the term
really meant, though several more
guesses were made, the last of them
that a dry nurse was one who could
not amuse children.
The court was again noupluscd by a
statement made that somebody con¬
cerned in the case supposed to suffer
from melancholia was really wanted \‘as jolly
as a sandboy.” The judge to
know wlmt a sandboy was in order to
form some idea as to the exact degree
of jollity involved. The counsel cdmld
not tell him, though one suggested it
was a boy who sanded the roads and
the other thought it might be a lad
building sand castles on the seashore.
The whole court stopped to discuss
what a sandboy was and why be was
Jolly, but they could not solve the prob¬
lem.
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BUCHANAN, GA,. FRIDAY, JULY 5, 1901.
If Is hard* believable that anybody
should not know what a •■suallle” is.
i but a Ixmdon magistrate recently desir-
ed to be informed, and nobody could
tell him what a snaffle might bo. A
solicitor tliomrht It was the same tiling
as the “curb.” ntid the clerk had an
idea it was a kind of cold in the head
.which horses eaugl t. causing them m
snuffle a good deal.-London Ai vers.
Tbp most \ FRmo magnificent "" work of archi-
tectnre in the world is the Taj Mahal,
in Agra. Hindustan. It was erected by
* sll:lh Jel ' nn t0 ,he memory of bis fa¬
vorite queen. It is octagonal in form,
of pure white marble, inlaitS with jas-
per, Canadian, turquoise, agate, ame-
thysts and sapphires. The work took
22.CKX) men 20 years to complete, and
though there were free gifts and the
labor was free the cost is estimated at
$10,000,000.
Helping Him.
Mr. Rackward— Well—er—yes, since
you ask me, 1 was thinking of consult¬
ing a fortune teller.
Miss Coy—To find out whom you will
marry, eh?
Mr. Backward—Why—er—yes. I—
Miss Coy—Why not ask me and save
the fortune teller’s fee toward the price
the ring?—Philadelphia Press,
An Order Coaid Be Filled.
Customer (in Boston restaurant)—
Waiter, have you any fried eels?
Waiter-We have eels, sir, and they
are susceptible of being fried.-Les-
lie’s Weekly.
The first mention of stamps is in the
letters of the old Bishop Synesius of
Cyrene, on the Greek coast of Africa,
400 years after the Christian era.
Onr System of Notation.
Some system of notation has been
used since time out of memory, The
first record we have of it is cf figures
written with a stick on a flat surface
covered with sand. Before that nil
wffb hfSftR^cfTflf'hiTiTeosll . , r ,.
calculations
beans and the like. Keen now the
Chinese do their calculating with little
stones or heads strung on wires, iu a
frame. The Romans first used vortical
Unes—1, II. 111. etc.—to express nnui-
hers. The Arabic figures, which we
commonly use at the present time, are
of much earlier date.
The Arabic system is chiefly valu¬
able on account of the great eonveu-
it ahords by giving a figure a
val ' J e according to the place it occu-
pies in the line. By this system the
most enormous sums can lie expressed
by the ten little characters which form
the numerical alphabet.
Metaphor.
The Minneapolis (Kan.) Messenger
says: “We once heard Mrs. Carrie
Chapman Catt eulogize Mrs. Stanton,
Harriet Beecher t^owe and Susan B.
Anthony as follows: 'These are the wo¬
men who laid themselves down In the
dust, as it were, to form a bridge over
which you and I might go dry shod.’
“Once we heard the president of
Brown university describe the old char¬
ter oak, first as a safety vault, then as
a hearthstone, and at last he made a
lightning change and brought out the
old tree as the rudder to the ship of
state. That beat anything we ever
heard and the greater surprise, too,
doming as it did from such a profound
scholar.”
Cheating the Ca*.
The meanest man is around town in
many guises and in considerable num¬
bers. but the meanest woman is a re¬
cent discovery. She lives in Phila¬
delphia, and for the sake of saving a
cent a day she cheats the cat by giving
her each morning a saucerful of milk,
and after about two teaspoonfuls of
it have been lapped up she dilutes the
milk with water and continues to do
so till evening. When remonstrated
with by her husband recently she said:
“Well, the cat doesn’t know the dif¬
ference. It looks like milk, anyhow,
and If I didn’t thin it out for her we’d
have to have 2 cents’ worth for break¬
fast each day.”—Philadelphia Record.
VANITY OF SAVAGES.
Red Men Love to Poae In Grotesque
Attire Before the Camera.
As evidence of the extent to which
the ornamental precedes the useful Ex¬
plorer Humboldt noted the fact that
the Orinoco Indians in fair weather
strutted about attired in all the finery
they were able to procure, their faces
painted gaudily, their heads decked
with feathers, their whole aim being to
strike astonishment to the beholder
and no regard whatever bad for cotn-
I’-vrt.
When the weather was bad, Hum-
Lo)At_found that the same men would
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* ave u for di ^ on future sunn Y
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^'e «nne traits . i.ro sron ^y ... m the
North Amenean 1.,., . • moe,f..,l
; '' v “ ars oi 1 ‘""h 'vith
J i, ; H ^ nf I^iwylvanln , avenr n
:: y : n ’. n '
..... ha favor "
v.•siting Indians. PorMi: is of FYe-
ond and Third streets, rutin':-;t off the
avenue, .are tilled with b- , hi.:i> s
os] ci:o,t J)H , (< .'t iv'oi, by til'* Ii tskius
and especially avoided by the whites in
consequence.
A number of photographers In the vl-
ciniiy are the chief at' ..f
netg'.tbc.vbt d for the : s. Noth-
ing so delights them as to strut gravely
from their boarding horn- >s to those art
galleries to sit for solemn pictures at
Uncle Sam's expense, the hill being
charged in with necessaries incidental
to a visit to the great father.
To deprive the visiting Indian of the
privilege to sit for his photograph in
full paint and feathers and a grotesque
mixture of cheap ready made garments
witli blankets and bear claws would be
the greatest hardship possible to the
chieftains.
Showing the same disposition Hum-
boldt noted, the visitors get themselves
up more barbarously the closer they
get to civilization.—St. Louis Republic,
r JTI»e lie ,t Hiemedv For Stomach
And IIwwcl Troubles.
“L have been in the drug busines*
for twenty years and have sold most
ail of the proprietary medicines of any
note. Aiming the entire list I have
never found any tiling to equal Chatn-
beriai'i’s Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoer
Remedy for ali stomach a d bowel
trout) es,” says O. W. Wakefie d, of
Columbus. Ga. ‘-This remedy cured
t vo severe cases ol cholera morbus in
my family arid I have reeoiiniended
and <old hundreds cf bottles »>f ir to
in, ciitfljj.’ .‘"s l,.i 11;j r en: ;re <c:tisfa«v
t on. It. affords n quick and sure cur.
in a pleasant form.” For .-ale by
< ; ' P” «»d Eros, Bremen; S Gau.diiig
& Co, H act),
A RARE VOLUME BY PENN.
Oniy Known Coax la Owned bj
Qiifi L r h r 2 P F. H ;* .•;! o! l> F ta.
The only Know n coh,’ 01 l mu • is*. -U(*
of “Magna Charta.” publislicd in 1 GST
by the Bradford Press, is the property
of the Meeting For Sufferings, a ropre-
sentative body of iho I riei. 's yearly
meeting in Philadelphia, its title is
"The Kxcellent Privilege of i iberty
ami Propriety: Being the Binhright of
the Freeborn Subjects of England.”
The copy is not g norally open to the
public.
The peculiar significance of this book
is that a half dozen years after Penn
founded his colony he wished to have
the colonists keenly realize that they
would have to stand for their rights in
the new country as well ns the old,
where they had been so cruelly perse¬
cuted. He wrote this book iu order that
they might be informed on the consti¬
tution of their local government and
know what were the legal bases of
their rights as citizens/
Curiously enough the only proof
there is that this work was William
Penn’s is the statement made by Chief
Justice David Lloyd in 1728, a*great
Quaker leader who was Penn’s attor¬
ney general at the time the book was
issued. Chief Justice Lloyd was also
at that time an intimate friend of Wil¬
liam Penn and consequently knew
whereof lie spoke.
The volume was reproduced in fac¬
simile by the Philobihlou club in 1S97
for a limited number of subscribers.
The original volume, however, must al¬
ways remain the rare thing that it is,
oue of the best expressions of liberty
under law that the mind of the great
founder could conceive.—Philadelphia
Press.
A flood CViigli Medicine.
Many thousands have been restored
to health and happiness bv the use of
Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy. If af-
llicted with any throat or lung tr uble
give it a trial for it is certain to prove
beneficial. Coughs that have resisted
all other treatment for years, have
yielded to this remedy and perfect
health been restored. Cases thatseem-
ed hopeless, that the climate of fa¬
mous health resorts failed to benefit,
have been permanently cured by its
use. For Sale by Copeland Bros. Bre¬
men; S. Gaulding & Co. Waco,
Remember ail are invited to at¬
tend the rally at Buchanan on
July 4.
Ilcitrfhiirn.
When the quantity of loot! taken is
f 10 large I • th > quality too rich heart-
burn is likely to follow, and especia’ly
so if the di wtion has been weaken «l
by constipation. Eat slowly and not
too freely of easily digested food:
tasticate the food thoroughly. j ( .i
.«ix ll'.lirs elapse b-'weeil meals, and
when you feel a fullness and weight
„■ r .. ;i .,„ 0 f f - .much alter eat-
j; I. indicating tb >1 V 'll have eaten
one i tin »erl tin’s
Stomach and Liver Tablet* and the
.!■’•! hi" - . sii' i.e avoided . For sale
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Alter n strnprKte. niother
“OoorHe,” v.tid a fond to a
little j].' f-vear-ohl. ••you j must take * the
ln!1 p 1 . e 1 t0 S( .[ ]0O w : r i, vou ’ 01 . you
will get wet. It rains hard’.
..j want the little one, ' : he saitl, '
meaning the parasol.
•>> S ! 0< my ,i ( . ar . That is for dry weath-
er You must take this and go ^ like a
g 00 q | )oy .”
Goorgie did as he was bid and got ° to
school comfortably.
After school hours it had stopped
raining, Ye and Goorgie trudged Inane
w j t ^ remnants of the umbrella uu-
der his arm.
“Oh, Georgie, what have you been
doing with my umbrella? saiti Uis
mother when she saw the state it was
in.
“You should have let me had the lit¬
tle one,” said he. “This was such a
great one it took four of us to pull it
through the door.”—Leslie’s Weekly.
llnnlins tlie Ox.
One morning our washwoman, % lady
of color—very dark color—came hastily
in and. without any preliminaries, ex¬
claimed: “Sparatualisru! What is spar-
atualism. Miss Cora?”
My sister explained as well as she
eoultl and asked why she wished to
j.,, 0 v
“V.’erfUVbt! see.”’ sTtrwmrmrexcited-
iy. “Sarah—she's my daughter, you
know, and she went last week to live
v iUj „ ,., <!v , vil3t «, ,- s she is a spa rat u-
alist. and site says if Sarah takes any¬
thing she'll know it. Sarah's going to
lea ve!”—II arper’s M aga z i ue.
A Obofee of Vowels.
He—You women have such a ridicu-
h l) i t of scream in <4 Oh !’* on ('very
‘
occasion.
She- And you men have such a riclic-
n | ons habit of saying “I" on every oc-
?asion.— Indianapolis I’ress.
Lost Opporinnity.
“And you didn't hear of it?” inquired
Mrs. Gabble.
“Not one word.”
“Why, I’ve known it for a week, so 1
supposed everybody heard of it."—Phil¬
adelphia Times.
During last May an infant child of
our neighbor wa- suffering from cfiol-
era infantum. The doctors had given
no all hopes of recovery. I took a
bottle of Chamberlain’s Colic, Cholera
and Diarrhoea Remedy to the house,
telling them I felt sure it would do
good if used according to directions.
In two days time the child had fully
recovered. The child is now vigorous
and healthy. 1 have recommended
this remedy frequently and havem-ver
known it to fail.— Mrs. Curtis Baker.
Book waiter. Ohio. Sold hv Copeland
Bros. Bremen; S, Gaulding & (Jo,,
Waco.
Wonderful Stones.
The brain of the tortoise was suppos¬
ed to contain a wonderful stone which
was efficacious in extinguishing fire
and when placed under the tongue
would produce prophetic inspiration.
Another stone possessing the latter
property was to be found in the eye of
the hyena. The head of the cat, how¬
ever, was thought to contain what
would undoubtedly have been the most
wonderful and most desirable treasure
of all could it have only had a real in-
stead of an imaginary existence, for
that man who was so fortunate as to
possess this precious stone would have
al1 l)is ' visll t's granted. —
Journal.
Why He Doesn’t Work.
“For a tuau who doesn't work,” said
the housekeeper, “you have a pretty
good appetite.”
"Yes. ma’am.” said Hungry Higgins.
“Dat’s why 1 don't work. If I did. dey
wouldn’t he no satisfyin me.”—Phila¬
delphia Record.
The heaviest precious stone is the zlr-
con, which is 414 times heavier than an
equal quantity of water. The lightest
is the opal, only twice as heavy ns wa-
for.
NO 31
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RkVEALMENT.
Let me tell hew rlndim with its rhvme shontd
flow :
As the lunch of lravs when reft t-phyr* Mow;
As the waves with ^racilp liun«l
Write their names upon the wind.
Let me ’ll limv rm;si with it) verse should mate:
As the dark null ujvvn. rapt, inviolate;
a* the *..ii ami mm iH*eio«e
Sweet eonuiurnien in a rose.
Let me tell how fancy from the heart should
£ VFvFa’FAFN" "" dWP:
Wakes, ami. Id. (he world is Must!
< ; iienee Lany in Indejiendent.
ON THEIR SEA LEGS.
Cattle and Home* l>o Xol Cot Frltcht-
ened lo ItiiUKh tVeatliep.
“ I>0 the horses and cattle get fright-
ened an(1 make much disturbance in
rou Sh wentberY” itsked the writer of
a New York dealer who ships cattle
al.road.
"Bless you. no. They’ve got sea legs
that would put an old salt to shame,
Occasionally a horse will lose his bnl-
Linee. but a bullock is tlie greatest bal-
ancer you ever saw. They are knowing
brutes too. You know, we put them
four in a pen. Well, you’ll never find
ad tour standing up or lying down at
OU(> time. They figure the thing out
an<i ‘decide how they’ll get the most
room and most comfort. So two of
them stand up while two lie down.
When they get tired, they shift the
watch. •
“The horses like to be talked to when
there's a big sea on and things are
pretty lively. They always like cer¬
tain men better than others. So do
the cattle. We have one man who can
do anything with them. Every bul¬
lock and horse on the boat knows him
by the time we’ve been out two days,
lie comes in handy when there’s an
accident.
“It’s mighty seldom that a serious
accident happens nowadays, but once
' n n while a horse or a bullock does
thrown and breaks a leg or does
some bad damage. We don’t carry a
veterinary. The men know as much
about ordinary cattle and horse ail¬
ments as any vet, and if one of the
brutes breaks llis le » tberes Doth,n *
for it but to kill him. A veterinary
couldn’t do anything for him.
“The company charges from $6 to
$20 a head for carrying cattle and
from $27 to $250 a head for horses.
When the government insj)ectors stop-
o\ei ci o\s cUnjL they cut down tlio
carrying capacity of some boats 75
bead. That made a pretty big hole in
ship's profits in the course of a
year. Exchange,
Lincoln's Swear Word.
One story that is told of Lincoln re¬
lates to that extreme, correctively crit¬
ical attitude which Secretary Seward
always maintained toward the presi¬
dent.
Mr. Lincoln and the secretary had
managed to escape from a man who
had been boring them, and as they
reached the house the president threw
hiniseif into an armchair and ex-
claimed:
“By jings. governor, we are here!”
Mr. Seward replied by asking in a
reproving tone:
“Mr. President, where did you learn
that inelegant expression?”
Mr. Lincoln immediately turned to
several young men who had entered
the room in time to hear the exclama¬
tion and said:
“Young gentlemen, excuse me for
swearing before you. ‘By jings’ is
swearing, for my good old mother
taught me that anything that had a
‘by’ before it is swearing. 1 won't do
so any more."—Youth’s Companion.
Only Snnbnrnei].
Last summer two little girls in a
College avenue family were repeatedly
remonstrated with by their indulgent
mother for playing bareheaded in the
sun. “You will be burned so badly.”
said she to them finally, “that people
will think you are black children.” Her
warning had little effect, however, and
she gave up trying to keep their hats
on.
Gue day she sent them to a neighbor
a block or so distant to make some in-
concerning a washwoman. Mrs.
S.. the neighbor in question, mistook
them for the children of a Mrs. Black
who lived in another street nearby.
“You are the little Black children,
are you not?” she asked.
"Oil. no.” came the prompt response
from the elder. “Only sunburned.”—
Indianapolis News.
When you want a modern, up-to-
date physic try Chamberlain's Stom
Hch and Liver Tablets ' ar « W
0 ond pleasant in effect. Price,
25 cents. Samples free at the driuj
store of Copeland Bros, Bremen; S.’
i Gaulding & 6o. Waco.