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VOL. IV Teethkm Then the baby is most like¬ ly nervous, and fretful, and doesn’t gain in weight. Scott’s Emulsion is the best food and medicine for teething babies. They gain from the start. Send for a free sample. Chemists, scott & bownk, «°9- 4,s 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. p *: rrni^ I Iv ll i*r JL I £ h * JuL~ u X J€ “Don’t Givo TTr> tli.o 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 --#■ °°‘ r tl * elr / am1 '' u J y i! ab(),,t io * ave u for di ^ on future sunn Y 1 n 3, s ‘ ^'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 ..... lat.d Bros. Bremen; S Gauld- tug A Co. Waco, - ------- ------------------ 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 _ 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.