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Facts and Fancies for the Fireside THE JAMESTOWN STAMPS. Bust of Pocahontas to Appear on Five- Cent Denomination. (The New York Tribune.) Postmaster General Meyer has sign ed an order for the issue of a five-cent Jamestown Exposition stamp. This completes the scries of stamps to com memorate the celebration of the set tlement at Jamestown this summer, orders having already been given for one-cent and two-cent stamps. The five cent stamp is intended pri marily for foreign letters. The pres ence of foreign ships at Hampton Roads, together with foreign tourists, is taken as an assurance that there will be a large demand for a five-cent stamp. The stamp will bear a bust of Pocahontas. It had been decided that only one and two cent stamps would be issued in connection with the celebration, but the demand for some special honor to Pocahontas induced Postmaster General Meyer to reconsid er the decision of the department. That a likeness of Pocahontas should be selected for the “foreign” stamp is thought especially fitting, as she was the first Indian woman to go abroad. Like the one and two cent stamps, the five-cent stamp will be of oblong shape, differing in size from the Pan- American stamps by just one-sixteenth of an inch. The five-cent stamp will be printed in blue, the one-cent in green, and the two-cent in red. The one-cent stamp will bear a likeness of Captain John Smith and the two-cent stamp a -scene of the landing of the Jamestown settlers in 1607. All the designs, which have been prepared by the bureau of engraving and printing, are highly ornamental, bearing, besides the principal features, borders of pat riotic emblems. The stamps will be printed imme diately and will be placed on sale in all postoffices in the United States on the opening day of the exposition, April 26. FEBRUARY HAS THIRTY DAYS. Can there legitimately be a Febru ary 30? Yes, under very exceptional circumstances. That is to say, if you happen to be voyaging across the Pa cific at the end of February during a leap year. A contributor to Notes and Queries, looking over a collec tion of menu cards, found one dated Febuary 30, 1904. At first he thought it was a printer’s error, but he after ward ascertained that it was quite cor rect. The dinner was given on board the Pacific steamer Siberia while crots. JOHN A. STEWART COKE S. DAVIS STEWART & DAVIS Life, Accident, Casualty and Surety Insurance 504-5 6 PRUDENTIAL BUILDING, .... ATLANTA, GEORGIA MANAGERS: THE MARYLAND LIFE INSURANCE CO., of Baltimore; THE GENERAL ACCIDENT, of Perth, Scotland; THE 1 METROPOLITAN SURETY CO., of New York. Live Agents in Georgia cities and towns can increase their writing capacity and earnings by communicating with us. Special Inducements Offered First Class Men ing from Yokohama to San Francisco. A day is gained between Japan and America, and as the event happened on this occasion at the end of Febru ary, leap year, the date February 30, “although unconventional, was quite legitimate.” SPRING BEAUTY DIET. For girls working in offices oranges are invaluable food, if they did but know it. One after luncheon will piece out that meal most satisfactorily, and many times it would be possible to have one of the fruit kept in a desk drawer to be eaten in the afternoon when one is tired, at the same time not stopping work. A little food is a great stimulant when body and mind are fatigued. Green salads, such as lettuce, en dive, chicory, and the like are skin ■Whiteners and excellent food. ' They are appetizing, and the oil eaten on them is nourishing and fat making. If one will finish her lunch or dinner with a good salad and cheese instead of sweets she will be better off and look better. A PREMIUM ON COWARDICE. Several darkies stood on a street corner in Atlanta, gossiping. The dis cussion turned to a question of per sonal bravery. Jum Judd was the principal expoun der along the line of heroic conduct. Unfortunately, Jim’s reputation for courage was not without serious flaws. Tiring of his talk, one of the listeners sneeringly said: “Wha’ yo’ talkin’ ’bout Jim? Yo’ de bigges’ coward in dis town.” Jim turned on his accuser, unuttera ble scorn in his voice: “Yas, dat’s so. But I’d rudder heah dem say, ‘Watch dat niggah run!’ dan ‘Don’ he look natch’al?’” —J. C. R., in the Saturday Evening Post. * LIGHTNING ROD AGENTS. (The Philadelphia Record.) The Pennsylvania county papers are warning farmers against a scoundrel who has been operating a new scheme successfully. He is selling a stretch er for barbed wire fencing. The ma chine and a section of fence is left with farmers and a contract signed for $3, to be paid in case the stretch er is accepted. The swindler never again appears, but, later, the signer is confronted with a note in the hand of an “innocent” holder and made out for S3OO. THE WEEKLY JEFFERSONIAN. SORROW IN SOUTH DAKOTA. (The Columbia State) Who would ever have thought it of South Dakota, the place where divorces are neatly tailored while you wait, the state where the degree of separa tion hangs suspended by as thin a hair as that which supported the sword of Damocles? The legislature of that state has just destroyed all precedent by passing a law requiring twelve in stead of six months’ residence, as here tofore. This is striking a blow at the very vitals of the get-divorced-quick industry. The new law prescribes a year’s res idence in the state, .and a three months’ residence in the county in which the action is brought. No divorce suits can be tried other than at the regular terms of court, thus doing away with special terms of court brought about by financial influence. This new law does not apply to plaintiffs who were married in that state and have lived there since. The adoption will leave Idaho, Nebraska, and Nevada the on ly states in the union in which but six months’ residence is required for outsiders. The new Dakota statute is not yet an assured fact, for it has been sub mitted to a referendum. But woe to Sioux Falls, sorrow for Yankton, grief for Bismarck, and tears for Fargo when the law becomes op erative. The bars will lose business the hotels ’will discharge half their help, the fashions from the east will slow down, the livery stables will suffer, and the water in the Turkish baths w r ill dry up. POINTERS ABOUT WOMEN. Would you hurt a woman most, aim at her affections. —Wallace. The more idle a woman’s hand the more occupied her heart. —Dubay. Let woman stand upon her female character as upon a foundation. — Lamb. Women cannot see so far as men can, but what they do see they see quicker.—Buckle. If men knew all that women think they would be twenty times more au dacious. —Karr. A woman’s hopes are woven of sun beams, a shadow annihilates them. — George Eliot. Beauty is worse than wine—it intox icates both the holder and the behold er. —Zimmerman. Neither walls, nor goods, nor any thing is more difficult to be guarded than woman.—Alexis. Neither walls, nor goods, nor any thing is more difficult to be guarded than woman. —Alexis. We only demand that a woman should be womanly. That is not being exclusive. —Hunt. Modesty in a woman is a virtue most deserving, since we do all we can to cure her of it. —Lingree. Women are never stronger than when they arm themselves with their own weakness. —Mme. du Deffand. It is no more possible to do without a wife than it is to dispense with eat ing and drinking.—Luther. When joyous, a woman’s license is not to be endured; when in a terror, she is a plague.—Aeschylus. If w’oman did turn man out of para dise, she has done her best ever since to make it up to him. —Shelden. Men always say more evil of a wo man than there really is; and there is always more than is known —Mezeray. Lovers have in their language an infinite number of words in which each syllable is a caress. —Rochefedre. A heart which has been domesti cated by matrimony and maternity is as tranquil as a tame bullfinch. — Holmes. A beautiful woman pleases the eye, a good woman pleases the heart; one is a jewel, the other a treasure. —Na- poleon I. A man cannot possess anything that is better than a good woman, nor any thing that is worse than a bad one. — Simonides. To educate a man is to form an in dividual who leaves nothing behind him; to educate a woman is to form future generations.—Laboulaye. * DESECRATING THE FLAG. (The Western Advocate.) Two liquor dealers of Omaha were prosecuted under the laws of Nebras ka on the charge of selling beer bot tles decorated with the national col ors. They were fined SSO each, tnit appealed to the state supreme court on the alleged ground of the unconstitu tionality of the law. That court sus tained the verdict, and the case was carried to the supreme court of the United States, which has just confirm ed the previous two decisions. In the course of his opinion, Justice Harlan upheld strongly the right of the state to protect the flag, the emblem of the nation’s power, against indignities. He maintained that the use of the flag as an advertisement on beer bottles cheapens and degrades it. To prohibit such use is no abridgment of persona rights as contemplated under the con stitution. 11