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A Substitute.
Mrs. Mflhmp’a new girl, who never
had gone out to service before and
had had scarcely any experience as a
cook, appeared to be willing and in¬
dustrious un i was quick to learn. In
view of her inexperience she had read¬
ily agreed to work for $3.50 a week.
Mrs. Miileap, who was an expert cook,
liad taken much pains with her edu¬
cation in that line, and at the end of
live or six weeks Jemima was equal to
any demands upon her in the line of
kitchen work. The mistress was
greatly surprised, therefore, when the
maid one morning gave her a week’s
notice.
“What does this mean, Jemima?”
she asked. “Haven’t 1 treated you
fairly?”
“Yes, ma’am,” answered the girl,
“but I’ve learned how to cook now,
and I've found a place where I can gei
$5 a week right at the start.”
“You didn’t ask me to raise your
wages. Do you think you are acting
fairly with me?”
“Oh, I’m going to do the square
thing with you. Mrs. Millrap,” said
Jemima. “I’ve got a sister about a
year younger than I am, an I she’s
perfectly willing to come here and
work for $3.50 a week—till she learns
cooking any ho .v.” — Youth's Compan¬
ion.
Trivial Causa of a Bloody War.
In the year 1034 a Polish nobleman
became obnoxious to tHe laws of his
country by reason of his having com¬
muted a crime. He fled to Sweden,
whereupon John Casimir, king of Po¬
land, wrote to Charles Gustavus, king
of Sweden, demanding the surrender of
the criminal. The king of Sweden on
reading the dispatch noticed that his
own name apd titles were followed by
two “et ceteras,” while the name of
the king of Poland was followed by
three. The mi.ving “et cetera” so en¬
raged the king of Sweddn that he at
once declared war against Poland
The war was carried on with great bit¬
terness until HliiO, when a peace was
signed at Oliva, near Danzig. A con¬
temporary writer (Koehowsky) poured
out his lamentations on the war in
these terms: “How dear has this ‘et
cetera' been to us! With how many
lives have these two potentates paid
for these missing eight letters! With
what streams of blood has the failure
of a few drops o*f ink been avenged!”
A Horse’s Toe Nails.
Pew persons realize that a horse’s
hoof is really the same thing as tlie
toe nails of human beings or of ani¬
mals having toes. The horn of a hoof
grows just as a toe nail does. The
hoof grows more rapidly in unshod
horses than in those wearing shoes,
and it grows faster in horses which
are well groomed and well fed. But
on au average the horn grows about a
third of an inch a month. Hind hoofs
grow Glister than fore hoofs. The toe
of rite hoof _Uulug- 4 he longest part,- It
takes longer for the horn to giyw
down there than at the heel. For in¬
stance, the toe will grow entirely down
in from eleven to thirteen mouths,
while the heel will grow down in from
three to live months. As the new horn
grows out any cracks or defects in the
old gradually work down to where
they can be cut off. just as with human
finger nails you can watch the progress
of a bruise from the roof to the tip.—
New York Sun.
Dictionary Users Modest,
“Men are never so modest as when
they go to use a dictionary,*’ remarked
an attendant r.t the public library.
“As a rule, when you see a man go to
a public dictionary or one in any place
where other people are around you’ll
see him look about furtively as if In
fear somebody might see him. Men
who make no pretensions at having
any great amount of knowledge never¬
theless seem to be embarrassed to
have any one think that they do not
know the pronunciation or meaning of
some English word. The next time
you see a man looking up a word in
the dictionary just ask him what it is
ho is looking up and see if he will tell
you. You’ll find in at least nine eases
out of ten that he won’t toil yon. lie's
afraid you'll know it and have the fun
of enlightening him.”—Cleveland Plain
Dealer.
A Bibliophile's Reply.
Maude!i freight- n, who was bishop
of London, had a horror of lending
his favorite books. A fellow clergy¬
man once visited the bishop and took
a fancy tu_ au old edition of Shake¬
speare. He borrowed the volume and
did not think to return it for several
months. Finally the minister returned
it with a letter, saying, “My Dear
Bishop—1 have great pleasure in re¬
turning the volume you lent me.”
The bishop answered. “My Dear
Brother—All the joy is mine.”
Her Progress.
“The last time T saw you you were
-complaining about your servant being
-so slow.”
“Oh, she's progressing now.”
“Is she really?”
“Yes. She's getting slower and slow¬
er.’’—Exchange.
] : A Wash Twice a Year.
j A charming Hungarian countess
oaee said to nie , “What is so nice
j about the men from England is that
j they look so clean, swim.” as if Of they had just
coma from a course we
pride ourselves on our morning tubs,
splash and splutter and shiver and pol¬
ish up with rough towels. "What dirty
people those English are,” remarked
an Italian, “when they liml it neces¬
sary to wash all over every day! Why,
I only wa#h twice a year!” I have
met Chinese who regard washing all
over as a proceeding decidedly im¬
proper. A Chinese is washed when he
J< born, and he ha£ no other altogether
wash till he is dead. But wo British
people have adopted cleanliness oniy
of recent years. Small houses have
their bathrooms, but very few houses
built over half a century ago were pro¬
vided with bathrooms. I suppose
those must have been the days of the
Saturday night wash In the kitchen.
Certainly our gay cavalier ancestors in
silks and rutiles must have been a
dirty gang. Handkerchiefs were not
invented, and the velvet cloaks must
often have been greasy. The rollick¬
ing old times were very dirty old
times.—“Baths, Pleasant and Otlier
v. ise.”
The Don't Worry Theory.
The usual advice given to the wor¬
rier is, “Don’t worry.” This advice is
foolish because impractical. No one
can stop thinking one type of thought
except by substituting for it another.
Besides, it is dangerous advice, for,
even supposing one could mechanical¬
ly put* au end to a worrying state of
mind, he would simply be like an en¬
gineer who should plant himself on the
safety valve of his engine. The energy
expended In worry, turned inward on
itself, would tear the mental mechan¬
ism to pieces. No! What the wor¬
ried man or woman needs evidently
is to be taught how to fi-nd a health¬
ful outlet for his or her nervous power
thus going to waste. If wo say “Don’t
worry,” let us also be careful to add.
“But work,” and let us also point out
what kiud of work should be under¬
taken and the spirit In which it ought
to be done. In other words, what the
worrier needs is re-education.—Rev. S.
8 . MeComb in Harper’s Bazar.
Jefferson Davis' Ambition.
Jefferson Davis was a man of most
sincere conviction and courageous ac¬
tion, and when the Southern Confeder¬
acy was about to be organized bis sin¬
gle ambition was the command of the
Confederate army. This I had from
his own lips at his residence at Beau¬
voir, Miss., some fifteen years after
the war. Ho told me that when he
started for Montgomery, Ala., when
the movement began for the organi¬
zation of the Confederacy he hoped to
be called to the command of the army,
but before he reached Montgomery he
was advised of his election as
ariifiiffirtry*l>resiilent.‘"'TVhen he reached
the new capital of the Confederacy
lie found it impossible to change condi¬
tions, and he was compelled to accept
the presidency, and lie entered upon
that duty as conscientiously as any
public man ever entered upon an of¬
ficial career.—Colonel A. K. McClure
“Confederate Veterans.”
A Yoga Story.
For fourteen years Bava Luchman
Dass received from the priests of the
Black Caves of central India the nec¬
essary education in order to become a
yoga, ns a yoga must be capable of
taking the forty-eight postures of the
Hindoo idols. Perhaps the greatest
trick consists in balancing himself on
the ends of his fingers while the whole
of his body Is in the air. Bava stated
that in order to obtain the rank of
yoga In the Black Caves of India he
had to continue in this position on the
ends of his fingers under the eyes of
the judges, without a second’s inter¬
val. for seven days and nights!—Strand
Magazine.
Low Necked Dresses.
In the early days of Pennsylvania
there was a law, as we learn from
documents in the state department,
which stated as follows: “That if any
white female of ten years or upward
should appear in any public street,
lane, highway, church, courthouse, tav¬
ern, ball, theater or any other place
of public resort with naked shoulders
—4. e„ low necked dresses—being able
to purchase necessary clothing, she
shall forfeit and pay a fine of uot less
than $100 nor more than $ 200 .”
Not For His.
The Boston Teacher—Waldo, would
you like to have lived in ancient
Greece?
The Boston Pupil—No, ma’am.
B. T.—And why not, pray?
B. P.—As I understand it, Greek
mothers wore wooden sandals and
Greek boys didn't wear cfny trousers.—
Cleveland Leader.
Her Compliment.
“Uncle Jehoropha t. I'm gain' to
name my kitten after you.”
“Well, well, that is nice of you”—
“Oh, it's all right. Mother says I've
got to drown the thing anyhow.”—II-
He—The fortune teller described you
exactly ’and said that I should marry
you. ,
She—Don't you think it was a waste
of money to consult him?
He-Why?
She—I could have told you the same
thing if you had asked me.
She (approvingly)—You won her
band, tilth? »
He (rather glumJy)—Humph! 1 pre¬
sume so. I'm under her thumb.
George—That was an awfully mean,
tow down trick they played on the
bride.
Evelyn-What was it?
George—They got a stencil out of
a shipping office and stamped on tbs
jewel trunk, “Glass — Handle W Ah
Care.”
It is clislomnry in Quito when a
visitor takes off his hat upon entering
a room to beg him to put it on again,
and, in the absence of permission,
leave is generally requested. This, it
is said, arises from apprehension that
cold will be taken by remaining un¬
covered.
in all our schools nowadays nature
study goes closely in hand with the
cult of kindness to animals. Before
many years have passed it is possible
that the boy who can he stupidly
cruel to helpless creatures will be as
rare as the boy who cannot read.—E.
Kay Robinson in Countryside.
“Mrs. Jenks, if yomare a kind lady
with 5 cents that she didn’t need an’ I
was a little boy that didn’t know any
better an* asked her for it, do you .! I.
she could maybe afford to lend it to
him if I promised her faithfully that
he'd pay it back?”—Kansas City News
book.
Army Influences In Germany.
I am mote than confirmed ia the im¬
pression 1 always get when I visit Ger¬
many—the impression that the drill ser¬
geant pursues the German citizen from
ike army to all departments of life;
that the nation remains a well watch¬
ed, well drilled and very docile army
inside invisible barracks and submit¬
ting to iron discipline all the moments
of its life.—T. P.'s Weekly.
A Unique Symbol of Freedom.
A curious custom is observed in the
village of Great Bookman, Surrey,
England. When the wife of a trades¬
man goes off for the usual summer
holiday to the seaside one or two ex¬
pert ciimbars ascend at midnight to
the roof of the house and insert old
brooms in the chimne., a as a sign that
the head of the h i has the super¬
vision of the domestic an.rugements
in addition to his ordinary work.
The Orator Scored.
“Who is there,” cried the impas¬
sioned orator, “who will lift a voice
against the truth of my statement?”
Just thee a donkey on the outskirts
of the cro^jLgave 1SRrHWEftpi-u*. vent to one of the
r ~
moment; The jS'Sugh'.yas but on the orator air of for tri¬ a
file asumhag an
umph, lii'l.ti liis voice above the din
to sa^', try “I kne* nobody but an ass
would*, It.”—landon Globe.
The Qolor of the Diamond.
“A jpkeufiar aud interesting thing,”
said an expert, "is the fact that the
most beautiful the color of the dia¬
mond the more imperfect it is in many
instances. In a pile of a hundred
yellow diamonds nearly all will run
perfect. For years Americans would
have only the perfect stones, but now
they have learned the basis of selection
is brilliancy and beauty and that a
small spot, If it doesn’t affect the bril¬
liancy, is of no importance. Euro¬
peans long have bought their diamonds
in this way. for col off and not for per¬
fection.”—Kansas City Star.
Would Have Been Inside.
Walter Scott and Morritt were once
in Galgate, Bernard castle, where was
situated the inn the Burns’ Head,
which had a portrait of the bard as a
sign. Morritt showed this to Scott and
asked if it was like the poet.
“How long has it beeu there?” asked
Scott.
“Two or three years;” was the an¬
swer.
“Then it's not like Robbie,” said
Scott “Robbie would never have
stayed so long outside a public houses”
—Dundee Advertiser.
Gully, tha Plunger.
A prize fighter named John Gully,
born and bred in very humble circum¬
stances, was so successful in his turf
operations, bookmaking and backing
horses that he became member of par¬
liament for Pontefract and owned Der¬
by winners and collieries. His horse
Margrave won the St. Leger and £S0.
0,0 in bets for him. He had a very
big gamble on the race. He won an¬
other fortune of £50,000 when his part¬
ner’s horse, St. Giles, carried off the
Derby. W’^n his own horses, Pyr¬
rhus I. and A:-won the Epsom
classic he ^ i l -... a . >as netted a
very largo • urn q? t He was
one of ; uni . - cat plungers
ever known w the Wt. He was mar¬
ried twice and had twemy-foSr chil¬
dren. Sir Robert l ee! said of him.
“He was the oniy member who liter¬
ally fought his way into parliament.”
—Pearson’s Weekly.
Worry
If you are sick, don’t worry, but begin at once
j the to make words yourself of thousands well. To of do other this, sufferers we but repeat from I
womanly ills, when we say:
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For 50 years, this wonderful female remedy, has
j been of ■Cambridge benefiting City, sick Ind., women. Mrs. “I suffered J ennie Merrick, greatly
female trouble, says:
with and the doctors did no good.
They wanted to operate, hut I took Cardui, and it
made me feel like a new woman. I am still using
this wonderful medicine, with increasing relief.”
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By Inference.
The magistrate looked severely at
the small, real faced uiau who had
been summoned before him and who
returned his gaze without flinching.
“So you kicked your landlord down
stairs?” said the magistrate. “Did you
Imagine that was within the rights of
a tenant?"
“I’ll bring niv lease in and show it
to you,” said the little man, growing j
still redder, “and I'll wager you’ll j
agree, with me that anything they’ve
forgotten to prohibit in that lease 1 I
had chance a right 1 got.”—Youth’s to do the very Companion. first good j j
Two Towers.
Students of architecture may have j
■ ,m ? Noti’^rfiime H —why^tbe towers o?
of at Paris w5ri? uot
die same size. It appears that when
the cathedral was built it was the
cathedral of a suffragan bishop, who
was uot entitled to two towers of
equal height, and for centuries the
bishop of Paris was suffragan to the
bishop of Seus.
Cannibalism.
In the gulf of California is Tuburon
island, where cannibals live to this day.
White men have been able to land
there and get away, but not one of
those who have ventured inland has
evet returned alive. It will not be
until the white man has colonized the
.farthest ends of the world that canni¬
balism will finally cease, and that
period is yet a long time away.—Lon¬
don Standard.
Making Use of Love Letters.
One successful woman novelist boast¬
ed to me at an afternoon reception of
the Authors that she worked up most
of her passionate love scenes from a
past collection of old love letters that
she had secured from girl friends and
had saved from her own boisterous
girlhood days. 1 felt much like asking
the names of her friends who had sur¬
rendered the precious letters in the
interest of pure and undefiled “litra
toor.” One naturally felt a bit nervous
because some old flame might have j
made merchandise of an overheated
affection. When a man is attacked
with a desire to write letters of flame,
he should consult a physician or go on
a long journey.—Julius Chambers in
Brooklyn Eagle.
How a Picture Is Composed.
In examining such a picture as Man
kaesy’s “Christ Before Pilate” or De
taiile's “Saluting the ^Wounded” you
are inclined to think that the painter
saw the scene as a whole—that he ar¬
ranged his models and straightway pro¬
ceeded to delineate the scene on virgin
canvas. But, alas for this theory, were
you to take a knife and commence
scraping that same canvas you would
find a pathetic record of figures once
alive aud now forever blotted out—the
soldiers or the Pharisee who once
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t.arely there. This tree or house was
yonder, aud yonder figure’s place was
cue-' filled by a port or a detail of
isvuisva-v. and Magazine.
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