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?HE NATIONAL BANK OF AUGUSTA L. C. HA "TSE, ?Wt F. G. FORD, Cacti or. ? Capital, $250,000. Surplus ana ) <M 0^ 000 IttliTlded Profits } H> < ? J>vV/V f Facilities of oar magnificent Kow Vault I ?Containing 410 safety. Look Boxes. Differ-1 lent HUes are offered to our patrons andi I tits public at $3.00 to 110.00per annum. VOL. LXV1I?. EDGJSFIEJ NESDAY. JULY 15. 1903. THE PLANTERS LOAN AND SAVINGS BANK. AUGUSTA, GA. Pays Interest on Deposits. Accounts Solicited. L. C. Harne, President. Chas, C. Howard, Cashier. NO 29. ..-r- ucl RT. BIT norrine A bocLcI;r mar and a bachelor oat sipping a cup o? te?. , "VT 1 bachelor man, -'Elizab ' . -Jt certainly seems to me, : That never a oap ot nectar rare Or wine from the vaults of kl Was equal to this ialry cup you Whhe the bright little kettle a "?t rests me well, nnd it soothe? Ahd it comforts m? through a Tl* d, iriagidal cup; and I'm bound As I sit and sip it with you. ?ball wo sip it together thro' all The futur* is bringing our wa' We could meet right bravely lt" fears ?o pray do not answer nay," I-~' L? ?omp/e?e ****** v***^ 'A great old sweet smelllni and one little maid among tt ?nd bees and but terflcs. All was, for mother did not com? the garden ' much these days stopped boforo a tall pink 1 and spoke. - . "I don't think this is sue] summer as m'ost\" sha said. " say? 'fink,' cmtje-HJh, years 'ai a?0. when I was kef-wite a Ut but. I say 'therink' how, 'ci most grown up, you se?V' - Then she W?lkeJ ?n again ti little twisted gravel path, v hands clasped behind her; ? brows grave with thought. Man Daddy used to walk when haying a big "therink." ,. "Bat it's whole days-'most since ~ Man Daddy went a wa said, stopping beside a gray gre of Javender, "and he said goi hasty, he squeezed me so hard hurt, and his eyes were angry hadn't been naughty, al ali. J sorry, sweet lavender?" Sh?> burled her face in the fra ,;? . then trotted on.down the Liu V1' 011 she camc i0 a tall foxglov ^ ; tilted back her yellow head ant up at-'the white and red bell wide gravity, her hands still behind her back. "One day," she said, "a lad) to see mother. It was-it was big time ago, afore you were 1 pretty ladies what bow, and sh to kiss me when she was going didn't like her, you see, and I wc "kiss ber, and I ran in to mothe mother was ill on the-I forge bed without covers in the dr room, -you know, and the lad: smiling, ever so, and her dress \ long as a new little baby's, am was the day Man Da^y went a K She bowed gravely to the polit groves, and trotted on. Before a group of tall white a she.stopped n"-;p Mi?^lininr?rnr r ~ ?genUy down and laid her soft < against the snowy petals. For- a moment the baby lip quii "Man Daddy .loved you the. besl< alli 'Queen of the Garden - what he called you, you know." Then a cry went up in the ^ sweet air. "I want Man Daddy want him ?so bad!" The little hands were unclasped to be locked together tighter "For I'm 'most grown up. you whispered Baby Joan to the tall lily, "and grown-ups don't cry, know." * . She. left the lilies, and walked deep thought. . At the end of the her wee red sunshade was tied string to a, nail in the wall. Si long while it had taken to fix thai shade "propelly," but Joan ey .proudly now. "Are you ker-wite happy?" she peeping'round at the clambering and pink convolvulus behind th :*tle parasol. "Poor muslin ladies, i I the wind blow you drefful?" Then she watched a little blu< t?rfly as she .fluttered_abp ut from er to flower, and finally sailed ovt walL-. ~- "lt Jj was a buttlefly," she isa the convolvulus, "I would soon Man Daddy." She sighed, so th? small muslin pinafore bosom gt big heave. "But then," with an I -thought, "I'd have to leave mothi I - She sighed again. "Mother 'Don't worry. Joan,' when I ask Man Daddy's coming home, and she- kisses m? ever so, to make i She.trott ed on again, with nant hind her back. - A woman looking from a wi turned away in anguish from the . feminine imitation of Man Dadd; -Suddenly- the chubby legs twi in wild haste up the garden, a the velvet lawn, out of the open ? into the road. "I can go 'most as fast as a I fly," said Joan, "and I'll find Man dy at the nice place where Fide took when he, was lost, where were such a heaps and heaps of T know Man Daddy'll be there," * gleeful chuckle that brought the pies laughing to her cheeks. "M never thought of that. I b'lieve i the lilies what put the therink i 8 inside." Along the hot, dusty road, mi no one in this peaceful dinner she trotted, her sunbonnet dra fl behind and her yellow hair rivi the glowing cornfields on either s I In her desire to emulate the b fly she got over the ground at a I prising pace. She put all her and soul into her endeavor, as si H ways did into everything she v II took. Life to Joan isa a deep ai Wk earnest thing. She hardly knew Bj her short legs were aching, or Hg her curls were sticking to her H little brow. By the time the v BB dinner hour was over the villag? . , left far behind by Joan's deten Bi ' legs. She began to meet people I ' * " a few asked her where she was g I Joan's beaming, moist smile an< SB . answer, "Man Daddy-jus' there." BB a -grimy, forefinger pointing appr ^M. ly to the end of the road or iane isfled them. But presently B stopped to talk to a great sunf nodding its golden head at her 4 the railing of a little garden. It when she caught sight of its fri face that she knew how her BP ached. w Lil ed ss ,te le ?d as ire gs. i a ru ler tras my ing ?ur, ing lng e. ter jur ?art al der 1 an that that amp l?ge was lned and )ing. her with rent sat Joan ower over was mdly legs OR TEA. The bachelor maid, with ? sigh' content; Stirred the nectar about in her oup, And thoughtfully paused to ponder a bit Before looking merrily np, And saying, "Why, where will you go, my dear, For a Dice little haven of rest? Tor it we are married, don't.you see Iou never can be my guestr"' So these bachelors twain sat quietly dow?, And talked the matter" o'er, * While, th^ keitlb sang; and trie fragrant herb Hs part in the Cot? nell bore: And the story ends, as stories should, In wedding bells and laughter: Of course they married -you knew they would And lited happy ever after. Irs. E. M. Addison,/in Good Housekeeping. AN/' j t Margaret Westrup. J "You see," she said, sitting down for one minute beneath the sunflower and gazing up at it wistfully, "I'm not real ly a butterfly; and-my !egs hurt a 'little." Th? sunflower bonded encourag ingly: "It's ? long way," Md ?To?m ''i've fan mil?t a?d mii?s; p etty gold iady ^oH; miles ?h? . mll?s-'-mM?s-" h?f voic? trailed off into ? drowsy mur mur-"and miles!" she said, with a sudden jerk and sitting upright: She gazed lip at th? sunflower reproachful ly. "I mustn't go to sleep," she said: "I've got to find Man Daddy in the big place where they took Fido when he was lost It's just there," pointing down the road. "Goodby, gold lady. I must bc quick, 'cause Man Daddy will be lonesome without frie ftnc? moth?f, you see, and mothef Wiil be lonesome; too." Sh? started at ? fun, then looked back bvef her should?f ?t the sun flower with a troubled little laugh. "My legs won't work propeliy," she said? and struggled on. The sun had gone behind great threatening clouds, but Joan took no heed. All her mind was centred on getting on. sh? took no more rest till she came suddenly upon ? group of poppies growing in the grass at the wayside; by them her legs stumblqd and gave way, and she sank down on to the grass. She whis p?red to them in a little voice that was breathless and full bf tearst "I want mother and Man Daddy!" sh? said; and then she lay still and set all her teeth together to keep the sobs back: But presently she sat up. "Dey's com ing," she gasped, her gr?mm?r gr?w ing weak itt lief extremity. A sudden gleam lit her face. "Grown up angels cry to give the flowers water," she said, as a great tear rolled down her cheek, and, kneel ing, she bent over the poppies and sobbed her hea^t npj n Min ii' -~**" ??ps-from " a'aWTciOuds overhead drops that beat the poppies shudder ing to the earth. "The angels aro -crying, too," murmured Joan, sleepily, and rolled over and lay still-. The tngels' crying w?s long and ve hement. It woke Joan several times, but She was dazed with weariness. One? she murmured with a smile: "It's "most a cold bath 'stead of a teppy to day, mother," and went to sloop again. In the dimly Ht room on the little bed Joan tossed wearily from side to side. "You see, little blue ladies, lt hurts bad in you stummick-jus* here," laying ono hot little hand on her chest; "but I'm not crying, you know." "No. my brave little darling," mur* mured the woman, bending over her. "But you is, mother!" in an access of utter surprise. "I feel, it on my head. I finked-therinked-grown ups never-Oh, it hurts, mother!" her fin gers clinging around her mother's; "it hurts, you see," drawing a long, sob bing breath. Presently she began, anxiously: "That did sound like crying a bit, but," with a tremulous little laugh, "lt wasn't-it wasn't, really-" ' "No, no, dear-I know-try to go to sleep." and she began to sing a lullaby. "You sing very nice, all of you," babbled the restless voice. "I do like flower singing-you 'can hear the wind shaking their voices-but Man Daddj won't come! One day. it was years and years ago, little pink ladies, I rar and ran-you see, I'm not really a but tlefly, but, then, when buttleflies usi their legs they jp quite slow, and haven't any wings, you see-" A frock coated figure bent over th bed now. and. the woman's eyes neve lett his face. "Fever high-she must bc soothed. "I want Man Daddy-you're not Ma Daddy-do you know, one day, when was ker-wite little-I cut mine finge -I cried-wasn't it funny? But Ma Daddy tied it up and I laughed, 'cam he said it was a dolly. Would he t: my stummick up if he was here? hurts, you see-ob. it hurts!" Anguished and broken came the w man's voice: "I do not know whei he is." The doctor looked grave, and pre ently he went. "Darling, you are so brave and goc will you try to go to sleep, to-to well when Daddy comes back?" "Is he coming back, mother? Oh, hurts!" with a sob, "it hurts i mother." "If you go to sleep, dear-oh, do t Joan, do try!" "I will shut mine eyes-tight, moi er, so-" .The restless little body lay rlgi< still. "Think of the sheep, dear," said mother, usi j a recipe she had foi successful with Joan in a former ch ish illness. "Count them as they cc up to the gate and jump over it. ? there they go-one, two, three." Presently the great oyes opened ^ a piteously worried look. "Mother, they stick! They w< jump over the gate at all!" All the woman's pride had gone. She racked her brain for some c to her husband's whereabouts., last she thought she had one, f? and elusive, but she would try would telegraph. S"he crept from room while Joan lay in an uni doze, and wrote her telegram, sent it off with a-wild prayer in hecrt. The night-so long that . thought after each doze that it was' ? fresh weary night begun again passed; the sun rose in a glory that flooded the. room and shone pink on the weary little faci lying tm the crum pled pillow; and then, when th? pink glory had faded and left only one bar of gold peeping through the blinds, and resting lovingly on the yellow curi?; h? came, Straight to the little bedroom h? c?me\ . ''You see, queen Sf th? garden/' bab bled the restless little v?ic?, "it hurts rather bad; He loved you the behest of all; but he won't come-and i mustn't cry, you see. But it hurts!" He bent over her, her tiny hands in his. "Joan?-" fGari't? beaming smild greeted him. /'He has corn?, queen Of th? garden Man Daddy has come!" she said, with ?h infinite content, and fell asleep. When she awakened the pain had " 'Most gone." . "I knowed you would take lt away. Man Daddy, but"-wistfully-"I didn't find you, did I?" He glanced across the bed at the woman's down-bent head. "Yes, Joan, you did. If you hadn't looked for me I should not have come." Rho half smiled. VBufc='' ''fi?v?f n?ind, now, little one. It Is ali through you 1 ail here," "H?hest Ingiri, Man Daddy?'7 M&??it Ingin, j6?n." " ?3h? beamed, satisfied. 'If I hadn't looked for you, you wouldn't have corned. Aren't you ever so glad, mother?" Low and earnest came thc woman's answer: "Yes, dear." "May I go and tell the flowers, Man Daddy?" . I "Not yet, Joan." "But yo'-j haVed't tied up my stum- I mick into ? dolly-" | ''Not this tim?: Li? still and bo good, little one." "Yes, Man Daddy. Kiss me." He bent over and kissed her. "You, too, mother." Then suddenly she dimpled gleefully. "I want a jum ble kiss," she said. There was a little constrained pause. "You haven't forgbtted, Man Daddy?" in shrill tones of woe. "No." ! "Then, be quick!"-holding out her ' hands. "Come long, mother." "We must humor her," murmured the mellier, With downcast eyes. "It is ? foolish game, but-" The man kept his ?rm around her when the "game" was over. . "We must pretend well, she is so sharp," he muttered, weakly. Joan iay and chuckled drowsily. When the long lashes rested on the baby's cheeks, the woman made a slight movement aw from him; but his arm tightened. "Suppose she wakened?" he said. "Nora,'I cannoi- go aw?y ?gai?." | "Stay"-she breathed-'"I do not be; \ lifeve that tal?:" "God bless you, dear!" "Np-no; I was wicked to doubt you." "I deny it, now, before-" But she stopped him with a kiss. "Man Daddy, kiss me, too. May I go and tell the flowers in tho morning? I am ker-witc well now." "Go to sleep again, little on?.*' She shut her eyfis Obediently, then Opened them With ? gl?efui smile. "All the shecps are jumping over the gate now, mother!" sho cried-"every oAe of them!"-The Quiver. QUAINT AND CURIOUS. The range in weight of thc jewels ir watches.is from one one-hundred-and fifty-thousandths to one two-hundred and-fifty-sixth-thousands of a pound. The most wonderful of aborigina American monuments is the famou Aztec calendar now in'the Mexlcai National Museum. It is a zodiac, 1 feet in diameter, and carved from soli rock. The monks of Cortez buried i in a marsh, and it was lost for 23 years. ., In France an excessive growth < hair on the lip was noted in 497 Insai women out of each 1000, while? only 2! were found in each 1000 in the geuer hospitals. It was noticed that 'J latter very frequently had a person or family record of neuropathy or me tal degeneration. The floating gardens in the lak near the city of Mexico were recent visitor1, by an English naturalist,' w reports them a paradise and accoui for their existence. Floating tang of peat moss, rushes and grass { caught by stakes driven into the s lake bottom, and upon this mass r mud from the bottom is thrown. 1 surface is then transformed into market garden. The new hydroscope invented by ? nor Pinos, an Italian, it is said, ables human eyesight to penetrate sea to an incredible depth and for enormous radius.' A naval official i witnessed an experiment with his droscope in the Mediterranean s that the instrument can be open from the deck of a ship, making vis cables and torpedoes, and ought nullify the dangerous character of ? marine boats. .The United States census for finds 353R persons in the United St who are 100 or more years of age. value of these figures may be q tioned, and perhaps may be best mated by the fact that 72.8 percer the whole number are negroes, n of whom have no reliable evidenc to the date of their birth. They an ll percent of the total populatio seems improbable, too, that this c try should have over 3500 when many, with a population of nearlj 000.000 has only 778, and England, 32,000.000, only 146, and France, 40,000,000, has only 213. A Query. Will the man who invents a sue ful flying machine leave any prints in the sands of time?-! delphia Record. A woman sometimes jumps at i elusion, only to find it isn't then SIG BEDWOOI AMERICA'S TALLES . TO LU M BERM. Chance fdr Second Gr tion by Bureau of That Young Shdois Grown and the Ri What ia to be don1 bf the Pacille Coast if has riot oriJy agitates is of sentimental ebne. nation. Th? Bureau tacking the problem i practical spirit, has w elusions that should at, able at once to the li cut redwood on account o'al value, and to those ancient af>*'i marvelous growth preserved". The results of this sti a bulletin by R. T. Fisl sued by the department The redwood forests merchantable yield, pro I est on flarth, many staut OOO boara fe?? ir) the ?.cr logging represents the L ment of the lumbering bas ever been attained coast. Tba total supply estimated lo "be T.'.OO.nr amount cut in 1900 was ? with d value of $3,645, only on?-t?nth bf tri? United States is owned i according to th? last ce of the redwood is iii thi the stands they own are est and most valuable in belt. Seems* Doomed *o Ex Ever s-ince the Spania: cut redwood along San F the range of its growth h inishing; it now occupies about 2000 square fflileft last 50 years several hund? acres of timber have bet and the good lands put int. or turned into pasture.- As ; the redwood forests have has come to be pretty gi Ueved that the tree is dot Unction. The popular idea that t has no chance of survival founded. The studies of the Forestry have proved that j of a new growth of redwoo old trees have been remov c?ll?nt: ?iven half a chane wood reproduces itself by sj astonishing vigor. M?asu.-?n by the bureau on cut-over : that in 30 years, in a fair dense stand, trees will be inches in diameter, 80 feet 1 ing 2000 feet board measi acre Hope for Future Grov _PiPillirinn- tv-* w-??nut attempts to check the c?ttinf itself to proving"that it is wi to the lumbermen to do less the young trees in logging v wood lands, and to hold such a second crop. The study r cerns itself with young secoi rather than with mature tr timbered areas rather than virgin forest. Where atter given tho Old forests and rr, lubering, it was oniy that knowledge might be gairied growth and how to deal witl Th? redwood of California I a genus of which thc big ti only other species how alive, allied to the cypress, and the is often called by the same i they are botanically distinct i other. They do not even occ same situations. The big tree scattered bodies on the west the Sierra Nevada, while the forms dense forests on the w< of the Coast Range. Tallest American tre The redwood grows to a height than any other Am?ri but in girth and in age it is ? by the big trees of the Sier the slopes 225 feet is about i mum height and 10 feet its diameter, while on the flats, Ul the conditions, it grows to be 350 feel high, with a diameter of 20 f?ot? Mo?! ?f the redwood cut is from 400 to SO* years old. After the tree has passel thc oge of 500 years, it usually begins to die down from the top and to fail oft* in grewth. Thc oldest redwood found during thc bureau's investigation had begun life 1373 years ago. The bark of the tree offers such a remarkable resistance to fire that ex cept, under great heat it is sot com bustible. It is of a reddish-gay color I fibrous in texture, and gives to full? i grown redwoods, a fluted apwarancG j Moisture available for tho roots is j the first need of the redwood, as any . hilly tract of forest viii show j Wherever a small gully, c bench, cr basin is so placed as to recive an un common amount of seepag?.or when ever a creek flows by, there the trees ' are sure to be largest. Whib moistun? ! of the soil affects the deveipment of the redwood, moisuire of ie atmos phere regulates its distribtion. The limits of the sea fogs are jus about the : limits of the tree. The fogs, nless scat . tered by winds, flow inlandimong the ; mountains. Western expos'es receive most of the mist they .CST, except I those higher ridges above ?elr reach, which support, in conscquice, only a scattering growth of redwod. The tree's vitality is soreat, it en . dures so many vicissitudcand suffers from so many accidents inne centuries of its existence, that thrjrain of its wood becomes uneven in 'oportion as its life has been eventfv The wood fibers formed under diffmt rates of I growth sometimes get na tension so I great that when thc lops sawed the j wood splits with a loud port. | The seed of the red'od will not ; germinate in shaded plrs; the small I seedling demands plenfpf light. The ! crown is aime st as thi and open as i that of a IarcOi, anothesign that the tree is not. naturally to'ant of shade. In a mixed stand ? redwood's branches die off mon'apidly than those of its ca mpanionand the crown bends eagerly tn place'hcre thc light enters the fen st cano- But in spit of these signs of its sen&eness to light, ! the redwood ft rms o of the densest forests that grow. The reason foi* thi? that the stand is maintained c^.ieflby suckering 1 trees. , Supported and nour ' full-grown roots and stem;, rees grow under shade that dil the small seeding. The viii endure an astonishing of shade. In stands of second st) dense that not a ray of sun n enter, saplings 6 or 8 feet e to be found growing from bare of branch or foliage ex . a few inches of pale green t the top. In very dark, damp 1 the virgin forest one may find of shoOtfl as white as sprouts /Vood Has Many Uses. tod possesses qualities which fit jany uses. In color it shades ht thdfry te? dark mahogany. It worked1. fakes a beautiful pol is one of the most durable of fer?u? woods of California. It ecay so well that trees which n lain 500 years iri th*? forest n sent to the mill and s?w? Iber. The wood is without d offers a strong resistance to t? record Of fires in San Tr?n iere it is much used, indicate, doom injure it, because of an tent it contains. In sea water, the marine teredo eats off piling as readily as other tina RIDE ON A CAMEL. Woman Traveler Describe* ?h? Experience. in western Australia. Watei *ce and the long journey t( ig had boen rendered unsaf* and be?sl by the failure o f .?hippiy. lt was decided t e expefiin?T* ?f impor?m nd native drivers ff'?m Afr ; numbers of men were at th id the hauling of provision ?S?ry M ffWrt ft famine. Thu at thc cani?i ?i?srdw?d the o lng of the highway. yVVrt 1 to take the trip to ti the caravan, a minister wi rested I? th? welfare of tl lecided io go ?Li the san d' volunteered to act ft? h The truth is. the good m; .r traveled by cftmr-l and I aus to try the experience. I morning the camel and 1 )rs stopped ah my door. Ti isl! iure the ?um?i was the it 2 Lord made, and, w'311, r been finished. The owr :o understand him. In a f cn words he commanded I kneel.- The animal oblig is. ow ii.. time. As we he shiffeVi snd growled,- { ils long neck emphasizer! n us by making a sudden tl r#ac Hier angi agli '.wu! ?P. t h. jeni he illy e to niue oenind a prcac :r fashioned one of his ki i mount for me, from wi into the saddle, and whe tavo thc marching ordei .'1 has but ono joint in ?rid two in tho back. V\ i to get ilp rio tife?lUfi a camel could do such st le straightens out hi? 1 , leaving that part of i in the air. As I rose above" the preacher y with difficulty keep adly fear came upon me fall upon him, and thus and suddenly end a CM less. My only comfort mbtless was better prep .r world Just then than I ? beast finally gaindd his became accustomed tc motion, tho ship of ;rame a most e?nifor :onveyance. The Five S+aqes. . ie said: "I want a man s ardent In all of love's ways yhose passionate devotion may i "lag. H6 must bc tall and b mouldered and handsome, with lashing, souUul eyes, and, if ncc ;o to the ends of thc world for sake." At 20 she said: "I want a man i?itOs tho tender sympathy of a in with the bravery of a lion. I mind his being a little dissipate! causo that always adds a charm must be, however, accomplished I last degree, and capable of any fleo for my sake." ?f 25 she said: "I want a mar unites with an engaging persona complete knowledge of thc worh if, of necessity, he happens to h past, he must also have a futu man whom I can look up to, and whom I can trust myself at all without the slightest embarrass! At 30 she said: "I want a mar money. He can have any oth tributes that a man ought to pc but he must have money, anti mere he has the better I will lil At 35 she said: "I want a m Life. . Blood Poisoning. Blood poisoning is now recognl poisoning by a living organism, ordinary poisoning is by tome ical substance devoid of life, poisoning took its name before ture was properly understood, was thought to be a form of or poisoning, but that thc blood than the "vital principles" was attacked. As the stomach can, as a rr stroy thc life of most orgz while it can only to a limited alter the constitution of chemh sons, poisoning by living orgj cr blood poisoning, is fur mor mon through wounds than by eaten, and thus thc idea of its poisoning of thc blood was st encd. As a "blood poison" is i can, and often docs, go on inc after its first indigestion, and ( obvious difference between thc that blood poisoning generally with slight. Symptoms, and es indefinitely, while ordinary ing reaches its height almost i MY CULrrui r >' 2 f 0 S u ti s IS IX t l(i lO 10 ie iy in he Sa lis lat ist h* ief ew the ed, ftp tad his jve I' Tolly lets her lashes fall And il mops her eyes with growing BCOrBj ?ior IIHKO? to look on me ot all, AB Tully el.O?o to do this morn, My el. io inc mood I quick relent, i'd fain rack jeaiouB word recall, For, nh ! J mow so penitent As Polly lota lier lashes fall. I f?el that I fhnulil panlshed be For milking Polly s heart to hurt; Altbouj:)), bot* om just you and me, Uh? dui eneourngo Jnrk to flirt! My heart so qnick is to rrpent, Jt bnr?N>fttwli to BcourRlDKS all, Am'. i!eems it righteous punishment When Tully lets her Joshes fall ! -Roy Farrell Greene, in Puck. HUMOROUS. The Doctor-How's business? The Undertaker-Oh, I'm simply rushed to death. Nell-I don't care for fair weather friends. Belle-No, I'd rather have a rain beau. Lady to Blind Man-My poor man, what made you blind? Tramp-Look ing for work, ma'am. Blobbs-We seldom get all we de serve. Slobbs-In which respect we are like the one good turn that deserves another, but seldom gets it. Waiter (expecting tip)-Haven't you forgotten something, sir? Patron-Oh, res; I have forgotten to report you for being so slow. I'll do so at once. Wlgg-Every man has some sort of hobby which he rides. Wagg-Well, ?t's all right for him to ride his own, but he needn't deride his neighbor's. They were talking of the man who was thrown from a street car. "How badly was he hurt?" "He doesn't know yet. The jury in his suit for damages is still out." "Just to settle a bet,'' asked the tire some caller, "will you please tell me what you consider the champion lie ot the ages?" "I am glad to see you!" yawled the answers-to-correspondents editor. "So your lawyer got you out ol trouble?" "I don't know," answered th? man who is never happy. "I haven' yal paid his bill. I suppose he siropl: got m? out of one kind of trouble int* another"/' " " "I'm told," saW tu? prison visite: "that before you got h*rre you wer one of the leading men in your proies sion." "Well," replied the convict, " certainly was in the van just before arrived herr " Papa-Lottie, beril, didn't I tell you t introduce the 'strt?h'?cms life' in yoi playing? Tommy-We are, papa. Paf -You are not rowing or swing'lr clubs.- Tommy-No; we are just pla; lng we are? married, . Gunnar-What i? the matter wi heT; -tillie--rvuat. uu juu ?.um?. Ui u sees landscape, aunty? Aunt Hannah-W hich er- ? d?fi't thunk se much of the tre n at hut that grapevine le pre rs. good. Ethel-^rape-rlnta? W Ids dear, that is the artist's signature. Thon "For some time past," said ] I on Pompu8 Nuritoh, who had engaj upid passago for Europe, "I've been c back lemplatirig a visit to the scenes as his elated with the lives of my ancestoi ma- "That so?'' replied Pepprey. "Go anti slumming, eh?" M"J Mr, Wredink (the old bookkeeper lest Today marks my fortieth year of t ! un" vice with you, slr. Mr. Hides-I . iroer aware of it, Mr. Wredink, and I was ranged a little surprise for you. T iarecl this alarm clock, with my best wie was. for y0llr continued punctuality. "The Idea of sending children to 1 llG early to punish 'em!" exclaimed J 10 Cossel. who was discussing her r e Uves. "That Isn't any way to c' them." "Of course it isn't," answc her husband. "If you want to eonv 'em that you mean business, make who Ct?t Up an QOUr or so earlier in and morning." lever _ road" Passing of the Bicycle. "j8?*1 One of thc signs of the times ' rather of tho characteristics of iy times, is the decline and fall of th< cycle. It has not been so long who since there was a perfect craze for worn- wheel-a craze from which no don't color, sex or previous condition of 1, be- vitude to other fads was exempt. . Ho aruj women, old and young, adults :o the children-all rode the wheel, sac.i- parks and streets and the road) were filled with riders of the i i who steed, and whenever one passe* lity a couple or a group in deep eonv I. and tion, the ene subject of talk was ave a to bo tho wheel, its properties, it re; a longings, its excellencies and tho with ficiency in its management to ^ times thc talkers had attained, neut." Now all is changed. As a fae i with wheel is as obsolete as the dode er at- pecially among young women, wh assess, fore, apparently, could not get en I the ci lt. This ls a characteristic o ?co it." American nervous anxiety to ge an."- possible out of everything in the ? est possible time, and to run a fi to the ground. Then the natura inevitable, reaction comes; the p ized as "um of P?pular caprice swings b while other end, and what was before ? chem- mirable is dropped completely Blood pays for Its former supremacy b its na- 'nS consigned to practical obliv and it Baltimore American. dinary ' rather A Plague of Wolves in Russ chiefly As in Austria and Hungary, Russia, the past winter will be rt de, de- bered for the vast quantities of v inisms, which came out of the forest extent mountains and preyed on th .al poi- lages. In one district in easten misma, s'a over 16.000 head of cattle o com- l?st. In the governments If N things od, Tver, Olonctsk, Archangel a: being a ? Finland it wa? necessary fron rength- \ to time to call out the Bold! ilive, it I round them up and shoot them reasing Thousands were disposed of 1 he most way. ! tWo Is . begins Forty thom nul birds, mostl] in crea ts- pipers, are reported to have poison- killed recently on the North C; it once, coast for millinery purposes. Large Shipments of the be3t makes of w? received. Our stock of furniture, hou< plete. Large stock COFFINS and ( always on hand. All calls for our Hears to. All goods sold on a small margin of ? will save you money. G. P. COBB, Joh W. J. Rutherford. MANUFACTUREE AND DEALER. Cement, Plaster Fire Brick Ready Roofing and 0 Write Us For Corner Reynolds and Wa AUGUSTA, Soft Answer of a Motorman. BYdfidway was crowded as usual, and an el??trlo car humped a rickety wagon off tho traci? with the custom - - ? --Amnnv Two thin, H thei nig G ell, ?es, tty ny. Mr. ?ed on so re." lng ) jer tvas ar ake ihes bed drs. ela rect ;red ince 'em the , or tho 3 bi ago the age, I scr Men and Tho vays steel d a crsa suro s be pro .hich and history left untouched, and nc part of his person was slighted-yet he was a large man-as large as mo tormen may be. He gazed blankly at his puny revil ers for a moment; and spectators of the Incident were prepared for a tor fent of retort. But the big fellow merely shook a warning finger. "A naughty, naughty," ho said, and sped on his way with a roar of laughter. New York Mail and Expres3. I the >, es o be ough f the it all ihort id in 1, the endu 3 the JO ad and ty bo l?n. la. so in ?mern solves s and e vil l Rus wero ovgor nd in i time era to down, n this r sar d been arolina Purses and Economy. "Did you ever think of the influence for economy exercised by a purse?" asked the observant man. "It is im possible for a man to become extrav agant if he carries a purse. I don't mean a big wallet in which to stow greenbacks-just one of those littl purses for small change. I haven always been a spendthrift. I can ri member when I started away to col lege how I hoarded the pennies and would not indulge in more than one haircut a term. But in those days I carried a neat little leather purse and it seemed to want to stayed closed BO badly that I hated to open lt. All that thrift of mine disappeared when I discarded it. The little receptado seemed to exercise a sort of psycho logical Influence over rae and I couldn't spend money while I bad it. It ls ilifflerent when all you have to do is to reach in your pocket and pull out Eome loose change. "All men who carry purses are close Isted. They couldn't 'loosen up' if they tried. You watch one of these chaps when he takes out his little coin reservoir. He picks out a nickle or a quarter as if he were pulling teeth. When I begin to save money again I ?rn going to buy a purse."-New Yory Press. ART PATCHWORK. Patchwork quilts have not gone out, but they have now become vcritablo works of art, and aro no more like the heterogeneous arrangements of our grandmothers than the grub is like the butterfly. Designs that are really ex? quisite in color are now called patch? work, but arc in reality more in the nature of applications, as the pieces are fitted together on a foundation, tho edges being hemmed over each other. Floral designs with leaves make tho prettiest quilt3, the patches being made of wash cambrics, of delicate tints, but they do not fit into each oth er as well as tho geom' trie patterns, and must have a background to ar range the design on. Any number of pretty combinations may be thought out, and it is interesting work to group the pieces into fanciful designs, baste them in their positions and then neatly hem thom on.-New York Tri bune. Tho passport traffic of the Depart ment, of State in Washington is said to oclipse anything ever known before, and by the argument of parallelism is supposed to indicate the enormous prosperity of the American people "Our countrymen," said an experi enced officer of the department, "al ways show when they feel comfortable and confident by going abroad for a tour of travel." ?RE. agons and buggies just sefurnishings ls com BASKETS e promptly responded profit. Call to see me, liston, S. C. R, B. Morris. )fd & Co., IS OF LIME, 3 IN -, Hair, , Fire Clay, ther Material. Prices. ishiflgton Streets, GEORuIA. WORRIED. Jost-My wife ls worrying about re being thirteen at the table-lo ht. tuest-Superstitious, en? A QUESTI?NT 'What do you think of the new arder?" asked Mrs. Starvem. 'Oh, I don't know," replied Star ard. "I think he's very polite." "Either that or very sarcastic. Did u hear him ask me if I'd pass the .earn?'"-Philadelphia Press. PROGRESS. "How is your daughter getting on ith her music?" "Splendidly," answered Mrs. Cura x. "She can go to a classical con rt and tell exactly where to applaud ithout watching the rest of the audi ice."-Washington Star. COUNT ONE FOR HER. The Count (old enough to be a .andfather and after Miss Moneyton) -I haf asked your mamma and she f her consent-and-now I-er Miss Moneyton-I am so glad! But on't it be funny to call you papa? ippincott's Magazine. CRANKS. Judge-Let us get this thing right. ou say this man whom we are exam ling is not insane, and yet he is not i his right mind. How is that? Witness-Lots of people, your Hon r, who are not insane are wrong linded about everything.-Chicago 'ribune. PERHAPS HE BLUSHED. Men filled the seats while she hung in to a strap. She had but two quares to gu when a man got up to cave the car. "You may take my seat," he said, lolitcly, raising his hat. "Well, mister," said she, "it's 'a' plty_ rou can't take it with you, isn't it?" Pittsburg Dispatch. CRUELTY IN REFINED FORM. "Yes," said the critic to the aspiring young playwright, "there are great possibilities in this play of yours." "Thank you. It is very kind of you to say so." "But there will be greater possibili ties in the fellow who is clever ecough to find them and get them out."-Chi cago Record-Herald. THE BASIS OF WEALTH. "Of course Meaney made his vast fortune himself." "I believe he inherited the founda tion of it from his father." "Why, I understand his father was quite poor." "Yes; but he was also mean and stingy, and the son inherited those traits."-Philadelphia Public Ledger. RESOLUTION. "You must give him credit for being a man with the courage of his convie lions." "Why?'' 'If he buys a hat one year he never hesitates about wearing it tho next" Washington Star. We are ready to enter your name on our subscription books. You will sot miss the small sum necessary tb be come our enstomer.