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THE CAUCASIA. 3 Tn fa:xi o t Press. Thete o-J u t elerttor CJxan vcho .f !! vne f lb Ufu la Cine Ivj v. mii vt tu ''!t'i. Mt jf h; ..irucrr rr? eUUsT repre waLaven ufTrpa. correo vat The aid runn got to know all -f the correioiatlirau Tery well and always bad a Unfful crwtln for sUera. It was ftii noticed, too. that 0e sed to h- jrTratly interested La ttheir oonvematioa- Om fternoon. a three of them atep-ped-cxt of the elevator. Sereno Pays tf "Jew York et-ppl In. A the car wit'5wn the old elevator man tuna )d cn4 Mid: -JJr. I'ajnc. I can't understand boi$t those newspaper rue a. They ryvnlt tee." ""bafa the trouble with themr c&akc4 Mr. Payne. -We I, Mr. Payn. every day they tide in this car one feller will turn to another and Ray, 'What do you know today? And the other fellow will anawer. 'Not a thing. What do you know? Then the first feller will answer. 'Nothing.' And yet, Mr. Sayue. the papers are Just full of t&ews every day. It beata me where they get it" t -It beata me too," said Mr. Payne SJtrooklyn Eagle. Old Tim Strawberries. Strawberries have improved very sSacb in flavor since the fifteenth cen Tory. Until then the only strawber trtesi eaten were wild strawberries ol 9 kind which would never find a mar "ket nowadays. By 1480. however, they "were beginning to be cultivated, for ""Hollnshed records under that date a particularly fine crop grown by the "biahop of Ely in the grounds of his palace, now covered by Hatton garden. lie quotes the Duke of Gloucester aa saying to the bishop: "My lord, you have very good strawberries in your garden in Ilolborn. I require you to let us have n mess of them." This spwch was copied almost verbatim by Shakespeare in "Richard III." Still, even the bishop's fruit would not ap peal much to modern connoisseurs, for the garden strawberries at that period .fjrere only transplanted wlldllngs, the plants being sold at about fourpence a bushel. London Standard. Origin of the Piano. j "The pianoforte was directly evolved Vx&m the clavichord and the harpsi efcerd. In 1711 Scipione Maffel gave l detailed account of the first four ln trcments, which were constructed by Sartolommeo ChrustoforL It waa fcuunod by him the pianoforte and was first -exhibited in 1709. Marius, In France, exhibited harpsichords, with &xrter action, in 171C, and Schroter, n 5ermany, claimed to have Invent us flfce pianoforte between 1717 and 2X20. Marius was at first generally 3?2dited with the invention. Pianos of '"that period were shaped- very much tike the modern grand variety. The Srst square piano wa3 constructed by f rederlca, an organ manufacturer of Saxony, in 1758. The first genuine up right piano was Invented in England ad the United States by John Isaac ' Hawkins, an Englishman, In 1800. Detroit Free Press. The First Money. ' Money is mentioned as a medium of exchange in Genesis, chapter 23, and! is supposed to refer to a time as far j pack as 1S00 B. C. The coinage of money Is ascribed to the Lydlans, a; 'Sopleof Asia Minor. It is, of course,! tjtslte Impossible to fix any definite date j for the first coinage.' Long before any j one tnougnt to coin money it was made ; out of any durable substance that came ! ' to hand, such as leather, iron, tin, "bronze and even the hard bark of the! trees and stones of the fields. The Hollander, so late as the middle of the pasteboard. In fact, pretty nearly ev-j ' erythlng In the shade of lasting mate rial has at one time or another been ' ased as the medium of trade known as vaioney. ; "Suiting the Action to the Word. j Clt a lecture a well known authority b "economics mentioned the fact that n sonoe parts of America the number sf men was constantly larger than niat of women, and he added humor "ously, -I can therefore recommend to Jtr.be' ladles to emigrate to that part." -'A'young lady who was seated in one t 'the last rows of the auditorium got t3p-ari. full of indignation, left the MWm rather noisily,1 whereupon the 'teiittrer remarked. "I did not mean thatftt should be done in such a hur y. J-U4jge. I White'Specks!n Butter. "SVhlte specks in butter are some-1 t.imes simply fine particles of mllk! -vurd. resulting from lack of care In skimmfng. -Sometimes they are small -specks df dried cream, having been scraped 'from the sides of the pan and 3eing too dry to thoroughly soften and tmix with the rest. I On the Spur of the Moment. Waiter. these eggs are as hard as -sa stone. 1 told you not to boil them vmore than three minutes and a half." "Yes. sir: that's just the time they were in to a second, but the aw wa "ter was hard, sir." Chit-ago Tribune. ? Doing and Thinking. Mamma Bessie, why don't you wash TfchV dishes? It Is easier to do a thing 4han to sit and think about it. Bessie Well, mamma, you wash the dishes, sand I'll sit and think about it. i Could Help Her. : Fussy Lady Patient I was suffering ?"so much, doctor, that 1 wanted to die. tDoctor You did right to call me in, 'dear lady. London Opinion. i What kind of paper resembles j "Sneeze? Tissue Such THeughtfuf Woman. When the tsaa d womao sUrtHS down t:.e lubway stair the f3 in hU pockta for ticket, -py (Jeorrer be 1L "Isn't that a shame? Ie got to atop la all this tacb and buy ticket -Oh, no. you havea't," aaid the wo man. -1 have the ex Wbea I cam downtown 1 remembered what yon said a Unit those people who buy only one tUkrt at a time making rach a nuiaaace of themselre. so, as I had 15 cents to pare. I bought three tick eta. I hate two left- We can go right on through-' So i be man and the woman drifted along with the pushing crowd to the point wh-re the ticket chopper held them up and decuuded tribute. Then the woman looked in her purse for the tick eta. Suddenly ber face assumed a painful blanknes. -I I haven't grot them," she falter ed. "I waa in such a hurry when 1 came through that I must hare drop ped all three tickets into the uptown box." New York II era Id- A Not That Waa Paid. History U constantly repeating It self. Once upon a time a landlady In Washington called on President An drew Jackson and told of a govern ment clerk who owed her a big bill for board. In those days It was easy to have access to the White House. President Jackson listened to her story and advised her to get a promis sory note from the clerk and put It in bank. She replied: "I've done that twice, general, and he won't pay even then." "Is that so?" said the president In surprise. "Now you go and get his note and bring it to me. I simply want to see it, and I'm sure that the clerk wIU pay that note. Go and bring it to me." The landlady did so, and soon return ed with the promissory note. The president turned it over and wrote across the back of it his own indorse ment: "A. Jackson." That note was paid at maturity. Cincinnati Commercial Tribune, Waves In Solid Metal. As illustrating the advances in metal lurgy and engineering it has been demonstrated that solid metals may reveal by their structure the vibra tions to which they have been subjected- In exnlaining this phenomenon experiments have been shown proving that a beautiful wave structure can be imparted to the surface of mercury by the vibrations of a tuning fork, and that even the surface of solid lead which had been subjected to similar vibrations possesses a structure re sembling that of a vibrating surface of mercury. Mild steel has been de fined as a "solid solution" of iron and carbon, free from cinders. Metallur gists have doubled the strength of steel as it was known in its early days. Scientific American. Relieved. 'Where did you get rhese examples of faultily constructed sentences?" ask ed Dr. Campbell, the great rhetorician, of a student "Out of one of your books, doctor." "What? Where? Out of one of my books?" "Yes, sir; out of your 'Rhetoric.' " "Out of my 'Rhetoric!' " roared the doctor. "Impossible! Never did I make use of such language. You are mistaken, badly mistaken. But but where in my 'Rhetoric did you find such composition?" he demanded an grily. "In the part, 'Sentences to be Cor rected.' " "O-h-h-h-h-h! A-h-h-h-h! Yes, yes," said the relieved doctor. Philadelphia North American. Too Much For Her. Calling one day to see an old friend who was visiting her married son, I inquired of the colored maid who an swered the bell. "Is Mrs. Smith at home?" "Yas'm, she home." the girl replied, showing no inclination to invite me in. "She here, all right, but she got a misery in de haid." -Mrs. Smith senior?" 1 asked with concern. "Seen me!" she exclaimed suspicious ly. "Cose she seen me. Huccome she : ain' see me w'en she hire me las' night huh own self?" And she indig nantly shut the door.r-Lippincott's. The Worst. "My wife has been having some trouble with her throat." confided a friend, "and I got pretty worried J about it and sent for a doctor. He examined her and looked very grave, and that scared me even worse. So I said. Tell me the worst at once. Doc. and he whispered,- "She will re cover her voice.' And my wife over heard the question and the answer, and now Doc and I are both in bad." Cleveland Plain Dealer. Resentment. "Did you say I was a cheap trick ster?" asked the ward worker. "No. I didn't" replied the man who Is close to the boss. "I merely said you were a trickster." - "Well, that's all right, but dont you ever insinuate that I am doing a cut rate business." Washington Star. A Tragedy. "How did you like my new tragedy?" Tragedy? I thought it was com edy." "So did I rill I got my check for the profits." Paradoxical. "All this time the cashier was burn Ing the candle jat both ends." "And keepiif it dark. Well, I da darer Exchange. The Matt en tHe Clock. The oid Temp clock la Loadaa bears a curious iacTiptfca, the erigia of which Is aacrtbed to a chx&c r mark. Some 2 years or so ago a master workman was employed to repair al put la a new face upon the dock When his work was nearly done b asked the benchers for an approprUU motto to carve a poo the base. They promised to think of one. Week after week he canoe for their decision, bat waa put oS. One day he found them at dinner in commons. -What motto shall I put on the clock, ycur lordship T he asked of a learned Judge. -Oh, go about your business hi honor cried angrily. -And very suitable for a lazy, daw tiling gangr the ciockmaker is said to have muttered as be retreated. It is certain that be carved "Go about your business on the base. The lawyers decided that no better warning could be given them at any hour of the day, and there the inscrip tion still remains. Harper's Weekly. The Exceptional Yong Man. The exceptional young man, says Orison Swett Marden in Success Maga zine, is the one who looks upon his employer's interests as he would his own. who regards his vocation as an opportunity to make a man of himself, an opportunity to show his employer the stuff he is made of, and who is al ways preparing himself to fill the posi tion above him. The exceptional young man Is the one who never says, "I was not paid to do that," "I don't get salary enough to work after hours or to take so much pains." He never leaves things half done, but does everything to a finish. The exceptional young man is the one who studies his employer's busi ness, who reads its literature, who is on the watch for every improvement which others in the same line have adopted and which his employer has not, who Is always Improving himself during his spare time for larger things. Labrador's Short Summer. How brief is the summer on the highlands of Labrador! says Hesketh Prichard in the Wide World. Snow does not melt till July, then with a rush midsummer comes. Grasses and leaves grow almost visibly, the wild cotton soon flings out its little white pennons, millions of berries ripen on the ground, the loon cries, the ptarmi gan calls, and you may even see a butterfly balancing in the warm wind. But then also wakens the countless army of hunchbacks, lean and gray mosquitoes, piping blithely for blood. So summer reigns. Then suddenly one day at the end of August, after the sun has sunk behind the barren crags through a balmy warmth of evening, one may wake up to find everything transfigured and the first snow of an other season already falling. Found Out His Man. A southerner who was visiting St. Louis wandered into the dining room of the hotel and, seeing a negro servant who had all the importance of an army officer standing near the door, asked him who th "head nigger" was around there. The negro stretched himself to his full height and pompously replied that "there ain't no niggers in St Louis, sah. We is all gem-men of color."- "Well," said the southerner, drawing a $100 bill from his pocket and finger ing it, "I expect to be at this hotel for some time and want to make sure that I will be taken care of." Oh, sah," said the negro, whose eyes were popping from his head, "did yott want to know who the head nigger waiter is? That's me." Allentown CalL Where Bluebeard Lived. Most of our readers have heard of Bluebeard, the enterprising gentleman who made a hobby of marriage and had a way of his own for getting rid of superfluous wives. Probably very few people, however, know that the story has any sort of basis in fact. Yet on the banks of the world famous Bos porus near Constantinople there is situated a picturesque old medieval fortress known as "Bluebeard's caiv tle" and which Is said to have been the abode of a terrible old pasha, whose playful little ways gave rise to the story. Wide World Magazine. 4 First Calculating Machine. The first calculating machine was invented and constructed by Blaise Pascal, a Frenchman, in 1642, in which year he was but nineteen years of age. It was made by him with the aid of one workman and was present ed to the chancellor of France. Dur ing the revolution it was found in a junk shop at Bordeaux and at present Is the property of M. Bougouin cf that city. Ail of the four simple math ematical operations can be made with it. Flow of Solid Metals. Metals flow into each other just aa gases and liquids mix, though more slowly. If a cube of lead is placed on one of gold, the surfaces of contact being kept smooth and clean, and left for a month a small quantity of gold will be found to have penetrated the lead. Not Playing the Game, Mrs. FItz Suburbia The next door person must be a very suspicious tharacter. Hubby Why so? Mrs. F. S. She employs a maid who Is deaf and dumb, the mean cat I New York Journal. . i Fire and sword are but slow engines ef destruction in comparison, with the babbler. Steele. CSorxS Vmrmer Kbo Kcjwd Lrta lUic. Durham Sua.) A cear tragedy waa enacted at the home of Robert MchoU, a colored farmer of the coanty who resides near Bilbo. Saturday tteaiag. Ben jamin Morgan, a wh!t lunatic, es caped from the asylum At ftalelgh early Saturday morale. The luna tic wandered through the country and reached the home off Nichols Saturday evening after Nichols had retired for the night. He took oS bis shoes at the porch of Nichols home, and crawled in at a window. After atirring around la the bouse for some time, be started to crawl out the window. Just as he reached the ground, NichoU fired at hits with a 32 calibre pistol which he kept for emergencies. The hall struck the glass near the face of Morgan miss ing his temple by only the fraction of an inch. HU face was badly cut by the falling glass, and this frightened him so that he beat a hasty retreat. Nichols pursued the lunatic, calling all the time for Deputy Ed. Couch. ho lives on an adjoining plantation. Mr. Couch joined in the chase, and the lunatic was finally captured. He KING'S GRADUATES ire above par in th business world because of their thorough training and superior qualifications. We do not tolerate lax methods, incompetent teachers or short, superficial courses of study. Surret is our aim and motto. If you want the best business and stenographic training that ex perience, money and brains can provide, write for our handsome catalogue. tlN CORPORATE"! u.lkk;h, x. c. on SOME FACTS The purcltase of a piano is a matter for serious consideration. Considering the fact that a piano is the highest priced article in most households, it seems only natural that you should desire to buy wisely and well, for it means the investment of a good sum of money for an article that will last a lifetime, provided it is the right piano. When you are ready to buy a piano, don't think of buying the cheapest piano. It is a waste of money. Poor pianos cost almost as much as good pianos. Poor pianos really cost a great deal more than good pianos. A good piano like a good watch needs only ordi nary care to be your servant for years. A poor piano is not only always costing money to keep in tune and regulate its action, but, like the poor watch which never keeps time, is always an abomination. For nearly thirty years we have been recommending our customers to purcliase only high grade pianos. We have from the beginning sold more pianos of this class than any other. We have as good cheaier grades as can be obtained from any source, and for as little money, but we have built up the largest retail piano business in this State, and have a wide reputation for selling good pianos at hon est prices. See our next week's ad. DARNELL RALEIGH, Mason Fruit Jars Pints, per dozen, - - - 50c Quarts, per dozen. - - - 60c Half gallons, - - - 75c Sure Seal Glass Top Jars Pints, - - - - .75 Quarts, - - - - - $1.00 Half gallons, - - - - $1.00 JAR CAPS Per dozen, ... - .25 White Rubber, per dozen, - - - .6 Red Rubber, " 44 - - - .10 Wide Mouth, 44 44 - - .10 Call on us for Jars, Kettles, etc L. W. BOW DEI N The Ncf w Hardware Man. THE CAUCASIAN and Uncle Remus Home Magazine Both One Year for Only $1.25 Uncle RernuEs Home Magazine was founded bj Joel Chandler Harris, the author of the "Uncle Remus" stories, and is the hest magazine of its class published in the United State. Jack London, Frank L. Stanton, and other prominent writers contribute to this magazine. It Is published in Atlanta every month and the subscription price is $1.00 a year. The Caucasian Is the best weekly newspaper published In the State. "Why not have both of these excellent publications in your home? Subscribers who axe in arrears must pay up and renew their subscription in order to take advantage of this excep tional offer. This Is the best bargain in ' reading matter we have ever been able to offer to the reading public. Send In your subscription to-day. Don't delaybut do It now. Address.- . - . .. THE CAUCASIAN, i!ks to the hose ef Mr. Cotjch. where fcia wounds efe cared for aal he aa afterwards hrosght to tow -a asd given medical aiiestloa, Hla face bled .profanely and It at cri thought that a shot had taken effect Morgan was take a to Haletgh Sunday aftemooa and placed la th asylum. A Urmorrmllc Gotenor sad IVmo era tic LcgUUture Are IloOi lie poatsible. Durham Herald (Dcm.) ) State Demorat know that the rea son they have not bea able to gst an effective anti-trust law is because of the men they tend to the Senate, but for some reason or other they are not willing to acknowledge it. HAS MILLIOXS OP FIUEXDS. How would you like to number your friends by millions as Ducklen's Arnica Salve does? Its astounding cures In the past forty years made them. It's the best Salve In the world for sores, ulcers, ecxema, burns, bolls, scalds, cuts, corns, sore eyes, sprains, swellings, bruises, cold sores. Has no equal for piles. Twenty-five cents at all druggists. CIIAIUiOTTi:, . V. 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