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? V--.-.- V r-vr c, r. v;HAT- THE "JOGAFY" SAYS. Fir.a J-rtiith. vas standing beside the stream VHl watching the current siow. .,Vt understand it at all,' said she, ii.ii ilie ogaiy sam it was so. qlv:i;.s empty into the rivers. says, n;l so, i came down here to see; watched and wr.tehed it tor two v.iidle days', ; id iv's fail as it iised to be! vc :-:ne here and watched it for ever so (V.uso the .Togafy said so. you knov; ?u. it hasn t empciea a smgie time. . u-l 1 thinli tnat it isn t so-: Little Folks. . .-MECIIANICAI- CASHIERS. Thvie lias recently arrived iii Lou- hinc which does everything except hink. It is a, banker, cash register, iwncy changer, bookkeeper and au ditor.. It adds up figures with "light ning rapidity and absolute accuracy, and it ..cannot by any possibility be swindled. It. requires very little at tention; the only qualification for its jitieudant.is the ability to read figures. Hie machine" is fed in the morning will) sufficient cash to provide it with rliiuigc for the day say. 20 (that is the bank). It receives- say, a ." note from a customer who has bought goods worth 8s. 4d. It pockets the money an i registers the purchase (cash regis ter". Simultaneously it picks-out the clK'.ag.e 4 lGs. 74 d. and places the coins all in a row four sovereigns, one Ui:d"f -sovereign, two two-shilling pieces. a penny and a farthing (money changer). While getting this change, which it does before the customer can count two. it at the same lime makes a primed record of the transaction (book keeper), 'and gives the customer a re ceipt. While it was providing the change it was also simultaneously add ing the 3s. 4;'id. to its bank, exhibiting its total as 20 3s. 4d. in other words, auditing its accounts and strik ing its balance." If only change is re- PUZZLE OF MISSING SAILORS. 4feKti 'A a: 1 yPy Find the two sailors who are quired all that the operator has to do is to touch one key and in return for the 5 or 1 the machine at one mo ment provides a variety of small change. . The mechanical cashier can never go Tvrong, and it would baffle the ingenu ity of any operator to cheat it. It will he seen that this wonderful invention 3ust carries the operations of ' other (ash registers one step further. It doses the one door which they leave Pen. It prevents the person in charge from touching any cash at- all, and he ill be promptly faced with a mistake he touches the wrong key or con- dieted of theft if he inserts false money and this in presence of a wit ness. The machine has taken twelve years to invent, and a fortune has been spent upon it. In appearance it does not differ greatly from other cash registers now in use, except that its keyboard is like that of a typewriter. t has a drum or wheel containing receptacles for holding money. There are receptacles for 10 and 5 notes, for pounds several of them and other coins, including threepenny bits and farthings. They are all arranged in iWs. The drum is locked when it receives its cash in the morning. When the attendant receives 1. say fr a purchase, he presses down a lever to receive the money. The wheel immediately goes up one notch, and the money is secured In the bank in the 1 receptacle. -This movement un locks the keyboard and th attendant Presses down "the figures, say, 3s. 6dL, the amount of the purchase, gives one turn to the crank, and immediately the correct change Is delivered. Lon don Mail. :.. THOUGHT IN A DOG. 7 French poodle one day watched show to a friend some birds' nests JJhich I had collected after the .birds d left them... Shortly afterward he sbi:. w went out into a field and ran about as if searching for something. I called him. He did hot come at once, but presently pounced on something in the grass, and came running triumphantly to me, carrying in his mouth a chippy's nest which had fallen out of a tree. He had never picked up a nest before, nor did lie ever, so far as I know, touch one with birds or eggs in it; but he sometimes after that brought me empty nests, usually orioles' or chip- One morning I took off his collar and put it on the pointer, saying to him, "Dan-has lost his collar; you must lend him yours." That afternoon he came to me with a sort of grunting noise, as ho often did when pleased, and car rying Dan's collar in his mouth. Our Four-Footed Friends. A MATCH TRICK. Here is an interesting match trick. Make a ten-point star from five wooden matches, half broken, thus: Now, make it into a five-point star without touching the matches. To do this place two drops of water in the centre (as shown by the dot). The effect is magical. CHILDREN IN FAR OFF SPAIN. In the Spanish city of Seville there are no kindergartens or other places trying to catch the monkey. where the busy mother can leave her little children to be cared for while she does the housework or helps her husband in his little shop. The baby is left to care for itself and does so very well that is, the baby who has not learned to walk yet. It is placed in a wicker-woven ar rangement which looks like a basket turned upside down, and is just high enough so the baby's feet will touch the ground. He is then set out In the street to take care of himself. He can not turn over, so he at Jeast remains in an upright position. The basket is very light, so he often works his way up the street and" far away from home. He will get into the middle of the street, so -that the donkeys who take the places of horses and wagons there must go around him. This they al ways do, and it looks queer to see" a long line of donkeys going out of their way to go around a baby In the narrow streets of the old Spanish town. Chi cago Record-Herald. Most people wear glasses because they look better In them. 1 ,111 p-aBil J S Kind friends, please forbear. I know that the time for compositions and debates and essays is near at hand, but I am sick and cannot help you this spring. I am weak and don't want to strain my mind. I "haven't been out of the house but twice in three months. My wife and the doctor watch me ana won't let me go. A .few weeks ago I slipped off to my daughter's one pleas ant evening and had to be hauled back in a buggy, for it is up hill to my house, and I was weaker ' than I thought. You see I had a sunstroke last June and have never recovered from it. Every night, if the weather is bad, I have to get up about midnight and sit by the fire and cough for' an hour or two. But I can answer letters ; and have from a dozen to a score every; j day. It pleases me to answer the let ters of the young folks, for many ;of them need help. I know that I did when I was away off at school. My ; father wa an old school teacher and knew how to help me. He wrote nearly.! all of my junior " orator's speech and Ij got credit for it, though I only crossed! the t's and dotted thei's and put myj name to the end of it. But there are ; hundreds of boys and girls who have no help and I am sorry for them ana so for many years past I have tried to! help them. Some of them just want; help a little, a few ideas, but others j want the whole thing. In fact, one boy! asked me to write him two 'so that he! could take choice. Many of them forget I to enclose a stamp and my postage ac count got to be such a burden that, as Rip Van Winkle said, "I swort off!' and quit answering such letters. It is , bad manners to write to a man on busi ness that does not concern him and ' expect' him to pay the return postage, j I receive many long manuscripts with requests to read and criticise and re turn and tell where to have publish-,: ed and what the writer will probably ' get paid for them. I have two on hand,!; just received no stamps enclosed one is a grammatical curiosity. Hardly a line that does not contain bad gram mar or a misspelled work. It takes ; nearly half a line for the word "specta- cles" apd it has, fourteen letters in it. The word angel is spelled angle, and yet the writer expects to get paid for! the story. jj The other manuscript is an inquiry; Into the race problem no stamps ana it contains seventeen-questions for me to answer. Another long letter on fool's j -cap writes of the good old times andj says in conclusion that if I will answer? it he will writeme again and put his name to the next letter. There is nOj name to this. He is. an Irishman, 1 reckon. One other request I wish to; make about letters. Please place your postoffice address plaily at the top and your name plainly at the bottom. Many a time I have passed a letter all round the family trying to decipher the sig nature. Sometimes I have cut the slg-i nature off and pasted it on the back of the reply, thinking that probably the postmater at the writer's homej would recognize it. If the postoffice ad-j dress is - omitted and the postmark on the envelope is blurred, as it frequently is, it is Impossible to know where aj. reply should be sent, and if I guess a it land guess wrong it goes to the dead leiter office. Now, you young people must not forget these little things, for they are Important, especially the stamps. Sometimes we literary men are greatly perplexed to know what to do with some letters. One more re.4 quest. Do not write to me at Atlanta I do not live there. My home is in Cartersville, and I thought that every-j body knew it by this time. I have been living here over twenty years. !j And now let me ask the good Chari? table ladies who seek to do something for some good cause to send no mor endless chain letters to me. They are a nuisance and have annoyed me greatly. I thought that when that com-f mon cheat and swindler, Joel Smith, of Monticello, Fla., was broken up and arrested the endless chain business had stopped, but of late It has revived and I received three last week. One of thenj started in Canada for a so-called misj sionary work and got all the way down to Louisiana and from there. t6 me, waiting me to copy two letters ' yd send ten cents in Christ's name", nd under no circumstances to breal? the chain. Well, I broke it and shall break every one that comes to me, and shall burn the letters for they nsvejr contain any return postage. Some years ago the good ladies of Fredericksburg. Va., wrote to me, saying they wanteu about $300 or $400 to place head stones to the graves of 260 Georgia soldiers who were buried there. I made ah earnest appeal to our people' and asked for a dollar from each good man or woman, and I raised $300 in three weeks. Adjutant General Phil Byrd sent me $2 all the way from New Brunswick. I bought the marble, all lettered nicely, from the northern men who own the works at Marietta-f- bought them at one dollar each, which was less than the cost, for the com pany said they helped to put our boys there and they ought to help -mark their graves. The railroads .shipped them free. There was no endless chain in that ' business. Three thousand neglected confederate graves, at Mari etta! Our boys, our dead buried on oflr soil, died In defense of '-their .homes, their state, their people. On the' other side of the railroad are about as many who were trespassers on our soilf vandals who came as invaders with arms and torches, and their graves ate marked with costly marble and adorn ed with gravel walks and flowers and evergreens, and there is a grand eh trance to their city of the dead, all done by the national government, and a 'keeper employed. And yet it is now settled we were right and they were wrong. Oh, liberty and union! what crimes have been committed In thy name. jj But Secretary Root seems to be' a good man and is going to help us make up the roster, the muster roll of dur living and our dead.' Maybe he will get, a little closer to us and help, the Ma rietta women to make their confed erate graveyard just, as elegant and ornamental as. the one on the other side. Why not try .him ?, Dead soldiers are not enemies to each other and if theirs could speak maybe they would BILL ARP ;say, Give us your hand, brother." Is ; it not about time for our women to ;make an appeal to the government for aid in this patriotic work? Not only for Marietta, but wherever our soldiers are buried. Marietta has. many northern visitors who spend their winters there and it seems to me if they brought along a heart and a soul with them, they yjould go to these ladies and say, "Here are ten dollars. Please mark ten of those graves for me." But I reckon most f them just bring their bodies and leave their hearts at home. Why not do as oui; Mr. Granger did? Just as soon as our ladies started a move to build a monument to General Young and our Bartow heroes, he was the first to ask the privilege of sub scribing $25 to the cause. He has got ten it all back already in our good will and gratitude. Axe brought his heart with, him when he moved down here andhis wife brought her whole soul. She i3 always, doiner something rnr somebody. Bill1 Arp In Atlanta Con- guiuuon. THE WONDERS OF NATURE. Protection From Enemies Furnished All Living Things. By a decree of nature, one-half the world flourishes at the expense of the other haK; The sparrow chases he butterfly, but the hawk chases the sparrow. For the problem of life is twofold. It is not enough merely to eat; it is necessary to avoid being eaten. Yet nuture detests killing for killing's sake. Massacre forms no part of her great planl So we see that every creature is provided with some more or less effectivo quality of defence, by means of which the. at tacks of its natural enemies are ren dered less frequent or less deadly. Thus, the antelope, by means of its superior speed, at time3 escapes from the lion. The armadillo, rolled in its wondrous coat of mail, lies secure among a score of hungry, gnawing foes, while the white hare, scarcely distinguishable from the snow on which it crouche3, is ; often over looked by his foe the fox. But of all creatures none nave received more ample protection than the insects. Some of them possess stings, others bite, and a few puff out clouds of poisonous vapor to stupefy or blind their pursuers. Again, there are in sects clothed in impenetrable armor, insects covered with sharp spines and prickles and others whose means of defence consists in nothing but a likeness to the objects which sur round them. Paper Is belng made frota. corn stalks. The farmer is now a power ii ltf-a.twre as V n in finance. TRY ; GJEU H0G THE WRITE FOR CIRCULARS t Sewing Machines we manufacture and their prices before you pmrchase any other. The new home scwino machine Co. OBAHOB, BLABS. M Union Square, N.Y. Chicago. 111. St. Louis, Xc Dallas,lex. 8an Fraocisco.Cak AtUntsCla. tea ssalc m 50 YEARS EXPERIIENCE Marks OES1GN3 Copyrights &c Anyone flpndiny a sketch and description mi quickly nsnerteiri onr opinion free whether a invention is probnbir patentable. ComniunIo clons strictly eonflrtentiaL Handbook on Patent sent f reo. Oldest asency for securtnfrpatents. 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