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^ ^ ^ ^ ISSUED SEMI'WEEKI^^ l. m. grist 4 sons, publishers, j % J'amiln Jleuspaper: J'or the promotion of (he political Social, Sjrirultural, and dCommerriaf ^Interests of the people. j mm?Sorr!nrecradtvslliei!' established 1855. YORKVILLE, S. C? WEDNESDAY, JULY 23, 1902. NO. 59. i ?? ????????? WHEN BOYS BY JOHN JEE Author of "Helen's Ba ington Copyright, 1901, by John Habberton. nn ? pti?R WITT AGAIN THE UNEXPECTED. fFTEIt the Diktat riding at which I failed and Brainardsucceeded we spent several days in worrying the enemy on our front, but when several cavalry dashes on a single day proved to us that the enemy had become weary of us and had abandoned the vicinity we all went back to camp and began to do our spring housecleaning. This work was greatly needed, for only the make believe sick men had occupied the camp in the last fortnight, and they made the place look like a lot of houses that had been abandoned to tramps. Indeed, In later days I've been compelled to tieiieve that the war was the origin of tbe great army of tramps that has luvested and infested the country ever since 1805. After careful inspection our colonel decided that the best way to have a clean camp was to make a new one, so he formally asked for ground for the purpose, hut the general said that all the troops at the post would have to make new camps elsewhere very soon, for since our trouble with Longstreet the war department had determined that the post was not worth the cost of holding* It. Further, General Halleck. the president's right hand military adviser, declared that he could not understand why the post was ever occupied. When this information reached us, all of us were amazed and disgusted. We had goue out almost a year before to help save the Union. We had spent all our time aud suffered innumerable discomforts, privations and fears. Now, according to tbe highest authorities, we might as well have remained at home. Cloyne. Bralnard and I held an indignation meeting over It, and Clo.vue moved formally that we Join the Mick McTwyny gang and assist tug rat cauanau io cursing iuc guvcmincut. but lirainard objected, saying that governments, being human, bad to learn some tilings by experience, and as on general principles 1 always sided with Brainard. C'loyne's resolution was voted down by a two-thirds majority. Meanwhile preparations for evacuating the post bad la>en made. The heavy artillery was removed, one regiment after another followed It, and dually there came an early July morning when we were informed we were to pack our own effects at once and be ready to abandon camp. Lip to that time we had supposed that our effects were only what could be curried on our horses, but some of us soon learned to our sorrow that we bad accumulated enough stuff to load half a dozeu horses. I, for one, had collected at least a ton of war relics, ranging in weight from a Johnny's Iron stirrup to unexploded shells and solid shot weighing a hundred pounds. All of this old iron lay in a row on the topmost log of our room and directly over the Inner edge of my bunk. 1 tried to bribe teamsters to provide transportation; I even labored with the ? ? ? * ?" K?? Vi/\n sergeant 01 uur nuniun uauoj, imping to coax him to carry them In unoccupied comers of his gun caissons, but he, too, was obdurate?he had luggage of his own?so I had to content myself by selecting a single three inch shell that could go in my box of extra clothing without exciting suspicion by its weight. One day the entire regiment except the stable orderlies were ordered on picket, the reserve station of which was the main street of the village. At 4 o'clock iu the morning the pickets. Instead of being relieved, were entirely withdrawn, and the relief was posted within a quarter of a mile of the main body of the regiment. The meu on these new posts were relieved at S in the morning by members of a single troop, which happened to be our own. j From the new outposts?1 was the corporal in charge of one and Bralnard of another?we were soon drawn In to camp. On entering camp the order was given to prepare to Ore the houses, stables, etc. The signal, the officers told us, would be the fall of the camp flagstaff, at .which a man with an ax already stood, while the entire band, mounted, stood near by, playing "Auld L,aug oyue. au iin-yuic lui camp was simple Enough. It was merely to "stand by" with matches ready to light, for every bunk was of pine and contained a mattress full of hay. straw or leaves that had been well sunned and seasoned. The walls were of pine, and so were the roofs. No plaster or partitions could delay the spread of flame, and everything was as dry as a July sun could make it. Down crashed the pole, hundreds of .matches cracked, and the band began playing some solemn music, familiarly known as "Old Hundredth," and then dashed into "There's No Luck About the House," for "A Hot Time In the Old Town" had not yet been written. In a moment all the men were hurrying to the stables, where the horses stood nil saddled. Orders had already been given to dash to the road as soon as mounted: the guidon bearers were already there as rallying points for the men of their respective troops. Already llames poured from the windows WERE MEN. A "RRERTON. ibies," "George WasliEtc. of all the houses and even from some of the roofs. The remaining hay In camp had been thrown by the stable orderlies upon the pine brush roofs of the stables. The instant a stable was entirely cleared of horses the roof was lighted and the Ore quickly spread. The spectacle that followed was as good as a fight, so some of our best fighting men said. At least GO buildings were aflame, and 900 mounted men were dashing between and around them in their effort to reach the road. Some of the slower men were obliged to make a detour of half a mile, for i the heat of that aggregation of burning pine was intense, even to men already in the road. ' Finally, however, when the orderly sergeants called the rolls, the entire command was present or accounted < for. The column was formed quickly. Then the bugles sounded "forward," ' and the band once more did the appropriate thing, r it played "Ain't I i (Had to (Jet Out of the Wilderness?" 1 a popular air of the period. But be- i fore half a dozen bars had been played the music ceased and the column halted Instinctively, for we heard a shot like that of a held gun. "Fours about!" shouted our captain. , As we were the rear guard, the men who had dropped behind in rear guard manner had already turned their horses ; and brought their carbines to the po- i sltlon of "advance." "Look sharp!" said the captain. "Fluil the direction from which the ( next shot comes." i The instant we heard another report j we saw a mass of shingles go skyward , from tin* roof of our troop's house. ] "Strange about that!" muttered the , av'n'n. "1 heard only one report, that j Then came a deafening report. of the shell. 1 dldu't suppose a field | gun could he fired without being , heard." 1 By this time the colouel and the ] major of our battalion were beside us and scanning the surronudlug country with their glasses. Then came a deaf- . ening report, and blazing logs as well , us sliingles (lew from the late abode of | our troop. ( "That beats me," said the colonel? ] "bursting shells, but no gun reports. | 1 d .n't see any balloon from which the enemy could drop them." I, too. was mystified and looked inquiringly at Brainard. who In turn looked pale and as if a heavy load of guilt was on his conscience. "Colonel." said he. saluting. "I think 1 can explain It. 1?some of the men brought in unexplnded shells after the . ... j * siege us mcmcnios, imu uiey w?c iw big to carry away and were carelessly left in the houses, and the tire has reached them and made them hot, and"? "Thunder!" roared the colonel, turning almost black with anger. "Bugler, blow 'forward!'" Again the column moved. Brainard and 1 had been glad we were of the rear guard, for we had planned to be together, if ouly for a moment, the last men to leave the post. Now. we almost wished we might never leave it. for the colonel's anger boded no good to the men who were to blame for the false alarm, and It would be easy for the colonel to learn who the men were. TO BE CONTINUED. The Arch Destroyer. "He Is a mean, sneaking, underhanded element, the moth Is," protests John Keiidrlek Bangs in The Woman's Home Companion. "Fire lias a decent sense of the proprieties. Moths have noue at all. When fire attacks you. It smokes and crackles and hisses and roars and lots you Know in cianou tout's that it has come. The moth steals upon you In the dead of night and chews up your best trousers, gorges himself upon your wife's furs, tickles his palate with your swellest flaunel golf shirt, inuuches away upon your handsomest rug. punches boles in your best sofa cushions with his tusks nud then silently folds his tent and steals away without so much as a thank you for his meal. For unmitigated meanness commend me to the moth! Alongside of the moth and his nefarious work even a book agent pales into Insignilicauce and an unpaid grocer's bill becomes an absolute pleasure." ittiscftlanrouo gtcatling. A FLOATING POSTOFFICE. How MnllM Are Delivered to and Received From Shlpi at Fall Speed. A small, yacht-like white steamer dances over the swells of the Detroit river to meet and exchange messages and salutes with every one of the passing ships?a little midget servant to this enormous commerce. Without this tiny steamer the lake commerce would be as helpless as we of the cities and towns would be without the postman and the postofflce. The tremendous advance In shipping facilities on the great lakes In recent years has been due to tireless American enterprise, fostered by generous appropriations by the government In aids to navigation: so when the need of this little messenger presented Itself the Washington authorities were not slow In making the experiment leading to its adoption. This method of handling United Slates mail is the only one of its kind in existence, and the idea of a floating postofflce that successfully delivers and receives mail to and from ships at full speed is only another illustration of the wonders and far-reaching benefits of our wide-awake postal system. The books of the United States treasury department in Washington now contain the names of nearly 4,000 ships that constitute the great lakes marine. The fresh-water sailors to whom this fleet is entrusted, would, in numbers make the population of a large city. They are, therefore, fairly entitled to some means of communication with their homes and families in the states bordering the lakes, and with friends far away, and the little white steamer performs this service as perfectly as can be desired. Before the establishment of this delivery it was difficult to send letters to any one aboard ship, although Niagara's wall confined the movement of vessels to the great lakes, and their voyages back and forth were past the shores of eight states, with a population of 26,000,000, and their ports of call Included six cities of over 10,000 population each. This may seem strange, but It is easily explained by the fact that the greater number of lake steamers "run wild"?that is, they depend on their owners and agents making profitable charters for them from trip to trip. ?St. Nicholas. FARMHAND'S JOB IN PERIL. Trnctlon Engines Doing His Work In the West. "The farmhand's finish is in plain sight," said a man who had just returned from the west. "And the farm horse is headed down the same pike. In their stead is coming the little choochoo engine of the traction type. "Out in the prairie region the tendency is all toward big farms. The agricultural unit out there has been the quarter section or 160 acres. "Few of the farmers are satisfied now with such a small bunch of land, and they are reaching out all the time for more. Wheat and corn have been topping the market at such prices that nearly every fellow is crazy to go into raising them on a big scale. And they have the moaey and the intelligence to rS/v it onS /in It nrnfitablv. "Right here is where invention comes In. On the ordinary farm, where two or three men with the same number of teams of horses can do all the work, it isn't really necessary to call on the machine man for artificial aid, but when the farming is done on a big scale it pays better to buy a traction engine. These are not the ordinary big clumsy attachments to threshing outfits, but compactly built little iellows, with gasolene as the motive power. "With them there is no need of getting out at ungodly hours in the morning to feed and water a lot of animals. Five minutes' work fills the tank and makes the machine ready to do your ploughing, harrowing or cultivating. "The first cost of these engines is pretty steep, from $1,000 up, but it costs less to run them than it does to feed horses, and they never get balky. They last longer than the average workhorse and they do ten times as much work in a day. "Out in Nebraska I ran across a fellow with a gang plough, five in a row, hitched to one of these little engines, and it was steadily moving across the field and tearing un the sod at a lively rate. This same man told me that when it came to harrowing he tacked on two or three Dig ones and did the job in a fourth of the former time. "Potatoes are planted and dug up with these engines. In planting a large dropper is used and in digging them a special kind of plough is employed. "When it comes time in the fall to thresh the engine is coupled to a separator and the job is done in short order. If it is necessary during the winter to grind feed for the cattle it is but the work of a few minutes to fire up and start the mill. When grain is to ue hauled to market several farm wagons are attached and the procession moves off." "There is scarcely a thing about farm work that these machines will not do, and they are growing more popular every year. The average farmer thought the acme of comfort and perfection had been reached in the sulky olouch and the riding cultivator, which saved him many weary steps and it has not been without considerable trouble that he has been induced to take up the traction engine. "Hundreds of these are now being manufactured ana sold every year. The company sends an agent out to show the farmer how to run the affair and how to employ it in various laborsaving ways. It doesn't take long to learn this, and the cost of keeping one running is only a few cents an hour. "Sixty-cent whakt and fifty-cent corn are making westfrn farmers, where thirty bushels of i rheat and sixty bushels of corn is an average yield, independently rich. A hundred acres of wheat is an ordinary field, and this alone is enough to net a good income on the investment. "A bunch of cattle will pay tne expenses, and his other crops are velvet. The result has been to run up the price of land. "Tracts that sold for $25 two years ago bring $40 and $45, and $30 land of nnst venrs is eaillv marketable at $50 and $60. The life is much easier, the work Is not nearly so hard, nor the hours so long. "This has had the gooa effect of making the farmers' sons more content with life on tue farm, and many of them go down to the state agricultural schools and take ,a course in scientific agriculture, returning better farmers and better citizens. "The rural free mall delivery, with its facilities for keeping in touch with the life of the outside world, and the bicycle as a substitute for the carriage are also helping in the work of popularizing agriculture."?New York Sun. SPAIN'S CRAZY KING. Yonnit Alpbonao Threatens to Throw His Mother Into the Streets. The eccentric behavior of Alphonso XIII is causing in the royal household great anxiety for his future. He seems to combine the depraved state of his notorious grandfather with the irresponsibility of his half-imbecile father. After angering the military authorities and antagonizing the ministers he is 1 J <JII airilllieu ici nm mm mc er, whom he has repeatedly insulted grossly. He has estranged the sympathy of the family of his court by the fondness he has developed for low associates. The household has made desperate efforts to conceal these facts and prevent a public scandal. The king's attitude toward the queen Is the most severely criticised part of his conduct, for he seems to have lost all respect due ner. When in any way crossed by her he curses her In the language of a coal-heaver, no matter who Is present. The king will have It understood that hlslword Is supreme. At , the most trifling opposition to his whims he becomes grossly abusive. He has frequently spat In the face of domestics who have neglected Jils orders. The most recent of the scenes nearly resulted In an open rupture between the king and th? queen-mother. ( One evening the king, disguised as a laborer, slipped away from the palace unrecognized by,the guards. He went to the slums of Madrid, where he had made up his mind to attend a workingman's ball. He passed the night dancing. drinking and playing, and return- , ed to the palace at dawn In a halfdrunken condition. The queen-mother, , acquainted of his mysterious disappearance from the palace, had spent the night In agony. When she heard the cause of his absence, she felt compelled to remonstrate against conduct so unworthy of a king. The king told her to mind her own business and respect his authority like the rest of his subjects. The queen replied that in the eyes of God, the son owed submission to his mother. The king, flying into a violent passion showered upon his mother all the oaths acquired from the lower caste associates, and finally ordered her out of the royal palace. The queen remaining impassive, the king cried violently: "I shall call my guards to throw you into the streets of Madrid.' He was ringing to give the order when his confessor came hurriedly in and closed the doors, remaining with the royal couple till he succeeded in restoring outward peace. The queen-mother has since refused to see the king save in public. It is said that she thought of retiring from the court, but that the king's advisers have pursuaded her to remain for the present. Serious as the consequences of these events have been in the palace and the government, the public is impressed rather favorably than other4wise. His refusal to sign certain decrees, and tne continued opposition he raises against the ministerial projects has given rise to the hope that the power is held by a man resolute enough to end the evil engendered by the unflrm rule of a woman swaying between political antagonism and religious pressure. His disregard for military precedents as calling at the barracks early one morning and ordering the Madrid garrison to turn out for impromptu review has been much relished by the populace as an act of independence amounting to bearding the military authorities. Hut those within tne palace consider the king's conduct as the freaks of a young and hereditary weak mind, deranged by the sudden acquisition of power. Incidents of his earlier life, showing his obstinacy and unreasonableness are remembered as having had a deeper significance. The young king has passed into tradition as the most unmanageable pupil professors have ever had to deal with, and stories of his general eccentricities have been current since babyhood. The only control he would overlook was tnat of his mother, and against her he frequently rebelled, but now that he has taken to insulting her, and defying the ministers, the matter assumes a more important aspect. His entourage entertains fears that his mind is really deranged and has long been, although his manifestations have not been rightly interpreted heretofore. It is notorious that not long before the coronation he came down from his apartments naked one morning, declaring clothing to be superfluous, and paraded the palace in that condition for half a day, defying any one to touch his sacred person.?Madrid Dispatch. SIIINES IN PORTO KICO. How an American Bootblack Fonnded a New Industry. "The American occupation of Porto Rico has resulted in the introduction of one Anglo-Saxon institution among the Latin peoples of the West Indies, that has already become fast and permanent," said Dr. J. W. Pewkes, of the bureau of ethnology, who returned last Saturday from an archaeological tour of that island, in the course of which he was afforded unusual opportunities fnr viewine the life and customs of the Islanders tempered by American influences. Continuing: he said: "The first American troops that landed on the Island were accompanied by a colored bootblack; a boy about 12 or 14 years of a?re, from New York, who drove a thriving business shining the shoes of the officers. The Porto Rlcans were strangers to such an institution, but, being of an imitative turn, were not long in adopting what to them seemed worth copying. Following on the heels of the army came other Americans. so that the little bootblack from New York soon had more business than he could attend to. But this, however, did not last very long, and in less than two months after his arrival he experienced very lively competition from the youngsters of San Juan, who, watching his movements, straightway provided themselves with boxes, brushes and blacking, and learning the word 'shine,' were ready to black shoes after the most approved American fashion. "Today every city and town in Porto Rico is full of little bootblacks, for the natives having noticed that properly polished shoes constituted part of the make-up of well-dressed Americans, and anxious not to be outdone in the matter of style, adopted the custom of keeping their shoes shmed. "The American occupation and influ ence Is being felt In other ways throughout the Island, and Is more especially noticeable in the schools. The people are anxious to learn, and education Is looking up all over the island. During my sojourn among these people I visited a country school one day where the teacher, a bright young Porto Rlcan, called one of his pupils, a little boy of ten years of age, to the blackboard and directed him to draw a map of tne state of Pennsylvania. The little fellow executed the map as well or better, than I could have done myself, putting in the rivers and cities, the names of which he wrote out in Spanish. Another little fellow drew a map of Connecltut, and I am free to confess that I never In my life saw a brighter class in geography. "Another thing I noticed Is that everybody on the Island Is anxious to learn English, wnlch is coming Into use more and more every da>. It Is now being taught in all the schools, and the generation now growing up will be able to speak and read the language as well as their native Spanish." ?Washington Post. GRACE THROUGH WORK. Carriage of Caribbean Women Due to Exercise. There are no more graceful women In the world than the Creoles, or mulattoes, of the Carrlbean islands. They carry heavy burdens, toll in tne neias and in the arrowroot and sugar mills, attend to their household duties and raise large families, yet through it an are as happy and cheerful as the women of any other clime. One of their employments is to keep the military roads and the streets of the cities in repair. They may be seen all along the twenty-two mile government road from Georgetown to Kingston, in St. Vincent, digging out the ditches, filling the ruts washed out by the torrents that pour down the steep hillsides and performing the menial part of bridge building and fencing against floods. Usually they work In company with men, who, sad to say, devote themselves more assiduously to bossing than to helping along the work. In the fields the men plow, but the women plant and noe. When it comes to harvesting the cane the women wield the machetes in as large numbers as the men, and their reward for their toil from sunrise to sunset Is from threepence to sixpence a day, the latter only in rare cases. In the mills the more experienced operators only receive sixpence a day. When Saturday (market day) comes these women of St. Vincent array themselves in their best and whitest attire and set out for either Georgetown or Kingston afoot. Their lords and masters go with them but if there is a burden to carry, and there always is at least an empty tray, the woman carries it, while the man steps jauntily along, twirling a bamboo stick und looking and acting much like the typical dude. The women, whose apparel is scrupulously clean, her tray poised on her bare head, her skirt tucked up under the belt or girdle on one side of it, reaching only to the knee, her feet free from hosiery and shoes and her shapely arms naked to half-wav above the elbows, is a pic ture of graceful movement. Her stride is long, but not masculine. It is astonishing how rapidly she moves without seeming to hurry. She keeps pace with a team of mules without apparent fatigue and talks gaily with whoever cares to talk as she glides along. The old women in all these islands are inveterate traders. Their little outdoor shops are a feature of West Indian life and they besiege ships in their bumboats, and the traveler even in the hotels, with all sorts of fruits, nuts and fancy work. Some of their most beautiful wares are made of jumping beans and seeds of tropical plants and shrubs. Bread, cakes and fruits are retailed in nearly all the island cities by old women with wayside markets. One at Charlottetown had a place at the landward end of the boat landing, and she held it firmly against all competitors. Nearly all the girls are good singers. Their voices are boyish in quality, but there is a wonderful tenderness In* the rendition of pathetic songs or very de[ vout hymns. A shilling will buy the entire repertory, with as many encores as you like. The singer will go on, if judiciously encouraged, until hoarseness compels a stop.?New Tfork Tribune. PAY FOR VICTORIES. Large Amount* Which Have Been Given to English Generals. The grant of ?50,000, which the king recommends should oe voted to Lord Kitchener, is a substantial reward enough; and yet mere win oe many who will consider that the task performed by Lord Kitchener was at least as Important as that for which Lord Roberts received double the money, together with an earldom and the Garter. It Is true, however, Lord Kitchener never said the war was over. The principle upon which military rewards have been granted by parliament has never been very clear. For example, Lord Wolseley received after the relatively unimportant Ashantee campaign half as much as Lord Kitchener, though the task set him can scarcely have presented a twentieth part of the difficulty There are, of course, other little pickings, If we may so speak, which fall to the lot of the successful general. Lord Wolseley, for Instance, on the occasion of his receiving a sword of honor from the city, was presented In addition with a purse containing 100 guineas. Probably the best rewarded, as he was the most deserving of military leaders, was the Duke of Wellington. He was made a viscount, with a pension of ?2,000 a year, after the battle of Talavera. In recognition of his glorious exploits in the Peninsula he obtained an earldom with an additional ?2,0o0 a year; and Immediately afterward he became a marquis, and ?100,000 was granted to him for the purchase of lands to maintain the honor of the position. Napoleon, once sare, as ine worm relieved, In Elba, Wellington's Services were further recognized by the gift of a dukedom and a sum of ?400,000. The king could scarcely do more after this In the way of titles; but the resources of parliament and of the nation?were less limited, and a further grant of ?200,000 was voted to the victor of Waterloo on the final extinction of the Napoleonic meteor. So that, if we capitalize the duke's pensions at the rate of twenty years' purchase, thte struggle against Napoleon was worth to him no less than ?780,000, or rather more than a hundred and ten thousand a year, counting from the date of Talavera. Such a nice little addition to his. pay is probably more than any modern soldier will ever realize again.?London Dally News. SLEEPING HEROES. Mighty Men of the Past Who Are Expected to Return. Is there any race that has not Its sleeping hero? A correspondent recently pointed out that the time for the fulfillment of the of the prophecy that the tenth avatar of Krishna will restore to India her independence, Is near at hand, and every nation has some such savior to whom the people look. West country rustics still believe that Arthur did not die, but sleeps In Avalon, and that in the hour of Britain's need he will awake, deliver the land and restore the golden age. In Germany it is a popular belief that Charles V will some day wake from his enchanted sleep to reign over Germany, Spain, Portugal, Denmark, Belgium and Hoi land. Thousands of French peasants hold that Napoleon Is only sleeping: and that at some future time he will reappear and rule. And Mr. Newboldt has enshrined the Devon legend that Drake Is only listening for the drum. The Irish peasantry steadfastly refuse to believe that Mr. Parnell Is really dead. They assert that his death was a ruse, that he was an Interested spectator of his own funeral, and that when the time comes he will emerge from retirement to give Ireland her independence. Many Irish, indeed, firmly believe that DeWet Is none other than Charles Stewart Parnell. Every true Moslem believes that when Anti-Christ appears Mohammed Mohadi will awake and conquer him. A Moorish legend declares that Boabdil el Chlco sleeps spellbound near the Alhambra and that one day he will awake to reestablish the Moors as rulers of Granada. The Servians look to King Lager, slain by the Turks in 1389, as their final hope, and should Switzerland be ever again threatened by tyrants Swiss folk-lore declares that the three members of the Tell family, who are sleeping at Hutlli, near the Vlerwald-Staien-See, will rise from their sleep and bring about the freedom of the land.?Baltimore American. Edison's Latest.?If Mr. Edison, as he claims, has found a storage battery, one that will run a vehicie one hundred miles without recharging, there will be a revolution in the electric car systems of the country. The battery under test consists of twenty-one cells and weighs 332 pounds. It was placed in an automobile, the whole of which with two men in the vehicle, weighing 1,075 pounds. Thus equipped the machine made a run on one charge of sixty-two miles over country roads containing many grades and at the end of the run the vehicle was making 83 per cent, of its original speed. Another test was made on a comparatively level road, but the road was in a muddy condition and the vehicle ran 85 miles on one charge before stopping. When perfected for the use of street cars, this invention win prove a priceless boon- to humanity, for It will be the means of doing away with the overhead trolley and the attendant mass of dangerous wires and unsight ly poles. The trolley car system is capable yet of many improvements.? Charlotte News. DANGER OF WORRY. A Dineaae That Shonld Be Watched and Controlled. Worry, that anarchy of the mind, deranges the physical no less than the mental functions. Under the Influence of worry the disorganized mind and the disordered body mutually act and react, producing the gravest maladies in each. Worry Is not suspense. Worry Is not anxiety, nor regret, nor fear, nor doubt, nor resolve.. All these are definite mental states. Worry Is that vncne chaotic condition that anarchv of the mind, In which hopes, fears, resolves, doubts, anxieties, regrets, anticipations, suspicions are admittedravening, destroying horde, under the attacks of which thought Is precluded, action Is paralyzed and integrity of the mind Itself Is endangered, often destroyed. The striving of the human mind for better surroundings, higher developments, more perfect happiness for self and others?the "divine discontent that leads to all great achievement"?that Is not worry. The one Is a sign of mental poise and vigor, the other a sign of mental unbalance and futility. Worry Is the epidemic of the day?an epidemic more widespread, more Insidious, more deadly than any pestilence recorded in the history of human calamity. Worry is the most faun of diseases, for it predisposes to all disease. A great authority has said: "Fundamentally, there Is but one disease?debility." Worry produces debility, and through this debility the patient is rendered vulnerable to a host of Ills. Worry, directly or indirectly, produces nervous Irritability, Indigestion, Insomnia, anorexia, heart disease, diabetes, neurasthemia, hypochondria, paralysis, Insanity. Worry is the cardinal sin of the day. Worry Is sin, and the wages oi sin is aeam. Worry Is a curable uisease, but?he who would be cured must cure himself, must work out his own salvation. He must engage in a civil war of the intellect, must reduce anarchy to order. He must, in other words, achieve "self-control. The first step is to become convinced of the utter futility, the danger, the sin of worry. A thousand years of worry will not alter one little circumstance. On the other hand, worry is ruinous to the Individual, physically, mentally and morally?a sin against himself and his maker. Let him who would be cured of the disease called worry hold these as flaming facts before his mental sight. Let him observe, resolve, act. Then, calm and resigned, await the results. For thought, resolution, action?these belong to man. Results are with God. ?Health Culture. CHILDHOOD'S JINGLES. Mystic Rhymes That Never Grow Out of Date. The New York Sun quotes a half dozen children's "count out" rhymes from a collection of these curious products of child life, and they carry one back to the scenes of long ago?to big, white sanded yards, shaded with liveoaks, where the "count out" games and others, with jingles and without, were played with an enthusiasm wonderful to recall. Evidently what was the same original Jingle that takes varying form in different parts of the country. The 'Eeny, meeny, mlny mo, Patch a nlerer bv the toe. ff he hollers let him go." quoted by The Sun Is practically Identical with the form In which we recollect It, but In other rhymes the variation Is remarkable. For example, in Indiana, children count out thus: "One-ery, two-ery, ickery Ann, "Philoson, pholoson, Nicholas, John; Stlnkum, stankum, buck!" The final line of the above evidently has the same origin as the final line of a count-out rhyme among Georgia children of the 80's, which, if memory be not at fault, ran thus: "One sot, two sot, six sot, Sai, Bobtail, domenicker, dll, dot, dat, Haylum, Scoylum, Virgin Mary, Sinctum, sanctum, buck!" The final lines in each case indicate a possible origin in some old Latin poem of a serious nature. The first line of the Indian version suggests another count-out rhyme once in high favor with Georgia children, which was something like this: "One-a-ma-newry, dickery, seven, Hallbow, crackery, ten or eleven, Pe, po, must be done, Triggle-twaggle, twenty-one!" Then there were "William-ma-tribble-to?he's a good fisherman," etc. "Ten, ten, double-ten," etc., "One two, buckle my shoe," etc., and a number of others, Including the following, whlcn may aptly be termed strenuous, especially with regard to the last line: "Quema, quimo, dilmo, day, Rick, stick, pomiddle, Dido, uaesar Droae me paaaie over pey's head!" It would be interesting to know whether these Georgia specifications, which we quote from memory, are found in any of the published collections. The Sun classes the count-out rhymes of childhood "among the most curious products of the human mind," and is of the opinion that they possess "in their frequent unintelliglbiltty, their deformation of phrases or of words once having a meaning, and their strange refrains, the characteristics of ancient and even magical song." However that may be, the adult can never forget them or the fascination they once held for him.?Macon Telerranh. XiY A noble nature can alone attract the noble, and alone knows how to retain them. tV The more Insignificant the man, the louder he boasts of hfs ancestry.