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^ ^ = ^ ISSUED 8BX1?WSEKL^ l. m. grists sons, Publishers, j % JJamilg jReurspaper: 4or promotion of the political, Social. Agricultural and Commercial interests of the people. JrKK^u'^"cIIfy. wvk iiwTh!^08 established 1855. YORKVILLE, S. C., FRIDAY, J AN" LJ A. Ft Y 15, 11)09. NO. 5. 1 ? ?" * " ' "? -** ' '? -?n..iinr. I .*.%* . tt Vi ... .1?.. . I iiniv 1,1 has aaanmpH n serine far he-I THE USE OF SEALS. iwih w www ? ?# 111 m mm 111 m ui n i I By OPIE ? Copyrighted 1896, by Wm. H | oy i-er mission vi km " ~ "V ? ?" ? ? CHAPTER XXI. Conclusion. How soft had been the day, how tender the tone of every voice. The road under the moon was white and from a persimmon tree in an old field came the trill of a mocking-bird. Two happy men were riding toward an old home. "And here is where he fell," said Alf. "I am tempted to get down and pray. Bill, you don't know what it is to be freed from the conviction that you have killed a man. He might not have died then if it had not been for me. but, thank God, I didn't kiil him. Yes. nere is where I eased him down. I remembered afterward that I had not seen a drop of his blood and I was deeply thankful for it. We can almost see the ' general's house from here. You saw the old man today when he came up and shook hands with me. He hardly knew what he was about, and he said. 'Alf, what's your father doing?' But his eyes were full of tears and he had to wipe them when I told him that I was going to buy the old Morton place. 1 He thinks you are a great man, B.ll, ; and I honor him for it. Tonight we will sleep in our room and early to- 1 morrow morning I'm going over to see 1 Millie. Do you think I ought to go tonight? No, I will wait and dream 1 ofer it." . ' In the old room we sat and peace- 1 fully smoked our pipes. And after I 1 had gone to bed. and when I thought Alf was asleep, I heard him talking to 1 himself. No. it was not talk, it was a chant, and it reminded me of his mother. I said nothing and I sank to sleep. an<l strange, mystic words were in my ears, soothing me down to forgetful slumber. We were aroused early at morning by the rattle of a wagon at the door. The old people?Guinea had come back. Alf dressed quickly and ran down stairs, and I stuffed my ears t.iat I might heat no sound from below. After a long time, and while I sat looking out of the window, the old man came up. "By jings, I must have got that dispatch of yourn before you sent it. Mighty glad to see you again. But don't go down stairs yet. Everybody down there is as foolish as a chicken with his neck wrung. I tell you the , Lord works things out in his own way. Sometimes we may think that we could run things better, but I don't believe we could! and, thurfore. I say kiver to kiver. Ah, Lord, what a time we have 1 had. Yes, sir, a time if there ever was one. Alf has jest told me what you Intend to do, but if you think that you 1 are goin' to crowd a lot of money off 1 on me you are wrong. Give us this old 1 house and see that we don't need noth- ' in'?but, of course, vou'll do that. I ' - . . i thought I'd let 'em fight to a finish up yander, but I didn't. They looked at 1 me so pitiful that I called an old feller that happened to be passln' along and told him that he might have 'em. I've got to have a Sam and a Bob. Old Craighead, that lives about ten miles from here, has some of the finest in the world. Always wanted 'em. but they were so high that I couldn't tiptoe and reach 'em. Reckon you could fix it so I could git a couple?" ^ "You shall have as many as you want?all of them." "I'm a thousand times obleeged to 4 you. Yes, sir; sometimes we think we could run things better than He does. 1 but I don't reckon we could. We seen J young Lundsford as we driv along jest \ now. And I think he'll be over here * putty soon, but don't you worry. No, sir, we ain't got nothin' to worry about ( now. Believe it would push us to ' scratch up a worry, don't you? By 1 jings, though. I hardly know what to ' do: I step around here like a blind 1 sheep in a barn, as the feller says Well, it's gettin' pretty quiet down there now. Alf got away as soon as he ' could, and has gone over to the general's. Hush a minit. Thought I heard 1 Chyd's voice. Well, I'm going to poke J miinrt a little anrl it's not worth while : to tell you to make yourself at home." ' He went out. and I heard him hum- ' ming a tune as he tramped slowly down ' the stairs. I took a seat near the window. Voices reached me, and looking ! down through the branches of a mulberry tree, I saw Guinea sitting on a 1 bench, and near her stood Chyd Lundsford. In his hand he held a switch and with it he was slowly cutting at a 1 bloom on a vine that grew about the tree. He was talking, Guinea's face was turned upward and her hands were clasped behind her head. I could look I down into her eyes, but she did not see me. and I felt a sense of self-reproach 1 at thus watching her. listening for her to speak, and I thought to get up. but 1 my legs refused to move, and I sat ( there, looking down into her eyes. Her face was pale ana ner nps, wnicn naa seemed to me in bloom with the rich juice of life, were now drawn thin. "Of course. I was wrong," he said "but I'm not the first man that ever did a wrong. And I should think that as a broad-minded and generous wo- 1 man you could forgive me. I don't think that you can find any man who would take any better . care of you than I would. I've got no romance about me, and why should I have? I can just remember seeing the trail of that monster called advancement?that mighty thing called progress, though in the guise of war. and that thin:? swanowea the romance of this country. I say that I can remember seeing the fading trail, hut I know its history and 1 know that if it did not swallow romance it should have done so. I don't suppose I could ever think as much of any woman as I do of you. and I know that i no woman could make my house so brierht and cheerful. I was afraid of any complication that might hurt mv prospects as a physician, mv standing in the opinion of a careful and discriminating public: so, influenced by that sense of self-protect ion, I broke our engagement. Put now I beg of you to renew It." "On vour knees!" she said, without looking at him. "No Guinea, that's ridiculous. I am nntwimw HI in win HI HfWWPi ! I 1 i : READ. ^ I. Lee?All Rights Reserved. I rd & Lee, Publishers. j f *"man?" t willing to make all sorts of amends?" t "On your knees!" she said. 1 "I see that there is no use to appeal i to your reason. I suppose, however. ( that the way to reason with a woman I is to gratify her whim and then appeal to her sense. It is a foolish thing to r do. but in order to secure a hearing I ( will do as you say." > He sank upon his knees. She glanced down at him and then looked up at the i sky. He began to talk, but she stop- J lied him with a motion of her hand. \ "You have heard the preacher say I that we must be born again," she said, s "I have been born again?born into the kingdom of love, and I find myself In a j rapturous heaven. Get up." He obey- I ed, and she continued. "And you are so i far from this kingdom that I cannot s see you?you are off somewhere in the dark, and to me your words are cold, n But there is one who stands in the light s and I must go to him." 'I ne list or commiuees, me i-uuiv.cs SI hould in every case be satisfactory. The chairman of the judiciary re- a nains the same as last session, Hon. f-I. B. Carlisle of Spartanburg being at . he head of this committee. There are Jl line former members of this commit:ee and three new ones. Last session's . ommittee consisted of eleven members, those who are not on this year's ^ . ommittee being T. M. Ravsor and F. P. McGowan, not returning to the sen- a rte this year. The finance committee also has the >ame chairman as last session?Hon. _ ^V. L. Mauldin of Greenville. Seven if this committee hold over from last session. The new members are: Louis \ppelt. \V. R. Hough, J. S. Griffith. W. r< F. Montgomery and Alan Johnstone. a The railroad committee has a new A chairman. D. T. McKeithan of Darling- b :on. The ranking member of this committee was not, according to custom, is ilected chairman. There are five new if members on this committee also. Sen- P itor McKeithan was a member of the w oint committee to investigate railroad e conditions in this state in 1908. u Hon. J. C. Otts of Cherokee is chair- man of the dispensary committee, ti Here, too, the ranking member of last ~ session's committee was not appointed ti chairman. This is an interesting sit- f' nit inn ns Mr Otts is to lead the Dl'O- C Iiibition tight in the senate. a The standing committees of the sen- k ute are as follows: k Agricultural?C. H. Carpenter, chair- a man; P. L. Hardin, F. H. Weston, D. 1 T. McKeithan, George W. Sullivan, J. A. Harvey. J. H. Wharton. T. H. Rainsf >rd, W. H. Stewart, D. M. Crosson, tl J. M. Forest. Alan Johnstone. a Education?W. N. Graydon, chair- a man N'eils Christensen, Jr., H. R. Car-' T lisle. George H. Bates, Huger Sinkler. ti Louis Appelt, T. I. Rogers, G. K. La- K ney, T. G. Croft. Claims and Grievances?George W. L . 1 r> TCP Mii.'ivau, I'liuiiiihiii, o. v. win, ?/. .>. Griffith, C. A. C. Waller. St. Clair tl Muckenfuss. D. A. Spivey, Robert Lide, c S. J. Summers, W. J. Montgomery. h Enrolled Bills?Louis Appelt, chair- ^ man; W. J. Johnston, B. Frank Kel- n ley. W. R. Hough, W. L. Bass. T. H I Flainsford, W. H. Stewart. J. M. Forest, h Contingent Accounts?W. L. Bass, fi chairman; C. H. Carpenter. W. S. Smith, T. I. Rogers, George K. Laney. ti S. J. Summers, C. A. C. Waller, J. H. ^ Wharton. r Finance?W. L. Mauldin, chairman; '* P. L. Hardin. Neils Christensen, Jr.. t W. J. Johnson, F. H. Weston. Dan. T. ? McKeithan, George W. Sullivan. Louis n Appelt. W. R. Hough, J. S. Griffith, W. s J. Montgomery, Alan Johnstone. o Dispensary?J. C. Otts, chairman; J. '> B. Black. B. Frank Kelly. Alan John- 1 ^t me. Dan. T. McKeithan. D. M. Cros- ? son, C. A. C. Waller. t Penal and Charitable Institutions? 1" Ben F. Townsend, chairman; H. B. f Carlisle. George K. Laney, J. S. Griffith, i W. L. Bass. J. A. Harvey. J. H. Whar- v ton. D. A. Spivey. s Commerce and Manufacture?P. L. v Hardin, chairman: C. H. Carpenter. \V. I.. Mauldin. George H. Rates. J. R. Rlack. H R. Carlisle, linger Sinkler. n George \V. Sullivan. T. Yancey WI1- v liams. Robert Lide. S. J. Summers, T. e G. Croft. Countv Offices and County Officers? s J. R. Earle, chairman: Legrand G. s Walker. W. H. Stewart, W. J. Mont- c I sprang from my seat and hastened down the stairs. My heart beat fast r and I trembled. I was frightened like \ a child, like a timid overgrown boy, p who is called to the table to sit beside a girl whom he slyly worships; and I c ran away?down the path to the spring j I hard her calling me. and I stood ^ there trembling, waiting for a holy spirit that was searching for me; and wor- n ship made me dumb. She came down y the path, and seeing me, hastened toward me with her head bent forward y and her hands held out. And I caught p her in my arms, swept her off the p V-? /-> 1 Vi nr a m\f laootintr ,1 VUUU auu IIVIU Uti IV IIIJ vvcn*<i?> heart. c And over the stones the water was ^ laughing, and the strip of green moss- ? land flashed in the sun. I saw the old man walking up the ravine, with his y hands behind him, and I caught the |( faint sound of a tune he was humming p Slowly her arms came from about my p leek, and hand in hand we walked toward the house, she in the shining path. j. [ on the green sward: and as we drew p near we saw Alf and Millie, standing g under a tree, waiting for us. THE END. c ________________ <s THE SENATE COMMITTEES. 11 \ Selections In Caucus Accepted In Open c Session. e Columbia State, Wednesday. The result of the four hours' caucus jf Monady night was made known in r; :he senate yesterday, when the standng committees of the upper branch of * r he legislature for the next two years vere announced. This most important matter was gone through with less :han the usual amount of friction e< imong the senators and, judging from .. - - .1-- n romery, S. J. Summers, D. A. Splvey, 1 IV. S. Smith. Engrossed Bills?George K. Laney, . hairman; W. R. Smith, J. M. Forest. , 3. Frank Kelley, W. S. Smith, T. H. ' itainsford, S. J. Summers, St. Clair lluckenfuss. Federal Relations?C. A. C. Waller, hairman; J. C. Otts, Ben F. Townsend, | r. I. Rogers, W. N. Graydon, W. S. Smith, St. Clair Muckenfuss. Immigration?Neils Christensen, Jr., hairman; P. L. Hardin, Ben F. Townsend. T. G. Croft. W. L. Bass. W. S. Smith, J. H. Wharton. Incorporations?George. H. Bates, chairman; W. J. Johnston, T. I. Rogers, X. S. Smith, T. Yancey Williams, J. 3. Griffith, Ben F. Townsend, J. C Jtts, Huger Sinkler, B. Frank Kelley, 1 3/\Kn^? T Mfi T ur Palncfnrfl AUUC1 I U1UV, x . xx. ikuuiuAv. v.. Penitentiary?J. A. Harvey, chair- ' nan, P. L. Hardin. W. L. Bass, J. H. 1 Clifton. J. H. Wharton. J. M. Forest, ,V. H. Stewart. T. G. Croft. * Judiciary?H. B. Carlisle, chairman; ./egrand G. Walker, George H. Bates, * r. R. Earle, W. N. Graydon, T. Yancey , Yilliains, Huger fcmgler, J. C. Otts, T. 1 . Rogers. J. H. Clifton, Ben F. Town- 1 end, B. Frank Kelley. Privileges and Elections?B. Frank 1 Celley, chairman; George H. Bates, J. ' I. Clifton, T. I. Rogers, George K. ] janey, W. L. Bass, J. M. Forest, D. A. Jpivey, Robert Lide. Medical Affairs?J. B. Black, chair- s nan; W. L. Mauldin, Ben F. Town- 1 end, D. M. Crosson. S. J. Summers, H. Rainsford. * Public Lands?J. S. Griffith, chair- ^ nan; w. j-i. siewan, ?s. j. oumnicia, V. S. Smith. J. H. Wharton. T H. C tainsford. Retrenchments?George K. Laney, 1 hairman; T. I. Rogers, F. H. Weston. . A. Harvey, T. G. Croft. St. Clair * luckenfuss. Rules?T. Yancey Williams, chairnan; W. L. Mauldin, George H. Bates, 1 luger Sinkler, W. R. Hough. J. C. Otts. Roads, Bridges and Ferries?W. R. * lough, chairman; C. H. Carpenter, )an T. McKeithan, W. L. Bass, J. R. Jarl, D. A. Spivey, Alan Johnstone. Legislative Library?W. S. Smith, hairman; W. N. Graydon, P. L. Har- ( in, Louis Appelt, B. Frank Kelley, J. f. Otts, J. H. Clifton. r Military?W. L. Johnston, chairman; eils Christensen, Jr., B. Frank Keljy, J. H. a if ton, W. S. Smith, Ben \ Townsend, D. A. Spivey, Robert x .ide. Mines and Mining?Legrand G. Waler, chairman; J. R. Earle, J. B. Black. a luger Sinkler, George W. Sullivan, J. I. Griffith, T. Yancey Williams. c Printing?Xeils Christensen. Jr., hairman; J. R. Earle, Louis Appeit, J. " . Griffith, Dan T. McKeithan, T. I. togers, J. H. Clifton, W. N. Graydon, V. R. Hough. Public Buildings?F. H. Weston, ^ hairman; C. H. Carpenter, T. I. Rogrs, W. N. Graydon, H. B. Carlisle. Railroads and Internal Improvements r >an T. McKeithan, chairman; P. L. g lardin, W. L. Mauldin, H. B. Carlisle t 'eils Chrlstensen, Jr., J. H. Clifton, p luger Sinkler, B. Frank Kelley, Louis ppelt, G. W. Sullivan W. J. Mont- t ornery, Robert Lide. The above committees were announcd in the senate yesterday and the fiance and judiciary committees held ?ssions immediately after the senate djourned. Upon motion the name of Senator W. d . Smith of Hampton was added to the jj jdlciary committee. cl The usual method of voting upon s ach committee, viva voce, in the sen- h te was dispensed with and a general t uitf was icincii li i nju ui^. viiuikiiiu**. le senate in open session ratifying the c ction of the caucus. ii t LIBERTY OF THE SWISS. a P Idest of Modern Republics Accords fc the Greatest Freedom. s "Switzerland, the oldest of modern s ^publics, enjoys the greatest person- c I liberty," says Robert E. Mansfield, e merican consul at St. Gall, Switzer- J ind, to a Washington Post reporter. 1 The impression that personal liberty s ? restricted is a mistake. The best of a iw and order is maintained, but the r eople have all the freedom in the orld. Lucerne has a race meeting 1 very year and betting is indulged in s nder the same system used in France F -the pari-mutuels. Of course, the ini- ^ I iative and referendum are at the basis f the liberty enjoyed. While the ini- a ative and the referendum are success- s ul in Switzerland, I am doubtful if it 1 t ould be made successful in so largo 1 country as the United States. You now that the population of Switzer- a ind is only about 3.500,000, and the " rea of tillable land does not exceed 1 G.500 acres, most of which is inountin country. "Switzerland imports every year in he neighborhood of $300,000,000 worth ^ f goods and exports more than that ^ mount. This is a wonderful record, 'here are no idle persons in the coun- , ry. Pegging is prohibited by law. r Iverybody is a producer in some way." Mr. Mansfield, who was consul at .ucerne before he was transferred to t. Gall, says that Lucerne is. perhaps, he most American-like city on the s ontinent. It is in the path of tourds. and in the season thousands of iinorlcans sojourn there. Ho esti- | lates that 25,000 Americans visited , .ucerne last year, and the number is ncreasing annually. The season is ^ com April to November. c "Ft. Call is one of the most indusrious cities in Switzerland," added Mr j lansfield. "Its principal industry is no embroidery and lace making. The n nest and most beautiful embroidery r? be found in the world comes from t. Gall. Its lace manufactures are lostly curtains. Last year St. Gall j hipped to America $18,000,000 worth of ^ inbroiderles and laces, and that was v no means the lar^o part of its trade, "his year there will be a slight falling ? ff, owiner to the business depression hat affected all industr'al centres of ., hi rope. The exports to America, how- ,, ver. will reach $15,000,000 this year. nd .as business has once more oecome j ettled. I lock for a larere Increase of t Moments to the United States next j ear." r Cupid used to aim his dart at a r naiden's fragile heart. Now he aims, v . ith cunning: look, at her father's pock- t t book. c. X'i' The chronic borrower depends for t pending money on his friends, and t avs: "Why, if they didn't lend It, the t] humps would only po and spend It." r ME GREAT WHITE HAGUE. Credited With One Death Out of Every Seven. VOW HUMANITY'S GREATEST SCOURGE. Medical Profession Has Made Wonderful Progress In Discussing Its Real Nature, and the Earnest, Intelligent Co-operation of the Public Would Soon Wipe It Out of Existence. Dr. E. W. Pres.sly of Clover, has rUIMliy pill III Willing UIC ilucicaiiUB -emarks he made at the recent meeting if the York County Medical association, ind it gives us pleasure to reproduce vhat he has written as follows: Tuberculosis is a subject worthy the uofoundest thoughts of the ablest minds n the medical profession. For while dnce the beginning of the historic era, ( var and pestilence have at frequent inervals slain their thousands, tubercu- , osis is daily slaying its tens of thou>ands. One seventh of all deaths that ( iccur are due to some of the many ( manifestations of this plague. It has } \o regard for latitude or longitude, j 'Go to the uttermost corners of the ( >arth, follow the remotest waves of the ( iea," and if there you find a hunan habitation, there too, you will ( itiO ?ho Imnilliis f nheroulosis. Mike I rour home beneath equatorial sans , ind tropical palms, and there will you ind the graves of the tuberculous. Wander amid Arctic ice and polar mows and its dead are there. Even in >ur own heaven blest, temperate clime, vhere civilization has reached its highest attainments, where the natural santation is all that could be desired, and vhere medical science has made its naxinium advances, even here milicns, "since first the race of time beran," have yielded up their being beore the onslaughts of this dread deitroyer. So that, in practically every houselold are heard lamentations: "Rachel veeping for her children and refusing o be comforted because they are not." It makes no exception for age, or sex, >r race, or condition in life. Peasant md prince, pauper and millionaire dike feel its blighting breath and take ip their long march, which has heretoore ended with such startling unanimty in that dark inn, the grave. Mem- j >ers of the medical profession fully ? icquainted with the dangers they run n their dally combat with this destroy- j ir, whether in the sick room or the j aboratory, have over and over again , alien under the prowess of this infec- t it 11 and given up their lives, as truly { nartyrs to the cause of humanity as ( ver were those who, three hundred t rears ago in defense of tneir religion, vith the light of heaven in their eye, nd the psalms of David on their lips, narched with unfaltering steps to the ;ibbet or the stakes. Such heroes as hese are infinitely more deserving of nonuments than are the military conluerors, whose glory cost hecatombs of he lives of their fellowmen and seas f blood. For whether on the scaffold high Or in the battle's van, The noblest death that man can die Is where he dies for man." Such then being the record of this lisease, past and present, anything that iromlses a limitation of its ravages eserves our serious attention. Medical clence has conquered smallpox, it ias robbed diphtheria of 9-10ths of its errors, and it has banished cholera nd the black plague from the face of ivilization. Who then shall say that t can go no further? Nay verily, when he rose leaf can be made to stab like . bayonet, when (he tongue can be misoned with honey gotten from the ilossoming violet, when bitter is * weet, and sweet is bitter, when the pirit of eternal darkness can dis- ( ourse intelligibly on the brightness cf ' verlasting day, when every law and rder and process of nature is inverted, J hen and not till then, shall medical cience saying here, too, shall we come nd no further and here shall our belef.cient efforts cease. But happily, we are not dependent f n long and tedious laboratory re- ; earches yet to be made for a way of , revention. It is already known and mown too, not to the wise savants in c he profession alone, but by the rank f nd file, as well as known to every phyician in York county. And happily, this j emedy is not so costly as to be beyond , he reach of all but millionaires, nor is j t so complicated that it can only .be j dininistered by one possessed of lab- s ratory facilities. Enough is known to- , lay of the life, history, habits and ( ulnerability of the tubercle bacillus s hat if it could be rigorously carried out f n every case from its incipiency to its , Ise, within the life time of a single r ;eneration, a case of tuberculosis wou.d r >ecome a medical curiosity. Now, this t s a broad and sweeping statement, , ?ut it is amply borne out by the facts. ? 1 1 * * -? "I II!" ? ?*? n l'A Bn fu'A lUU S ?UI1M1II1C (tliu ilia (ill (.lie (.lie mv _ gencies by which this enemy cf our ( ace is at last to be overcome. , And happily neither Saranac lake in he Adirondacks, r.or the government anatoriuin in New Mexico have a mo- ? lopoly on these two elements. Given a limate of a reasonable degree of mois- , ure and as nearly as maybe free from lust, and the regimen of Saranac and f lie results attained at Saranac can be ? luplicated in the Piedmont region of * :outh Carolina. Now, in a study of , revention our subject naturally falls f nto two divisions, viz., prevention of . ts spread in a household, where cne ( >r more members are already infected j nd prevention in that general sense, a rlilcli proposes to Degin a worm wiue , xusade against this destroyer, until j i shall have been banished from the c ace of civilization. Now, for the first r lecessity in preventing its spread in a reviously infected household, the phyicians everywhere must gird up their r?ins and so familiarize themselves nth the symptomatology of the disease is to be able to recognize the disease n its incipiency and having realized * to say to the patient and his family, hat the ease is one of tuberculosis. It s. let me assure my brother physilans, no easy task to make this staterient It is so much easier to slur natters over by talking in a general ray of grippe with a general bronchiis. and a liability unless care is taken, >f its settling ?/n the party's lungs and o prescribe a cough sedative and a . onic and pass on, and day by day the lisense is increasing its strong hold 1 ?n its victim and day by day that vie- t UIII, ail UllUlillSUIi'USiy, 1? Jjunuuuh the air of that home with uncounted millions of the bacilli to be Inhaled or swallowed" by other members of the family, to be followed later on by other fully developed cases of the malady. When parties are told that they have tuberculosis, tell them at the same time that it is far from being the death warra ' it was once considered. Every hour of the day from thence forward should be specifically provided for by his medical adviser. It is not enough to say to him, "you had better be careful about where you cough and expectorate, and be sure to have your room ventilated." If these are your directions, the patient will fall far short of what is absolutely essential. Provide him with paper spittle cups and have them burned after a certain length of time and he can not be told too often that all of his spittle must be In this cup. It will be essential to explain to the patient with all the emphasis at your command that all does not mean apart. Handkerchiefs, which are to be boiled and used again, must be discarded and instead, buy cheap cloth and when soiled, bum. Every time there comes an a paroxysm of coughing, this cloth [I1USI Utr IltMU UVCI liic III'HUII iu |u c> en i microscopic droplets of spittle being forcibly driven Into the air in the room, to be later Inhaled by some other party inib in course of time to set up fresh ;ases of infection. It will be equally necessary to explain to the sick one ind incidentally to the other members ">f the family that proper ventilation means, windows up and shutters open Jay and night, summer and winter. N'othing less than this will answer. Df course, the window through which the wind comes should be closed, but the others must be open. Here the parents and all the kin will declare >pen war and tell you that this will kill their child. But stand your ground. If thus all of the excretus of the sick me are taken care of and rendered innocuous, the party will cease to be a nenace to the health of the remainder >f the family, and there will be no exension of the disease from him to othirs previously healthy. When a patient suffering with tuberculosis dies, do not magine that when you have placed an )ld oven or pot in the middle of the oom, and burned therein one-half nound of sulphur and left the room dosed with the fumes of sulphurous icid for a whole night, that that room s disinfected and ready for occupancy tgain. Such disinfection is a delusion ind a snare and so far as the tubercle )acillus is concerned is perfectly harmess. Bum every thing from that room :hat can be spared, take out the furni:ure and place it where the sun can ihine on it all day. Take off the winlow blinds and take out the sash, jpper and lower, remove every obstacle o the free entrance of sunlight and ock the room off from the rest of the louse and leave it so for an indefinite ength of time, and eventually your oom will be rid of its unwelcome lnlabitants and ready for occupancy. Exposure to bright sunlight for a ,*ery short while, promptly destroys the jacillus. Ordinary daylight will destroy them after a much longer time. )ut a crack, or cranny, or crevice, vhere semi-darkness prevails, will preserve them alive and virile for an inleflnite, but long period of time. For the second of our subdivisions, lamely the prevention of its spread in i general way, we are to take a part n a world-wide crusade, that looks to he final extermination of the disease, dere we must begin with the generaion that is to succeed us. Children in chools must be taught proper methods >f living and the very first lesson will je to get rid of that idea as old as hurianity, that there is something noxious ind dangerous in night air. The air rou inhale tonight is the same air that ,'our were inhaling at noon on yesterlay, and that you will inhale tomorrow rom sunrise to sunset. People must >e taught that each individual requires i certain number of cubic feet of air 'or himself and to put into a room nore than can be supplied with this lumber apiece, is to invite disease and hat air once respired is not desirable 'or treathing again, until it has been lurifed through the medium of the liffur.ion of gases and hence every fa ility for the ingress and the egress of lir must be provided and this means in open window and open grates sumner and winter. Sermons from this text should be .reached by every- physician in season ind out of season, whether men will lear or whether they will forbear. Preach them in the house and in the street, in the office, in the school room, inywhere even though you come to be ailed a tuberculosis crank and every ingle convert which you make to your loctrine brings the race one step nearer 'mancipation from the power and do vIm/tha ThrtCfi r\ f lie IJII11UI1 U1 IIIIM I'lll^UC. A IIV/C7V Wfc low beyond middle life will never live o see this happy consummation. But he task will not be finished until it has >een begun. And as we see the leaven if the right manner of living spreading, t will be in old age a proud moment vhen we rellect that we, too, bore a mrt in the struggle. For certain, it is that when the race it large realizes that air and sunlight ire the too great antagonists of this lisease and use these two agencies as hey should be used, that day will mancipate the race from this plague md in that day the grand work of frudeau and his crlaborers at Saranac md of tne Ciermans in ine uiuok iur sts of Germany will be appreciated at ts real value, and it will be seen that hey have done more for the cause of lumanity than was accomplished by ill the embattled hosts that a few years igo, on the plains and mountains of danehuria were tearing at each oth>r's throats beneath the banners of the nikado and the czar. *5'A party of Maine hunters has the >ld plan of catching birds by putting ;alt on their tails "beaten to a frazzle," is President Roosevelt would say. The ? 1 ' + V-t o t Via yenneoec journal uctiaica nwi n.t voodsmen got a fine deer by simply eaving some salt on the table in their ;amp. Of course they didn't do it Inentionally but they got a fat fawn just lie same. The deer wandered In hrough the open door and was corner d and killed when the hunters return d after a day's tramp which had yield'd nothing. '150* The folks who court trouble are acking in wit. They always get dou>le by marrying it! itusccuanrous tsramni]. OUR FAMILY WORSHIP. Absolutely Essential to Wholesome Spiritual Growth. (By Rev. J. B. Swann.) Prayer is the request of one person made to another for a certain thing of which he stands in need: and the more pressing the need, the more strongly will he urge his plea. When one asks for a favor and is indifferent as to whether it is granted he cannot be so intensely in earnest as the one who pleads for bread for himself and starving children. The father, as a rule, has the interest of his family at heart. In every request his children are included. When he asks for employment it is that his children may have food and raiment. He is influenced by a sense of duty to, or love for his family. He feels that the responsibility of providing- for their temporal wants falls on him. Thus it is in spiritual matters. He asks of God certain things of which he stands in need. The father is the regularly constituted head of the family; he Is the God-appointed head. In the Patriarchal period and under the Mosaic dispensation, the father was the priest of the family. This office, so far as we know, has never been relegated to another. It's true that there are other means by which children may obtain religious instruction. We have houses for public worship, where God's Word is explained. and we have Sabbath schools where the children are more specially taught religious truths. But these are not intended to take the place of home training, neither does it relieve in the least degree the father of his duty to his children, nor to deprive him of his religious office. The Christian father is better fitted fcr the children's religious training than any one else. This grows out of the natural relations to them. He is more deeply concerned about them than any other man is or can be, and he loves them more intensely than any other man does or can. His Interest in them is a matter of daily concern and his love for them never slackens. His children know this. Hence he can exercise a greater influence over them than any other person. They have unbounded confidence in him and love him better than they love any other man. Thus it is reasonable to suppose that the father is better fitted for the religious training of his own children than any one else. Besides, the children will receive such Instructions from him mere readily than from any other person. Thus the father who neglects the religious training of his children robs them of tVioli- rlitDc and rHorocn rd? V)1?J find n n pointed office. While It Is true that children believe that everything the father does Is right, it is also true that they can and do see things which are righl that their father falls to <fo. Sometimes they feel this keenly. Children have been known to grieve over their father's neglect of family worship. I read of a little girl who said she loved to visit a certain home because the father had family prayer. She expressed the wish that her father would do as this man did. Yes, children enjoy family worship. While they know that they are the objects of their father's love, they do not know that they are the object of his prayers. Ask them If their father prays for them. They must answer, "we do not know; we have never heard him." Surely It must be a sore trial to them to make such a confession. While It is true that children love their father with all the tenderness of their young hearts, it is also true that they cannot have that reverence for him they would have if he gathered them around the family altar night and morning and implored God's blessing upon them. Now in regard to the excuses men give for the neglect of this duty. First. The want of an express injunction of it in the Scriptures. It is true that there is not any passage of Scripture which in as many terms enjoins family worship in distinction from other modes of worship. But this would a'so excuse from the observance the Christian Sabbath, and also from admitting females to the Lord's Supper. These are nowhere expressly commanded in the Bible. We are taught some things from inference. Several passages refer to this subject in a manner too evident to leave a reasonable doubt that family worship was their immediate subject. Read Joshua xxlv, 15, i.e., "But as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord." Again, in I Tim. ii. 8: "I will therefore that I nonmMi'hara " Slirolv thp men pi c vw* j ?? nt? ?? family must be included in this. Then the Lord's Prayer is a special prayer, and it seems plainly to have been intended for the family, rather than for secret or public use. Of course, the substance of it should be used in all forms of prayer. But we pray: "Give us this day our daily bread." This petition is to be used every day. Then we say, "Our Father." not my Father. So it must be intended for more than one. How delightful and how encouraging to every father and mother to rather their offspring around the family altar and be able to say, on bended knees: "Lord, here are we and the children which Thou hast given us?" Second. Some give timidity as an ex CUSe. CO: i CcWIIIWl |JI?J Willi m; lew. 'ly. I am ashamed to. This is, to say the least, an unhappy excuse. If they and their children were starving for bread, they would not be too timid to "rge their idea, even in the presence of their children. Were thev as deeply . interested in obtaining' spiritual bread they would not be too bashful to ask for it in the presence of their children. Third. Some give as an excuse for neglecting this duty the character of those who were reared in praverless homcG. One will say, "My children never heard me pray, yet they are as consistent members of the church as any children I know." This may he true, buf to whose credit is it charged? Surely not to the father. I have known : the children of a drunkard to be sober and Christian men. Surely their fath or could not claim tne credit or nis children's Christian character. His influence would have made them drunkards. Trying to live as Christ won.n Live.?The movement begun last Sunday hy 1,800 young people of this cltv to live for two weeks as Jesus would, says a Cleveland, Ohio, dispatch of Jan- 1 yond the expectations of its promoters. Fully 10,000 volunteers have unofficially joined the movement by attempting the test, and pledging themselves to walk in his steps. Rven city officers are taking an Interest and are ruminating on what Jesus would do if He were a city officer. Many interesting experiences have been related by those who have completed the first week's test. Some say they cannot carry the practice into business. Others say they can. The test also has brought out a host of critics, some praising, others condemning the idea. Church members are encouraging the trial and pleading for its continuance. The scoffers sarcastically say that the effort implies past hypocrisy. Discussions are rife in homes, in churches, in clubs and in newspapers as to what Jesus would do under all manner cf circumstances and what his attitude would be toward the common forms of amusement and human endeavor. Most of the arguments centre about the theatre, card playing, dancing and base ball, with supporters on either side. The coming week will be the concluding period of the official test. CONTRADICTS TILLMAN. Attorney General Says He Was Not In the Senator's Confidence. Washington, Jan. 12.?Attorney General Bonaparte tonight issued a statement replying to that part of the speech of Senator Tillman, delivered yesterday, in which he declared the resolution in regard to the Oregon land grants, introduced by him in the senate on January 31st, 1908, had been prepared by- the attorney general and that his "interest in the matter had been first aroused by a desire to purchase some of the timber land." Mr. Bonaparte also replied to Senator Tillman's remark made in the senate last February that he had not "bought any land anywhere in the west or undertaken to buy any." Mr. Bonaparte sets forth that suits against those holding the Oregon lands involved in the case have been instituted, a fact that could have been ascertained by any one upon inquiry of his department any time within the past four months. Mr. Tillman had Intimated no steps had been taken despite the resolution passed. The attorney general disputes the senator's statement that the latter had informed him in their conversation that it was the senator's wish to acquire some of the lands. Mr. Bonaparte sets forth that he did not know Senator Tillman had any personal interest in the matter. Says Mr. Bonaparte: "He never told me a wcrd of any AAMnA/tliAn OM Vilcs nn rf itrltl-i on offQnO'O. LVIIIICUtlUU Ull llftO I'Ui I if lilt Uii ut lutiQVment to acquire some part of these lands, nor that he intended, expected or even desired, at that time, to make any such purchase. As stated by him his reason for making these inquiries was that he might better discharge his public duties; and I was totally ignorant until I saw the documents transmitted by the president to Senator Hale that Senator Tillman, at the time of his conversation with me, had any private interest, whether actual or in expectation, in connection with the subject of our conversation. I gave him a full statement of the information which had been collected by the department as the result of a protracted Investigation made by Messrs. Townsend and McBlalr, a special counsel, and which had continued during a considerable part of the preceding year. I told him also that we deemed it advisable to secure congressional action in the form of a resolution empowering the attorney general to claim a forfeiture of these lands, and that I felt some apprehension lest such action should be opposed by the large Interests which it would affect. Till?-?-?n r\ then nffororl t rt in troduce a resolution on the subject, if I would prepare one; and I did prepare such a resolution which was Introduced by him and subsequently adopted. During this interview I explained to him that it would be impracticable to compel the corporations claiming these lands to sell any particular portion of them to any particular person; although, of course, If the government could establish a forfeiture of rights under the grant, the lands might become afterwards open to entry on the same terms as any other portion of the public domain. Of course, if it was at the time his purpose .to secure some part of the lands in question, this forfeiture might tend to promote his individual Interests; but I had no reason to credit him with any such purpose, and I dealt with him throughout as asking the information and advice I could give, only that he might fulfill his duty as a public officer." n o;fO Mnntk I The power engineer is trying to realize a new vision. For years he has ' been watching the 1< ng trains of coal I cars which rattle over the country car- 1 rying the raw materials of power to a 1 million distant fire boxes. I He has seen the great three-horse 1 coal wagons, which block the city streets and scatter powdered carboij ner pedestrians; he has looked up to see a million chimneys belching soot < and smoke into the sky, polluting the I air men breathe, blackening the grass i and trees, doing damage incalculable 1 to health and property, half shutting < out the sun. He has noticed the trail of ashes 1 and cinders left by the creaking refuse j carts on their way to the unsightly dumps. And he has dreamed of a fu- i ture city as active, as powerful as this i first, but a city of clean and unob- < structed streets, lapped in an ocean of fresh, pure air, where tall and flourish- ! ing trees rise in the stead of smok- ] ing stacks and where grass and flowers and little children may bloom in the clear colors which nature gives them. Out in Colorado for the first time, I says the Technical World, he has made ; his dream come true. There at the mouths of the coal mines owned by the ; Northern Colorado Power company, of j uarayeue, great power uuuncs nave . been built and the coal, once loaded into cars by the miners' shovels in the < lower levels of the pits, is transformed without further handling Into electric power, which supplies already nearly a i score of towns and cities, strung on a i 150 mile loop of wire like Jewels on i a necklace. i The Sign of Authority Is as Old As Civilization. As the world progresses some of the simpler Instruments made use of by our forefathers gradually pass Into obllvion and are forgotten In favor of more "up-to-date" and convenient ar- ^Bk tides, which fulfill their purpose more easily and with a smaller expenditure of time. Thus, In the farmyard, how often will you come across the Hall, which for so many centuries performed all the threshing? And, to come nearer t. the present theme, how rarely is th.- oil quill pen to be found in use, f- ive in .i : law courts, where its presence may be put down more to custom than anything else? And instances such as these may be multiplied ad in finitum. But, on the other hand, there are Instruments and devices which give no evidence of being forgotten, though at times they may sink into partial disuse, and among them is one of most ancient origin, that continues to hold its place of honor even perhaps more tenaciously than in the very early days of its history. The seal originated at a period, "when the memory of man goeth not to the contrary," and yet where is the official document of the present day that is innocent of it. It had no particular birthplace; where civilization took root there use was made of it to indicate authority. Its constant employment necessitated that it should be made of durable material, and stone or metal answered this stipulation, and secondly, it must bear some mark or design that authenticated its possessorship, and this fact, though at first the designs employed were very rough and verging on the grotesque, gradually brought them into direct. relation with art, until among the ancient Greeks the practice of gem (seal) engraving attained almost to perfection, it was much the same under the Romans, but with the fall of that empire the art relapsed nearly to its primitive barbarity, and so remained for many years. But though the actual number of seals grew less through the waste i 'nn *? o iVift n aa/1 n# InnrAnan/l Ktf jL j cai o, itic uctu ui iiiciii iiiLicaocu uj reason of the Increase of business, and this was met by the "bull," or a disk of metal, oval or round In shape, which .vas used as a means of verification by the Byzantine emperors, popes and eastern patriarchs. These were very rudely cut or stamped, and attached by jords to the documents, and gave the designation of "Papal bulls." Cut-stone seals were used by the Anglo-Saxon kings, and the first authentic one is on a charter granted to the Abbey of St. Denis, France, by Offa, king of the Mercians, in the year 790. The metal matrix, however, gradually took their place, and it was to the but as the art in our land grew so the artistic nature of the work Improved; the anatomy of the figure, the drapery, the artistic feeling and the decorations all advanced till they became veritable works of art. But it is not only as such that they are interesting, for woven into the design of many of them we find pictorial representations of some event in the life of the patron saints of the house to which they belonged, or of an incident connected with the house itself, while others, owing to the Inclusion of the armorial bearings of the prior, or other head, afford heraldic Information that otherwise would have been lost. Limited space precludes mything but the barest mention of the interest attaching to these seals, but to any one inspecting the collection of :asts in the British Museum they will present a rich treasure field of information and delight.?London Globe. Watch to Co . nt Pulse.?a new tvatch has been invented for the use :>f physicians and nurses in counting the pulse. The watch indicates, without mental calculation, the number of /V# it t T* ucuia ui uit: puisc in a, uuuuic. n aperates on the principle of a stopwatch. By pressing the push-button a large second hand is set In motion, and the counting of the pulsation begins. At the 20th pulsation the motion if the hand is stopped by another pressure of the push-button. The dial accurately indicates the exact number of pulsations per minute. A third pressure on the push-button brings the hand back to the starting point. The use of this instrument does away with the necessity of observing the progress of the watch while taking the pulse, and in addition Insures an absolutely correct record. The instrument is also a chronographlc counter, facilitating the making of observations, which are automatically recorded in minutes, seconds and fifths of a second. A small dial placed below the 12 records minutes from 0 to 30. The large hand records seconds and fifths of a second. t?r a German technical Journal has ?one to the trouble of estimating that the water of the whole ocean contains In solution over 2.000,000 tons of pure silver. \ Capet Henry L, who ascended the throne of France A. D. 1033, that the adoption was probably due. From that country the custom came to England, and It was not until the reign of Richard II. that the sovereign confirmed by signature. The cutting of the matrices in time became an art, and whereas at first they were of the roughest description, they gradually, as they were brought Into use by the general public more and more, exhibited greater beauty in design and execution. In the twelfth century, by which time nobles, knights and even private persons had their seals, these were ornamented chiefly with the representation of saints, animals, birds, flowers and stars and crescents; and In the next these were frequently augmented by rohncpc nnnnlor at thp nprtnd* whilp merchants and artificers constantly adopted badges Indicating their callings. Then came heraldry Into being, affording armigerous persons a fund of design and a fashion that has existed to the present day. Of the royal series It is needless to speak here, it is so well, known. Fine in design and execution as some of them are, it is in the monastic seal that we find the best and most artistic work. In 1307 Edward I. declared that all conventional establishments should use a common seal, but before this most monastic houses were in possession of one; and the engravers of these seals were probably to be found among the inmates of the houses, the most cultured and highly educated persons of the time. At first these seals were naturally crude and simple in design,