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■ i| - u THE LEDGER i OAFFNET, 8. 0, DECEMBER 17, 1896. “BIO TWISTIFICATION.” T.jfr- ao Thoy Livo It in tho Woods i and Hills. tenta C'lnus In Coming In tho Rooky Crook Settlement—A rreacher Troubled with a Bad Cate of “llreakin Out at the Mouth.” Eight here lately I do reckon tve have had some of the dadblamdest, all-over- est and most gonebyeet rti- enses In the Itocky Creek settlement yon eiver saw or heard tell of, or | reatlivbont slneo ; theday and hour | when you was | borned into this valley of dry j bones. The last J big twistiflea- tlon wc got Into w as all on account of a travel In preacher of some pecnrlons faith and order, and them that didn’t git killed or crippled got skeered and moved their washin. I5ut anyhow, truth is mighty and bound to win, and old Santa Claus is ccmin Christmas in his regular order. days that a drummer was stoppln at thb aame hotel. He run up to the preacher, ho did, slapped him on the shoulder and wanted to know what line he represent ed on the road. The preacher drawed himself up about seven Inches higher and responded back: ‘‘Young man, I represent the Lord.” "That’s all right, my friend,’’says the drummer, “you are playin in big luck. You don’t have no baggage to tote.” Then the crowd laughed a little about in spots. The preacher went to his room, whilst the drummer waltzed over to the depot to see If his trunks had come. ARP SHOWS HIS AGE. His GrandchUdron Remind Him That Ho Grows Old. STRIKES FLOW OF HOT WATER. Dopti /t Admire Football—Thlnkt Atlilct- Ira Too Much Thought Of In Colleges — Bring* In Col. Adair to In dorse Ills Sentiment*. Then the War “Bust Loose.^ . The preacher was holdin forth day and night in the schoolhousc over at the Cross Loads. As for me, I was too tremcmllus busy with first one thing and then another to turn out and tend the meet ins to any aerious extent. Hut the next news I got it would seem like the preacher talked too free and plenti ful with ins mouth and the war had bust loose. It was on a Tuesday night—which the weather was clear and pleasant and the moon shinin Ixright like day—and the preacher had give it out that he would preach a sc r mont for the good of everybody, but the children in. par ticular, and from that a pushin big crowd was out to hear the news. Well, from what they tell me, the preacher did have a scnmllous bad ease of break- in out nt the mouth that night. And in the general run of his sentterln re marks he pitched in he did and told the children a whole long rigamarole in re gard to old Santa Claus. He lowed there never was and never would be such a man ns STmtn Claus. He went on and told the little folks that their fathers and mothers had been foolin them eveiy Christmas for lo tbese many years—which aeeordin to proofs of holy writ he. held that it was a sin and n shame. He didn’t want to hear nobody tnlkln about Santa Claus hence forwards, when everybody knowed there want no sleh a livin human, bein in the round discovered world. But the preacher didn’t much more than git the word outer h!s mouth be fore old man Bunk Weatherford riz up right there in open mcetin and give it the dndbiamc lie. Then old man Bunk .and the.preacher t hey had it In a red hot, tough-and-tumble nrgy Heat ion—up and » down and over and under. Sometimes the preacher woh in the majority and sometimes old man Bunk had all the delegates. But in the main time Andy Lucas had left the ineetin and rid ofT on his horse, snd when he returned back to the sehoollKnise me and Blev Serorglns we rid with him—tltm- abreast and in a swlngin gallop. Old man Bunk had belt the fort whilst Andy went out after reerulo . Whim wc got there the meetln was In a riproarof confuslon- mont, but soon as Bh •• could put his hand Into the gisine he sent tip a reso lution ns follows h re below: Resolved, That the preacher who says there nint no sleh n man ns Santa Claus is oi box-nnkled, slew-footed, double-breasted liar, and all sorls of a ■ liar. The resolution was anonymously I adopted with a stand in vote. Then Andy he put the follow in resolu tion In nomination: Resolved, That, it is the general opin ion amongst the people around Rocky Creek that in regards to Christmas and Santa Claus the new preacher couldn’t tell the truth with a dead rest. Passed. After that they sung a song, the meet ln broke up and we went out. Then presently a crowd of u» boys chipped in together and we didn’t do a blame, blessed thing but rub three quarts of ruckle burrs into that preacher's hair, nnd ride him on a three-cornered rail to little Wolf creek bridge, where wc cut him a fact walkin stick nnd told him to burn the wind for parts un known. And as he went a rcorehln olT down the big road toords the Missis sippi river with every foot up and coat tails flyln the boys bid him a long farewell and went on their way re- Joicln. It don’t make a continental bit of dif ference with us, long-sulTorin reader, what you think about the general cir cumference of tho calamity. We think it was perfectly all right. Kverybody In this country loves a good preacher, but any man that would »tai <1 up nnd tell a big crowd of children that there Is no such thing ns Santa Claus, will find no pleasant place to lay his head or rest his weary feet In the regions of old Rocky. Next to the women folks we love the children, nnd when a man stands up and talks to them he must preach forth the unwashed truth and nothin but the truth. No IlitgrAgn to Npcok Of. That makes me thing of somethin rale funny which I saw come to jkiss onest ujkhi a time out there In Texas. Me nnd one of these travelin preachers hit the same town on the same Sunday nnd took out nnd fed nt the same hotel. 1 didn't know anything for eertnln about the preiu her except what he np ami told me with his own mouth free gratis for nothin- that he use to go all the gaits and cover all tho ground, but fie quit and was now prcachin forth the ^oetrines io a lo* t and rnlnt world. . .Now it 11l.ew ise cume t<> pics In them The • Hill Billy’' Was Ready. Another time I was out in the inoun- toin country of North Alabama takln n trip with Lou Travis—which you un derstand Lou he was then totln papers of compellment for the general govern ment. One. day we sw’oopod down all of a suddenton one of them hill Billies run- nln of a wildcat still—caught him In the net, ns it were. Lou pulled his weapons nnd his papers, nnd the moonshiner laid dow n his hand and surrendered. “You will have to go to town with me nnd tend court,” says Lou. “Good enough,” says the moonshiner. “I am ready.” -• “Aint you goin by home and git your baggage?” “Baggage? Xnrry baggage so fur as I know. I ain’t got a blame thing todo but spit on the fire and call my dog.” Doo MulUrnn’ft Prayer. Some of the boys went out after Doc Mulligan one night last week, and from oil I can hear they rim him through a night sweat and knocked him out of seven years’ growth. Doc was born and bning up right around here in the settlement, and he use to be one of tho Itocky Creek boys. But he calls himself a doctor. In the main time it would seem like Doc ha-s took up with the whole passe 1 of fool no tions. He is smarter now than anv’- body in the settlement—smarter than his old mother and father and smarter than all the preachers put together. To hour him tell It, he, don’t bnlieve in the church, nor the. Bible, nor religion, nor speri ts, and as for prayin, he lowed that man was a natural bom fool to pray for somethin lie never saw and didn’t know what he was after. And so consequentially the boys they went out after Doc that, ilight. It rnought not be right for me to tell names, but I got the news from Handy Stribblin and I can give it to you as it was give unto me. There was four of us in the crowd, and when we rid off ever}’ man. had a clean sheet tied up in a bundle and tucked under his arm. When we got down there to old Ebcnezer church on yonder side of Panther creek we all dis mounted and dressed out in white. You see, Doc Mulligan had went over the. creek late thatevenin to tend rvomc of his sick, nnd we made onr ar rangements for him to fall in with four ghosts right there at the graveyard. Wc hud a notion that Doc mought may be change his mind and offer up n. prayer in cose of a pushency, and we wanted to see tf he had forgot how to approach the Throne of Grace. Well, by and by, along in the dead hours of night, here comet? Doc, rid in his big horse, Jim Brown, in a mvingin fox walk and whlstlln a steam callopc. Just a.-, he rid by the graveyard we rid out of the woods and lojxwl up behind him. When Doc looked l>aek and saw what was comin he popped tho spurs to Jim Brown and they went off through tho swamp like a storm on wheels. Wc give him a dost race for a mile or so, and if Doe didn’t pro}’ he tried his level blamedest to do somethin along that line. And ns near as we could hear It t his is what he said in a loud voice: “Now I lay me down loklcep-— “I'litie them legs, Jim Brown; gol- dnrn your slabsided picture, and use ’em for all t hey are worth— "Give us tliIh day our daily bread— "Burn the wind for home, Jim Brown, dndbiamc it, this is u ruee for life and death— “If l should die before I wake— “Git out of tho woods, Jim Brown, nnd make out like you can fly! Give the lightnins nnd the gale some lessons in speed, by gollym- “Neur the cross a tremblin soul— “Kunnln a race for blood, Jim Brown, and by gntlins we must win or bust—” With a few more long strides Jim Brown cleared the swamp and shot out on the ridge, and then ns he turned into the lane with a straight quarter stretch aliend nnd the old Mulligan home lexim- ln up through the moonlight, we caught the. partin words from brave Doc Mul ligan; Amozln grace, how sweet the sound which saved a wretch like me.” RUFEB SANDERS. The I'lne* of FIorMa. I here are in Florida seven species of pine, wlileh are most generally n’cog- nl/.ed by the names upland spruce, hnv- hmd spruce, pond, loblolly, nhortlcaf, longleaf and pitch. Of those, all but the last two are too worthless or too scarce to count for anything In the forest wealth of tho state. But when we consider the tiinl>er resource* of the entire south, the shortleaf Is found to l>c only second In importance to the longleaf. As to the loblolly, its value will lx> appreciated letter when bet ter pine t imber becomes scarce, nnd, u* it takes the lead in the reforesting of .tiids, It Is likely to become quite abun dant by the time that people will bo ghul to find such timber in the absence of letter. That the supply of longleaf, or yellow pine, on a meet the demand for more than two or three more decades seems out of the question. It Is Inyund to go the way of the black walnut, and erase to bo counted among tho world's lumber resources. JacksonvilleTimea- Unlon. To save coal nnd also to avoid any killing draft, double doors should b^ put in the conservatory during win ter. Tm fond of children—good children, nnd I like snow, an occasional, mild- tempered snow, but when they both come together the racket is appalling. Here arc three little grandchildren in the house, nnd one of them with n birth day to celebrate. Their grandmni wouldn’t let them go outdoors, nnd eo we turned them loose in the bock room. For awhile they played very dis creetly, but by and by began to take more liberties and goto Jumping off the center-table and the bed aud ploying circus and riding round on the tricycle and screaming like wildcats, and the old dog joined in the procession and barked. Ever nnd anon the youngest one would get almost killed nnd my w ife would hurry In to be nt the funeral of the boy. Sometimes they would send a committee to l>cg me for snow, and I would have to go out and get a pan full. Then they played hide and seek, and it took bfttK rooma for that, nnd my wife had to help them find new plnoe-s. IVill they never get tired and settle down? No, never 1 Yesterday while it was raining my w ife found a three-eorricrcn 1 hole In a window pane In the upper sash and she began to shiver so I thought she was going to have a chill; so I took t he siep- Inddcr and went outside to patch the glass. I found a three-cornered piece that, covered it nicely, nnd while I was driving tho tacks to fasten it the old ladder careened to one side and I foil a whole quadrant of a circle onto a pile of flower jx>t«. But, like a cat, I lit on my feet, nnd tried It again. Next. I went out to feed the old cow, for my wife said she was low ing like she. was hungry. I had to cross some planks that were covered with ice and before I was conscious of either age or Infirmity I was down fiat on my back with nerv ous prostration. Before I got up I looked townrdfi tho housix to see If anybody w as looking, but there was no one. The brwk of my coat told on me, and they solid they wish they hod seen me. I am too venerable to be bumped about in these ungraceful attitudes, hut my fe male folks make Fj>ort of me just. I ke the. Philistines did of Samson. I walked own town yesterday to the ]x>st office and the rude lx>ys snov.d o’lcd me with malice aforethought, “L'X'k out, old man” was all the warning 1 got. 1 don’t believe old age is respected like It used to l»e. I don’t believe the Ixiys have ns much manners. The legislature Is try ing to fix up a reformatory for young criminals, nnd that is all right, but the parent* of the rising generation should start a little one in each family and then the. big one wouldn’t lx* needed. Tho main thing now hi raising a boy Is to have him graduate as a good footUi.Il kicker. So much Importance Is at tached to tho development of arms nnd legs tlwit. I think athletics should have a place in the curriculum of the colleges and w hen the report, of the boy’s stand ing is sent to his parents it should con tain his jumping and running .and pitch ing nnd kicking record, nnd this record should haw weight In fixing the hon ors. Vi'hlk*. they are developing inus’dc it would bo a good idea to have a rail- splitting nnd a cotton picking attach ment In w hich the farmers’ sons could compete so ns to bo ready for business when the old man calls them home. The apprehension is that great ex cellence in kicking a l<i.!l will not moot with proper rewards in after life. If we should have a war nnd the enemy should kick bolls nt us wc ought by all means to lie ready for them, but as Gen. Sanford remarked: “They won’t come at us that way." Ramson wok a very notable athlete and slew a lion and outran JO!) foxes, but wc have no lions and foxes are searee. I’ve Imen wondering what wc can. do wdth those athletes when they graduate with all their muscular honors nnd settle down among their unpretending fellow citizens. Bob Fitzsimmons and Tom Sharkey and Peter Jackson and a few others have monopoliz'Ml all the busi ness In their line. I had a very .-.trong darky once who could get under a loaded wagon nnd hump it out of a nmdhole when the team stalled, but wc have good roods now and don’t need these strong men. But maybe we old men, an* a little Jealcmn over our fnd’ng laurels. I was talking to Commissioner Trammell about this half kicking business nnd he Mild, with some emphases: “It ought to lx* stopped; It. Is a non- HcnHlml business, nml Is dangerous. Thti college* haw gone crazy.” But he brightened up w hen he began fo tell of his own youthful sports, and how he could outrun and out wrest le any lx>y at school. And George Adn'r is dkgusted, too. but delights to tell how far he could knock the old-fo«hioii'd town Ixill and how he used tp get h a ankles bruised and blackened playing shinny and how many marbles he worn at sweepstakes. "I played fair,” lie said, "and always toed the mark, but there was Jim Jen kins, who always fudged nml cheated, ond he is fudging and cheating yet. As the schoolboy is so is the man.” And I bragged some, tco, for I was the lx*?s nt some tilings. So maybe we old men had better tukenlxick seat and saw wood. Nevertheless, I’m lx>mid to nay th« boys haw run this thing in the ground.—Bill Arp, In Atlanta Constitu tion. It* Rrdcrni'rtft I’entiiro. “Oh, the terrible pawnshops!” said Ethel to George, who had just rescued her watch; “what tnlesof misery those places could unfold had they tongues!" “Even a pawnshop has it's rede* rning feature,” responded George. “Whut is It. I’d like to know?” “The ticket.” T'.t-BIts. BnecMsful Resalt mt Borin Hu la th* Batt* (Mont.) DUlrlcL Jack Thornton, of Butte, Mont., has made the biggest strike of the year In the Butte district nt Thorntor’a Springs, a few milea west of the city, and Ids friends about town have been vbhing him vdl kinds of good luck In his venture. At a depth of 14J feet lx* encountered a flow of water hot enough to scald the bristles off a hog, and strongly impregnated with mineral sub stances. Early last July Mr. Thornton con ceived the Idea that by boring in the earth a distance of say 2,000 feet a sufficient supply of hot water might be obtained to establish n natatorium and pleasure resort similar to the Broad water near Helena. He secured n big derrick, such ns Is used In the oil wells of Pennsylvania, and began a search for the hot pota In nature’s storehouse. The other day the drill reached a depth of 143 feet nnd up through the hollow tube came a rumbling, gurgling sound. It was water, and hot water nt that. It bubbled up with the forceof a minia ture geyser and trickled down, the sides of the huge derrick w ith amerry sound. It delighted the workmen, as well os the originator of the scheme, for it was ocular proof that down below was a body of warm water which could be converted to the uses of man. It wnq or.ly 97 degrees Fahrenheit, a nice tem perature for bathing purposes, but not sufficient for heating purposes. The boring is being continued and it is believed nt a greater depth water of a much Incrcnncd temperature will lie found. The experiment will be watched wit h interest by the people of this vicin ity, for its success will mean a fortune to the owner. 8ig.^ w.fWWa.'.:::, ;rrr? m "■: fit p|»’ I Bam Jocon Thinks Thoy Paint to Docldod Imprpvomant. ... -rrr Bat We Are Warned Not to Kxpert Froe^. j prrtt/ to tome In Any tiraat Harry —Belli I* the Carso of Am*r- ' ’ lea To-Day. NEW GUNS FOR GERMAN NAVY. Fighting Tower of tho Cruisers to Be Greatly Increased. Emperor William’s orders to arm all the modern vessels of the German navy with 15, 21 and 24 centimeter Krupp quick-fire guns has given immeiwx* sat isfaction to naval men. These gun» are said by experts to place Die German ships ahead in fighting power of those of any foreign navy. In fact, they are declared to lx; six times more powerful than other venae.!* of the some size. Orders amounting to many millions of marks have already been pfsced with Herr Krupp, who hopes soon to be able to apply his latest Invention to lie 28 centimeter guns. For the army artillery a similar new pilpment will lx* made, and the cav alry will get a new’ Mauser self-loading revolver, which is said to lx* an ideal weapon at close quarters, while It is also carried up to 1,000 meters. The breech can be lengthened mechanical ly nnd adjusted to the shoulder for aim ing. The emperor hopes to effect “these gigantic ehnnges without serious oppo sition in the reiolistag. Another bill which will be presented provides for an Increase In the pay of army officer* from first lieutenant up- xyard by 50 to 100 per cent. Co’on'ds, If this measure becomes a law, will re ceive 9.000 marks, majors will get 0,000. captains will drew* 3,000 and lieutenants will be paid 1,800 marks per year. A royal decree Just Issued makes the provincial colors of Posen Identical with those of Poland—white, black nnd 1 white instead of white, rod and white. This Is intended to cheek Polish imita tion. WHOLE FAMILY IN JAIL. Remarkablo Criminal Record o f the Stoops Living In Ohio. The Stoop family certainly ought to come under the hood of habitual crim inals. and the sooner they arc sentenced under the habitual criminal act the bet ter it will be for the general public. Pcrcivnl Stoop, senior and junior, are now behind the wails of the peniten tiary, and another son, Henry, is an In mate of the Ohio reformatory nt Mans field. Henry robbed an old soldier, the father committed forgery, and the other non Is serving time for shooting to kill from Miami county. He attempted to prove nn alibi, and when the sheriff went to find witnesses hi Dnytan then- we-e nil in tho workhouse serving terms for inlsdfrmea’nors. The sheriff eaid tint witnesses of that kind would only tend to make the sentence more severe, and he did not serve the subpoenas. The fnther, Pcircival, Sr., Is serving his second tom In the penitentinry forf t- gory. Ills vocation was that of tobacco buyer, and at ano time lie wns.lngood circumstances. One of his daughters was at one time an Inmate of a rrso-t. Enter she and her lover met tragic deaths In a Cincinnati hotel by sulci le. the lover first shooting his sweetheart and then firing a bullet Into his owmi brain. Momentous Forgery. The nx>st momentous forgery on rec ord was that which Clive committed when he put Admiral Watson’s ntitne to the treaty between Meer Jafller nnd tho East. India company, for the purpose of deceiving Omlchund, the Hindoo bank er, who acted ns intermediary ix'tween Surnjah Dowd ah, nabob of Bengal, nnd the company. The direct result of the forgery w as the battle of Plnsney, and the foundation of the British empire In India. Iron Ships. The first attempt nt the sulmtltution of Iron for wood In shipbuilding was made In 1821, but not until 1829 was the practical value of the substitution fully demonstrated. An English ship building firm constructed Iron lighters In 1829 and the few following yenrs, and In 1855 the Cunard line constructed tho great Iron steamer Persia, which ex celled In cnjMiolty 1,200 tons all other ships of that line. Norman Ixi‘ter Writing. • The Normans introduced their own *(„ .c of writing letters into England nnd, according to an edict of William I the Conqueror, all legal documents' were written In the Normnn hand. 1 may not lx: n diseerner of of the times. There is something, how- j ever, In seeing and feeling. It seems , that the times are improving, f Teel 1 better and more hopeful, and 1 flntEfhatb 1 uni not ulonc in this. 1 shall speak of. some of the signs that appear to m«. i _ Jf First, I find expectancy in many quarters w here I have found discontent ‘j nnd almost despair. Theologians tell us that in the moral world hojx: and ex pectancy are the two essentials of faith. There is hopefulness nnd there is ex- jxctancy in many quarters. Therefore | many believe that the times nre bettor , nnd that they shall lx? better nnd better, i The next sign I notice Is more actlr- , By. Humanity seems to be going up j nnd moving on. I never saw such ac tivity in the nowpptiper work. It seems j that the American newspapers nre run,- 1 ning a race with each other. The Sun- ] •Wiy papers now nre great magazines filled with pictures, the news, moral essays, historic, scientific, philosophic dissertations, nnd everything you can Imagine, even dow n to the littie “Yel low Kid.” The merchants were never so active ns they are now. They seem to be racing with each other. Their displays in tho columns of the newspa pers are something marvelous. The bargains they offer tempt the world to go nnd buy. Men are moving about w ith a more cheerful step. In the last few days I have taken in Cincinnati, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, New York, Washington city, Atlanta, Ga., and so on. I never saw more people on the streets nnd in the stores than I witnessed on this round. Broadway, New York, is a seething mass of people. The hotels arc full. Philadelphia is full. Atlanta. Ga., husabuzzand bustle on It. So has Pittsburgh. The bank nnd clearing house reports show market! signs of improvement. The New York banka nre filling up with money. Three million dollars were loaned or<e dn k v when I was in New* York at two per cent. Time money can lx* had there, and plenty of it, at four per cent. Factories and machine shops are starting up whose machinery has been rusting for months or years. Rail road traffic seems to he picknig up^ The trains are all running full of passengers everywhere I have been lately. Freight trains are pulling and moving by at al most every station. The drummers seem to lx* more cheerful nnd active in their work. I did not meet on this round the long-faced drummer* I have been meeting so many months. The drummers make a good thermometer and a good barometer. When the drum mers are cast down business is stag nant. Their faces and steps tell the (ale whether merchandise nnd manu factories arc going on or not. Drum mers now look and talk more cheer fully. Now* these are some of the signs which I have seen. And Inst, but not least, the atmosphere seems to lx: clearing up. And there is a business at mosphere us well ns a natural atmos phere. It is not cloudy and foggy like it has been—making a fellow get a long breath every few minutes and making him feel like he had lost the power of locomotion. Wheat nt a dollar a bushel Is n new phase of things nnd will moke many a farmer wish he had all his land In wheat. Cotton at seven cents a pound Is not bankrupting southern farmers, and I believe the farmers of the south are In better condition to-day than they have been since the war. The lessons of economy they have learned, togethsr with the diversity of crops they have mode in the last few years, with a 75 or 80 per cent, cotton crop In many of the southern states this year have made the south as well off to-day, If not better, than any of the other parts of the union. As I have said In previous letters, I did not expect to see this country move off in prosperity likoa boy moves off on Ida bicycle or like a passenger train moves off from a station. But there is a better outlook, a better feeling, and better conditions to-day than three months ago, than 12 months ago. Im provement begets expectancy and hope fulness and activity. It is like the good old brother in the experience meeting who said he thanked God that he was safe thi# far on Ids journey home, and that he was thankful that It was every r ay ns well with, him os It was. An other old brother said: "I thank God that I am, what I nm, nnd 1 thank God that I nm no nminer than I am.” The great trouble with uh 1* we aro In debt. Oh, debt l It Is the curse of America to-day. It is to a man In busi ness what rent is to the poor widow who earns her living with the needle. "Oh, the rent, the rent," she says, “must be paid, even if It takes the bread nnd meat from our mouths.” Debts must be paid, creditors must be satisfied, debt^ on» must dance to the music; nnd debt nnd the devil both go to worry the saints and tho sinners alike. How I 1 wish we oould liquidate. How I wish we oould all just go Into the. hands of a receiver and turn over what we have to our creditors and take an even j start. I suppose the most of human ity have alxiut ns much owlog to them as they owe. Some of them arc like old big John Underwood—they are even with the world; they owe about as many ns they don’t owe, and have nothing to pay It with. I never met half a dozen men In my life who told me that they didn’t owe r dollar in the world. If the devil Khou,d get all the people who nre In debt he will get his (piota from this country out of this generation unless he is n tremendously greedy old devil. I know what it is to meet bank notes, security debts, mer chants* bills, laborers* hire and so on, and I have wound up every year of my OTyJaAi *ell<V7 antfld ty .p.uj! .Rirgqgt} .np M ^T,J^V V k <i y.pt i j^yg ixyu ip.thfl line old treadmill-year-after year like ^hc old horse,,th4it,j^a„t9. grind tho bark nt my grandfather’s tanyord. Item ml I and round. “Men )#iA¥'cCtoaTI and men mnv go, but 1 go on forever.” iWitfr’d 1 mWTHMfftd. * HiA rtoty eMsoliP 1 tion that romeateimt: lathe much good foiqpnnjr that Ifccps with me ,in my rounds. The,'bqst men I kpow of arc,, tnarrhing with me,'round anil round knej,I k npv some iiiclntfmfs Unless rascals; w^. efe W. bark that we are grinjding and take ){ nWwt, ft M fort and tiredness of the old huifse wpo tq.rjia .thfl baykj xjUJl wjth h^^tlrcaoi^c tread. I don’t mean to t>e upderafood^ Of !W-lW that every man wW/s ont'’ of debt is a heartless rascal. lie ought , tV” i ' riBTjp to l* a good man. He Is obeying one ve.rHe~of the Scripture, which rays:" “Owe no.-niiHi'«»ytki»8,” *ndi If he keeps up with the other verses It will lx* sakAb him nt insl'i “tVcR done, f’ioli good tint! ’faithful seminft: enter ihAxi" into the joys of thy Lord.”<i - There Is but one way to keep out 9f,., debt. That is the way Pat said he.gr^t rich: “By doing without the things ne w as obliged to have.” I shall bepUllirfg” for the shore theae- latter df js of .the old year, nnd stprt.in the ncw.yeifr wijth ( , new resolutions, new hppep. and rojv pledges to myself. If 1 live" I shall wind up another year Jitst its T mhst wind this year If I live, through lts.idr.y8v» David once said: “Oh, that J.liifd v.lqgg.j like a dove that I might fiy away and f be nt rest.” I have sometimes thougHf" tlxit If poor humanity CouM take Wlfitfr* snd fly aw ay to some delightful moww, tain top and have one w eek's rest},—j>y£- t fret rest, rest from all cares, and .cred itors, rest from all anxieties and afesocia- * tions, all perplexing diiTichltfls : 'fttl»V • harrassing environments—thathumanr,* Ity would come back and take Its placf}^ with new life, new heart and new hopes. But we have got no w ings. NVe must fight It out manfully, liOnestl'y, tndtm‘. , l triously, and live la hope if wre. die in > despair. BAM P. JftNE3 r ,| > ELIZABETHAN PLAYERS; 1 ‘ ■— ■ ■ :<•.< _(.i ,-f Treated a* VafabonrtA In the Native Town , , , ... r. > I t, ( of bhalieAponre. About a mile beyond Bfratforif, NYH" ' com Ik* wood creeps down along the Icvft. Just beyond, tho Dingles wind iiiOgfi;;, lurly up from the foot-path below; to the crest of Welcombc hill, ihrp'ugV straggling clumps nnd briery’hblldwtl," 1 sweet with nodding bluebells, twh iortd / hawthorn. Nick ond the master-player paused u moment at the top to catch their breath nnd to look back. ’ '"'i’. Stratford nnd the valley of thoJWew lay spread lx*fore them like a pictureot pence, stubbled with blossom);)g or-. ehards nnd girdled w ith spring. North ward the forest of Arden clad fho rHn- Ing hills. Southward the fields of FeUi' don stretched away to the blue knoll*- beyond which lay Oxford nnd Np^Jly ,, nniptonshire. The ragged stretches of Rnltterficld downs scrambled awH.V to the left; and on the right,beyondlirHV*I ley, were the woodod uplands whCni:! Guy, of Warwick, ond Herand, Arden, slew the wild ox nnd the boar. And down through the midst ran InV Avon southward, like a silver TlbbOti ’ slipped through Kendal gn>cn, to where tho Rtour comes down, post Lud<Ungton, to Bidford, and away to the misty hil|s. "Why,” exekiimed the mnstcr-pinyeV —“why, upon my word, it is a faitio\¥.nb —us fair n town as the heart «f/man. oould wish. Wish? I wish ’tweyoqu^kSU,. In the sea, with all its pock of fools! Why," sold ho, turning wrr.thfufly upon ' Nick, “that old Sir Thingumbob of thine, down there, called mo « cater* i pillar on the kingdom of, EnghpiA-iiVt vagabond, and a common player of in- ( terludes! Called me vagabond! &fo! Why, I hove more good licenser, thiH he has wits. And os to Master Bailiff bes, I how permits to play from mor/% . Justices of the peace than he can shake . a stick nt in a month of Sundays!” Ho shook his fist wmthfully at the distant town, nnd gnawed his mustache until one side pointed up nnd the other down. “But, hark ’e, boy, I’ll have my ven geance on them all—ay, that will I, upon my word, and on the remnant.of mine honor—or else my name’s not Gaston Carew!” "Is It true sir,” asked Nick, hesitat ingly, “thnt they despitefully handled you?” "With their tongue*, ay,” said Carew bitterly; “but not otherwise.” He clapped his hand uj>on his poniard, nnd threw hack his head defiantly. "They dared not come to blows—they knew my kind! Yet John Rhnkspere is no bad sort—he knoweth what Is what. But Master Bailiff Stublx*s, I ween, Is a long-eared thing thnt bray a for thistles. I’ll thistle him! He called Will Shak- spere rogue—host ever looked through a red glnas?” “Nay,” said Nick. "Well, It turns the whole world red. And »o it is with Master Stubbos. Ho looks through a pair of rogue’s eyes ond sees tho whole world rogue. Why, boy," cried the master-player vehement ly, "he thought to buy my tongue! Marry, If tongues were troublca he has ■bought himself a peck! What! Buy my silence? Nay. he’ll ace a deadly flnsh of silence when I come, to my lord nml admiral again 1”—John Ben nett, In St. Nicholas. Why They Are Called Hackneys. Hackney was the first place where coaches were let on the hire, either by the day or for a passage to London, and although In 1625 there were only 20 such vehicles, In 1734 they had throughout the kingdom nceumuloted to 000, all which were still denominated Hackney coachea. The horsca that drew them, us well as all other hired horses, from the some origin, were termed hackneys.—Chicago Chronicle. Cinerarias that ore- most advanced should have plenty of light and a little more beat; this will fetch them in for Christina*. Liquid manure given twico a W«!ek will he found very beneficial. • "