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a THE NATIONAL BANK OF AUGUSTA L. C. KAYNE, Presl't. F. G. FORD, Cashier. Capital, $250,000. Undivided Profits ??110,000 Far?l?t??s of our magnificent Now Vault containing 410 Safety-Lock-Boxes. Differ . e?t ?Sizes are offered to our patrons and l-tte public at $6.00 to $10.00 per annum. THOS. J. ADAMS PROPRIETOR. EDGEFIELD, S. THE PLANTERS LOAN AND SAVINGS BANK. AUGUSTA, GA. Pays Interest on Deposits. Accounts . Solicited, L. C. HAYXE, President. W. C. WABDLATT, Cashier. VOL. LXIV. NO. 8 Wright's Unideal!; Hr.hertc Unpublished Frank G. ( LEXAXDEIA,Ya., is fnll of nn^ab lished traditions of George Washing ton. Mount Ver non is only nine miles from Alex 'oiflus-aupplies at] the latter town. He came thereto vote, and until a few years ago the little office in which he did business there still stood. It was at Mexandria that Washington met General Braddock, and with him start ed out on that disastrous campaign. His lust review of troops were made from the steps of an Alexandria hotel about a year before his death. Prom the traditions of Alexandria, and from many other sources Frank G. Carpenter has tried to make up ir bis mind's eye a picture of George "Washington as he really was. He wa; exceedingly tall, and when young quit? slender. He had enormous hands am feet. His boots were No. 13, and hi ordinary walking shoes No. 12. N ono cati look' at the silk stocking which hang up in Mount Vernon an not realize tt ii it took a big leg to fi! them. He was ? man of muscle. During his service in the army b weighed 200 pounds, and was so stron that he could lift his tent with or hand, although it usually required tl strength of two men to place it on tl camp wagon, writes Mr. Carpenter, mean, of course, when it was fold? up and wrapped around the pole Washington could held a musket wi one hand and fire it. He was a go* shot and a good swordsman. The p tures of the father of our 'count make you think that Washington w a brunette. His face is dark and so bre. The truth is, he had a skin li an Irish baby, and his hair was ainu red. He had a broad chest, hut no full one. His voice was uot strong, and d lng his last days he had a hack cough. His eyes were cold gray, i it is said that he seldom smiled, thongh there is reason to believe t he had considerable humor about h His rose was prominent. He was ] ticulur as to his appearance and tidious in dress. He wore p clothes and always kept himself ' shaven, acting as his own barber. During the latter part of his Hf wore false teeth. His teeth did fit well and pushed out his lower Washington was an emiuently man. He had a quick temper, bi MARY WASHINGTON. (A rare picture of the mother of iugton a?, a young girl.) a mle he kept, it under control, times, however, it got tim best This was ino case once in Ales One of the wmaty officers t Carpenter the story as they Rt tbe se?ontl fivor of tlw mark? sed 'Last Picture-. ' Gathered by w i raditions -arpenter. Jin Alejandr?a and looked down at the ? "?.e,? ??rtrithinit.whichis "owai ed witt hundreds of booths where the .'aii-fax of Alexandria.. Washington supported Fairfax, and when he met Payne here he made a remark that Payne considered an insult, and Payne knocked him down. The story went like lightning through the town that Colonel Washington was killed, and some of ti e troops who were stationed Alexandria rushed in and would at MONUMENT OF WAS! have made short work of Payne Washington not prevented them, pointed to his black eye and told t] that this was a personal matter, that he knew how to handle it. Ev one thought that this meant a diu "Tho next day Payne got a from Washington asking him to c to the hotel. He expected a duel, went. Washington, however, wr an amicable mooth He felt tba' had been in the wrong, and ?aid : Payne, I was wrong yesterday, I: you have had sufficient satisiac let us be friends.' There was s canter of wine and two glasses o table, which Washington had on to smooth over the quarrel. Thc drank together and became such s friends after that that Payne wc of the pallbearers at Washinc funeral." Everycre drank in the cloys o?* \ ton, and ibo father of his co I alwaya had wines upon his tab j have aowbttQ seen it stated tb j eve? dr&nk to excess George "Washington was simple in his tastes, and during his youth he was an enormous eater, but was not particular as to what he had. He wanted plain food and plenty of it. During 1 is later years he ate very lit tle. His breakfast at Mount Vernon was of corn cakes, honey aud tea, with possibly an egg, and after that he ate no more until dinner. He kept, how ever, a good table, and usually had friends with him. As the years went on Washington's lands increased in value, and when ho died he was one of the richest men of his time. He owned lands and stock and slaves, and his estates amounted to thousands of acres; He had houses in Alexandria and property in Washington. He had valuable lands near the present site of Pittsburg; Ho was throughout his life a money maker, and I was told at Alexandria that when he was a boy he got $5 a day and upward for his surveying. He put his surplus money into lands, and au advertisement in a Baltimore paper of 1773 states that he had 20, 000 acres of laud for ? de on the Ohio River. His will, which is now kept about twenty miles from Washington in tho safe of the old courthouse at Fairfax, Ya., gives a detailed state ment of every article he possessed down to the calves and sheep. His personal estate was then put down at $532,000, and this iacluded a vast amount of tobacco, large numbers of cattle, sheep and horses, nearly all of which he willed to his wife. The account books which are kept at Washington in the State Depart ment show that Washington was very careful about keeping a record of his expenditures. He put down every thing, and among other items you see his losses at cards and at the horse races are frequent. The curious thing about his accounts is that there v/as almost always a deficiency at the end of the year which ho could not account for. Through his letters now owned by :he Government you see here and lhere correspondence which shows :hat he was * very hard up at times, [n 1785 he wrote that he could get no vheat on credit, and that he had no sash tj pay for it.. Three years later ie urges a man to pay the ?1000 which ie owes him, and says he has put off he sheriff three times already, and hat he needs this money to pay his axes. He was not afraid to dun his lebtors, and he is said tu have been ne of the shrewdest dealers among he planters of his time. From the above it will be seen that Vashington had by no means an easy ife. He hud many troubles outside f those connected with his estate. Ie had as many enemies as our lead iig politicians have to-day and he wajJ_ te was President. , When his birthday was first cele ?INGTON AT PHILADELPHIA. lished lon^poems describing him the worst of men. The House Representatives was asked to adjoi for half an hour on February 1796, to pay its respects to Presid ?. J Washington on the occasion of note birthday. This practice had been ome I vogue since Washington was first but I augurated. The House, however, ts in j fused to adjourn, on the ground I it was the duty of Congress to att to legislative business and not tc foolish compliments. When Washington delivered farewell address he was reviled the opposite party. Notwithstanding all this, the chi j ter of Washington shines brightei uvug j day than ever before. With his iS one 1 weaknesses, which historians ?ton's j done their best to hide, he is, tr j him altogether, perhaps the gre ft'ash-1 American our country has ever untry ? duced, and the false charges ag le. I j him were but drops of ooisfcui at ho I the mirror ol' his fame, which tim I long since washed ftwav, had He dem and ery ?1 b he 'Mr. ?ut if ti on, i de a the iered ! two tron GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOC g A TEANSPACm ? OCEAN C OOOOCOOOOOOO??OOO? I . The great transpacific ! jected hom the United Si Philippines will be ono o important media of corr between the civilized nat earth. The plans nnder cc contemplate connection w by the shortest possible TO I examination of the ace I map will clearly disclose tl ban Francisco is hom Hone Hawaiian Islands, a distan miles. From Honolnln t 2ol8 miles; from Ualah Islai island is a distance of 12001 1900 GT\t0 Mani,a a & lam m? es,for a cable, bn^" I ?,36? 7mil,es a steamer. By S an5lANDM tJa,aD? or Strong^ ,' and the cable will get a break Sgffl great distance which it wonld ol wise have to traverse. The Hydrographie Office of ?j fe 13 onl? waiti*& for the word t begin a survey of the route Thc whi rr0'^6^ t0 be travenf/ which hes between the coast of Call forma and the Hawaiian Islands S? carefully capped some years Z hui here derof t f^o but lulu to Luzon, extends over a reriffii o-^ea floor that is as yet une'?, The cable will go by way of Hawaii of course and thence to one of S s ands of the Caroline grout*'ffl telegraph station, if nothing betterl jiU be obtained by Uncle Sam in he ?ni:rnarch^So. The distance' from Honolulu to Ualan in the Caro-: lines is 2518 miles. From Ualan the? wire vope mll extend 1200 miles toi Guam, which becomes the proper^ bf tte United States by the with Spain. It win cover it stretch, 1300 miles, as a . crow JA! fly from Guam to the Gulf of Din<X which,. th eagt coaetof *?, To reach Manila it would have to E around the Island of Luzon, and I ?ill be a pat saving af cable and pf rouble also to make the landing I the east side, connecting with a tell jn-aph crossing Luzon to Manila, on y thirty-eight miles. ' J The distances are all official, as r? corded at the Navy Department. ? SS TT H,??Oln?,? t0 San francisco, tW ?? fl '?e, adiled'ifc *m ?e seen I .hat tlie to al length of the cable will Ije /IO/ miles. It is estimated tb?*1 ?rn ^T5V -~ .jtAN0?, . '?TRO.* ?5. ??OOTE OF THE TBOPO/SI the making and laying of the whj-e rope will come to about $1000 a mile, so that the entire expense involved will be only $7,107,000. This in cludes everything except the pre liminary survey, which, being per formed by a naval vessel, will not appear as an item in the account. This rope which is to wriggle its way beneath seven thousand miles of ocean, bringing two continents into close touch and communication, will be an inch and a quarter in diameter, aud will weigh a ton and a quarter to the mile. The bill introduced in tae House by Mr. Corlis, of Michigan, le quires that the cable shall transmit at least fifteen words a minute, at mt more than SI a word, press matter to be at half rates. At present a telegram sent fr?m Manila to New York must go by my of Hong Kong, around Asia, aenss Europe, and under the Atlantic 600 miles under water and 700 mies over land. The cables being on trolled by a monopoly, tue prioii about $3 per word. This monop>l] will be smashed by the new transpa cific Hue. The cable stations at Ualan roc Guam will require no elaborate phut For such purpose it is necessir merely to build a little house ?ni haul a bight of wire rope rp on shore Once established, it will be no gaea expense to maintain the cable aons tho Pacific. Breaks a? rare, in usually near shore; the fire rope cm bedded in the ooze of td depths vi last for centuries. Wen the line i completed it will be practicable t send a message arouri the world i three seconds. The pirn conttn plated is that when fijshed the cab] shall be handed over > the Postoffic Department, to be oprated as part < tho postal service. ll net proceet will be covered into te Treasury, an in this way the cabl<will be made I pay for itself in com3 of time. . Keadinc J?ud. Reading aloud s a mere physic exercise is of gret importance ai efficacy. Cicero ii some one of h letters" speaks ofJuring himself troublesome and larming weakne by reading aloud t some hours eve day. Certain tensraments are inf enced by it, as aors are affected their own playii. It is said Madame Testa th she would cpi home from the of a and sit in a pi sion of tears at he recollection what fche lind beeacting. It was < tirely unaffected. She would say s knew it to ne idleSnt that she "coi not get the thingut of her head.' Medical Record. Another Kinnon Crusoe. A new Bobina Crusoe has b< found. The manccording to aPe vian telegram, >s found on 3ne the desert Galagos Islands. Ie 1 not spoken to (even seen a inn being for fourte years, and hi bi is covered with thick hair! le lived on wikbirds, shellfisi i water. The mimust have asei tioual story to fold.-Rio de Ja iro News. A promiuentoctor holds th.t 8 ficial teeth are evil in those of vanced yearspecause they em such persons masticate flesh W the teeth fail nirally. it is :atn design that tludividwd SDQiJd | eist on yeg?tft: diet? ! SOCIALISTIC MAYOR. Chase Will Attempt to Pat Ilia lea Into Practice at Haverhill. i Socialists have captured the 3averhill? Mass. They have ! ? Socialist Mayor. John C. j and six menibars of the muni JOHN C. CHASE. cipal legislature. This is the first time, so far as is known, that out and out and avowed Socialism has won in an election of any importance in this country, and all Massachusetts is .stirred np and talking about it. Mr. Chase declares that he will carry ont the policy of his party as de fined in the platform on which he was elected. He is only twenty-eight years old, and at the time of his elec tion was a clerk in a co-operative store of Haverhill. ' He is thoroughly imbued with the doctrines of Social ism, is the President of a Haverhill co-operative society and one of its founders, and has been very active in Socialist agitation for some time. Not only, did the Socialists elect their candidate for mayor, but like wise three aldermen and three coun cilmen. Their platform demands that the city shall own and operate'all pub lic utilities requiring a franchise, the operatives to elect their own officers; that the city shall furnish food, shoes and clothing to children who are com pelled to stay from school for want of these necessaries; that the city shall, give employment to the unemployed on new public works; that taxation shall be equalized; that secret ses sions of the council be abolished; the adoption of jinitiative, referendum and proportional representation, and othoi plans generally approved by Social ists. Young Chase receives a salary ?2000 a year for trying to carry oui 1IFIC CABLE. al id is of ss ry u by of no JS of Mi llie lld jen ru ? of lad ian ody has md isa me ir ti ad ible j lien j ire's this programme. If he can succeed in starting the ball rolling, the experi ment will be watched with utmost concern by all kinds of people every where. Mr. Chase has been connected with labor agitation and organization ever since he was a boy. He is au unusu ally bright and well-informed young man, and is looked up to by tho work ingmen in the town. The new mayor was born in New Hampshire, and went to Haverhill eighteen years ago. As a boy he worked in shoe factories and woolen mills, and spent his even ings in study. Haverhill is one of the most indus trious of the manufacturing towns of Massachusetts. It has a population upward of 40,000. It has about twen ty miles of street railways, gas plants and electric lighting plants, about a dozen grammar schools, a public high school, a public library and. four fine parks. In Haverhill are nearly 800 factories, covering nearly seventy in dustries and employing nearly 20,000 men. The principal industry is tho manufacture of boots and shoes, in which are invested many millions of dollars. Assassin Lucclieni'a Prison. Lnccheni, the murderer of the Em press of Austria, now under sentence of imprisonment for life-the utmost penalty allowed by the law of Switzer land-was removed on the day aftei IiTJCCHENl'S PRISON. the trial to the Prison de l'Eveche, s called from the fact that it was bui on the site of the palace of the Bishc of Geneva. Here for tho next s months Luccheni will undergo solitai confinement in au underground du geon. Two days a week his food w consist only of bread aud water, the end of six months lie will treated like other criminals, tboiij with more severity in the event misbehavior, or other breaches of t! prison regulations. How to Bo Cremated. A Canadian lady, on being qn tioned concerning her views upon t subject of fire versus earth for t human body after death, gavo ult ance to a remarkable sentiment-s was rather absent-minded, be it sa "Well, you see, ono only gets bur: onco iu a lifetime! Cremated? Y I think I should prefer it, if there v only a creamery h audy. " Creame we may observe, ia thc* equi val out the Dominion for the English dairy Cornhill. The valne of the total output metals in the United States in J was $752,027,047, au ISOMM o 1807 Of $0?,O??,72?, DEWEY'S MANY GIFTS; PRESENTS OF ALL KINDS AND VALUE SENT TO THE ADMIRAL. His Cabin on the Fnsshlp at Manila Looks Like a Museum or Cariosity Shop - Some Keautlful Th ?inzs From Ajrninaldo-Huts,Cups, Medallions, Etc. Admiral Dewey's cabid is begin ning to look like a miiseum or curi osity shop, writes JobnT. Mccutcheon from Manila. Every mail briugs bulky rjuckages and little souvenirs* from his enthusiastic admirers at home, and two typewriter operators are kept busy acknowledging the re ceipt of presents. There are hats, caps, canes, medal lions; handkerchiefs, paper weights, cigar holders, flags, newspaper clip pings and albums and nearly every thing else that will go by mail. A beautifully bound and illuminated al bum came some time ago from a prom inent club in Milwaukee, and is treas ured as one of the star features of the admiral's collection. Each page is decorated with an appropriate paint ing, the subjects bearing on some thing associated with the admiral or the battle of Manila bay. On the last page is a picture of the Olympia jackies hoisting, or "breaking out," at the main truck of the flagship, the two-starred flag of the rear-admiral. The final bit of text in the book ex presses the hope that some time the admiral may be in Milwaukee and that he may take "breakfast" there, A picture of a very pretty girl is a conslant ornar ;ntof his desk. She is a Decatur, ' . girl, and sent the letter, with th ?enu.ous superscrip tion, "Our ] Admiral," and it won the admii heart. In acknowl edging the rec of the picture he wrote a long a very cordial letter which is a ti TO other pretty girls who have charm h g photographs. Another conspicuous oruament of his cabin is a painting of the battle of Manila bay. It was made by a Chinese artist in Hong Kong after a drawing which appeared in Harper's Weekly, and Avas presented to the admiral by the junior officers of the Olympia. The artist is now working night and day making more reproductions, as two or three dozen orders have been sent him by officers of the fleet. Admiral Dewey's shoemaker at "Washington sent him a fine pair of white shoes, with the modest request that the admiral give him the pair he wore during tho battle of May 1. The exact identity of the shoes in question being uncertain, tho admiral compro mised by writing a letter of thanks. A steel watch, made of steel taken singular habit of making, an elaborate gift to the admiral whenever the latter "calls him down." That accounts largely for the number of Aguiualdo s presents that adorn the cabin. In all the dealing Admiral Dewey has had with Aguinaldo he has treated him with the greatest courtesy when cour tesy was called for, and the greatest severity when firmness was tho thing; but in spite of the rebuffs Aguinaldo's notes accompanying the presents in variably refer to the admiral ai "my honorable aud illustrious friend." On the occasion of Aguinaldo's first visit to the Olympia he was ac corded the greatest ceremony that could be bestowed on a man of his high rank. The admiral in person met him at the gangway, the marines were all draw up at attention and everything except the firing of a sa lute was tendered. It is to be assumed that he was sufficiently dazed and flattered, for he never ceased lo be very friendly and anxious to act in compliance with the admiral's wishes. Not long ago General Anderson wanted to take a pleasure trip up the river Pasig, but -was stoppeil at the insurgent Hues and compelled to turn back. A day or two afterward the admiral sat on the quarter-deck and he saw au insurgent launch steam ing gaily along near his ship with the insurgent flag flying. Then an iden of reciprocity occurred to him and he decided io seize all the insurgenl launches. This was at once done auc' eight beautiful craft were tied up ir Cavite. When Aguinaldo heard o: the calamity he sent his private secre tary, Escamillo, to see the admiral t( fiud out what had been done to offene him. The admiral was very nice, ant he gave Escamillo a hf art-to-hear talk. He spoke of the insurgents re fusing to allow American army offi cers to go through their lines, and h thought that he would not allow th insurgent launches to go through hi Hues: So for that reason he had take: them-not confiscated them, just "di tained" them. The next day Aguir aldo gave orders permitting America officers to go through the insurger lines and up the river, and doubtles in a day or two he will send a beaut ful present to his "illustrious" frient Scientists and Luccheni. The criminal anthropologists ha1 naturally been busy-on the streng! of a few photographs-in proving th Luccheni, the murderer of tl lamented Empress of Austria, h; every characteristic of the crimim To the ordinary observer Lucche looks like nothing so much as a coi monplacc ruffian, but the criminal a thropologist has, through the mediu of a photograph or two, discover in him "complete asymmetry of t body." He has very marked "amye rophy of the face, neck, trunk, ai and leg on the left side." The stigmata are the consequence of "gra cerebro-spinal leisons, occurring infancy, aud due to heredity, alcohc atavism 'mis?re physiologique,' some disease of infancy, perhaps encephalomyelitis or lateral scleros from which complete recovery ue' took place. The French anthropc gists, indeed, prououncehini a type the "asy m m?trique desequilibr This is quite convincing to be sn hut as the British Medical Jour points out, it would have been m satisfactory il" the criminal untura logisl could have recognized all th evidences of criminality before L cbeni had pei petrated the crime wh has given him the notoriety of inff which he oovetert, -Loudon Chvoui DUC FOR COLD FOR FORTY YEARS. DolHt'er Hid 342,000 and Robbers Stole It the SB?IO Vlftht Move than forty years ago old Jim Dolliver, a rick owner of timber laud and mills, buried $?2,000 in gold somewhere between the Fork? and Murphy's, in Mame. He had come from Montreal, along the old French voyageurs' trail, and, reaching the Forks,- had told the landlord of thc hotel that Le had been followed by a party of French and Indian outlaws all the way from the St. LaWreuce river. "I have nearly five score hundred yellow sovereigns in ray batteau," he said, "and if I don't bury my money noAv the crazy fellows will rob me be fore I get to Waterville," He left the hotel at 10 o'clock that night and was away three days. On his rettirn he remarked to the land lord "Well, I have put that money where the archangel Gabriel can't find it." Then he took a hearty supper, went to bed, slept two days and two nights, and awoke a raving maniac. For a week he fought Indians and buried treasures in his delirium, and died in the act of shooting a Mohawk chief, who had invaded his sick fancy for the^purpose of robbing him. For a dozen years after Dolliver's death hi, heirs advertised tor the missing wealth, and increased the re ward until the finder was entitled to 75 per cent, of all he should discover. Having spent nearly ?3000 in adver tising, the heirs gave it up as a had job, after wbich the people who knew the story continued the work at their own expense. For twenty years the digging went on at all seasons. In October, 1880, Saunders Atwood came from Winterport and brought an electric battery with him, which he said could detect an English farthing under "four fathoms" of solid earth. When he went away, two weeks later, he showed a handful of English sov ereigns all stamped with dates thirty or more years agu, and said that he had unearthed the whole of the miss ing Avealth. But while the people ac cepted his theory that the proper time to dig was on the dark of an October moon they repudiate the story that he found any of the missing coin. This fall, when the muscles of the farmers had grown hard from digging potatoes, about forty men packed up a few tools and made ready to start on another search for Dolliver's money as soon as the old moon should change. They were loafing about the hotel and stores one night when word came from Montreal that Eugene Beaupre on aged and rich Frenchman of tha later by an announcement th Eugene Beaupre, late* of .Mo! had died and left an estate amo? . tn $60,000 to different charr Canada and Maine, saying in h__ that the gift was made as a "partial atonement for a grievous sin commit ted in the state of Maine in October, 1856." A Notorious Usurer. Some remarkable details of the ca reer of Ferdinand Linke, the "Fing of Usurers," who recently died in Vienna, are given in the London Morning Leader from its correspond ent in the Austrian capital. Linke came to Vienna from the ghetto of a provincial town in Galicia in the early sixties and began a money lending business ou a small scale. His loons were small, but the ra* of in terest he charged was enorm .s, and he soon began to accumul?t' capital. In the earlier part of his ^areer he was co?tent with from 60 to 80 or 100 per ceut. interest, but as he grew older in rascality he extorted as much as 400 or 500 per cent, from his fool ish victims. By these means he be came a millionaire. Linke underwent several terms of imprisonment foi usury, but the greed of gold always drove him hack to his illegal traffic ir money. He lived alone, always guard ed by a number of savage blood hounds. His doors and windows wen barred aud bolted, and his illgottei gains hid in di?'ereut parts of hi house. Liuke's will has been mad public. He has left all his wealth t his only daughter, whom he so ne glected during his( lifetime that sb' was obliged to undertake menial wor] for 3s. a week, Linke, howevei with the iustiuct of a miser, attache the very characteristic condition t the acceptance of his magnificer legacy that not a farthing of it shoul at any time be applied to any chariti ble purpose. France's Disillusionment. England has iu the Mediterr?nea thirty-nine warships, of which ten ai ironclads of the first class; on tt coast of the Atlantic she has thirteei of which nine are first-class ironclad In her own waters she can inusti twenty-two Avar vessels, ten heir ironclads; and in her dockyards si has another 150 fighting vessels various types. Besides all these si has in American waters thirteen wa ships; in tbs East Indies, nine; West Africau ports, sixteen; in Chin twenty-eight; in the Pacific, otb seven, and in Australia, two. It w be seen that this constitutes a nat force so formidable as to justify Gre Britain's pretensions of being in position to successfully cope witL coalition of the . three greatest a best equipped naval powers of Euro} -Le Petite Marseillais. We Import Surds. Canada, England, France, and G many aro the chief countries fr which the United States imports see Wheu Ameiicau seedsmen want sor thing extra fine in the way of seeds cauliflower, celery, lettuce, egg pla or radish, they go either to France to Gevmauy, and order their supp! direct iroin the large seed gardeu< This is not due to superior culture these countries, but to the fact t the seeds, owiug to climatic or conditions, reach perfection tin ; We import peas chiefly from Caua i and England raises most of the s j for our mangel-wurzel crop. We ? I get from the same country some cb ! seeds of cucumbers, celery, pars I radish, mid carrots.-New York Tic AN EXpEPTI?M I don't ?e?? rery hard, on slang, 'causo talle that's ready made , Don't seem to me the proper kind fur simp? folks and staid. But there's one remark which strikes me so expressive-]! ko and strong That I make it an exception It's'boat "jollyin' folks along/' When discouragements are gatheria' aa' yourweory footsteps flag; When your heart is gettln' heavy aa' your languid spirits sag, It's a help that's moit amazin'; you feel young ag'in an' strong. When some happier fellow bein' stops to "jolly you along." {ts like a dash o' rain across the field that's hot an, dry; It's like a fias h ot sunshine, through a dark on' threatenin' sky, Or a friendly voice from home that greets .you mid a stranger throng, When you're played out aa' some feller stops to "jolly you along." Survival of the fittest-that's the raJo of every race, But good stock'll sometimes falter In the fierceness of the chase, As' mebbe honest merit' ha? been kep' from goin' wrong By some gentle soul that stopped a blt to "jolly folks along." HUMOROUS. Mand-What made her change her wedding day? May-It was bargain day at Boiler's. "What is your notion of an ideal woman?" "One who can look like ?? princess in a three-dollar suit." Mother (drilling Teddy for his fi: st party)-And now, darling, what i*J ^ greedy boy? Teddy- brr wants everything I wan Softleigh-So you-ai the c.othes make the mc ting? Miss Cutting - didn't in your case, at le I "Did the marriage end tween the two families?' tirely. It is confined t member of each family u The Medium-The spi husband is here, if yon TV him any question. The want to ask him where he ka "Do you think bringing v\ int? polities would be an agreeat . tic xi"' "Well, it might ? . custom of handshaking to kissing." "The new minister's sermons are entirely too short." "Think so?" "Yes. I never get any more than fif teen or twenty minutes' sleep at ser vice now." Young Doctor-I find it hard to draw the line between," influenza. Old Doch mv bo v. bnt ?no..1 Ai to . . : :. '.. /)i y?a: Mate :g to tile' tom. "Kuymas, you seem tobe in a.brown study. Are yon invoking the muse?" "The mnse? Mews? Ah, that is what 1 was trying to think of ! I prom ised to take my daughter to the cat show. Thank you." "Does your son belong to any of the college fraternities?" "No; they wouldn't let him in." "Why?" "Well, you see, he devoted all his time to study and neglected the ath letic features of the business. There was serious talk of expelling him be fore he could graduate." They had gone through the fire drill for weeks, and the other day, when visitors were present, the teach er thought it well to show the result of their training. "What is your first duty in case of tire?" she inquired of the school, "Sue the insurance com pany," shouted a youngster. "My dea-," said Mrs. Richleigh to her daughter the other evening after young Woodby had departed "how in the world did your hair become so disarranged?" "Why, mamma," re- 1 plied the quick-witted miss, . "I guess it must bti shaking my head so much when Mr. Woodby was trying to coax me to say yes." And the mother sud denly remembered that she had onoa been a girl herself. She-And so your former sweet heart married your rival, did she? He -Yes. She didn't kuow which of us she liked best, so we agreed to have a fight for her. She-Aud you were the loser. He-I won the fight all right enough. Tbe other fellow was in the hospital for two weeks, but she* married him just the same. I guess she thought it would be a good idea to marry i. man she could handle. One of Mosby'* Captares. At, a reunion of Mosby's men, held recently at Manassas, Va., a farmer told about the capture of General Stoughton at Fairfax Courthouse. With 12 meu Mosby advanced on a rainy night, captured the first line of pickets and carried them along to the secoud, making 'them and the pickets of the third line his prisoners. He had more prisoners than his 12 meu could guard. Alone, Mosby proceeded to the house in which Gone-al Stough ton lay asleep. The guard at the door was captured and disarmed and ob liged to guide the Confederate gen eral to the room of Geueral Stoughton. The general was impatient when he was nudged and called. With some bad language he ordered his disturber to leave him and not disturb him again. "Did you ever hear of Mosby?" he asked General Stoughton. This had a startling effect upon General Stoughton. "Have you caught the damned rascal?" lie asked, turning over in bed. "No,"said Mosby,"and you are my prisoner." And with that General Stoughton was requested to rise and dress himself. He was scarce ly convinced yet that he had been captured and could not believe that his pickets were prisoners like him self and that his personal guard was overcome like the others; but a pistol presented at his head convinced him that argument was not what was needed then, that he had better dress and, travel with the "guerilla" aud trust to luck to get away. With his 12 men .Mosby brought away all the pickets mid turned the general and the others over to the rebel authorities at Gor domville,- New York Tribune