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^ " ISSUED SEMI-WEEKL^ l. m. GRIST & SONS, Publishers.} % ^amilg Jleirsppr: 4or the promotion of the jgotitol, fSorial, gjrirallural, and <Eommoi|naJ_Jntjsr<jte of fht people. { ~ ESTABLISHED 1855." YORKVILLE, S. O., WEDNESDAY, JTJLY 16, 1902. ISTO. 57. WHEN BOYS BY JOBKT Bj Author of "Helen's Bal iiigton, Copyright, 1901, by John Habberton. CHAPTER XVI. SOME NEW NEIGHBORS. (Sj i, NE morning there came to a picket station where I had charge of Psix men an old colored woman, bent, twisted, perspiring and wild eyed, who exclaimed, "Good Lawd, boss, dey's two strings of reb 8ojors ober yander. Dey's so long dot you can't see neither end of 'em." The old woman seemed so earnest that I was half Inclined to believe her, bo I asked. "Where are they, aunty? ( How far?" i "Jes' beyan* de woods, boss. Dey's Jes' millions of 'em." I knew the road for miles beyond the station. It was so straight that a man could see a long way ahead. 1 had a ( horse fast enough to get me out of , trouble should 1 suddenly find myself ( within rifle range, and he needed ex- | ercise, so I mounted and* galloped out ( to reconnoiter. I passed the woods | without seeing any oue, and from a , little hill I could see that there was no one in the fields beyond, so I returned ( to the station and rebuked the old , woman for lying. , "It's true as de Bible, boss, whut I tole you," she replied earnestly. "Dey , dun tuck my two shotes 'long wld 'em. , You t'ink dese ole eyes cayn't see? ( Yas'r. dey kin dat." ( As It was about time for us to be re- , lieved 1 told her to go back home and , take another look and return. A few hours after we reached camp , we were startled by tbe bugle blowing , "boots and saddles." tbe most per- { emptory alarm known in tbe cavalry f service. As we burried to tbe stables f we beard tbe "long roll" sounded In ^ tbe Infantry camp near us. By tbe j time tbe "assembly" sounded, tbe word bad gone through camp that tbe out- f posts on every road, on a circuit of ten or more miles, bad been driven in or , captured. As we rode out at a trot we could see infantry moving into tbe works on ev- ( ery side, light batteries taking posi- , tions behind breastworks and men at ( tbe heavy guns in the forts, while to- t ward a series of roads different from ( that which we were approaching another cavalry regiment was moving. In tbe town we divided so as to reconnoiter three roads to lind out who and where tbe enemy was. It did not take long to get the desired information. A Confederate gun or two on each road sent a shell or two to let us know where they were, and a dash of skirmishers at tbe gallop yielded two or three prisoners. who told us that tbe troops who bad caused tbe alarm were two corps of Lee's army. Well, we had gained the Information for which we had gone in search, but it didn't please us at all. It foreshadowed a change of habit for us. Up to that time we had been able with a single battalion to send flying back to their camps any force that had approached the town. We could scarcely expect to do so with the newcomers. A single Confederate corps numbered more than 20,000 men; the entire force at our post numbered less than 8,000. There was nothiug to joke about Men 6poke to oue another about the situation and reasoned about it, but in sen- , tences no longer or more sensible than , those above. Every one seemed labor- , ing under a sense of personal affrontaffront which he was unable to reseut. j We went to camp, and the enemy | went to fortifying, as we soon after- , ward learned when on one reconnolssance oranother we stumbled upon forts and breastworks where once had been , clear roadway and fields. Weeks aft- J erward we learned from Richmond papers that Lougstreet had been in our , neighborhood for forage and food for ' Lee's army. Had General Longstreet explained his purpose to us when he came, a great lot of unprofitable worry , might have been spared. We might , even have complimented him on the j wisdom displayed in the selection of ( the territory, for the country round | about us was fertile and well tilled and | had not been laid under contribution , by soldiers, except perhaps to the ex- | o c-n-nnt nntntnoc rllipkonfl t and turkeys. By driving In our pickets Longstreet got possession of two railroad lines which gave him free com- , munieation. barring the few miles with- | In our lines, between Richmond and North Carolina. But none of these things did General Longstreet explain to us. Whatever may have been his own intentions as he meandered from farm to farm for corn and bacon, his men acted as if they would like to draw forage from the commissary department of our own post and get anything else the town might hold, ourselves included. If a man doesn't want peaceable intent ions misconstrued, he shouldn't intrust them to thousands of fellows with guus in their hands. Such men always get things mixed. Of one thing we felt assured?the enemy could not cut our line of retreat, which also was the route pi our supplies, for this was over causeways through the Dismal Swamp, a dark, deep, but friendly ally, which could have swallowed an army like Longstreet's without more than whetting Its own appetite, rue swamp was noi exactly mini, hut almost any part of it could be turued to mud in a few miu WERE MEN. bies," "George Wash" Etc. utes by the tramp of a few men. And such mud! A rich, black ooze of decayed vegetation, into which, except in midsummer or midwinter, the foot would sink as into moss, while right under the surface was a tangle of roots which never tired of playing bootjack for the pedestrian. To have one's boot pulled off without warning is amazing. To afterward drag the same boot from a net full of ooze into which the other boot is slowly sinking is still worse. One of Longstreet's men got through the swamp to the railroad track and captured one of our pickets, but he admitted that he was sorry he did It. He had trouble enough In returning to wish be had only himself to think of. To get enough men through to destroy our railroad track would have been Impossible. So we could run away If the post became too hot to hold us. and we couldn't be starved. After thinking this over the situation didn't seem so bad as at first. We wished that General Lee had sent ns cavalry instead of Infantry to fight. We were not aecushimtwl tA mopflnff infnntrv and mielit make mistakes. Still, there was n chance of improving our military education under so able a tutor as Longstreet For the next few days our principal luty was to And out where the enemy tvas. We always succeeded. We had )nly to go a mile or two outside our >wn lines to be loudly assured that it ivas not necessary to go farther, and he mounted skirmishers who dashed n the direction of the first shots nltvays saw gray figures lying down in shallow rifle pits, with breastworks far n the rear. Sometimes we would take some infantry with us?enough to engage the enemy smartly after we had 'ound them and fallen back. But this jecame unpopular so far as we troop?rs were concerned. We always had to stand by as a reserve, near enough to protect the "doughboys" in case they svere charged by the enemy. To sit still and be fired at or even to be within range of guns fired at some one else and not be allowed to reply Is the nost depressing experience a soldier ;an possibly have. It was new to us, aid we didn't like it. We preferred mr own old way of fighting?the dash. k, Lyimj dour.* in- shallow rifle pits. :he chase. the battle pc chaps, but no standing around under fire after we ivere done shooting. Within a few days this sort of duty K'eauie unnecessary. The enemy reieved us of it by themselves reporting heir whereabouts. They were continually buildiug new forts, and whenev?r they finished oue and got a heavy ;un mounted iu it they sent a shell or two over us to let us know about It. In the meantime re-enforcements and siege guns came pouring in upon us by rail, and some double ended gunboats came un the river In search of rebels ind glory. They found the former without the least trouble and deserved 1 good deal of glory for fightiug their boats at much closer range than was common at that day with ships engaging forts. One Confederate artilleryman. who was captured, said the boats came so close thnt ills shell fuses might liave been lighted and tho shells themselves thrown aboard, thus saving the powder charge of the gun. We'found places for some new forts of our own, and as some of thorn constructed on the river bank crushed through the crumbling soil and fell into the river the work had to bo done over again. The bridge crossing the river had been burned just in time to prevent a dash of Confederate cavalry into town the day of the surprise, but now we needed it again, and timber for it bad to be cut within easy range of the enemy's guns. Oil, there was plenty of work for everybody?except the cavalry. We indulged in an occasional reconnoissance just to lot the enemy know we hadn't left town, but hoped he had. For the rest of the time, however, we enjoyed more leisure than we could have had at home. It became tiresome, then it became absolutely wearing. After the works on both sides had been making faces at each other for several weeks, and a great lot of powder had been burned without hurting many people, and thousands of men had been kept awake at night when they wanted to he asleep, the word was passed through our camp one evening that General Longstreet was to be made to feci very slek next morning and that we were to assist at the operation. Between dark and dawn the bridge was secretly repaired, right under the enemy's military nose. The most difficult part of the work, that of repairing the frame, was done silently. Then an army of contrabands went down in couples, each couple carrying a young pine log to be used as planking. When these had been laid, other contrabands packed the cracks with straw, and still others carried out bags and boxes of dirt and strewed over all. so the bridge should be noiseless under footfall of man and horse. Eight hundred Africans were kept awake all night by that job. and 1 do not believe the occasion would have been favorable In which to Interview them on the blessings of freedom, .lust before dawn several companies of our regimeut passed over and learned that the enemy had not expected them. Close behind came a large body of infantry, which prolonged the surprise we had caused and prepared to make it permanent. Then some of our light artillery took a hand. We struck the enemy's line near Its center and behaved so disagreebly to the Johnnies that General Longstreet took them back to General Lee. TO BE CONTINUED. NOT ALWAYS DAMAGED. The Good* Thnt Are Known In Trn<le Circles an "Seconda." "It does not follow." said the buyer for oue of the sections of one of Washington's big department stores, "that goods which are known to the public and to the trade, and especially to lady shoppers, us 'seconds' are damaged goods. "Goods of all classes are known to the trade under three great subdivisions - the absolutely perfect, the seconds and the short ends?and their importance and value are regulated accordingly. "The manufacturers of goods of all descriptions, from a locomotive to a spool of thread, do not try to dispose of their products as perfect unless they really are such, however light the consciences of some retail dealers may be ou tliis point. Woolens and cottons at the mills and all Roods sold by tbe yard and do-.vn to bicycle tires are carefully inspected for flaws and defects of the minutest description. Sucb as are not up to the standard of merit placed thereon by the house turning them out arc laid aside by tbe experts and classed as seconds. These are disposed of to the trade under this name and at a greatly reduced price as compared with the perfectly made article. "For instance, let us take tbe case of men's collars, and especially the high turnover collai. After being laundered they are examined for defects, the most prominent of which Is a slight break in the linen ou top in front where they button. It may be scarcely perceptible, but it is enough to cause it to be thrown aside, and the name of the maker is uot stamped Ibereon, as would be the case if it were perfect Very often one of the buttonholes is slightly torn or there is a little scratch in the linen on the outer side. Some firms sell thousands of dozens of these collars a year at a very low price, while some of the defects are not perceptible to the eye of the purchaser, who buys the goods at retail ut less thun half tbe cost of the perfect article. The same is true with bicycle tires, the makers cutting their names off the rubber. Dealers are careful uot to have their names go on seconds, us the public would judge their perfect articles by the imperfect, relying upon the name of the manufacturer to buy a perfect article. "In weaving yarn goods a broken thread or a loose pin or a few drops of oil from the loom will make half a dozen or more yards imperfect, yet salable as short ends. These are cut off from the holt and sold cheap to dealers who make a specialty of bandliug such goods. Some mills will have at the end of the season thousands of these short ends. The retail buyers und jobbers secure them ut low prices, the public very often supposing that they are getting 'bargains' in the perfect goods at less than known market rates. Usually they receive full value for their money. "The loss to the manufacturers and the mills from seconds and short ends makes a big hole in the profits at the end of the season, and this loss is taken into consideration In the wholesale price asked for the perfect goods. In some mills they have a system of making the operatives pay for any difference in the damaged goods where the loss may be traced to their personal fault and not that of the machine. This system makes the operatives very careful, as it materially aftimir wniros. If a manufacturer attempted to put on the market seconds for perfect goods, the retail dealers would not buy from him, and the public would likewise withdraw its patronage."?Washington Star. Detected by a MIn*pelt Word. In a case of political importance, the whole case of which hinged upon tho question of the genuineness of certain letters, the most important witness was, while under examination, suddenly taken by surprise by being called upon to write down a particular word which occurred in the letters. The slip of paper was handed back with the word misspelt in an identically similar fashion to that in which it appeared in the correspondence, and the clever forger was soon after detected in the witnesa himself. x-'" On July 1 the permanent census bureau was organized in Washington with er-Oovernor Merriam in charge. There were during the taking of the < ensus 3.RS0 clerks in the bureau. There will be 7S(l clerks in the permani nt force. Miscellaneous funding. TILLMAN'S TRIBUTE TO STOKES. Jnitt ENtlnintion of n Man Who Tried to Do His Dnty. Among the many eulogies delivered in congress on the life and character of the late J. William Stokes, the following by Senator B. R. Tillman will be read with especial interest: Mr. President, the Senate and the House of Representatives, forming as they do component parts of the legislative branch of the government, work together In all things where the making of laws is concerned. This intimate relationship necessarily brings the members of the two bodies into close and friendly contact and many lasting friendships have had their origin in a committee room or rne uapuoi. There it is that the custom has grown up for both houses to take cognizance of the death of a member of either and to pay due respects to the memory of a dead comrade. The feeling is somewhat akin to that of attending the funeral of a fellow-soldier who has died. His immediate associates attend the last sad rites, but the members of other companies also attend the funeral, and so when a senator dies the house takes part on a subsequent day in paying respect to his memory, just as the senate performs the same duty in regard to a dead representative. The senate pauses in its labors today out of respect to a member of the lower house, a man not known to very many senators, but one whose character and worth were most highly appreciated by those of us who were acquainted with him. J. William Stokes, a citizen of South Carolina, and a member of congress for six years preceding his death, was called to his long rest on the 6th day of July, 1901. He was a memberelect to the present congress, and had served the people of his district with distinguished ability and zeal during his congressional career. The facts of his personal and political history have already been set forth in the eulogy pronounced by Mr. A. F. Lever, his successor in the house, and as the rehearsal of that Tecord in this presence would be but a repetition, I shall not dwell upon it. I prefer to speak of my dead friend rather from the point of view of a co-laborer in a common field and to give some estimate of his character as a man than deal with the subject from the standpoint of a biographer. Owing to the fact that he had left South Carolina immediately after his graduation from the Washington and Lee university, of Virginia, and remained away, following his chosen profession as a teacher, -until 1889, I had no knowledge of him in his earlier manhood. . I shall always recollect the first time I met him. It was at the "March convention" of the Farmers' Movement in the city of Columbia in 1890. He was on the committee to draft a platform, and his thorough insight into all the public questions then agitating the people of South Carolina and his earnest, zealous purpose to present those issues in the best light and frame the demands for reform which were pulsating in the hearts of our people, so as to minimize the opportunities for attack and assure so far as practicable the support of all those in sympathy with our purpose, made him a marked member of the convention. South Carolinians ordinarily are very jealous of outsiders, and Dr. Stokes' long absence from the state in the case of some men would have made it impossible that he should have exerted any influence; but his modesty and the clearness and force with which he presented his ideas and argued any moot question, silenced any jealous muttering, and from the first he became a leader in the movement in South Carolina to reform the state government just as he was soon after among the most prominent men in tne auiuhcc movemeM in the state, which had for its purpose the securing of reforms in the national government. While he was not an eloquent speaker, he was forceful and logical, and his arguments always carried with them weight, if not conviction. Though he was my junior by seven years, his temperament was so calm and judicial that I always listened to his opinions with deference, and very rarely differed with him on public questions. From the first day we met in March, 1900, to the day of his death there was cooperation growing Into the warmest friendship and closest political alliance. In looking back now over those years of arduous labor performed together, I recollect not one single incident which produced bitterness or distrust; and after our entrance upon the national arena, he in the other end of the Capitol, and I in this, we were thrown together much more intimately than had been possible previously, and the admiration which his clear and forceful mind had excited was succeeded by most cordial and warm friendship. The better he was known the more he was loved and respected. It was in this Intimate association that I came to understand and appreciate the higher and nobler side of the man?not but what all of his attributes ?? ?V. ? w/1 T n llu/lo ?>\nro uric 111? 11 ailVI liuuic, IXUC A aiiuuv mv.w particularly to his home life and to his chivalrous and almost idolatrous attachment to the noble woman who had won his love. It was in the home and in the company of his wife that Dr. Stokes shone in his most admirable light. Having no children of his own. he was always stealing the heart of some child with whom he came in contact, and my own litle ones learned to love him and to run to meet him on his frequent visits with that ardor and abondonment of Joy which a child alone knows how to exhibit. In the art of winning his way to the hearts of children he was not surpassed by any man I have ever known, and no student of human nature will ask any higher tribute to his character. Chil dren do not love those who are selfish and mean; and, guileless themselves, they are not easily deceived In their es- : tlmate of men and women. I would sooner trust the intuition and instincts of a child than depend on the judgment | ol' a grown person where character and , goodness are in question. < A man of the most refined manners ( Dr. Stokes was a favorite with all | those who came to know him lntl- , mately; so while the men respected him < for his manliness of principle and high i character, the women were his admir- , ing friends because of his chivalry and j deference to their sex, while the children loved him for his kindliness and sympathetic interest in all of their little affairs. It would be indelicate to Invade the sacred precincts of his desolate home, but the devotion which bound him to his wife, the romantic idealized love, so to speak, with which he regarded her, made the separation of those two who were certainly "one twain," the more heartrending. I cannot offer any consolation to that widowed heart that will assuage its longing, but It would not be improper, perhaps, to say to her that he Is only gone before and waits longingly for her coming, and she should try to win comfort out of the sad consciousness that? 'Tis better to have loved and lost, Than never to have loved at all. The world cannot give any compensation for her great loss, but she Is surely happier or will be less unhappy If she will look at it from this point of view tiH the time shall come for their reunion. In looking over my friend's life in its results I am forcibly reminded of that sad truth contained in Gray's lines: The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Await alike the inevitable hour; The paths of glory lead but to the grave. Dr. Stokes was young in years; had scarcely reached the meridian of life. His public career had hardly begun, and ! the equipment furnished by years of study and extensive reading had prom- , ise of rich fruition. He had grown upon the people of our state during the twelve years since his return among us, , and while the bitter strife that marked the period of his entry on the political arena had left some scars on other breasts, they seemed to have left none on his own. The shafts of envy and malice had fallen hurtless, and his worth and high , character had so impressed themselves ] on the people that in his last election , he was unopposed by any competitor, . and those who had at one time been his , most bitter antagonists had been won to be warm friends or acquiescent op- j ponents, who had no ill of him. In j the zenith of his fame and helghth of , his usefulness he has been stricken ] down. We cannot understand why | these things are so; we cannot lift the , veil to find out why such a man should | be taken and so many thousands less ] useful and less worthy should remain. ( We cannot realize why the cords of ^ love and devotion which bound him to . life should have been snapped so ruth- < lessly. ( The journey of life is full of these ( mysteries. We come into the world ( unbidden, or rather without having t been consulted; we are hurried hence, , often without warning and suddenly, . without any power of resistance. We ( come and go like shadows, and we know ( not why things are so ordered. Life , is a battle from beginning to end, and , the grave is the only place of rest. We , nrp all hastening to it. and many are , unconsciously very, very near its brink. | It is philosophical to think about death calmly, but the law of life makes us shun and dread it and put off to the very last the thought of the time when we shall bid adieu to this active scene. By common consent, all men, both ancient and modern, civilized and uncivilized, heathens and savages, have refused to accept death as an "unending sleep." The idea of annihilation is so abhorrent that the human soul recoils with terror at such an ending. Tennyson has most beautifully expressed the feeling of mingled fear and hope pulsating in our hearts when he says: Oh, yet we trust that somehow good Will be tne final goal of ill; To pangs of nature, sins of will, Defects of doubt, and taints of blood. That nothing walks with aimless feet; That not one life shall be destroyed, Or cast as rubbish to the void, When God hath made the pile complete That not a worm is cloven in vain; That not a moth with vain desire Is shriveled in a fruitless fire Or but subserves another's gain. Behold we know not anything; We can but trust that good shall fall At last?far off?at last to all, And every winter change to spring. ** Strong son of God, Immortal love, Whom we that have not seen thy face By faith and faith alone embrace ' Believing when we cannot prove. J '1 nou win noi leave us in me uuai, Thou madest inan he knows not why; He thinks he was not made to die; And Thou hast made him; Thou art just. Ii* that blessed reunion to which every human soul looks, in the bright hereafter, "When the wicked cease from troubling and the weary are at rest," may our friend and his loved ones be united! and may we all so live that when we come to die we shall have as few sins to answer for as the man In whose memory we speak today. His was Indeed a noble and pure life, and in all my dealings with men I have never known one who more deserved to have it said of him? And thus he bore without abuse The grand old name of "gentleman." . i ti'f Connecticut had in the last con 1 I? ik? ? 14 4 press luur rnemuers, in uic ucal it i will have five. The new member will ( be elected at large, a provision equlva- i lent to the addition of one Republican ( member to the delegation. t KANSAS WHEAT HARVEST. Some Interentlnft Feature* of the Annual Labor Problem. Kansas farmers have now fairly entered on the task of harvesting their :rops of winter wheat, and go at the work with far lighter hearts than any me in the spring supposed they would; for within the past few weeks the ivheat has " come to the front" in wonderfully fine shape, and the yield will be millions of bushels ahead of what it was expected a few weeks ago it would be. For a time it" was thought that the :rop would be practically a failure. So positive were many farmers of this :hat they plowed up their fields for the jurpose of putting the ground in corn. Mow that the time has come to run the machines into the fields many of them ire bitterly regretting their action, as it s being dally demonstrated that fields :hat were no worse than those that vere plowed up are going to yield a jood crop. During wheat harvest Old Mrs. Kansas is busier than a woman during het spring housecleaning. When wheat is ripe it must be handled quickly and the tvork of putting the immense amount jf grain in the stack is the work of a very few weeks. There isn't a month In the winter, unless it be a particularly severe one, when separators are not at work on the grain that was cut luring the latter part of June and a portion of July. It is this crying need for "rush" work ivhich Is responsible for the call for hardest hands that is heard from Kansas ilmost every season. The most urgent lall was sent out last summer, when the state produced its record-breaking :rop of more than 90,000,000 bushels, rhis year the cry was not heard with Its usual vigor because of the slump in the yield, although there will be quite i respectable number of outside laborers in the harvest fields; just how many thousand it is impossible to tell at present. Some who claim to know say the state will employ between 10,00o and 10,000 from the outside. During the season of the wheat hardest Kansas is just about the poorest place on earth for the man with a constitutional aversion to work. There Is tvork in the field always for all who tvili apply, and the farmers have little patience with those who show themselves to be too indolent to go into the leld and make a full hand. But the man who will not work is not :he only trial of the Kansas farmer it this stage of the game. He is also harassed by the man who is willing to work, but who does not know how to perform the tasks assigned him, or Is not physically able to do so. A lot of farmers in Ellsworth county had some unpleasant experience in this line. It turned out that many of those who answered the call for harvest hands were men who had never in their lives worked in the field, nor even seen wheat cut. They had heard of the selfulnder, the header and the headerparge, and their idea was that the marines did practically all the work, and that it would be the greatest kind of a picnic to "follow harvest" at $2, $2.50 or 13 a day. The result was that at the plose of the second or third day many pf the picnic hunters found themselves pompletely fagged out, with neither the ibllity nor the ambition to continue the work. This brought trouble and dlsappointmant to the farmers, as it placed them under the necessity of looking for pompetent help right at the time when they were in most urgent need of It and when It was the hardest to get. As a rule, though, most of the men "stand up to the rack," as the farmers put It, n good shape, and do their work in a satisfactory manner. * - J I- 4. iU. ~ ? AI1U inis IS IlUl lilt: Ullly aiuiuuuua block before the farmers either. A lumber of cases have been reported, after promising to work, and living off the farmer for a short time, the "harvesters" pulled out just before actual work commenced, leaving the man with :he wheat to hold the sack. These men are called "before-harvest" hands. A Rice county farmer aoarded a couple of "before-harvest" lands for four days, feeding them on the fat of the land. He also gave them money with which to buy tobacco. Two lays before the machines were to be put in the fields they left, and the farmer had to hustle other men in a hurry to take their places. A Pratt county farmer was worked in jven worse shape. For over a week he mtertained six men. He furnished them with smoking and chewing tobacjo. The fellows rigged up a hammock, ite three square meals a day, fished in the farmer's pond, sold the fish in a leighboring town, and had the most delightful kind of summer picnic. Monlay morning the machines were to tiave been put in the fields. When ireakfast was called no hands appear;d. On investigation, it was found that ?very one had left me place during the light. One Sumner county farmer took a lrunken man home with him, sobered lim up, and put him to work in the narvest neiu. ine larnier uuppcucu Irop into police court In Wellington vhen justice was being dispensed In the usual and ready manner peculiar to courts of this class, and a plain Jrunk was engrossing the attention of the court. The man had no money, and the judge was just on the point of sending him to the rock pile when the farmer spoke up. "Judge," he said, "if you'll turn that 'eller over to me I'll see that he doesn't jet Into any more scrapes for awhile. [ need harvest hands mighty bad just low." "All right," answered the judge. 'Take him along and keep him straight f you can." An officer assisted the man out to the , 'armer's wagon, and after considerable ixertlon the drunk was loaded. But 1 ifter being placed In the wagon he be- j :ame obstreperous and the farmer \ ound it necessary to throw him down I In the wagon and sit on him to keep him from jumping out. In this manner he made the trip home, and was the envy of all the farmers he met on the road. It was plain that he had a cinch on at least one harvest hand. Another somewhat ludicrous story comes from Osborne county, out in the northwest. There a number of the men of Alton decided to force the town loafer to work In the harvest field. Of course every place has its town loafer. The town loafer of Alton was a particularly aggravated bum. He loafed wnne his wife took in washing. The citizens, gathered In front of the postoffice, were discussing his case one evening when some one suggested that he be made to work in the harvest field. The idea took immediately. While it was "before the house" the subject of their remarks came slouching along. "What are you doing now, Eb?" inquired Postmaster Pat Campbell. "Nothin* much," drawled the languid Eb. "Going to work in harvest, I reckon, ain't ye?" continued the postmaster. "Guess not," was the reply. "Pact is," he continued, after a slight pause, "I never could stand workin' in the heat of the sun." "Well," calmly answered the postmaster, "we've decided that you will try it next week. Old man Forman is going to run out his machines Monday, and you'd better be on hand prompt to help him, and you will, too, if you know what is good for your hide." "Who says so?" defiantly asked the loafer. "Well, I say so, for one," answered Campbell; "'nd Yance Post says so, 'nd Ed Jeffries say so, 'nd so does Joe Taylor, 'nd Bud Kent, 'nd Shorty ?x>ng, 'nd Bucky Knapp, 'nd a lot of the rest of the boys. If you're on to your Job you'll be on deck when the machines are run out." Tf urn o n wilt *Un tww.w Inn # " ao a. wii>ici pin iui iuc luvvu iuoier, but he knew what was behind the advice. At the appointed time he showed up and made a fair hand while the work was under way.?St. Louis GlobeDemocrat. MONEY. A Ur Sermon That In Full of Philosophy. The great king propounded: Money answers all things. It is hardly safe to assert that there's where brother Solomon made a mistake. But certainly, there's where people misunderstand him. His experience and general conclusion after using his money and wealth to buy and build all that he set his'eyes and heart on and that his genius and splendid Imagination could conceive, and that his artists could devise: after gathering about him all that was beautiful and delightful on earth, his judicial balance sheet was: All is vanity and vexation of spirit. His conclusion was that money could buy everything that was purchasable: but that all that could be bought with money was utterly insufficient to satisfy the cravings of the soul. And so he gave himself to philosophy, and went to work to moralize and preach.. No doubt his multitudinous offspring followed their father's practice and desspised his preaching, as many young people do nowadays toward their late converted fathers. And the old man, after gratifying to the full the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, after sowing bountifully to the flesh, reaped a most abundant harvest of reprobates. A big part of his studies was "fools," and they were largely of his own planting. The lessons of Solomon's life have not been altogether lost on mankind. v They have not been fully laid to heart. But they are working their way. And the commonest observation of life In our generation. Is confirming them and impressing them. Those high society men, Sir Walter Raleigh and Lord Chesterfield, in their day echoed the old sensualist's doleful dirge, in their own words: "All hollow, hollow, hollow," and the dirty, greasy, vile, ugliness behind the scenes. And Cardinal Woolsey's full blown pride at length breaking under him Is only another Illustration. And our life and worldliness all Join the chorus with a solemn Amen. The general world is now wiser than Solomon, or even our society people. The so-called common people do not believe that money answers all things. They do not believe that to accumi>late a great fortune solves the problem of life. On the contrary they see. In the open day and on all high places, great mlllionaries and great financial successes, when truly and honestly considered, standing as personally, morally, socially, essentially, veritable bur1 .nn ll?o nf hanninpqq nf honOTJl icoijuca ui i*iC| w?. ble manhood; objects of pity for their utter misery and absolute failure; without a natural thought or feeling, without an honest affection, without a genuine joy, fenced in by conventionalities and social obligations, and incapable of human happiness. The light of the day that we live in has made humanity, with its nature, its endowmennts and privileges to be appreciated. Mankind, at large, have life; and they have it more abundantly. Man is the gold. The raw material of manhood is the thing to be considered. And when that is well bred, well worked, well toned, purified and refined, it matters little what form it takes. If the gold is pure and fine, it matters little whether it be in the shape of a mouse or a warrior; it is a thing for royalty to be proud of. And when the manhood is clear and honorable it matters little whether he is a bootblack or a major general. With the aid of a nine nme ne ia guiug iu uc mcuouicu by the public for honor or shame. John Bunyan, the tinker, is magnified; Leicester and Chesterfield are despised. And money is money to buy honor and happiness just according to the character of its getting. It can never buy pure and high delight and honor for a thief or a vulgarian.?Richmond News.