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