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^timorous Department. At tha Second Call. Two men were arguing in their club. One, a fellow of ineffable conceit, was boring everybody with boasting of the power of his will, maintaining with much violence that his will was stronger than that of anybody present. An English paper records the conversation. "You are wrong there," said one of the gentlemen, "and I will prove it. Go and stand in that corner, and I will have you out of it before I have com^ manded you the second time." The smart one stood in the corner, and thesquiet one said: "Come out of that corner." The other grinned and shook hi.* head. The quiet man sat down and looked at him steadily. Five minutes passed, and then the smart man said with a sneer: "Don't you think you'd better give It up? I don't feel any Influence at all, and I can stand here all the evening." "Oh, as to that," replied the quiet man, "there's no hurry. I am. perfectly comfortable. You recollect that there's no time limit; you are simply to come out before I ask you twice. And as I don't intend to ask you again until a week from tooay, in oruer ?.v give your strong will a fair and vigorous trial, we might as well take it easily." The man with the Iron resolution sneaked out of the corner, and the experiment was declared off. Squelched.?"When I was a boy," remarked T. E. Ryan of Waukesha, according to the Milwaukee Sentinel, as he sat in the Hotel Pflster and caught sight of some old patriarchs who sent him Into the retrospective mood, "I went Into the circuit court room in Madison, where George B. Smith and I. S. Sloan, two of the greatest lawyers of their day, were trying a case as opponents. . Mr. Sloan had a habit of puncturing his address to the court with the expression, "Your honor, I have an Idea." The case had been dragging its weary length through the hours of a warm summer day, when Mr. Sloan, who was making what appeared to be an Interminable argument, said: ? " 'Your honor, I have an idea'? "Mr. Smith sprang to his feet, assumed a dignified position, and with all the solemnity lmmaginable, said: " 'May it please the court, I move that a writ of habeas corpus be Issued by this court immediately to take the learned gentleman's Idea out of solitary confinement.' "The judge smiled, the lawyers laughed, the spectators burst forth in a round of applause, and Mr. Sloan was effectively squelched." A Coming Lawyer.?A young lady teacher in a West Philadelphia kindergarten thinks that she has discovered a "Philadelphia lawyer" In embryo. She made the discovery in one of the exercises incident to teaching the young idea how to count. After drawing five ones on the blackboard and 1 ? ? LmmaaAU nilA/lAOollIA nil. writing uciicaiu titc mc outvcwK^ uu merals, one, two, three, four, five, together with a painstaking verbal explanation, she attempted to test the understanding of the little ones by turning to one bright eyed little fellow and putting the question: "Now, Donald, which would you rather have, five pennies or a five cent piece?" "Five pennies!" Donald promptly replied. "Why, Donald?" asked the teacher patiently. "Because," said Donald, "you see. if you lost one of the pennies you'd have four left and even if you lost four you'd have one left; but if you lost the five cent piece, why, it would be gone ?every penny!"?Philadelphia Ledger. Arl Wanted the Sovereign.?At a certain London church, the collection used to be made in nicely embroidered bags, but so many old buttons and stale bits of chocolate being put in it was decided to try "plates" instead. The first Sunday the usual number of coppers and threepenny pieces were put in, but among them a bright yellow, shining piece was observable. On Monday morning there were more callers than usual at the vestry, some of them with the same application. After a short interval another came with the same "Oh, I am sorry, but I put a sovereign into the plate yesterday by mistake. Could I have it, as I really cannot afford it?" "What!" said the vicar. "You are the fifth that has been to me this morning with the same application, but the church warden has Just told me that the supposed sovereign is only a gilded shilling!" Wanted a Rebate.?A southern clergyman had married a pair of Negroes. After the ceremony the groom asked, "How much yo' chahge fo' dis?" "Well," said the minister, "I usually leave that to the groom. Sometimes I am paid $5 and sometimes $10, and sometimes less." "Dat's a lot ob money, pahson. Tell yo* what Ah'll do. Ah'll gib yo' two dollahs, ar* den ef I fin' I ain't cheated I'll gib -yo' mo' in a monf." A month later the groom returned. "Ah yere lak Ah promised, pahson." "Yes." said the minister expectantly. "Ah, tol' you' dat ef it was all right, Ad'd gib yo' mo' money, didn't Ah?" "You did." "Well, pahson, as dis here am a sort ob speculation Ah reckon yo' owe me about a dollah an' eighty-five cents, an' Ah come ter git it."?Philadelphia Telegram. The Cause of the Delay.?Mrs. Passe was in a hurry. She was going to a concert, and the friends who were to accompany her were waiting downstairs. She was dressing and making things most uncomfortable for her maid, unaware of the fact that everything she said was audible downstairs. "Annette," she cried, "how slow you are! Have you the flowers for my hair?" "Ah, yes, madame, but"? "Well, well, well," sharply. "Where are they?" "They are here, madame; but pardon, I've mislaid the hair!"?New York Press. pifftrllatiMU* Reading. FROM CONTEMPORARIES. News and Comment That Is of More or Less Local Interest. CHESTER. Lantern, July, 21: Officers to serve six months were elected for the Baptist Young People's union at the Baptist church Sunday afternoon. The result of the election was as follows: Mr. W. P. Bowles, president; Mr. Walter Waters, vice president; Miss Ruby Bowles, secretary; Miss Maggie Edwards, corresponding secretary; Mr. Fred Jarrett, treasurer Miss Josie Oates, who attended Armenia pic nic last Thursday and has since been visiting: Misses Maud and Daisy Guy in the country, returned home yesterday morning After the exercises of last Thursday at Armenia, the Armenia and Lowrysville baseball teams played an Interesting game of ball. The result was a score of 13 to 6 In favor of Armenia. Batteries for Armenia, Love, Abell and Moore; for Lowryville, Grant and Lackle, Bailey and Bailey Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Ferguson of Florida, and Mrs. Thomas Dunlap of Yorkvllle, left yesterday morning for Yorkvllle, after spending a day or two in town with their brother, Mr. George W. Ferguson Mr. George W. Hanna, who is preaching " * - ?- TT during tne summer ai r*ew nupe ua.u Brick Church, Associate Reformed churches in Fairfield county, passed through yesterday morning on the way to his home at Gastonla. For the next ten days he will attend the ministers' conference at All Healing Little William Crawford, while talking with City Engineer James Hamilton the other day, said that a buzzard has life insurance. Wheh he was questioned how that could be, he said if a person should kill one it would cost him $20, hence the buzzard had Insurance Mr. S. A. Murphy returned to town Saturday morning from Feastervllle. He was very nearly broken down. For the past while he has been at Mr. Thomas Owlng"8, wherC Mrs. Owing, three daughters and one son have the typhoid fever. They were all getting along very nicely when Uncle Sam left them The Lee Light infantry l",ti pAlnmhifl tn cn Into ICLi y coici uaj &vi WIU1IIM.M ?w o* camp. The boys were in good spirits and were anticipating a pleasant stay in the capital city. The following left yesterday, except Mr. Neely, who left the night before, being quarter-master sergeant: J. H. Marion, major; R. G. Mills, captain of company; Walker Carroll, first lieutenant; R. G. Marshall, second lieutenant; Clarence Cross, Henry DaVega, Richard Cousar, Dawson Heath, Erwln Abell, G. G. Dowllng, Peter Hardin, Prank Hardin, Aden Wilks, Theo. Tinsley, Lindsay McFadden, Frank Marshall, Robt. Hall, Albert Steinkuhler, Jno. Murr, Harry Burdell, Charlie Abell, Mac. Neely, Bob Abell, Will Caldwell, Jno. Wilsoft, J. S. Guy, Frank Spratt, E. H. Wilson, Harry Withers, Watkins Nichols, J. S. Darby. Gill McLure, Louis Smith, Wm. Strlngfellow, Hugh Macauley, R. B. Watson, Jesse H. Hardin, battalion adjutant. LANCASTER. Ledger, July 22: It was with deep sorrow that the many friends of Miss Minnie Crockett, formerly of this place but who has lived with a relative Mr. R. D. Robertson, at Edgemoor, the past five years, learned of her death last Sunday evening. She had been in very bad health for some time. She was a daughter of the late Jones and Mary E. Crockett of this place, and was about 40 years of age, a member of the Methodist church and an exemplary Christian lady. She leaves an only brother, Mr. Jas. A. Crockett, surviving her At the meeting of the board of trustees Monday afternoon. Miss Nora Hough, of this place, was elected to fill the vacancy existing in the corps of teachers for the graded school. Miss Nora is a graduate of Wlnthrop college, has had several years experience in teaching and we are sure the patrons will be delighted "* * * 1 * a wun ner seiecuon v^uuc a witnessed the Interesting ceremony of the Jr. O. U. A. M., in laying the corner stone of the Second Baptist church at the cotton mill here last Saturday afternoon. State Councilor H. D. Funderburk was master of ceremonies and everything passed off according to programme. The ceremony was opened with an introductory by the state councilor, followed with prayer by Rev. T. A. Dabney. The song, "America" was then rendered by the order when addresses were made by H. D. Funderburk and Rev. T. A. Dabney. After the singing of another ode, Mr. J. T. Davis, the recording secretary, passed over to th? councilor the documents, to be placed in the stone, viz: History of the organization of the church with roll of officials; copy of the constitution and bylaws of the Jr. O. U. A. M... with roll of officers of the local council; copies of the Ledger, Review and Enterprise. After these were placed In, the cement was spread and the stone laid in position. The doxology was then sung after which the benediction was pronounced. The stone, which is cut from marble, shows two faces 12x16 inches each, and bears the following inscription: On the east side, "2d Baptist Church, T. A. Dabney, Pastor, W. G. Bowers & Bro., contractors." On the north side is cut an emblem of the Jr. O. U. A. M., and the words, "Lancaster Council, No. 38, Jr. O. IT. A. M., July 18, 1903." GASTON. ii- T.,1,, oi. VTr- 'Pnr. vaasioma u?dik, uuijr .u>. ? v. ter R. Elmore and bride arrived Sunday from LaFollette, Tenn., to spend two or three weeks with Mr. Elmore's father, Mr. H. R. Elmore, at Bethesda. Mr. Elmore Is an old Gaston boy who Is succeeding away from home. He 13 connected with the banking department of a large coal mining company at LaFollette No pastor has been secured for the First Baptist church. Two edifying sermons were preached Sunday- by Rev. N. S. Jones of Burlington, who visited the church by invitation. At the morning service his subject was "The Fullness of God," at night "Getting the Kingdom." Mr. Jones made a very favorable impression. No more preaching is expected I until the first Sunday in August. On I that date Rev. A. P. Pugh of McComb City, Miss., will conduct services. He will, by invitation, spend the month with the church Mrs. W. H. Rhyne and Miss Nena returned yesterday morning from Yorkville, where they had been guests since Friday of Mrs. Rhyne's sister, Mrs. R. D. Alexander. Dr. J. C. Galloway, the popular pastor of the Associated -Reformed Presbyterian church for ten years past, recently received a call from another prominent chiirch of his denomination. The call was presented to the congregation on Sunday, July 12th, and Dr. Galloway was asked to remain by a unanimous rising vote. Last Sunday morning he announced, to the great delight of his church, that he had declined the cail and would remain in Gastonia. The name of the church tendering the call was not given to the public or to the congregation. This conclusion of the matter will be gratifying to the friends of Dr. Galloway in all the other congregations of the city, who congratulate themselves that Dr. Galloway and his family are to remain in Gastonia, and who hope that many more years of happiness and usefulness await them in this . field Friday afternoon a serious cutting afTray took place at Boyce and Fayssoux's Dlfie Farm near town, the participants in the fight being two Negroes, Will Boyce and John Knox. Boyce Is employed on the farm and was out in the field at work when Knox came up and accused him of saving some things derogatory to his reputation. Knox proceeded to do the carving act at once, the result being three or four rather serious wounds on the body of Boyce. Dr. H. F. Glenn was summoned and sewed up the wounds. Knox made good his escape and has not as yet been apprehended. Boyce's condition is serious but his wounds will not likely prove fatal Rev. George W. Hanna, pastor of the A. R. P. church at Avon, S. C., arrived yesterday and will be at home several days. He came to attend the Summer Bible conference at All Healing. THE MIDWAY ISLANDS. 8mall But important Insular Possession of America. With the opening of the Pacific cable, which directly connects the government at Washington with the insular possessions of the United States to the west of the national capital, attention is called to the important part which the first and the smallest "insular possession" of the country, the Midway Islands, is to play in bringing Manila within a few minutes of the T*TU|4'-' TT?..nrt *?o f Ln W Qohl ntrtnn Willie nuusc, oaj o me correspondent of the New York Tribune. Without this little gro^p of coral, which pokes its nose out of the brine to the north and west of the Hawaiian Islands, the engineering features of the Pacific cable would have been entirely different, and negotiations for a cable station on the Pacific possession of some other government would have been necessary. The value to the government which the first colonial possession has now become can readily be realized when it is said that without the Midway as a landing place for the cable its long stretch from Honolulu to Guam could not be broken, and instead of being able to send 20 words a minute, the speed would have been reduced to six words, and the service made proportionately less satisfactory. What benefit this isolated cable station in the center of the Pacific may prove from a strategic point of view may be demonstrated some day by timely orders to a fleet of battleships. That the station is considered valuable from this point of view and many others is shown by the determination of the navy department to fortify the Islands in the future for the protection of the cable station. The islands also afford a snug harbor, and in an emergency might be used as a base of naval operations. Since their discovery in 1859 by Captain N. C. Brooks, an American, sailing from Honolulu on a sealing voyage under the Hawaiian flag, and their rediscovery and possession in the name of the United States in 1867. The islands have been more or less neglected, but never to the.extent of being allowed to pass Into the hands of any other government, although Japan has on several occasions made inquiry of the Hawaiian monarchy regarding their title, with propositions to annex or lease them. They were used for a time thirty years ago by the Pacific Mall Steamship company to the extent of storing there a huge pile of coal. The company left a single man in charge of the coal. After a year's lonesome sojourn on the islands this individual got tired of albatrosses as his only companions and abandoned the coal for a passing craft. Later, when coal was high in San Francisco, an enterprising Norwegian, who knew of the unguarded pile, set sail in a bark and secured a full cargo, which he sold to advantage in San Francisco. The steamship company afterward learned of the theft, and brought suit and secured damages. The islands are both of coral formation. One of them, Sand Island, contains 850 acres, while the other, Eastern Island, has 328 acres. A quantity of rich soil is to be carried to the islands in order that the forces who will have to take their turn In manning the guns or rne ion.inca.iHms may have some occupation to divert their attention from sea and rock. Naval officers who have visited the islands say that the Midway harbor constitutes the finest fishing ground in the Pacific. The coral formation Incloses a lagoon of depth enough for anchorage, but more shallow than the surrounding waters, and makes an attractive feeding ground for fish, seal and turtle. The fish belong to the mullet, perch and mackerel families. Many of them of brilliant colors seem to belong to the dolphin family. The fish attract the birds, and the islands are covered with plumed tenants. Some years ago a small band of Japanese were left on the island for the purpose of gathering bird's feathers. Their presence \\u?s mauc IU tuc Iiu. J department and they were ordered to depart. Under the new order of things, the Islands will be made to bloom with fruit trees and vegetables will be raised. /Vi> Aolrn^l Story For Little FolKa , i The Featherless Ostrich 1 ??>?J i There was a great crowd of circus 1 men who went to animal land to catch 1 the rarest animals that they could find 1 for their circus. And \iben the ostriches heard of this they were all very ' much alarmed. But what were they to do? None of 1 them knew except George Henry Os- 1 trieh, who was a rather smart fellow and thought that he had an idea that 1 wrmlri nrevent the eircU8 men from ' paying any attention to blm. v So on the day that the men were ex- 1 pected to arrive George Henry came 1 around to where the other ostriches 1 were and did not have a feather on his whole body! "What on earth is the matter?" asked his brother. "What have you done ' to yourself?" 1 "Can't you see?" asked George Henry, ' smiling. "I've plucked all of my feathers out. and now the circus men will not want me because they will think ' ( p?1 i 71 ? ~S ?? HE DID NOT HATE A FEATHEB ON HIS WHOLE BODY. that I am not an ostrich. They will let me stay here and take you away with them." "I believe I'd rather be taken away," 1 replied his brother. And just then the men came in sight. "Hurrahl" they cried. "Here Is the ' greatest creature that we ever saw. J He Is u featheriess ostrich. He will be j the best thing in the whole circus. We 1 will Just take him along and will not 1 need any of these other fellows." ! So off they went with the featheriess ostrich and left all the others at peace. ! Moral.?It Is hard to fool the circus ( man.?Pittsburg Dispatch. 1 . MAIL CARRYING IN ALA8KA. f One Lonely Route 2,000 Miles Long i Over the Ice. * "Another mall carrier's been frozen to death, boys." 8 "Yes? That'* bad luck! Why, it was only three weeks ago that Ben Downing lost his toes." ' This Is the kind of talk the traveler ^ hears In the trappers' huts and rest houses on the frozen Yukon river and * the Behring coast up to Nome. Along ' 2,000 miles of this Ice-bound region 1 the United States government has es- 1 tabllshed the loneliest and most dangerous mail route In the world. The mail carriers travel on foot over 1 sixteen hundred miles of the route, 1 and one stretch of nearly eight hun- 1 dred miles through a desolate uninhabited country has to be covered by * a single postman. The Yukon mail 1 carrier must travel with his dog sledge * along a river piled up with blocks of ' ice like the boulders on a hillside. The river is several miles wide in 1 places, and sometimes the surface is so ' broken by. hillocks of Ice and snow- * drifts that its winding course cannot ( be distinguished from the land. The 1 carrier then has to don his snow shoes and break a new trail for the dogs over 1 the trackless waste. < Theodore Blum started to do this t one morning. It was the Yukon flats, just inside the Arctic circle, where the river is nearly fifteen miles wide. ? He carried a long fir pole with him, his dog team following him, and when he felt the Ice giving way ne mrtn j down the pole and rested his weight on t it. But even though his weight was ^ thus distributed it did not always save t him from a ducking. He broke c through no fewer than six times in his endeavor to cross the river, and narrowly escaped being frozen before j he could reach one of the shelters. v Ben Downing, the most famous of fi the mail carriers, narrowly escaped r death at the close of last season. It t was spring time, and t? o sun an hour t before and after noon softened the snow and made travel difficult, so j most of his traveling was done in the ^ night. c He left the station at 1 o'clock in t '? ?* ???r. infprl moccasins c lilt; mui I1IU&, puim>i9~ ? . on the feet of his dogs to prevent the \ sharp ice crystals from cutting them. | He had made twenty miles and was y going along at a clipping pace, his hands on the bars of the sled, when he y heard the ice crack under his dogs. l He halted them with a word and 1 planted his feet rigidly to break the t momentum of the sled. This sudden e throwing of his weight in one place f broke the ice, and down he went. t The sagacity which comes to the 1 dogs from daily going through such experiences enabled them to drag him on s to the solid ice, and away they went } again, faster than before, because Ben e had his feet wet and knew they were t freezing. A few miles more and he knew they had already frozen. They f Ha<r?r> tn nicori nnd for ten miles the i blood spurted out of the lace holes of f his moccasins with every step, and left \ a red trail on the frozen snow. s At length he reached one of his lone- t ly stations. The first thing he did was to strip off his wet clothes: then he i wrapped a blanket around his naked t body and in a temperature of 62 de- t grees below zero hunted up wood and i made a fire. The following night he traveled f nearly fifty miles until he reached i Dawson City. He handed over his r mail, went limping about his business v els if nothing had happened, and then went home and had a fever. He was in the hospital for two months, and had to have his toes amputated. Yet he is still in the same business, and really enjoys its hazards. George Little, one of Downing's carriers, was traveling through slush ice Eind got badly wet. He pushed on to reach the bunk house, but night overtook him. After collecting wood along the river bank and making a fire, he found that while he warmed on one side he was chilling on the other, the thermometer registering 64 degrees below zero. So be spent the night climbing up and flown the hill to keep his blood in circulation. Two mall carriers on the short run to Atlin did not arrive last winter, ana x search party was sent out. They Found the tracks of the sled leading to what had been a hole in the Ice. That was all. In the same district the frozen body of a mail carrier was found and identified by his watch. He had been lost three years previously. Harry Frayne, a mall carrier from Valdes to Eagle, started out last Januar ry with the expectation of meeting the carrier on the next stage. He found the dogs and the sled. The carrier," Tuffln, had abandoned them when the [Jogs were exhausted, and had Starr, ted off with the Idea of carrying the mail on his back for the rest of the listance. Onma TnSiona fmmii his frozen bodv 3ix miles from the summit of Mentasa Pass. He had plodded with the mall until he fell In the snow, frozen to leath. From the lower end of this lonelytrail of 2,000 miles to Nome, there Is ; bften in the local newspapers brief ' mention of the disappearance of a mall carrier. It is an episode of dally life, exciting no more comment than i runaway horse does in a big city. The United States has behaved liberally to Alaska In the matter of malls. Mall matter In some parts of this vast territory pays the govern ment about 30 cents a pound for transportation and costs about $4 to carry to Its destination after it reaches the seaboard of the territory. Costly as this policy is, It places the lonely prospector in touch with civilization and tends to keep him civilized in a larger legree than any other agency could. . Leaving all danger and adventure jut of consideration, the calling of the Arctic mail carrier is rough and hard. Do not imagine the carrier reclining it his ease, covered with warm robes, while the dogs lope along over a unooth surface. He has to guide the sled from one dde of the river to the other to miss :he heaped-up ice, the soft places and :he snowbanks. Where the trail is jood, he grasps the long handles at :he rear and at a continuous jog trot guides the sled along. In fairly smooth places he jumps on a narrow board, : esting a good part of his weight on he handle bars. In a temperature of 60 degrees below sero, which is common, he has to keep warm, and yet he must not perspire, or :he molsure will immediately freeze, i His greatest care is as to his footwear. He has two or three pairs of woollen socks and over them a pair . >f moccasins made of deer hide. Should these get wet his feet freeze and he is little better than a dead nan. After he has made his distance for :he day he arrives at a lonely caom tinder some feet of snow. He has to put on his snowshoes to break a trail ' to It for the dogs. The cabin contains a rusty stove uid some provisions for himself and the dogs. He has to chop wood after lis day's work and must first cook the supper for his dogs. Then he cooks and eats his lonely iieal and lies down in his clothes to 3leep. There is no furniture. In a country where fuel is scarce the temptation to chop It up for stove wood would be too great. Only men of Iron frame can stand the hardships of such a life. The others are weeded out after two or three trips.?New York Sun. MEN WHO LIVE IN VOLCANOES. ?-?- ?< Orirt Du/ollina Places of 7UIIIO V feMW w ? ? .. the People of Today. Kelburg, which Is situated In Pound, not far from Cracow, Is one of he most extraordinary cities in the vorld, for not only is it entirely suberranean, but the material used In its onstruction is not stone or brick, but alt, says Pearson's Weekly, London. Three thousand people are resident n its 700 houses, and they are all vorkers in the great salt mines. The treets and squares are paved with ock salt slabs of purest white, and are :ept exquisitely neat and clean by a drps of volunteer scavengers. The pride of the city, however, is " ts Cathedral, carved in salt and lighted I vlth electricity. It is gorgeously de- ( orated and on the high altar blazes ' he magnificent cross which was pre- { ented by the late Czar of Russia, vhen he descended from the upper air ' n order to worship there for a brief " pace eleven years ago. ruconco nt nn infectious or conta ilous nature Is quite unknown in Kel;urg; in fact, the majority of the inlabitants die of old age. A non-fatal illment of a scorbutic type is, how ver, occasionally prevalent, and a mild brm of ophthalmia, said to be due to he continual and all-pervading whiteiess, is more or less common. Regarded as a city of salt pure and imple, Kelburg is, of course, unique. Jut there are several examples of cities ituated beneath the surface of the I arth. In the Peruvian province of Cuzco, or instance, is an abandoned, qulcklli.an mlno 170 fnthnms In eircum- I erence and about 100 in depth. And vithin this profound abyss are streets, quares and a chapel, where daily reli;ious worship is carried on. Among the inhabitants are many old nen and women, who have never cared o visit the earth above them since hey left It as little toddling children n the early years of the last century. In Japan, again, thirty miles or so rom Kumanolu, some 20,000 men, wonen and children are permanently esldent in the crater of an extinct olcano. In this pit-like city, surrounded by a vertical wall more than 800 feet high, the entire community lives, moves and has its being. Rarely, indeed, does one of its members make a. Journey into the outer world; and they are not often intruded upon, for they. are of a churlish, not to say revengeful, disposition. The Etahvans, or "Arctic Highlanders," of Ross, live in the ice caves within the vast glacier cap which covers all Northern Greenland. Theirs is, perhaps, the most wretched and isolated existence it is possible to.fcon ceive. "Their "dwellings" are always wet, owing to the melting of the -Ice walls and floor. For full six months of the year the darkness of the Arctic night envelops them. The Ice Is around them, beneath them, above them. In nine cases out of ten, if they venture abroad they breathe the frozen oart teles and the sensation is akin to that which comes from Inhaling the h'ast of a furnace. Nevertheless they refuse to move further south with the approach of winter, as do all the other Eskimo tribes. They take a sort of perverted pride in their loneliness as in their misery. "What matter," they say, "if we are cold and hungry? We are the last of all peoples. We dwell literally at the end of the world. To the north of us there is snow, there is ice; but there is no land, and there is nothing | PRI 1ST i ' ?^ J Just What ^ Just When GOOD Service ii elements?excel f and promptness In t ^ work executed pror A service?good work . . time Is not good se f combined make one I essary, but hardest 1 A most expensive req \ twentieth century bi * we have learned th 9 . v we have shown. C m .. also testify that we ^ I practice. t I L. M. Grist's S y? SUM) SOUTHERN , ^fuiurar VM. P?M. Traffic Mfi WA3HIMOTON, D.C 1 1 ' A knov f~twl l^>l BY WILL I This story began ii Enquirer, and while character Abner Dank as interesting as Gram el, which ended recent the opening chapters very entertaining. Rt Lifelike, humorous and entertaining. All the sentiments are sound and good. One of the kind of books which can be read aloud and hold the interest in every chapter to the end.? Boston Watchmaw. The friends of Mr. Harben will be glad to learn that in this later novel hi* genius hat at last struck the trail which leads over the mountains to j fame. A vivid impersonation of types. The humor of Abner Daniel is as natural to the situation as the sun's shining against the gray mountain sides. The story is vital and well constructed.?Independent, New York. Abner Daniel is a book that can be enjoyed by a large class of readers.? Saw Francisco Post. The character sketching is done with a light and spontaneous touch that is very engaging. The humor is frequent and sometimes of that overpowering quality described in the stereotyped way as "irresistibly funny." The double love story running through that lives, breathes or has Independent movement." In 1893 a wild tribe of natives was discovered in the Wentworth district of New South Wales, whose dwellings and mode of living approximated almost exactly to those of our troglodyte ancestors. The tribe had its origin in a runaway black fellow hiding in some Jlttle known country for thirty years with a few gins. During that period the horde had increased to above thirty persons?men, women and children. /They herded together in two low caves, which they had dug for themselves, increasing their length as fresh arrivals in the shape of babies necessitated more room. Their only food consisted of kangaroo, wild cat and ant eggs. Their sole weapons were spears and they were merely stems of mallee wood, pointed and barbed. They produced Are by rubbing two sticks together and their water was contained in bags made from the skins of kangaroo legs. It was noted as a curious fact that when discovered the station blacks had the greatest difficulty in making the wild tribesmen understood them, although thirty years previously they must have all spoken the same lan guage. Some people seem to enjoy making fools of themselves. 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Well worth reading and has a marked original- A ity.-NASHvn.LK Bannbk. The quaint, rough philosophy and keen humor in Abner Daniel will appeal to any reader. ? Romb (Ga.) Tjubune. The love story or stories (in Abner Daniel) may be compared to the breath of violets in spring sweet and pure?with just enough of romance and uncertainty to keep the interest at a.1 from aforf fft LilC SUBUlUllig JUIUl 1IU1U >v mmmm- . iah. It ia a delightful book " racy of the toil."?Raxbigh (N. C.) NkwsObsbrver. Abner Daniel ia good reading from cover to cover. Each character la a' personality and one feels well acquainted with every one of them long before the end of the story.?CHICAGO Intbr-Ocban. Abner Daniel ia more of a story read upside down than David Harum la.? Bufbaeo Express.