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tumorous department. Circumlocution. The unhappy prisoner was consultIng with his attorney. "What will you do?" asked the prisoner. "We will first attempt to have the Indictment nollified." I "And then. If that falls?" I "Then we will demur to the Indict- i ment." "Then what?" 1 "Then we will take a change of l venue." I "Then?" < "Make affidavit for continuance." < "And then?" 1 "Take another on the ground of ' not being aoie 10 gei wnitc v.. .... . portant Witnesses." |i "Well, what then?" |< "If all these fail we will then go toll trial." 1 "What will be the defense?" L "First emotional Insanity." It "If that don't work?" Il "Then we'll switch to Justifiable 11 homicide." 11 "But if that fails?" I. "Well, we'll ask for a new trial." |i "If we don't get It?" |l "Appeal the case." I< "If it goes against us?" 11 "Take it to the supreme court." IJ "And then?" I? "Then we'll have to petition the I governor for a pardon." I * "But If that falls?" |l "Then we'll have to make it a polit-11 leal issue." I' "But If even that is useless?" |c "Well, by that time your great-1J grandchildren will be doddering 11 around with old age and you'll be 11 long past taking any interest in the 11 case. I tell you that our methods of 11 legal procedure are wonderful sir; J j wonderful."?Commoner. li ... I i A Statement FVxr Publication.?Dr. 11 Wiley of the department ui agu<.u.- . ture is a hard man to deal with in t some ways. He has a habit of explod- t lng in an anti-climax and handing a t visitor a citrus fruit of come sort when 1 he came around for something less t acid. When they passed the whisky \ decision last week there was an im- ? mediate descent of correspondents on < Dr. Wiley for his views on the ques- I tion. Now he probably had views to { burn, but not for distribution. He i told several inquirers gravely that it t was not for him to pass comments of I any qprt on the decision of the attorney general, that it would be useless to disagree with it, and would add 1 nothing to it should he agree. So he 1 declined to be quoted. But late in the \ evening one of the out-of-town papers t ?aii?d him up and fairly demanded 1 something?anything?so it could be Is used as a quotation from Dr. Wiley Is In connection with the general subject It of pure food. I > "All right," said the doctor grave-1i ly, "I have refused to talk to any-|< body about the decision, but if it is 11 only generalities on pure food and 11 the label law, I guess I can tell you 11 something if you promise to quote me 11 accurately. It's something I haven't M confided to any one else, either." 14 The inquirer on the other end of 11 the phone pricked up his ears and I s urged the chief chemist to go ahead. 11 "Well, I will tell you then," said the 11 doctor "the department of agrlcul-1s ture, through the department of Jus-11 tice, has asked that a prosecution belc instituted against Prof. Willis Moore I* for misbranding this weather we are|c having and calling it April when It Iv ought to be labeled 'imitation March."I* ?Washington Star. Ie s The Indifferent Rich.?A newspa-|s per correspondent was talking about I1 Father Bernard Vaughan of London. I * "Though Father Vaughan's congre- 18 gatlon," he said,. "is one of the most I * fashionable in the world, the good 1 priest is always on the side of the I , poor. * I ? "He calls the poor God's pet chil-1s dnen, and I once heard him in an ad-1r dress tell the rich that they were res- Ir ponsible for the poor's faults?the IF drinking and so on?saying that the I poverty of the poor wasn't the result! of their drinking, but their drinking! was the result or tnetr poveny. "He decided that the rich. In their Indifference and careless cruelty toward the poor, reminded him of a certain surgeon. "This surgeon, lecturing a class of students, said: . " *i was so excited at my first operaHon that I made a mistake." " 'A serious one, sir?" asked a stuc dent. " "Oh. no," the surgeon answered. "I ? only took off the wrong leg.'"?Wash- ' ington Star. ^ ? ? The "Sparrows."?There is nothing ^ "English" about the humor of George f Graves, the comedian in that excellent s comic opera "The Little Michus." Here's one Mr. Graves brought from ^ across the water that is as funny as any homemade article. A teacher had been telling her class ^ of boys that recently worms had become so numerous that they destroyed * the crops and it was necessary to import the sparrow to exterminate them. The sparrows multiplied very fast and were gradually driving away our na- 1 tlve birds. * Johnny was apparently very inat- ; tentive and the teacher, thinking to J catch him napping, said: "Johnny, which is worse to have worms or sparrows?" Johnny hesitated a moment and then replied: "Please. I never had the sparrows."?Young's Magazine. hvA New York man relates his experience of travel in Arkansas. To proceed from a certain town to another. not connected by railway he found it necessary to take a stage. At the postofflce he asked: "How often do the stages leave for Berrington?" "Every fifteen minutes," replied the man behind the counter. "And how long shall I have to wait for one now?" "Oh, 'bout an hour," drawled the postmaster.?Philadelphia Public Ledger. When Bevfkidoe Tapped Taft.? Senator Beveridge of Indiana the other * afternoon administered such a reproof ' to Secretary Taft as is not likely to be c forgotten in a hurry by the Dig unio | man. The senator was delivering his speech on the child labor bill?an effort which had cost him a week's prep- t aration. Almost from the beginning \ of his remarks he was annoyed by the , hum of conversation immediately behind him. Turning, he saw Sec. Taft * in animated discussion with a group ( of senators. Looking straight at the t secretary, he said, in clear tones: "If I am disturbing you I will suspend until your conversation is finished." The 1 secretary's face flushed until it seem- ] ed as though he would explode, but f after a few moments he left the chamber. f iUiscctlanous $radin?|. IN COUNTIES ADJOINING. Newt and Comment Clipped From Neighboring Exchanges. CHESTER. Lantern, May 7: Mr. James Kirkpatrick of Lowryville, aged about thirty-three years, dropped dead this morning in the lot to the rear of A. W. Kluttz' store from heart failure. He, with Mrs. Klrkpatrick had come to town this morning. Drs. Wylie and Brice were soon to him, but he was dead. The body was taken to L. D. ZJhllds' undertaking establishment ivhere it was prepared for burial and ivas taken to his late hotne at Lowrydlle This morning within a few minutes of each other, Mr. John A. 3raham was stricken down in W. R. S'ail's Red Racket, and Mr. James Kirkpatrick fell dead at the rear bf \. W. Kluttz's New York Racket, Just icross the street. Mr. Graham was :aken home but was dead In a short ;lme. We suppose such a thing never lappened in Chester before Judge T, H. Hudson of Bennettsville, spent Sabbath with his nephew, Mr. W. A. Latimer, and went to Cornwell yesterlay morning to spend a day or two vith his granddaughter. Miss Clara rordan, who is teaching the Cornwell ichool. Reporter, May 6: From a gentleman vho was in the city Saturday, we earned that work on the Catawba /alley railroad is progressing nicely. The road is being very thoroughly :onstructed. and persons competent to udge of such things declare that the ine as so far built is one of the best n this section. The work of laying he ties and fastening down the rails 8 being rapidly pushed, and it is exacted that Fort Lawn will be reached n a few days. As is known the line rom Fort Lawn to Great Falls has >een built and in operation for several nonths Mr. W. S. Dunbar subnitted to us for inspection a few days igo a bird totally unlike any other * ? * ? ? ? ? ? ~ rp V* /? Kltwl urn o nai we nave ever seen. mc i/??u nw dlled by one of Mr. Dunbar's parens. Mr. James Stringfellow, to vhom we submitted the specimen as in authority on birds, had never seen >ne of the kind before; and we have >een unable to find any one who could rive us any information. The. bird, we night add. had black and white plumige, with bright red under Its wings, ts beak was like that of a grosbeak. LANCASTER. News, May 6: Mr. Roland Gent and diss Hattie Thompson, both of the Lancaster Cotton mills community, vere married last Sunday by Magisrate Wm. Caraes, at his home dr. Pink Plyler, a sterling young man ind prosperous farmer of the Dixie lection, and Miss Lucy Baker, the ittractlve daughter of Mr. George Barer of .the Antioch community, were narried last Sunday, May 6th, at 7 >'clock p. m. The ceremony was per'ormed by the Rev. R. L. Duffle, at lis residence in Dwight A proracted meeting is in progress in the rirst Methodist church this week, rwo services are being held daily, at I p. m., and 8 p. m. The pastor, the iev. R. E. Turnlpseed, is being astisted by the Rev. E. K. Hardin of fork county During a rain storm ast Friday night a bolt of lightning itruck a window in the dwelling of Hr. D. A. Knight in the cotton mills lommunity, shattering the facing, and hen entering the room, set the bed ilothes afire on a bed In which a child ras asleep. Fortunately, the child ras not injured?was not even awakned. The bed and bedding were omewhat damaged. The bed had prlngs on it, and the lightning seems o have struck right under the child's lead. Mr. and Mrs. Knight, who were iwakened by the shock, but did not mow that the house had been struck intil they began to smell cloth burnng, when they got up and made the liscovery. The same night lightning truck a large tree on the public road tear the Alec Howell place, a few niles from town, tearing it nearly to tieces Another homicide occurred n this county last Sunday. Kelly Cunningham, a negro boy.about 15 or 8 years old, son of Alf Cunningham, ras shot and killed by Brown McDow, .nother colored boy about the same .ge, son of Ephraim McDow. The killng was on Jarvls Cunningham's dace several miles west of town, and it the home of young McDow's fathr. It appears that the boys had a ailing out the day before about a tird, and on Sunday Cunningham rent to the McDow home. He was irdered by young McDow to leave the iremises, giving him, he said, five ninutes in which to do so. Cunninglam started off, and as he was walkng across the yard McDow seized a ;un and shot him in the back. The vounded boy ran about fifty yards and ell. dying in half an hour. Such were iubstantially the facts as brought out it the inquest held Sunday afternoon >y Magistrate \V. P. Caskey. As soon is Cunningham died, McDow disap-" ? ? J n'nn n n /I a rvnututl jeai eu, uul nc ? ao iuuuu awu >y Sheriff Hunter Sunday afternoon tome two or three miles east of Lan:aster. The boy is now in jail. GASTON. Gastonia Gazette, May 7: Mrs. D. A. ?age spent Sunday at Clover, the ruest of Mrs. J. A. Page Mr. T. W Kendrick is spending the week at lis home near Bethel, York county.... Mr. Fred Nolen, who sustained painful njuries in a collision at the crossing f the Southern and C. & N.-W. railroads last week, is improving rapidly. { no complications arise he will be ible to be out in a week or ten days. Harvey Clifford, infant son of Mr. and Mrs. Jacob L. Alexander, died Sunday at the home of his parents at he Loray from cholera infantum, rhe funeral was held at the home .?..in.,lo.. oflomruin R?v _T A Hovle :onducting the services. Interment 'ollowed at Mount Olive Baptist hurch, three miles north of Gastonla. The infant was seven months and wenty-three days old Today is a treat occasion with the colored popllation of Gastonla and surrounding owns, the event being a celebration >y the Grand Order of Odd Fellows. Jirculars distributed this morning anlounced that there would be a street jarade at 2 p. in. and that Grand Master \V. L. Houston of Washington, 0. C., would speak at 4 p. m. in the >pera house Yesterday the safe n the John F. Love Inc., offices vhich was accidentally locked some lays ago so that it required the services of an expert to open it, was shipped to Atlanta for repairs. An expert from the Victor Lock & Safe Jo., Atlanta. Saturday night opened he safe by cutting through the botom, which necessitated its being sent jack to the factory for repairs Elliott Mack, a negro wanted here >n the serious charge of throwing the switch at the Loray mill, was arrested at the depot Saturday as he was pre paring to leave town. The warrant 01 which he was arrested was issue* April 18th, but Mack immediately lef town and the officers had been unabl to locate him until he was nabbed her Saturday. The case was called befor Magistrate T. H. White yesterda; afternoon at 5 o'clock, but was swori away from him and Is set for trial be fore Magistrate S. S. Morris this af temoon, at 4 o'clock. It is under stood that there Is very damaglni evidence to prove that Mack Is gull ty; In fact, It is understood, there wa at least one witness who saw him 1] the act of committing the crime. J passenger train barely escaped wrecl on account of It, the engine beini -5 -? * - twoln ho/1 ontor Stopped JU?l ttlltu me nam v...v. ed the Hiding. OSTRICHES ARE QUEER BIRDS. Their Morning Dante?Eighty Year of Conjugal Fidelity. There are three ostrich farms h southern California, one In Arizona one In Kansas and one In Florida and there are not less than six thou sand of the gigantic birds in thi country growing plumes for my lady' headgear. The original ostrich farm In Soutl Pasadena Is annually visited by thou sands of tourists. The big birds ar kept in fields enclosed with hlgl fences. They appear to be as tarm as domestic fowls, but it is not saf< for strangers to take too much fo granted, as the male bird is often 11 tempered and his kick is worse thai that of a mule. Early morning visitors witness th' most interesting performances of tin birds, the matin waltz. When th ** A ?x?1 ' ? t W A fl/vl f] sun's nrsi rays siriKe avrusa mo no?v. says the Rosary Magazine, the bird take their morning exercise to stretcl their muscles and banish the chill o the night. The larger ones begin the perfor mance with a slow, stately dance something like a minuet. Presentl; the whole flock Joins In the measure stepping high and weaving in am out in what seems to be a set thougl complicated figure. As the dance proceeds the speed o the movement increases; then th birds begin to whirl about and pres ently the quadrille merges into i waltz. The dancers, holding thel heads high, raise their wings am spread their plumes in the sunshine and In pairs waltz solemnly, strenu ously for a quarter of an hour. Viewed from a distance, a band o waltzing ostriches?when the bird are in full feather?is a beautiful pic ture. At close range the preternatu ral gravity of the bird engaged In th seemingly frivolous pastime of th< waltz makes him an Irresistibly com lc figure. Ostrich farms are most attractlv to visitors at plucking time, once ii nine months. To one never havini witnessed the operation it seems quit a formidable task to capture am hold a three hundred and fifty poum bird and relieve it of its plumage. But the farmer has devised a wa; that makes it a very simple process Selecting a bird whose plumes ar ready to pluck, he is enticed wltl sugar beets into a triangular enclos ure, thence to the narrow end, an< there imprisoned with bars. The ostrich is enraged when hi finds that he Is imprisoned, but in i moment his head is enveloped in i sack, and being blinded, he become quiet and submissive. The pluckini is painless. Only the smaller feathers are pull ed as the feathers are plucked fron geese. Tne large piumes arc m ww care to preserve the sockets of thi quill from Injury. Natural white or pure blacl plumes require only washing an< curling, but most of the plumes an gray and must be dyed for the mar ket. The raw feathers are sold li San Francisco and New York, when they are prepared for the trade bj being washed, dyed, starched, curle< and pieced. The ostrich plume on i lady's hat Is no more like the feathei as worn by the bird than a seal skli jacket Is like the natural fur of hli original wearer. When the ostrich is three or foui years old he chooses a mate for life The usual span of ostrich life is abou eighty years. It will be seen, there fore, that this singular bird Is a mod el of monogamous fidelity. Also, he is a model husband, for hi does more than half of the family work. The male partner makes thi nest by kicking a hole in the grount a foot deep and three feet across, ant when the twelve or fifteen eggs ari laid he takes his turn at hatching, di Hma with hl? nnrtner ir YlUIIIfe IUC iiiiiv ".v.. r even watches. Forty days are required to hate! the eggs, which are in proportion t< the size of the bird. When th* chicks come out the cock must be se questered, for in captivity he devel ops a reprehensible propensity to in fantlcide, forgetting all the troubl* he has taken to hatch out a family Often there is a surplus of eggs or the ostrich farm, and the hotels ir the vicinity are supplied with th* material for omelets at fancy prices Curiosity induces tourists to pay thos* prices and they have been known t< artirm a liking for ostrich egg ome lets. The shell of an ostrich egg i: so thick that even the hard kicklnf cock bird could use one as a footbal without damaging it. The experience of California ostrich farmers is that about thirty pei cent of the eggs deposited in the nes are not fertile. Several days aftei the hatching process has begun th( eggs are tested by placing them, on* at a time, in a funnel and raising i toward the sun. If a dark spot shows in the egg i is probably fertile. If not it ii thrown out of the clutch. The incu bator has been successfully used af ter the eggs have been a couple o weeks under the birds. In about si: weeks the baby ostrich may be hear* inside the shell, and then it is in or der to crack the horny case and ie the little chap out into the air. Wanted a Sample.?"Children," sai* Judge Willard McEwen, at a dinne in Chicago, "are the great home build ers. A lack of children means unhap piness, divorce. In the majority of th* divorce suits that I pass on, and pass on 100 a month?the couples an between 30 and 40 years of age an* childless. "So children should be prized an* cherished, despite their faults. "Faults they have, I will admit. "Only the other day I heard of a lit tip eirl who lunching out, was detect ed in the act of cramming a large yel low handful of Spanish omelet int< the pocket of her pink frock. " "Why, you little pig,' exclaimed he mother, 'what on earth are you about' Put that back on your plate at once Why. I never heard of such a thing What on earth do you mean by it?' " 'It is so good, muvver,' the chil< explained I just thought I'd take i piece home to our cook for a pat tern."?Washington Star. GREAT TH0UGHT8. n i Drawn From the "Golden Ladder" of t St. Bonaventura. e There must once have been a time e in the world when sadness was lesi e dangerous matter than It is to-day y or the great teachers would hardly n have dared inculcate it as a necessary - practice. St. Bonaventura, in hli - "Golden Ladder of Virtues," admon' - ishes men climbing toward perfectlor 5 to afflict themselves profoundly ovei - the sufferings of their enemies, ovei s the outrages offered to the glory 01 n God; to suffer with those who Ir ^ health undergo affliction, and thos< lc who In malady idergo affliction, anc % those who, being dead, still undergc - affliction; to suffer with those whc suffer from their own weakness anc with those who, being brave, are ye' killed upon the high mountains, anc with those who do not even knov a what things make ror tneir peace; w suffer over all corporal Ills, all spiriti itual weaknesses, all temporal anc ., transient pains, all prolonged pains ; and all eternal pains, and then, as 11 - that were not enough, higher up or s the ladder of virtues he begins agalr s warning us to repent and to afflict ourselves over all mortal sins, all 1 grave venial sins, all slight venial sins . for all sins of act, of word, of deed e all sins of evil committed, of gooc i omitted; all sins of lassitude, ennui e and lukewarmth; for personal sins e for sins one has occasioned, knowingr ly, and sins one has unknowingly 1 caused others to commit to regret i and bitterly manifest sins, hldder sins, and the very sins of being hue man and unjustified in the light ol e supreme perfection; the wrongs on< e has done to oneself, the wrongs on< I has done the community, the wrong! s one has done to God; and then hi i adds, reveal the pain of the soul by f the avowal of the lips, by tears in thi eyes and by the mortification of thi . flesh. Indeed, when one reaches thi last rung of the ladder but one, oni yr still meets fifteen modes of pain t< be borne before one reaches the high j est round of virtue and can afford t< n be Joyful. Even the most strenuous exhorten f to-day would hardly dare lead thi e sheep through so dark a valley. I . is all too easy to realize the sadnesi a and the imperfection of life, the im r possibility of wholly adapting onesel j to environment, of wholly meeting thi >, demands of other people. Life in i - world where conditions are ever fleet ing, where no relation is permanent f where struggle for Individual satis s faction is fruitless and defeat certain - where love of beauty and of goodnea - merely lays us open to quicker anc e deeper wounds, and where even pur e suit of knowledge itself is baffling anc - thwarting, since the more we learr the wider becomes the field of thi e unknown, offers enough involuntary a sadness. g But there are two points to note it e the ladder of St. Bonaventura, one ii 3 that he bids men to deplore not thi 3 inevitable imperfections of circum stance, which is the fundamental noti yr of the modern pessimist, but their owr i. shortcomings; and second, that a can e free and Joyous existence can only b< i granted to those who have scaled thi . topmost rung of the ladder of virtue 3 It is not the feeling that one ha! n shnrc In the world's lmDerfectlor e which generates despair, for with onei self one can always do something. Il i one allows oneself to believe that th< a tragedy of existence is inherent In life I and that life is not malleable, that dc what we will, strain every nerve anc - put forth every effort, life is still noi i plastic to endeavor, that it will nt i more respond to our calls than th< s stars did to the hallooing of Will o' the Mill and the fat young man, ther i we have a sadness which is dangerous 1 But affliction over our own shortcoms Ings and a complete list of them to re. fer to, make for the sadness which ! lies at the root of effort. Character s after all, is never founded upon cush1 ions; It Is built upon rock hard re1 nunclations and difficulties; "the i sharpened life commands its course;' r such character learns to bear not onlj i inevitable ills, but finally, from time s to time, to give itself a little gratuitous suffering on some one else's acr count. True happiness, what little we know t of it, is not of' the nature of merri. ment or gayety or ease?these give . nothing better than pleasure?but true happiness is the outgrowth of peace, 1 and peace has a firmer foundation f than these can give. Peace is the re2 suit of reflection, grief, and accept1 ance, and none begin to understand, i once realizing it, how the great Bona; ventura dared so to emphasize sorrow - to his people.?Harper's Weekly. TREASURES OF DEATH VALLEY. l > Borax, Niter, Copper, Silver, Lead and Gold Worth Billions There. Today we know that the rainbow of wealth has its ends in the biggest pot of gold that man ever dreamed of. Mountains of gold, mountains of silver, mountains of copper and of lead and precious stuff have ceased to be a a vision for dreamers to write about. A few facts about Nevada and the [ Death Valley country will substantiate ' this. The mountains of precious metals are no longer a vision for dream3 ers. They exist in reality, and have , been found, located and recorded with j the mineral recorders of this country, says the Death Valley Chuck Wal la. Location monuments are dotted over them. Wealth in such fabulous sums that it staggers the imagination has fallen into the hands of the individuals. Even the resources of John D. Rockefeller appear as insignificant when compared with the resources of "Borax" Smith, or the copper kings that have acquired the best holding in Death Valley land. Mt. Blanc, approximately 1,500 feet high and two miles in diameter, is a mass of pure borax. It is the property of one man, Frank M. Smith of Oakland owns the mountain absolutely. and thereby controls the visible supply of borax in the world. The market value of the deposit of borax where it lies is something over $100 a ton. Experts estimate that the mountain has at least 3,000,000,000 tons of borax In it. At $100 per ton ? the value of this mountain can be B computed in billions by anyone who 1 will multiply 100 by three. This mountain standing at the north end of the * Funeral Range within a stones' throw of Death Valley makes "Borax" Smith - easily the richest man in the world " from a point of resources. But this j borax deposit is merely a lining for the pot of gold that rests in the Fun? eral Range. Some 50 miles south of Mont Blanc, at the other end of the Funeral Range are niter deposits. The full extent of * this deposit of niter no one appears to know. All of It is claimed by prospectors. These niter hills cover an area of many square miles. It Is nearly the pure stuff that the hills contain, ! and United States government geologists say that It Is the largest niter de5 posit In the world. The powder trust i owns all that the government has left , of this niter and declines to make an ' estimate of Its value. r Between these billions upon billions i of dollars' worth of borax and of nl ter are the copper deposits of the Fu> nerul range. Already these copper f deposits are known to cover 500 or i* 600 square miles. C East of the Funeral Range are > mountains of silver and of lead. The J Skull Mountains are made of copper. 1 And In the opposite direction across > Death Valley In the Panamlnt Moun> tains have been located ledges of gold. 1 The Almaghty's treasure trove for t which the sons of Adam have sought 1 since the old man left Eden has been r found In the desert by Death Valley, i ?Public Ledger. > ncciDc crko u/nnv ' Often a Sign of Arretted Development 1 Instead of Strength. i Parents often think their Bon Is est pecially promising because he wants I to get to work young, wants to leave , school and be earning, says the Jour; nal of Education. This Is never a sign 1 of strength, but always of weakness. . When a boy wants to get to work in. stead of getting ready to work It Indicates arrested development. ' There Is not one probabllty in fifty ! that a boy who desires to leave school 1 at the sixth grade and Is allowed to do so will ever amount to anything, t It Is not the fact that he does not 5 have as much education as the other 5 boys, but that he does not have their 5 purpose to get ready for the doing of 1 things. ' Teachers often greatly err In dealJ Ing with such boys and their parents 1 by trying to show how important It } is that they should know what they - will learn in the seventh ana eignin } grades, whereas that is the least part " of it. It is a case of arrested devel' opment usually, and this is what should be treated?treated as a dls3 ease. 8 We make a lot of talk about de1 fectlve sight and hearing and we do 3 well, but it is vastly more important * that we "get busy" in defective men' tal progressive development. There 8 is a nearsightedness of parents and 1 pupils that Is criminal. It contributes " to delinquency, and Is "within the statute and subject to court punishment." ' It sometimes shows Itself in divert3 ed attention, In dissipated interest 1 and often in overathletic or fraternity " zeal. The college theory Is that the 1 fraternity chaps are the elect, but life 1 does not show that. The data are 8 imperfect at present, but there is f enough to make it wholly probable that when the figures are in it will be 1 clearly shown that in the last fifteen 3 years, when fraternity life has been ' extra social and extra political in clannlshness, much of the fraternity ' zeal indicates approaching arrested 1 development. It is entirely cle* al' ready that this Is highly characteris ti/? nt tho hich sphool fraternity, be " cause it almost invariably means that ' a set of fellows dare not trust themselves to win honors in the open con1 test, but seek it as a favoritism by ' means of a little band of social highwaymen, as many of these high ' school fraternities are. ' MIDDLE LIFE. ^ It Brings the Gift of Entirely Imper' , tonal Enjoyment. The greatest free gift of the years Is 1 impersonality. That voracious inter1 est in ourselves which Is so natural a ' limitation of youth fades of its own accord as we grow into full knowledge of our slight endowment, the paucity 1 of our spoken lines and the fragmen' tary and insignificant part of our role in life, writes George Harvey in the | North American Review. And then ; what is to fill up the void? We are, after all, not cast for the hero's part, but are we to sink into mere hardened : machines? The gift of entirely impersonal enjoyment is one of the greatest of life's events. When it falls upon us we can adorn our secret corners of delight and learn to live in them. We begin to listen to music with no dispieting desire to have it interpret our personal emotions or feed our am1 bltlons. We can look at pictures and ' nature with a new and a more liberal Interest. There Is a shifting of basis, by which, If we will, we may gain complete advantage. As In youth we cling to some glorified fragment of the past or hold out our hands to some warm hope of an unearned but magnificent future, so in middle age we come, if we will, to a moment richer and nobler in itself. If in youth we use the senses for personal aggrandizement, In maturity we learn to enjoy them for themselves. It is a shifting of basis from emotion to perception and the perceptions can give as keen a pleasure, every whit, as the emotions. To keep the sight and the hearing ever alert, attuned to wider visions and fuller harmonies, is to be on the winning side in the game of life. To observe the world in the gross, as it subserves a personal Interest, is not particularly vivifying, but continually to see and to hear more delicately, more exactly, is to intensify life and life's interest. As the demand of the intellect is to feel itself ever increasing in power and scope, so the demand of the senses is for continuous refinement and delicacy of resource, and this is to become, as we age, not less but more alive till, at the Instant of death, destiny shall overtake us at the very floodtlde of our abilities ana our zest. Origin of "Plug" Tobacco.?An old Missouri farmer visiting Kansas City, said, as he took a chew of tobacco. "All the difference in the world In tobacco. I've tried some twenty different kinds and none Is as good as that we used to make ourselves down on the farm. We would take a maple log while 'twas green and bore a dozen holes In it with a two-Inch auger. They were our molds. We selected our choicest tobacco and soaked It for a week or more In wild honey. Then we'd take the leaf to the log, get a good hickory 'tampin' stick, and go to work. "A little ball of the honey soaked tobacco would be put In an auger hole and tamped in with the stick and a hammer. We'd pound It In solid. Ball after ball would be rammed in and pounded until the whole became a soli id plug. When the hole was nearly full we would pound In a plug, and then the log would be put away to season. As the wood dried the moisture would be drawn from the tobacco. And when it was split the sweetest tobacco ever made was taken from It. We called It 'plug' tobacco, and that's where the name originated." GOLD WAS TOO HEAVY. Wreck of a Helena Cab With Cargo of $72,000. A Helena cab driver has Just had an unusual experience. It came about In this vay, says the Washington Post: He met an early train on the Great Northern, and was more than pleased to receive an affirmative reply to his call from four men as they advanced across the platform at the Union station. The cabby noticed that the men were carrying a package, or, rather, that two of them were, and that it seemed to receive the undivided attention of all the members of the party. The driver also noticed that the men were wearing holsters, from which protruded the butts of large calibre revolvers. The package was carefully placed in the bottom of the carriage and a start made for the city, about a mile and a half distant. The men directed that they be taken to one of the hotels upon being informed that the assay office would not be open for business until 10 a. m. Helena avenue, which connects the union station and the business pan of- the city, is being paved, with the result that riding thereon is not as smooth as the proverbial billiard table driveways. The carriage had proceeded less than a block, perhaps, when the driver heard a breaking of wood and cries from his passengers to stop immediately. The request was complied with, the drive asking the cause of the disturbance. He was Informed that the bottom of the hack had fallen out. Two of the the passengers quickly dismounted, grabbed the bundle, which had fallen through, and restored It to a place on the seat. The Journey was resumed and the hotel reached without further lnoldent. The bundle contained $72,000 in gold, being brought from the mines to the United States assay office, and Its great weight?more than 200 pounds?caused the breakage. In the Suez Canal. After a few days of Inhaling coal dust, one by one the ships passed Into the canal, and when the week was up the Dewey followed. Between the long straight banks at Its northern end all went well, but down where the channel twists and turns the trouble began. Into the soft, yielding bank the sharp corner would dig, and a thousand yards or so of sand would come tumbling down about It; while the other end swung across and did the same thing on the other side. Swift as a spider building Its web heavy lines would be flung out and secured to bollards on the opposite banks, and steam windlasses and capstans would snort as they tried to drag the Dewey back into the channel. But if the lines didn't part the bollards were torn out by their much-ramifled steel roots, while the Dewey stayed where It was. Hordes of ubiquitous Arabs rose out of the desert, and with pick and shovel buried great spars ("dead men") In the sand; to these chains were led and something had to come when the strain was put upon them; so the Dewey came out of its bed of sand and went gayly on, having great sport plucking up buoys and depositing them miles from where they belonged?hundreds of them. It was soon apparent that in the least breeze it was impossible to handle the dock with the nicety that the narrow channel demanded; so most of the Dewey's Journey across the isthmus was in the voiceless, deathlike stillness of the mysterious desert night. So intense and all-pervading was this sense of mystery that it crept up and cast its spell over the huge leviathan that stole stealthily through it, and the dock became as still as the desert itself?the silence was only broken by the soft murmur of the water against its forward end, and even that sounded like a prolonged h-u-s-h!?Scribner's. Andy and Tim are partners in the sheep business at the stockyards, says the Chicago News, and with their silent partner they are likely to remain so as long as he is sufficiently able bodied to follow his present occupation of "separating the sheep from the goats." Captain is a white Cotswold sheep, weighing about 200 pounds. It is his duty to assist his owners in loading and unloading sheep by leading them from and to the pens and freight cars. As soon as his work of guiding to a car is done Captain slyly steps out of danger. 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