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tumorous ijcpartmrnt. 7 7 7 7. In a logging camp near Hulton. Me., a few years ago a man by the name ' of Peter G:-imes was accidentally killed and his widow was left In rather poor circumstances. Joseph Hreed, a particular friend of f the unfortunate man, being somewhat j of a carpenter, decided to make j Grimes's coffin and so cut down the funeral expenses. He told the widow i of. his intention and also of carving ] the name and age of her late husband ( on the lid, but was rather worried ] when he found that the age was 28 < years. "I am awful sorry. Miss Grimes," said Joe, "but I never could cut a figure 8." "That's too bad," replied Mrs. Grimes; then, as a happy thought came to her, she asked him If he could cut a figure 7. "Yes, I can cut a first-rate figure 7." "Well, then, why not cut four 7's? Everybody knows four 7's are twentyeight." So the following day Joe completed the coffin as she suggested. The day of the funeral came and the late Rev. Mr. T. S. Black of Hulton, was reading the service over the body and had arrived at that part where he was saying: "Our dearly beloved brother, who departed this life at the age of"? Here he glanced at the coffin lid for reference, and his eyes lighting on Joe's row of four 7's, he gave a gasp and. with a startled look in his eyes, exclaimed: "Good Lord, how did he ever miss the flood!"?Boston Herald. MAJtK Twain and Iikvinq.?Murk was telling stories, strangely enough, and some young gentleman?Perkins, let us call him?arter me manu? w the very young1, was trying to cap them, but he always began with that mock-modest preface, "You must have * heard this before, Mr. Clemens," re- 1 peating the phrase at Intervals through * his so-called story. Finally Mark is 1 said to have said this: * "Perkins, that's no way to tell a sto- I ry. One night I was at supper with c Henry Irving, and he had the same old * trick that you have. Perkins?'You c must have heard this story before'? 1 or, *You certainly have heard this.' He r began a story this way, and I said po- * lltely, 'No, Mr. Irving, I haven't, though 8 I didn't know, of course, what his sto- ' ry was about. After he had used this ? miserable phrase three times, I said to c him, 'Irving, I was born and raised in 8 Missouri, where truth is at a discount c and courtesy is above par. When a ^ friend begins a story as you do with 8 'You must have heard this,' courtesy 1 prevails and we say no, no matter 1 what the truth may be, and a second 8 time we say no, but when It comes, ^ like now, to the third time, truth as- 1 serts itself. Yes, Irving I've heard 0 your old chestnut many, many times; c 1 invented it.' "?Harper's Weekly. 1 m g I Am From Siaji.?Mr. John Barrett, j the new director of the bureau of the a American Republics, tells a good story c on himself. Some years ago he was a * * * ~ J """I"* o oru^OPh Q t r asKea oy a menu m mane <* ? ?- , a big barbecue which was to be held c at a distant town. \ His friend was to have been the s principal speaker, but owing to illness | was unable to attend, so he sent Mr. c Barrett Instead. He telegraphed the j chairman of the barbecue that "John ^ Barrett, ex-minister to Siam, would \ deliver the address of the day." f The chairman, being acquainted with c ministers of only one kind, was some- j what astonished that Mr. Barrett a should be sent. When the time came ( for the speech he went to the front a of the platform to introduced the j speaker. After consulting the tele- f gram again to be sure of the name, v he said: g "It gives me great pleasure to Intro- a duce the principal speaker of the day. c The Reverend John Barrett, ex-mls- a slonary to the benighted heathen of g Siam, will now speak."?Youth's Com- v panion. t An Objectionabl.b Correction.?In a small church in one of the mining ? towns of Pennsylvania was a pulpit both antique and unique. It was about the size and shape of a flour barrel, was elevated from the floor about four feet and was fastened to the wall. The ascent was by narrow winding steps. A minister from a neighboring town, a man of great vigor and vehemence, preached there one Sunday. While preaching he bent forward and shouted out with great force the words of his text: "The righteous shall stand, but the wicked shall fall." Just as these words escaped from his lips the pulpit broke from its fastening and he fell out and rolled over on the floor before his congregation. In an instant he was on his feet again and said: "Brethren. I am not hurt, and I don't mind the fall much, but I do hate the connection."?Philadelphia Public Ledger. An Accepted Explanation.? The t ambitious young humorist had received from the editor his offering of jokes. "I wonder why he didn't take them," said the young humorist sadly. f "I shouldn't be surprised." said his wife, "if the editor isn't one of these ( men who don't understand a joke until { it has been explained to them. If I ^ were you I should send them back to him, with a kind little note telling him what the point is in each one." The humorist did so. To his great surprise the editor ac- . cepted his explanations.?Judge. Immi'nk. ?A certain women's club s had a full meeting and an important 1 discussion was on. In the midst of it r one woman rose and asked the priv- * ' I ilege of the floor for a moment. It was granted, and the interrupter, in a voice ' strained with emotion, said: "Is there a Christian Scientist present?" A wo- 1 j man arrayed with laborious magnificence arose on the other side of the room, and, in a stately tone of kind- 1 ness, said: "I am a Christian Scientist." Then across the intervening space the first woman's sweet voice said: "Would you mind changing seats with me? I am sltt,ing in a draft."? 1 111 mn n Worui> Take What They Hai>.?A t gentleman purchased at the postoffice 1 a large quantity of stamped envelopes, c newspaper wrappers anil other postal g requisites. 1 Finding them somewhat difficult to I carry, he asked one of the counter J clerks if he could supply him with a 1 small quantity of string. \ "We are not permitted by the de- t partment to supply string." was the a reply. v "Then give me a bit of red tape," e was the sarcastic retort. s The string was supplied.?Tattler. a iWisccUiuieous ficailinfl. IN COUNTIES ADJOINING. Slews and Comment Clipped From Neighboring Exchanges. LANCASTER. News, June 119: Miss Sullle Cauth>n, an Inmate of the county home, died Monday night. She was raised in 'leasunt Hill township and was about dxty years old Nellie Hay, the lttle daughter of Mr. and Mrs. F. J. riay or LdDeriy mn, aieu u. icv? uoj.i igo at Farm School, near Asheville, V. C. The body was brought to Llb>rty Hill for Interment The inirease in the salaries of R. F. D. carders will go into effect July 1. After he date the annual salaries of the folowing carriers will be each $900: E. 1\ Tillman, route No. 1; Ernest O. Hinlon. No. 2: W. E. Pardue, No. 3; A. D. Hilliard. No. 5; S. R. Williams, No. i. The salary of Henry D. Thompson, tfo. 4, will be $864 Mrs. Rachel Vdams, wife of Mr. Thomas Adams of Jalle Gold Mine, died last Friday light. Her maiden name was Fletch;r and she was thirty-seven years of ige. She is survived by *her husband ind five children. The remains were juried Sunday at Pleasant Plains church, the Rev. T. A. Dabney of Lancaster, conducting the funeral services. ...Minor Williams, a well known citzen of Cedar Creek township, died last Saturday. He had been sick for some Ime. He was about fifty-five years >ld and leaves a widow and four 3*?iliren, Messrs. William and Glllam iVilliatns, Mrs. Nannie Beaver and diss Annie Williams. Mr. Williams vas a member of the Baptist church, rhe remains were buried Sunday at leaver Creek church, the Rev. I. E. iValluce of Heath Springs, conducting he funeral services. CHESTER. Lantern, June 18: We want the >rethren of the press to know, or at east believe, that It was not because ve were afeard of the automobiles or he perils of a whaling expedition that ve did not attend the meeting on the sle of Palms Mr. O. W. Kelsey, >f the Public Service Corporation, has >een before the council to ask a franchise for car lines through our streets, t would be a great convenience in nan.v respects and to many people to lave streets cars, and it would make mother enterprise and more capital nvested. The greatest care should be exercised, however, in granting a franchise. Street cars are coming any way, ind we are not dependent upon any me set of people for them. We have teard that this corporation is asking ilmost unlimited privileges in other owns. We do not know now what hese privileges are or Just what is tsked here, hut we are only suggesting hat our council scrutinize closely and >roceed carefully Mr. A. N. Grant if the Armenia neighborhood, is in the city today. He says crops in his leighborhood are making a very poor chowing for the time of year, especialy cotton. He also says there has been in accident in his neighborhood each if the past three Sabbaths. On the econd of June, a little son of Mr. Bud iudson fell off the lot fence and broke ine of his legs above the knee. Dr. iV. M. Love happened to be there and let the broken limb. On the ninth a ittle son of Mr. Ellis C. Starnes fell >ut of the door and broke a leg and Jr. H. E. McConnell was called to dm. Last Sabbath evening, Miss Fay rValsh overbalanced in some way and fli uui ui men uuuiv oicpo, cui\u>o me of her wrists almost in the joint. >r. A. M. Wylie was called yesteo*day ind set the fracture Mrs. Willie ?ross C'ox, wife of Dr. W. B. Cox, died ibout 11.30 o'clock Sabbath night, fune 16. She has been in ill health or more than a year and about two veeks ago she took something like gastritis. Her heart became involved md at the last she went to sleep so :almly and sweetly that the loved ones iround her scarcely knew until her rentle spirit had taken its flight. She vas in her forty-second year and was he oldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. I. M. Cross. She was born near Tusaloosa, Ala., but her parents moved lere when she was but a child and her ife has been spent in .this community, tbout eighteen years ago she was narried to Dr. W. B. Cox. He and wo sons, W. B. J., and Marlon, aged ldoui mineen ana a nan anu miccu rears, are left to mourn the loss of a levoted wife and mother. She Is also urvived by her grief-stricken parents, hree brothers, Messrs. S. D. Cross of his city, P. W. Cross of Columbia, and Jurrell Cross of Indiana, and two slsers, Mrs. Julian W. Avery of Rock Jill, and Mrs. W. H. Edwards, Jr.. if this county. Mj-s. Cox was a woman k ith high ideals and a most lovely dlslosition and the whole community nourns her death. The funeral serdces were at the residence on Pincktey street yesterday afternoon at 5 i'clock, conducted by Rev. M. L. ?anks, and the burial was in Evergreen cemetery. The floral tribute was nost beautiful. GASTON. Gastonia Gazette, June 18: Contracor J. W. Haas of Charlotte, put a force if men to work yesterday grading the idewalk on the north side of Main treet between York and South streets treparatory to laying cement. When ompleted.this work will add greatly to he appearance of Main street and also o the convenience of pedestrians dr. James L. Kendall died at the home if his sister, Mrs. Rebecca Humbright. lear the Avon mills, Saturday after loon about 5 o'clock after a long and fasting illness from tuberculosis. Mr. Cendall was about thirty-one years of ;ge and is survived by a brother and event I sisters Mrs. H. E. McConie!l and son. Master Russell McConlell of ("hester. S. C\. were the guests "riday and Saturday of Dr. and Mrs. X E. McConnell After a Journey if 111 ore than fifty days, Mr. and Mrs. fumes Underwood and child, arrive'd a Gastonia Saturday niglit from the sland of Guam, in the far Pacific, fhey will be the guests for a- month >f Mr. and Mrs. Zeb Harry, the latter >eing a sister of Mr. Underwood. They eft Guam April 27th. going thence to lupan, from which country they sailed or America. Mr. Underwood is in he government service and has been >n the island of Guam for several ears Mrs. John O'Parrel I and wo children. Misses Jennie and Klisa>eth of Yorkville, C. S? spent Saturlay and Sunday in Gastonia, the ruests of the former's daughter. Miss iVilma O'Farrell and her sisters, Mrs. A. t'ampoeu and airs. Til ton tlessrs. Bernard Sinitli and Grier ytve, left yesterday morning for Asheiile and other points in "The Land of he Sky" by the overland route. They re making the trip in a buggy and till be several days en route. Their qulpment consisted of overcoats to belter them from the cool mountain ir; a gun, field glasses and other ar tides necessary for such a trip. They i were anticipating a most enjoyable jaunt Mr. Edgar Long, local editor of the News, has been selected as an instructor in Ersklne college. Due West, S. C., and has accepted the position. He will assume his new duties at the opening of the fall term in September. At a recent meeting of the board of trustees of the institution It was decided to add two Instructors and Mr. Long Is one of these. He is a viiunrr man not vet twentv-one, is a son of Mr. and Mrs. L. H. Long of Gastonia, and is a young man of prom- I ise and ability. He graduated at Ersklne with the class of '06 and since that time has devoted his attention to journalism, filling acceptably the position of local editor of the Gastonia News. During his college career he stood high among the members of his class, which was one of the largest In Ihe history of the college, and his selection by the board of trustees to fill tn instructorship is a wise choice and the college is to be congratulated on securing his services. LIGHTHOUSE SERVICE. On An Average Four Men Are Detailed to a Light. Few people realize the lighthouse service as one of danger, as well as i :f long, lonely vigil, says the New Orleans Times-Democrat. There Is one light located off the Gulf coast which is eighteen miles from land, and the attendants have to go and come from the light in small boats, frequently in a sea which would cow a landsman. The Government pro vides these hoats, some or ine sianons located close to land being provided with rowboats and others with sailing craft sloop rigged, and those located far out In the open are provided with i power craft. There are more men to a lighthouse now than In the old days, when a man and his family attended the light, and took watch about to see that It was not extinguished. On an average four men are de# tailed to a light, but it is said to be seldom when all four of them are present at the light at the same time. When the boat goes In for supplies two men go together, having two to tend the light. In the lighthouse mentioned above, 18 miles off the coast, the keeper is sixty miles from the nearest postoffice, and the jaunt from his lonely place of vigil is a long and very dangerous one. Families are no longer permitted on the lighthouses of the United States, although in some of the lights there are as many as six or eight rooms, but to coop up four families in such a place would not be advisable and possibly the government has decided that it would not be productive of that solemn peace which is probably best suited to the successful conduct of the lighthouse service. The government, while paternal to a degree, does not furnish the lighthouse tender with all the comforts of life, although It is said that on the lightships the men fare better and are given an allowance that is really sumptuous. On the lighthouses, however, the men are given about ten article of common consumption, but whatever luxuries or changes * ? J,?4 * a., ?v>oif /Inol ro rv* lict I roiri lllia Ult'l lliey ma; uaan a i?aU. be purchased from their own wages. This list comprises such staples as flour and a few other ordinary articles of everyday consumption. Further than this, the men have to add to their larder from their own salaries, not even salt, it is stated, being included in the government's list of commodities. One danger to which the lighthouses are ever subjected is that of destruction of glass from flying birds. In this section the main danger arises from the wild geese, which have been known to smash a thick lighthouse glass by the force of impact. The bird appears to be attracted by the powerful light, evidently becomes bewildered and flies straight at the point of gleaming brilliancy in the darkness. The result is a dead goose and the destruction of a valuable and costly glass. To protect the lights from this menace it has been customary to string a barrier of wire netting from the top of the keeper's quarters to the apex of the structure. This is successful in protecting the light, but occasions have been known when a wild goose, apparently rendered senseless by the keen brilliancy of the powerful light, has flown against this wire netting with such force that the protection has been broken and the bird has passed through and fallen down inside it. However, the great power of its flight was broken by the collision with the netting and the glass saved. There are features connected with the lighthouse service of which the outside world has little idea. Shut off from the world by leagues of sea, frequently immured for days by storms, a ~'-1. K.t 5m nfVior vi'flllfQ itllll HCIUOIII IIICl liy iiiru 111 vuiv. of life, the lighthouse tender spends an existence that is peculiarly solitary, giving his life to the care of the beacons that stand at the gateways of commerce to warn the traveler to beware of peril and disaster. Supreme Court Levity. It is not often that one hears a justice of the supreme court of the United States make a remark in levity while he is attired in his robes of dignity and is sitting on the bench, which in fact, is not a bench at all, but a soft cushioned leather-covered easy chair, says the Washington Star. But the unexpected did happen recently, when decisions were being handed down. Mr. Justice Holmes was the perpetrator of the joke, which was a very mild one. Mr. Holmes had the fortune (or the misfortune) of announcing the decision of the court in the case of David Kawananukoa. Jonah Kalanianaole, Abigale W. Kawananakoa and Elizabeth K. Kalanianaole against Ellen Albertina Polybland and others. Mr. Holmes hesitated, and although announcing a decision of the supreme tribunal of the land, was obliged to acknowledge that he would have to forego the form of pronouncing the names. He spoke in a low tone of voice and said, as a smile played about his 1 i i>?>: "This is case Xo. 273. but I will not undertake to pronounce the names of the appellants, which are a matter of record." He then proceeded to explain the decision of the court. The dilemma in which he was thrown by the unpronounceable names did not cause a sympathetic risible on the physiognomy of any of the justices except in the case of Mr. Justice McKenna, but the assemmeu attorneys vojoyeu mc situation thoroughly. KtT Some men make a specialty of posing as horrible examples. "THE PRESS OF SOUTH CAROLINA IN THE REVOLL TION OF 1876." ]Continued from First Page]. tlon, and became the most aggressive, awakening, stirring supporter Hampton had. Its former position, instead of being a cause of weakness, gave It extraordinary strength. It was hailed of hrtmo 99 n ivploome and Dowerful convert and a new friend, and abroad its former position and long pleas for peace and conservatism made its sudden demand for vigorous action the more impressive. A weaker or a timorous man would have edged away and changed front gradually. Captain Dawson, with the boldness of a strategist, daring all on a single movement, and with the vigor of virility, threw himself and his newspaper into the campaign he had so actively opposed, and took the lead from his opponents. He engaged new.correspondents and stirred and won back old ones, who had become lukewarm or hostile. He had a trained force of stars to begin with?McKlnley, Moroso, Biackman?men who had proved their ability, their honesty and their courage. He sent these out or engaged them at home writing stories of the Democratic campaign and its meetings. The News and Courier representatives were everywhere and their stories, coming into the office and edited and headed by T. Roswell Logan, gleamed and scintillated and stirred ??wi tmt oinao tn thp nonular heart. June 28, 1876. Meanwhile It was going III with us on the Journal of Commerce. We had no organization, discipline or purpose. On the morning of June 28, 1876, the centennial of the battle of Fort Moultrie, probably the most famous and greatest celebration the old city had known, fifteen reporters for our paper, including extras, were to report on the steps of the Citadel Square Baptist church at 7 o'clock In the morning and receive orders. Three of us appeared and we found no chief and no orders. I wandered away and did what I could, and at the Washington Artillery punch bowl found five of our men. Six of us were on the excursion steamer cavorting about Charleston harbor. The result was a series of repetitions, messes, mixes and mixes which made the paper ridiculous? everything sent up hlggledy-plggledly without sequence or proper arrangement as the reporters, drunk, sober, and reasonably sober, chose to write It. Our friends were compelled to groan and go to the News and Courier for an orderly, collected, connected account of what had been done and said. We had a lot of brilliant writing and description and some carefully worked out narrative, but it was thrown together anyhow as the foreman got It. It was the same in the campaign. At the beginning we had nobody, trusting to local correspondents. while the News and Cd\irler had out its brightest and best men. Then | I, having: been sent back to Richmond because of yellow fever, was ordered to follow Hampton?a boy, a rank stranger to the state's history and geography'; sent to write up the most tremendous struggle that ever has been or ever can be here. I suppose the directors decreed it. It was on tbfe campaign that I first met N. G. Gonzales, then the Colleton correspondent of the Journal of Commerce ?I had handled his copy in the office many a night. He was a slip of a boy galloping about with a bit of red flannel in hi.<*hat. Four years after that, loyal to a promise made on that same ride, I called him to the Greenville News, because no other newspaper would take him, and in two months he demonstrated his quality so clearly that the News and Courier gathered him in eagerly. Wherever we went we found the power and Influence of the local newspapers. Reaching into every nook and corner, into Granny's Quarter, Pott's Cove, Pumpklntown, Hanging Rock and Hell Hole, they had moved and stirred and incited the people. Therefore Hampton found himself at the head of an army of 80,000 armed and fighting men in red shirts, and invincible. There was no dearth of editorial matter then, and no lack of men to supply it. The campaign was keleldoscopic, pyrotechnic, brilliant, a new event, a fresh danger, a startling incident or utterance every day. The newspapers had to Incite the people to action, to exhort them to caution in the same breath, to kindle fire in their hearts and hold them to cold prudence. The air was electric with danger. Each step and hour bristled with difficulty and perplexity. That we were steered through is hardly less than a miracle. The national Democratic executive committee was beseeching us in .tremulous timidity to avoid any outbreak or bloodshed, which might arouse northern prejudice. The negroes and Radicals here were provoking us daily, trying to frighten from us the negro allies we were working for so anxiously. President Grant first threatened and then sent troops. Riot and battle at Hamburg and Calrhoy and in Barnwell, Aiken and Charleston brought intense nervous strain and exasperation. The state was not only an alarmed camp, but a powder magazine, with the lighted match wavering over it, a hell seething against its lid. Through it all the newspapers of South Carolina were steady and dauntless as the Old Guard. They worked together with the precision of a trained army, recognized and aided every move of strategy with marvellous sagacity, were the weapons with which Hampton and Haskell struck hardest at the common foe. It made the white pe >pie unanimous and no other race ever has stood against a unanimous \yhi?e minority, however small or poor. Reconstruction. During all the troubled five months between election day and the final crumbling away of the last remnant of reconstruction government in the south, the pitiful end of a hideous ev. periment, the feeble comedy with u-nret trnfotliou r.f \% I lieu unc "i *.? * ?v..v history terminated, the South Carolina newspapers spoke the state's voice to the world, and her call to her children at home. I wish it was possible to make a collection of the editorials of those times and hind them In an imperishable record. The occasion was one to inspire men to their best efforts and the editors responded to it. Vitriolic denunciation, thunderous summons to duty, thrilling appeal, hiting sarcasm, broad humor were everywhere. Cowards were shamed into line, the wavering and the recreant were called back, the brave were stimulated, the slothful roused. The Journal of Commerce thundered with the others, but in the general roar of battle the sound of its guns was sometimes lost. Perhaps it was more powerful in bringing on the fight than any other newspaper because It put Charleston into line and gave the straightout sentiment of the city a voice which reached through : the state. With Its news end allowed | to trail, however, it could not hold its i place by editorial power alone. i Gradually It passed out. The young who are here never heard of it. The < elders recollect It vaguely. It did its i work and its part and went the way i of all newspapers managed by direct- i ors. It had Its opportunity and miss- I ed, and my friend, Hemphill, today is at the head of a prosperous and powerful newspaper because there was no i efficient management for the opposition thirty years ago. The Journal of Commerce somehow vaguely drifted into my hands. Toward the last I i used to write locals and editorial paragraphs, and then take the paper in my arms and run from East Bay to Line street to catch the mails. It had quit paying wages regularly long before that. Last Expense Account. In October, 1876, I induced a guileless citizen of Chester, named Buchanan, to cash a draft on the paper, and in December following I met him in the state house at Columbia and asked him if the draft was all right. He said that he had been holding it in his safe as cash, and I advised him to forward it immediately. So far as I am Informed that was the last expense account the Journal of Commerce paid. I know we reporters used to sit around like buzzards when we thought somebody was likely to die, so that we might collect the fu-' ??1 ir.?,a na thov pume in?in Charleston then the funeral notices were cash always. We were courteous to each other?we reporters and sub-editors?but when a citizen appeared, looking as if he had a funeral or death notice, we elbowed each other politely and there was much genteel jostling and hurry carefully masked. It did not amount to much after all. The rule was that the man who got the dollar had to buy the drinks for the staff at the emporium of Fritz Stelllng, next door, where the credit of the last one of us had been exhausted iong ago. So I headed a strike for wages overdue and when the time came walked out alone and presently got work with the News and Courier, the hated opposition. August, 1878, a year later, the Journal of Commerce expired quietly, and unostentatiously ceased publication with a total deficit of about $30,000 for the two years of Its existence, going out as mysteriously as it had appeared. The gallant and stanch old Columbia Register followed more than twenty years later, and many of the newspaper men who stood to the guns for state and people In that nerve-racking, heart-Inspiring year have gone. Most of the old newspapers remain. May their familiar names and faces continue during all time to oome to gladden and guide the homes to which they have been welcome these many years gone. May your members of the South Carolina Press association keep ever before you that you have high example to follow, noble traditions by which to live. The press of your state has always been trusted by the people and has been true to the trust. In fifty years the scandals affecting South Carolina newspapers have been few. Their general tone has been pure and clean, honest and courageous as me generm i*unuuui them has been exceptionally able. It is not likely that the state ever will see another 1876. Heaven grant that she may not. Yet dangers more Insidious and even more deadly may come. Increasing wealth and power of wealth, laxity in moral and social standards, may assail the sacred and essential Inner life of our people, and the very foundations of our civilization. Prosperity and peace and ease come thronged with new perils. If such time comes I can hope nothing better than the press of the old state will stand as a unit once more for clean and approved principles, for comprehensive patriotism, for unfaltering fidelity to truth and the real Interests of state and people, regardless of powerful Influence on the one side and clamor of the crowds on the other, and that the triumph of thirtyone years ago will be repeated. STATISTICS OF FOOD. The Vast Quantities Used In New York Stated In Figures. New York city eats every year more than 25,000,000 pounds of cheese, says G. G. Netter In the New York Herald. Of this enormous quantity there are 7,000.000 pounds of American cheese, 6,500.000 pounds of Swiss cheese, 5,500,000 pounds of Roquefort cheese, 2,500,000 pounds of Camembert and 3,500,000 pounds of different creamy and fancy cheese. Sixty-seven thousand persons go every evening to dinners and suppers In New York city hotels and restaurants, and the amount spent annually exceeos a hundred million dollars. Bills of fare In 50 prominent hotels and restaurants give 387 different dishes, representing the cuisine of every country and every nationality In the world. That which is left each night on meals in the hotels and restaurants of New York city would be sufficient to feed three regiments of 800 men each for one week. Hotel and restaurant season of 1906 | and 1907 is nearly over and something \ like a hundred million dollars has been spent by New York patrons for dinners and after-theatre parties. The present season has broken all records. , These figures do not Include the big 1 dinners given in large hotels like the ' Waldorf. Astor, St. Regis, Gotham, , Sherry's, Delmonlco's or Brevoort, i where from 200 to 500 persons gather for a meal at from $5 to $25 a plate. Several million dollars, it is estimated, are spent each season for these large dinners. New York residents have taken to the Parisian custom of dining out several times a week. The excellent service, the fine meal, the delightful music and the whole genuine atmosphere of refinement and luxuriousness act as a-tonic that gives zest to jaded 0?a rWiroasinp- snirits and apprilkCD UIIU x.Vp.v^...0 . , makes life worth living1. Besides, the big hotels and restaurants are somewhat of a dressmaking, millinery and jewelry exhibit?a place where nien and women come to see and to be seen?and there is nothing a woman likes more than to be admired in a stylish gown, a fashionable hat or expensive jewelry. New York city is now the foremost city in the world in the matter of fine hotels and restaurants. trr If a man tells a lie, which is predominant?his remorse at having told It or his pride in having told one that passed for the truth? . PACIFIC OCEAN RAFTS. Piles of Timber Shaped Like Cigar and Big as Steamship. Sea rafts, which are peculiar to the Pacific ocean, are made of timber for piling and for telegraph poles, are shaped like a cigar and are of enormous size. The timber Is cut In Washington and Oregon ,and until recently was shipped to central and southern California in sailing vessels and steam barges. The expense and the limited capacity of these vessels, says the Chicago Chronicle, led to the designing of sea rafts. While they are of different sizes the smallest usually contains at least 5,000 pieces of timber ranging from 80 to 100 feet In length and from eight Inches to nearly two feet In diameter at the butt. Consequently some of the rafts made In this peculiar fashion are nearly as long as the largest transatlantic liners, measuring no less than 650 feet from end to end. So compactly are the poles arranged that the greatest diameter Is not more than 60 feet, but the enormous weight of the wood forces a raft down In the water until the highest portion Is rarely more than 10 feet above the surface. To fasten such a raft so that it will withstand the force of the seas to which It Is exposed no little engineering skill Is required. As the cigar shape offers less resistance to the force of the waves than any other this has been adopted. To move this unwieldy bulk two powerful steamships are usually employed at sea, onp for pulling directly ahead and the other to aid in keeping the raft In the right course, especially In rough weather. But a comparatively* small portion of the surface Is exposed to the seas. Otherwise It would be impossible to transport the timber In this form. On the other hand, the depth In the water allows only a very slow rate of speed to be maintained. The average time required between the Columbia river and San Francisco, for example, 750 miles, Is from ten to fifteen days, according to tne weainer. The Columbia river rafts are put together at a town called Stella, which Is located in the lumber country about forty miles from the mouth of the river. These rafts are the largest which have yet been transported down the coast. One which was sent to San Francisco contained no less than 800,000 linear feet of lumber to be used for wharf piling. The majorltyy of these rafts have been safely taken to their destinations, although one or two have gone to pieces. Where such accidents have occurred the mass of timber has covered the ocean for a distance of many miles, and has formed a very dangerous menace to navigation. For this reason an effort has been made by other transportation companies to hu re a law passed in the states of Washington and Oregon preventing the building of the sea rafts on the ground that they are a menace to navigation. Thus far the agitators of this movement have been unsuccessful. Women's Honesty.?Here is another feather to be worn proudly In the cap of the weaker sex. A man who had Just moved into a boarding house stepped into the nearest stationery store and left an order for a newspaper to be delivered at his address every morning. "One week's payment in advance, please," said the stationer. "What!" exclaimed the man. "One week in advance! Why, I never heard of such a thing. That is outrageous." "It is a rule In this neighborhood, Just the same," said the dealer. The man continued to get madder and madder. "What kind of a blufT is that" he said. "Why, I know a girl in our house who left an order here yesterday and you didn't ask her for advance payment." "Oh, well," said the proprietor, "she was a woman. We're not afraid to trust women. You see, this Is a boardKntitm n a I rr Vi /l Pnnnlfl Ortmft and they go. Here today, there tomorrow. Sometimes they pay bills, sometimes they don't. Very often they don't, that is, the men don't It is the easiest thing in the world to move away leaving these little bills unsettled, and many men would slip away if they had the chance. But not the women. They are conscientious in such matters. Most women who live in a boarding house neighborhood are business women, and they are honest to the core. Ask anybody around here. They can get credit at the stationer's, the shoemaker's, the grocer's, any ?Md place. Men have to pay cash."? New York Sun. sxr It takes a man with a lot of brass to dispose of a gold brick. AN ORDINANCE. Exempting Certain Manufacturing Establishments from the Payment of Municipal Taxes, except for School Purposes, in the Town of Yorkville, for a period of Five Years from the Establishment of the Same, and Ordering an Election upon the Ratification of said Ordinance. BE It ordained, by the Mayor and Aldermen, the Town Council of the Town of Yorkville: Section 1. That from and after the passage of this Ordinance and its ratification by the qualified electors of said town, at an election to be hereinafter provided for, all manufacturing establishments whose weekly pay roll shall amount to at least fifty dollars, established within the corporate limits of the Town of Yorkville after the passage and ratification of this Ordinance, shall be exempt from the payment of all municipal taxes, except for School purposes, for a period of Five Years from the date of such establishment. Sec. 2. That an election is hereby ordered to be held upon the question of the ratification of this Ordinance at Yorkville on the 26th day of June, 1907, said election to be conducted by the following named managers, to wit: W. Thompson Jackson, T. W. Clawson and C. H. Sandifer, the polls to be opened at 8 o'clock in the forenoon, and to remain open until 4 o'clock in the afternoon, and the polls \to be established in the Court House in said town. Sec. 3. At said election only quali 5 nkn II Ko n llntl'orl f A \Tf\tCk llt'U CICVJIUIO snail UC (Uiuntu V.U *w?v, and those voting in favor of ratifying will vote on a ballot containing the following: "Shall Manufacturing Establishments be Exempt from Municipal Taxes for Five Years? 'YES.'" Those opposed to ratification shall vote on a ballot containing the following: "Shall Manufacturing Establishments be Exempt from Municipal Taxes for Five Years? 'NO.'" Sec. 4. 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