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tumorous Jlcpartmcnt. The Fault of the Boots.?That a smaJl man can fill a large opening is demonstrated by Taylor Holmes of ? "The Million" company, according to Young's Magazine, in the following story: ' "As a sergeant was bawling out his < orders the other day at barracks and i watching the line of feet as the raw j recruits endeavored to obey the word of command, he found, to his astonish- , ment, that on? pair of feet, more noticeable on account of their extra i large size, never turned. Without tak- | ine his eve off them the sergeant shout- i ed a second order. 'About face." "He could see that all the feet except those he was watching turned In obedience. Rushing up to the owner, * a little fellow, he seized him by the shoulders, shouting: " 'Why don't you turn with the rest?' " 'I did,' replied the trembling recruit "'You did, eh? Well, I watched your feet and they never moved.' " 'It's the boots they gave me, sir.' 'They're so large that when I turn my feet turn in them.'" Wasn't a success as a salesman.? The young man who was down and out ( to the point of desperation was offered a Job by an installment house. This i house made a specialty of eight-day ( clocks, which could be had for a small , payment down and a small payment , each week. The young man admitted | that he never had tried canvassing, but j with one of the large clocks under his j arm, he gamely started out to make a ( house to house visit , At the first house a hard faced wo- ( man met him at the door. The young man downed the lump in his throat , and asked nervously: "Madam, have you a clock?" j "Yes, I've got a clock," snapped the > woman, surmising the mission of the j UOJ1V CU95XJ-J . Her riotous response completely unnerved the new canvasser. "All right, all right," he answered quickly. "Will you tell me the time? I want to set this one." Then he went back and quit.?Kansas City Star. How He Saved the Day.?There bright young men were spending their vacation in camp, and they had agreed to draw lots to determine which one should do the cooking. It was also agreed that if any one should complain about the food he should be required to take the cook's place. In the drawing, Harrison, the young doctor, lost, and cheerfully set about his cullinaxy duties. When the toast was placed on the table, Griggs, the law student, gave it a look and yelled: "Ye gods and little fishes! this toast is burned to a charcoal on one side? but that's the very way I like it though, t fine, fine!"?From Norman E. Macks National Monthly. . . Both in a Hurry.?"Now, judge," said Blldad, "I wish you would expedite this case as much as you can. I am in a great hurry"? "Sure," said the justice. "Lemme see ?I gotta do some hayin' this afternoon, and thar's a taown-meetin' tomorrer that I cal'late'll last all day; an' Thursday I gotta go over to Blabbs Corners to an auction sale?I guess we'll get raound to you abaout Tuesday of next week, onless ye'll save time by plead in' guilty." "Oh, well?all right," retorted Blldad. "I'm guilty. What's the penalty?" "Waal, raound here we're makin' an example o' speeders, mister,' said the ' dge. Ten days in the county jail."? arper's Weekly. A London Wedding.?Passing through the East End of London, a tourist ob served a great crowa 01 costers wuivuing a young couple entering a church, obviously with the intention of committing matrimony. Feeling inquisitive and wondering who the couple were to command the presence of so many of their clan, the countryman turned to an urchin near by. The small boy solemnly scratched his head for a full minute, as though contemplating his reply. "Well, gove'nor," he remarked at length, "I ain't puffectly sure,- but I flnle it's the bloke and the gal wot's dressed up like 'am bones!"?London Opinion. Mrs. Murphy's Idea.?There were two suitors after Mary Ann Murphy's hand. One was Grocer O'Flaherty, whom her father and mother strongly urged her to marry, and the other was Saloon Keeper Finnegan. Mary herself favored the latter and married him despite all her father and mother could say and do. One day after she was settled in her new home she came down to see her parents and exhibited a new gold watch her husband had given her. . "Ah!" said her mother disapproving ly. "If ye took my dewice and your father's dewice, Mary Ann, 'tisn't a gould watch ye'd be havin' in yer pocket but a good eight-day clock."?Judge. ^ How They Did It.?An old farmer and his wife lived near the village church. One warm Sunday evening, while they sat dozing on the porch, the crickets set up a loud chirping. "I Just love that chirpin" noise," said the old man drowsily, and before the crickets had stopped he was fast asleep. Soon afterward the church choir broke into a beautiful chant. "Just listen to that!" exclaimed his wife, "ain't it beautiful?" "Yes," murmured the old farmer sleepily, "they do It with their hindlegs."?Ladles' Home Journal. Acted Worse Than the Horse.?The old lady from the country and her small son were driving to town when a huge automobile bore down upon them. The horse was badly frightened and began to prance, whereupon the old lady leaped down and waved wildly to the chauffeur, screaming at the top of her voice. The chauffeur stopped the car ard * offered to help get the horse past. "That's all right," said the boy, who remained composedly in the carriage, "I can manage the horse. You just leJd mother past."?Ladies' Home Journal Didna Look It.?A photographer who had taken Dr. Ian Maclaren's picture destroyed the negative. When there was a considerable demand for the picture the photographer's Scotch X heart was disturbed, and he remarked aggrieved: "That man micht haetell't me he was famous and I would have keep't him. He didna look like it."? Christian Register. ijftiscdtonfous grading. DEATH TRAPS OF THE OCEAN. 5?a Graveyards of Ships and Sailors reared by the Mariners. They have terrible titles many ot these reels and shoals which fringe jur British coasts. What coutd be more tuli of deadly signllicance than burial Island, the Black Middens, boinng Keel', Iron Rock Bedge, the shambles, Wolt Rock and ihe Mouse irapv yet, as it happens, no one of these seven Is more than locally intamous. With one or two exceptions, the most dangerous spots around our shores are not beaconed on the chart by words of plain Ill-omen. 1 he danger from any special reef or shoal is not to be judged by Its inherent deadliness, but by its proximity to one ot the great ocean highways. Did the shambles lie at the mouth of the Mersey it would doubtless more than ueserve Its significant title. On#the other hand, were the Goodwins a hundred miles to the northeast or southwest of their actual position, the toll they levy upon traffic would be far less terrible than is actually the case. It is these sands, the Goodwins, which hold the unenviable record of causing greater destruction to shipping than any other reef, sand or shoal in the world. For many years this insatiable sea monster, whose tawny back lies in the sea for full ten miles along the Kentish coast, has been responsible for an average of at least one wreck a month. And this has hep'n the case for eight long cen turies, back to the year 1099, when the sea swallowed up what before that date was the fair and fertile Isle of Lomea and turned It Into a vast stretch of sunken sands. Very rarely does a vessel onc6 fairly ashore upon the Goodwins escape. They are quicksands, capable of swallowing any ship, no matter what her size. A few years ago the great iron sailing ship Mersey, homeward bound trom South America with a cargo of 1,400 tons of logwood, struck the sands on a Sunday morning and broke her back. Within three days she was gone, and the sands had closed over her, leaving not even a topmast to mark her grave. Another sailing ship i>f equal size, the Hazelbank, was swallowed in similar fashion a year or two previously; her mainmast was unbroken, and it was a weird sight to ivatch the tall stick sink lower day by day, until at last, when only a few feet were left, a gale tore the last relic iway. Somewhere down In the deepest hea t of the Goodwins lies a large part of Good Queen Anne's -navy. In :he great storm of the 26th of Novem>er, 1703, thirteen stout men-of-war ?vere driven upon the Goodwins and ltterly destroyed. Twelve hundred jfflcers and men perished with them. All those sandbanks which fringe :he mouth of the Thames claim heavy :oll of shipping. Never a year goes >y but sees two to five wrecks upon he Gunfleet. Farther north the Bar ow and Buxey constitute serious dangers; while the Sunk, the Swin Midlie and the Kentish Knock are all lames of ill omen to ship owners and nasters. The Brake Sand off the Kent :oast has also an ugly reputation, ind in one recent year no fewer than ilxteen vessels went aground there, rhe Essex shoals are most of them, lard sand, so hard that when a black inr'ooctar nlloa t Ho r?nlH Slirf fif thp S'orth sea over their treacherous shallows a grounded vessel is hamnered to pieces almost as rapidly as f wedged upon solid rocks. New;ome Sand, off the Suffolk coast, is mother death-trap. The yearly averige of victims to the Newcome is ?lght. If a reef obstructs the entrance to in important harbor it can be blasted iway. New York so disposed of Hell 3ate some twenty years ago; but to jet rid of silt or salt is a very different matter. Dredge as he may, man :annot Control the set of currents or the ebb and flow of tides. By constant hard work and heavy expenditure Liverpool has made a well-nigh perfect harbor of the Mersey, yet Hoyle Sands still remain a menace to Liverpool bay. For the past ten years he yearly average of vessels stranded on Hoyle Sands is sixteen. This ictually exceeds the number of the Goodwins' victims, yet Hoyle Sands do lot really compare with the former is a danger spot. The number of to:al wrecks is lower and the loss of life, smaller than upon the Kentish coast. There is hardly another reef upon jur shores which is so well known to he public at large as the Manacles, rhese formidable rocks lurk bihfnd :he .Lizard, upon its northern s! '.e; ind ' before the Lizard lighthouse was ?rected they 'toere the scene of wellligh countless wrecks. The Manacles ire dangerous not only from their position, but from the wide area over vhich they extend. They cover, it is said, more than 700 acres, yet at high ivater nnlv a sin?rlf? hlnolr nl.ina.rlf> is risible. For another thing, there is leep water close up to their very edges, and there are few spots where currents run more swiftly than along :hese iron-bound coasts. The Manacles are responsible for two of the nost famous wrecks of modern times, rhe first was that of the Mohegan. She was a steamer of 8,000 tons burlen, nearly new, and engaged in the passenger and cattle service between London and New York. She left Uravesend the 13th of October, 1898, ind down channel ran into squally veather. But the sky was quite clear, ind to this day it remains a mystery Pow it came about that at 7 the next evening she struck one of the outer ocks of the Manacles. At the time ?he was steaming full fourteen knots, ind the force of the collision was so :erriflc that it must have ripped the very bottom out of her. She sank in uieeii nuiiuies anu ui lue 190 pctast-ii?ers who were aboard only 53 were *aved. Captain Griffith went to the bottom with his ship. Two years later the steamship Paris, >ne of the six finest and swiftest vessels then afloat, ran upon the Manicles near the same spot, and also, iddly enough, in comparatively fine .veather. There she lay for six long veeks literally impaled upon sharp nags. Hope of saving her had almost >een abandoned, when at last the divers succeded in blasting away the pinlacles which had pierced her; and now, thirteen years later, the Paris, jnder another name and with new entines, is still carrying passengers and argo. The Montagu disaster called the atention of the nation, and it is to be loped of the government also, to the langers of Lundy island. And not "or the first time. So long ago as 1858 a Royal Commission reported 'pon the necessity for constructing a icrbor of refuge in the Bristol chan nel; and again in 1887 the matter was brought before the house of commons. Such a harbor would only cost about ?500,000, or less than half the value of the magnificent battleship which was cast away upon the Shutter Rock. "Fatal" Lundy, the Island has been called; and lying as it does so near the track of the vast tonnage which uses Bristol and other Severn ports, it has more than earned its name. Lundy is about three and a half miles long by a mile wide, and possesses'somd of the most imposing I cliffs in the British Isles. Dark gran-1 ite precipices tower in places to a height of GOO feet above the waves, and the whole island has only one possible landing place, a little pebbly beach at the southeast corner. Atlantic gales concentrated like a funnel in the British channel cause the most | terrific seas upon Lundy's western side; and as the worst winds usually blow first from the southwest and then shift to northwest, it often happens that vessels which have taken shelter behind Lundy suddenly find themselves upon a lee shore. For sailing vessels such a position is almost invariably fatal. Lundy's powers of destruction are simply appalling, as was proved during the latter part of that year of gales, 1886. Between the 1st of September and the 31st of December of that year more than forty vessels and nearly 300 lives were lost on or near Lundy. Next to Lundy the most perilous point upon our western coast is probably the South Stack. This is a gigantic, egg-shaped rock which stands detached from the mainland near Holyhead. Its seaward side overhangs so greatly as to give the impression that the whole vast mass is toppling over. A lighthouse is perched upon the lofty summit of the South Stack, yet in fog its beam is quite frequently lr?Hclhla frnm holnw The Old Baltic. predecessor of the present White Star giant, Is perhaps the only vessel that ever went ashore on the South Stack and got off unharmed. ; Upon the Irish coast Fastnet Is without doubt the most dangerous part. Lying as it does just at the southwest corner of Ireland, and in the very path of all the transatlantic traffic, this enormous horn-shaped rock rising straight out of deep-water has been responsible for disasters almost innumerable. As is the case with the South Stack, a vessel ashore at Fastnet Is as good as lost. There are only two records of escapes. Some fifteen years ago the City of Rome ran upon Fastnet in a fog and got oft, though sorely damaged; and a year or two earlier the big Cunarder Aurania had a similar experience. Luckily for her, she was creeping along with barely steerageway, so she managed to back off In safety. Ask a sailor what is the worst danger spot In the world's oceans and he will unhesitatingly reply, Sable Island. This strange crescent of sand lies 90 miles southeast of Cape Canso, ofT the coast of Nova Scotia. It Is about 23 miles long and at no point much over a mile wide. It is composed entirely of sand, and all around sandy bars stretch far out to sea, and shift and change with every tide and storm, making accurate charting impossible. Where one day the water is deep enough for an ocean liner, a month later are shallows insufficient to float a fishing smack. The four-thousandton steamer Moravia, one of the wellnigh countless victims of Sable Island, was lost upon a new reef fully twelve miles north of the island, and, as may .well be Imagined, the modern skipper does his best to keep completely out of sight of this ocean graveyard. Within the past fifty years more than 200 fine vessels are known to have been lost upon Sable Island, and probably half as many again which have never been reported. Everything combines to make Sable Island a death-trap of the worst possible kind. It lies so low, and, having no trees upon it, is so nearly the color of the waves that it is invisible at a compar atlvely slight distance, and, though vessels crossing the Atlantic easily avoid it, yet the heavy ^oastwise traffic must be between it and the mainland. The region is one of the foggiest in the world, and often, when a captain has carefully estimated his position and given the island what he considers to be a wide berth, he finds too late that he is entangled among the hydra-like tentacles of the farstretching sandbars. It was John Cabot who discovered Sable Islands in the year 1497, and one of the first wrecks upon its shoals was Sir Humphrey Gilbert's ship Delight. Her officers and over 100 men were lost. The wreck of the Delight is described in Hakluyt's Voyages (1583). Plainly, from that quaint old chronicle, Sable, (or Sabla, as the island was then called), at that date possessed as many perils as it does today. "Thursday, the 28th," says the writer, "the wind arose and blew vehemently from the south and east, bringing withal rain and thick mist, that we could not see a cable length before us. And betimes we were run and fouled armongst flats and sands, amongst which we found flats and deeps every three or four ships' lengths." Very many French vessels were lost on Sable during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and in 1799 the British transport Francis, on her way to Halifax, went aground on these deadly sands and was lost with all on board. This wreck was notable because the Francis was conveying to America tne wnoie equipage or rne Duke of Kent, Queen Victoria's father. Horses, plate, furniture?everything was lost. His Royal Highness's surgeon, several officers of his household, his coachman and gardener, all perished in this terrible disaster. A vessel sent by the duke to look for survivors or salvage was also wrecked on the same shoal and nearly all her crew drowned. In the center of Sable Island is a lagoon thirteen miles long, in which are to be seen the moldering wrecks of two fishing schooners. Incredible as it may appear, these vessels, with their crews safe aboard them, were carried bodily by enormous breakers across a wide strip of land Into this strange harbor of refuge. The Canadian government has now two ngntnouses ana a complete mesaving service upon Sable Island. There are four families, as well as a lifeboat crew, a cook, a teamster, a cowherd and others?in all about forty people. The lighthouses were built in 1873, but before that date the lot of those cast ashore on the stormswept sandbanks was indeed a cruel one. They did not starve, for there were wild ponies and seals and berries on the island, but there was absolutely no shelter, and a winter gale in these latitudes is not to be lightly faced even by strong men, well fed and warmly clad. If Sable Island sandbanks are the most deadly In the world, the rocks of Cape Race are second only In evil notoriety. Cape Race Is the southern extremity of Newfoundland, and ihe shortest route between New York, Roston, Quebec?in fact, all the eastern American ports and England and the north of Europe lies past this lrowning headland. Although nowadays the great New York liners take a more southerly course, yet nearly 4,01)0 vessels of all kinds pass yearly within sight of the cape. Cape Race is so near the meeting ground of the warm Gulf Stream and < -UI1U/1 nrmnK c^nla IIIC Itc-ttuucu vuliciih n iiicu OICU'U down from the Arctic that It is perhaps the worst place In the world for fog; also, the currents themselves are suttlclently powerful to deflect even well-engined steamers from their course, and, worse, still, they are constantly shifting. Add to these dangers that the cliffs of Cape Race are fringed with terrible reefs, and absolutely without harbors or even landing places, and it will be easily understood that the cape is equally hated and feared by sailors all over the world. Within the past half century Cape Race has claimed on an average two ocean-going vessels yearly, besides innumerable smaller craft The value of these vessels is estimated- at ?6,500,000, and the loss of life nas been upward of 2,000. In 1899 two large vessels went ashore on the rock under Cape Race in one day, and both were totally lost. In 1910 ten vessels were wrecked there, eight of which were steamers. Thetr average value was ?40,000 apiece. So notorious is Cape Race as a destroyer of ships that the fishermen who live along the coast make more by salvage work than they do by fishing, and there is not a cottage or farm house for miles but is full of relics of wrecks, ancient and modern. Owing to the nature of the cliffs, which in most places are not merely perpendicular, but actually overhang deep water, the difficulty in saving life from the frequent wrecks is very great. When the British transport Harpooner went ashore off Cape Race In the winter of 1816 only 64 out of 380 got to land. Of 444 souls on the Ill-fated steamer Anglo-Saxon, which ran upon the rocks near Chance Cove in 1863, 317 were drowned. Four years later the George Washington was lost with all hands near the same spot. This was a terrible business. The steamer ran ashore in a snowstorm at the base of a sheer cliff more than 300 feet in height Fishermen on the top could plainly see the wreck and watch the hungry waves snatching their victims one by one. Yet owing to the enormous height of the precipice and the fury of the storm it was a sheer impossibility to render aid. Besides Sable Island's shoal a^d the currents and cliffs of Cape Race, there is another reason why the northwestern portion of the Atlantic is the most perilous to shipping of any ocean in the world. The modern steamer has no fear of the huge waves off the Cape of Good Hope; she rides out with equal ease the West Indian cyc one or the typhoon of the China faus. But neither mind nor machinery can avail upon a fog-clad sea where swim at random uncharted islands of ice. From March to Apgust ?that is to say, during most of the busiest months of the transatlantic snipping"?ice may ue mei uuuuoi any where in the North Atlantic, but more particularly on the Grand Banks and near the coast of Newfoundland. It was because of the peril's arising from Icebergs that in 1897 all the principal steamships sailing to and from New York abandoned the direct or "grand circle" route, and now take a longer but safer passage to the south. Ice accidents would require an article, indeed, a volume, to themselves. Still fresh in our memories Is the awful disaster which overtook the Titanic, that giant of the ocean, which, though believed to be unslnkable, was sent to the bottom by a glancing collision with a great iceberg. It was a piece of the cruelest ill-luck that the blow was a glancing one. Had she rammed the ice full with her bows the chances are that she would have survived. There are two cases on record ol large liners hitting ice at full speed and yet arriving safe in port The first was that of the Arizona. She left New York for Liverpool In November, 1879, and about 250 milee east of St. John's rammed an iceberg. She was the fastest ship then afloat, and was going over seventeen knots at the time. For a few moments there was a fearful panic. Every one believed she was going down; but the forward bulkhead held, and thirty-six hours later she staggered safely into St. John's. In September, 1890, the City of Home, with no fewer than 1,600 human souls aboard, had a similar experience, save that in this case the berg was one of the smaller sort known as a "growler." Her bows were stove, but her bulkheads held, and she reached port safely. Ice drifts much farther to the south than most people would believe to be possible. Great masses of ice have been sighted a little north of the thirtieth parallel of latitude, so far to the south as a line drawn from the northern coast of Africa to Charleston, S. C., but the chief danger zone is a great irregular semi-oval running southeast of Newfoundland so far as the thirty-eighth degree of north latitude.?Chambers' Magazine. Testimony of the Blind.?Before the trial was half ended it was apparent that most credence was placed in the fDotimnnv fnr tViA dpfpndent. "That Is because he has two blind men testifying for him," said a man who has served on many juries. "When it comes to a question of memory the word of a blind man goes further in a courtroom than of a person with good eyes. It is with the jurymen that his testimony really counts, bul the judge and lawyers are also impressed. This is taking into consideration, of course, that the blind man has a reputation for veracity. We assume that with the loss of one faculty others have developed. Whal a man cannot see he hears and hit mind stores up. Our faith in the retentiveness of a blind man's memory has been frequently Justified. Where a person with all his senses would become confused and testify vaguely the blind man can repeat a conversation verbatim."?New York Press. And many a married woman thinks it is up to her to assert her independence by abusing her husband. iti'i' Insane |>eople haven't a monopoly on cracked heads; the peacemaker acquires one occasionally. WORKING IN RAILWAY MAIL CAR Clerks Who Sort Letters While Going 60 Miles an Hour Must Memorize 1,500 Postoffices. The fast mall flyer Is the pet of the railway service. Not even the limited passenger trains, nor the "specials" hired for unusual purposes by millionaires, can Interfere with or sidetrack the "fast mall." Tnrougn tne DiacK nigni u goes scurrying across the country, mark, ing time between cities with clocklike regularity, to deliver our letters at i the breakfast table or to hurry to our office business communications that mean so much to us. A mile a minute is practically the Standard time for the "fast malls," an average speed that must be maintained In spite of stops and slowdowns. Consequently this often means, a much greater speed along certain clear stretches of road where lost minutes . must be made up. The fast mall Is the pet of the postoffice department also, and only picked men are in charge of It It is a traving postofflce In every sense of the word. The train usually consists of four cars carrying nothing but mall, amounting sometimes to fifty and more tons. The engine Is one of the biggest moguls of the railroad Bervlce, a veritable monster of Iron and steel, car, rylng ten tons of coal and 6,000 galt Ions of water. When the bulging sacks of mail are : thrown aboard and the conductor gives i the signal to start exactly on the minute, the gaunt, angular engine puffs and snorts, and starts forth on its swift journey. Besides a picked train . crew there are fifteen or more trained clerks riding in the mail cars. Their , business begins the Instant the mail Is aboard. Fifty tons of mail to be sorted and delivered at various points along the route while running at sixty miles an hour! That seems like an almost incredible achievement, but it is being done every night and day of the year. While most of us'are sleeping the railway clerks are toiling. The inside of a railway postofflce , looks for all the world like an ordinary country postofflce, with its boxes and , pigeon-holes, with the exception of certain additions wnich are necessary for the good of the service. For one thing, there are sometimes series of racks which hold open mail sacks, and into these the clerks dispatch their mail as they fly across the land. One of these sacks must be dropped off perhaps 30 or 40 minutes from the starting point, and there is always a hurry and bustle to get this particular sack "tied out" in time. The work of the railway clerk is hard and exacting, and he must qualify for the position through study and application. It may be said that it is the ambition of about every clerk In the postofflce department to get into the railway postofflce service. It is not because the pay is so great, but because most young men like the novelty of sorting letters while traveling sixty miles an hour in preference to ^Alnw I* in a ototInnortr n/ratnfflpo UV/1II5 * I 111 Or UiMklUilUi J pVBbVUlVVi When he gets Into the railway ser, vice he will receive a salary of <800 a year, and in time, when he getathe , full appointment, this will be raised to <900. From that time on his promotion , Is according to merit. ! Each promotion generally means an increase of <100 a year in wages until i he may be drawing <1,200 to <1,400. i After that he must wait and work for i the position of clerk in charge of the mail cars on which he is working. He I is at the head of all the other clerks then and his pay is <1,600. 1 But the limit of his ambition need not stop there. If he qualifies for it, and there is a vacancy, he may beap pointed for merit only to the position Ul L'uici t icrn ixi cnai 5c ui vuc uu?o running through his particular part of the country. For this he receives , $1,800, and he may eventually receive 1 $2,000 a year as assistant division superintendent, or $3,000 as division su1 perlntendent. According to the requirements of 1 the law, an aspirant for a position in 1 the railway postofflce service may be 1 anywhere between 18 and 35 years of age. He must take his examinations ! and pass with high marks to secure his I first foothold in the service. After that 1 his advancement depends upon him1 self and circumstances. But by the time a railway postof1 flee clerk has reached the salary of , $1,200 a year he must have developed a somewhat phenomenal memory. To 1 secure this position he must memorize ! Hume l,DUlf poaiuilltra ui1 mo hue. That of itself is not an easy Job, but i It is rendered more difficult by the ne: cesslty of knowing the different couni ties and railroads and Junction points. He must also keep accurate track of ' all the railroad time tables and their changes which affect his district. The railway clerks become so fai miliar with their route that they can : tell by "the feel of the road" where i they are, and this helps them to prepare the different sacks in time. Without looking up from their work they know by the grades, curves and i crossings just where they are, and i they judge ' the speed of the train through the same sixth sense. Consei quently one clerk will often make his decision wh.en rounding a curve that he cannot unaided prepare his sack , for the next junction, and he will call ; upon one of the others to help him. i Arranged in tiers on one side of each car there are more than 140 pigeonKaIa la roaorvoH fY?r anmn I HUICO. rjav.ll IIUJC IO ICOVt T V\4 ftva MV...V special town or city on the way, and the clerks shuffle and assort the let1 ters with great rapidity, flipping the ' letters into their respective holes. It ' seems almost incredible that any one could become so deft in reading the ' letters without making errors. ' The traveling postofflce clerks do 1 not read names or the streets and numbers of addresses, but simply the 1 town, and occasionally the county if 1 there are two towns of the same name 1 in adjoining counties. It is this which ' makes the sorting so rapid. The towns and cities on their route are as familiar to them as the names of 1 states may be to the average school: boy, and the letters go swiftly and | dexterously into their proper places. Occasionally a letter turns up so ' badly written that the first clerk falls to decipher it. Immediately It is passed on to the next, and so on down the line ! until every one has failed to decipher the scrawl which somebody Intended ' for the name of a town or city. Finally, after running the battery of sharp eyes, the letter is chucked in a hole marked "Nixies," which in plain i language means "illegibles." Before it finally goes to the Dead Letter Office at Washington the clerks in their r more leisure moments may give an other try at the address. The railway clerks are so efficient in | their work that, according to statistics, not more than one out of about every 12,000 pieces handled by them goes wrong, and probably not more than one out of every 100,000 letters handled by the clerks fails to And its destination eventually. A point not always appreciated by an outsider Is that the railway clerks sort their mail with the Idea of making it reach its destination In the shortest possible time, and this often means a great amount of quick mental calculation. Yet, after all, it is practice and experience that make the clerks efficient and reliable. Day after day and night after night they read over the same towns, cities and villages, and their minds with almost automatic precision respond to the Impressions made on the eyes. No man could stop and think o.* all the towns and hope to finish hi* day's work In time. That subconscious self of ours comes to the assistance of the memory and enables us to do marvelous things without conscious thought The railway postoffice clerks must work at high pressure when on duty. But when the mail is finally sorted and the last bag tied out they relax and forget all the difficulties of their Job. They may enjoy the railroad ride then as the train In the early dawn steams into the last city on the route. ?Christian Endeavor World. MISSOURI WAR COURTHOU8E Used by Confederates as Legislative Hall, by Federals as Fort. By voting bonds for $40,000, to which iifl 11 KA o rl rl AH A Knnn a A# t1rt AAA Anl _ ?in uc auu^u u uuiiuo v& f av|vvv vv? lected by the citizens of Cassville, Berry county, Kansas, is to have a new court house and the old building, which is a relic of the civil war, will pass into history. The old court house, which was a two-story brick building, was used by both the Union and Confederate armies. Had the fight not been so warm in this section the Confederates might have claimed it by right of discovery, for they were the first to occupy it The building was first used by the Confederates as a meeting place for the legislature which was convened here October 31, 1861, after being driven out of Neosho by the approach of the Federal army, says the Kansas City Star. It was at this session the state was seceded from the Union, and much other important business was transacted. The articles of secession were written and introduced by the late Senator George Graham Vest. The meeting was attended by 77 members, W. S. McConnell, the member of the legislature from this county, being forced to attend to. make the quorum. Mr. McConneli's refusal to attend at first was because of the fear of the Federal troops and sympathisers, who were in this country in great numbers. Governor Claiborne F. Jackson, who was elected governor in 1860, was at the meeting, and after the acts of secession were passed made a speech from the south door of the old court house, informing the people of the action of the legislature and notifying the people that they then composed a part of the Southern Confederacy. Senator Vest also delivered an address. The session lasted for eight days, adjourning November 7 because of the approach of the Federal troops, to meet in New Madrid in March 1862. ine meeung ai ?ew oiaanu wu never held, however. During the meeting of the legislature the command of General Sterling Price was stationed at Fort Hill, on which is now located the Cas8vllle high school building. The old court house is perhaps the oldest one in the state, having been constructed in 1854. At this time the building was composed of but two stories. A third story was added later. The court house was used by the Federal troops after having been occupied by the Confederates, for a store room and later turned into a fort, logs being rolled at the outer edge of the yard. Portholes also were cut in the building. The Federals, with a large force, controlled the town, which was a getaway into Arkansas and the south. Preachers on Grand Juries.?The Baptist Courier in a strong editorial on the outcome of a grand Jury experience advocatej putt'ng preachers on grand Juries. It says: "We could wish that our pastors could be put on the grand Juries of their counties. Many of them would render excellent service; and would get a new vision of the moral conditions of their communities that would profoundly affect their preaching for the better. Their sermons would immediately become modern. One of the greatest drawbacks to reform in every community is the profound ignorance of actual moral conditions on the part of the moral leaders of the community." We believe that the Courier is right. We certainly need the best men that can be gotten, not only on the grand Juries, but on the petit Juries as well. As it is, we are not getting them. In looking over the best of ( almost any jury one Is often surprised to find certain names on it. But there seems to be no remedy and the names of men not fit for Jury service continue to be used.?Greenwood Journal. tH" The thief may be strictly temperate, yet he is nearly always taking something. ONE MINUJ Your personal appearance is c cause of the favorable impres business people with whom y< were not true, would not a $5. as well as would a $25.00 suil the $25.00 garment, don't you! How About Your P It Is Your Personal I you are unable to do business i marks of Cheapness and Poor bad impression on the man y That's reasonable, is it not? Better give THE YOR] your next order for Stationer Printed Matter of a Quality tl sion. The difference in cost ENQUIRER QUALITY is v appearance is very great. 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INSURANCE and REAL ESTATE Ws Are Prepared to Handle All Kinds of Insurance? pi d rr rinti Life, accident, HEALTH, TORNADO, LIVE 8TOCK, EMPLOYER8' LIABILITY. PLATE GLA88 and AUTOMOBILE. Any business entrusted to us will receive prompt and careful attention. Have had years of experience in In* surance matters and Rsprssant FirstClass Companies with Largs Resources. We make a specialty oC furnishing FIDELITY BOND8 on short notice. Parties having REAL E8TATE TO 8ELL OR EXCHANGE, Or who wish to buy property, will do well to see us FIRST. Write or rail on ui for anv informs. tlon In our lines. J. R. Lindsay & Go. FOR SALE 209 Acres.?F. L. Lynn, Robinson place. Large eight room house, big barn, cribs, two tenant houses, three rooms each. Fine pasture?40 or SO acres; three wells, two springs. Five miles from Sharon. Ten miles from TorkvlIIe. Flva horse farm open. For a qulnck purchase f12?0 an acre. This Is a fine place for a home, and a big proposition for rent 109j Acres of Land?near Tlrxah. Has a good house with live rooms, and three tenant houses. A fine place. 60 1-2 Acres of Land?Five miles from Clover. Has a nice, new building, and a good orchard. Forty-One Acres?Of land, one mile from Filbert Property of Q. R. Alexander. A fine proposition. 130 Acres?6 piles west of the city of Rock Hill. Joining farms of A. E. Willis, John Mcllwalne and W. 1* Plexloo. This Is one of the best producing farms per acre in Ebenezer township; good pasture, hog wire; 3 horse farm open; dwelling has 5 rooms; good tenant house with S rooms. Property of Johnson Cameron. For prices apply to J. C. Wilborn, Yorkville, fi. C. liS Acres?The Holmes Place; Joining Holbrooke Good, Ed Thomas sad others; s nice new cottage, C rooms, good barn; also a nice 6 room house and store room, barn, etc. Located at cross roads. Good land at the low price of 94,200. 177 Acres Property of Marlon B. Love, three miles from Sharon station and six miles from Torkvllle; SO acres in cultivation, balance In timber. Some of the finest oak timber in York county on this place. Price $17.00 per aore. 961-2 Acres?Joins J. B. Scott. Ed Sandlfer and depot grounds at Philadelphia; 75 acres in cultivation; 1 dwelling house, 4 rooms; 9 tenant houses. Property of J. P. Barnes. A great bargain. 166 Acres?In' Ebenezer township; 1 mile of Newport, 1 mile of Tirsah church. A nice 2-story, 7-room dwelling; several good tenant houses. High state of cultivation. Wilson Huey. 1012-3 Acres Joining McGlll store at Bethany, fronting King's Mountain road: 1 dwelling. 6 rooms; barn, cot ton house and crib; property of Char* lie Douglass. This is a cheap bargain and can be bought at once. 331*2 Acres?On King's Mountain road, one mile from Bethany High School; land lies level; 17 acres in cultivation, balance in timber. A part of the Douglass tract 68 A ores?More or less, Joining C M. Inman, Norman Black and others. One mile from the incorporate limits of Yorkville. About 36 acres clear, balance in timber. One 3-room bouse, good barn, etc. 159 Acres?1 dwelling; 5 rooms; 70 acres in cultivation; 60 acres in timber; 2 1-2 miles of Smyrna; 1 tenant house, new, with 4 rooms; good barn, crib, lumber and buggy house. Property of H. M. Bradley. Price, 93,000.00. 160 Acres?Joining Mrs. Mattle Nichols, T. J. Nichols and others. The property of L. R. Williams. Price, $21.00 an Acre. 110 Acres?3| miles of 8haron; 1 dwelling house, 2 tenant houses, good barn: half mile of Sutton SDrlngs school. Splendid Farm. A Nice Cottage Home?In the town of Smyrna; 6 rooms, situate* near the Graded school building. One of the best cottages In town. Price, 9*50. 300 Acres?Tom Gwln home, three miles of Sharon; S tenant houses; a large brick residence, worth twothirds of the whole price of the farm, for $3,800. 319 Acree?Joins R. B. Hartneea, If. B. Love and others. 1 House, 1-story, 6 rooms; 5 tenant houses, all well finished; 1 5-room, 4 3-room; good barn, double crib; hydraulic ram running water to house; 3 good pastures; 111 acres under cultivation; 160 in timber. Prioe upon application. Property of John T. Feemster. 20 Acres?At Filbert One-story house, 4 rooms; one-half red and other sandy. Prioe, $1,00040. 11 Acres Joins L. Ferguson, Frank Smith, J. W. Dobson. 1 house, 1-story, 1 rooms. Price, $1,30040. 220 Acres?Near King's Mountain Battleground; 1 house, 1-story, seven rooms, New; 26 acres under cultivation, balance in timber; I miles from King's Creek. Good new barn, dressed lumber; 2 tenant houses, 2 rooms each. Price, $15.75 per Aore. 200 Acres?Fronting public road, 1story 4-room house; 4 horse farm open; 76 acres in timber; 2 miles from Roddey. Price, $3040 per Acre. Residence of J. J. Smith, deceased, in Clover, on King's Mountain street; 2 stories, 7 rooms; wood house; barn, cow stable; good garden; well for stock near barn. 75 Acres?Level land, 2i miles from Sharon; 1 house; 40 acres in cultivation. Price, $2040 per Aore. Walter G. Hayes. 57 Acres?2 miles of Hickory Grove; on public highway: fronting Southern railway. Pries, 120.00 an Acrs. 153 Acres?Joins T. W. Jackson, L. T. Wood and others; 1 2-story f-roora house; 1 tenant house, 4 rooms; t miles of Newport. Prioe, $21.00 Aore. A beautiful lot and residence of Mrs. Ada E. Faulconer. On East Liberty street, 100 feet front, about 400 feet deep; joins Rev. E. E. Gillespie and Hon. G. W. 8. Hart Price on Appli* cation. 369 Acres In Bamberg Co.?Joining lands of D. O. Hunter and B. P. Smoak; 126 acres in cultivation, balance in timber; at one of the finest schools in the county; 1-4 mile of church. Much of the land in this neighborhood produced 1 bale of cotton to the acre. Any one wishing a line bargain will do well to investigate it. 102 Acres, Fairfield Co.?Joining * lands of R, S. Dunbar. 4 miles of Woodward station. On Little river; 40 acres In cultivation. Price, $886.00. Do you want Bargains in Moore Co., N. C.7 See me and talk it over. J. C. WILBORN. BRATTON FARM. Phone No. 132. Two fine bred Bull Calves for sale at reasonable figures?Right blood to head a herd; also two full bred Guernseys and several Grade Cows. We want more customers for Cream and Milk. Stove Wood, split and sawed to length, delivered on short notice. J. MEEK BURNS, Manager.