Old I
p J The Heart Young j I
?|. By Beatrice Fairfax Miip
? u MfVlir - tun. -i j . ?
f?? -vw-w-ww? unvn a iuu? uiu wu in an or iv wooge neari is as young as
2 though she were in the twenties. Her hair is as white as
1 snow, but in her eyes there burns the flre and vim of youth.
2 12 She has worked hard all her life and has saved quite a
X J sum ?* money- **er Pe?Ple are anxious that she should stop
|mn m| working and live comfortably on her savings for the rest of
her days; but she says she is too young to give up work yet
IltlMim for a wh"eSo
she trots cheerfully about the kitchen. She is a cook,
and makes the beet pies in the country.
She has a keen sense of humor, and her laugh rings out a dozen times
a day as gay and merry as a girl's.
She likes to have young people about her, "For," she says, "Sure, Miss,
"we are all young together, and do be having a One time."
Dear little old woman! Her heart is as sweet and pure and kindly as
a baby's, and that is what keeps her so young. Time cocld not have the heart
to do other than deal gently with her.
. v~. wui kii &e?y young, ii you keep from getting into a rut and keep
your interest in people and things alive.
Gray hairs and wrinkles will come, but it is the spirit that really keeps
you young. If your heart gets dried and old it will show in your face, for
the eyes are the windows of the soul and the truest index to your character.
If you are an unmarried woman, don't sink into the typical old maid
existence.
Don't be kittenish. Nothing is more objectionable than the kittenish
worn sc. But keep young.
Keep abreast with the times. Be interested in young people and their
4otngs, and don't withdraw yourself into a shell of reserve.
Go out and visit your friends, and if you have ailments, keep them to
yourself.
Doat get into one way of doing things and Imagine that your way is the
only way; and don't fall to appreciate a joke, even when it is at your own
xpense.
Look for the sunshine of life, for nothing so preserves youth as cheer,
fulness.
The mere fact that you are over 50 need not make you an old man or
woman. If you take care of yourself and live sensibly, getting plenty of
sleep and fresh air, you will be able to hold Father Time at bay for yeara
Train vonrself tn t?Vo ? ?'?? ? *
. ? ? non ui mc. uoni worry over trifles,
and don't lose your temper. Frowns are great wrinkle builders.
I know that this is a true recipe for youth, for has not my little old
friend proved it??New York Evening Journal.
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I p The Bachelor Tax
^ By Walter C Michel ^
HAT, I wonder, do the lawmakers of Wisconsin, Iowa, Texas
. j????_ an(j other states, expect to accomplish by their bachelor
tax? If they think that they will benefit anybody by tell^
"W T ing a man that he must either marry or pay a tax, I think
that they are badly mistaken.
In the first place, why are there bachelors? Do they
_________ exist Just for the fun of the thing, because they don't want
a home, because they wont to be different from other people
or because they can live cheaper in that state? I think
not.
The main reasons they don't marry are twofold: First, they cannot afford
to keep a wife, and second, most of the marriageable women are not fit to
become wives.
Why can't they afford to keep a wife? Simply because the various trades
are so overrun with female labor that the man hasn't a chance,to earn a
man's wages. A woman's sphere is the home, a man's sphere is business.
Why are most of the marriageable women unfit to become wives? I am
mu m uuu v uiuw. it. uciuuui/ iau l me man s iauu tou a woman doesn't
know how to sew, cook, made a bed correctly, and in fact keep a house in
th* way a house should be kept.
Svery man likeB to have a home, a place where he may rest from his labors,
a wife and children to welcome him. Give a man a decent position
and a woman who knows how to run a home and he will get married every
time.
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f Felling a G Tree f
A By Clifton Johnson ^
>? ? ?? N the wooded shores of Puget Sound, Washington, the trees
X 1 sometimes have a diameter of a dozen feet. The cedars, in
X W X particular, reach a vast girth, and in the valley by the
X A $ roadside was one with a circumference at the ground of 63
feet, and nearby was another that had a Gothic arch cut
.. _uu.u.ue iuj a waii uu uurseuuCK.
lilllltitt ?u* tjL^e8t t1"??" are the firs. Two hundred feet Is a
?o?i?+.na very moderate height, and some shoot up to above three
hundred. The fall of one of the monsters when the woodsmen
have cut through its base is something appalling. As the tree begins to
give the sawyers hustle down from their perch and seek a safe distance.
Then they look upward along the giant column and listen. "She's workin'
all the time," says one.
"Yes," agrees the other, "you can hear her talkin';" and he gives a
loud cry of "Timber!" to warn any fellow laborers who may be in the neighborhood.
The creaking and snapping increase, and the tree swings slowly at first,
but soon with tremendous rapidity, and crashes down through the forest
to the earth. There is a flying of bark and broken branches, and the air is
filled with slow-settling dust. The men climb on the prostrate giant and walk
along the broad pathway of the trunk to see how it lies. What pigmies they
seem amid the mighty trees around! The ancient and lofty forest could
wall look down on them and despise their short-lived insignificance; yet their
persistence and ingenuity are irresistible, and the woodland Is doomed.?
The Outing Magazine.
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? The Child Must Have |
| Home Training [
M
^ By Percioal Chubb, of tha Ethical Culturm Soclmty ^
?.J.. UR old home culture, and, wrote still, the old home pieties,
n are disappearing. The church and Sunday school have not
U \^\ kept pace with modern pedagogy, and are losing their hold
V on society at large. In the Increase of boodlumlsm, divorce,
M^a4 . . n- child labor, luxury and extravagance, there is a relaxation
U V, J of moral muscle, and in distress we are turning to the schools
U to stem the tide of moral insufficiency. President Bitot said
. J1 spend more money for education; but it is 4 mistake. We
cannot transfer the duties of the home or of the church to
tte pehooi. In Ma social environment. In the time he spends out of school,
the thild gets more education or mineducatlon than be gets in It. Wc^have
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1?E NEWS IN 8MB
Items of Interest Gathered I
Wire and Cable
GLEANINGS FROM DAY TO DAI
Lire Items Corning Brents of Mor
or Less Interest st Home an<
Abroad.
By an act of Congress on Feb. Is
the windows of President Harrisoi
and President Cleveland may use th
mails free of postage for the balcnc
of their lives if their autographs b
placed on the letters.
The annex for the demented at th
county home of Rockingham, N. C
was burned on Tuesday and two age<
inmates were burned to death.
The State of Washington has loca
aption. Every incorporated town an<
every country district is a unit.
When Mr. Fairbanks was Vice
President he had an elaborate ink
stand made for his desk. On hearini
complaints of extravagance he' sent ii
his check for $200, which covered thi
cost and took it with him when he re
tired.
The federal grand jury in Ne*
York found a true bill for slande
against the New York World in th<
Panama affair.
South Carolina makes it bad en thi
man that drums for liquor orders.
Diplomatic relations wiih Nicara
I gua were practically broken off Fri
! day by the State Department, whicl
j ordered Secretary of Legation Greg
OrV at ManaotlR tn r?tnrn Vinmo
leaving the legation in charge of th<
consul, who will have no diplomats
capacity.
Six persons were hanged in Louisiana
for murder and one for crimina
assault March 5th.
Maj. Hale, editor of the Fayette
ville Observer, presented to the N. C
Supreme Court last week an oil painting
of Jno. De Rosett Toomer, whc
made the speech of welcome to Gen
LeFayette when he visited Fayetteville.
Editor Hale also published th<
speech and the General's response.
At this writing Gen. Butler ol
South Carolina, and Hon. Cyrus B
Watson of North Carolina, seem tc
be in the power of fatal sickness.
Preparations are being pushed foi
the 12th conference for education in
the South to be held in Atlanta, G&.;
on April 14, 15 and 16.
Telegrams received from Carinthia
Austria, report that a series of devastating
avealanches have occurred
there and that numbers of houses
have been swept away. It is already
known that ten deaths have resulted,
I Hjrschel Hogg, a confessed membei
of the band of night-riders who murdered
Captain Quenten Rankin al
Walnut Log in October, escaped from
jail at Dresden Sunday night.
It is said that there are 32,00(
cases of land frauds for the Attorney
General to see to as seon as practicable.
Mrs. Ruth Bryan Leaviti has woe
her divorce suit and is now free from
her husband.
Miss Jennie Reed and Joseph Mueller
were strolling in Baltimore a few
nights ago when she was shot and killed.
Mueller raised the cry that t
highwayman had held him up anc
gotten his valuables and on approaching
her received a slap in the face
whereupon the robber shot her. Muel
ler now says he himself shot her ac.
cidentally.
Bib Springs, Texas, had a fire
Wednesday that destroyed a numbei
of business blocks entailing a loss ol
$100,000.
; Lewis Nixon, the shipbuilder, preJ
diets a great future for aeroplanei
; ana airsnips.
I Michael Donnelly, judge of Thirc
District, Ohio Circuit Court, is chargj
ed with imbezxlement of funds belonging
to the Ohio German Insurance
Co. to the extent of probablj
$300,000. The company has failed.
A tornado struck Brinkley, Ark.
last Sunday night and killed 35 persons,
demolishing roost of the houses
and leaving few fit for habitation.
Charles M. Schwab said the Bethlehem
Steel Company would not reduce
wages.
The Standard Oil Company won its
; suit that releived it from paying the
$29,240,000 fine imposed by Judge
Landis.
"The United States District Court at
Kanses City declared the 2-cent railroad
rate in Missouri confiscatory
and illegal.
Dr. W. D. Crum has resigned at
collector of tho nnr< o? Ct 1?*?
? ...? ui. vuai ifHiun
and it is understood that Mr. Edwir
W. Durant will become his successor.
The technical high school of Munich
has conferred the honorary degree
of doctor of technical sciences or
Wilbur and Orville Wright, the American
aeroplanists.
Washington Notes.
A petition widely signed is being
handled by former U. S. Senator C
W. Hinds, of Mississippi, to be presen
ted to Congress to pension oM
people.
President Taft is so pleased wiil
his caddiy that he u sending thi
1 youth to the University of Virginia
allowing him 92 a day for expenses.
It is stated with some degree o
authority that President Taft wfl
visit the Southern States next fall.
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f TWO TRAINS COLLIDE | E
Colored Firajien the Only Victim of I
Heed-On Oreeh Between Freight
y end Faeeenger Trains at Colon.
Sanford, Special. ? Seaboard pas- gg
senger train No. 32, southbound, and
a northbound freight ran together
|f head-on Saturday morning about
4:30 o'clock nt Colon, a small station
OC il a.% ? ? ? v
A uuuui oil nines souin 01 uaiei?ti. 1
lifn
ij Hassey Lindsay, the colored fireman Dau
of the passenger train was killed,
and the engineer, Ed Robertson, of mo
RaJeigh, was badly hurt. tri]
' The engineer, M. J. Eisenhart, of Pre
e the freight, and his fireman jumped ^
e and neither was hurt. Capt. W. C.
e Cox, conductor on the passenger Col
train, had a leg broken; Ernest Du- ,ent
e val, baggage master, was hurt in the V18:
j back and internally. W. R. Lamb, 5jj
a merchant of Hamlet, was budly
j bruised; John Newton, colored, of hur
J Hamlet, had a leg crushed; W. S. J
Rowe, express ru">sengcr, was badly ly
cut; Sam Wicks % Char- had
lotte, was bad^? % ? iceiv- ties
ed minor ir 'p o,^ . ? lice
The- inju&?<a "6%^ ? A . to
for treatmr^^ n31
The ?g?ik '*c
misread the^^'p "& ^ ^\ -?P!
33 was an h*. . p ? *?> % -.1 nxe
it was No. b* \%^\vas late The 1
trains were running at full spee.4 T
and engines were practically demol- has
ished. The baggage and express cars pen
and first passenger coach of the pas- 're<
senger train were splintered. stic
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WAR ON "BLACK HAND." ae*
sett
Brutal Murder of Italian Detective izin
Stirs New Tork Police?Other Cit- proi
iea Asked to Aid in the Ertermina- the
tion of the Criminals. unti
New York, Special. ? Relentless the
TOnr-f. ~.:il 1? * - '
n.miiB urn uf wajjea against the
1 "Black Hand" societies by the
police of this, and it is hoped, other C
. cities as a result of the murder of Oil
Lieutenant Joseph Petrosini, the not:
ed detective of New York, in Paler- .
, mo, Friday night. For years Petrosini
had been active in his work to en
. bring to justice members of his own Eas
j race who carried 011 blackmailing retu
operations in this country through Cou
} threats of murder made in the name And
of the "Black Hand." It is believ- l?w<
j ed here that his murder was the re- deci
suit of a plot that had its incepion the
in the United States and that the on
persons indirectly responsible for
1 his death are still within the reach of $29,
the American police. If so, every ef- J'
fort will be made to bring about their un?3
? arrest and conviction, and with this the
end in view Inspector McCnfferty, PTOC
I head of the New York detective bu- inco
1 reau, sent telegrams Saturday to the P^?15
' authorities in the principal cities of thin
the country asking that increased Dist
! activity be exerted against all
"Black Hand" suspects. Immediate
; orders were given to arrest at once A
1 all men in New York City who are com
believed to have connection with nigh
I "Black Hand" operations. ing
, Petrosini's murderer, who was a stor
. member of the '' ??1
_ jAuau) 11 icu ucru
four shots from a revolver. Petro- Wee
( sini arrived in Sicily only a short corn
i time ago and was engaged in con- com
ducting an investigation regarding Out!
Italian criminals. two
J Inspector McCafferty said Satur- Ala.
day that he was anxious to know high
whether Petrosini had been robbed fall
I after being shot. He intimated that Ci
Petrosini had some papers valuable tegr
to the police here in running down outs
' Black Hand and other Italian offend- torn
ers. timl
A cablegram from Palermn (Italy) proj
says: The assassination of Lieuten- stro;
ant Petrosino has stirred the police and
; to unprecedented activity. Many ar- and
' rests already have been made, including
a number of Italians with crimi- Ci
nal records, lately returned from the at !j
1 United States. Phe:
Great Floods In the South. siA
special from Montgomery, Ala.,
says the Alabama is 51 feet above G
, normal and is slowly rising.. It is g^ea
expected to be 55 feet. No great gte|
casulties have yet occurred as fair
' warnings were given and residents
from the lower districts moved to Met
the higher parts. The Coasa at Rome Bosi
is 31 1-2 feet, and 29 feet at Gads- ^y
j den. The Tallapoosa is a raging torrent.
South Pines Chosen.
, Fitzgerald, Ga., Special.?The Blue ^
can
and Gray Association at its annual __
; encampment here Saturday selected a^ai
Southern Pines, N. G'., for the next com
' reunion. The following officers were clus
elected: Commander in chief, Major Hat.
i B. F. Dixon, North Carolina; senior gprc
i vice commander, Capt. William M. to )
i | McCormick, Georgia; junior vice gen
| commander, Capt. Joseph Price, han
. * Florida; chaplian in chief, Rev. W. of i
. I S. Harden, Georgia; judge advocate bia
I general, ft- S TVmin? w- n '
p ^ tiifc I
quartermaster general, C. H. Worth, agafl
Texas. Lab
Qas From the Caddo Field. AN
j New Orleans, Special.?The ques.
tion of supplying natural gas to citiea S
. in Louisiana and neighboring States Aer<
1 from the extensive ttleds in Caddo ^al
parish, Louisiana, a distance of 300 Par
i miles from this city, has assumed *DC
j concrete form in an application for ,ooc'
, franchise submitted to the eity coun- antl
cil af New Orleans. Shreveport, La., deel
f and Texarkaua, Ark., have both been bo'1
I getting their gas supply from that
| source for the past two yean. ?U
WRING
Darkest Africa"
President M
kfombasa, East Africa, By Cat
mbasa is preparing already to
ae Theodore Roosevelt when
ds here the latter part of
nth on his much-heralded Af
y, and the coming of the fo
sident of the United States
en a decided impetus to the i
in the present hunting season,
rernor of the protectorate, I
. Sir James Sadler, is gettin
ertainment for the distingu
itor, but in spite of these arn
ats, the greeting to Mr. Roos
I be more to the great sport:
aso fame is well known to
iters than to the former presi
'ast African sportsmen were ]
gratified to learn that Mr. R
I refused the offer of the aut
i to grant him a special hui
nse that would have permitted
kill game to an unlimited e:
tead of confining himself to
i elephants, two rhinoceroses,
popotami, etc. Lions and leoj:
classed as vermin and conseqi
io license to kill them is requ
'he white population of Mom
L. T1
iicai u liiuuu til. mr. nuosev
sonality and in a joking
pient references to the '
k" are being made,
be prospects for good hunting
ion are considered excellent. A
lers in the outlying districts,
g the increasing interest in
spects for good sport becaus
coming of Mr. Roosevelt, are
arily Rending in information a
movements of game. Accor
ICISION IN FAVOF
bicago, Special.?The Ctam
Company, of Indiana, fnnnrl
ty of accepting rebates from
:ago & Alton Railroad on t
ts of oil from Whiting, Ind
t St. Louis, 111. The verdict
rned by a jury in the Fed
rt on instructions of Judge A
lerson, who averred that he
id the Circuit Court of App<
sion as to the verdict returne
former trial of the same case
which verdict Judge Kennt
mtain Landis assessed a fin
240,000.
ldge Anderson's decision was
cpected as he had Tuesday
government prosecutors that
>f relied on in the first trial
mpetent and that it must be <
lented or fail. It was with s<
g of an air of hopelessness
rict Attorney Edwin W. Sims
ORGIA TOWNS
tlanta, Ga., Special.?With
pleted death roll of Sur
it'8 Arkansas tornado just <
in, the tail end of the Arka
m which Tuesday night
ss Alabama and south Geo
Inesday set in motion a new d<
it for the latter two States '
it was ten, five negroes killei
hbert, Gn., and three whites
negroes drowned at Montgom
,, the latter deaths a result
t water following a record i
for the past 20 years,
umming, Ga., Tuesday got
aphie communication with
side world and sent word thi
ado ploughed through miles
>er, farm yards and valu
>erty in that vicinity besides
ying half a dozen farmers' ho
seriously injuring a young
a young woman.
Outhbert Hard Hit.
uthbert, Ga., reported the dan
>600,000 and Mayor D. A.
rson issued an appeal for
HPS COLLIDE ON
hatham, Mass., Special. ?
mer Horatio Hall of the M
unship Company, from Portl
r York and H. F. Dimock, of
ropolitan line, from New Yorl
ton, collided at 7 o'clock Wed
morning and the Hall *
he bottom in half an hour and
JST NOT PLACE
Washington, Special.?The An
Federation of Labor herea
' freely refer to the boj
inst the Buck Stove and B)
pany of St. Louis, except by
ion in the "Wo don't patro
" This in substance of v
>ad importance to the labor w<
manufactures and to newspa
orally, is the sweeping deci
ded down Thursday by the c
appeals of the District of Col
intbe noted injunction cast
Bucks Stove and Range comj
inat the American Federation
or, which has been before
IGRY FIRE IN SPARTA
partanburg, S. C.. Soecial?1
;e and angry fire Friday ni
t resisted all efforts of the fire
tment, the two-story brcilc hi
of J. B. and J. F. Cleveland
apied by Harry Pricn, elotl
R. L. Bowden, dry goods,
troyed together with the stocl
b merchants, entailing a lost
,000. Assistant Fire Chief Mi
and Fireman Stevens were ii
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ft ROOSEVELT
Will Welcome the ExI'ith
Open Arms.
lie.? to a dispatch received here A record '
wel- group of liens, numbering 32, wfl# t
he seen on the Nandi plateau Tuesday at py
next a point about 50 miles north of Port
rican Florence. (The Nandi plateau is on
rmer the west side of the great Rift vnlhas
ley.) Among them were three huge
nter- males.
. The Giraffes Seen.
ieut. Four families of giraffs have been
g up seen at Makindu, 200 miles inland
:?i i r i " -
ioucu nuui uerv, on xue line o? the Luanda
inge- railroad, and elephants have been
evelt seen at Elburgon, 475 miles inland on
;man the railroad and along the Sabaki
local rivnr nn# fov ??41- -D **
, iu i iic uunu ui iuoindent.
basa.
high- R. J. Cunningham, the noted Engoose
lish big game hunter and naturalist,
hori- who is to be guide to and genera)
iting manager of the Roosevelt party, has
him been here for some time completing
stent the preparations for the trip into the
the wilderness as well as the shooting and
two collecting excursions along the line of
>ards the railroad. He is selecting and hirlent
ing native porters for the excursion,
ired. He takes only experienced men who
basa are known to be couragoeus and to
elt's possess great physical strength. The
way safari kit, in other words, the camp
"big equipment for the work in the open,
is to come from London and will be
this in readiness when Mr. Roosevelt
lany arrives.
real- Everything points to a successful
the stay in British East Africa and Ugne
of da for Mr. Roosevelt; the natives are
vol- peaceful; game is plentiful and the
bout people of Mombasa are waiting eagerding
ly to extend him a welcome.
I OF THE OIL COMPANY
dard his assistant attempted to show the
not advisability of the Illinois classifica^
tion to prove the existence of a legal
rate of 18 cents, which was a vital
;tnp- p0int jn the government's contention.
to Attorneys Threw Up Case,
was It was after assistant District Atleral
torney James H. Wilkerson had arl.
Q. gued for two hours and in the end adfol
mitted that the prosecution could not
:als' furnish the further proof deemed necd
at essary by the court for a continuation
and of the case, that Judge Anderson an:saw
nonnced his decision. Mr. Wilkerson
e of said that the government could proceed
no further and suggested dismisnot
sal of the case. Attorney John 8.
told Miller, chief counsel in the case for
the the oil company, immediately moved
was that there be an instructed verdict of ^
:om- not guilty. The court so ordered, and i
>me- the jury, which had been excluded
that during the arguments by the attorand
neys, was called in and charged*
SUFFER FROM STORMS
the Nearly half of the main business
iday block of Cuthbert was demolished,
join- Every store on Depot street was
nsas blown down, filling the street witb
vept piles of brick and timbers. Homergia
less persons wandered through the
path town searching for household possesThis
sions which the wind had scattered
i in for blocks in all directions,
and The whites dead at Montgomery
iery, are:
; of Wiliam Dillard, 20 years old.
ain- Thomas Harper, of Atlanta, 23
years.
into Unidentified white man.
the
it a Floods at Montgomery, Ala.
of Montgomery, Ala., Special.?Heavy
able and continuous rains wrought great
de- damage here and the situation was
mes made serious Tuesday. Several
man homes in north Montgomery were
abandoned and inmates carried to
places of safety in boats,
lage The Grand Theatre, a handsome
Mc- new structure, was flooded and the
aid. damage will be heavy.
MASSACHUSETTS COAST
The [ Dimock ran ashore six hours later on t
aine Cape Cod beach, where the passengers
and, and crew of the Hall were landed
the unharmed. Wireless calls were made
k to but the position of the ships was not
nes- well stated and in the dense fog assent
sistance failed to reach the point of
the diaster.
ON THE "UNFAIR LIST"
aeri- courts of the District of Columbia in IS*
ifter various phases for moutbs. In a re- VD
'eott cent decision by Justice Gould of the
inge supreme court of the District the
in- American Federation of Labor and
rnizc the officers, Messrs. Gompers, Mitchride
ell, Morrison, and others were en- *
arid, joined from conspiring to boycott the^^B|
pers Bucks Stove and Range company and%yr <
sion from printing or publishing or di?- ^
our! tributing, through the mails or othsrlum
wise, any copy of The Federationist
! of or other publication refering to the
aany complainant, its business or products
of in the "We don't patronize" or
the "Unfair list."
NBURG DOES $50,000 DAMAGE
n a ed by falling timbers, though it is 3
ight, not thought their injuries will proee
de- serious. K. 1
aild- At one time it looked as if the en- :
and tire block from the Whittington drag
bier, store on the corner of Main and J
was Church streets, just north of where :3
k of the fire originated to the Lee Build- A
i of ing on the south, would be destroy- 3
itch- ed. The loss, which is estimated at <
ijur- $50,000, is partially insured.