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i THE RESULT OF EDUCATION. THE ART OP LETTER WRITING. f poor They red on ,thoapht the old cnuUln didn't know it, batr be did. Bo they determined to miny of n thirst would do something to displease him. At Inst he fell In love, of ooorse, with n very poor but s pretty girl named . ^ Klkto - They kept their lore a secret Boye end Girls Nowadays 8c<k Know and lived on It for about a year, and ledge of Others—Dill Arp Tak/M{‘" - - Pleasure In Writing Loiters. It is a hopeful sign that so the young girls nod boys have for knowledge. The youth's depart ment In the newspapers and magazines is growing into importance and their letters to the editors betokens studious inquiring minds. The art of letter writing is Itself cot only an accom plishment, but a good part of a polished education. Letters indicate character and good letters require thought. The letters of notable men and women are the best part of their biographies. They are an index to the heart, the emotions, the dispositions. Time was when but few could write at all, and iha-apaa lag^oLaaal Ua- a^eouaUy-town. was a small affslr. I know from ex perience, for when I was in my teens my father was the. postmaster and I had the work to do. There are now at least ten letters per capita to where there was one in those days. One great drawback on letter writing then was the cost of postage. A letter to a place within the State w s 121 cents and the postage had to be paid by the person reoeivlng it, and if L was a poor letter be felt like he was cheated. Many a letter was handed back to me with such a remark as " Well, 1 reckon it’s from Dick Jones, over in Arkansaw, and I hain’l got the quarter. Just put it back until I come ag’in ” It keeps me swer ai! the wife and dau busy now a days to an-, letters I receive. My {btem help to keep up the correspondence with the far-awvy boys and the other kindred’, but good friends who write kind letters to me must be answered la person. Such letters are a pleasure and a comfort. Tben, there are many letters asking for charity or a little help for a church that only remind me how poor I am. But these letters from tequiring minds who are in pursuit of knowledge and perplexed about the mysteries of nature always interest me, and I have tu pretend to be a wise man whether I am or out. Now, here is one from a pretty school girl Id her teens. I know that she is pretty, because she writes a pretty letter and tiere is eot a blot or eras ure or a misspelled word. She wants to know where the day begins and why, and where the navigators first find a change. Of course that is worth knowing, and Isupp-jsj that very Tew outstdo of colleges and the continental travelers and the sea-faring men un derstand It. Well, my dear girl, the day b.'glns just where man begun—in the gardec of Elen. If the Creator had ehossa New York or Charleston for that garden, the day would h«v« begun ever here oo this continent and ex tended westward to California, as the people multiplied and carried It there. Of course the dey kept its name and its dale around, ana east of Palestine as far as the sea, btt *• westward the tide of empire takes its way," and so did the tide of time. Columbus brought the day with him to this cortinent. t'r m our easier a coast the people took It to California, and from there the missionaries took It to the Sandwich islands, and it continued to follow the tun until the navigators got around to Bombay and Bong Kong and Cmiro nod found that they had lost a day and It was Monday Instead of Sunday. And ttosn who sailed eastward and traveled against the sun found they had gained a day and it was Saturday instead of Sunday. * But is not so now. for there is an international line in midocean—a mon dean that has been established by the great powers and acoep ed by the navigators of all nations as the change of date line. Tbl£jlm> is 180 degrees West of Greenwich and runs from New Zealand north to Bering straits and goes not far from Sam»a. It is just half way around the world from Lon don, and Is called the Antipode uf. Greenwich. Tt is 1,5)0 miles west of Hawaii and 3,800 wes^f San Francisco. This lino is cbeckjjp^ved on the up- to-dale map and Suna% is printed on the west side and Monday on the east. Navigators tell by their log books and compass when they have reached it, and the captain or the mate announces with great ceremony : “ Set the day clock back twenty-four hours. We have crossed the line." For many years our American rail ways, as they pressed their way from the Atlantic to the Pacific, found the question of time very confusing, and hence by consent of action they estab lished four divisions of railway time and-marked longitudinal lines 1,000 miles apart to indicate them. When the train crosses one of these Hoes the passengers set their watches back or forward just one hour, for the sun moves or seems to move just 1,000 miles an hour. These mondean lines divide time into eastern, central, moun tain and Pacific, a d they pass through New York city, St. Louis, Denver and Carsoc. City, and therefore when It Is 12 o’clock in New York city it is only 9 o'clock in California. The railroad companies, however, could not out their Hues in two to suit these mon-! deans and hence their railroad time Is a zig-zag crooked line to fit their ter minal points, but it approximates the mondean. This is not all that could bo written about time and where the day begins, but it is enough to satisfy the school girls and boys, and especially the pretty girl who writes me from Mc Rae. In these days of telegraph and ocean cables it seems very funny to us 3&terans that when a message is sent from London it gets here two or three hours before it starts, and if we send a telegram to Ban Franc It to today at noon it gets there at 9 6’clock this morning. The battle , <g Manila was (ought on Sunday mornings tut-the news of it came on -Saturday night be fore. How is that ? Edgar Poe wrote a pretty little story called “ Three Sundays in a Week,’ in which he told about a young mac who was adopted and reared by a rich old bachelor uncle who had been a ssa captiin, and bow the old sailor was to leave bis nephew a large fortune If he behaved to suit him The old man was crons and contrary and the young was awfully uneasy for fear ha did. Bo get married even tho’ it should the old man mad and he should turn them out of doors and not leave them anything when he died. So on Sunday morning Jack took Kate by the hand and boldly they went into the old man's presence and told him all about it, and that they had oome for hill consent and for him to fix the day when they should be married. The old fellow was really glad of it, for be liked the girl, bat he couldn’t help being contrary and so he blustered around and pretended to be very mad, and finally wound up by say ing : V* Yes, yes, yon may get married, and rll say when—ves when. Well, you may get married when there are twee’ScrotfayB in a week. Yes, then aud not before.” This was awful and the sad young couple were about to leave when there was a knock at the doot*. When it was opened two sailors, sea oaptslns, too. came rushing in and seised the old man’s hands and hugged him, and all three got jolly, for they were old chums snd had not seen each other for a year. The old uncle introduced them to the young mar and Kate and said some thing nice about them. He soon brought out some fine old Madeira and made everybody drink. After while Captain Pratt said : " Well, now I remember that the last lime we were together we had a royal game of cards. Suppose we have another game as a reminder.’’ •' " Oh, no,” said the old ancle. "Good friends, you forget that this Is Bundav, and true Englishmen never play cards on Sunday. " Sunday indeed." ex claimed Captain Pratt. “ It Is Mon day. Yesterday was Saaday, and 1 had E payers on board ship as 1 always da” aptaln Smithson by this time was excited and exclaimed : " Why you both are crazy. Today Is Saturday and tomorrow will be Sunday. Didn’t 1 make my sailors serub ship this morn ing before sunrise as we came Into port, and don’t we always scrub ship on Saturday. What are you thlaklag about.” Tnen the old uncle laughed and chuckled and danced around the room in great glee, for theories was doiag Its work. “ Sunday—Sunday P he exclaimed. " Pratt aays that yesterday was Sun day. Smlthsoo swears that tomorrow wUl be Sunday, and I swear that today is^taeday. Ha ! ha ! ha I I see how it ia. Pralt sailed west from London aod Smith son sailed east and have been round the world Id opposite directions, and 1 have stayed at home. Three Sundays la a week, by Jupiter. Here Jack, you young Jog, go after the preacher and you and Kate get mar ried today, for it will he a long time before three Sundays come together agate." I haven’t told the story ss Poe told It, but that Is the gist of it ,. Bill Arp. Death op Gen. Beth —Gen. Henry Hetb, toe Confederate chieftain and historian, died at his borne in Wash ington on the 27th ln»V of Bright's disease. The end had been expeetad hourly for several weeks. \ Gen. Henry Heth was a conspicuous chieftain in the Confederate sern— He was a native of Virginia and born in 1826. He was graduated from Went Point in 1813. Oo “July 1 of that year Ue entered the army as a brevet second lieutenant In the 1st Infantry, was made second lieutenant ia the 6lh infantry ia September, six years later he became first lieutenant, and la 1836 was made a captain la th? 10th titan try. With the outbreak of the civil war he allied himself with the then organising forces of the South, tendering^ his re signation in the Federal army oa April 26, 1861. He was immediately given a command as brigadier general in the Confederate army. In May, 1863, be was commissioned a major general. He commanded a division of Own. A. P. Hill's corps in Virginia, and render ed notable service at the battle of Gettysburg, at Chanoeliorsvllle -and throughout the campaigns of 1864 and 1865. Whjn the war closed Gen. Heth lookup hla reaidoooe lu South Caro-' llua, where he engaged in business. Of late yea w Gen. Heth hgi lived Ln Washington and he hat been chiefly occupied In literary work as an histo rian of the campaigns In which he was a notable figure. Fire and Water.—Pierre, 8. D., claims to be the only city in the coun try which can produce fire and water from the same well. Tnat Is true be cause the artesian water, which is found at a depth of from 1,100 to 1,300 feet, is strongly charged with fuel gas, which escapes with the water as it rushes from the pipe. The attraction to all who visit the wells is to sec a powerful stream of water rushing from: the mouth of the pipe, which will blaze brightly when a torch is touched to the stream. The city has taken advan- age of this fact and has sunk two wells,* the water from which Is run into a large receiver and -a supply of about 150,000 Rfefeic feet of fuel gas per day is tecurMrThe gas is being used for power .oy a grist mill, a foundry and machine shop, for numerour small f ilauts, which do not use up the supply urnished. The city is now building a pumping station at the water works, which will when completed be supplied with the largest gas power ^pumping plant in existence, and the Water to supply the city #111 be secured without any cost as to power. Besides the municipal use of the gas from the walls it is largely used ny individuals over the city for fuel and light, it being furnished by the municipality at a costof aDont $1 a thousand feet for that parpose 4 —Chicago Tribune. INTERVIEW DEWEY. The —The city authorities of Pittsburg recently gave permission to the Rev. Edward S. Young, a reputable clergy- S man, to hold religious services In the ubllo parks on Sunday. At a meet- ig the other day of the Pittsburg Presbytery a resolution wasAdopted "condemning the efforts of the park officials aad others to draw crowds, un der whatever pretext, tacnlar or relig ious, to places of publio resort oa the Lord’s day.” ' Admiral Received the News Reporters and Talks Plea- tig on Vnrtons Topics. The New York Evening Poet gives the following interview with Admiral Dewey: t ; "They are a splendid lot,” the Ad miral said, speaking of the men. "The very pick, the finest in our navy, and that means the best in the world. Before I got to Manilla the Archbi shop, with whom I afterwards beoame very intimate, said that the Ameri can sailors were the scum of the earth, a bloodthirsty lot of cut-throats, who would destroy everything in their path. " Later on, when I did get there,” said the Admiral, with a knowing smilejlthfi Archbishop came on board one diy while I had a battalion at drill, the very same battalion that will parade In'New York. The Archblrsh- op went' on the bridge and watched them, and I said to him : ’Well, what do you think of our American sail ors?" i "‘They are splendid,’ he said, ’I have seen the men of most navies, but never anything like theej. They are magnificent. 1 cannot understand it— such splendid young fellows. How does it happen V " ‘Well,’ I replied, " we look for the beet men, we oome closer to onr men ; we treat them better that other coun tries do. and we pay them better.’ *' Then I called a man and said to him: 'How much do you get a month?’ He saluted, and said, * Eighty dollars, sir.' Tbe Archbishop was astonished. You know eighty dollars would pay a whole ship load of Spaniards. After that the Archbishop had a very great respect for us, and became very friend ly. Mere I have a picture of Geo. Luna, whicn was given to me by the Archbishop.’’ Tbe Admiral then sent an orderly for the picture of the Filipino general, who " was murdered by order of Aguinaldo,” as he said. The picture was that of a negro la a sort of mllltsry uniform. Oa tbe back was an inscrip tion in Spanish to the Archbishop of Manilla, Father Berearddloo Nasalado. It was signed by Luna. " It was a plot," he said, " to assassi nate him. A crack swordsman was placed as sentry, and when Luna ap peared he simply stabbed him. But tlMaa fellows all,” the Admiral said, “ are a queer lot. They are simply servants and stable men, and Agul- naido was a junior clerk in the navy i ard. He la a pretty smart fellow. 1 now him pretty well. In tact, we were great Meeds, and are, for the matter of fact, hut be has not the brains. Tnere are people behind him, some of them lawyers and able fellows, who make a tool of Aguinaldo. Here, by tbe way, Is a cane which he pre sented to me," and the Admiral pro duced a thick, black cane carved and resembling Irish bog oak more than aoy thing else. “I thought,” said the Admiral, " that this thlug la the Philippines would be over long before this, as it should have been. 1 cast Imagine how they have stood out until now. Of course there was the rainy season, and 1 suppoea Utile w«s done One greet trouble out there hns been that Geo. 0;ls has tried to do too much. 1 told Mm «o. He wants to he general, Gov ernor, Judge and everything to have hold of ail tbe irons. No man can do this. This is the great trouble. It Is enough for a man to do one thing, to he oae thing, hut when n man tries todo everything and to be everything It Is easy to Imagine the result. "The fight in the Philippines should be easily ended. The people have been so badly treated for such a length of time by the Spaniards that they are distrustful. This la tbe great difficulty in dealing with them. Where we have met them and they have been in much coo Inc l with us as to learn that we mean to treat them a ell, where they have seen that we mean what we say, there is no trouble. They stand by us all the time. All of them will learn this in time. Thev will get from under the influence of Aguinaldo, or rather those people who are behind Aguinal do, who, as I said before, it a mere tool. ‘Do you think the Filipinos are fit for self-government?" "Well, do, not just now... They proba bly will he in a little time. Thqy are a very queer peopls—a very queer mix ture. Many of them are quite oivlhzed and good people, but 1 do not think they are fit for •elf-government just yet. But when I say that J must add at the same time that It is my oandld opinion that they are more fitted for It than the Cubans, that they are better people than the Cubans In every way. "I do wish, howevef*, that the whole business was settled, and I think that after a little the Filipinos will take klndlyto ns." It was suggested to the Admiral that the Democratic slate had been settled with Admiral Dewey for the Presiden cy and Gen Wheeler for the Vice Pre sidency. "Well," said the Admiral, "we should make a pretty mess of it. Gen. Wheeler, of course, has had some grain ing in the political school, but tben he Is a West Pointer. I had forgotten that. He would want to run everything as he would a regiment, and, of course, would make a splendid mess of it. Ydii cannot run a government as you would a regiment." "Well, Admiral," suggested the re porter, "It would not be such a change nom the ship Olympia to the ship of Btote.” "Yes,” said the Admiral, "It would be a very great change. I am not a K lltician, I am a sailor; my training s been all that way. I am at home on board my chip. I know my business, or, at least, shohld know it, and I do not want to mix up In thh affairs of govern- son knows as much about what my politics are as that piece of stick.'’ The Admiral would not say a word about the alleged interference of the German admiral, Dledrlchs, at Manila. RELICS OP J EPPERSON DAVIS. a large, square case, In. height.-^ Mr. Davis woewVffei)' * M r™. eriy o. s trousi A Valuable Collection Sent to the Confederate Museum in Rtch- ■ mont. „ • '• The Confederate museum in Rich- mood has been enriched by the addi tion of two cases of relics, formerly tbe property of Jefferson Davis, the Presi dent of the Confederacy. Some have been given and others lent by Mrs. Davis and Mrs. Hayes, and they form a priceless collection. In accordance with a wish expressed by Mrs. Davis, the large case contain ing the President’s personal property ulti boyiaeed 4e»he Mlsei—ipphroom, and a smaller case, containing letters, testimonials and portraits, will be ex hibited in the “Solid South” room. Tbe suit of furniture has not yet been assigned to any special place, uor will It be until the matter has been con sidered by the society, ^he most in teresting relics, in fact, have been placed 4n the Mississippi room. They are contained in a large, •lx feet or more of clothes which he was captured bangs / 4ffcft , e. The frock coat is made of grpy cloth, with a velvet collar, and the trousers are of the same material. The shit has been much worn and bears evidence of long servlos by tne absence of several but tons from the coat and the imprint of the President's knees the trou sers. The old family Bible rests on the bottom of the case, lying open at the registry of marriages, births and deatba. Near it is the small Bible sent by tbe President while a prisoner at Fort Monroe to his son. The prayer-book used by Mr. Davis, with his autograph on the fly-leat, is a very rare aad valuable one, since it contains a special prayer for the Con federate States Congress. No less a sum than $6,000 has been offered for this particular book and refused by Mrs. Devls. A very quaint and rather pathetic souvenir Isa small silver thimble be queathed by a sister of charity upon her deathbed to Jefferson Devis, Jr. It was the sum total oflbe mod nun’s earthly possessions, and sue left it to the boy she had nursed through a seilou* lllaees, to whom ihs was de voted. Side by side with the thimble Is the gold watch which belonged to the Princess Charlotte, of England, aad was presented to Miss Winnie Davis during her visit to England. The matchbox used by tht President ; e box that he bad kept at the head of hie bad for cigars, his cigar-holder, and a dressing case which be alwsy* Larr,o«J la hla valise are among the moet interesting features of the ex hibit. Perhaps the most striking relic, however, is the bandage made by Mrs. Dsvls tj serene her husband's eyes from the glare of light while be languished ia Fort Monroe. Tbe last gloves worn by Mr. Davis are pressed and carefully folded, showing now small bis band was His keys, upon a key ring; a matchhoa of cornelian, | >r«sented to him by Welshmen ; a cas* or his scissors, made by his wife : his eye glasses and a polisher, made by a little girl for the President; a Mexi can emerald set In a ring of virgin gold, and two gold stars made for, and worn by Mr. Davis oa his collar, all uialm the attention and tell their own story. The case also contains a number of Interesting relics of Miss Winnie Da- vls v the Daughter of the Confederacy. Among the number are a Georgia button, a silver badge, a cross aad chain, a gold badge for her Bible, tbe bracelets she wore in her Infancy, and part of an Eastern head-dress worn by her upon some occasion that is not mentioned. ... A piece of the wedding dress worn by Mrs. Hayes, together with some of the orange blossoms with which her bridal veil was fastened, are alsq dis played in this case, as well as the ring made in Georgia and sent to Mrs. Davis while her husband was in pri son. .1 BOB TAYLOR ON BOB INGERgOLL An Eloquent Picture of Modern In fidelity—The All-Wise and Onanl- . potent Creator. ’>■ The following article by Ex-Gov. Robert L. Taylor, of Tennessee, Is one of the most remarkable productions of his gifted pen: " 1 sat in a great theator at the na- tlonal capital. It was thronged with youth and beauty, old age and wisdom. I saw a man, tbe image of his God, stand uppn the stage, and I heard him speak. % * , "His gestures were perfection of grace, his voice was music, and his language was more beautiful than any 1 had ever heard from mortal lips. " He painted picture after picture of the pleasures and joys and sympathies of home. He enthroned love and art-ached, thr-gnapal of humanity like ana me as w-erapte aatioiy-wnwsnea so v,.,t do his duty. I am not a politician. I can not make a speech even. I wish 1 could, but I have to be Content with my lot." Some oue said just then to the Ad mlral that his son was reported to nave made the statement to the effect that hts father was a dyed-in-the-wool Republican. The Admiral laughed outright, and, turning around pointed to a piece of wood lying on the deck some yards away, at the same time saying: “My The GRANDMOTHEk'S BIRTHDAY.—, It is charged by some foreigners who visit this country that Americans are lees deferential to the aged than are the people of other countries. It is certain that we might learn something from tho simple peasant* of tbe Tyrol in regard to glvlng^tne aged the lov ing and dutiful homage to which their declining yetrs entitle them. An ex- of our arrival we " The morning were awakened bj lln and flutes under tbe window, and, hurrying down, we found the little house adorned as for a feast—garlands over the door and wreathing the high chair which was set in state. "The table was already covered with gifts, brought by the young peo ple whose music we had heard. The whole neighborhood were kinifoik, and these gifts came from uncles end cousins in every far off degree. They were very simple, for the donors are poor—knitted gloves, a-ahawl, a basket of flowers, jars of fruit, {oaves of bread; but upon all some little message of love was pinned. " ‘Is there a bride in the house ?’ I asked of my landlord. " 'Acb, neln !’ he said. 'We do not make such a pother about our young people. It Is our grandmothu^ birth day.’ ^ "The grandmother, in her specta cles, white apron and high velvet cap, was a heroine all day, sitting in state to receive visits, and dealing out dices an angel. Then I saw him df brush iu tbe ink of moral blackness and blot out the beautiful pictures he had painted. I saw him stab love dead at his feet; I saw him blot out the stars and sun, and leave humanity and the universe in eternal darkness and eternal death. " 1 saw him like the serpent o’ old, worm himself into the paradise of hu man * hearts and by his aedudsive elo- tftience and subtle devices and sophis try inject his fatal venom, uader whose blight its powers faded, its music was hashed, its sunshine was darkened, and Rs soul was left a desert waste, with only the new-made graves of faith and hope. "I saw him, like a lawless, erratic meteor without an orbit, sweep across the Intellectual sky, brilliant only In its ■olf-coDspmioR fire generated by friction with the indestructible and eternal truths of God. " That man was the archangel of modern Infidelity, and I said : ‘How true is holy writ, which deela*ed, "Tbe fool bath said in his heart, There is no God !” " Tell me not, O Infidel, thote Is no God, no heaven, no hell! Tell me eot, O Infidel, there is no risen Christ! "What intelligeeee less thaa God's oould fashion the human body? What motive power Is it. If not God, that drives tbe throbbing engine of the human heart with ceaseless, tireless stroke, seed ng the crimson stream of life bounding and circling through every vein and artery ? "Whence snd what. If not of God, is this mystery we call mind ? What is It that thinks and feels aad knows end act# ? O, who can deny the divi nity that stirs within us ? "God is everywhere and la every thing. His mystery is la every hud and blossom aad leaf and tree; la every rock and vale and hill and moon- tain ; in every Iprleg and rivulet aad river. The rustle of his wing Is la every zephyr; Its might Is la every tempest. He dwells la the dark pa vilions of every storm cloud. Tbs nghmlng is his messenger, and thun der Is hts voice. His awful tread Is la every earthquake and on every angry ocean. Tbe heavens above us teem ith his myriads of shlalag witnesses. The universe of solar systems, whose wheeling orbs course the orvstal paths of space, proclaim through the dread hills of eternity tbe glory and power nod dominion ol the all wise, omnipo tent and eternal God." MONUMENT TO MOBBY’S MEN. The Survivors of This Famous Com mand L'nvtil a Shaft to Their Mar tjrred Dead. On Saturday last five thousand Virginians, West Virginians, old Con federates from nearly every Southern State, and men and women from as far North as New York, witnessed the un veiling at Front Royal, Va^ of a monument erected by the survivors of Col. John S. Mosby’s famous command to seven of their comrades shot and hung at that place during the war bo- tween the Staton. Jeb Stuart Camp of Confederate Veterans, of Bernrvllle^ Stover Camp,'"Of Strasburg; Turner Ashby Camp, of Winchester ; Rossdr Gibbon Camp, of Lurfiy, and William Richardson Camp, of Front Royal, were In the procession. Over 200 of Motby’s men were in attendance, the largest number of members of this band which has been together since 186F. In tbe parade besides the or jranizatlona named were the Warren Memorial Association and the survi vors of the 43J Virginia regiment. The monument Is on an emlnenoe in Proepect Hill Cemetery, and around this gathered the great throng to hear the addresses. Col. Giles Cook made a short address. Rev. 8. J. Ferguson offered an eloquent prayer, and then a fine oration was delivered by Major A. E. Richards, of Louisville, Ky. At the conclusion, of ,the oration Martha M.gath Strother, granddaugb-' ter of Capt. Thomas E. Anderson, one of the seven men to whoso, memory the monumeot was erectod, and Mary Wilkinson, great niece of Henry Rhodes, also one of the seven, drew the cords which bound the veil hiding the shaft from view, and there were mighty cheers from thousands of throats as the beautiful shaft stood dis closed. An elcquent address of acceptance was made by the Hon. R. H. Downing on behalf of t^e ladles of the Warren Memorial Association. , / Fair women then placed thirteen laurel wreaths around tho base’ of the monument, typifying the thirteen States of the Confederacy. Gen. Payne Fdrquhar made a happy address, and the exercises were con cluded by tbe singing of an original war song by Capt. Frank Cunningham of Richmond. The monumjuit Is a beautiful granite •haft, twentj fire feet in height, and Is on a commanding eminence In the beautiful cemetery. Inscribed on the GOT LIQUOR. The Judge Found Oat After a Period at Considerable Questioning. On one election day, a groat many yaars ago, a certain town in a State in i the local option law was opera- Mof license to which tire voted against grantin •all Intoxicating liquors. In the year that followed the.authorities were in defatigable in their efforts to detact aad pat a stop to Illegal traffic, and one o their methods was to question these who wore before the court for drunkeaaes* as to where they had ob tained the necessary material. It be came the custom to ask the man on trial, " Where did you get your liquor 9 " He was generally given to understand, partionlarly if his case had iqltlgatlng clrouatanoes, that a agriooltnf cultural Private With Louisville The old sub bouses for fallacies were so •tratod by Mr. Carlisle, I in a famous lettar to Farmers’ Alliance, hail, ia a new and probably * form. The plan now ia to private enterprise aad other ware houses arc ou an extensive scale, houses are to be built, ia products are to be stored aad oa receipts are to be given wt\jch him hla discharge. Op* morning there appeared before the magistrate two coal men, who wore the blackened garments in which they had been working all tbe day be fore, and to all appearanees bad been taken from their team by officers who apprehended them. Neither had a re cord, and, of oourre, their clothes in themselves were evidenoe that they had steady employment, and under or dinary conditions were bard working oitizeos. Tbe judge intimated that if they would tell where they had ob tained tbe beverages that had brought them into trouble he would let them go. They were not familiar with police court methods, and the meaning of the-judge’s words dawned on them slowly, but simultaneously. They looked at aach other quickly, and each gave a little snicker, which be imme diately bushed up la a shamefaced way. Then they scratched their heads aad looked at each other again, aad eacn put his hand before his face to hide a smile. "Come," said the Judge, " where did you get your liquor r’ One of the prisoners nudged the oth er, aad the other oudged bock. "Go ou, tail," wblapeeed oee. ~ " No, you," sold the other. " Why, y« see, y’r honor,’’ said oae of them," It was this way: Mika aad me wlat out yestherday with a load o’ coal, and lol aad behold you. It ohaaced that we bad to take it to—ye see, we was oa the load o’ coal, aad wbaa we arrived at the house where It was foln’, why, thla, wo—” Here he •topped. " Oh, come," said the judge, "speak ap. Yoa other oae, see If yoa can’t tell about It.” >. ’• Wall, y’r hooor,” said thsmother one, " it was just as Pat was say I a.’ We wlat oat with tho load o’ coal, aad wbla we got there, why—y’r hooor •Old, dl.-iiLjfs, that WU'd b« discharged If we told where we got It "1 did say so,"said tha judge, "but you must tell It pretty quick If you want to get off. I oaa T t speed all the morsiag over you. Leave oat the cool, that has nothing to do with It.” " Beggio’ y’r honor’s pardoo, It hae that,” said Mike, gatherlag courage with a rush. " Ya eee. It was this wav: We had to carry the cool to y'r honors cellar, aa' while there we was kind of lookin’ ’round Innocent like, an*It so happened that we—er-an 1 wan savin' before, we was ia y'r hoaor’s cellar. at 2 per oeat par aaaaai m of tha ma.'kat value of the ored. The plaa ol tho Mow judge could not but remember certain grand mothers at home, just as much lovrd as she, probably, but wnose dull, sad llvea were never brightened by any such -pleasure aa this, and I thought that we could learn much from these poor mountaineers.” —It’s all well enough to call things by their right names, but there are times when It should be done la a whisper. Overby,- Rhodes. Love, Jones an<i —Prof. Totten, formerly a lieuten ant in the army, but for the past few years-a professional prophet of the end of the world, Is out with a nsw predic tion. He says that the Infant son of the D ike of York is destined to gather the Jews from the four quarters of the earth and to unite them under his ban ner. "That will do,” said tha quickly. "You are discharged. They went oa their way rajololag. He Had Exouuucr it.—A farai who woe pnenspstl of some means an te ted thq office of his county paper and asked for the’editor. Tbe farmer was accompanied by his •oa, a youth cl sevsateen years, and as soon as the editor, who was la his •scret sanctum, was infornle'’ that his visitors were not bill gollectors be came forward and shook hands. " 1 came ler git some iaformatioa,” explained tbe former. ‘‘Certainly,’’said the editor, "aad you came to tha right,.place. Be Tbe farmer sat on one end of the ta ble, while his son sat on tbe flxr. " This boy o’ mine," he said, " wants ter go Into the literary business, aa’ I thought you’d know ef thar wus any money in it or not. It’s a good busl- aesaaln’t It ?” “Why—yen,” said the editor, after some hesitation. " I’ve been in it my self for fifteen years, and you see where I’ve got to." The farmer eyed him from head to foot, glanced around the poorly fur nished office, surveyed the editor once more, then, turning to his son, who was •till oh the floor, said : where. Tne benefit to farmers will be that oa such collateral they will bn able to get loans at much lower rates than tney can obtain advances upon their crops, and In this way they can hold for better prices If they dwlro. Tha movement has made great ia Georgia, wberell has i me endorsement of theobeakors aad of the State Agricultural Society. As It is designed lint to look oat for it* in terests of the cotton planters, aad a* they have received the propoettioa with ’ enthusiasm, the matter has already at tracted a great deal of attention la the cotton markets. it is a little curious that tha scbeoM which Mr. Carlisto’s Incisive logic so mercilessly demolished should reap pear at this juncture with a good chance of success, but the plaa hoa been shorn not only of the Government support, hat of lie extravagant features. As I Alliance urged It, the Government was to provide tne ware houses aad furnish the money at 2 per oeat 80 per oeat i P roducts stored. ork capitalists who are behind the present movement, while it will supply the plaster with the advances he re quires oa bis crops, aad take ears of mem as tbe Government was to do, provides that a fair rata ef la terse* shall be charged os agreed upon by the ware booslag company aad tha oaa- slgaor. The agent of the ware hooelag com pany, for laetaaoe, eaa go to a oottoa mill aad URe a lease oa lie ware ho—a, thereby eecurteg a Ilea upon the sto ol cotton goods upoe which tho mill desires to sec are a loan. Tho ware •e company I agents will issue re ceipts for tbe articles coal win oocupy me legal aad t of an ordinary ware boaee Thee a surety company will i to guaraatoo tho dellvory, qi aad grade of _ ‘ ware bouse. The cotton mill eaa take tha wn«o house receipt with tha surety com pany’s guaranies a— then maka a loan at 80 par a—t of the valoo 61 the goods at very low sates. The some W of 'proeadern ogald ho sppfled to cotton stored In lb or ngrieoltarol double guarantee of tho warn ho—a 1 Ue earety com—ay would give i receipts a very high ahoreotor — collateral, la sbort, mey would ha very nearly Ue same — me whlohay receipts which the Koatacky Distil lery and Ware poem to leeao. Whiskey issued by ware honoae are of Up big heal character, though tho' private ware house ” receipt a— —it same discredit upon them. The scheme will require a gr—I dsal of moony to carry It oat — a large scale, but the start may ha made la a small way. aad there la me— 141a mosey in Ue United States now that the power of tho farmer nod pi——r to tend to fkntway with Ue i reney discontent upon agricultural prodi can lend upon such — oeipts as proposed, aad a Now bank oould thus load op- stored In Georgia or Louisiana. "Git up, John, an' back ter ploughin']” go home, an' go No Longer a Virtue.—The Steu ben Republican says that a janitor in a neighboring school threw np his job the other .day. When asked what was the trouble he answered : '-'I’m honest, and I won’t stand being slurred. If I find a pencil or a hand kerchief about the school when I’m •weeping I hug it up. Every little while the teachers or someone that is too cowardly to face me gives men slur." . " In what way ?’’ asked an officer. " Why, a little while ago I —w writ ten on the board, ‘ Find the common multiple."# Well, I looked from garret to cellar and I wouldn’t know the thing if I met it In the street. What made me quit my job ? Last night in big writln" on Ue blackboard it said: ‘ Find the greatest common divisor. Well, I says to myself, both Uem darned Uings are lost now, and I’ll get blamed for swiping ’em, so I'll quit. —"Why don’t yon take example from Ue little bu*y Dec ?” inquired the man of unoriginal ideas. " I do,” about now is when de busy little bee lays off an’ doesn’t do no more work fur de nex’ six months.” Does your doctor guarantee to cure or permanently relieve that chronic trouble which causes you to much pain? Not II it's rheumatism, neuralgia, an old bruiso, backache or any pain that a penetrating Uniment might cure, we ad vim you to try I Igor or Liniment, if it don’t prove IslactofT the loss is oora. Bold ev—r- —Oa the summit of one of tbs high—t peaks of tha It Alps, stands a ool—1 broom el of tbe Virgin. Tha figara, whi— designed by Queen Margherita T and was unveiled last moath, o origin to the •ubecriptio— of 150,000 school children, their trl to tbe Virgin Moth— la gralofal i memoratloa oi the res owe of the a hers of a company of Alplao ml from an avalancho-— markable that the to the direct Infiuenoa of to>hom they prayed la Uoir sti—e. Graven in the pedeetsU la — in— tion from the Pop* praying tha Virgin to guard Ue frontier of Italy. — —Tommy—"Pop, Ua rain falls aiilfe upon the just and Ue unjust, doe—1 it ?” Tommy’* Pop—" Yee, y—; don't ask silly questions ?” Tommy—" Aad it isn’t just to steal another mao’s am- brella, is it ?” Tommy’s Pop—" On** talnly not. If you ask nay more " Tommy—" But, pop, the rain dneent fall upon the man that stank the urn* brella, and it does — Ue a— that ills stolen. Funny, ain’t it, pop?" Kiss am VandarbUt,-wi the head of the 1 hadJi -William has now become derbllt family, will be 50 years December. He is essentially ai the world; has owned a raol defended the Ameri—’s cup. c ooach-and-Iour and cruised In every sen in his own steam yacht, estimate of his present fortune from *15,000,000 to WO,0006,000. —The average man, living Vow- old In rears, consul bet* 14 of solid food of all kl startling total of a pints per i of liquid. ’ All aggregates the tlon less than 56 basis of Ur— consumes 421 tons of the woman’s toll la amount of food nod drink. —It has be— Oregoe that la — physiol— may drive a si' whi