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The Man With the Hoe. Bowed by the weight of centuries he leans I Upon his hoe and gazes in the ground, The emptiness of ages on his face. And on his hack the burden of the world, i Who made him dead to rapture and ^ despair, A thing that grieves not and that 1 never hopes, * Stolid and stunned, a brother to the ; ox? Who loosened and let down his brutal jaw? ! Whose was the hand that slanted ! back his brow? I Whose breath blew out the light , within this brain? - < L. - ..t-: ,1. ? T ~?,1 ^.wIA JS tins lilt; CIIIIIJ4 lilts IjUIU u?u maur and gave To have dominion oversea and land; To trace the stars ami search the heavens for power; To feel the passion of eternity? Is this the dream He dreamed who shaped the suns And pillared the blue fiimament with light? Down all the stretch of hell to its last gulf There is no shape more terrible than this? More tougued with censure of the world's blind greed? More filled with signs and portents for the soul? More fraught with menace to the universe. What gulfs between him and the seraphim! love of the wheel of labor, what to him Are Plato and the swing of Pleaides? What the long reaches of the peaks of song, The rift of dawn, the redding 01 me rose? Through this dread shape the suffering ages look; Time's tragedy is in that aching stoop; Through this dread shape humanity betrayed, Plundered, profaned and disinherited, Cries protest to the judges of the world, A protest that is also prophecy. O masters, lords and rulers in all lands, Is this the handiwork you gave to God, This monstrous thing distorted and soul-quenched? How will you ever straighten up this shape; Give back the upward looking and the light; Rebuild in it the music and the dream; Touch it again with immortality; Make right the immemorial infamies, Perfidious wrongs, irremediable woes? S--. v O masters, lords and rulers in all lands, How will the future reckon with this man? How answer his brute question in _ that hour When whirlwinds of rebellion shake the world? How will it be with kingdoms and with Kings? With those who shaped him to the thing he is? When this dumb terror shall reply to God After the silence of the centuries? ?Edwin Markham. TRUUiSLk t-UK tnt kaksvu. Likely to be in Dark Company Wherever he Went. A Connecticut family being much troubled about good servants and on a visit to some friends in 'lennessee, noticed one of those negro cooks (who are to be found here and there,) whose demeanor was as quiet as her work and person was cleanly. They persuaded her to enter their service, and in due time she arrived in Connecticut. On the following Sabbath, armed with her church letter recommending her to the kindly consideration of any sister church with whom she might affiliate, she, after much surprise at finding herself the "only darkey in sight for miles," to * say nothing of an African M. E. Church, asked for permission to worship with the "white folks" and put her letter of good standing in with them. She was told to come around 011 the following evening to the business meeting of the official board. Arrived, she was given a seat while her case was discussed, with the result that the whole board, exiZ - cept the pastor, was in favor of receiving her into fellowship, hers being an exceptional case and she herself so evidently respectable that there was no reason at all for saying otherwise. The pastor, however, as president, vetoed it, saying: "No brethren. 1 do not believe these people are human, or will ever go to Heaven. More than that, I should be unwilling to go there myself it they also will be admitted." Here the woman * interposed: "Well, honey, if you doan't want to go to Hebbin' wid niggers and you go to hell, you'll find plenty of niggers dar, too!" Capt. W7illiam Astor Chandler, Congressman from New York, is the president of The New York Stab, which is givingaway a Forty Dollar Bicycle daily, as offered by their advertisement in another column. Hon. Amos J. Cummings. >1. C., Col. Asa Bird Gardner, Dis^ 4 /N f \T .vltf V* /\ V _ \ IT triUt Aiiwi ur%v wi iuiA? CA"V? etnor Hogg, of Texas, and Col. Fred. Feigl, of New York, are among the well known names in their Board of Directors. Keep the Stomach and Bowels in good condition, the waste avenues open and free by an occasional dose of Dr. M. A. Simmons Liver Medicine. For sale by Hughson-Ligon Co. Every time a man tells what he considers a good story in a crowd, he is compelled to listen to a lot of others that bore him. bt L Political Union of North America. The area of public lands lietween the Red river and Rocky mountains in Canada upon which the best hard wheat can be successfully grown, stated by Professor McCoun at 200,000,000 acres, is one half as large as that of all the rebellious states. If one fifth part of it was under eulti vation, yielding 12$ bushels per acre ?the average yield of wheat in Man itoba in 1S91 was 25 3-10 bushels per acre?the total yield would be 500, 000,000 bushels, or in value greater than our entire cotton crop. This is only one of many sources of wealth to be gained by the peaceful consum mation of continental union. The political union of the United States and British North America can d? peaceruny consummated oy me wise expenditure of less than one tenth of 1 j>er cent, or one-thousandth part of the cost of the civil war to date, leaving out of the calculation the value of the property destroyed and the destruction of human life. All parties agree that the preservation of the territorial integrity of the Union was a necessity, and that its cost has been justified by events since the close of the war.?Francis Wayland Glen in New York Sun. CROKER SAYS HE WAS WRONG. declares We Have No Right to Conquer the Philippines-Thinks Bryan a Great Man. New York, August 13.?The Herild to-morrow will say: Richard broker, at the Democratic Club last night, said: "I was wrong in the statement I made before I went tway concerning the Philippine Islands. I based my belief that we should not give up a foot of soil our soldiers have won on information that wan not complete. I would not give two cents for a man who, when he found that -he had been wrong, would not at the very first chance set himself right. Such a man * * * * n * * - 5 a. 1 ? ^.'1 If i AD t\V would not ue nt ior euuei puimto private life. "Publicly I made the statement that I did not belieye we should give up the Philippines, which had cost us so many lives. Iam not ashamed now to say to the public that I was wrong. "I am not playing a political game through that intervinw. No man was responsible for my change of mind. While I was in Europe I talked with some of the best informed men there or anywhere else on the subject of colonial conquest. 1 made investigation for myself. I reached the conclusion that we have no right at all to keep the Philippines. We were wrong in the first place to pay $20,000,000 for them. ' On a question like this there should be no dividing line between Democrats and Republicans. Humanity, not politics, is involved, and I am convinced that humanity as represented by the votes of American citizens at the next Presidential election will record its horror and execration of the men and the party who are for private gain, putting bloody pages into history. Believing those things now, I go straight * 1 ?Vl?t oqtt T wqq to the public anu imu&ijr onj - ..? wrong. "I said I believed W. J. Bryan was one of the greatest men America has produced. I believe that very thing now. But that does not mean that I shall work for the nomination of Mr. Bryan or that I think he is the only man fitted for the nomination. He is as good a man and leader as could be found. But I have uo candidate." SAYS SHE SAW HEAVEN. Woman Declared Dead Suddenly Comes to Life. Wheeling, W. Va., August 10.? Mrs. Alexander Taylor, a widow 36 years old, of Toronto, near here, has been slowly dying of consumption for a week. Yesterday morning she became unconscious. A doctor was called and pronounced her dead, and funeral preparations were begun. About midnight her friends were astounded to see Mrs. Taylor move, open her eyes and ask for water. She asked, it is said, that a favorite niece, who lives in Iowa, be summoned at once to receive a message from her mother, who has been dead several years. Mis. Taylor says her spirit was disembodied and soared through space till a brilliant and u?ns rp?nnhed. Here uoauuiui ftiviw ? mw - angels were flying about, guarding what seemed the entrance to Heaven. She was refused admittance, but was allowed to converse at a short distance with her husband, who died last winter, and with her sister, the mother of the favorite niece. The message sent for the niece she refuses to 'disclose, except to the young woman. Mrs. Taylor says she was promised that she should come to Paradise very soon. Mrs. Taylor is an educated, sincere, Christian woman and is in ecstacy over the belief that she will soon join her friends gone before. The niece ha6 been telegraphed for. Mrs. Taylor cannot live more than a few days. Close at Hand. The day is long and the day is hard. We are tired of the march and of keeping guard, Tired of the sense of a fight to be won, Of days to live through, and of work to be done, Tired of ourselves and of being alone. And all the while, did we only see, We walk in the Lord's own company; We fight, 'tis He who nerves our arm, He turns the arrows which else might harm. And out of the storm He brings a calm. The work which we count so hard to do, He makes it easy, for He Works, too; The duvs that are long to live are His, A bit of His brighter eternities. And close to our need His helping is. Oh, eyes that were holden and blindpH nuifp. And caught no glimpse of the guiding light! Oh, deaf, deaf ears, which did not hear! The heavenly garment trailing near! Oh, faithless heart, which dared to fear! ?Susan Coolidge. A Change All Around. | ' There goes a party who will be heard from." said Smith, pointing to a young man who was going down the street. "He has managed to keep his head in love and financial matters, and they are the two tests. "Two months ago he was a young man with all the world before him and with no prospects ahead of him except a determination to fight life's battle. "He was in love with a young lady living in this city, but his financial condition prevented him from declaring his passion, besides he was not sure that the young lady in question cared for him. "But by one of those curious turns of the wheel of fortune an old aunt, that he had never seen, died and It? 11/ mill CL 1CVI 9UUI ?/| Ultriirj I Without delay he called upon the j young lady and asked her to marry him, saying nothing about the fortune that had been left him. He met with a point blank refusal. kkTwo days later the girl heard of his unexpected windfall, and wrote him a note saying, 'I have changed my mind.' "His answer was just as short. It read: "So have I."?Detroit Free Press. Educate Your Bowela With Cascareta. Candy Cathartic, cure constipation forever. 10c, 25c. If C. C. C. fail, druggists refund money. THE PASSING OF KING COTTON. South Carolina Will Have 20.000.000 Pounds of Tobaeco this Year. Coi.l'MBIA, S. August 10.?The South Carolina farmer Ih slow to give up his allegiance to King Cotton, but the returns in late years have shaken his faith.ami achauge is steadily being made. There has been nothing revolutionary in the supplanting of cotton iu half a dozen counties iu the rich Pee-Dee section by tobacco. The tirst experiments were made by one or two men in Darlington county Ave or six years ago. They were successful. The farmers in each county have experimented, and only when certain of success have they Rone into tobacco as their money crop. Thisyearit is planted extensively in six large counties, while in others experimental farms were cultivated. There are thousands of tobacco barns dotting the country, while in eight or ten towns large warehouses have been built. At these warehouses sales have been in progress fur weeks, but the big "breaks" took place this week, when several million pounds of the weed was sold to buyers from all over the country. Since the industry was begun in this State each year's product has more than doubled the last and the grade of leaf has improved. This season from 15,000.000 to 20.000.000 pounds will be soi l in these warehouses. The prices so far have ruled from 4- cents to 26 cents, and the tobacco planter is the happiest farmer in the State. The impetus to wheat growing has beeu more sudden and marked than that of tobacco culture. Last fall a large acreage was planted in wheat, and while the oat crop failed, the yield of wheat was excellent. The former difficulty of getting wheat to the mills has been obviated by the building of about twenty roller mills this spr!ng. They have Improved machinery, and have been grinding on full time. Because of a prejudice against the flour shipjMHi into the State, occasioned | by reports of its adulteration, the homeI made article sells 20 cents a barrel above the market quotations, and there is demand for all the output. To further stimulate wheat growing a State convention of wheatgrowers will meet iu Greeuwood August 15 and 16. Senator Tillumn will be one of the speakers. Ah an experiment a farm that produced fifteen bushels of wheat to the acre four yeart ago wan made to yield sixty bushels this year. No fertilizers were used, but after the wheat was harvested each year cow peas were sown and the viues ploughed in. It is j likely that this fall the wheat acreage of last year will be doubled.?Philadelphia Times. Owner and Editor. j A brief story; a story that more eoncisely than a book of many pages could tell the tale, reveals the history of the publishing of "The Philadelphia Times" from its beginning to the present time, and yet one that can only be clearly understood in the light of an understanding of the man to whom it applies! The man who had the largest amount of money invested in the Times at its beginning was Philip Collins. He had made a consider able amount of money in the building of railroads, and had come to Philadelphia to live with his wife in ease and not extravagance. He had no children. He it was who brought together Mr. McLaughlin and Mr. McClure prior to their joint starting of the Times newspaper. The day before the newly organized journal was to make its appearance Phil Collins came into the editorial room, that had its eutrance from a very dirty alley in 7th street, below Market. He was a man of stalwart build, over six feet in height, broad shouldered, strong faced. The editor was writing an article that subsequently led to the destruction of the Pilgrim Club, the downfall of the then existing highway ring, that had the municipal life of Philadelphia in its clutch. Collins walked up and down the dingy, dirty room for a while, with his inevitable cane hanging upon the hook of his arm, and suddenly said : "McClure, excuse me one moment. This is a great enterprise that we've gone into. I have put more money into ittnanany other man, and whatever the outcome may be I will not squeal. I think we will win; lam sure we will win; but in conducting this newspaper I would simply like to address to you one suggestion." The editor looked up inquiringly and poised his pen?he dictates now ?and: "What's that?" i"?, n if qq vnnr rlanin VI 11J ) i Ull If MO J VM* MMM?*> please." Evening Song. The sun's last beam has faded in the west; The day is done; Done, for a little while the mad unrest. The feverish, ceaseless struggle to attain So much.that after all, we found was vain. Day, with all its weight of joyful hearts, Of hearts that waken but to weep; Of souls that win success and fame; Of other souls that strive in vain; Like a tired child that drops its head Upon its mother's breast and falls asleep, Lies hushed in night. O'er hill and dale, with noiseless tread The holy calm of evening steals, Pausing beside earth's weary ones, who'er they be, Soothes and comforts until each feels All care dispelled, all grief assuaged. When striving and suffering are ended, and Life'6 day is done, Shall my soul bid as welcome death's night? That brief dark ere eternity's dawn? Ah! yes, if indeed hath that unknown realm, E'en earth's power to soothe and heal, Which she wields when the day has gone, With a grateful heart will I bid it come. A $40.00 Bicycle Given Away Daily. The publishers of The New York Star, the handsomely Mlustrated Sunday newspaper, are giving a High Grade Bicycle each day for the largest list of words made by using the letters contained in "T H-E N-E-W Y O R-KS-T-A-R" no more times in any one word than it is found in The N?w York Star. Webster's Dictionary to be considered as authority. Two Gold Watches (first class time-keepers) will be given daily for second and third best lists, and many other valuable rewards, including Dinner Sets, Tea Sets, China, Sterling Silverware, etc, etc., in order of merit. This educational contest is being given to advertise and introduce this successful inti* daw hftinps. and all i Mi n vv?ij ww v ?? prizes will be awarded promptly without partiality. Twelve 2-cent stamps must be inclosed for thirteen weeks trial subscription with full particulars and list of over 300 valuable rewards. Contest opens and awards commence Monday, June 26th, 1899, and closes Monday, August 21st, 1899. Your list can reach us any day between these dates, and will receive the rewards which it may be entitled for that day, and your name will bejpriuted in the following issue . of The New York Star. Only one list can be entered by the same person. Prizes are on exhibition at The Star's business offices. Persons securing bicycles may have choice of Ladies', Gentleman's Juvenile's 1899 model, color or size desired. Call or address Dept. "E," The New York Star, 236 W. 39th Street, New York City. SHORT NEWS STORIES. Pleture the Kaiiter Missed ? Story About Senator Clark ? Jnst the Man For the Place. Professor veil Kaulbuch of Munich was recently summoned to Berlin to paint a .portrait of the kalserin. This Is a somewhat difficult task, for, unlike the kaiser, who Is not at all averse to giving time as a model, the kaiserin has a rooted dislike to sitting for the Dainter. He is asked to tea and is glv en a chair in the vicinity of the kaiserIn. There he is expected to take studies from memory and not even to let it appear that he is taking observations, i Before he enters the imperial presence lie is warned by one of the gentlemen of the court not to repeat any conversation he may hear in the imperial presence, says the Paris Herald. One of the ladies of the court is told off to give the details of the toilet in which the kalserin wishes to be painted, and the following day the toilet finds its way to his atelier and is returned when he has finished the picture. The empress likes to be painted by a number of different artists, but as far as this court goes the artist is not handsomely remunerated, it being thought, j>erhaps not without reason, that the advertisement given is sufficient and that, therefore, the pay may be honorary. The price is only about $100. The advertisement side of the matter is very much appreciated by the artists. and thus there is no difficulty in obtaining their services in spite of the reduction in price, but yet there are exceptions, because those who have a good clientele are accustomed to ask and obtain $1,000 or more for a portrait. A case in point was one of a well * ? hod no Intod p rw?r KHOWLI UI list, v? uv t ? x trait of the kaiser for an exhibition and invited his majesty to see it. The kaiser was so pleased with it that he Immediately called out, "I buy that picture!" The artist was staggered and explained that he had painted it for exhibition. But the kaiser would not hear him, and as he reached the door turned round and s^Ad, "That picture is mine!" But scarcely had the imperial presence vanished than the artist, with all possible rapidity, packed up the picture and sent it away. He well knew what haste was needed, for an hour later a lackey of the court appeared to claim it, but he had to leave with empty hands. For this the kaiser did not forgive the painter for a long while after. For two years, although he had been his majesty's favorite artist, he received no further order. Story About Senator Clark. In the fierce rivalry for the United States senatorship in Montana between the Clark and Marcus Daly factions many amusing stories, true and false, were told by heated partisans. The point in most cases consisted of the contrast afforded by the early careers of the two men, says the Philadelphia Post Marcus Daly rose from a poor miner to be one of the copper kings of the west, while Clark began his western career as a college bred man. The speeches and letters of the TOOK HIM AT HIS WORD. latter were models of good English, but on one occasion his fastidiousness in expression worked unexpected results. He had laid out a handsome lawn in front of his house, and to prevent the townspeople from walking on the grass he built a board walk over 11 and put up the following sign, "Take the boardwalk." This sight Instantly caught the public eye, and the next morning the slgc and board walk had both vanished, and in place of the former was a rudelj lettered placard bearing this inscription, "We have." J oat the Man For the Plaee. WBen George C. Perkins was sent tc - the senate upon the death of Senatoi Stanford, his friends said that at the meeting of the legislature, two years later, Governor Perkins would make way for somebody else. But when thai time came the senator thought he would like to serve out the balance oi Senator Stanford's term, and so he was elected for two years more, says the San Francisco News Letter. And wher KrtAft n AOAOOO t*TT a Q QPT1. ( IV L/CtaLUC J VV \.?4VVOV M WVM ator for the full term of six years Mr Perkins again leaped Into the breach His friends considered that he was en titled to one full term?only one?as ar indorsement of his congressional record. He secured the indorsement an<3 also the term, which will expire in foui years more. Ambition now being fully satisfied his friends felt free to consult Senatoi Perkins upon the selection of a worthj citizen to succeed him. "Well," admitted Senator Perkins when spoken to on the subject "I havs in mind a gentleman whom I have ' known for a long time. I believe he is Just the man for the place. His name! They call him Perkins. TRY TO BE COMFORTABLE. Devote your energies to beinf comfortable. Nothing will aid you so much as simplicity. Don't try tc follow all the fads invented by fools ' In the first place get a coinfortahh place to live. Get a good cellar. Gel a good cistern. Fix your watei pipes so they won't freeze. Fix yourself so that you can be warm in winter and reasonably cool in summer, Have things "handy" around tht house. Give up your membership in literary and card clubs, and devote your attention to your own affairs; if you can't find enougn tci keep you busy, it is a sign you don't look very closely. Time probably never tells more perceptibly on a man than when he tries to steal upstairs about 4 a. m., and the alarm clock goes off and wakens his bette.' half. An old bachelor says woman wear shoes too small because the right size are too large. Too many of the kind words we think are left unsaid. It's hard for the new minister to square the sewing-circle. A horse-shoe nailed on the front of your house will not oyercotne I laziness. STAGE GLINTS. 3 Alfred Klein, the comedian, may star e next season In a three act farce called "My Lord the Butler." One hundred and eighty-one new operas were presented in Europe during the past dramatic year. Edith Yerrlngtou has been engaged to play the title role next season In "Jack and the Beanstalk." a Charles Wyndham, the well known English actor, is reviving "Rosemary" s at the Criterion theater, Loudon. Charles Frohman has bought "The p Tyranny of Tears" and will put John t Drew into the role which Charles Wyndham is playing in Loudon. t Louis N. Parker is to revive Stuart a Ogilvie's version of "Cyrano de uer- f gerac" for Charles Wyndham, to whom Sir Henry Irving has transferred the e English rights. Lilli Lehniann has been added to the I long list of prime donne appearing this season at Covent Garden in London. She made her entree on June 1 as t Leonora in "Fidelio." t Mine. Sembrich is to return to this country in advance of the other mem- i bers of the Grau company in order to s sing at the Maine festival. She will ^ remain Ln the Lnlted States next year until June. j American comic opera prima donnas ( are not the only ones who go to the t music halls in the intervals between j engagements. Letty LInd is to sing at the Alhambra, in London, and Ilka j Palmay, the Hungarian, is at the Winter Garden in Berlin. She is at the J bead of her profession in Vienna. 1 Close resemblances have already been found between Sardou's "Robes- | plerre" and "Thermidor," which has not yet been given in England. So ( nearly alike are the two plays that the ^ author is said to have used freely parts of the earlier work, which will j probably never be given in England. THE TROTTING CIRCUIT. ! Scott Quinton has deserted the sulky , horses for thoroughbreds. Cresceus is reported to be in fine con- j dition and has gone an easy mile better than 2:18. ^ Harry Omer is credited with pacing j a mile in 2:09% over the Cleveland , track this season. , Chain Shot, a M. and M. candidate, ! by Great Heart, is credited with a mile i at Detroit In 2:15%. Granite, b. g.. who nosed out Success in 2:14% at Denver, is by Deputy, i darn by Guy Wilkes. I Que Allen, 2:09%, has injured one of 1 his feet badly and is probably out of the game in Europe this season. The foal of Bonzetta, 2:06%, by Patchen Wilkes, has a very crooked hind leg. and there are small hopes of raising it. Dot, 2:25%, the first new 2:30 trotter of the season, is now said to be by Alcaid. son of Prlnceps. dam Althea, by Annont. James Cassidy of California, who owns and drives Raymond M., 2:08%. has but one leg and one arm, but he gets there all the same. A 3-year-old by Arlon, dam Hourl, 2:17, has been named San Telmo and is a natural pacer. Within 30 days after being taken from grass he showed a mile better than 2:30 at that gait Amelia, by Electioneer, Is said to have foaled twins four times in eight years. She is the dam of four In the list notwithstanding her loss of time based on the theory that twin colts seldom live and never prosper.?Turf, Field and Farm. ITEMS OF INTEREST. The blood of five race9 flow9 In the veins of the Boer. Only one person In every four of the Inhabitautg of London earng more than a pound a week. In Sweden good hotels are erected by the communities in places where it Is thought tourists would like to tarry. Charcoal is the great Italian fuel, 1 Naples alone consuming 40,000 tons of wood charcoal, at a cost of from $16 ; to $20 per ton, the national consump tlon being 700,000 tons. J A large class of Mexicans, commonly ' called peons, wear a kind of sandal. These are called "guaroches" and consist of a simple sole of leather held to the feet with strings which pass be1 tween the toes and are tied about the ankle. The oldest tree on earth with an authentic history is the great Bhootree of Burmah. For 20 centuries it has been held sacred to Buddha and no person , f is allowed to touch the trunk. When. , the leaves fall they are carried away^, as relics by pilgrims. ! WOMEN'S WAYS. !j , What we are looking for Is a girl ? whose shoes are not a mile too large/ i When a child scratches its head, its > mother wants to know whom it fatts t been playing with of late. 1 A woman is immensely flattered when "the girls" ask her to appear/at a party in a low neck gown. 41 When a woman can't sing at! all, ' friends excuse her by saying ithat, though her voice is not strong, {it Is ' very sweet. When a woman is entertaining an out of town guest, she looks^ very 1 grateful when some one asks her r "company" how long she Is g^ng to stay. ;I' } Every woman when she hands a piece of pie to a tramp bonders ) vaguely If he will ever, retiirn the i kindness by comiug back soine day ? and paying the mortgage on her home. ?Atchison Globe. r. $100 REWARD. $100: The readers of this paper will be pleased to r learn that there is ut least one dreaded dis- j . case that science has )>eeii able to cure in all its stages and that is Catarrl)y Hall's Ca) tarrh Cure is the only positive cure now known to tne medical fraternity. Catarrh , Wing a constitutional disease, requires a constitutional treatment. Hall's Caterrh Cur?* ! is taken internally, acting direotly upon ehe blood and mucous surfaces of t he system, thereby destroying the foundation of the disease. and giving the patient strength by : building up the constitution dnd assisting nature in doing its work. Thy 'proprietors ' have so much faith in its curative powers, ; that they offer One Hundred D(dlars for any j ? case that it falls to cure. Send for list of tes- | timonialn. Addrenn. i F. J. CHENEY & C<X? Toledo, O. j Sold by DrUKgiHtH, 7oc. , 1 Hall'H Family Villa arc the b?nt. j m 1 The best excuse for matrimony is 1 youth. t The time has come when a woman's footprints on the sands of time do not cause scandal any more. Always treat a woman as though she were a perfect lady; even though she is your own wife or sister. Green apples are said to be an excellent cholera preventive. We feel safe in saying that persons who die from eating green apples will never be troubled with cholera. tin To Cure Coiintl|mClon Forever. Take Cascarets Candy Cathartic. 10c or 25c. If C. C. C. fall to cure, druggists refund money. ^ g PERSONALITIES. f William C. Whitney pays dues to i bout 30 clubs and societies. \ Ernest Van Dyck, the grand opera a inorur htxrnn lif^> ns a nowsuaoer man. ^ ? -? * M. Waldeck-Rousseau, France's new 8 >remier, is the most famous orator of r he French bar. Senator William A. Clark of Mouana is a great admirer of Montaigne a ind has read the famous essays daily ( or 20 years. Mr. Kipling now has 23 suits in proc- t ss, against as many different publish- c ;rs and booksellers throughout the s Jnited States. I John Burroughs, the critic, is quite t l hermit and lives by himself In a litle cabin on the Hudson halfway be- i ween New York and Albany. t Verdi wears a long, loose, double ^ >reasted sack coat and baggy trousers, to that at first sight it seems as if the v jreat maestro were clad in pyjamas. 1 Professor George Harris, who has ust been elected president of Amherst . ollege, Is a graduate of that institu- t ion and a native of East Machias, Me. < 3e is 55 years old. j ou-utn/. ?Ka Hnt/iti nlonict rrh A WAS r C31t* \ MUg, me 1/uiv.u v mprisoned for a while In Austria last j lummer for disrespect to a religious f jrocession, has eloped with the daugh- t ;er of a Vienna hotel keeper. t Russell Sage works hard during six lays of the week and is constantly re- * ;eiving a steady stream of business < wallers. On Sunday, however, he re- < fuses to think of his work and rarely * sees any one but his family and most intimate friends. ' John D. Rockefeller when a very j poor and very small boy was asked what he intended to do when "grown up." Here is his answer: "Some day, when 1 am a man, 1 want to be worth i hundred thousand dollars. And I'm going to be, too?some day." Thomas F. Pendel, a White House e guard, has been on duty for 34 years. 1 He let President Lincoln out of the ex- [ scutlve mansion the last night he went j put alive and was the last to bid Pres- ] Ident Gariield goodby when the latter ( started for the railroad depot where he t was assassinated. i The Rothschilds in every country as- < sume the typical appearance of its 1 people. Lord Rothschild of England T much resembles Lord Salisbury. Baron i Alphonse de Rothschild is a perfect 1 Frenchman in appearance. Wilhelm J Karl Rothschild of the Frankfort house 1 is a typical German. Sir Henry Dryden, Bart., who Is 80 1 years of age and has held his title for 1 G1 years, recently climbed outside the ! high spire of King's Sutton church in Northamptonshire without help, using * the steeplejacks' ladders, In order to 1 measure and draw the tracery on the i spire. There was a strong wind. J THE GLASS OF FASHION. The special novelty in French mil- ' linery Is the directoire shaped hat In biscuit colored straw. Petticoats, whether of silk or lawn, have to be very carefully fitted to wear , with the close fitting skirts. Gray kid shoes, with stockings to match, are worn with light gowns in place of the white ones so long popu- I lar. i Mourning hats for young girls are of dead black chip, with wide brims and ' trimmed with plain white tulle or 1 white tulle dotted with black. 1 The prettiest petticoat to wear with the thin gown is made of white taffeta, silk trimmed, with detachable lace trimmed ruffles of lawn, which can be nicely laundered, or of India silk, trimmed with lace that will wash. White kid belts, plain or variously trimmed with beads or metal of some sort are worn with the white shirt waists, but prettier than these are the belts of soft, white satin ribbon, wide enough to wrinkle a little, fastened with a silver gilt buckle. The smart bandanna silk handkerchief arranged in a four iu hand necktie stands at the head of the list, but a Hainc nnveltv Is the automobile of black satin powdered with crimson sparks and drawn at the neck in a four in hand knot and at the bust in a sailor's knot Then Its two long ends are secured in the wearer's belt?New York Sun. I ' "APHORISMS. The man who pardons easily courts injury.?Corneille. Good order is the foundation of all good things.?Burke. Nothing dies so hard or rallies so often as intolerance.?H. W. Beecher. Good manners and good morals are sworn friends and fast allies.?Bartol. The jest loses its point when he who makes it is the first to laugh.?Schiller. To tremble before anticipated evils is to bemoan what thou hast never lost ?Goethe. Toil and pleasure, in their nature opposites, are yet linked together in a kind of necessary connection.?Livy. Fate never wounds more deeply the generous heart, than when a blockhead's insult points the dart?Johnson. The best portion of a good man's life Is his Httle, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.? Wordsworth. It is only an error in judgment to make a mistake, but It shows Infirmity of character to adhere to it when discovered.? Bovee. It is announced that the Duchess of Firestone lus twins. There it goes again; rich people have! any * LIJIU^ 11 I r-j >v ail i/. A woman's idea of bravery is crossing a field in which a cow is grazing. Woman's earthly influence over man begins at the cradle and ends at the grave. AdEXTS WAXTEDP-Fc.r "Tin* IJfe and \chievementH of Admiral Dewey," the world's i jreatest naval hero. By Mnrat Halstead the lifelong friend and admirer of (he nation's dol. Biggest and best book: overoOOpagex, CvlO inches: nearly 100 pages halftone illustrations. Only $1.50. Enormous demand. ^ Big commissi(?ns. Outfit free. Chance of a ifetinie. Write quick. The Dominion ('<?ni>any, 3rd Floor ('axton Bldg.. Chicago. Tie Gentlewoman OF NEW YORK CITY, 3 Wants an agent in your town. It gives premiums 3 ot Cameras, Bicycles, Sewing Machines, Desks, Sets ot Dishes, Rings, Watches, Shirt and Silk Waists, Handkerchiefs, etc.; in fact, about a hun- I dred useful and ornamental articles and household necessities can be secured w;thout costing one cent. * A new and attractive plan of securing subscribers without the objectionable features of canvassing. The Gentlewoman now has a circulation of over 300,000 copies each month. Will you act as our agent ? All supplies free. Write for particulars to \ GENTLEWOMAN PUBLISHING COMPANY, Gentlewoman Building, 0 New York City, N. Y. I j A SHOOTING STAR. Vhat It Really In and Where It Cuiaett From. Sir Robert Ball, who is the world's Teatest living astronomer, told a Lon011 audience recently some interesting acts about meteorites and shooting tars. In describing the origin of meteorte9 lie said that millions of years ago, chen the earth was an infant at play nd volcanoes were giants, the meteors vere thrown upward in infant convulions. Some of the earth's discarded ocks returned at once, but those which vere flung upward at a rate greater han seven miles a second passed beond the earth's gravitating influence nd sought paths of their own. no one :ould tell whither. And then, after millions of years, hey once more came within the reach ,f fbo wnrld nnd old Mother Earth re umed her sway, took hack the rocks tc | ter bosom and the astronomers said a neteoiite had fallen. Sir Robert asked his hearers to imagne a wrapping of some hundreds of niles of air round the earth's surface tfow just in the same way that a giinet. boring its way into wood, becomes varm. so a bullet going 20 miles a uinute would become extremely warm n boring its way through 20 miles of tir. And in the same way that a bullet >ecame warm, so a meteorite traveling .0,000 times as fast as a bullet, travelng stt this speed perhaps for hundreds >f years through realms of space whose )araly&ing cold was indescribable and inding itself at last plunging through he warm bath of the air. became hoter and hotter and hotter. It glowed, it became white hot, it nelted. it dissolved in a burst of gassous splendor, and observers on the ;arth cried, "Why, there's a shooting star!" \N ARCHITECTURAL PUZZLE. Monasteries Built In a Wildly Inaccessible Locality. The famous monasteries of Meter?* nrown the summits of vast rock pinna:les rising from the plain of Thessaly. By what strange means the first cunling architects of these airy perches ineceeded in reaching the scene of their abors is a matter wreathed in mystery. The cliffs are far too smooth and perpendicular for any man to climb by land and foot, and history guards jealmsly the secret of the monasteries. All ;hat is known about them is that the iionks and wandering friars of the midlie ages found sanctuary here when irst the crescent and aciiniter ran red ivith Christian blood. Visitors to the nonks' abode announce their presence, jy shooting until some one far above ooks out and lets the net, which ia worked by a windlass, come down. The sensation of the ascent is distinctly novel. Seated on the ground in the center of the net. the meshes are me by one looped on to a large iron bood. As the fope becomes tant the :ords press uncomfortably hard upon various points of one's body, and with i strong wind blowing it swings to 1X1(1 irU ttliU UUlii^/O AUO uuuiau <vu\? against the cliff. The rope, as it slowly winds on the drum up in the monastery, kinks occasionally, and the jerk gives Dnethe impression that the rickety concern is giving way. The journey, however, ends safely 170 feet above the ground, where the monks promptly extricate the visitor and give him a pleaeant welcome The Caroline Islanders. As a rule the Caroline islander is fairly honest. Once lay his suspicions to rest and win his confidence, and he will prove himself a faithful friend and an excellent host, courteous and just in all his dealings, as I have very good cause to know. On the other hand, when dealing with his enemies, he calls into play a talent for intrigue, lying and chicanery that would delight a Machiavelli. In his private life be is unselfish, frugal and economical, a man of careful. small habita Like all folk of Melanesian admixture, he is liable to fits of dangerous sullenness when he considers himself slighted in any way. He is inclined to be revengeful and will bide bis time patiently until bis opportunity cornea Yet he is not implacable and counts reconciliation a noble and princely thing. There is a form of etiquette to be observed on these occasions ?a present (katom) is made, an apology offered, a piece of sugar cane accepted by the aggrieved party, honor is satisfied, and the matter enda The Ponapean is a stout warrior, a hardy and skillful navigator, fisherman, carpenter and boatbuilder, somewhat of an astronomer and herbalist, but a very second class planter and gardener.? Geographical Review He Did. "Whatever station in life yon may be called to occupy, my boy," said the father, in sending his son out into the great world, "always do yonr best" "I will," replied the young man, with emotion He never forgot his promise. Years afterward, when a prosperous man of business, be did his best friend out of a large sum of money In spite of everything it turns out that way once in awhile. ?Chicago Tribune - Dangen In Mercury. Mercury is a foe to life. Those wfio make mirrors, barometers or thermometers. etc.. scon feel the effect of the^ nitrate of mercury in teeth, gums and the tissues of the body In Iceland men and women are in every respect political equals. The nation. which numbers about 70,000 people, is governed by representatives elected by men and women together. A philologist estimates that of every 100 words in the French language 18 are superfluous. The Wrong Home. A weather beaten member of the tired fraternity, who had lost a leg and had it replaced by a wooden substitute, stumped his way up the main street of a Lanarkshire village the other day and paused at the door of the first likely looting dwelling. Knocking at the floor, wlncn was opened dj a orisa, businesslike housewife, the man began bis stereotyped whine: "If ye please, mum, I lost my leg"? And before he could unfold another word of his tale the sharp retort came: "Aweel, ye didna lose it here!" And bang went the door in his face. ?Liverpool Mercury. Satisfied. Opulent Father-in-law?What ails rou, George? Since you have married rou seem to have lost all yoar ambition. George?Well, you see, sir, I reached ;he height of my ambition when I be?me your son-in-law.?Harlem Life Poetic* Squelched. Weary Watkins?Oh, that I had the vings of a bird! Hungry Higgins?They's less meat n the wings than they is on any other tiece.?Indianapolis Journal. 1 ~~CRAZED BY THE COMETi rhe Prospective Arrival of Hiela't Orb Left Its Influence Behind. There are wise j>eople to-day who believe that the proximity of a comet to the earth brings with it various diseases, mental as well as physical disturbances. "I never took any stock in this comet business," said a practical friend of mine. "I've seen several comets in my time and read all sorts of rot about them, very little of which 1 believed. But this comet" He paused and drew me away from the crowd. Having glanced about him uneasily, he continued: "This comet nearly drove my wife crazy! Yes, sir; fact! And she's nearly driven me crazy. Do you?have you seen anything queer about me lately?" 1 told him 1 had not?that he looked as sane as his average fellow monai. "Well," he resumed, "I've run a mighty narrow chance, 1 tell you. But 6he's cured now. If this infernal comet hadn't gone away just when it did 1 should have been locked up by this time. "My wife is ordinarily a quiet little woman and takes no particular interest in the newspapers except when there is a mysterious murder case like the great ' Maybrick poisoning case or the CarlyleHarris case, or something like that? something mysterious, you know. Then she grabs the newspapers and reads up on it, and thinks about it, and talks about it, and advances theories about it, and thoroughly masters it, hanging the defendant every day. She can find more clews than the whole metropolitan police force. She pounces down upon me at breakfast with her theories and clews and suspicions, and as these are changed after reading the evening papers 1 get another dose at night. "But this comet! She ha* been stricken?yes, sir, stricken?by the mys: terious influence the comet is said to have upon the human mind! it wa* ! manifest in her the very day she read | the dispatches and the differences of [ learned opinion as to whose comet it | was and its probable orbit, its distance, I the number of sparks in its tail, etc. If ' it had been a straightforward comet <md come right out where everybody conld see it and where everybody expected it, she would have been all serene. But the mystery ef the thing, the uncertainty, the disagreement of astron omers?that settled her. She began reading np on the comet from the newspapers. As every newspaper differed, and every authority in every newspaper differed with every other authority in that or any other newspaper, she found herself suddenly plunged into a whirl of excitement "She sprang comet on me every hoar in the day and swept the heavens with a 2-inch opera glass every night She had a sort of idea that redhot chunks of iron were liable to drop into our fiat She went up on the roof to see the me teoric shower and got locked oat ap there by the janitor. If 1 hadn't missed her she'd have been frozen to death. She got up ten times a night to look out and once she said she smelled sulphur. She. slipped out of bed the first thing in the morning and read what the papers said about the comet, then went back to bed again. When I sat down to breakfast with my paper she was loaded few me. You could see a hazy red light hanging over the Jersey horizon from oar windows, and she had those windows open so much at night we all got polds and. snuffles. On Sunday night the sky over there was bright red at intervals. Well, she was just wild. Then she smelled the solphur in the air. 1 never saw a woman get so excited. She scarcely slept a wink. "The next morning, when she found * that it was the Jersey meadows on fire and that she hadn't seen the comet at all, she was the moet disgusted woman you ever fcaw. She won't touch a newspaper now. She says the newspapers are the biggest liars?next to the astron- _ omers?on earth. If 1 say 'comef at her now she is as mad as a hornet "In my opinion, if s been a confound ed fraud all along. This man Biela, or Beely, ought to get six months on the island."?New York Herald. ' . r>S Bare Belles Unearthed. E'??" 4-V.q mnct MfnarfrfthU MIIM discovered have just been found in the western Egyptian oasis of Theba and sent to the Louvre in Paris for exhibition. They are plaster oasts busts. , , These busts originated during the brief era of prosperity at the close of the Sec- . J ond and the beginning of the Third cen- ' * tury of our time. They are not, as it /! would seem, detached-pieces of statues, but are complete in themselves. They i are masks used for a special class of mummies, and like most of the Egyp-# tian curiosities come from the grave. The departed members of wealthy families were provided not only with sepolchera, but with a sort of armor composed of ' several pieces, which completely incased the dead body. The feet were into a pocket shaped affair like a carriage foot warmer, and separate pieces were made for chest and neck, as well as the hair, with a mask for the face, which often resembled the features of the dead.?St Louis Poet-Dispatch. A Tarn from Bod Bluff. A few days ago James E. Holt went for a quail hunt along the banks of the Sacramento river. Under a cover of brush he discovered a nice flock of birds. - J but when he raised his gun to have a 5? shot they disappeared. He felt satisfied. that there were quite a number under a particular bush and he biased away. 4 The noisy fluttering which followed told him the result and he ran for his prise, , rand just as he was reaching out his hand to catch a wounded quail he was suddenly shocked to discover an enormous rattlesnake in the line of the bird. * v* He approached the birds again with ?? his gun cocked and ready for a sudden shot, and learned that the snake was dead. When he fired at the birds he killed the snake and six quail, although none of the birds or the serpent were in view. Tn9 snake had eight rattles and a button and was 3;.? feet in length.? Bed Bluff (Cal.) News. WILSON ISUMMERTON ft. R. x. Time Table No. 1, to take effect Monday, June 13,1898. TRAINS GOING NORTH. Lv Wilsons Mill 910am Ar Jordan 9 35am Ar Davis Station 9 45am Ar Summerton 10 10 a m Ar Millard 10 15 a m Ar Millard 10 45 a ra Ar Silver 11 10 a in Ar Pack8ville 1130 am . Ar Tindal 11 56 a m Ar W. & S. Junction 12 27 p m Ar Sumter 12 30 p m TRAINS GOING SOUTH. Lv Sumter 2 00pm Lv W. & S. Junction * 2 03pm Ar Tindal 2 20pm Ar Packsviiie 2 38pm Ar Silver 2 60pm Ar Millard 3 06pm Ar Millard 3 36pm Ar Summertou 3 60pm Ar Davis 4 20 p m Ar Jordan ^4 46 pm Ar Wilsons Mill 6 16pm BETWEEN MI.L.L.AKJJ ft bT. Ar Millard 10 15 a Ar St Paul 10 25 a m Lv St Paul .10 35 a b?|B|Hh| Ar M i 1 lard 10 45 a All traius^Uyexcept^^^^^^^^HH J