University of South Carolina Libraries
- - - THE VALLEY BT TI02L& In the secret Valley of Silence No breath doth fall; No wind stirs in the branches; No bird doth call; As on a white wall A breathless Hzard is still, So silence lies on the valley, Breathlessly still. "ri *y OW you can't tell about a man's courage, his aptitude for "heroism" nor his psychot, - JT> logical possibiltics by his size ar complexion. Take "Chig" Taylor, for instance. He was the smallest, red-headedest, ugliest, "ornieriest" soldier in the Thirty-second Regiment. From the time the command left the Presidio till after the surprise and massacre cf Calignac he never did have any standing with lieutenants, captain or colonel. In fact, he spent half , his time in the guardhouse, and was known in the brigade as a trouble-maker and insubordinate. When Colonel Gary, of the Thirtysecond, got orders to send a battalion around by the Cocooan River to Gagni, and to make a connection with the Seventh Artillery en route, "Chig" Taylor -was a happy man and a good soldier. What he needed was action, and here was the first chance he had * -since he landed in Manila. First he ' got away from the bad influence of the cheap groggeries of the archipel^ ago, and, second, he had a sick corn" rade on his hands. Tim Scully was his -"bunky," and "Chig*' knew all about his "record" in the States. Tim had ' "done time" back in the States, but in ISlr- 5P*te he ba(*been a s?o(l s?!" dier, and had split rations with the hungry "Chig." That's a good deal. - if you're a soldier you know what a half-portion of beans and salt horse means. So "Chig," in his rude, humble, lawbreaking way, loved Tim Scully and. because Tim was sick anu nau a mister oil his foot as big as a paper dollar, carried his pack to Taglac and beyond. Perhaps you have never seen the rainy season in the Philippines. The town streets are stagnant rivers of yellow slush, knec-deep, putrescent and bad for the strenuous walker. The rice fields are lagoons of slimy soapsuds. '<; -It is not good for the pleurisy, it is bad for sore feet, it is terror for the weary. ? And Tim Scully was stuffed with pleurisy and he was tired. Therefore "Chig" Taylor, the regimcBtaM&lack sheep, carried his pack* split brcak" fasts js?|th him. and drew his rations. Everybody hated "Chig." He was the smallest mar; in the regiment. Red-headed, freckled, quarrelsome, lazy and arrogant, he had all the besetting sins of the despised "rookie" and none of his virtues, for he was economical, voracious as to his food, jealous of his honor and moral in the fine sense. "Chig" was a sergeant and so thor oughly despised that when there was sink digging or garbage moving to be done he was the elect, the chosen one. He was in the habit of "roasting" his colonel, cursing his captain and belittling his lieutenants to that degree that the men with shoulder straps began to suspect stinging hurts from the rear. Nothing was "put past" "Chig" Taylor. "That fellow will land in a post pri / son," said Lieutenant Campfield, the West Pointer. "He has a bad heart and a mean, yellow eye." And so when K Company and the rest of the battalion was sent round by the Cocooan River, Taylor, the "freckled sergeant," got all the dirtj work. Every commissioned whipper ft? P':- ^\Jk n ... ^ K / I, ' n CARRIED HIS "BUNKY'S" PACK. snapper in the command "used" him for a valet and bossed him round like a hired man. At Balignag it -was supposed that the Thirty-second Battalion would be re-enforced by Major Capper's two companies of artillery?they called them "batteries," but in reality they were infantry with two mountain guns?but when' the battalion arrived -? In Balignag it was found that Cappei was twenty miles to the northwest or a little excursion of his own devising. The only telegram operator in the command was a "ham" native, and when Major Helery tried to read: headquarters he found that his "oper ator" couldn't transpose an EnglisL message and the "receiver" couldn't translate one in Spanish. Major Helery had only 120 men in his battalion, but his orders were plain. 4*Dneh r\n Poll err* oa " A, x U TU vu tv/ vwi^auv., CliUj rtrau. 'make a junction "with Capper at Balignag, taking the Hotchkisses, and report back to headquarters inside oi sixty-two hours." It was all plain enough, but wher Helery and his command reached Ba lignag and the telegrapher proved s failure, and Capper was missing anc half the battalion was sick with ItJ twenty-four hours in the morasses things began to "look bad" for the fa mous Thirty-second. Major Helerj was worried, but he couldn't reach headquarters. The jungle, full of "amigos," and a sea of yellow mud. lay before him. "I'm goin' to lay down," said Scully. "Don't do it, Tim," said "Chig" Tayr ' OF SILENCE, _ , , MACLEOD. In the dusk-grown heart of the valley An altar rises white; Xo rapt priest bends in awe Before its silent light; Hut sometimes a flight Of breathless words of prayer White-wing'd enclose the altar, Eddies of prayer. ?Fortnightly Review. lor. "We're from the same State, the same countj* and the same town, an' the good Lord knows I ain't got no reputation to waste. Have you?" The day after Major Helery left "without Ills re-enioreemenrs xie was ordered back to headquarters, but lie didn't get the message. When the orderly rode out six miles after him he was twenty miles in'o the jungle, and Tim Scully was still talking about "laying down." "Chig," the red-headed ne er-do-well, was carrying the load. It was a Friday night that the Tliir1 ty-second entered Calignac and drove the Tagals, 400 strong, out of the village. Beyond the village lay rows on rows of stunted brush, and the Ilotchkisses would have come in handy, but not having thorn Major Ilelerv pushed on, every officer and man carrying a rifle and all loaded to the guards with extra cartridges. As usual, "Chig" Taylor and his associates, "the meanest gang in the regiment," were pushed forward to do scout duty. Each day they found themselves from one to five miles ahead of the column. It was on Tuesday, four miles to the front, that they" ran into Del Caseo, the half-breed, with 400 Tagals, well armed and sure of their superior knowledge of the jungles. "Chig" Taylor was admittedly the crack shot of his company. Scully, Tim, the man with the bad foot, was liis only rival. They were coming, forty of them, the advance guard of Major Ilelery's expedition, across a sub merged rice field when tlie Tagals opened up. Nothing showed above the level sur held off twenty. face of the flood water but the little lateral ridges of the rice furrows. There was do shelter. "Br-rr-r-#," sang the Mauser bullets, splashing the dirty water as they skimmed like hot hail into the wet. Six sharpshooters were fuddling in the water. Tim Scully was out in front and "Chig" Taylor, the sergeant, carrying his load, was on his llank. "Chig," growled the soldier, "I'm goiu' to stand up and shoot back." "Lay down behind the rice ridges and shoot," yelled the red-headed sergeant. "Not me," retorted the stubborn . Scully. "I didn't lay down for the sore foot, and I'd rather die than walk to Gagni." "Br-rr-r-r," sang the bullets. 1 The men of the advance sought the : cover of the adjacent jungle. ' Say, 'Chig,'" grumbled Scully, lev. eliug his rifle at the dim, gray row of stunted trees when the rattle of rifles sung; "say, 'Chig' " "Yes, Tim," said Taylor, the sergeant. "If I git it here, 'Chig* " "Bing, bing," went his rifle. "If I git it here, 'Chig,' will you drag me out? I don't want to fall into them savages' hands." The skirmish line had fallen back behind the river trenches now. "Chig" Taylor and Scully were out. knee-deep In the water all alone. The water about them was splashing with a rain of Tagal bullets. Then Scully went down in the mire with a grunt. "It's come, 'Chig,'" he growled; "they've hit me. Remember, I don't want no bolo business in mine." And then he sloughed over in the mud, and "Chig" Taylor, the red-headed sergeant, lay down in the water beside him. Then Helery and the battalion came up. But one rifle was speaking from the floor of the flooded field, i The Tagals were screaming delight from the aiubush. They had numbers and guns and position. "Who is that fool in the open?" yelled Helery, riding to the verge of the field. "Taylor, sir," said a corporal, touchi ing his hat. " 'Chig' Taylor, sir. He's 1 standing off a whole brushful of Ta gals." i And when the battalion charged across the submerged ricefield waist > high and shouting, they found little I Taylor a sorry wreck. He was lipi deep in the dirty water, but lils rifle was speaking at weary intervals. His i jaw hung down, bloody and broken, : his forehead streamed with muddy blood. "Taylor, you jackass, get out of this!" roared Helery as the battalion ; swept out and cleared the brush. "What are you doing here alone?" "Lookin' after Scully," said the little ! sergeant, standing up at salute, and dragging out of the mire a soldier's t cap. "He's here, major. He's here in - the mud, an' he died as brave as Lawi ton'r anny o' them." I And after that Taylor, the little redj headed sergeant, Taylor the black; guard, Taylor the mischief-maker, was - the model man of the Thirty-second.? - John H. Raftery, in the Chicago Reci ord-IIerald. The Russians, who are supposed to be great tea-drinkers, do not use as much tea per head of the population J as do the people of the United States, o .'WHAT WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY IS Modern Physicist's Views Regarding Electrical Phenomena. In order to follow* Intelligently the I advance of wireless telegraphy from the beginning, some rough idea must be had of the modern physicist's views regarding the nature of electrical phenomena. To this end all space must be regarded as permeated by a something termed the luminiferous ether. Not only does this ether permeate the spaces between the heavenly bodies and our atmosphere (which conception offers little difficulty to the l*y mind), but it also permeates all solids. Further, its nature is such that the movement even of solids is not in the least restrained by such permeation, the closest analogy being that of a I sieve, representing the solid, being j moved about in water representing the ether. The ether is the scat not only of all electrical phenomena, but also of all the phenomena of light and heat. All of these, apparently so distinct, are but the result of vibrations or waves on the ether, the apparent differences being due only to differences in the length of the waves and the rapidity with which they occur, just as one musical note differs from another m the same particulars, only that the sound waves arc air waves and not ether waves. Now with the usual telegraphic methods the current, as it is termed, is sent or directed through space by means of a metallic conductor. Actually nothing passes through the wire, as is implied by the use of the word "current." What actually takes place is the transmission of energy along the path of the wire by means of vibrations in the neighboring ether. That is, the metal of the wire acts merely its a guide for the ether waves to the destination desired. In wireless telegraphy, ether vibrations are also set up at the transmitting station, but these, having no conducting guide, radiate in all directions through space, and a small percentage of them arrives at the. receiving station, and by means of suitable apparatus are made appreciable by the senses or recorded.?The Great Round World. A Lapland Clock. Terjiaps it is not realized by many persons that in the higher latitudes clocks become more and more a convenience, if they are not a prime necessity to the housekeeper, "When the sun is above the horizon for "weeks together there is little difference to be noted between day and night. An English traveler describes a clock he met with in Lapland: "An ordinary solid clock docs not take the Laplander's eye. He likes something flimsy, and if possible, something novel. "At one place, hung on a peg driven into the logs of the wall, we were condemned to gaze hourly upon the exasperating device of a dentifrice advertisement connected with a clock. In this a smiling young person drew a toothbrush briskly across a beautiful set of cardboard teeth between every tick. "I was much wishful for sleep and forgetfulness, but neither would come. Hour after hour I was condemned to lie awake and stare at the toothbrush clock, and to read the legend, printed in my native tongue, that it was 'made in Germany,' and that the dentifrice was put up m neat pacKcis, priceu mapence, or one shilling, and that it could he had of any chemist with the least presumption to call himself respectable. "I argued at the time that the clock had drifted far from the laud to which the ingenious advertiser had destined it, seeing that the letter-press was English, and that the Laplanders do not use tooth powder, ever, if they could have read about it."?Youth's Companion. Guided by Himself. The father of Thomas Jefferson died in 1757, and the son's situation was touchingly described by him years afterward in a letter written to his eldest grandson when he was sent from home to school for the first time. It is given in "The True Thomas JefTerson," by William E. Curtis. The letter was as follows: "When I recollect that at fourteen years of age the whole care and direction of myself was thrown on myself entirely, without a relative or friend qualified to advise or guide me, and recollect the various sorts of bad comI pany with which I associated from time to time, I am astonished that I did not turn off with some of them, and become as worthless to society as I they were. "I had the good fortune to become acquainted very early in life with some characters of very high standing, and ; to feel the incessant wish that I could become as they were." His-father left instructions for his education, and especially enjoined upon the widow not to permit him to neglect "the exercise requisite for his bodye's development." This strong man knew the value of strength, and used to say that a person of weak body could not have an independent mind. Lanary In London. That lunacy is on the increase in London is unhappily only too true, says I the Lady's Pictorial. This is disconcerting in itself, but the causes that contribute thereto are even more so, seeing that they are set down as being largely due to overcrowding, poverty, intemperance, and those things which do not make for a quiet life. Now, as overcrowding is an ever increasing evil of this ever growing, ever populated city, and as year by year life becomes more of a scramble and a struggle, the prospect is certainly not a very cheering one. Nor is it very comfortable to learn that thirty-six per cent, of the lunatics in the L. C. C. asylums are turned out "cured." There are far too many "cures" at large, and the results are tragically evidenced every day. The Heat of Australia. Australia is the hottest country on record... I have ridden for miles astride the equator, but I have never found heat to compare with this. Out in the country in the dry times there appears to l>e Httle more than a sheet of brown paper between you and the lower regions, and the people facetiously say that they have to feed their hens cracked ice to keep them from laying boiled eggs?Sydney Telegraph, I.lt?rary Underwriting. One well known firm of publishers runs a good deal of its business on the following lines: It secures a popular novelist, offers him so much for his next book, and then forms a little syndicate in the city to share the expense. A new book by a popular author is a considerably safer investment than | many, newly discovered gold mines.? ' Literature. ' A MOST WONDERFUL COUNTRY. Said to be the Greatest Farming Land on Earth?A Beautiful Townsite la One Selected for Fitzgerald, Oklahoma. Fitzgerald, O. T? Jan. 27, 1902. Messrs. Perry & Dowden, Oklahoma I City, 0. T. Gentlemen: We take pleasure in 1 stating that we took stock in the lands | and city lots opened up in the Old ! Fort Supply Reservation in Woodward i County by the Fitzgerald Land Co., at Oklahoma City on Jan. 23, and were present and witnessed the drawing that took place at that time. We found the drawing was conducted absolutely on j the square. After the drawing we visited the new town of Fitzgerald and also inspected the lands that were | drawn. We found the town on the i most beautiful rise of ground, overj looking the two rivers, with perfect j drainage. The country tributary is | well adapted to the various crops? j wheat, oats, kaffir corn, corn, broom I corn, castor beans, and the bottom | lands and valleys will produce good i Indian corn and the finest alfalfa. | Wheat and fruit of every kind will ! grow to perfection. There is a wide range of country from which to draw i support for the town. We found many j people arranging to engage in business j in Fitzgerald. We found that the purj est and most abundant soft water that I will prove of wonderful benefit to all ; and especially those who may suffer ; from kidney or bladder troubles. We j feel confident that the town is desj tined to be one of the finest health rej sorts in the United States, i We found our lands all satisfactory, j and also all the land that was put in I the drawing. Taking everything into consideration, we found the situation even better than we had expected, and believe that those who have dealings J with the Fitzgerald Land Companj j will receive fair and honest treatment ; throughout. There is not a man in our party who would take back his money for what he drew, in either lots or lands. Respectfully, B. M. Davison, Marshall, III. I C. D. Burnside, uoison, m. J Samuel Mooney, Clemens, Iowa. Ernest Howell, Marshall, 111. j D. G. Day, Marshall, 111. i C. W. McConnell, Greensburg, Ind. I W. F. Jones, Eaton, Ohio. I J. E. Nay. Marshall, 111. J. E. McConnell, Forney, Texas. Fred Nixon, Belvidere, 111. John Oberhaler, Belvidere, 111. N. N. Smith, Peoria, 111. Jno. Laabs, Oshkosh, WiSs W. F. Cleveland, Oklahoma City. Chas. Abendroth, Oklahoma City. J. Kanngiesser, Eason, O. T. J. P. Gandv, Fort Supply, 0. T. D. J. Davidson, Marshall, 111. J. W. Yates, Beardstown, 111. ?Oklahoma City Times-Journal. j Full information as to price of land, j etc., may be obtained from W. T. j Saunders, corner Pryor and Decatur j streets, Atlanta, Ga. IN THE BOOK STORE. "Here's an article," said the poet, i "which says that poetry Isn't read i now." I "Yes; and I think I know the rea| son." "Out with it then!" "It's because it isn't written!" Then the poet said it looked like "in Knt ho honed it would clear un | ere long.?Atlanta Constitution. CONSISTENT. i "Which season do you prefer," askI ed the friend, "summer or winter?" "It all depends," answered Mr. j Sirius Barker, as he unwound a muffler [ from his neck. "In summer I prefer j winter and in winter I prefer sumi mer."?Washington Star. ATTRACTIONS. Dorothy?"Was the intellectual j evening at Mrs. Woppers a success, i Barbara?" Barbara?"Oh, it was delightful, i Dorothy. We had a bride and groom. ; two rich old bachelors, a twenty-three; year-old college professor and a six i weeks' widower."?Detroit Froe Press. I i Putxam's Fadeless Pte produces the fastj est and brightest colors of any known dye } stuff. Sold by all druggists. : -la Algeria the native population has almost doubled in less than fifty vears, rising from 2,307,000 in 1S.T> to 4,071,000. i FIT3 permanently cured. No fits ornervousJ ness after first day's use of Dr. Kline's Great j NerveRestorer.$2 trial bottle aDdtreatisefree I Dr. It. II. Kline, Ltd., 931 Arch St., Phila., Pa. Out of twenty blind people eleven are men, nine women. ^ee advertisement of EE-M Catarrh Curoln another column- the best remedy made. The skeleton measures one inch less than the height of the living man. i Plso's Cure Is the best medicine we ever used 1 lor all affections of throat and lungs.?Wm. I O. Exdsley, Vanburen, Ind., Feb. 10, 1900. j Conquer the conquerable and submit to ; the inevitable. I i ~^^Z.^^ZZ I Colds I WtBBBBBKE. 3SCZ1 frXETZBEtMBSK BBS " I had a terrible cold and could g J hardly breathe. I then tried Ayer's I | Cherry Pectoral, arid it gave mc irra- j mediate relief." rW. C. Lay ton, Sideil, 111. | How will your cough j be tonight? Worse, prob- j ably. For it's first a cold, j then a cough, then bron- j chitis or pneumonia, and j 1 at last consumption.! | Coughs always tend I downward. Stop thi-T , I taking Ayer's Cherry Pec- ' I toral. |j Three sizes: 25c., 53;., SI. AH droits. Consult ywr doctor, 1,' He b*y? take it, then do as lie says. If ne tells you not ? to take It, then don't take it. He knows. Largest growers of gwjBayfly# i | m Clover, Timothy and M i M Grasses. Our northern grown Clover, i I for vigor, frost and drouth resisting ! properties, has justly become famous. B M SUPERIOR CLOVER, bo. $5.90; 100 lb*. $9.80| I I LiCrosse Prim* Clover, bo. $5.60; 100 lbs. $9.201 m Samples Cloter, Timothy and Grasses and great Catator mailed yoo for tc postage. ^ I JOHN A.SALZE-R J t?? ????KW????JM . y ~ v 3//?umn |^>3 / '' I ltnbin mid < liarlle. Who so mild and good as Creeping Charlie, Playing gently in his garden-bed? When across the hedge, in sudden parley, Ragged Robin thrusts his tousled head. "HI, you house plant! Ain't you alius wisbiif Yon could join us other fel'ows some? Here's Joe Pyo and I are goin' flshiu' Down to Spatter Jock's. D'ye want to come?" If the yellow head was sagely shaken At the tousled red one. saw not I; But I know the course I would have taken, Had Rob usked me, jogging staidly by. ?Christian Register. Payings of Utile T'o k?. "Why, Tommy, you arc rutting on your stockings wrong side out." "I know it, mamma. There's a hole on the other side." "Pa, what is a philosopher?" "A philosopher, Jimmie, is a man who thinks he has got through being a fool." Teacher?If four boys have 20 peaches and 30 apples what will each have? Bright Boy?Chol'rcr morbus!? Motherhood. C1iine*? Children'* It is interesting, while American boys and girls are playing their games and enjoying their sports, to read of che enjoyment the children of other countries have. Chinese boys and girls, for instance, have their games that they play with just as much enthusiasm as do their western cousins. One of these is "the hawk catching young chickens." The children stand one behind the other, having the largest boy to protect them from the liawk. The hawk, the child who, as we say in most games, is "he," comes to catch the chickens; but the line swirfs hnrV nnrl fnrth and th#? tvn tector keeps between the brood and the hawk. Another game is "pointing at the moon or stars." The children form themselves into a ring, with one of their number blindfolded in the centre. The ring moves around, the players singing. The ring stops, and the boy in the centre points. The person toward whom he points must take his place blindfolded in the centre. A Forgotten Monument. One of the charms of life in the country is its moderation and freedom frcm hurry and excitement. It is possible, however, to have too much of a good thing, as an incident which happened recently in a New England farming district indicates. Farmer Allen had gone up into his attic to get a spinning wheel for the tableaux which the summer boarders were to produce in the town hall. Like most country attics, it was packed with the relics of several generations, but the thing which at once [ attracted the attention of the city j giri wno accompameu liiu lamci nuo t a gravestone, tucked away under tlie eaves. "Why, there's a gravestone," she said. "Yes." The farmer dragged it out i and turned its face to the light. The inscription on it read: Sacred to the memory of Henry F. Allen Born 1850 Died | 1856 "Yes; that's Henry's stone?he was my youngest boy." j 'But why?" began the young woman. "Why ain't I ever set it up?" There | was a slight pause. Farmer Allen was returning the stone to its place under the caves. "Well, I've always meant j to," he continued, mildly, "but I ain't never got round to it." Afisifttinc: the Memory. j Grandma Hol.lis pushed her spectaj cles faj- down on her nose, and looked ! over their top-;; with mild reproof, j "Now Robert,' she said, convincing! ly, to her grandson, "I don't like to [ hear you say you can't remember I J ? i. ? on no cv tb in(r to I UcllCJj, UCVUUOC U 3 UiA VAWJ VM...0 I do if only you set about it the right ! way. Now when anybody asks me j about the date of anything I just use J my simple method, and it never faiis; and I'm sure nobody could have a I worse memory than I have, dear I child." j "What's your method, grandma?" ! asked the boy, ready for any suggestion which might help him in his weakest spot, j "Why, it's like this," said Grandma Hollis, cheerfully. "There's the Decf laration of Independence. I should never be sure of the year that oc! curred if it weren't for my method; but I think of your mother's marriage ?that was in 1889. I remember that because the date is on the little ring your father gave me. and I look at it ! two or three times a day. "Then I know she was 21 when she was married, because it was the same age that I was when I was married, so that carries her back to?21 from j 89 leaves G8. And she was eight years old at the time of the Centennial in Philadelphia. I know that because I got her a twisted wire figure eight pin at the exposition?and she lost it. "Then you see eight added to 88 makes 76. That's 1876. Of course centennial means subtract a hundred, and there you have 1776, with no trouble at all. Robert!" Urvl 1 ir. hnn m pel with the iTianuiiici iivmj ? ? joy of one who imparts rare wisdom, but Robert, although respectful, j seemed oppressed. I Set Your Wafcli by a Star. "Hitch your wagon to a star," said j Emerson. Set your watch by a star, j says W. S. Harwood in the St. Nichol- j as. You must set your watch by a star if you wish to be up with the times, these days. Out of the vast number of stars in the heavens, and visible to the eye at night and out of the much j greater multitude that celestial pho- j I tography is bringing forth on its nega- | * * " - Crtrt that m a v i j tlves, mere m w suuie uuv iuu? , I be depended upon, stars that have so i long been watched by the astronomers ! that they are known to be practically ! ! invariable. Any one of these you may J set your watch by, but it would be j rather a difficult thing for you to pick I out the star you wanted yourself, anj j even if you should select the right one, you would not be'likely to know just how to go to work to regulate yur time-piece. For about two centuries west of ther/? 600 stars have been under the critical eyes of the astronomers, who have measured their exact places iu - " '7 ? - ' S A. -"V * * the skies again and again. It has thus come to be known that these Btars cross the meridian of any place at certain times every night. The medidian of any place is the line the sun crosses there at noon?an imaginary line from pole to pole, directly overhead, dividing east and west. The times when the stars so cross the meridian are predicted by the astronomer years in advance, and tables are made which are exact to a small fraction of a second. After the astronomers, through long series of years of testing, found this out, it occurred to somebody that here was a perfect test for timepieces. Perhapa we owe it mainly to the great railroad companies that the time of the country finally became regulated throughout the length and breadth Of the land. Railroad companies must have regularity in their schedules; they cannot run their trains according to clocks and watches that do o (rron nri/ioloc* lilimflll Hfp and "vu ivvivog iiuu*Mu ?*? v ? property beyond valuation would pay the penalty of such policy. Hi# First Speech. The story as told by the orator himself, a business man prominent in every movement that brings together citizens for tnc general good, presents him as one of four persons who went to another city to "help start a charity." A clergyman was of the party, so was a city official, and its third number was a woman of gifts and gracious presence. The business man, who had never made a speech, was summoned at the last moment as a substitute for a physician who found he could not go. The four philanthropists chatted znwrily during the journey.. When they reached their destination, they were taken to a church, a large church filled with people, and welcomed by the mayor of the city. Before the business man. who had prepared no speech, who had never made a speech, the occasion began to loom up in unexpected proportions." Apparently these hundreds of persons had come to hear something and he had nothing to say. Presently the mayor mounted the platform, laid his left hand upon the pulpit, and called on the visiting city official to address the meeting. The city official, magician-like, drew from his pocket a fine array of typewritten papers and calmly proceeded to read. A nervous sweat broke out upon the young business man's forehead. He had no typewritten papers. Then the minister was called upon. He laid his left hand on the pulpit, as had the mayor, and spokr; in a rich, persuasive voice, without a pause. An inspiration flashed upon the business man, an opening sentence. Beyond that his mind was a blank, except for a hysterical recollection of a German student whom he had once scorned and pitied^an orator, whose j trembling, apologetic knees belied the thunder of his voice. "If ever I speak in public," the business man had said then, "I will keep my knees stiff. They shall not ! betray embarrassment, even though i my tongue refuse to wag." | But now the minister ended, and the mayor began a description of some one whom the business man did not in the least recognize?until he heard his own name. He found himself staggering toward the pulpit. As the others had done, he laid his left hand lightly upon it. At that critical moment a purring voice somewhere within him murmured, "Perhaps, after all, it is as well to let one's knees wiggle-waggle a little." His knees, which he had always expected to master, began to '?ohiHont'c knppj inmate iut* man ci.uuvuv _< "Ladies and gentlemen," he gasped to this knee accompaniment?it sounded to him like the rhythmical rattle of castanets, "ladies and gentlemen, this work which you are about to underatkc is so important that, if it is to be undertaken at all, it must be undertaken seriously." That was his opening sentence, the one he had prepared," the only one he had rescued from the wreck of his Intellect. This spoken, he looked blankly out upon the sea of faces, vaguely wondering how soon the audience would begin to laugh. "I might start the laugh myself," he thought, fantastically. His knee's continued active. After a time bvs lips also moved. "Ladies and gentlemen," he shouted again, "I feel so strongly what I have already said that I desire to repeat it." As he repeated his only prepared sentence, it occurred to him that he might cover sufficient time by exploding with this precious utterance, this which the world could not take from him, although all else was gone, at regular intervals of 60 seconds. "We cannot feci too strongly that this work is serious!" he cried aloud yet again, and he thanked heaven that this was so, that he had thought of it betimes. * i-1 Ul And having tnus snouieu uis unloved remark a third tome, he sat down. It was long before he was asked again to speak in public, although in his dreams he addressed many audiences and vied with Daniel Webster. Day by day he accepted such opportunities for public activity as came in his way, aud he wrote much, that he might develop ability to express his thoughts. Then, after many months, a day of possible reward presented itself; and this time, when he was called upon, it was not his knees that moved?it was his tongue.? Youth's Companion. A Telephone Meter. A patent for an invention by which the actual length of the time that a j telephone is used on any occasion can j be measure^, so that the company may I charge the subscriber only for the acI tual service be has had, has been recently obtained by Thomas Baret of Sydney, New South Wales. A subcrrihpr who. in the course of a day, should use the telephone for an hour would pay for that length of time, and | not the same amount as another subscriber would pay who would perhaps ure his telephone several hours each day. The "telephone meter" consists } of a clockwork mechanism which Is quiet when the telephone Is not In use but which begins to move the moment the receiver is lifted from the book, and so registers the length of time the instrument is employed. The apparatus is so arranged that the up-anddown movement of the lever switch winds up the clockwork. A dial plate indicates how long the telephone has been in use. He Wami't SurprJ*?d. "See here, I found two pebbles in the milk bowl yesterday." - "I'm not surprised, ma'am. The water is very low just now in the brook where the cows drink. ? j Cleveland Plain Dealer NO UPRISING THERE. Elderly Gent (clinging to strap)? , There are a good many conditions &f| fecting our governmental system today that are very oppressive and their continuance may some day lead to a popular uprising. Lady (also on the standing committee)?Perhaps, but?(with withering glances at male occupants of the seats)?you would never look for it to begin in a street car.?Richmond Dispatch. Splrltnallsm Declining. It has been the general observation that for some years past spiritualism has been in a gradual decline. This is the law with every: thing that is not founded on true merit. The reason Hostetter's Stomach Bitters has been recognized as the leading family inedicine during the past fifty years is because it is ! founded oh true merit, and has always been found reliable In cases of indigestion, dyspepsia, constipation and biliousness. Try a bottle and satisfy yourself. It takes a strong man to hold his tongue. ' * v. CorK weigius 11 iteeu puuuua jrei vuvk foot, gold 1155 pounds. , _ Ohio Knows Tetterlne. W. C. McCall, Granville, 0., writes: "Ifind your Tetterino to bo a marvelously good thing for skin diseases." 50c. a box from J. T. Sliuptrinc, Savannah, Ga.,if your druggist don't keep it. Lord Breadalbanc is the owner of the finest vine in Europe. { Tyner's Dyspepsia Remedy Cures IndiI gestion and Dyspepsia. At Druggists, 50c A musical education isn't necessary to sing your own praises. Deafness Cannot Be Cared : by local applications as they cannot reach the ! diseased portion of the ear. There is only ono way to cure deafness, and that is by constitutional remedies. Deafness is caused by an inflamed condition of the mucous lining of the Eustachian Tube. "When this tube is inflamed. you have a rambling sound or Imperfect hearing, and when it is entirely closed Deafness is the result, and unless the inflammation can be taken out and this tube restored to its normal condition, hearing will be destroyed forever. Nine cases out of ten are caused by catarrh,which is nothing but an , inflamed condition of the mucous surface. We will give One Hundred Dollars for any I ? - * /nonear\ Tvtr that | cusc vi i/caiucoo ^vt?wjvvi vm>vp..m/ cannot be cured by Hall'g Catarrh Cure. Circulars sent free. F. J.Cheney & Co.,Toledo, 0. Sold bv Druggists, 75c. Hall's Family Pills are the best. Japan now possesses the heaviest and finest battleship afloat, the Mikasa, of I 15,200 tons displacement. Best For the Bowels. No matter what ails you, headache to a cani cer, you will never get well until your bowels ore 'utjright. Cascahets help nature, cure ; you without a gripe or pain, produce easy I natural movements, cost you just 10 cents to ! start getting your health back. Cascabets , Candy Cathartic, the genuine, put up in metal boxes, every tablet has C. C. C. stamped on it. Beware of imitations. A girl of sixteen is apt to think her soul is yearning for something when what really ; is the matter with her is that she's hungry. jgMVomen Who Work j E in home, shop or factory car fca their work much easier if the S comfortable co.-sets. The I Striigljt front / Roy*! Worcestei I Bog.Toij Cors O Combine Comfort, Ezsc and Ekgai H Ask your dealer to show them to yc JL Royal Worcester Corset Co.,w??t< IHIMnnQBnHBnBHflBflBHOBDV ! to the acre at less cost, means I more money. ij Mnrp Potash I X T AVI V Ji w i j in the Cotton fertilizer improves the soil; increases yield?larger profits. Send for our book (free) explaining how to ! get these results. ej GERMAN KALI WORKS, | 93 Nassau St., New York. ' Notice increase of sales in table below I lMSjrTMjTOJPjtrj 19Q1~1.566.720 Pairs. Business More Than Doubled In Four Years. THE REASONS t j W. L. Douglas makes and sells more men's $3.00and$3.50 shoes than any other two manufacturers in the world. W. L. Douglas $3.00 and $3.50 shoes placed side by side with $5.00 and $G.OO shoes of other makes, are found to be just as good. ; They will outwear two pairs of ordinary $3.00 and $3.50 shoes. Made of the best leathers, Including Patent Corona Kid, Corona Colt, and National Kangaroo. Fait Color Eyelets tail Always Black Hooks W. L. Douglas $4.00 "Gilt Edge Line" cannot bo equalled at any price. Shoes !>y mail 25c. exirit. ('ntnlosfrce. W. A?. I)ongla?, Urotmon, flMh // DID YOU EVER Consider the Insult offered tho Intelligence of i thinking I'OOpIc when tho claim 1? made that any one remedy will cure all diseases? No, i well - think <>' It and s^na for our book tolllnf all ? do 11 26 Special it*m<>dlee for special dlsi rased condlt on*. and our Family Medicine I C??es. A postal o<rd will aeoare the book I and a sample of Dr. Johnson's "Aftor D oner , l'l 1." * Ajrents wanted. The Home Remedy ; Co.. Austoll B'?l!dl i(f Atlanta, Qa. m Salf-Tfireading Sewing Machine Keidlil Send S7c and we will send you sample pa k aye assorted 9lVe of machine. Arents wanted. 2fa? tional Automatic Needle Co? 13c Nassau St.,N. X.CIfy HD ADC V^TW DIE COVERT; ?lVee l#l\ I O I quick w.'ief and enrt* worrt | cases- Book of teftimon-a and 10 H n y *' tr**atro?ot ; Kr?-e. Dr. H H. Qv ti l*'? ??'>*. Bex B. At ant* 'i? : Mealioa this Paper '"r^,&Za-m?'r'i T?d CUHES WnEftE AIL ELSE FAILS. _Q Bl Best Cough Syrup. Tn-'es Good. Use H r>; In time. Sold by u.Dftjrtsta. Iff ' MRS, J. EJ'OONNEU | Was Sick Eight Years with Female Trouble and Finally Cured bylydia ?. Pinkliam'i Vegetable Compound. , "Dear Mrs. Pineham: ?I havt never in my life given a testimonial before, but you have done 60 much fof me th&t I feel called upon to give you this unsolicited acknowledgement of \H ? V ^ i mrs. jennie e. o'donnell, i President of Oakland Woman's Riding Club. ! the wonderful curative value of Lydlft E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com- . ^ J pound. For eight years I had female trouble, falling of the womb and other 3 i complications. During that time I was - j : more or less of an invalid and not much i good for anything, until one day 1 ' > found a book in my hall telling of the cures you could perform. I became ^ interested ; I bought a bottle of LrdU E. Pinkham's' Vegetable Com- , pound and was helped; 1 continued its I use and in seven months was cored, sad : % since that time I have had perfect- . \>:?| health. Thanks, dear Mrs. Pinkham again, for the health I now enjoy."? Mrs. Jennie O'DexKEix, 278 East 31st ',d St., Chicago, 111. ? Csood forfeit tf about j testimonial is not genuine. j Women suffering from any form of female ills can be cured by Lydia E. Pinkham's VegetoI ble Compound. That's sure. | Mrs. Pinkham advises sick wo* men free. Address, Lynn, Mnsfc | THE LANIER SOUTHERN fSSj SHudmeM MACON. OA. Thorough in all appointment*. Burtaesr men recognize our tilplomaa an a testimonial of ability and worth. All bran hea taught. Full information cheerfully furnished. } ! - .7CA?/f UHi wmm ! S?U Medal > BafAtf* KmpMMmm. WcILHENNY'S TABASCO q 200 to 300 bumper acre. KMo.t wonderful ma 01 fbe ecutor/. Prodacei6<eM jgyM or h?? U'i :iu ud lou of H9R| Oro?r? ^whereref ' oil to EM - offer to lead feral seed |^H laplo*. containing Tboaaaad ' - - . 35 :?aded Kale, Tcoiinte, Rape, Ufa, Spelu. etc. (folly wort* vvd u> f*i e ilari| toif.htr w 1(0 BM cateaulog, tor 10a pootagn. BH&M GIC CRUSHED SHEHJ^H |lfl Sen MtjhU perMJb. tmgi fl Malsby & Company, 41 S. Forsyth 6r^Atlanta,G*. *v Engines and Boilers p k?min ITeter Heafeni, PtcHir. PtoitifM m4 "" > r Injector*. Manufacturers and Dealers ta "* SAW MIIjZiS, Corn Mills, Feed Bill la. Cotton GlnMaehlaery and Grain Separators. ' ^ SOLID and INSERTED Saws, Saw Teeth and ^ 1 ock?. Knight's Patent Dogs, Blrdsall Saw j'p Mill and Engine Repairs,Governors, Grata Jfoi liars and a fun line of Mill Supplies. Price T,5| and quality of poods guaranteed. Catalogue tree by mentioning this paper. EE-MCatarrli Compound . 3 Cures Catarrh, Asthroa, Bronchi" tis and Colds. I A MILD, PLEASANT SMOKE, PURELY VEGETABLE. vjf We give an iron-clad guarantee that its ' proper use will cure CATAiutu or joqp jnonev refunded. For tobaoco users we make EK-31 Medicated Cigais and Smokiaf ^ Tobacco, carrying same medical properties. ?? the compound. Samples Free. One boo, one month's treatmeut, one dollar, postpaid* Y< ur druggist, or EE-M Company, - Atlanta, Oa. E. J. Vawter's Carnations are tbe Beit'MM CHOICE From the famous ' Vaw|ey - ALIhORNIA ??S S ARNATIONS oi"tiigN propfgatod^^S ' .- V I out artificial heat, rent postpaid, on reeetM* of price. 5 Tarnation Plantsfes Sihe Prince of Wale* Violets for 2??j3 Cana^ Balbafor 25< t 3 Cnlla LUjPmIIm forSSs orders Ailed In rotation. Order now. Address Onass Pju.x Floral Co., [Inc.], Octa* Pabk, Catiroant JH| ThwywR'tEyiWrtw