The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, February 27, 1902, Image 4
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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
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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
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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.
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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. ?
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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.
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It has been the general observation that
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It takes a strong man to hold his tongue.
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A musical education isn't necessary to
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! diseased portion of the ear. There is only ono
way to cure deafness, and that is by constitutional
remedies. Deafness is caused by an
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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.
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