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THE FELLOW WH< The fellow who fights the fight alone, With never a word of cheer, With never a friend his help to lend, With never a comrade near? Tis he has need of a stalwart hand And a heart not given to moanHe struggles for life and more than life, The fellow who tights alone! The fellow who fights the world alone With never a father's smile, / j With never a mother's kindly tone * His sorrowful hours to guile, Who joins the fray at the dawn of day Ana battles tiil light is flown. Must needs be strong, for the fight is long, The fellow who tights alone! ' ?Denis I t A String Of Pearls. / / * YOUNG lady to see you, * * /\ Mr. Denvers." Ralph Delivers, the head of the great hanking firm ** - c of Brandon & Den vers, ioouea up irum the pear he was peeling, but no hint of . the surprise he felt a't his butler s announcement was allowed to creep into his face. "I am not expecting anyone, Harris." he said, quietly. "It is a mistake, probably. Did she send in any name?" "She would not give her name, sir; I she was very persistent or I would nor V- have troubled you, sir; she seems in j distress.". r "In distress? TVhat is she like, Har- J ? Hs?" It was a listless question; he was ab. . solutely without curiosity concerning the appearance of this stray young person who sought au audience of him, but It was lonely in this cltk paneled dining room of the great house in which he lived, and it was more for i the sake of talking to somebody that he detained Harris now. Ralph Denvers had more dinner invitations than ho could accept, but at thirty-three he was given to telling jfi,--; himself that the dinners eaten at other < Ky'. men's tables were too heavily paid for in the toll of epigrammatic cohversation that was exacted of the guest who ; would justify the reason of his appearance in the brilliant set in which Ralph 1 I.; Denvers moved. Ralph was just a lit- . tired of brilliancy. j "She is very ycuug, sir; a child, al, * most," Harris broke in upon his reflec- ( fc, .*-tkms. "A lady, I should say," and he i added beneath his breath, "pretty as a > -^ picture. It paay be that Ralph heard him. ' "Show her in," he said, briefly; "I may as "well see "what she wants." > , Han-is disappeared, and presently his ; place was takeh by a slim slip of a girl, ? f who stared at the man who rose at her < v ' entrance with a pair of frightened eyes. 3~J" Ralph Denvers saw the eyes, and his & fiance wandered to the quivering, smil* -tag mouth. : ^ "You wish to see me?" he said. ; *Won't you sit down?" *; ^he girl sank into the chair he ofT fered her, and sat there, clasping and unclasping her fingers in an agony of oervousness. . "Well," he said to her, and there was & note of encouragement in his voice. H=Ts it very difficult to tell?" It was more difficult than he knew. Aline Tempest rose to her feet and ' stood with her hand resting on the ' . tablecloth. < "It is hard," she said, "but I must say it. I came to say it. It's about - Dick, my brother, you know." She stopped and looked at him, and be looked al^her. How was he to know ibout Dick? "He never meant to do it," she went on, and drew a step nearer to him; "there were men outside who tempted him, and he was young, and we had so little, and he hoped to make a fortune for me. You see I was to blame; It was all for me." "Were you anxious for a fortune?" saltf Ralph, looking at the quaint little figure in the quaint, unfashionable |& gown, and then at the lovely, childish face. "I wanted nothing," she said, "and I K". did not guess until it was too late. You lee, it has been so different since father - ?went." The under lip trembled, and a tear gathered and fell, and Ralph Denvers L _^-jtared steadily at the painted pheasant oa his dessert plate. "I should like to hear all about it," he said. "Please sit down again and tell me what is your name?and Dick's."' "I am Aline Tempest," she said, simply, conquering her emotion with an effort that commanded his admiration, "and when father died Senator Mandevflle got Dick into your bank. He was going into the law, you know, but it had to be given up with the other things. It was all very altered for him, and I am afraid," with a little watery smile, "that he did not like the bank. But it gave us money to live on, and I meant to teach when I got pupils. I haven't got any yet?it seems +ao/?K A n/1 everjr vuc v_ui-i icu^u suui^iuui^. .hum Dick grew tired, and these men came to him, and there was some horse that + was goiDg to make a fortune for all of K them." "We have heard of that horse before," said Ralph, and then was ashamed of his jest. "Have you:" said Aline. "We never had. They persuaded him, and Dick ?oh, how could he do it??took money from the bank; a little at first, and afterward a great deal. It isn't known yet, but to-morrow it will be known. They've given him money to get off with, and he's going to England tomorrow from Boston. He must go, I suppose, or else something worse will happen. But I hated him to go like T if T hrniicltt rnn mat, UUU JL lUUUj,Uk 11. v v. these?they're mother's pearls, the only thing of hers they let me keep?and I thought they would help to pay something, and perhaps you won't let it be known to-morrow." She handed him the pearls as she spoke and Ralph took them in his 4P hand. A short string, worth, perhaps, $500 if the full value were given, and this child's mother had worn them. He looked at them and wondered what he should do, and a timid hand was laid on his arm. "Isn't it enough?" said Aline. "Oh, I don't know how much it was, but they will help a little. And will you keep them and let me go home and tell Dick that he need not go? And afterward, when I get work, I can pay it back?all of it." "I will keep them." Ralph Denvers stood up and slipped the chain in his pocket. "I will keep them." he said again, "and you can go home and tell Dick that he must come into my room at the bank to-morrow." What made him do it, he, Ralph Denvers, cynical man of the world, given to jesting doubt over such vague words as faith and charity, given to denying the hope that lias led men to stumble > on so long? What made him do it? It mav hp that he knew even then. And I O FIGHTS ALONE. Ah. bitter enough the combat is With every help at hand. With friends at need to bid godspeed, With spirits that understand; But fiercer far is the fight to one Who struggles along unknown? Oh. brave ana grim is the heart of him, The fellow who fights alone! God bless the fellow who fights alone, And arm his soul with strength! Till safely out of the battle rout He conquering comes at length, Till far and near into every ear The fame of his fight is blown. Till friend and foe in the victor know The fellow who fights alone! L. McCarthy, in the New York Sun. _________ I A Complets Short |j 1 Story. 11 I i BY M. FRASER. J ! m A when she was gone he stood and called j himself a fool for his pains, and it wr*; j perhaps as well he did not see the girl I lie had befriended sink down before j an empty chair in nil empty room and j weep her heart out because Dick was ! already gone. Ralph took up the invitations on his mantel shelf. lie had all that evening before him?Where should he go? He I put them down again and paced the ! room. What was this thing he had j just heard? It had sounded simple enough, but it may be that it meant ; a big tiling. Those men outside soundr j ed ominous, what if they were also I going to England to-night? Hastily snatching up a list of sailing ; steamers he saw that a steamer was | due to leave Boston at dawn. His mind flew to ways and means; to get down there to-night a man must go by the 10 o'clock from the Grand Central. He looked at his watch and found, to his relief, that he had time and to spare. Why should he net ' profit by the information he had re- j ceived to be his own detective? And j if only Dick Tempest were there why should he not bring him back to the sister whose heart he was going to break? She must not be allowed to j weep any more?that pretty child who j bad come to him in her dark hour. It promised a little more excitement ! :han an evening spent in listening to a j singer whose repertoire ho knew by i heart. He went upstairs and changed ! into a lounge suit, and, with a coat j over his arm, he walked quietly out j of the house in West Seventy-second street and had himself driven to the I Forty-second street station. He knew who they were now. They i were Richard Tempest's children, and j he remembered that old Senator \ Mandcville had said something to him about looking after the lad. But when one is good looking, popular and thirtythree, what time is there for looking : after stray boys? Ralph had seen j young Tempest once, and had asked i him how he liked the bank, and had > uot waiteu to litrur iijs uu?\> <iuu j straightway had gone away and for- : gotten that lie was in the world. lie j wondered if he should know liira again j as his cab pulled up at the main entrance of the railroad station. It was early yet, and the platform j was not overcrowded. Ralph walked ! the length of the train and saw no one j who was likely to he Dick Tempest, j lie went to the ticket office and got himself a ticket; it might be necessary i to go to Boston, it was just possible lie | iiad caught an earlier train. He walked up and down scanning the faces of those who passed him with keen, leisurely glance. The time sped, the moment of farewells came, and Ralph j was wondering if he had thrown his j evening away, when suddenly he saw J him. Dick Tempest came quickly i down the platform, a small handbag j for all his luggage, surely a poor outfit j for a trip to Europe. The train was cn , the point of starting, and Ralph was j the last person in the world to desire i '\a srone." He steDDed out to meet the I lad coming toward him. "Ah, Tempest," he said, pleasantly, j "I thought you were not coming. I have a stateroom." Dick Tempest looked into the face of j the man he had robbed, and knew that ! his story was told. He hesitated, but j the other's glance was compelling, and ; in answer to it he got into the train , and took his place in Ralph Denver's j stateroom. The journey to New Haven and back is not a long one, but there is time in j it for a pitiful tale of weakness and temptation and a too late repentance to be told; there is time Jn it for forgiveness to be sought and not denied. It was early morning when these two | strange traveling companions arrived j again in New York. Ralph Denvers j put his hand on the shoulder of the ! younger man. "Go home," he said. "Remember that a sister waits for you, and that you are to come to the bank as if noth- ; ing had happened." He drove home himself in the keen morning air, and almost for the first | time in his thirty-three years of life he ! realized how pleasant it is to be a rich j man. There was a big check drawn on j his account that morning and the firm j of Brandon & Denvers never knew how j it had been swindled to the extent of | nearly $25,000. It was shortly after this that host- I esses began to complain that Ralph j Denvers was never available for even i the most attractive of their parties, j And it "was nearly a year later when i one morning there was a quiet wed- j ding in a little church round the corner i ?a wedding to which the world was not invited, a wedding at which only three happy young people were present. They left Dick standing on the steps of the church, and as they drove to the station Ralph slipped his arm round his wife's shoulders and dropped some- j thing into her lap. "My first present to you," he said. "I have given you nothing yet." Aline Denvers took the little string of yellow pearls in her fingers. "Oh, Ralph," she said, "and once I was silly enough to think " He stooped and kissed her. "They are the most wonderful pearls in the world," he told her. "They have brought happiness for three people."-* New York News. - Hospital Balloons. Dr. Naugier, of Paris, in a paper on ballooning, at a recent meeting of the ! Academie de Medecine, made the as- , tonishing assertion that a two hours' ' voyage in the air causes a marked increase in the number cf red corpus- j cles, and the condition persists for ten days after an ascent. Two such ascents in the course of six or seven j weeks, he said, are more beneficial to ' an anaemic than a sojourn of three j months in the mountains. Dr. Naugier , urged that the municipal council be ' asked to provide a large balloon capa- ! ble of taking to the upper air daily j fifty patients who are too poor to afford ! a chamr* of climate.?London Globe. J THE BABY'S LAYETTE. Not such a very long time ago it would have been almost impossible to buy the necessary garments for an infant's outfit, but today there are many shops which make a specialty of children's and infants' clothing and all their belongings, and there is scarcely a department store that does not have its infants' department. This makes the providing of large outfits unnecessary; in fact, the healthy baby grow3 so rapidly that it is far better not to start with too many clothes. The first dresses are scon outgrown, and the kind of dresses needed for the second set depends much upon the season. For instance, the layette of a baby born in the late spring or early summer months would naturally differ somewhat from the autumn or winter layette. For the former the following is ample: Six dresses; six petticoats; six flannel skirts; six shirts; three flannel bands; four night-gowns; two dozen diapers eighteen inches wide by thirty-six inches long; four dozen diapers twenty-two inches wide and forty-four inches long; four flannel or cashmere sacquec: four pairs of thin cashmere or woollen stockings; four pairs of bootees cr moccasins; two long wraps made of cashmere or light flannel, and one or two soft mull caps. ?jftarianna Wheeler, in Harper's Ba zar. HOLIDAY EXCURSION RATES VIA CENTRAL OF GEORGIA R. R. Central of Georgia Railway will sell excursion tickets at reduced rates, fare and a third for round trip, betwoen all points on its lines and between all points in the territory south of the Ohio and Potomac and east of the Mississippi Rivers. To the general public on Dec. 23, 24, 25, 30, 31 and Jan. 1st., final limit Jan. 3, 1903; to teachers and students upon presentation and surrender of certificates signed by superintendents, principals or presidents of schools or colleges, on Dec. 16 to 22, inclusive, final limit Jan. 8, 1903. Rates, schedules and oiner information will be cheerfully furnished upon application to any agent of Central of Georgia Railway. CAESAR'S FINISH. Caesar was fighting his last battle, when his best friend advanced against him. "And thou, too, Brutus?" he faltered. "No, not two," replied that worthy. "It's three strikes and out!" Hereupon he inserted his dagger three times in the royal person, while poor Julius, overcome by the attempted humor, fell at the base of Pompey's statue.?New York Herald. HIS DIALECT. /'Mike," said Plodding Pete, "did you over go to school?" "Sure," answered Meandering Mike. "I don't have to talk dis way. If I showed off me literary accomplish menls, folks would wonder why l was not readin' de help wanted advertisements instid o' huntin' fur handouts."?Washington Star. A 59-Cent Calendar Vor Six Cents. If you want one of the handsomest calendars you ever saw, send 0 cents postage to the jioston linbber Shoe Co., Calendar 3)epc.. 0 Murray St., New York. It is lOx 20 inches. printed in 12 colors, and a perfect beauty. There are lots of calendars sold for SO cents nowhere near as pretty. The spilled miik of human kindness is the only kind worth crying over. FITSnermnuently cared. No Ills or nervousressafter-lrs: day's uso ot Dr. Kline's Grot: Morveitestorer.*2trial bottle and treicisatre J IDr.lt. il.Klixe, Ltd.,'JJl Arch St., Pail.i., Pa. Chicago women have iust discovered that uew baths are good for the complexion. Mrs.TVinslow'sSoothiag Syrup for children teethin-r.so'teatae gam.*, reduces iaflam. nation,allays pain,cares wind colic. 25c. a hot tie A fine ostrich is calculated to yield $2500 worth of feathers. . t\?? r.>?-o? Pnniinf Bn Cured by local applications as they cannot reach the diseased portion of the ear. There is only one way to euro 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 yon havo a rumbling sound or imperfect hearing, and when it is entirely closed Deafness is the result, aud unless the inflammation can lo taken out and this tube restored to its normal condition, hearing: will be destroyed forever. Nino 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 ease of Deafness (caused by catarrh) that cannot be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. Circulars sent free. F.J.Chexey Jb Co.,Toledo, 0. ?o!d by Druggists, 75c. Hull's Family Pills are the best. Coke, a by-product in tlie manufacture of gae, has increased twenty per cent, in price in five years. lam sure Piso's Cure for Consumption saved my life three years ago.?Mas. Thomas Eobiixs, ilapie St., Norwich, N. Y., Peb. 17,1903. A Viennese stamp collector recently sold Lis stamps lor nearly $10,000. Bronchitis j | | "I have kept Ayer's Cherry Pec- I | toral in my house for a great many I | years. It is the best medicine in 8 I the world for coughs and colds." 0 J. C. Williams, Attica, N. Y. jg All serious lungl I troubles begin with a 1 tickling in the throat. I You can stop this at first I in a single night with 1 Ayer's Cherry Pectoral. I Use it also for bronchitis, E consumption, hard colds, ? and for coughs of all kinds. I Three sizes: 25c., 50c., $1. AH drcjglst*. | (Consult your doctor. If ho says tako It, S | then <2o as he says. If he tells you not S to take It. then don't take It. lie knows, g E? Leave it with win. oe ?rt ? 0 J. C. AYEIt CO., Lowell, Mass. 5 IT PAYS TO CAT&5PECIAL RATES II IAS J SITUATIONS SECURED FOR ORADUATES.OR MONEY RETURNEDiWZPAYRJtfAEf MASSEY coHEC"^* BIRMJNOMAM.ALA. RICMMOND.VA, ttOMSTON.TEX. COLUM5VJS.GA. I PAY SPOT CASH FOTl "'"JoV&r LAND WARRANTS issued to soldiers of cny war. Also Soldier^ Additional Homestead Lights. Yv'ri te me at once. PRANK H. Ii?GJh.R, P. 0. Box 118, Denver, Colo. Louisville, Ky.. (founded In 1SG1), will tench you the profession quickiy and secure position .Nr you. Handsome catalogue kki.k. d Best Cough Syrup. GREAT STATURE A DISEASE. PHYSICAL AND MENTAL ANOMALIES FREQUENT AMONG GIANTS. The Large Being Exempt From Bodily Defects and Superior in Height, Strength and Vital Resistance is an Ideal Creature, a Myth. Great height, or giantism, has been regarded by many authorities as a disease, or at least an abnormal condition. Some recent authorities are identifying it with acromegaly, or enlargement of the extremities, a deformity marked by huge Jaws, hands, and feet and ofteD by a humped back. It has been shown that abnormal stature is often followed by this condition which may be only a later stage of the same malady, says a writer in the Revue Scientifique. "An interesting paper on giants has just been read by M. Henry Meige before the Congress of Alienists and Neurologists. The author at the outset, recalls the fact that an original genius once had a plan to encourage marriage between individuals of gigantic stature. Did he realize that i ? ^.l .i XT T - - ^ ~ xi? ^ lie \>uuiu Liius oe encouraging lue perpetration of a monstrosity? "The giant exempt from all physical defects, and superior at once in height, strength, and vital resistance, is an ideal being, a myth. In fact, M. Meige shows that gigantism is really a monstrosity and a disease. Observations of giants, collected by scientific 'investigators, show the frequency of physical and mental anomalies among them; historic giants were far from being superior In all respects. "We know nothing of Goliath except his stature, but a giant mentioned In 2 Kings had supernumerary fingers. Now polydactylism: is one of the most conspicuous stigmata of degeneracy. Barcel Dounat saw at Milan a giant who slept in two beds placed end to end, but this long man could not stand upright. William Evans, the gigantic porter of Charles I., was without strength; the porter of Cromwell, also a giant, was confined in a lunatic asylum. The Irishman O'Brien was like a huge, sick child that had grown too quickly. These examples could be multiplied. They show that degenerative symptoms of all sorts, accidents that really deserve to be called pathalogic, are the most frequent- attendants of individuals of colossal stature. "Of pnnrco tboro are PYfpntinnK * but the individual of very great stature | who is well constituted physically and psychially is very rare. The rule is precisely the reverse. "Not taking bony deformations into consideration, we can not but be struck with the similarity of the general symptoms that have been noted in giants and in persons suffering from acromegaly; headache, pain in the tegs, sexual torpor," muscular weakness, varicose veins, abundant sweat, abnormal thirst, change of color of the skin, troubles of the sense-organs, a low physical and mental tone, etc. In all these particulars, gigantism and acromegaly tend to similarity. "There are giants who never become acromegalic; there are acromegalics who are not of great stature. But in numerous cases giants become acromegalic. "Messrs, Brissaud and Henry Meige have already insisted on the relationship of these abnormalities. According to P. Marie, acromegaly and gigantism are not identical pathologic states, but acromegaly is one of the factors of gigantism: Nevertheless, Sternberg's statistics show that half the giants are acromegalic. "There are very serious reasons for believing that gigantism and acromegaly are only two successive stages of the same development'trouble. . . . M. Meige maintains that gigantism shows itself in the period of growth and acromegaly when this period is ended. In numerous observations the appearance of the first symptoms of acromegaly was preceded by a period of over rapiil growth in stature, sometimes gigantic. In other words, a tendency to gigantism often precedes acromegaly. Besides, when acromegaly has once established itself it may be that no appearance of gigantism remains; the height has been reduced by deformations of the vertebral column. "Another argument is that there are a great number of observed cases of acromegaly when great height has been shown to exist in ancestors or relatives. "Finally cases have been reported where acromegaly, as is often the case with gigantism, is hereditary. "M. Meige believes that all these observations tend to show that giants are particularly apt to. become acromegalic. Altho not fatal this destiny nevertheless ought to be taken into consideration, for, not to mention the general disorders of which acromegaI lies are sometimes victims, it is not desirable that we should seek to proj pagate a race with deformed faces, | huge jaws, great fists and feet, and above all, humped backs."?Translation made for The Literary Digest. This Man Dared Not Smile. A naturalized citizen or tne unueu States?D. Asadourian, an Armenian ?who is in business in Cleveland, was locked up in Constantinople, Turkey, charged with conspiracy. Through the offices of some Turkish business men he was released under $5,000 bonds, effective during his stay of fifty days. He has just returned to his home in Cleveland. Concerning his experience, he said: "I went there on business. As soon as my presence became known the officers came for me. They questioned me, asking if I spoke the Armenian language. This I denied, because had I admitted it I am sure that I would never have returned to America. The Turks fear American Armenians. They think that in America the people have an advanced knowledge of high explosives, which might be used to blow up the Sultan. They suspected me of being in sympathy with the Armenians. After putting me m prison they had some men come into my cell and tell funny stories in the Armenian language. They wanted me to betray my knowledge of it by laughing. But I didn't laugh, for had I smiled I would not be here now to tell the tale. The stories were very runny, but I managed to keep a sober countenance in spite of my wish to laugh."?Chicago Chronicle. American Villages. The style of architecture in most American villages and towns is very depressing. The buildings in their business centers are generally squatty, hideous-looking things, absolutely devoid of artistic or ornamental qualities, and the streets, if not muddy, are dusty and as likely as not to be lit! tered with rubbish.?Chicago Recordj Herald. ( BEESWAX MINING. Controversy Over Origin of Deposits? * Indian Legends. Mining for beeswax is an industry confined to a small stretch on the Pacific coast, and it exists nowhere else as far as can be ascertained. About thirty miles south of the mouth of the Columbia river is Nehalem bay and beach, and here is where the beeswax miners are found. It is hardly proper to call the deposits mines, for they are scattered along the beach in an uncertain fashion and are probably not of nature's production. The deposits are mined, however, but in a manner unlike any other kind of mining. They resemble placer diggings more than any other. The beeswax miner uses a plow and team of horses to work the alluvial deposits at the mouth of the bay, and sometimes goes at it with pick and shovel. Occasionally some fine specimens of the wax are found floating or cast upon the sands of the beach. How did the beeswax get there? Authorities differ as to this. Samples have been sent to men who claim to be mineral experts, and they say AWAAAVIIA AfVtAmrico mat, IS yiuutiuiji u^utcnic, umci known as mineral wax cr natural parafhne. The paraffine made from petroleum products is not much different from that produced from beeswax, gives a similar odor when melting, and it is easy to see that a mistake might be made. On the other hand, beeswax experts insist that it is the product of the bee, the characteristic odor disappearing somewhat from long exposure to the elements. When found, the pieces have a corroded appearance, like mineral ore. and the discoloration extends through the substance to some extent. This might be expected, for much of it has been tossed about by the waves or has been burned in the beach sand for two or three centuries. The alluvial or made lands near the entrance to the bay have trees standing thereon which must be more than a hundred years old, some being three feet in diameter, and deposits of the wax are found beneath the roots of these trees in many instances. At present the sea is making inroads on the land and is cutting away the support from quite a tract of lowland covered with forest, and large quantities of the wax are brought to view. The Nehalem river is a large stream, carrying an immense amount of water in the winter season, and is constantly changing the country in the region of the delta. Sometimes the old channel is shut up and a new one is made into the sea. The large bar at the mouth of the bay are shifting, and as the changes take place, more of the wax is unearthed, so. that miners are. not always obliged to depend upon the shovel or plow.?Los Angeles Times. Fish Act as Surgeons. "Along the Caribbean Sea," said an artist who has recently returned from those parts, "it is a common thing to see men and women and children sitting on the banks of streams, with their bare legs soaking in the water. "They have a strange reason for this strange conduct. They are much troubled by a little insecta kind of tick?which buries itself in their flesh, and is very hard to dislodge; and so, when the ticks have gotten in them, they go to the water bury the infected parts beneath the surface and keep quite still. The fish have a fondness for ticks, and they hasten to the gleaming human flesh they see, and pulling the ticks out, devour them. "In that manner the Caribs fish are called upon to act as surgeons. Efficient and painless surgeons they make too."?Philadelphia Record. A Seven Mile Tur.r.el. The plan to bore a tunnel seven ?- -1 +iirrm<rh the Sierra Nevada llilic^ XUIX5 utx vu^U vmw Mountains at a cost of $14,000,000, in order to shorten by twelve hours the trip over the Central Pacific, is an illustration of the immense resources of cur great corporations and the wonderful wealth of our county as a whole. Were it a task proposed by the national government all sorts of complications would follow the introduction of the proposal into the realm of political discussion, but a board of directors intrusted with power by thousands of stockholders can order it done, and th'e work is at once under way. Modern inventions make the task less formidable than was the fivemile cut through the Hoosac tunnel a generation ago, and the loss from accident should also be much lighter. The advantages gained by the railroad should be tremendous. Not the least important will be the abolition of its forty-two miles of snow sheds in the mountains.?Boston Transcript. The Golden Rule in Many Lands. The true rule in business is to guard and do by the things of others as they do by their own.?Hindoo. He sought for others the good he desired for himself. Let him pass on.? Egyptian. Do as you would be done by.?Persian. One should seek for others the happiness one desires for one's self.? Buddhist. What you would not wish done to yourself do not unto others.?Chinese. Let none of you treat his brother in a way he himself would dislike to be treated.?Mahometanism. Do not that to a neighbor which you would take ill from him.?Grecian. The law imprinted on the hearts of all men is to love the members of society as themselves.?Roman. Whatsoever you do not wish your neighbor to do to you do no; unto him. This is the whole law; the rest is a mere exposition of it.?Jewish. All things whatsoever ye would ihat men should do to you do ye even so to them.?Christian.?Chicago Journal. The Changed Grizzly. There are numerous reliable statements of grizzly bears having attacked men, but nowadays the grizzly does not seek out his human vic ii >?i inniUKIo ctofomonft; tims, as mere aic i.icuiui6 jn.ii.uiv-.>, that his forefathers used to do. Neither does he lie in wait, and, pouncing upon a hunter, tear him into bloody shreds in delighted fiendish- 5 ness, as the old-time stories used to tell. The change in the grizzly's disposition is likened by veteran hunters to the change in the character of the white cousin of the grizzly, the polar bear of the Arctics. When the stations for the Hudson Bay Company were established the diaries of the men there often referred to the fright of attacks by polar bears. Many a navigator in the Arctic seas has been clawed and chewed to death by polar bears. But for nearly a century the polar bear has not been regarded ns so very fierce, and nowadays it is looked upon as a cowardly beast. Association with armed men has modified the polar beat's disposition.?Grizzly Bear Lore, in Outing. PHILANTHROPIC EDITORS. . The Tocal Neu-?papcr Considered as ft Benevolent Institution. It seems singular that many persons (Waertaiu the idea that newspapers are J-Muted entirely for philanthropic motives, says the Cambridge (Mass.) Times, and that their columns should be devoted to their especial benefit. There is a class who think that advertising is inserted more to fill up space, and they consider that the publisher of a local paper should be grateful for the church notices they contribute. In nine cases out of ten the notices which these benign brothers and sisters send are really nothing more nor less than advertising matter, for which they ask publication without cost, while they at the same time derive a revenue by this method of reaching the people. They enter a newspaper office and place their notices of church fairs, festivals and other entertainments on the editor's table with as much grace as though they were tendering a twenty-dollar bill. The up-to-date local paper employs a staff of men to collect news which will be of interest to all classes. These men are hustlers, know their business thoroughly, and present the news iu the most concise and condensed form possible. Instead of the publisher being dependent on personal or communicated rnottov mi his pnlntrms hp is fre quontlv at his "wits' ends as to how he shall contrive to find space for legitimate local news. lie is obliged to cull material furnished by his newsgatherers and present to the public what will be for the greatest interest of all. But it is not the news which supports the newspaper, and the actual returns from sales are but poor remuneration for the time and patience devoted to it. Therefore the revenue received which sustains the plant is derived through its advertising patronage. The publisher sells the space in his paper just as a merchant would dispose of his wares, and reading notices are received at a higher rate than display advertising, there being no bargain days in a newspaper office. We know of no profession where there is so much liberality shown as in the newspaper business, and so little appreciated by those who receive gratuitous favors through its columns.? Fourth Estate. WORDS OF WISDOM. Hidden guilt is the most hurtful. Justice seeks those who will not seek mercy. Blank cartridges will often make the most noise. Only the unworthy cause will use unworthy means. Every man reveals himself when he describes another. True humility bows lower as prosperity rises higher. The temperature of the heart cannot be gaged by the head. We are too altruistic over duties and egotistic over rewards. It takes two to make a quarrel, but only one may make peace. The only way to flee the vengeance of sin is to fear its venom. Selfishness is the cause of, sin aud sacrificing service its cure. Talk about "looking for opportunities of doing good!" We may as well talk about looking for firewood in a forest or for water during a flood. The world is full of such opportunities.?Ham's Horn.Cannot Compete With Newspapers. The announcement in the current number of a well-established ten-cent . magazine that hereafter it was going to drop the "special feature articles," increase its price and devote itself to fiction and literature because the monthly magazine could not compete with the daily newspaper in publishing articles of news interest is radical enough to attract attention. The effort to be timely in monthly publications sometimes leads them to anticipate the news as did some of the English publications in their accounts of the coronation of the King, which did not come off as was planned. It is said that one such publication which had an elaborate account of the coronation, written in advance, had to destroy an entire edition when the King's illness made a postponement of the ceremony necessary. The American magazines found, despite their preparohnno fhflf +1ipvo tt:1s vpvv little left for them in the Spanish-American War after the newspapers had finished with it. The fickleness of public interest In news events is shown by the quickness with which the reading public tired of .descriptions of the eruption of Mont ;Pelee when once the story had been ,'told as it was told by the newspapers ?New York Sun. What the Eyes Say. Blue eyes are said to be weakest. Upturned eyes are typical of devotion. Wide-open eyes are indicative of rashness. Side-glancing eyes are always to be distrusted. Brown eyes are said by oculists to be the strongest. Small eyes are commonly supposed to Indicate cunning. The downcast eye has in all ages been typical of modesty. The proper distance between the eyes Is the width of one eye. People of melancholic temperament rarely have blue eyes. Eyes of long, sharp corners indicate great discernment and penetration. , The white of the eye showing be~ ~ ~ ?r? in/1 ino tirA r\f /?nn1 lln ueu.ua ilie ana jo muiwinv v<. w liberation. Gray eyes turning green in anger or excitement are indicative of a choleric temperament. An eye the upper lid of which passes horizontally across the pupil indicate? mental ability. A Life-Time Task. All the letters which reach the chief of a department of an extensive business down town are noticeable subsequently by the fact that the two-cent stamp on the envelope has been neatly cut out with scissors. "Who cuts off all the stamps?" his young woman secretary was asked. "I do," she replied. "What is the idea?" "I am collecting them for a woman who thinks she will get $10 for a million of them," she explained. ; Promptly the calculation was made on a basis of fifty letters daily. Alas! ,It was found that the young "woman [secretary, having already a ^odest start, would be almost a centenarian jwhen she cut off the millionth stamp, '?New. York Post. The Cynic's Wisdom. Engaged people put on magnifying glasses when they look at each other's [virtues. The day they are married they take them oil.?New York Press. ' '* - " /"' To"rE lx0N U, S. MINIS Commends Peruna to Hon. 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