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m. / - \ . - . JgV; ... , . - V Spf ' - i_ ???MM?K????? WOULD IT HAD BEEN MINE EXEMY." life .Would it have been mine enemy Who came a secret way? (Oh, but the door that waits a friend Swings open to the day. There stood no warder at my gate To bid Love stand and stay.) Would it have been mine enemy In open tight and great? t'Gainst the beloved who goes armed In strength inviolate Or dreads lest in his hands he bears The craven blade of llate?) Would it have been mine enemy Who mocked to see me low? (Better all anger than this thought Love left to sear me so. rtv.- \Txt Vioej-rt u*ac r>nL-firl 1 r% l?ic qnsi &? His hand who gave the Mow.) ?Theodosia Garrison, in The Century. BX MMflAIOSSR/N^ I * The Feud 7 i iiv i wuu 7 by grace 2 of the s k*ett ? Scoured Pan About two months before the cherry-tree limb broke riewn. Airs. Wat^ son leaned over the Reads' fence with - a neighborly smile on her face. ?v, - "Have some passnips, Mis' Read? x Those down at the grocery are just j&v dried-up sticks beside these. Jim ||Sv complains a good deal that we C haven't 'got a plot to raise gardenp-' sass, but he always declares that raise a few passnips he must and will. 'These have had frost enough to get : the good taste into "em." Mrs. Read turned slowly from the |? shining window, which she had just finished washing, and came to the fence. t- ' "We've never been overly fond of parsnips," she replied, with an extra careful "r," "but perhaps that is be yr cause ours came out of the grocery." jjk'' She took the rusty, dirt-encrusted 0:: pan which Mrs. Watson held out with a jovial smile and the remark, "Don't bother to wash that old pan. It's * been my garden pan for years." As Mrs. Read disappeared into the house, Mrs. Watson strolled back to her parsnip-bed, and looking down at 4: the tiny feathery shoots, addressed Pf? Ao them her opinion of her neighbor: I"' / ' She's stiff an' nowise neighborly, j-i-. to. my thinkin', but I mean to keep on. They've bought the house, and she's got a siokly husband and a 1!^-cross baby, so I guess she needs some pleasant words, if she don't give any pyi Vk<\ n ' ? . > J*fwA agaiu. ip- V no one who saw Mrs. Read's |v kitchen would have judged that its 0 mistress had the care of any invalid |p. to divert her from household duties, pt: The floor, in the old New England phrase, "was fit for the (jueen to eat p off' of," while shining range, gleamty: ing faucets and snowy sink all spoke I?- of painstaking labor. Into this realm Ip; of soap was carried, rather unwillingSfcr 3y, it must be confessed, Mrs. Watp' . son's dirty parsnip pan. There was absolutely no place to put it, so hold? : ing her apron shelteringly beneath it, Mrs. Read went to the sitting-room pp. <or a newspaper, and returning, ci v spread it over her snow-white table, p;.' and then was at liberty to lay her ||i| burden down. "Humph J Such dirty folks do beat m Before I'd offer anybody a pan V-: like that I'd sit up nights to scrub it! There must be a quart of dirt on those parsnips, too." She rubbed and scrubbed them with a serious vigor j^that soon made a row of sis shining 0: ' .white vegetables, fit for a county fair, iSppM* the table.- , $ But there were other worlds to j p conquer! Did anything ever look so P out of place in a spotless kitchen as that woful old pan? Mrs. Read stared if .at it doubtfully, then set her lips I.; / and crossed the Rubicon. Lye, sand >. soap, bristol brick, hard soap, soft ^ soap, hot water in floods?how the fcP elements raged in that little kitchen! -A; At the end of an hour Mrs. Read drew a long breath. b|''{.I- "Now I call that a pan! It was f|': brighter, maybe, when it was just out |v ' of the store, but it's" a very respect?? * able pan." Toward evening she rapped at Mrs. L .Watson's back door, but getting no reply, came away, leaving the pan on the porch, thus giving her neighbor almost a battle challenge, g'-'. What's that?" exclaimed Mrs. A Watson, dramatically, the next morn[fy * ing, as she stepped out for her milk] bottle. ;.f "Is that my pan? And she couldn't even hand it to me like a Christian, but had to tiptoe over and sneak it onto my back porch!" Here she was wronging Mrs. Read, who had really ^ * tapped at the back door, but no knowledge of this came to calm the angry woman. "So she thought it was her bounden duty to clean up after me, did she? And all those good passnips wasted on her, too! Hope they'll choke her! Now maybe like as not she thought A they were too dirty for her. If she's S dared to dump 'em in her garbagebox I'll complain to the police; and I'm going straight to the alley this minute to see!" ' Luckily that last straw was not added to Mrs. Watson's wrath, but all the forenoon her indignation was seething and bubbling, until the time when Mrs. Read stepped from her back door with a pan of potato peelings. Once again a hand holding a pan was thrust over the fence at her, ' but this time no cheery smile nor friendly word accompanied it. "I think you'd just better have pan as well as passnips, since you've been to such pains in cleanin' it. When folks as good as tell me I'm a heathen to my face, I'm done with them, so there now!" The pan fell on the Read side of the fence with a clang, but Mrs. Read had no reply to make for a moment. 1,, .. Ker conscience did suggest an apology; but no. the disciple of cleanliness must stick ?to her colors. She came forward stiffly. "I do not need your pan any more than I needed your parsnips, and I do not care to hear such language." She marched straight to the pan. tossed it over the fence, then went directly into the house, apparently unmindful that before the door was hardly closed the pan again sailed into her yard. Then a pan farce certainly began. There were no more words between these two; but if no words went back and forth, the unlucky pan took flights enough. Mrs. Read would go out with her ashes, and, spying the pan, would send it on a hasty journey. Mrs. Watson would come out to weed the famous parsnip-bed, and how the pan would spin back again! Happily there were no children to take up^he feud and throw the pan. The "cross baby" spent its time mostly in the house or on a sheltered porch away from the Watson side. The two husbands nodded good day to each other as usual; in fact, Mr. Watson, at least, found a joke in the traveled pan. Slowly a hot June sun climbed higher one morning. Both husbands were at work, the Read baby was aslec?, and both yards were in a state of neutrality, although the pan was on the Watson side. On^ lone cherrytree grew in the Read yard, and to this Mrs. Read, with step-ladder and pail, now made her way, visions of preserves floating in her head. Up she climbed to the very top of the ladder, and picked till her head was dizzy in the hot spring sun. There nroro otill finer / ? Vi vrn oc S n of a here n t QllU vil^.1 A J uww * V [ her, and with a good deal of hesitaj tion she reached higher, found a limb for her foot to rest on, and left the friendly step-ladder entirely behind. Now Mrs. Read was stout, and cherry limbs are brittle. There was not a moment of warning when crash! crash with one sljrill scream Mrs. Read was landed, cherries and all, upon the ground in a dismal heap. Mrs. Watson, who was cleaning house, heard the scream through her opened windows, and rushed to the scene. Out of her gate and in at her neighbor's was the journey of a moment. Then a capable hand was removing the overturned step-ladder, brushing away the crushed cherries, and helping the dazed woman to her feet. 'Well, now, I do call you lucky! Not a bone broke, is there? But I guess you're shook up some. Nowlet me help you in onto the lounge, and you just rest a spell. Awful uncertain work to climb into cherrytrees." "You're real good," murmured Mrs. Read, as Mrs. Watson steadied V?/~?r? t4*olririor fnvm intn iVio ViAnco u^i ouaniug i.vi uu aaawv iuv uvu^v. The blow must have affected her head a little, for she sank into a sound sleep, to be roused by the baby some hours later. When she went into the kitchen the first thing that met her eyes was the pan?battered from its many blows, but still able to b8 piled full of cherries. Beside it was a paper, on which Mrs. Watson had scribbled: "I've washed the pan and washed the cherries. I hope you won't be lame." Mrs. Read stood and looked at the pan and cherries and message for some minutes. Then in her slow way she repeated the words of the morning: "She's a real good woman!" The great pan feud was ended.? j Youth's Companion. Great Future For Agriculture.' It cannot be said that there is anything pessimistic about Secretary Wilson, of the Department of Agriculture, for he assuredly is an optimiet rwf tlio fireh water if WP arP to take his forthcoming report as reflecting his real opinions. He says that had we cultivated our farms on a more scientific basis, we would have raised crops far in excess of the demands. He then predicts that as the demand increases the American farmer will be adequate thereto by more scientific farming. Here is a specimen of his optimism. He says: "No miracle would be required to double or even treble the production of cotton per acre. The corn crop can be increased by one-half per acre within the fourth of a century, and yet without reaching the limit, and the same may be said of wheat and other crops. One-fourth of the dairy cows of the country do not pay for their feed, and more than one-half of them pay no profit. The egg production per hen will be increased by at least a dozen a year within a generation, while some poultrymen foretell double that increase. If the hens of this year had each laid a dfczen eggs more than they did, the increased value of this production would have possibly aggregated $50,000,000." TV>^ CnnpQfow fnl 1 ATL'C thi<! with Sfimp i. W&V/i VOU4 J ?f N/ VM.w .. very pertinent suggestions, saying: "The farmer will not fail the nation if the nation does not fail the farmer. He needs education to open the powers of the soil now hidden from him. The work of the department has already had results valued at hundreds of millions of dollars annually, and yet has barely Classed the threshold of its mission of discovery and education."?American Cultivator. Where Giant Cabbages Grow. The soil of Cuba is very fruitful. Cabbages grow so large that heads weighing twenty pounds each are common. All vegetables do well. Radishes are ready for the table within from fourteen to eighteen days after sowing, lettuce in five weeks after sowing, while corn produces three crops each year -V'-:"'."-V- ;V.W:>a,V , , j : x CHIEF WILLIE SI Said to be the only son of the great ? head of the ? ^? EARLY SCHOOLS IX IRELAND. Many of Them Flourished a Thousand. Years Ago. Quite small children were sent to school in ancient Ireland, and, writes Jane Barlow in Youth's Companion, , like children of to-day, began their ; studies with the alphabet. The letters were sometimes stamped on ' bread or cakes, which the youthful ^ scholars might eat when their lesson 1 was learned?a son 01 Kiiiuergai ten ^ device. The chief school-founding period in Ireland was in the seventh century. We learn from the chronicles ; Early Christian School in Ireland. of the Venerable Bede that about the ' middle of it great crowds of AngloSaxons, among them Egbert and Saint Chad, came over to" Ireland, 1 and were kindly welcomed by the 1 Irish, who provided them gratuitously with "food, books and teachers." |* During the same century two for- * elgn kings were educated in Ireland 1 ?Dagobert II. of France and Aldfrid * of Northumbria, who has left an 1 Irish poem in praise of the country, t Irish geometers, geographers and astronomers were then fa. in advance 1 of their age, and the si dy of Greek, whinh had all but died out in the } countries farther east, was common in Ireland. "At one time," says M. ? Darmesteter, "Armagh, the religious ' capital of Christian Ireland, was the metropolis of civilization." < The earliest of celebrated Irish 2 schools was founded more than 1400 t years ago by Saint Enda, the son of { a King of Oriel, on the wild, rocky ; island of Aran More, off the coast of j Galway, whither "fleetsful" of schol- ] ars came from all quarters. 1 Other schools as famous and nearly- i as ancient were Clonard, close to the ; River Boyne, and Clonfert on the 1 Shannon; but greater than either of ] them was Clonmacnoise, founded by 1 Saint Ciaran beside a wide curve in ; the Shannon not far from Athlone, i almost in the centre of Ireland. . i Although many beautirui worKs 1 still bear witness to Irish achieve- < ments in art and letters, testimony < ever stronger to the nation's constant love for such things abides in the < HPSSHiiiPl ip ?:1 M \ ?m r<yS.~m :b.^'VA W&" mi p>l r> >v <*'*yly;'.?*,^:<i <&? >*jv '7V',' V:";: - -' 4" PP8MM "Cards to tell yer kerrect age, a p . I'yfy:: - /: * '' ' :?M, c \ TTING BULL. Sitting Bull, now dead, and future Sioux Nation. fact that it never was quenched by all the water of affliction through which it passed. Wars, massacres, pestilence and famine swept in wide waves over the land. A time came, and lasted for generation after generation, when it was a felony for the greater part of the people either to teach or to be taught, or even to own a book or a manuscript; a time when children might 3e seen furtively learning their alphabet from letters chalked on their father's tombstone. . Yet in the worst days schools continued to exist, however secretly and perilously, and a scholar was always m object of respect and admiration. This Little Pig Stayed at Home. It was formerly the custom of the :ountrv folk to work out their taxes >y boarding the teacher, which meant hat from time to time1 he was supplied from various quarters with tood. One day a boy named Tim Moorelead breathlessly sought the teacher, exclaiming: "Say, teacher, my pa wants to enow if you like pork." "Indeed I do, Tim," was the reply. 'Say to your father that there is aothing in the way of meat that I ike better than pork." Some time passed, and-there was 10 pork from Tim's father, a fact that n no way surprised the teacher, for he old man was known throughout ;he county as a tight proposition. Nevertheless, one afternoon the eacher took the boy aside and asked: "How about that pork, Tim, that fTour father promised me?" "Oh," answered Tim, "the pig got veil."?Harper's Weekly. riie Passing of Courtroom Oratory. Inspiration is a lost art in the jourtroom. Nowadays no true lawyer advises, prepares documents or ;ries & case without a careful prepar-Al?? Vl Q C? T\0 OOOrl I 111U11* 1* VI CAiOIV/ V4 atv/i J UUiJ iway. No longer does the crowd gather in the county courthouse to listen to and be moved -by the wit, aathos and eloquence of the advocate is for hours or days he addresses the jury. The courtroom may be filled, Dut It Is largely with the ubiquitous reporters, many of whom are as destitute of tears as Sahara of water and is callous to emotion as the mummied sleepers of Egypt. No longer is it true that weeping men and ivomen with handkerchiefs to their eyes are moved by the eloquence of counsel. Time is a pressing factor. Facts rather than eloquence is the demand.?D. C. Brewer, in Atlantic. <:/y 'Sfez ' S ienny, lidy."?Tatier. jPalmetto Stale News ^ % . b New South Carotin? Postmaster*. President Roosevelt has sent to the senate ihe following nominations of South Carolina postmasters: A. D. Webster, Orangeburg; Susan E. Morten, Put; West; L. Padgett, Pel/.er. * *. * Poctofficc Robbed. The postoffice at Taylors, eight miles l'rom Greenville-, has been robI ed r,nv.KidArah]f> monf-v and srnmnS were taken. The office was in Freeman's store, which was a'so burglarized. * * * Hospital for Animals Projected. Dr. Devereux Turner of Greenville will within the next lew weeks, establish a hospital for animals of all kinds at Greenville. The infirmary will be equipped with all the latest appliances known to science for tne ti eat merit 01 uumb creatures. * * 4 Mud Saved His Life. James Lester, a machinist of Columbia, fell 50 feet from the Columbia, Xewbeiry and Laurens railroad trestle into the Columbia canal and stuck in the mud ten feet below the surface of the water. He pulled loose and swam ashore and seems none the worse for the episode. c * * Dispensary Buildings "For Rent." The sign of "To Rent" is displayed in the Charleston office formerly occupied by the state dispensary constables. The liquor officers have left the city for th^ir homes. The city is without a local beer supply. County dispensaries will be operated in a short time by the local board. * * Witteklnd Sails With Cotton. The Witlekind immigrant ship sailed from Charleston for Baltimore, with 3.000 bales of cotton. It is probable that the committee of the re cently organized South Carolina Immigration Association, ex-Governor Hey ward, Commissioner Watson and P. H. Gadsden of Charleston, will saii on the Wittekind when she leaves Baltimore for Bremen. * * i, S Woman Jumps Into Well. ' Mrs. Bessie Thomas, tged 33 years, committed suicide at Spartanburg by jumping into a wel! in her back yard. She left her room during the night and going to the well removed part of' her cloihing and lifting the box from the top of the well, jumped in. Her body was found head downward in the well next morning.'Ill health is supposed to have caused her to end her life. t ? * Plea of Guilty by Zimmerman. Daniei H. Zimmerman, aged 70, pleaded guilty in court at Columbia to a charge of conspiracy to defraud Ua nrtth T T Hrihson. ail lUtJ SlttLC. 11C, , other elderly man, was accused of having purloined $12,500 in bonds from the state treasury, where Zimmerman was bond clerk for ten years, and the abstraction of bonds was not discovered until he had been out of office for several years. Gibson is said to have negotiated the sale of the bonds. He will b^ tried later. Zimmerman is well connected* ana . the case caused a sensation. It is believed that Zimmerman's plea was for the purpose of taking the case to .the supreme court on a technicality. Sentence was suspended until Gibson's case is disposed of. * * * / Immigration Association Organized. At a meeting in Columbia the past week the South Carolina branch of the Southern Industrial and Immigration Association was organized with R. R. Honier, Jr., of Marion, the largest farmer in the state, as president. The cotton mills, oil mills, fertilizer mills and the banks of the state were well represented at the meeting, as well as the farming industry. Captain Bardeleden, captain of the immigrant ship Wittekind, which was then in Charleston harbor, was present, and addressed the meeting. It was decided to send ex-Governor Heyward, Commissioner of Immigration Watson and Mr. P. H. Gadsden Hromon as a com Ot V.'il(trieBlUU iu ^ mittee to induce the North German Lloyd to make the steamship line between Bremen and Charleston perma, nent. It is planned to bring immigrants for all the southern states through Charleston, which.has recently been made an immigration station by act oi congress. * * Shortage is Alleged. * Investigation by experts, which has been going on for several weeks in Charleston, now show that the late William Jacobs, who was secretary and treasurer of eleven building and ..loan companies, was short in his accounts about $40,090. It is claimed *>yi interested parties that $30,000 oi this, amount wasrused by Jacobs in winding up companies that were not i ! r.. ready to dose and that $10,000 represents all that he had evidently used for his own purposes. The companies are going into liquidation, and it is y claimed also by interested attorneys that stockholders will not iose very N much. Jacobs was undei $56,000 bond. and an effort may be made to get the losses from this source. The dead secretary was regarded as a man o? J ^ great ability and thoroughly reliable- r ' frj - m Score of Negroes Drowned. Owing to inaccessibility of the- lA : plaqp where the steamer Marion was burned last Friday morning?Hart's v. Landing, on Wadmalaw river, about ->i 40 miles from Charleston?informa tion has been hard to get. Monday the *y report of Captain Ferguson was filed : with government inspectors. It is now *.' known that twenty negro passengers a were drowned or burned to death, and ' ' v= a dozen or more are missing. J"hero ; v were seven white passengers and ::5 about fifty negroes. The great loss of life seems to have , been on account of the negroes be- "vj|| coming terror-stricken and neglecting to get life-preservers, of*which there ; v.ere 350 on board. The Marion was licensed to cany 200 passengers, and cost $20,000. Only $5:000 insurance was carried. The value c\f the cargo, -which consisted. of general merchandise, was estimat- : ed at $5,000. 80UTH'S OLDEST CITIZEN DEAD. , ^ Frederic Messer, Noted Hunter, Gone at Age of 114 Years. Frederic Messer, the south's old- .;J$f est citizen, famous as a hunter and / :v*| trapper before civilization blazed jx ^ /*ll trail across the Blue Ridge mountains, is dead at his home in Hay wood county, North Carolina, at the. age of 114 years, six months and five Me3ser was born August 12, 1732, in Lincoln county, and in early litey r|?8 when western Carolina was an' unex- J-ssH plored wilderness, peopled by the vM Cherokees, he located in the xnouatains 21 miles from what is now Waynesville, the ,CQunty seat of Hay- ; v ood county, there pursuing his wild fjWm vocation ot hunting and trapping. He married a lady of Wilmington, who ';3 bore him nine children and lived tothe age cf 84. But one child, now - :f~J| a woman 90 years old, survives him. His age is established by authentic records. He used tobacco and the corn whiskey of the mountains, in moderation, .jppgl ail his life, and Attributed his giedt longevity to his regular sleeping and ^ waking hours, most of which were . spent out of doors. NEWSPAPER IS BANKRUPT. Atlanta News Shows Liabilities of *74.797.22 and Assets S63.281.39. 'SJmk The Atlanta News Publishing Co. ; | was formally adjudged a bankrupt 'aM Monday by the clerk- of the United States court A petition to have the News company placed in bankruptcy was filed January 31st by the Lookout Mountain Coal Co., James W. English, Jr., John L. Hopkins & Son and the Southern Engraving Co., but not until Tuesday wis any find! action on the petition taken. At the time the petition was filed ^ Js K. Ottley was appointed receiver, and he recently presented a report in which it was stated that the. liafcilities of the News company amount to $74,797.23, and its assets to $'53,281.33. ELEGANT SILVER SERVICE. For Battleship Georgia Assured at Meeting of Mayors. ' ' < ^ Of the $10,000 necessary for the sflver service for the battleship Geof-' gia $7,515 Vas guaranteed at the meeting of Georgia mayors held m ' Governor Terrell's office at Atlantaif | on Monday. * ? - - X# tha y&$1SB THIS insures a sei VIVC ui nutut u?v . officers and men of one of the newest M and most formidable vessels in# the United States navy may well be %y|j proud. That the state will raise the remaining money necessary in a voryfew days is assured. LUMBERMEN IN CONFERENCE. M After Brief Session at Jacksonville,. v Adjourns to Meet at Tifton." The Georgia-Florida Lumbermen'a Association met in Jacksonville Mobday morning, transacted routine busi- . liess, and adjourned to meet in 1 ifton, Ga., March 12. They accepted an ; invitation to hold the June meeting. ':;'M ir. Fernandina, Fla. ) . . Only a short session was held, at -r which a closer union of the assoeiations was discussed. - v^Js T HARRIMAN ON THE RACK. p| Great Railroad Magnate Before Inter-. state Commerce Commission. At New York, Monday, E. H. Hai>. riman, master of the Union Pacific. snpnt the dav in a recital of ^ DJ OVVUi) ?? ? w portions of the intimate histoid* of " the financial operations of himself and his associates before the inter- . state commerce commission, which, in. behalf of the United States govern-1 ' ment, is investigating the consolida-.^|?S tions and combinations of carriers. 33