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J " *?, - - ^ "' ' - -' * V ^ ^ ^ ~ YOU THAT ARE COME. Tou that arc rr.no?v.<> know not where. Save that your ey. s were shut in sleep And that your hands were waxen fair. Hands whose warm touch we fain would keep? You that are gone, this is to say The hearts yon P-ft behind you yearn And wait all patient, day and day, For your return. Who knows what pathway lured your feet It may be that 'tis yours to fare Out where the dawn and twilight meet, Into a vast, unknown, sonu-when? But this is sure, the home hearts wait While through the mist of worlds you roam. And sigh and say that soon or late You will come home. Your chair within the inglenook Holds still its comfortable s?paoe. Upon its arm your open book With ribbon left to mark the place; Your roses burst am v.- to bloom And drip their j-.-weiings of dew; The very air. lush with perfume, is waning vuu. We know not. in the curtained night Whose every shadow blurs and bars The far-llung gleaming of the light v That comes fjom all the time-old stars? We know not but wo faintly hear Your step, and we hold silence then. With faith that ever drawing near You come again. They say 'tis done; that we no more May see you smile or hear you speak, Or catch your footfall on the floor. Or trace the roses in your cheek; Eut still we blindly send this call ?To you, that somehow you may learn That hearts and hearth arc waiting?all? For your return. ?Chicago Post. Ii JACK 4 I $ a By Belle Moses \a 9\ :? h-- s Every one agreed that Evelyn Gregory was a queer child. "Of course, it Is natural that she should bo queer," every one said, "for the poor little mortal to have four parents is rather too much of a good thing." And so it was, for papa and mamma and grandpa and grandma each owned & share of this "only child," and had * wonderful ideas about bringing her j up. "She must be an exception to the ordinary only child," declared the two generations of Gregorys, and they J were so afraid of spoiling her by con- j tact with other children not so well behaved that until she was quite a i big girl she had no companions of her j own age. That she should have been happy under these circumstances, was enough to prove that she was queer, i but no one knew with what longing she looked out upon the forbidden, j glorious world of romps and games? j until Jack came. Hoy.' he got there no one ever knew * ?least of all Evelyn?but after a long | -and lonesome rainy day,* when nurse had tucked her up snugly for the j night and the firelight danced merrily j all over the floor, Evelyn thought she j saw another crib close beside her and ! the dearest little baby boy sitting up , and staring about him with round, j sleepy eyes. "Jack, Jack!" she cried with delight "I'm so glad you've come to play with me," and, stretching out her arms, she snatched him up and covered him j?> with kisses. I If any one had peeped into the nursery at that minute they would have seen only an excited little girl standing straight up in bed, hugging herself very tight and kissing her own chubby hands. But Evelyn knew better?it was Jack?her darling little brother Jack, and he had come to stay with her always. IShe told mdmma ail about it the next morning in her quaint, solemn / fashion, and was quite charmed when mamma gave her permission to play ? - 1 ll'L-O/1 cr\ witn jacK wnenevw sue ? , every night Jack's crib grew up be- | side her own in the nursery and every morning while she was being dressed she dressed Jack very carefully, and ' all day long she talked and played with him, until Jack?the fanciful creation of a queer child?began to occupy a real place in the household. Evelyn never forgot him under any circumstances; wherever she went, whatever she did, Jack was there, and whenever she walked in the street she always held out her hand as if she were holding Jack's and talked to him as earnestly as if he were really trotting beside her. What did it matter if other little girls and boys had sisters and brothers. She had a brother?the dearest, sweetest thing, and there were thrilling adventures now to fill up each day. An only child has to be dressed about three times as often as three children, or even a half dozen children, and when an only child happens to have long golden curls and a very j particular nurse those are times of j suffering indeed; but Jack's coming made a difference, because, as mamma said, she had to be very good and patient for fear of being a bad example for Jack. As she grew older and the curls were gathered together in a bright. thick plait, she sorrowfully decided | tuat Jack's hair must be cut. This was an awful day. She took him into ! the nursery and talked to him very - kindly about it, but poor Jack cried and cried and she cried, too. while she snipped them off with her own hands. But by lunch time it was over, and when Evelyn told of the dreadful scene in the nursery she was glad to hear mamma say that short hair was very becoming to Jack and made him look so much more like a real boy. There came a day at last when it was decided to send Evelyn to school; she was nearly eight years old, and could read and write quite nicely; she had even taught Jack, so that he was not far behind her. and " they could both do difficult sums in addition and subtraction. "I wonder if Miss Murray takes hoys," she said, * when she and her mother were - discussing the new jlChool. "I'd like Jack to ?o." . .. \ ... .... . *" -W7-/.V; 7 ^ uuMUwut I nawwfc wwwawMngaeawwgwemm m j "I never thought of asking," said j Mrs. Gregory with a smile, "but I i think you can risk it; I'm sure he will ! be very good," and then they both I laughed, for Jack's bringing up was ; quite a joke between them. | Evelyn was very shv at first; she | and Jack cowered together in the same j seat and gripped hands very tightly under her desk, but her new conipanI icus were very nice children and did i their best to put her at her case, so j at the end of a week she began to j feel quite at home. It is wonderful how fust this only i child fell into the ways of the others, 1 but. sad to relate, poor Jack was j very much neglected. When one has a dozen real little girls to play with, it follows quite naturally thai a I "make-believe" brother is not so i necessary as a companion, j After the first few days at school ! Evelyn decided that it was better to | leave him at home, so every morning j she settled him comfortably in the nursery, surrounded by all her picture books and toys, gave him a hearty i hug and kiss and hurried off without | him; but she was very particular j about his lessons when she came J home, going over and over them with j him, until he and she knew them by j heart, and when the night came, and j they were supposed to be sound asleep j she would tell him all the day's doings, ; chattering away as she had always ; done. The strangest part of it all was that j she never told her new friends about | Jack. "They wouldn't understand," she ! said to herself, as she gave Jack an | j extra remorseful kiss and took him | i out for a walk. j But things grew worse and worse j l'or poor Jack. The nursery was in- j i vaded by these strange little girls, i and Evelyn had to shake her head and ma>ke signs to him to keep very still, I so they would not know he was in | the room. She was actually ashamed j of Jack, and she sometimes forgot to ; take him out for days together. ! One Sunday morning?a very par! ticular Sunday, for E\elyn was going j to church with mamma?she was unusually grave and quiet, not even the knowledge that under her long coat was a dainty new dress and that she would have her favorite ice cream for dinner could bring a smile to her solemn, little face. "Wait a moment, mamma," she said, just as they were ready to start, "I must tie Jack's cravat. "Oh, we're to have Jack, too?" asked mamma. "Yes?this time?come on, Jack." And Evelyn held out her hand as she Tt'hon Tnr-lr wpnf alone. di ?V tt? O U1U 11 11VU .. w. All through the services she sat with Jack's hand fast in hers, and once cr twice she bent down and whispered to him, though mamma shook her head?for Evelyn never could whisper. Then when they were walking home in the brilliant sunshine mamma noticed that Evelyn no longer held Jack's hand; instead, she held her own snugly in her little ermine muff. "Why, where's Jack?' she asked, struck by the child's unusual silence. The blue eyes met hers and filled with ters. "I?I left him in the church," she said with a sob, "and I'm afraid he'll never be able "to find his way home again." "I'm so sorry," said mamma, and she took one of the little hands out of the muff and held it firmly. "Perhaps he may come by himself." But Evelyn shook her head, and though she missed him sadly enough at first, and often dreamed about him, and sometimes even cried for him, and wondered what she would ever do without him, Jack never did come back.?Washington Star. Spat Out Bullet and Three Teeth. Henry Ricka, a colored man, is congratulating himself because he once possessed a set of remarkably strong trmirhlv-nlznted teeth. Alas! three of them are gone, but they probably saved his life. They also, in all probablitv saved Frederick Cooper from being arraigned on a charge of murder. , Cooper and Rieka had a quarrel and the former pulled a gun and fired. The bullet hit Rieka square in the mouth. Rieka looked his astonishment for a second or two, and then made everybody sit up and take notice. He calmly spat the bullet out of his mouth and three teeth with it. Then he walked off to the Homeopathic Hospital for repairs. He was not badly hurt.?Wilmington Dispatch to the Philadelphia In- j uirer. Dog More to Him Than His Wife. a unari>rttlv notiiaterl bv his fond - ? I ness for a pet clog of mixed breed rather than his love for his wife, Moses H. Rothermel, of Blandon, Pa., came to this city in pursuit of his wife, who it is charged, had eloped with William Manning and had the dog with her. "Ah, my dog, my dog!" said Rothermel, ignoring his wife and Manning. "I love this dcg, and I would not part with him for money cr anybody." Mrs. Rothermel's father swore out a warrant, cn which she and Manning were arrested. The husband was at the hearing, with his dog under his arm. but did net testify. The defendants were taken back to Blandon.? Philadelphia Dispatch to the New York Herald. South Africa in Line. There are in the neighborhood of I $1,000,000 worth of automobiles in constant daily use in Johannesburg alone, while in the entire length at the Reef j at least twice that value will be found. I i ?Consular Report I ** y,. j .^> rtlfc <r% tfthti ; Palmetto State Newsf r V "V 'L' V *1' "!' U1 J1' t1 J J1 Judge Dies in Court Room. Colonel John R. Culp a prominent South Carolinian and probate judge of Chester county, dropped dead in the court house at Chester last Monday afternoon of heart failure. He was 73 years of age. In the civil war he was lieutenant colonel of the seventeenth South Carolina regiment of infantry. * * * Lunatic Runs Amuck. Ed Foushee, a white lunatic, broke jail at Greenwood a few days ago for the second time, attacked a colored girl with a saw and inflicted severe wounds on a policeman, severing his ear from his head. He was finally overpowered and sent to the insane asylum at Columbia. * * * Governor Officiates at Wedding. Governor Ansel was called upon to perform a marriage ceremony a few days ago on account of the parents of the bride being Catholics. The contracting parties were Miss Nellie D. Epperson of Sumter and Guy Beale Gilmore cf Uniontown, Pa. Sheriff and Mrs. \V. H. Epperson, parents of the bride, were present. * * * Negro Very Much Alive. Mayor Carmichael, a negro, alleged to have attempted an assault on the 10-year-olld daughter of Mr. Sawyer, near Mullins, some three weeks ago, and who made his escape from the pursuing par^v, and afterwards reported killed, was arrested near Brownsville a few days ago, and later 'odged in the Marion county jail. * ~ * Killed in Act of Burglary. John McMorris, a negro, was shot and killed in the house of Rhett 1 Crawford at Clinton last Sunday morning. The negro entered the place with a key, probably having seen Crawford's family start out for church. Two men on watch confronted him and he opened flqe, but was killed by John Boyd. McMorris had three pistols and a bunch of fourteen keys on his person. Boyd is held by the coroner 0/ Laurens county. * * * Black Desperado Killed. A dispatch from Trenton says Geo. Hudson, a notorious negro, was killed near there Sunday night by a posse of white and negro men, who had searched for him since Shnday morning. Hudson entered the house of Will Mickins Saturday night and struck down Mickins and his wife, leaving them unconscious on the floor. The woman recovered sufficiently to give the alarm a few hours later, and a search was begun. Hudson was shot while resisting his pursuers in a swamp near Trenton. * * * Convicts Fatally Injured, Rahh Rrnwn nnrt William WVao white, convicts on the Pickens county chaingang, were fatally injured ixi a dynamite explosion in a remote section of that county. Six sticks of dynamite had been placed under a stump in the roadway and the fuses lighted. Failing to explode in the usual time, the two men approached the stump to relight the fuses, when the explosion occurred, blowing Brown * thirty feet and seriously wounding Hyde. * * * Bridge Collapsed; Four Drown. Four negroes were drowned in Tyger river near Spartanburg, while following a corpse to a burying ground. The / accident occurred on Moore's bridge which spans the river, one mile from Moore station. The corpse had just crossed the bridge and a double mule team, with fourteen colored people in the wagon, were crossing the bridge when the middle section gave way and the wagon and occupants fell into the swollen river and floated down stream with the result tha: four wero drowned. / * # Major Euise Dies Suddenly. Major George Lamb Buist of Charleston, a prominent lawyer and chairman of the board of city school commission, is dead of heart disease. He had a fine war record and had been prominently identified with business interests in Charleston. He served terms in both the senate and house of representatives. He was G9 years of age and had lately been elected chairman of the school commissioners, succeeding Major Jullian Mitchell, who was stricken suddenly while addressing a meeting of club women. * * * Dentist Held for Murder. ' C. C. Armstrong, the young man I who was alleged to be an unlicensed dentist of Anderson, who, a few days ago, administered a drug to Mrs. Corrie M. Berry, in order to deaden the pain while extracting a number of teeth, thereby causing her death, has - -v v > . ' .. - > ' .v . ; v _ r 7 >: ; . ' --. ' ' ., ^ ';. -; ' ' * - i . f ! been lodged in the county jail on the charge of murder, the coroner's jury of inquest rendering a verdict to the effect that the woman came to her death as the result of the drug ' used by Armstrong. Railroad Assessments Doubled. | The state board of assessors have fixed the assessment of railroad property in the tate at $04,300,000. which is double that of last year. This was the result of adopting a resolution from Attorney General Lyon that the j law forbids the 60 per cent basis of j assessment now customary through! out the state. The Coast Line is jumped up from $10,000 a mile to $25,000; the South ern from $20,000 to $50,000; the Seaboard from $10,000 to $20,000 a mile. ? * * From Highest to Lowest. The Charleston and Western Carolina railroad has been changed by the Georgia railroad commission from class D to class A?a change from the highest rate chargeable to the lowest. This decree was sent to the owners of the road. The Charleston and Western Carolina has only about 15 miles of track in Georgia, and is owned by the Atlantic Coast Line. On its mileage in Georgia it can charge only the standard freight tariff. * * * Reform Move in Charleston. A reform wave has hit Charleston. Orders have been issued by the chief of police to close all bars on Sunday, and for the first time in decades Charleston was totally dry last Sunday. The Young Men's Christian Association board of managers recently attacked the lax enforcement of liquor and gambling laws, and Mayor Rhett and the police are getting busy. COTTON CROP IN BAD WAY ! Is Assertion of President of Georgia Seed Crushers' Association. "Reports from all sections of the south, as given by the members of the Interstate Cotton Seed Crushers' Association at Jamestown last week," said L. A. Ransom, newly elected president of that organization, who has returned to Atlanta, "indicate that the cotton crop of the south is today worse off than it has been at this time of the season in years. In fact, we got such distressing reports as to the necessity for replanting that the asscciation passed resolutions pledging the various cotton seed oil mills in the association to furnish cotton seed at a moderate cost for replanting from our supply on hand for crushing. "We realize what a poor condition the crop i3 in and how hard it is going to be to get a stand, and are very anxious to help the planters in every way possible. These reports were not formal, but came from ev* ery one of the 600 delegates at this convention from every cotton-growing state in the union. Mr. Ransom is enthusiastic over the convention and declares it the most | successful ever held. He states that Dr. H. W. Wiley, tne neaa 01 ms United States pure rood commission, made the association a talk, in whicn he declared the south could not conceive the possibilities in cotton seed oil and its by-products, which commodity is now in its infancy. Hon. J. M. Carson, chief of the bureau of manufacturers in the department of commerce and labor, was also a guest and speaker. He read a specially prepared pamphlet, which gave reports from all of the United States consuls on the subject of this great southern product, which had been compiled for this association through the offices of the state department. It was through him that Hon. J. L. Benton of Georgia was appointed United States expert abroad and his first report on the market for cotton seed oil and its by-products was read at this meeting. Mr. Ransom states that one of'the chief changes in the rules, as adopted by the convention, was where by the food value of cotton seed meal giving the protein and fat percentage in addition to the ammonia value for export trade. This does not affect home commodity, but is simply additional information for the export. The Georgia delegation with its special train has returned to the state and this was followed by special trains from Texas, Tennessee and Souih Carolina. The place for the next meeting will be decided by the executive committee at a later date. It will be announced from. Atlanta, the headquar ? irvn i lers ol me I ! FLOODS SUBMERGE RICE LANDS. Whole County in Louisiana Under Water and People Refugee. Flood refugees are poruing into Lake Charles, La., from Cameron parish, a county of nearly 1,500 square miles, much of which is under water, j from record-breaking rains, rising rivj ers and a wind which has blown the Gulf of Mexico water inshore. Nine families on a special train arrived from the Sulphur Mine district, where about ten thousand dollars damages has bene done. No loss of life has been reported. ,;v: ' . S~-' r > '? BBnonaiMBaHnnMiMRB SAN FKANCISCO'S POL ?Cartoon Drawn by F. 'Bo DEARTH OF MEN ! FOR THE MINISTRY Discouraging Report by the Koard of Education to the Presbyterian General Assembly. Columbus, Ohio.?In its report to the Presbyterian General Assembly the Board of Education said: "The beard has been made aware that its solicitude over the present period of decline in the number and quality /Of candidates presenting themselves for the gospel ministry is shared by the boards of education of other denominations. "Word has come from the Episcopal, Methodist and Lutheran bodies that the falling off, so noticeable, a few years ago, is beginning to have its direct effect on the church. "Dissatisfaction is felt in many quarters over the inability of the churches to secure the highest type of consecrated manhood for the ministry. "Pulpit vacancies for distressingly loqg periods are more and more noticeable, and complaints are, heard from committees on pulpit supply as to their inability to fill satisfactorily the places of those who are dropping from the ranks of the ministry. "It is with grave concern that the church at large should know the facts that in thirty evangelical theological seminaries in our country the church is about 400 men short of the number studying ten years ago, despite the country's increase of S,000,000 in population. "There are one-third less men studying for the ministry of the Presbyterian church than ten years ago, and yet the membership of our branch of the Presbyterian church has increased during that period from 1,024,000 to 1,304,000. "Ten years ago there was one can-" didate for every 640 church members, to-day there is one candidate for every 1240 members. ^ "Is it not therefore incumbent upon the church to engage in importunate prayer in behalf of the sons of the church, that more of them may be led to turn a deaf ear to the solicitations of a commercially prosperous age, and to consecrate their talent to the work of the ministry." \ Era of Great Strikes Passing. Washington, D. C.?According to Carroll D. Wright, who was commissioner of labor for a number of years, and is now president of Worcester University, the era of great strikes is passing away. In the place of industrial strikes the conciliation plan is being adopted. In an interview here Mr. Wright says the tendency is against the great strikes which were numerous from nnvltr eoTTon + ioc onward TTP hP t il C vOi i J V WUtAVW VM * ?? awavw w v lieves the tendency is against them more strongly than it has ever been in recent years, but that they served an effective purpose?that of teaching capital what labor wanted and teaching labor more about capital. The effect of such strikes was loss both to employers and employed. Mr. Wright contends |that while little is heard of it, all over the country employers and laborers are getting together in a spirit of conciliation. Greater efficiency on the part of the man who has an industrial duty to perform is another tendency of the times noted by Mr. Wright. Pink Burial Gowns Latest Mode Indianapolis, Ind.?Death is growing "out of the reach of the poor man." Fashion is establishing a claim in the death chamber and dying is to become a luxury in a way. F. H. W. Graber, who is attending the twenty-seventh annual convention of the Indiana Funeral Directors' Association, says many things have contributed to make burials in the year 1907 much greater than in 1906. In the shroud display of the company, Mr. Graber represents, are two or three pink dresses for young women?a radical departure from the white, black, gray and occasional lavender gowns of other times. He says that during recent months his firm has had calls for short sleeved waists in keeping with the fashion of the day. Trains Under Hudson in October. President McAdoo, of the Hudson and Manhattan Railroad Company, j announced that trains will be in op- i err.iion through the tunnels between New York and Iloboken by October 1. j Butter in Demand. The demand for fine butter has UftJii SU UUllUllill,v gUUU, V ?? ?"? V ^ j low retail prices, that all attempts to j lower quotations have been frus- ! trated. \ . . ' V ' ' > V'-'-> | [TICAL EARTHQUAKE. \'S viES. ;j?g?? ^3&SSS^^$c i | i:m wers, for the Indianapolis News. \ || MORALS OF NATION M BETTER, SAYS ROOT ;ig Secretary of State Tells Yale Wfajr fry the Citieus of United States , ShonldBc Optimists. V ^ New Haven. Conn.?Elihu Root,. f?|| Secretary of State, delivered the last | in the series in the William E. Dodge- ^Jp course of lectures in Yale upon '"Hie ^ Responsibility of American Citizen- ^ ship." : ;-:g Hopefulness. Mr. Root 'said, was. ;^|j| one of the plainest duties i of citizensbip. Pessimism he called a dim- ' inal weakness. Then he proceeded Ji to show by references to the history of the United States why there was no cause for any except an optiraistic view of public .and civic con-f ditions. He found arguments to sup-^ port his theory in the attitude of the ' ^ public toward trust?, and toward the ;?p practice of railroads of giving ana manipulating securities ana la the change in the method of voting.7?%jr? He also gave it as bis opinioD that . the great mass of the labor classes. of the country were in favor of pres* ent conditions vas against socialism. \ "It is impossible," said Mr. Root, ' '<?& "to read an account of the life of thepeople of any civilized country without finding an amazing degree of PrM cruelty, of oppression, of immorality, fgfey of corruptidn and of class 'privilege regardless-of common right, which has now been substantially dbne away "All railroads gave special rates to shippers thirty years ago. That was the existing form of ?competi- JC tion, and competition not only was; permitted, but it was enjoined by iaw, and any attempt to restrain ifc'^Mgj|| was, as it now is, unlawful. In recent years, however, the public has come to an appreciation of the that these great public agencies,' which have had conferred upon them the right of eminent domain and perpetual franchises to enable them do public service, cannot give special rates to some men without doing in-/^ H;: justice to other men. The lesson all this is that the prosecutions and convictions for violation of the AntiRebate law?things which were never heard of thirty years ago?are not . fm evidence that we are growing worse, ' but evidence that we are growing better; that our government is applying a higher standard of justice in tie VxJ control of public utilities. "This same thing is true of the management of corporations and the ggg manipulation of securities, to which ; attention has recently been called * 2 sharply by the testimony before the ;|||i Interstate Commerce Commission tegarding the reorganization of the Chicago and Alton Railroad. Thirty or forty years ago, when the manage- ! ^ ment of the Erie Railroad apd the Atlantic and Great Western and the Union Pacific Railroad attracted pub- V-lie attention, the things done by cor- ^ porate managers were so much worse ross that the Chicago and Alton affair > would not have received any notice. ' |; The railroad wrecker was a common type of railroad manager, and the VS'k rules did not go much beyond the * exclusion of ordinary forgery, larceny and fraud at common law. Now, under a higher standard, much is properly condemned which before passed % without notice. "It is perfectly safe to assert that the standard of probity and fidelity among the corporation managers of ,v the country is higher now than it ever has been, and yet there is more complaint now than there ever was because our citizens demand that a ^ more rigid rule of morality shall be-/ 3 applied by statute and by the courts and in administrative supervision than they formerly considered necessary." Then he spoke of the formation of .V V" trusts, with consequent crushing of .' competitors, restriction of output and increase of prices and of the laws ,;v? to regulate them. "On the other hand," he added; "labor organizations, designed for the "Czfo just purpose of securing fair treat- * r~& ment as to employment, wages and ' 0.f. hours and conditions of work, are on their part endeavoring to put up v;;J? prices, restrict production and 'drive out competition." v > - Bean Farmers Bine. Because of the low price which has. prevailed for field beans all winter, jjjg* bean growers in New: York State arey; somewhat discouraged and many re-V oort intentions of reducing tlieir acre- r Mo-e ' ' 'r '?fe-ri Freight Movement Prompt. Freight movement is almost J? prompt, the supply of rolling stock J? more nearly equalling requirements, ^ and there are fewer complaints of >'v delays. I