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.. -- *THE PEOPLE'S R VOL 9.---NO. 37. PICKENS S. C., THURSDAY, OCTOBER Silver Dollars -Given Av Greenville, E We have placed in our store Silver Dollars. We haVe had made I will unlock ite box. With every C given a key -attached to a tag. Keys month after October 1st, and the 11c be given $5.00 as a presnt. This is a now and novel vay we lh in cash what we have heretofore paid greater number will be benoiltted. ATF SMITH & - You will find the Men's Wear at GREENV Sole agents for Stetson's Stiff lIats. S THE RESUIT OF- EDUCATION, THE AIRT OF1 LET1'Elt WitITING Boys and Girls Nowadays Seek Know. ledge of Others-Bill Arp Takes Pleatre In Writing Letters. It is a hopelul sign that so miny o: the young girls and boys have a thirst for knowledge. The youth's depart. mont in the newspapers and magazines is growing into importance and their letters to the editors betokens studioue inquIring minds. The art of letter writing is itself not only an uccom plishment, but a good part of a polished education. Letters indicate character and good letters r<quiro thought. The letters of notable.men and women are the best part of their biographies. They are an index to the heart, the emotions, the dispositions. Time was when but few could write at all, and the opening of mail in a country town was a small affair. I know fropn. bx. perience, for when I was in my teen my fat.'her was the postmaster and I had the work to do. There are now at least ton letters per capita t6 ;whei-e there was one in those days. One great drawback on letter writing then was the cost of postage. A letter to a place within the State w a 12J cents and the postage had to be paid by the parson receiving it, and if it was a poor letter he felt like he was eheated. Many a letter was handed back to me with such a remark at "I Well, I'reckon it's from Dick Jones, over in Arkansaw, and I hain't got the quarter. Just put it back ontil I come ag'iln." - t keeps me busy now-a-days to an swer all the letters I receive. My wife and daughters help to keep up tjeo.porcspondence with the far-awoy bos and the other kindred, but good friends who write kind letters to me must be answered in person. Such lettergare a pleasure- and a comfort. Then, there are many letters asking for charity .or a little help for a church that only remind me how poor I am. But these letters from Inquiring minds who ar.e In pursuit of knowledge and perplexed about the mysteries of nature always interest me, and I have to pretend to be a wise man whether I am or not. Now, here is one from a pretty h1ooi girl in her teens. I know that she is pretty,. because she writes a pretty letter and there is not a blot or eras uresor -a misspelled word. She wants to- know -where the day beginis and v why, and vwher'e the navigators- firsi find fi chansge. Of course that i worth kupwjing,.and I suppose that very few outside of colleges and the continental travelers and the sea-far'ing men an Kdecatadsit-:. :-ai: *Well, my dear girl, the day begins just where man begun--in il gmpden. of Edlon, If the Creator had chosen New York or Charleston- foil that garden, thme day would have begur ove here on this .continent and ex. to ueil westward to California, as the people multiplied and carried it there Of course the day kept Its name and its dath around, and east of Palestine as far as the sea, but " westward the tide of empire takes its way," and sc did the tide of time. Columbus brought the day with him to this cortinent. From our eastern coasttibe peCople-toi it to Cailifornia, and from.,there lif missionaries took It to the 'Sand wict islands, and It continued to follow the sun until the havigatpra got atround to Bombay and Hong Kong and Caire and found that they had lost a da~y apnd it was Monday instead of Sunday,. And :thcose whlo iiled eastbwardsadd traveled against the suin fotind they had gained a day and. it was Saturday instead ol synday.. But Is noi, so now, for there Is at international line in midocean-a'mon dean that has been established by the great powers and accepted by, th< a vigators of all nations as the change of dato line. .This. line. is. 180 degrees wiest.of GreenwIch and rine from Nou 4'Zealand' north to Bering straits and goes not far from Samna. It is jus half way around the world from Lon: don and Is called the Antipode o GreenwIch. It lae 1,300 miles west, o HawaIi and 3,600 west of San F'rancisco * This lino Is check-marked on the up to-date map and Sunday is printed or the west, side and Mobday on the east -Navigators tell by their log books an< compass when they have.reached it and the captain or the mate announece wIth great ceremony : " Set the da.1 clock back twenty-four honrg. . As have crossed the li.. F'or many you~s our American rail ways, as they pressed their way fron *.tho.Atlantic to the Pacific, found the 4qiestilon of time very confusing, an< hence by consent of action they estiab lished four dliv islons ofr rail way tlmi and marked longitudinal lines 1,00' .miles apa~rt to 'indi cat9 them. .Whui .tl train.c,ossos on'oeof these ,Iizge ,t' ' passengers set thei,r watches bac ,o ao fward inast ond hdur. for the sin ray by Smith & Bristow, south Carolina. a handsome Oak Money-Box containing or us a ni mmiber of keys, some of which ash Purchase of $1.00 or more will be can be tried the first Saturday in each Iders of Keys That Unlock the Box will ave of advertisiug, and give to our trade for advertising, with the hope that the BRISTOW'S jest of everything in Popular Prices!! ILLE, S. 0. eo our special line of Men's $3.50 Shoes. moves or seems to move just 1,000 miles an hour. These mondean lines divide time into eastern, centrdl, moun tain and Pacific, a.d they pass through New York city, St. Louis, DenVer and Carso, City, and therefore when it is 12 o'clock in New York city it Is only 9 o'clock In California. The railroad companies, however, could not cut their lines in two to suit these mon deans and hence their railroad time Is a zig-zag crooked line to fit their ter minal points, but it approximates the mondean. This is not all that could bo wrItten about time and where the day.Xegins, but it is enough to satisfy the school girls and boys, and especially the oretty girl who writes me from Mc Rae. In these days of telegraph and ocean cables it seems very funny to.us veterans that when a message is sent from London it gets here two or three hours before it starts, anid If we send a je6legram- to San' F'rarhotico today at noon it gets there at 9 o'clock this morning. The battle of Manila was fought on Sunday morning, 1-ut the news of it came on Saturday night be fore. How is that ? Edgar Poe wrote a pretty little story called " Three Sundays in a Week,' in which he told about a young man who was adopted and reared by a rich old bachelor uncle who had been a saa captain. and how the old sailor was te leave his nephew a- large Mfortune if he behaved to suit him. The old man was crossiand. cont~rdry ap# the young man .-Wasi awtully, uneasy, for fear he would do something to displease him. At last he fell in love, of course, with a very poor but a pretty girl named Kate. They kept their love a soqgot, .and lived on it for about q 3or, and though C the old captain didn't know it, but be did. So they determined. to 'got married eventho'[itlihould make the old man mad and he should turn them oft. of doore .and 6dt leave them anything when he died. So on Sunday morning ;Jatk took Kiteby the han: and boldly they went into the old man's presence and-told him illiabout it, and that they had come for his consent and for him to fix the daydhenithey should be married. The old fellow was really glad of it,,for hp likedithe .girl, but he couldn't help being contrar and so he blustrediaround iid. pn e~ded to be' veiry inad, and 'il'dally w udup by say lng : " Yes, yes, you may get married,. and I'll .say when-yes when. -Well, you may get married when. there are three Sundays. in a week. Yes, then and not before." This was awful'and the sad young couple were about to leave <when there w as a knock at. the door. . When it was opened two sailors1 sea captains, too, came rushing in arid' 'seized the old man's hands and hugged him, and all firee-ggt jolly, for they were old chums ~anith'E~d nbt seen each other for a year. Thp old uncle introduced them: to the young man and Kate and said some thing nico s about them. He' soon brought out some fine old Madeira and made everybody drink. After while Captain Pratt said : " Well, now I remember that the last time we were together we had a royal game of cards. Suppose w havge ignother~ game as a " Ob, no," said the old uncle, "Good friends, you forget that this is Sunday, a~ndf trmi English men never play cards on Sunday.' " Sunday Indeed,'' - ex claimed Captain Pratt. " It Is Mdn day. Yesterday was Sunday, and I had prayers on. board ship as.I always do." Cht~ain Sntithson. .by, this .time was ekeitok and exclaimed : " Why you both are drazy. Tedayi~ura n tomorrow w ill beSunday. Dld 'ti makeo my sallor, scrub ship this m'orn' ing before suprise as we .came into port, and - don't we 'alw'ajs. . scrub ship on Saturday: What are you thinking about." - * Then .the -old uncle; laughed and chuckled and danced around-the room in great 'glee, for the wine was doin'g its work. " Sunday--Sunday l'' he exclaimed. " Pratt says tliat yeiiterday~ was Sun day. Smithson, -swears that tomqrrow will be $i4(daj,nAl I swea~r that today. iaSunday.'.Ha hi Ihat 'IT see;hQw it is; Pratt sailed west from Londpn and :Smithson sailed east and, have been round the world in opposite directioits, and I *have stayed at home. Three Sundays in a week, by Jupiter. Here Jack,, you young dog, go afte'r the preacher. and you- and Kate: get'mar ried today, for it will be a long tIme before threeC Sundays come together again. I haven't, told the story as Poe told it, but that is the gist of it. BILL ARP. Does your doctor guarantee to cure or permanently relieve that chronic troule ,. Which hau'Aes you so mush pain? No I. If .it's rheumatism, neuratgia, an old braise, ,banjachie or any pain that a penetrating lininuent inight cure, we advIse..you to try AllIstator'' Liuniment, if it don't prove satjsfactoxy the-loss. id -oursu Sold every a where. AN INTERVIEW WITH DEWEY, The Admiral Received the News paper Reporters and Talks Plea santly on Various Topics. The New York Evening Post gives the following interview with Admiral Dewey: "They are a splendid lot," the Ad miral said, speaking of the men. "The very pick, the finest in our navy, and that means the best in the world. Before I got to Manilla the Archbi shop, with whom I afterwards became very intimate, said that the Ameri can sailors were the scum of the earth, a bloodthirsty lot of out-throats, who would destroy everything in their path. " Later on, when I did get there," said the Admiral, with-- a knowing smile, " the Archbishop came on board one day while I had a battalion at drill, the very same battalion that will parade in New York. The Archbirsh op went on the bridge and watched them, and I said to him: 'Well, what do ou think of our American sail ors " "'They 4re splendid,' he said, 'I have seen the men of most navies,. but .nevet anything like thes -. They are magnificent. I cannot unJerstand it such splendid young fellows. How does it happen ?' "'Well,'I replied, "we look for the best men, we come closer to our men ; we treat them better that other coun -t'es do, and we pay them better.' " Then I called a man and said to him: .'How much do you get a month?' Ele saluted, and said, ' Eighty dollars, sir.' The Archbishop was astonished. You know eighty dollars would pay a wholI ship load of Spaniards. After that the Archbishop had a very great respect for us, and became very friend ly. Here I have a picture of Gen. Luna, which was given to me by the Archbishop." The Admiral then sent an orderly for the picture of the Filipino general, who . " was , murdered by order of Aguinaldo," pp he said. The picture was that dfa negt-o in a sort of military uniform. On the back was an inscrip tion in Spanish to the Archbishop of Manilla, Father Bernarddino Nasalado. It.was signed by Luna. " It was a plot," he said, " to assassi nate him. A crack. swordsman was placed as sentry, and when Luna ap peared he simply stabbed him. But these fellows' all," the Admiral said, "are a queer lot. They are simply servants and %table men and Agui naldo was a junior clerk'in the navy yard. He is a pretty smart follow. I know him pretty well. In fact, we were great frienis, and are, or the matter of fact, but he has not the brains.. There are people behind him, some of them lawyers and able follows, who..mato.c tqcl of Aguinaldo. Here, by the.way, is a cane which he pre sented to me," and the Admiral pro duced.a thick, black uane carved and resembling Irish bog oak more than anything else. "I thought," said the Admiral, "that this thing in the Philippines would be over long before this, as it shoul4 'hve been.' 1 'can't imagine h"'s they have stood out until now. Of .course there was the rainy season, and I suppose little was done. One great trouble out there has been that Gen. Ois has tried to do too much. I told .him so. He. wants to be general,. Gov ernor, Judge and everything else, to have hold of all the irons. No man can do this. This is the great trouble. It is enough for a man to do one thing, to.bsone lling, but w en a mpa tries t doveverything and- tobe everything it-is -nasy to-lilgine the ilesult. "The fight in the Philippines should be easily ended. The people have been so badly treated for such a length of .time by the Spaniards that they are distrustful. This is the great difficulty in dealing with them. Where we have met them-azd iiheyb1have been in much contact~ stth as as -to -learn -that wd mean 'to tieat them w61l1, where they have seen that we mean what we say, there is no trouble. They stand by us all the time. All of them will learen this in time. They will get from under the influeace, of Aguin aldo,. or rather' thosb people who are behind Aguinal do, who, as I said before, is a mere tool. -'Do you think the Filipinos are fit for. self-government ?". . "Well, no, not just now. They pr9ba bly will be in a little time. They are a very queer people-a very queer mix ture. Many of them are quite civilized and good people, but I do not think they are fit for self-government just yet. But when I say that I must add at the same time that it is my candid opinion that they are more fitted for it than the 9pka'n sthat they ato better peolile bhis-thtr 0 batle-l ever -waj. "I do wieb, however, that the whole 'business'was settled, and I think that after a little the Filipinos will take kindly to us." It was suggested to the Admiral that the Deinoci'atio'slate had been settled wi~h, Admiral Dewey for the Prebiden py d Geny Whebler f(>r the Vice Pre ."Well," said the Admiral, "we 'ahhuld inake a bretty mess of it. *Gen. Wheeler, of course, has had some train ing in the political school, but then he .1s a West Pointer. .I had forgotten that, Hie would wans to run everything as he would a regiment, andl, (of course, would make a splendid mess of it. You cannot run a-government as you would a regiment." "Well, Admiral," -suggested the re porter,' "it wouild not- be such a change fiom the-ship Olympia to the shIp of State." "Yes," said the Admiral, "it would be a very great change. I am not a politician, I am a sailor; my training has been all that way. I am at home on board my ship. I know my business, or, lit least, abould know it, and I do not want t9 mix up In the affairs of govern ment. I am perfectly satisfied to live and-dle as a simple sailor, who tried to do his duty. I am not apolitician. I can not make a speech even. I wish I could, but-I have to be content with my lot." Some one said just then to the Ad miral that his son was reported to nave made the statement' to the effect -thalt h'is father was a dyed-in-the--wool it publican. The Admiral. laughed outright, and, turning around pointedl to a picce of wood Ing on thet deck some yards away, at t he same time aying:- "My son knows as much about what n politics are as that piece of stick.?' The Admiral would not say a wo about the alleged interference of tI German admiral, Diedriche, as Manil --me-.++M WW RELICS OF JEFF11EltSON I)AVI A Valuable Colloction Sient to ti Confederate Museum In Ric) mont. The Confederate museum in Rile mond has ben onriched by the adc tion of two cases of relics, formerly ti property of Jefferson Davis, the ProE dont of the Confederacy. Some hai been given and others lent by Mr Davis and Mrs. Hayes, and they forn priceless collection. In accordance with a wish express,. by Mrs. Davis, the large case contal ing the President's personal properl will be placed in the Mississippi root and a smaller case, containing letter testimonials and portraits, will be e. hibited in the "Solid South" roor The suit of furniture has not yet bec assigned to any special pluce, nor wi it be until the matter has been cot sidered by the society. The most it terosting relics, in fact, have bec placed ii the Mississippi room. The are contained in a lirge, square cas, six feet or more in hoight. The su of clothes which Mr. Davis woro whe he was captured hangs there. Th frock coat is made of gray c:oth, wit a velvet collar, and the trousers are < the same material. The suit has bee much worn and bears evidence of lon servica by the absence of several bu tons from the coat and the itmprir of the President's knees the trot sers. The old family Bible rests on th bottom of the case, lying open at tb registry of marriages, births an deaths. Near It is the small Biblo ser by the President while a i)risonera Fort Monroe to his son. The prayer-book used by Mr. Davit with his autograph on the fly-leal, is very rare and valuable one, since I contains a special prayer for the Cor federate States Congress. No less sum than $5,000 has been otfered ft this particular book and refused b Mrs. Davis. A very quaint and rather patheti souvenir is a small silver thinpble b, queathed by a sister of charity upo her deathbed to Jefferson Davis, J It was the sum total of the g)od nun earthly possessions, and she left it 1 the boy she had nursed through serious illness, to whom the was d( voted. Side by side with the thimble is th gold watch which belonged to ti Princess Charlotte, of Euglatud, an was presented to Miss Winnio Dav during her visit to Eugland. Th matchbox used by the President ; box that he had kept at the head his bed for cigars, his cigar-holde and a dressing case which he alwa) carried in his valiso are among tt most interesting features of the e: hibit. Perhaps' the most striking reli however, is the bandago mado b Mrs. Davis t. screen her husbane eyes from the glaie of light while b languished in Fort Monroe. The la. gloves worn by Mr. Davis are presse and carefully folded, showing ho small his hand was. iLs keys, upon key ring ; a matchbox of cornelila presented to him by Welshmen ; a cas for his scissors, made by his wife ; hi eye glasses and a polisher, made by little girl for the President ; a Mex can emerald set in a ring of virgi gold, and two gold stars made for, ,.n worn by Mr. Davis on* 's collar, a claim the attetntion and 1I their ow story. The ease also contains a number4 interesting relics of Miss Winnie iD vIs, the Daughter of the Confederac Among the number are a Georg button, a silver badge, a cress ar chain, a gold badge for her Bible, tU bracelets she, wore in her infancy, ar part of an Eastern head-dress worn'i her upon some occasion that is cn mentioned. A piece of the wedding dress wet by Mrs. Hayes, together with some' the orange blossoms with which hi bridal veil was fastened, are also di played in this case, as well as the rir made in Georgia anid sent to Mr Davis while her husband was in pl son.. .TIIE GICANDM1OTHsISR'S BIIC'TIIDAY'. It is charged by some foreigners wvi visit this country thatAmericans as less dieferential to the 'aged than ai the people of other countries. It certain that we might learn somethir from the simp~le peasants of the T1yr in regard to giving the aged the Io ing~anddiitiful homage to which the declining yoears entitle thetm. An c change gives the following f rota a pt vate letter : " The morning of our arrival v' were awakened by the sound of a vi lin and- Ilutes under the- witidow, an hurrying down, we found the litt house adorned as for as feast-garlani ovdr the door and wreathing the hii chair which was set in state. " The table was already covern with gifts, brought by the young p)c pie whose music we had hoard. Ti whole neighborhood wore kinsfol and these gifts came from uncles el cousins in avery far otf deg'ree. Th were very simple, for the donors a' poor-knitted gloves, a shawl, a bask of flowers, jars of fruit, loaves of brea but upon all some little message of 10 was pinned. "'Is there a bride in the house ? asked of my landlord.. " 'Ach, nein I' he said. 'We do n make such a pother about our youi people. I t is our grand mother's birt day.'. " The grandmother, in her spect clos, white apron and high velvet ca was a heroine all day, sitting in sta to receive visit's, and dealing out eiic from a sweet loaf to all who came. could not but remember certain gran mothers at home, just as much lov' as'she, probably, but whose (lull, sa lives were never brIghtened by a such pleasure as thIs, and I thoug that we could learn much from thc poor mountainers." -Lt's.all well enough to call thin by their right names, but there s times when it should be done in whisper. ly BOB TAYLOR ON BOB INGERSOIA .d An Elcquent Picture of Modern In t0 idolity-Tho All-Wise and Omni a. potent Creator. The following artiole by Ex-Gov, S. Robert L. Taylor, Q1 Tennessee, is one of the most remarkable productions of 10 his gifted pon: - " I sat In a great theater at the na tional capital. It was thronged with youth and beauty, old ago and wisdom I taw a man, the image of his God, stand upon the stage, and I hoard him Sspeak. " His gestures were perfection of grace, his voice was music, and his ' language was more beautiful than any a I had ever hoard from mortal lips. d " le painted picture after picture of the pleasures and joys and sympathies of home. He enthroned love and ' preached the gospel of humanity like an angel. Then I saw him dip his brush in the ink of moral blackness C and blot out the beautiful pictures he had painted. I saw him stab love dead " at his foot; 1 saw him blot out the 11 stars and sun, and leave humanity and the universe in eternal darkness and eternal death. -" 1 saw him like the serpont o. old, Y worm himself into the paradiso of hu man hoarts and by his seductive olo quence and subtle devices and sophis try Inject his fatal venom, under whose blight Its powers faded, its.music was h hushed, its sunshino was darkened, ' and its soul was left a desert waste, n with only the now-made gravesof faith and hope. " I saw him, like a lawless, orratic meteor without. an orbit, swoop a'cross the intellectual sky, brilliant only in its self-consuming tire generated by ( friction with the indestructible and o eternal truths of God. d " That man was tile archangel of t modern infidelity, and I said : 'How true is holy- writ, which declaeod, "The fool bath said in his'heart, ThorE. 4 is no God !"1 S" Toll me not, C infidol, there is no t God, no heaven, no hell I Tell me not, 0 infidel, there is no risen Christ I a " What intelligence less than God's could fashion the human body? What Y motive power is it, if not God,- that drives the throbbing engine of the c human heart with ceaseless, tircless stroke, send ng the crimson L;troam of life bounding tnd circling through every voin and artery ? " Whence and what, if not of God, 0 is this mystery we call mind ? What a is It that thinks and feels and knows I and acts ? 0, who can deny the divi nity that stirs within us ? e "God is everywhere and in every e thing. His mystery is in every bud d and blossom and- leaf and treo ; in every rock and vale and hill and mnoun tain ; in every spring aid rivulet and a river. Tile rustlO of his wing is in every z phyr ; its mIight is in cvery tempest. lie dwells In the dark pa vilions of every storm cloud. Ti olIghtnling is his Umessenger and thluil der is his voice. Ils awful tread is in cvery eart-q uako and on every angry ocean. The heaveus above us toom PY with his myrlads of shining witnesses. 2 The universe of solar systems, whose 0 wheeling orbs course the crystal paths tof nace. lroclaim through tilo dread d hill of eternity tile glory and power IV and dominion of the all wise, omnipo a tent and eternal God." s MONUMNE'NT To MOSIlY'S Mii0N. a i The Survivors or This Famous Comn n man(I Unveil a Sha't to Their Mar tyrc(l Deal. n On Satur.'ay last live thousand Virginians, West Virginians, old Con federates from nearly every Southern 5- State, and men and women from ae far .North as New York, wit,cessedI the un a veiling at Front 'RoJyhl,~ Va., of a d monttment erected by the survivors of eCol. John S. Mosby's famous command d J~o sev en of their. comrades- shot and y hung at that laco' diiritig the war be t, tween the States. Joeb Stuart, Camp of Confederate Veterans, of lHerryvilie; n Stove Camp, of Strasburg ; Turner if Ashhy Camp, of Winchester ; Rosser ir GIbbon Camp, of Luray, and Wiiliam s- R.ichardson Camp, of Front Royal, g were ini tile processlon. Over :200 of s. Mosby's men were in attendance, the I- largest number of members of this band which has been together since 1865. In the parade besides thle or ganizations named were the Warren - Memorial Association and the survi 0 vors of the 413d Virginia regiment. - 'rho mlonument is on an eminence in -Ppet Hill Cemetery, and around this gathlered tile great throng to hear g thle addresses. Col. Giles Cook n'lade a short address. Rev. S. J. Ferguson offerecd an eloquent prayer, and then a rP 11nu oration was delivered by Major SA. 10. Richards, ,of LouisvIlle, Ky. 'At the conclusion .of tile oration Martha M- gath Strother, granddaugh; e ter of Capt. Thomas 10. Anderson, one Sof the s'evon men to whose memory the ,mo'nument was crectedl, and Mary Ie Wilkinson, great niece of Hlenry Js Rhodes, also one of the seven, drew tile hcords which bound tihe veil hiding the shaft from view, .and there w e'e d mighity chieers from thousan'ds .ol throats as tile beautiful ehaft stobd dig: eC closed. KAn eloqjuent-addrsm of acco tdhoe dwas made by the lion. it. HL. Dowring on behalf of the ladies of tile W~arren 'a Memorial Assocgiation. I St' Pair women then placed thirteet' d; laurei wreaths around the base of the o' monument, typifying the thirteen States of the Confederacy. I Gen. Pa3 no Farquhbar made a happy address, and the exercises were con St eluded by the singing of an original mg war song by Capt. Frank Cunningham, V' of Richimon d'. Tihe monument Is a beautiful granite a- shaft, twenty-live feet in height, and P), Is on a commanding eminence in th4 to beautiful cemetery. inscribed on the Sbase are the names of the men wh< wore executed : Anderson, Carter jOverby, Willis, Love, Jones an Rhodes. Prof. Totten, formerly a lieuten seant in the army, but for the ptsst fev years a professiornal prophet of t~he enm of the world, is out with a now predic tion. He says that the infant sOrt ( gs the Duke of York is destined to gathe re the Jews from the four quarters of th a earth and to unite them undier his bar WHEIRE0 PAT GOT HIS LIQUOJl The Judge Found Out After a Porto of Conslderable Questioning.' On one election day, a great mav3 years ago, a certain town in a State. It which the local option law was opera tivo voted against granting license tc soil intoxicating liquors. In the year that followed the authorities were in defatigable in their efforts to detect and put a stop to illegal traillo, and one o their methods was to question these who were before the court for drunkennes as to where 'they had ob tained the necessary material. It be came the eusto' to ask the man on trial, "Where did. you get your liquor ?" He was generally given to understand, particularly if his case had mitigating circustances, that a frank answer would gain him clom oncy. Sometimes, if there was no pro vious conviction against him, it earned him his discharge. One morning there appeared before the magistrate two coal men, who wore the blackened garments in which they had been working all the day be fore, and to all appearances had been taken from their team by officers who apprehonde. them. Neither had a re cord, and, of coureo, their clotises in themselves wore evidence that they had steady employment, and under or dInary conditions were hard working citizens. The judge intimated that if they would tell where they had ob tained the beverages that had brought thon into trouble he would let them go. They were not familiar with pollo court mothods, and the meaning of the judge's words dawned on them slowly, but simultaneously. They looked at each other quickly, and each gave a little snickor, which he imme diately hushed up in a shamefaced way. Then they scratched their heads and looked at each other again, and each put his hand before his face to hido a smIlo. "Come," said the judge, " where did you got your liquor ? "' Ono of the prisoners nudged the oth or, and the other nudged back. "Go on, toll," whisperod one. " No, you," said the other. "Why, ye soo, y'r honor," said one of thorn," it was this way: Mike and me wint out yesthorday with a load o' coal, and lo! and behold you, It chanced that we had to take it to-yo see, we was on the load o' coal, and when we arr-lved at the house where it was goin', why, thin, we-" Here he stopped. " Oh, come," said the judge, "speak up. You other one, see if you can't tell about it." " Well, y'r honor," said theother one, "it was just, as Pat was sayin.' We wint out with the load o' coal, and whin we got there, why-y'r honor said, didn't yo, that we'd be discharged if we told whore we got it ?"' "I did &ay so," said th judge, " but you must till it pretty quick if y( want to got of. I can't opend all th\ morning over you. Leave out the coal that has nothing to do with it." " Beggin' y'r honor's pardon, it has thet," said Mike, gathering courage with a rush. " Yo see, it was this WIy Wo haid to carry the coal to y'r honor s collar, an' while there wo was kind of lookin' 'round innocent like, and it so happened that we-or-as I was sayin' before, we was in y'r honor's collar, an' " " That will do,"- said the judge quickly. "You are discharged." They went on their way rejoicing. HE HAD ENOUGli 0O0 1T.-A farmer who was possebscu of some means en ter ed the ollico of his county paper and asked for the editor. 'rho farmer was accompanied by his son, a youth of seventeen years, and as soon as the editor, who was in 'his secret sanctum, was informed that his visitors were not bill1 collectors he came forward and shook hands. "I came ter git some information,". explained the farmer. "Certainly," said the editor, " and you came to the right place. Be seated." The farmer sat on one end of the ta ble, while his son sat on the floor. "This boy o' mine," he said, " wants' tog; go into the literary business, an' I thought you'd know ef thar wuz any money In it or not. It's a good buai ness, ain't it ?" " Why-yes," said the editor, af ter some besitation. " I've been in it my self for flifteen years, and you see where I've got to." Trho farmer eyed him from head to foot, glanced around the poorly fur nished ollice, surveyed the editor once more, th'cn, turninig to his son, who was still on the floor, said: "Git up, John, an' go home, an' go back ter pioughin' I" No LONG ER A V1IRTUE.-The Steu ben Republican says that a janitor in a neighboring school threw up his job the other day. When asked what was the trouble he answered : "I'm honest, and I won't stand being slurred. If I find a pencil or a hand kerchief about the school when I'm swooping I hang it ifp. EvWery little while the teachers or someone that is too cowardly to face 'me' g'ives me a slur." " In what way ?" asked an oflicer. "Why, a littletwhile ago I saw writs ten on the 'board, '[Find the common multiple.' Well, [ looked f rom garret to cellar and I wouldn't know the thing 'if I mot'-it in the street. What mado me quit my job ? Last night it big writin' on the blackboarri it said: ' Find -the greatest common divisor. Well, I says to myself, both therr darned things are lost now,'and I'llgl blamed for swiping 'em, so I'll quit.' --Thme (flcacy of 'the automobile ih mountaincllimbing' has been proven- b Mr. and Mrs. F. O. Stanley of Newton Mass., whose automobile madse th~e ae cett of Mfount Waghipgtog"'%300 fee 'Abote'sea -levei. , CASTOR I A For Infants an~d Children. The Kind You Have Always Bough po At the present time ou e tbt WO all- past or present ,he , with the fron 'nerve braved or dangers of Manilla B Af0steddy ih death dealing torpedn , to 4ols i and who to day Is *orshiped bya America. Not only Warfare has 4t* heroes, but they can be found in.evr Y walk of life: tho farmer,- doctor, la yer, preacher, merchant, etc yoe will think for . meit no heroever did more thau his duty, r...o4e who does this In Its fullest sen ai,. hero. 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