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, -S f - ' #■ 0 THE WEEKLY LEDGER:"GAPFXET, S. 0., OCTOBER 3, 1895. PsQUIRE RUFUS SANDERS — And His Story of tho “Burn Dic tionary Document.” Some ItocUv Creek Logic On the Money Quefttion—•*Yimi Cnii’t iiik«‘ Your limn* per ItMskct ntul (.o an I <«it some* thin for Nothin"—A Land I r.nlo With Confederate Aiouey. \ . U A (Copyright, 1R05.) Money is a mighty good thing in its place, and I reckon no doubts I know as much as tho average man about tho right and proper placo for it. Hero lately I have seen and heard a whole tremen- dious big sight from the papers and politicians in regards totho great question of money. Some folks say there ain't enough money floatin around in the country. Of course not. There never was enough, and there n ver will bo enough for everybody. Wo never will como to that pass where the com mon run of penpl* will not want jest a few more, if you please, dome people will got rich and stay rich, whilst oth ers will start poor, or git poor, and stay poor. For thus it was written down. llocky Cr« ck Logic. Itraloy looks to me like if there was a gracious plenty of money in the coun try, and it runnin loose and free so every man could go and help himself, you understand, the general machinery would soon run down and stop. Accord in to my doxology, it ain't money, hut the general hankerin after it that holds this old government down and keeps up a constant hummin and hustlin all along the line. I have likewise also took notice in my bruisin around that uhensomever a man goes forth to raise a mighty muss with the government for more money, or some particular sort of mom y. you can most in generally bet your Sunday boots that man never made any money, never had any money, and never will have any to speak of. If yojp could manage so as to work up a few bets o that lino it would pay you better than a thousand stump speeches on the ques tion of money. So far as 1 know there ain’t but three or four ways to git money. You monght bo born into it, you moutrbt git some thin in tho way of boot when you marry, you can work f^r it and earn it, or you can steal it. Hut git out your little note hook now and set this down: You can’t take your hamper basket and go ami git somethin for nothin. When 1 \\as a boy wo use to sing a little song that start' d oil - as follows: "Where greenbacks grow <m uliite oak trees, And the liviis II >w ivnti bran iv. Where Hie Mr i ts are paved ivuh edickeii pie. And the girls aie sweet as eaud> .'’ Hut as yet I never have bceii able to round myself up in that pleasant coun try. Tho general combination is quite altogether too gorgeous l.ke and rich for a plain and common old plug like me. So long as a dollar will buy a dollar's worth of dry goods and grow r es. with a bottle of vegetable matter thrown in for good measure, you understand, and so long as 1 can keep a few of the docu ments put away in my old sock, I am not the man to go out and kick up a big dust with the general government in regards to money matters. And it don’t make a continentiul bit of diilereuco with mo whether my share comes in gold, or silver or paper. At our house money is money every day in the year. old n an Hilly String i s h >rse was tied up t the rack at our front gate before bre k fast, and the old man come right down to business a» soon as be could. “I have come over this m >rnin to take up ray note. Rufus.” says he. ‘•Well, I am tbunderin glad to see you. Uncle Hilly.” says I. “Hut I aint got nothin but Confed erate money,” bo wont on. “I didn’t como to force it on you, but I will only say I have got it hero in my wallet for you if you want it.” ‘T am still bettin on tho gray jackets of the South as agin the bluo coats of the N n th,” says I, “and what is money with you. Uncle Hilly, is also money with me. Countit out and take your note.” >o ho counted out the stuff, put tho note in his pocket and rodo of toward homo Now it so como to pass that old man Jeremiah Jernigan was over to my house that day when old man Hilly come for a settlement. Old man Jere miah was way yonder tho most richest man in tho county, and had loss of money loam d out on short time and long interest. lie was already feelin tolerable skittish about Confederate money, though ho couldn’t keep from takin it as long as it went with every body else. Hut be was powerful anxious for somebody to refuse it, so bo could follow suit and call for nothin but gold and silver when people ho had loaned to como to take up their notes. He looked at mo with a nervious, dont-you- take-it sort of a look that day when Uncle Hilly showed down with his Con federate money. Hut I could see some further ahead than the < n 1 of my nose, and so the w nk didn’t work worth a cent with me. I didn't go and forget that Tobe Crittenden was holdin my note for and I wanted to bring that note homo with me and put it away good before tho whole country broke away from Confederate money. You can see how it was that 1 couldn’t make the first break and save myself. When Money Mas I’lenty. But I have seen the times, fellow citizens, when there wasmonoy a plenty and to spare in this great and growin country. And some of these old stagers that have now' got the snow and hay seed in their hair never can live long enough todisremember that time. When tho bottom dropped out of the Confederate government naturally of course our money went up tho spout. Wo then had more money than most anything else. You could g t your hat full of money for a barlow knife ora plug of sorry tobacco. You could sell one square meal for 8">0 spot cash. There was dead oodles of money in them days, you understand, but It took a heap of pushin to make it g >, and it wouldn't fetch much when it went. It must of been somewhat like the old man up in tho hill country said about tho State bank money—“too darn new, and too much of a kind.” It was sorter like tho man that went to town after nothin and took along his ox cart to haul it horn i in. Right along Chore buforoitpa 8 sout of my mind I want to say that another old-fashion sbootin, Ugh tin, klllin war would bo a good thing to make some m'-n out of simlin- headed dudes and put a stop to tho general howl about “bard times” and "skoerce money.” In them dark and tryin days when money was so tr mendius plenty and times so almighty hard to upend I made one trade that put mn ahead of the hounds, ns it were, with time to spam and no fences to climb. 1 so'd a pim y 'veedu f.irm over in tho hills for $2,5U<) and bought a plantation d' wn on I)i or Creek for $2,303. I sold out to old man Hilly (Stringer and took hi* note for tho money. Then I bought from Tobe Crittenden and give him my note—eo wavorly note, no mortgage and no lo n you nnderstand, but Jest n plain, I m- ust, everyday. Hard-hell Baptist noto. When rnr II.if (Mm*. All of the papers In the two trades fell due along in the fall, and that whs the last jvmruf the war. The govern ment was now ruther shaky at tho k flee a and money w .«« e .•«? and plenti ful aw pig Wauiuk Wk* waM h n , ‘ don’t you go and putnothln In that paper which I can’t understand.” ‘J wi II r< ad it out. when I git through,” says I to Tub©, “and mak« every word as plain as a p lint d horse ruck.” But at the same time I saw right where To he’s weak pint come in, and after that I would write a few words and then pull the d.ctionary on him. I He was walkin around in bis nervio is, fretful way, and every time I picked up the book he would shako his list and foam at tho mouth and tell me not to put, nothin in tho paper that he couldn’t understand. I told him over and over to hold on till I got through and then I would read it out loud to him and make everything clear as a bell and plum r.at- isfactional. But Tube ho was dar.cin around by this time like a man with the seven years itch. Presently he brought himself up quick and suddent in front of me and s aid, says he: “Hold on right there, Rufe Sanders! Blamed if I wouldn’t ruther take your durn Confederate money than your durn dictionary document.” Henceforward* fiom that time on I have told mother that she hadn't ought to tako on so about my bad spellin. It is a weak pint 1 know, but you can see whero it saved usS2,30u with that “durn die: ionary document.” Now then, to cut the story short, when I went to sleep that night the note which Tube Crittenden had been holdin on mo was safe at the bottom of tho family chest, whilst old man Joi nig in’s mare* mule Kit was lookin to mo for her corn and fodder. Rri t s Sanders. DEBTS. Sam Jd-'Ot Give's Adv’o^ as to What to Do With Thom. BIRD COLONICS. Off Alter That IIiirdHtirll Noto. The very next day my noto to Tobe Crittenden fell due, so bright and early that tnornin I saddled up and mounted my nag and started off after it. The road to Tube's place took me right by old man Jeremiah Jern gan’s, and when I g< t along there tho old man come out and hailed me and wintod to know where 1 was bound for. I told him whero I was goin and what 1 was goin after. “You would better lot your horse swap ends for home right here,” says tho old man. “Tube CTitt'*nd n aint goin to tako your Confederate money.” “Well, if ho don't take it,” says I, “it will b© because you have been down there and put him up to rofusin, and if you want a heap older than me I would give you my plain, personal opinions of n man Hi it. would play a game like that amongst his friends and neighbors. I am on my way to Tube Crittenden's, and 1 am goin after that note.” “And I’ll jest bet my mare mule Kit agin the sorriest steer calf on your place that you don’t git it,” says old man Jeremiah. • “1T1 take that hot If I loose,” says I, sliakin hands with him to clinch it. “(»>>ol tnornin, Uncle Jerry.” When I bovo in sight of tho Critten den place Tube he was walkin fast up and down his front pi.iza, and smokin and puilin with his pipe like a steam eu- ginc. “Good mornin, Tobe," says I. “Good mornin, sir,” says he. “You needn’t too make out like you don't know me,” says I, “cause I was warmin up at his cold and highferlutin talk.” “Yes, I do know you,” says ho. “That is Rufus Sanders. Light and git down and come in.” I went in and let him know from tho jtimp that I. had come after that note. ‘ You can git it,” siyshe, “providln if you have como heeled with tie' right sort of rocks, but let me tell you now, I am not goin to take any of your durn Coined' rate money." “\\ hat was old man Joremiah Jerni gan (loin down here yesterday?” says 1. “He was down hereon business,” stys Tob", “but that aint got nothin to do with your durn Confederate mutiny. 1 wouldn't touch it with a furty-foot pole." “W<11 and good, .Mister Crittenden,” sins I, “but yon have got to sign a |. iper rofusin to tak" it. A m in that talks as big as you do ought to be willin to nut it in black and white." Tobe lowed ho was nillin to sign his name, and wo went in the house to fix up tho paper. Timt "Dnrn Diction iry Document.” Sorry spellin lias always been on* of my mainest weak pints. I al ways would spell a word acoordin to tho i way it Rounds. My spollin is dono ! mostly by ear, as it were, and if tho I letters don’t run along with tho sound | of the word I am more than probable to mako a mess of it Now Toho Crittenden was good and lcind-hcart"d, but at tho sum') time ho wan one of those nervious, restless, sus picious sort of men. Ho wouldn't bo- liovo his own dear daddy on a Bible jath, an I bo wouldn’t trust his best friend us far as you could throw a camp- incellii by the tall. And bo8!'!‘ , s that, Toho was monstrous dull In ho iks. Tb» ichool teachers us© to say that the snl.^eJ. way toputany learn In In Tube's head was to split tho thing open, put the book In It and sow the whole busi ness up. It was my Job to writ© tho paper, and l didn't go ho t' ry far before l struck a knot and called for a dlctioNtrj. Toho oent and got tho book and then wanted , to know what I w.iS goin to Jo with It. “I have struck a hard word to spell,” tays I, “hfjd I need tho lunik to pull me i through.” 9 ”l»wk a hero, Rule dundone” s*|« Great CTltTs Within tiio Arctic Clrcl* Where Millions Nest. Within the arctic circles are tho great, bird colonies. The largest and tno.jL remarkable is that of Svaorholt Klubbcn. Every inch of this wonderful clifT, which rises about one thousand feet from the water’s edge and is of consid erably greater breadth, says the Den ver Times, may be said to be used by the birds. The discharge of a small cannon in the immedrate neighborhood will darken the air with millions of birds, but even then a field glass will reveal the innumerable ledges white with the undisturbed millions. These consist almost entirely of the small gull (Rissia tridactylai. and they are a source of considerable income to the owner of the colony, who lives at tho little fishing station close by About the middle of May each year, by means of a long ladder placed against the foot of the cliff, he proceeds to col lect the eggs. Of these there arc at most three to each nest, and the num ber taken averages from six thousand to ten thousand annually, or the prod uct of, say. three thousand pairs of birds Ropes are not used for this purpose at Svaerholt, as they arc in the Faroe isles, so that the highest of the above figures represent only a very small per centage of the yearly production of the colony, as by far the greater portion of the clifT face, where the nest.', are packed as closely as they can be. re mains absolutely untouched. A PULLMAN PORTER'S REASON. Why Wc Should Sleep with Our (Ic-adii Toward tho Eugluc. “In riding on a Pullman ear,” said a colored porter more than usually ob servant, according to the Chicago Trib une, “sleep with your head to tlie en gine. There are not so many head-on collisions on the railroads, experience has shown, and besides the danger is less from a rear-end collision The reason for this is that every passenger train has its own right-of-way and runs regularly, and is looked for by the train ahead of it. The greatest danger is from a train behind which doesn't know when we have stopped or bi i.' n something and been forced to stop. This is the chief reason for sleeping this way, but there are others. “You get tho draught in the right placo,” the porter continued, “with your head toward the engine Your head feels cool without being exposed to tho flood of air you would get if you were pointing the other wav. Hut t lie most important reason for traveling this way is the matter of the cir -ala- tion of your blood. The inotii n of lira train is so strong and sle.’.dy that it sends all the blood toward the cud lh.it is farthest from the engine Put your feet to tho engine and tin* blood goes away from your head, leaving it ■ i and easy, so you can rest like u e: Id When you have got yourself fixed this way, and, moreover, have got i:i '.he middle of the car, because it is l!ic safest, then you arc ready for a good night’s sleep." TENEMENT HOUSE DOOR HELLS. There la the Very licit of ttmaaous 1 ur Placing Them Hl jh on the Door 1’oata. Strangers in this city often noli c that door bells are almost iiivarinbly placed one or two feet higher on the door posts of hour,es in the tenement districts than Is usual in mine pr" r- ous neighborhoods, nnd the dr ovn-y is always provocative of Inqulr,• An- poor folks taller than the rich and v i ll to do, that they should be obliged lo lift their hands five feet nr more to grasp the bell? Oris this merely a ei ;• tom among tenement hon.ue builder and is there no particular reason fnr it? There Is n reason and a very (.-( •-1 (me, too, says tho Now York llcn.ld. Tenement neighborhoods literally swarm with children, and ehildiYii. whether well burn or Hi, im: c"i.iiii«>n- ly possessed of the “Old Nl- li." There Is qoUling in tlio world Hut u:i umc- geuernto youngster ho Jove to do a to pull a door bdl and run round lira r ner to obserro from u wife vantage, with fiendish glee, the dbvomflt im.’ of the woman who luir’cs her hiking or dishwashing to answer thu smnmons and find—noliody. In well-to-do nelgliborhiMids the sup ply of mlsehlevona nrehlns Is limited Among the tenements they swnnu. lienee the high door bell h* tire re a no- Mrastty and u uwfcu«o. Hotter Pay Pp. Ho Siys-Try to negln the New Year on n Cash navis— Debts us a Sign of Prosperity. copvnicHT. 1803. I suppose no problem is causing more thought just at this time than debts and bow to collect them; debts and how to pay them. Many creditors are lying awake at night thinking and studying how they can collect the amounts due them. Some debtors are lying awake at night thinking and studying bow they can pay their debts. Many of them are letting the other fellow stay awake and do the walking. How the debtor got in debt sometimes settles the question us to whether he will pay his debts. A man who goes in debt recklessly and carelessly may pay bis debts, but largely the arrearages upon the books and notes of the creditor s of thin country year after year are due largely by the class who are reckless in their expenditures and prodigal in their life. Pat said he got rich by doing without the things he was compelled to have. I am sure that caution and economy will enable a man, at the end of lira year, to discharge, if not all. most of his obligations. The creditor who has the hardest time collecting bis money is the creditor who has been ex tortionate with the debtor—the credit merchant who acids fifty per cent, to the bill of the unfortunate debtor be cause he is not able to pay cash. I am * ure ’f cash customers cannot pay the extortionate price for goods tai debtor class cannot do it. It is much easier to pay high prices for oasis than it is to go on a credit and pay them later on. When the cash is paid the debt is discharged, but when goods are bought on credit the debt still hangs over the fellow. The banks— and many of our banks do this—charge extortionate rates. Any bank ought to make a good dividend on eight per cent, interest. Any bank that charges over eight per cent, per annum ought to lose it ■. capital. A solid, sound, safe line of discounts, 1 verily believe, can not be made anywhere in this country above an eight per cent, interest. Whenever the banks get over eight per cent, interest they imperil the princi pal of the debt to do it. A man who pays that sort of interest long will not be able t » pay the principal, and the farmer who buys go > 1, on a credit at the extortionate per cent., the merchant puts upon them will soon be found rob bing the merchant or pauperizing his family. 1 don't believe that the debtor class ar multiplying as rapidly ns they did a few years ago. In tho first place their credit is not so good, and in the se-ond place tlie times and seasons in the buxine: ; world have been such that men have, in a sense, taken their bear ings and determined to stay nearer the shore. This is true largely of the indi vidual, but cities and municipalities are not reducing their indebtedness. Every now and then we see where this city and that city has sold bonds; and a bond in a city i( a great blanket thrown over the whole city from cor poration Hue to corporation line and an evidence that somebody has gut that c ty by the leg. We are now discussing another bond issue by the national government. May be it is better to have less gold and fewer bonds than to have more gold and more bonds. They tell me that debt is evidence of prosperity. If that be true wc are the moot prosperous people under the shining sun. ling- land is a creditor nation, and I suppose she is in debt. Long time bonds is what the creditor wants and is what the debtor is willing to give, but there must be a reckoning 1 some day. and I suppose wc can let our chil Iren and their children settle the debts in the future. But lira purpose of this 1 ■I ter was t > call attention lo the fact that lira holi days will soon be here, the first of .Ian- nary in a few more weeks will dawn upon us. Very few deb,:; on the part of t he debtor class are set!led afior tlie first of January. It is the duty cf every honest man t o labor and to save and pay, if not the who! ' debt, a , large a per cent, of it as possible. Common honesty demands tins, and it is the duty of cveiy debtor to help in all ways that ho can to settle with the ercdiP r on the most equitable basis. The cry of the debtor is—I made thisdc hi when money was not half so valuable as it is now. The cry of the creditor i ;-if I had kept my money that I lent to you it would have been as good money to day as the money I demand of yon. It is bad to go in debt when you are com pelled to do it; it is almost criminal to go in debt if you are not compelled to doit, ft U criminal to recklessly take the goods or money of another without the honest purpose and lira indefatiga ble effort followin' it. to return it again with Interest. Some creditors love to be lenient; some are merciless. Home debtors love to pay; some only wait to find a legal loop-hole out of which they may go with no compunc tions of conscience and no pride of character. From the plain colored man who is still In debt for the half bushel of meal and ten pouudn of meat, to lhe corporation that owes Its millions nnd would Ijorruw more and know not how It Hhall be paid, wo need to overhaul the purpose and the principle of both colored man ond ©.>rp<»r:ii l.»n. folle t your debt, Mr. Creditor. If you can do It ns a man. but don't do It liken hyena Pay your debts, Mr Debtor, If It lake the shirt off your baBay mnr debts Ifymi can. I Hk* lo have set Id, pay them whether you can or not. Ham P. Jonek. CANAL LOCK OPERATION. Electricity Preferred Because It Will Not Freese Up. The gates and gate valves of tho great loch in the new Canadian canal at Sault St. Marie, connecting Lakes Superior and Huron, are operated by electric power. The lock is built of masonry, is nine hundred feet long, sixty feet wide, and has a depth of water of over twenty feet. General electric apparatus is used, nnd the power generators and lighting dynamos are driven by turbines. The reasons which led to the adoption of electric power on the Canadian lock are stated by J. B. Spence, chief draftsman of the department of railways and canals, in the Canadian Electrical News as fol lows: “As regards economy, I think the difference between electric and hy draulic power will be very trifling, and here the point of economy was not taken into consideration. One of the main objects of using electricity was to overcome the great trouble caused by frost when hydraulic machinery is used. During the closing weeks of navigation the cold is so great that oil has to be used in the hydraulic engines placed on the lock walls, and even then the cold causes the oil to thicken and makes the action of the engines slow and tedious. Of course, frost would not have interfered with hydraulic valve engines placed at the bottom of the lock, but in this case eight engines have been required, while only four screw power machines are needed with the machinery as designed. These considerations seemed to make it ad visable to use electric power through out, ami I have every reason to think that everything will operate success fully when wo open for navigation." RED CROSS IN JAPAN. Hint Government Ila* S cned the Geneva Cotnpact But ( hlna Never Ha*. re REBUILT DY THE DOCTORS. Very Little of tho Original Left of n Minnesota Man. An odd character of Winona, Minn., is George Burns, who lias good reason for his eccentricity. Ho has papers, says the Minneapolis Tribune, which show that he was head engineer on the steamer City of Savannah, which was wrecked oif the coast of Massa chusetts on January 18, 1SS4, while en route from Boston to Florida. He was reversing the levels when the steamer I struck the rocks, and he was thrown into the machinery, receiving injuries which crippled him for life. There were one hundred and eighteen lives lost in the accident, and Burns is one of the thirty-seven survivors. For a long while he lay on a cot in the death j row of Bellevue hospital, New York, j Dr. Hayes Agncw attended his case and removed live ribs from his left side and trephined his skull, using six ounces of silver sheeting for this purpose. lie was compelled to wear a plaster paris jacket for four years after the accident. A portion of the lower end of his spine nnd both elbow joints are gone. One knee cap is on the back of the log, and his heart i.s on the extreme right side of his body. He is now sixty-four years of age and walks very well and has a cheerful disposition. He is a member of tbe Grand Army of the Republic and served during the war on the gunboat Essex, which was stationed at Cairo during the early days of the rebellion. DON’T WRAP UP THE LAMP. Home forty governm nts in bound together by the compact llnown bn the red cross or the international convention of Geneva of 1804. r l he ore word neutral signifies the I'diole essence of this treaty; it defines the condition of all sick and wounded soldiers, all surgeons, nurses and at tendants, all hospitals, ambulances, and othra- appliances, while they dis- p ay the red cross arm badge or flag duty authorized and inscribed by the ir. litarj- oower of the army to which tl -‘y an' attached; and furthermore, all inaabitanfs of a country in the vicinity of'where the battle is raging, as well as tin ir buddings, are sacredly regarded as ueutial while they are administer ing to the wants of the wounded and (list bled, or being employed for hos- pit;:-' purposes. V> lunded soldiers falling into the cnetoy's hands are neutral, and must be m nt to the frontier for delivery to theit own army as soon as possible, provided, of course, that the country to wlTrah they belong i.s an adherent to the ro'l cross treaty. Hy applying the foregoing principles OIu: vv -1 >' adily grasp the idea why Japan V doin;; such elTective and com mendable work as a humanitarian na tion She is carrying out to the letter, accenting to Harper’s Weekly, the spirit and the obligations of the Geneva red cross treaty, to which she gave her adhesion in lS>i, while her emperor stands at the head of her civil red cross society. In six great wars tlie red cross has been conspicuous. Written history re cords the beneficent work it has done, but only unwritten history can relate the prevention of untold misery and suffering on every field. In the present war Japan, as a red cross nation, meets difficulties and dan gers unknown in any former war where the red cross has worked, from the fact that her enemy, China, is not a nation signatory to the treaty of Geneva, hence humanity is shown on one side in the treatment of siek and wounded, while inhumanity runs riot on the PARENTS IN JAPAN. That lindcil It, Tipple—I see that Mum I and Ned have broken ©IT their enjrag, ?nent. Sibyl How perfectly dreadful! How did It happen? Tipple—They guV rurvrriod. —N. Y. World- DisuntrouH Attempt to Ucgulate an In- cnmlcu-ent L imp. Several hotel men were standing in a group in an uptown hotel recently, chatting. Tito conversation turned upon the eccentricities of guests. The many odd ways in which dilt’erent peo ple handle electric lights on mo up, says tho New York Tribune, and one hotel man .said: “Nearly everyone now knows how tho incandescent lamp i.s operated, but still wo meet with some funny in stall cos of Ignorance. Last week we nearly bad our hotel set on fire on ac count of a piece of stupidity on the part of a guest. The building being fireproof alone prevented a conflagra tion. A woman came to the house who was in the habit of .sleeping with a dim light in the room, and the electric lam,) Sot tiered her. She either had tolet it burn brightly or else t urn it ol? altogether. Finally she hit upon the Idea of wrapping a towel around it. Then she began to quedion whether tho towel would •a! 'i lire. Then she adopted tho happy expedient of wetting the towel. That was the worst thing that she could do. She soon dropped asleep, and, of course, the towt^l soon began to burn. A blazing piece dropped on the cur tain:'. and soon the whole room was afire. She was badly seared, and, of coarse, the contents of the room were ruincl. Too r.iuch All nt Once. Whatever may be the truth or the falsity of the stories Hint ure told of the s nrcity of the funds in n country editor's pocket or the scarcity of food In JiU stomach, the stories arc al ways told, nnd neither tiio progre v; of education nor the growth and development of tho press seems to hare any efl'»‘ I upon the crop. One of the latest comes from Ken!itchy, where the mountain editor, at least, rarely develops into n Croesus or an Apiclus. And this one is concern ing a mountain editor. A subscriber bud r , 'mcmbovc(1 h!n very kindly and a day or two later a visitor called at bln oiflee. “tan 1 sfc the editor?" ho Inquired of the grimy little "devil” roosting on n high stool. “No, idr;’’ re* piled the youth on the stool, "11^ hick," ‘‘\Vlint’s the natter with him?” “Pun’no," Wild the hoy. ’Tine of our siib'erlbtrs gite him a bag of (lour nnd a biislml of noyffitei’s t'other dny, and i reckon he's hmndofed." A Mmlrl \ niax-e. This place In Raid to exist nt New fllhtvsVLv. Me., which enjoys an creep- llcmal freedom from the small tiers which often nourish with great vigor |n small ploivs. None of Its oiliciala drink, swear, use tobtieeo or break the Ha! hath, and at tbe railway Million for two years only two tkkcih for Monday excursions were sold lu ouch year, and In two Inter years but four sitnUitr lUk- vts • jrwsr wst* yrthnwri. Tln-y Arc D-lovod Tar Above Husband or Wife The moral and social law of Japan ts: “Thou shall love thy father and mother with all thy heart, mind and strength." The Japanese wife loves her own par ents more than she does her husband, and a Japanese husband loves his wife with an affection far weaker than that which he bestows on his own father and mother. Mr. Hearn, in "Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan." quotes this con versation. in a schoolroom, between the English teacher and a Japanese pupil: "Teacher, I have been told that if t. European and his father and his wife were all to fall into the sea together, and that he only could swim, lie would try to save his wife first. Would he, really?" “Probable," replied the teacher. "But why?” "One reason is that Europeans con sider it a man's duty to help the weak er first—especially women and chil dren." “And does a European love his wife more than his father and mother?” "Not always—hut generally, pef haps, lie does." "Why teacher, according to our idea that is very immoral.’’ A lad of sixteen wrote a composition on “European 'ind Japanese Customs,” in which he gave expression to his ideasabout the relation of husband and wife as held In Europe: "What we think very strange is that in Europe every wife loves her husband more than her parents. In Nippon there Is no wife who more loves not her parents than her husband. And Europeans walk out in the road with their wives, which we utterly refuse lo, except at the festival of Ilaehiman. “The Japanese woman is treated by man as a servant, while the European woman i.s respected as a master. I think these customs are both bad. We think it i.s very much trouble to treat European ladies; and we do not know why ladies are so much respected by Europeans." WHAT DARWIN OVERLOOKED. Helf-Sarr'.llrc Mvl-I lo lit- n I actor In tlie I'vo'miloa of I'lant Life. Some objection has l>cen made, and apparently with some weight, that the modern doctrine of the evolution of plants, based on selfishness, is not by any means the rule prevailing in vege tation- flowers, ns well ns members of the animal world, seem to be governed in quite us great a part by self-saerillcc ns by selfishness, says Meehan's Month ly. Though the struggle for life, as it is called, nnd the "si. rvival of the fittest" must have something to do with the evolution of form, and must be neces- aary to the existence of plants individ- uully, yet it is evidently not so to all. Inhuman nature selfishness is a trait which cannot be left uncultivated. At the »,ame time a large part of human nature finds just as much pleasure in little deeds which must come under the class of self-sacrifice as in the pursuit of anything that may have relation to the struggle for existence. As an il lustration of this point in plants, tho production of turpentine by the south ern pine trees comes in. If the pino trees are left alone the production of turpentine is comparatively small, but when tapped and made to produce the turpentine for the In. neilt of man it goes on producing without the tree in llic li’ust suffering The annual prod uct of turpentine by the nouthern pine (mu is Home ten million dollnm, which It seems to hand over to the uses of man without the •lightest Injury to IV self. In no way onn It be shown that the productimi of turpentine Uabcneflt to tin' nine tree. ftRKAT Vi uully im BATTLES are contin ually going on in the human sys tem. Hood's Huntupurilln drives out dbuw* ami Restores Heal lit*