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THE WEEKLY LEDGER: GAFFNEY, S. C., MARCH B, 1896. NAM V »',\VT()N T . r?ul'as Sander t Td Old Fcmr.lo fie of His “Plain dy Friend.” Every TIhic It Ka; : . Mus!i and Milk Her Lllsli Is t’ottni) i-ottoni-Up— Hpeal.H Her .Alind to tlio Cotton irioui, “Every time it r. i,. iDillv nEil mush my dish is turned I n;nun r.jnmis,” snvs Aunt Nancy Newton to me onert, upon a time. And l have now lived !u!’£ enough to see — anybody could shet one eye and see— wherein the dear, delight ful old soul spoke forth a great gob of him an truth and common sense. Whil t it is true that Aunt Nancy is only a plain old female wom an, as she is wont to call herself—and sometimes it raley looks to me like she talks a heap jest simply because the good !. ird ghe her somethin to talk with—yet still al the same time 1 have took notiee all along the line that, w hensome\ tv*'yoar An at Nancy” ojiena up her talkin r.iaeliir.ery she most in generally always says somethin. Ilmv She ".s ; .1 ?!»«* ‘-Alatnest Chanre.” “And i liat is : o <■; neernin me, Kufus, is so in i j e.rds to the v.hole entire hu man fan dy more or less.” Aunt Nancy went on to say presently, and with that she went down into h r old domineckcr thanky 1 ag and some forth with her smokin materials. “i’or t!:r -e days hand runnin now the’ mrathe" hit has been jest simply am- phih'm.is for hog killin clear as a bell and cnkl as llugius—and do you know. Itufu . there ain’t marry blessed hog on the NYv.ton place. Jolin Andrew (ti e; - - .'.imt Nancy's brother, you un der u.i.d) had 1 lie iim st bunelr of hogs ettlens’iit ha t rnminer, which “ ‘Whilst thp young people in the set tlement are marrying olt in sich n Aveavin way,’ sa3 - s L to .Miss Callie, ‘it looks to me like, you mought maybe lake up a notion to git married.’ “ ‘I always did have the notion, says she, but 1 never is got married yit.’ “1 didn't always have that notion, Ttufus, but 1 had it onest, and I never is got married yit.” BILL ARP MORALIZES. Thinks It Is Good to Discuss Some thing Besides Politics. Dr. Nansen and tlic Nortti Polo and thv New Method of PhotoBraphlng Are the Things Which Interest Him at Present. No April Pools to Speak Of. “I remember fresh and well what you told me onest upon a time with regards to good advice, Kufus,” Aunt Nancy went on presently. “I know that good advice won't run the farm, nor settle the feed bills, nor pay off the store account, nor sqush the mortgage. And it is about the onlycst thing in this wide and wicked world which a poor man gits without pay in for it—fre*c gratis for nothin without any chaige\s Everybody is thinking about the north pole and Dr. Nansen now. It is glorious to have something to distract our attention from politics. And there are the cathode rays which have just come in time to help out. It is awful to have to read politics clay after day end to ponder over the ways of parties and partisans. A quail a day for 30 days is nothing to he compared'to it. Let us have, any sort of a recess now. We wouldn’t mind a big lire or a small earthquake—a quake that w ould shake in tile at ti.u lime the weather was so scan- dloi: hot lie. dm ent kill any of ’em ; tl* . And along in the f..ll the celery; go! iii amongst cm, whereas the hog kill::: c-mne ol? at the wrong time ol y < ■ : in spite* of all 1 hat v. e could do and gay. “I hen I v a.- y itng and fn . h and : k : the e on i.;iiu i on of v omen, llu- | fas. i mi: • d t! n. lie- . t chance ot w.v to ma: i n •o.l I!* . rv ];a:;se!tine \ l.::t von i .!:• lit eail a old ka.ehe- 1 ut he from a jiowerful a and lie had {In meat, w i; h mnle.- tul you eoaldn't , around him to go on. :y ■; t ( ui. '* to ]:ji* :; 1 hat 1 >vln i : ■ more haidet It coal.I kick w it h bot h down a steep hill, and an a town keg love: had coin • .-d : ;,ick of | i 1 r t fa.: m in tke si t! 1 and c ows ; ml hogs r -t. and pli nt A ad in 1 hem d Kerry la* was 1 hnn a i:it:!e <■. feet 1 ward: more better tl slops. "Hat in the i nin t i n*, Kofiis, there was a funeral in ti t* family, which left .lohn Andiew an old *.. ladov.er and me the onlyast there I was, to do, and ! at all, as it were. “I.nt at the same time I have bc*cn the windows in the big house at Wash- tellin .lohn Andrew—and I don’t mind • higton and upset a few desks and tables tellin you the same thing that t kh mul roll the drunken member from Ala- k*aina oil the sofa. I wish some (iity I av.kra would come along and scare them all so bad that they would go home and never go back any more. The people are tired and disheartened. There are a few good public servants there, hut, they are lost, and helpless. The majority would see the country go to the devil before they would get out it the line of their party. The rur- reney and the tariff are now party questions, but, the parties have made them so. This lias keen said before, but it is worth saying again. Thet-e is no moral principle that governs a professional politician. Look at Black burn and Hunter—what an expense to ibe state will the. taxpayers have to meet just to gratify the greed or the selfish ambition of two men. Kentucky has hundreds of men just as able and well qualified as they are. Then why don't they* withdraw and stop all their wrangle. Why don't the members make them withdraw ? The answer is tluit this is politics—impure and com plex polities. Surely the common peo ple are fools or they would send better men to congress and to the .legisla ture. . Kut I was thinking about Dr. Nansen and the north polo. Can it be possible that, he has found it—found the end of th<* earth—tin* very tip end of the spin dle that the earth turns on, and was there a iinch pin in it and was the axle greased or was the journal hot and did the sparks fly and ro forth. If the doc tor hasn’t foul'd anything kut an open polar sea and a few walruses and seals and nobig.aw ful suckhoks at the center that had like d to have pnlled his vessel in them, he may go lack and try it again. The world won't be sntisliod with that and it won’t believe him. Why, .lohn ( lews Symmrs found i theoretical hole u ( > there that, was 2. COO miles in diameter and a vessel could sail in and around jin t as easy as rail ing on the ocean. Syiomes' hole was talked a lout-when I was a hoy, and it. has had believers ever since. Then .lilies Verne came along and made a journey up there < ;i paper and found the identical pole and ain't no April fools to speak of amongst the farmers. \\ kensomever they do turn out to be fools they are the most gonebyest fools in the round created world, and fools from Christ mas till Christmas—the whole year . round. “This year the farmer* are goin plum wild and crazy on cotton. In durin the last three weeks L aint heard a Messed thing but mules and niggers and cotton, and it raley looks to me like if .John Andrew could have his own fool way about it he would turn to a mule or a bale of cotton before to-mor row mornin. It don’t do no good to talk to him. and 1 reckon you have got it. as bad as him, or maybe a little worse, but that won’t keep me from givin out my private and personal opin ions. If you keep on at the present last and furious lick cotton will go down and meat and bread will go up. and somebody w ill give the poor house a mighty dost shave. Along in the fall of the year it will be rainin milk | and mush, and somebody’s dish will ke turned bottom upards. Then you’ll remember me.” war and pestilence I don’t want to be bitten by a. snake and die in a strange land. I am like the old man of 90 years who took the measles and said he never was sb ashamed of anything in his life, and it would disgrace the family if he died of the measles. And now come the cathode rays that arc to throw light upon all hidden things and reveal the anatomical mys teries of the human body. The diction ary says they are the rays that go to sundown when the electric current is flowing from east to west, and the word means sundown. Edison is at work on the discoverj* day and night, and will tel’ us more about it before long. The. doctors will be able to look right through a man and diagnose his disease. I f he has appendicitis they will see it and know where to cut. If he has a pistol ball in him they can find it. I f his heart or lungs are diseased the rays will tell how much. Poor Garfield's life might have been saved, for the doc tors would not have, cut him all to pieces hunting for the balk The di gestive organs can be kept in a healthy condition, for the rays will tc-Il what a man can eat and digest, and what he can’t. Hut a fool man will sometimes eat, though there is death in the pot. I ate some toasted cheese last night in spite of my wife’s warning, and I had the nightmare. I cried out: “There’s robbers! police!” anil my wife called me and awoke me and comforted me so kindly, for she said: “I told you so, but you would eat that toasted cheese! The next time you eat toasted cheese* for supper and go to bed you had better put a pistol under your pillow and shoot the thieves and robbers when they get after you.” She is my comforter and regulator, but. sometimes I am right hard to manage.—Bill Arp, in Atlanta Constitution. CONCERNING PEDIGREE. Sam Jones Discussoc tlio ages of Blood. rit- Thlnks It a Misfortune to lie tin* Son of a Great Sire — True Sica •♦Pedi gree” Tlielr Fathers and Mothers. OLYMPIC SENTINEL. ICunniu* Too Dadhurn Deep. To eeiue right down to business and rock bottom- maybe the “plain old fe- jae.le lady” was right about that. \ou see 1 have keen over to the New ton place before, now when John Andrew was gone, and whilst Aunt Nancy ain’t no farmer to hurt personally, she can jest naturally brat the discovered world stand in in the back door and having it done. T:i our little family confabulation that dry : ho ki ung 1 > my mind the time when old man Jos.ia.li .Ternigan give me a big chunk of good advice. I was nothin but a .vailin l ay then and I had to do the millin for the family. They had : ; l irted me off to mill that lab-sided, errs to in a yoke of little s! s-■ :n on the place. ;v r.'.l the house keepin chillua to wash and spun!:, and four cov s. to milk, and the chickens to feed and t he garden to tend, aril the seeks to darn and the clothes to mend ri d-w!!, 1 jest couldn't see t no place where. I could turn loose and quit. Now you have took notiee, 1 , reckon In that when one of these old w mowers or laehckur. turn out and pitch in to n.airy I hoy are more than probable to m-an ] lain, stia'ght Imsi- U< :d a a* i :ss!e of il, and you razor-hack Avobbh dy-h ggrd ;i cart, it a. as in the dead of a*, inter. The Aventho.r Avas cold ami Avct and slop py, and as Andy Lucas would put it. the road was “most hellatious bad.” 1 didn’t drive ■ o very far before I struck a soft place and got stalled and stuck hard and fast, in the mud. About, that, time old man Josiah .Ternigan eoim- ridin along on h s Avry doAvn to the cross roads. The old man e midn’t m e nothin above the mud but me and the. tacks and the razor backs of two little steers, and I reckon he must have thought I avus ridin in one of those old-fa: hion amkh! slab s. “!'»etter set your Kaekband back a few links, sonny,” says old man Jo.- iah. as he rid on by. “You’re runnin hert >a dadhurn deep.” Po 1 reckon it would he better if rn<* put a Hag on it. and tie on* be raised can't pm ii ; in < !7 a. ith a little lailagag- gin and Hirta'a;nm: nts. So as I said i!tiiu* had took up and John Andrew ind all the res before Kerry 1 iat:si a notion, to git man 1 and the ie.ai.test thing with Kerry Avn« j to git mart Yd. I told him to try and Avnit tiil John Ardrwv e .n.ld ueover j and take unto him:( if another wife. ; Kut Kerry lowed no, it a*.as his time of year to a-. a : t. Ke loved me more deep and fervent than any young Avomnn that ever run a reel or jun.; d a jig in ail the regions round, hut if 1 c ukln’r j marry him without f .olin and fiddlin around fnrev-r. I - • could mighty noon | find aom.ei ci’y t !mt would. I want ; the on.lye:! a. ot na in the Avorld and I he Avnr.t. the only'.. t man in the Avorld, j r.o consequentially avc rpiit tlK* bLuikc* ; and quit right thru and thcr*. “That a: an amitht r t r r, liufin , Avhcn I it rained milk and inin-k. but my dish i Avcuhl remember Aunt Naney and old man Josiah .Ternigan, and set the d.y; a understand, j bnckbiind back a feev links before av»- run too deep on cotton. T he next time it rains milk and mush in the Koeky Creek settlement my dish ayIII he turned bottom side down and right side upards. as turned bottom it AV than ;•* in Ihrt e weeks i!. : rv lit; : itine too!; and n.arri; J the i ■ M, and irstid Avheres in of kein set l ii d a home if mv .t-i a. chilli n r rpfi.ns, lioAvu name- own. raisin I the jiigs and eh: like of ti-:it. I am mill | rrnsin around through this a5:'n and tieeti.i AAorld ns plain Naney NcA\.tn. \.it.ii notliin to ppeak of kut her timnky lag n cu'* j hand, and lu r i n.pty d:: i: in theoiher.” j ••r.'ever Hot -AJ.irrtri! YU.” “In regards to < m* tiiiir.- - , I am a right . Pimiit li* e .Mi- '. Cail.e h-rgers,” Kay.- j Aunt Naney, as • ke u- :t <! iwn into her thunky bag o:.i.-- i m ).e and fished out liar clan:in i.ci iiU*.< and u pair of John Ai d:cav’s last year's :- s*! :,. “Along in , tiic (’iiri.stmas than* av:.s a tn r.i.-nciiti- big lot of mnrryin gi in on around in the j pettlemcnt. Kln-s graeious, it looked | to me Kite till Cue young folks hud pitched in to git ir.arri d,and them that I didn't matry was count in and earryin on to i eat six bits. Ti e family disiase had broke nut fresh, you understand, ■ Kafin , and it v a.s s, n t.din like a prairie lire I eforc a hig!i v.ind in .March. “Cm* J in.din eii-uin I had went over to f!ie Hi'-'-e. s plae:* 1 >:wap jioavs iind jmss a few ct.mpl’mrubi with t!ie a*.omen folks. Now, as everybody know -, .VN ; Callie Biggein is good and sweet and a. great comfort to her moth er, kut i he i i as ugly as a rirnt axe, and from genera I apjH armeuts it would f cm like )he didn't have a sent right n;» Cicre on tv front bench in the mnen corner a*. Inn they handed round the, braiua. I-ri-Hli and KrandlouA Ncavs. There Avar. r.eAvs—the greatest plenty of m*A\s—fresh ami senndlous news in the Koe.k.v Creek settlement last Aveek. Old Mires Ta.ttler and all her kinnerv Avas on the j-ad and go, with general lundquarteis over r.t the KuekaloAv place. Cu:-; Crittenden and Miss Sissy IJiickalcAv they got married all of a suddint one mornin. There was no body on 1 he grounds to sec the perform- ame exeeptiu the high sheriff arid a preacher and the KuckaleAv family. But before when tin* Mill SAvung doAvn beliind llu* western hills the A.ord had keen t aunt and the news had Avent forth for miles ami miles around: “Gus Crit tenden and Sissy BuekalcAv got mar ried.” 1 have trhd my level hlamdest to find out somethin for certain a.s to the wherefores ami the Avhenvencss of all the eon fusion incut A\hieh blowed up Avlfh the Aveddin. The Avomcn folks— and some of the men folks—make mP like the;/ know a whole passle. But all I 1 i.oav—Avhieh is little more than nothin—la Avliat motlu-r told me. “Thi-ii- ia a big sealdalation some- wheres along the line. Knfiis.” says she, “but it wouldn’t do for you to know everything. That wedd n match l)i* tween Gus Crittenden ami Sissy Buck- alcAv e:;jTH*. off too treinendius quick and Kiiddcnt like. it was om* of these jumped up, hurry lied, military Aveddins. is living tli’ ii* yet. And last, but no! least, Mr. Kairman has found a ir.ar.r.- 1 erint left hy one of Sir John Frank lin’s men in an Eskimo hut and it tells the whole story, Iioav 1: * and an Eskimo and six do- s were outeff froiu the ves sel and too!; shelter in a cave of ice ami lived on Avalrun and 1 ear meat, and after some days drtovmimd to ex plore the cave and kept on and on, by the light of their blubber-lamp, until they had traveled IT) miles, and at Iasi came to the opening on the other side. Avhieh is to say the inside of Symines' holt*, and found a land and a people ami fine cities ami fruits and floAvers. ami Ink s and rivers, and t he avhole Avas lighted up by the aurora borealis. Mr. Kairman calls it the third Avorld and makes a very fascinating story of it. If it was true I Avouid believe it, and i am inclined to believe it nnyhoAv. D has a charming love story mixed up Avith it, ami l am not yet too old toeii joy them. I’ve always had an idea 1 ha’ the Creator put the* aurora borealis up there for some* other purpose beside , an occasional illumination of our north- e rn horizon. May be it is a big * k-etrie arc light for those people in the hole, who m*Aer see the sun. Verily, avc are on the cat. of great things, but aac don’t knoAV a. hat they are. Dr. Nansen e-an’t put us off Avith lee and water—our oavu Elisha Kent Kane done l etter thru that and so did Gre -ly, for tin*;,- saw Hocks of aquatic birds coming from that Avay. Never theless, avc Avill wait and se'e. Maybe he has found a kale—an open funnel— and Avill go through and corr.eout at the other end. And now we read that Dr. Plongeon, Avho has been nine ynus in Yucataii, liar, at 1: st unraveled all the mysteries of the hieroglyphics that are chiseled on the*, ancient ruins in that country, ami dedans the ruins to be at least JO.fiO!) years old, ami tb.es-.* temples Avon* built long before* the Hod, ami the lef- t rs that make up the alphabet are of Egyptian origin, lie ami his Avife have been photographing them and have Avritten a volume that Avill soon he pub lished in Baris, a volume that he nays will enlighten the scientific ami re ligious Avorld and remove* all doubts about the* origin of man and his prog ress down tie corridors of time. We That is know ’ 1 ki.oAv and all 1 want to read some, of his communications in the Ki l t s San'Diuis. TJjI.i Onglit In MOKt \A'e!l. A iioac'I plan of eolleetin*;- I ad debts ami getting some* satk-ffuction from (Uadheats has hee n agri i <1 upon h\- the* m-rehanis of Cuyahoga Kalb.. O. Kae-h has ::gi'ec<l to pirsent to the Women’s Missionary society all their old hills AAihieli they regard as Avorthless. The AAOim-n will mal e an attempt to eolleet the net omits, uml an* sanguine of get ting a nice sum of money out of them. Instead of eolieetors, prominent avoih- e-n w ill wait on 1 lie Hlow’-piiy people, and l>y a])pealing to their better natures hope to make them pay. Kevicw of Keviews last summer, ami wonderful that is all avc can do nowa days ju t Avail and Aiouder. Not long ago I had a nice letter from Mr. Oliver, the American con. ul nt Me rida, asking me to come mer there and i xurnino these Avoi.elerful ruins nml Avrite them up, ami oil'e rii g Ids assistaiu-o, and I have a mind to go. Merida is u city of (id,000 Inhabitants, and it- is only a short nail from Havana. Theonk, tiling that makes me I esitale isvhat Dr. I’longeon aa rites about tin* snakes and eeiitipeeleK and other noxious reptiles and insects that haunt the rtiii . After living near 70 years and ext-aping the dangers of The Wtiintllnp: Marmot Is a Mort Fernlar Itoelent. Five years ago the Olympic mountains were described as the last trnctof unex plored land a\ ithin the I’nited States, and the seme statement holds good to da.v, for. although a feAv parties have crossed the range from east to west, ro cue has yet traversed the entire dis tance from the Skokoroish river to Cape Flattery, anil even the location of the largest jr.aks—Olympus and Constance—is to a great extent unde cided. As a game region, the Olympics haA-c gained a Avorld-Avidc reputation, and a goodly number of dollars are annually spent by hunting parties in attempts to penetrate into the interior of the Avell-knOAvn Jupiter hills, Avhere the cow elk raises her calf in security; the she hear guards her cubs against the attacks of the gaunt gray Avolf, and the doe Avith faAvn liees to a higher altitude for security Avhcn she hears the Avarn- ing or3' of that guardian of the gorge, the whistling marmot. The whistling marmot is the larg-- t of American rodents, being equaled in size on’qv Ipv the heaver. The marmots are thickset animals, AAeigliing, Avhcn full groA'.n. from 49 to <>() ]:ounds and measttring OAer all from 2(» to.?') inches, in length. Tl*.e head is broad and mas sive, and rests on the p.oAverful shoul ders Avit h har<!l3- an ajiologA- for a neck The fore limbs are short, thick, five- toed, and tinned Avith strong cIcavs for d'ggir.g. ki!;ea!l the other member:; of 1 iii.-. family, they are provided Avith poAv- erful gnawing teeth, Avhieh can bite tbrough a shoelace or an alpine staff, us 1 he ease requires. As the Avenrv traveler toils laborious ly up the mountain trail his progress is : u<!d UI3' arrested in’ the sound of a long, clear Avhistlc, floating doAvn the canyon. The sound is so human that unless he has heard it before he instim- live!;,* answers it, thinking it to be the c all of :i comrade. The cry is repeated at short intervals, until the traveler ap- proaeaes too near the Avanvn, Avhen it i.uddenly stops, and all is as still as the grave, and nothing is to he seen to indi- cate the. animal's presence except the feAv holes among the rocks. It is the cry that gives the animal its name, and so peculiar is the call that, once heard, it is never forgotten. It is a danger signal lolling of the approach of an en emy. These rodents choose their homer in the giassv glades of the higher ranges, common^) known a.s elk meadows, Avhicli tire located close to the lire of perpetual shoav. Here they excavate deep burroAvs of considerable extent, in Avhioh they live, the entrance in some caves being concealed 1:;,- a large boulder or other natural protec tion, but oftener being plain to Ik* seen. In the selection of their food they are strictly vegetarian, their chief diet be ing grass and stalks of alpine plant. A peculiarity of these animals is that they spend nearly eight months of each year in tneir underground clavc*1 lings, and a considerable part of this time i ; passed in hibernation. In May the voung, four or six in number, are born in the burroAvs, and about the first of June the parents appear active above groun-1, even if the suoav has not 3ct gone off. At first tluqv turn their at tention to a general houvee I calling, and all tin* old icinnant.H of grass and othe.- food that lias been left over from the last winter's supply is thrown out of the mouth of the burrow. Then comes a short period of fun and frolic, during Avhieh time the young of the prevons year choose their partners- and build, or. more literal^’, dig. their homes, for only one family live together in a bur row. By this time the alpine herbage on Avhi -h they live is avi II groAvn. and these busy little workers eon;:, cnee to gather large quantities for Avk ter use*, first, cm efelly drying it i.i the run. and then canning it into their borrows. Toward tl e md of McpUr.d or the mar mots hole up for tin Avinter. a\ hie!: com- mi nces about that tune in the high alti tudes at *\hieh they dwell. The regions in Avhieh tin* whisth is li-.e ar.* toohigti to he of u <• for agrieulturnl purposes, therefore it Is safe to sa3’ that, they Avill never be looked u[>on as n farm pest.— Seattle Post-Intelligencer. We noAV have pedigreed folks, pedi greed horses, pedigreed clogs, pedi greed cattle, and so on. But blue blood is not selling now at the premium it did several years ago in neither folks, nor dogs, nor cattle. Ocoasionalky an American heiress w ill pay a good price for an English blooded animal called a lord, or a duke, or a baron; but in the average American marts of trade blooded stock brings but vem' little more than the common stock, so called. And 3'et there is a great deal in blood. I don’t mean blue blood, but good blood. When avo go hack over the history of pedigrees avc find that pedigree in a horse or a clog general^- starts some- Avhere. Yet very few Icuoav the grand- sire or grand-d im of Dexter, or Flora Temple, or BroAvn Jug. So it is with folks. I have never heard much said of George Wasnington’s progenitors. John Wesley Avas pedigreed In' his mother, Avho Avas famous for having 19 children. Taa o of the number changed the history of the religious Avorld for all time to come. I have not heard much of Martin Luther’s grandfather. Folks tire different from animals. The sire and dam pedigree the colt, with animals. The son or daughter pedigree their father, among the genus homo. A boy of brains and industry and finlel- it3 f aviII pedigree any father and mother, and tlu'3' Avill become famous because they Avere the parents c-f such a boy. It is impossible for parents to pedigree n bo3'. Where are the sons of Caesar, of Napoleon, of John Wesle3*, of Spur geon, of George Washington, of Daniel Webster, of Ucnrv Clay? And Grover Cleveland's boys are all girls. I regard it a misfortune to be the son of a great sire in the human family. I never snAV :i hov overh' proud of his daddy that his daddy aahs not ashamed of him. We have got a gang of money ]x*di- greed ;>eople in America. Their hun dreds of thousands have stuck them up. They have organized themselves into the Four Hundred, or iftto the select socict3' of the toAvns and cities. Thiw run the hoxesat the t heaters, the round dances at their homes. They organize XAvell clubs, they drink high (vines and practice low morals. But as soon as any of the company burst or lose their fortunes the3 - are kicked out from among the gang. I know southern cities Avho have mem bers of their swell clubs and societies in both state and national peniten- tiaricis. TTh*3’ Avent under financia’lv, and went Avith a crash. 1 Avonder Avhat the sAvell crowd Avouid doAvith theirex- rnembers Av’nen they returned from their prison life. T’hc*3- Avill be the Earn** felloAvs t.lu*3' Avere before, minus the mone3'. But mom*3' makes evei-ything go that Avears hair, and it Avill move a bald-headed man tolerably aacII. We have put gold above God, chattels aboAC character and mammon above man knock And no matter Avho he be, Jcav or Gentile, a pig-tailed Chinaman or an Esquimaux, his bank account Avill determine his status largely in Chris tian America, Avhntever it mav do for him in other i-iimes and countries. If he stands avcII in hanking circles he Avill stand Avell in social circles; he Avill stand avcII in t lie church circles, and stand fairl3' avcII in the home circle. I ha vo a eon tempt for a dude, hut nqv contempt is mingled Avith sorroAv. I symjiathize Avith ntqy human being Avho has no more sense than to be a dude; but broAvers and distillers and stock gamblers Avho have made their millions u«d thrust themselves upon the genvi peojile of any eominunit3' as leaders of society, if my dog were to folloAv in their procession 1 Avouid sAvap him off for tAvo pups, and if they folloAved in the wake of my old dog, I Avouid give mv pups aAva3' and go out of the dog busi ness. One man of sterling character and scrupulous honest3' and industrious habits Avill impart more of real Avorth to am' community than 10,000 purse- proud breAvers and distille rs and stock gamblers and money sharks. Our chil dren must live after avc are dead and gone. Their chilrdcn must liAe. A sterling man like Col. J. J. Ilemerd, of Cartersville, Ga., or like Judge Kichard Clarke, of Atlanta. Avho has laU-»y gone to his reAvard, or like Bishop Bierce, of the Methodist church, or like Bhillips brooks, of Boston, Avill add more Avealth jf example and character to the genea- tions Avhieh follow us than a thousand millionaires Avith their ill-gotten gains %ndsAvellfamilies. Margaret,of NcavOr leans, lived and loved and Avorkcd for orphan children, and to her a menu- tjient has been erected on the streets of New Orleans. When her body was borne through the streets of Ncav Or leans to the cemetery, laAvyers and oankers and merchants stood on the streets, boAvtd their heads in silence A’ith luits off while her hoiH' passed up the street. The man or AAoiiinn Avhom 3od honors are the only real aristocrats if this country. They can truly sing: “I’m the child of a king, A tent or a cottace, why should I eare? They're tiiiildiiiK me u mansion over there.” A Avoman like Miss Frances Willard, jvho is giving her life to redeeming the homes of our land from the curse of whislqy, Avill live in the hcartsol Ameri can people long after the Avail flowers and Avine bibbers, and card-playing women shall have passed aAvny and been forgotten. The principles of immortally do not rest iijioii Avhat aac have enjoyed, or hoAv am* have led the german or lieen estimated nmnc.g the rich and great; but they rest ii|M)ii Avhat aac* have done to ennoble others, to elevate* others, to minister to others. Deeds of kind ness and words ol love are things which make us immortal. A man ora Avomau Avho does not Ha-c in the hearts of others 1)3' reason of deeds of kindness and words of love don’t deserve to live at all beyond the grave. If the millions spent by the swell society in the grati fication of their sensual desires and short-lived pleasures Avere turned into the proper channels, into hospitals, orphan homes and rescue Avork, av* Avouid soon make tills country a ai^' Eden indeed. I could take care of every little orphan child handsome!;.' Avith the money sjH*nt 1)3' the swell chibs of almost every cit3’ in this union. I could lake care of the sick and suffering an 1 the poor Avith the money society throws UAvay upon gt'AvgaAvs and fashion. But if a felloAV Avar.ls to I.e a blooded animal he must keep up Avith the pro cession as it marches, j la;.' llu* fool Avhile he lives and be in hell a-flying as soon as he. dies. But 1 set in to write on pedigree. Yt’onder if men are born to Avhat the3' do and the bent of their character is settled at their birth? A pedigreed pointer dog goes to point ing birds as soon as his eye:; open. A pedigreed saddle horse goes eve 13- sad dle gait before he is three months old. The thoroughbred runner starts to running ivlnn not a month old. I am sorr3' for some folks if their devilment is born in them and the;,' do ti.i: Avay thew' do because it is inbred. Folks are a higher order of being; than animals. I don’t believe that Avomen have to go all the gaits of so ciety, and men must be so foolish be cause of inborn depravit;.'. They catch it as they go. and momentum seems to help them along. The blue-blooded crowd sue hard to reach. The;.' don’t go to church unless they have a swell preacher like themselves. '1 hcv don’t read the books that Avouid reform them. Thi*3' don’t associate A-.ith the crowd that Avouid improve therm Hoiv ti;i*3 can be reformed and hov. blue blood can be made good blood i: a question 1 leave to some other i cribbhr to an- sAver. GIa'c. me good Mood: give the other felloAV the blue blood. In other Avords, let me be good; let others be great; let me be poor; let others he princes; let others be rich; let me be right; let others have a good time here; give me a good time hereafter. Sam B. Jones. SAT DOWN ON A CEAE. of fire-swept found !i‘-r- p;::g Rotsoy Hansom anil IJor I’luclry Definite of ttie Itluotic-rrlcH. Betsey Kansom, Avhose home Avas a small icd farmhouse, built close up against the almost perpc::dic::!r.r side of Bald Mountain in Ncav .Hampshire, avus one of the most indi fat’gaMe {.err; - pickers of the region, and nowhere did she find such big, blue, luscious berries as on the southern slopes at old Bald Mountain. Here fire had laid Avast;*:, able woodland, leaving in it. a blackened stump and mementos of the tier3' \:s! here, too, the Iduebeny bus nature’s children to respo:*.: lullnence:-; of sun and air. <, antly. It Avas in one of those patches that Betse;' Kanson self one Avarm J11I3' ino-ni ig, lieap: the pint of berries upon her second icn- quart pail. For bourn sue had p’eked ste.-idi!;' ir The shade of trees and busluv: hut now the fiery rays of the sun shone direct!v doAvn upon lier. and v.' l e rctleetcd witli power from the rorks and K- ipes far above, on the 11 ountain.sid”. A'i iie, l:;r below, the valley la;* shimmering in tl.e hot July atmosphere. Looking about her for a comfcrtaM * place in Avhieh to rest u>:d eat h.cr mid- ihqv lunch, she espied, at a kttb* tii?- tanee, a blackened log, and thinking it a more desirable seat than the ground. Avalked sloAvlytoward it.f.anningi'.e: :;e!f vigorousl v all the a\ hi le wi t’a he r sun bon net, and sat. sol id l;' down. To her in tense horror and amaromrnt, tliereAvr.s a ( sudden convulsion beneath her. and Avith an angr;* snort, up rose a big. black bear. With a shriek of terror, M;?. Kansom leaped to her feet and lied for her life. She had not run far before some ob struction IhreAV her viohn.ti;.' to the ground,and, glancing over her .*,boulder as she regained her feet, great wm; her relief at seeing that slie avus not j ur- sued, but that bruin icmaincd Avhere she had found him, and v. asdevouri:;g her lunch Avith evident sati* faction. “What’s the matter, moth.rr?” < x- climbed her husband, as karekeadid. breathless, she rushed past him into the hack door of the little red house. rifle from its hooks; “he’s e blueberries!” “Sho! give me the gun, can’t shoot.” “ran’t I ?” she pluckily rep and see!” and she kept ci Aveapon. was in time to see the. bear quietl;.' munching the berries, and his Avife, partly shieldid by a l!iic!;et, Avith the gun at her shoulder. Crack! and bruin rose Maidenly to his haunches. Bang! and ihe huge be at rolled over, dead as a stone. “Well done, Avife!” said hi r luu band; ‘“you’ve lost 3 our berries, but kau* gained a splendid bear-skin. I’m proud ot you!”—Youth’s Crn par.icn. Makes Alice Karo A •*<**»* Ei*. The latest opposition to manual labor comes not from steam power but from the modest little mot: r. A Keotehru.in one evening recently eat looking at some mice, when an Idea Rtrmk h :*.:. Ht* decided to set t':e li;:!;* tliieves at spinning 3x1111. j*!h1 it was p:o!:a! I ,- a Aery astonished pair of m'cx* ii.a: fon.xl tbemselM'M a few days later w orking u small treadmill In a cage lii.e i!; *• ;• in w hieh rats and other email animals are kept, but Avitliout t!ie slightett idea that they Avere paying for their knr.i d In 1 his Avav. The ingenious Scotty found from enleulation that an ordinary mn.i: e rriii tAvistover 100 threads 1 n m-iseverA- day, although to do this ho lias to run ten and a half miles. too! : the »* i » n .. * 1 * • « l 1 "'ll* * -‘V B 1p — , 1 *• . H f you died; “c one n Avi! ill the )"'*t / • • • • i ns fast 1} and