The ledger. [volume] (Gaffney City, S.C.) 1896-1907, March 05, 1896, Image 3
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.
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