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I THE WEEKLY LEDGER;: GAFFNEY, S. C., APRIL 1G, 1890. RUFUS SANDERS. Two Homoly Stories from Forks of the Crook. tho Old MIhph \Vj;t-,on and Her ‘'Little RteTe” —doom* Stiiffper Went a-I'liililn ami (tot Snrike IMt—I’.sBay on Man. f ihj tj, ,'* t . X White people, do you know what it means ami how it feels to be a country b o 7, and the only- ost boy on the place at that? If you don't know, nil tho preachers and poets 'and phi losophers and jKjIiticians in in tho whole disco v e r e d world can’t tell you. Hut I re member by ji: :-n, I remember like It was yewtit lay haw Infernal handy a cotton-h' ' ‘1, hatchet-faceted, shirt- tail lx)Y c •'‘roe.nd a farm. Hut tl • <>ld lady Watson—which the Wat.soa they have l»een llvln down there In the forks of Ia>ii£ (’reek for vcar.'t and t ' a; -she come by our home one day last week and made me porry. 1 ' v;; s sorry when she come, mid sorry when she went away, and I am sorry I'll yet. I doubt mighty tte^ ih.tis if I could t'11 von what I am sorry about n: 1 v. lie I nin sorry for. But, at any rates, I inn sorry. pure old broken-hearted, God-for- paken won.an, with her gray head Pow'd down In sackcloth and aehen, has « line to r.d.’c her tears and share her r rrers with you,” snys .Vises tVat; ’ii 1 !u ?i she first drlv up to the horsi r ic’.. ! hit. a rainin. Then me ami 11.other ive went out. and told the old lady to ii'-ht and come in and take a cln.ir and make herself nt home till the shower passed over. And she went with us. “hittie Steve is }p ,no . Jlufite," six* went on to say between her soIm and terr. “I.ittl - Kteve is dead and gone,” (Dii with that she broke down and tuned loos • and cried and cried as If her heart was cplit wide open. By this time mother she had l>ren hit la is-ift s; ( . and the tears rolled down hrr pretty checks as fast nnd free as the r ;hi ’reps from that April shower. Jlut she hrneed lierself ti[) ns beet she rould red ; ut lier arms nround the trend T 1 and troubled old sotil—eofl ind te; d r 1:’ e and sooth In as she rcuhl ami 'jiiotod sotnc famlllons Script are and told her it. would all turn out for the Lest somewheresdown flie line 1 l :i. irr : i : ''on. :o hot or so cold 1 1 e: ■;!il call mi little Stere and 1 “I t tlier.',” slie went on, hi !.i ;• 1 amis and roekin 1f> and i' uas r ich a iu Ip and comfort to Ilaail.r !»n<l So rriwf. “lie 1 : s -) l.a.r.dv and so peart, Itufua I —bait you. all ' nnv ed little Stere," rays rhe. an ! tl.< n it seems like she broke out in a fr h place and would jcM. nat urally ■ p In rseif away. "It nerer was * but v he n wrir;: fro. i'imI M -sin to his poor old w hide red mot her. “My other b y Hob—he Is still with me in the tiesli. Htif even w hen he woa the rifrht size Hob was never so peart mid handy and n ady and ivlllln ns little Stew. And then as to Hob—he has now come tip that pint in life where he nint fitten for nothin mucli hut to loafer and swell and swash around thirin the day and go pallia crery nipht t!:e po id Lord seruls. If Hohnlnt a man—nith a, few scattcrln whiskers on his face and woman on his brain, he ja fool erou'.rh to feel like one, wh'ch limoiints to the same thir.fj with his old mother. •‘Hut little Steve—he was so nlmhle and so rnick, so l.andy and so peart, Hufus. lie ccnld stay up later and git up soor.cr. and ptt faster and come cjuicker, Sind turn o!T more (xlds and jol*. in Icu.i time than any hoy that ever come to lipht nnionpst t!ie Wat sons. If in his love and wisdom the good Lord had but only took Hob I could stand it a. whole heap L'cttrr. Hut to see lit ile Kluvc—my onlyest little Kteve—i>ut in his enfTn and toted o\if and liaillcd olT and ia’d away to rest— it was too much for his jiorc old widdered mother to hear." And with that. the «dd lady let loon** onct more, and wept and went on at b.icii a treinen lius rate til! 1 thought in my soul she v onh! faint on the spot. Hut mother she made a rush for tlm camphor Lol l le and her last rrnr> turkey tail fan, and between the two we hrui'.g the old soul to her senxctw “How can I forp“t my little Stere. and hew can 1 ever give him up? lie was so handy and so peart. In summer heat or winter cold lie could pi* up at the break of day and split the klndlln and fetch in the wood and make the fires and feed the stock, and draw tlm water and tote out the s!o]>s and drive tip the cows aad rope oil the calves and chum the milk, and sweep the yard and hoe the garden and tend to the chickens and rock the cradle and nurse the baby. I reckon no doubts our lit tie Kteve is better elT where 1m Is- Im- vond this tale of sulTerin and of sin. . Hut he was the apple of Ids pore old widdered mother's heart, and 1 will never see the like of him no more. He was so linr.c’y. Flufns—so handy nnd so peart." Hy this time tiiat April shower ha'’ passed over. Then presently old Vise: Wot so 11 1 braced up sunieient to sat good-by and driv on back home. And through round about the old log, fchoolhou.se— In them plain okl days, when jieople want so eonsonnded pox- tielar as to keep two schools a rttnnin, anc for the males and one for the. fe males—when the boys made Ilyin Jen nies, grapevine swings, seesaws and; sleh like—when you bo3’s and girls w ent rovin after chinkypins and chest nuts, after heart leaves, after sweet shrubs—when the sap Is bilin upards nnd the bark slips on the hickory, and you feel like j - ou would love to make some whips and flutes nnd whistles— anything to please the children—when you feel too dadburn lazy to do any thing to speak of— t Well, that’s the time for fishln. So it come to pass one day last week —the weather was so w arm and dreamy like, and pleasant—that Hunk Weather ford and old man Jeems W. Staggers they took their hooks and lines nnd bait gourds and went down on Murder creek a fishln. Maybe you would love to know who In tho thunderations Is Jeems W. Stag gers? You n.sk me ruthcr quick nnd nuddeot, hut I will tell you nil I know, lie Is a 5nn of old Ml«cs Ktnggers. In his own wild nnd wicked way, he Is a right tolerable good roan. Hut so far n« I know, the pulpit nnd t.l>c amen comer never have been seriously threat ened with bin manly presence. An to religion, Jeems W. Staggers never did even nor ter make out like 1»* had got nny, and I reckon Aunt Xnncy Xew- ton was right when sho put him down n« “aljout the inoet wickedest man in this w We and wicked world." Hut tl*e good Ix>rd never blowed tho breath of life Into a better soul than old man Ebone/.er Staggers, which he mnn a preacher of the word In his day and generation and tlm father of Jeems W. Xo more of thot. It h'nka out now that Hunk and old man Jeems W. didn’t hare no tremendlus big ran of Im'k In rrgartl.H to fish. Hut a man hy tho aaaie of Jeem> W. Staggers got snake hit, aad that ia what makes me tell you wh»t. I do. "Yon see, I!life, I had went down the creek, whilst. Hunk 1m* took up the creek," says old man .Teems TV.. In giving out. the fnets to me. M I was no sea ndIons Ixul off for one good mci-w of flati till I could smell the gravy, you nudoratwnd, and eonaequentlally I didn't go down them lookin for snakes. Hut, by thunder, I found one, Rufr, and he found me. All of a suddent I stumbled over owe of these big old rusty nioceastus, and he nailed me on the calf of my left. Irg. Naturally, of course, I pimi'ed up and down right there In the same place till the snake turned hmse nnd I had slomimd him to death. Then I laid down and hul- k>red for Hunk, arid him a mile np the creek. So there I w as. Rufe, wny down there In Murtler enek swamp snake bit, three miles from home, ten miles fmai the doctor, with my old leg swell- in to l>eat. six bits, and narry drajt of s|»erits. Somethin had ta lie done, ftnfe, right awny iinmediafclj', nn<l for the first time in my life I felt like I w ould love to pray. Hut, to be plum honest with you, 1 didn’t know how. Tp to then, you understand, 1 never had scraped tip nny acquaintance with the Lord, and I felt like 1 was :t rank stran ger to Him. In the main time the luirt.in nml the swellin went on, with Hunk Weatherford a mile up the creek. So at last I pitched In nnd told the Lord who 1 w n.s nnd where I come from, nnd then prayed to the best of my feeble ability.” ' IN FLORIDA AGALN. Arp Is Now Down Whoro tho Flowers Aro Blooming. from that • ail mi: Tolls Who Ho Mot Thoro-How a Flshtns Party of Young People Caused Great Anzloty to Their Friends and Relatives. till this blesseii hour I have I ivn raleHi.-ry nlmiit some thin or other. To rave my life I couldn't tell you fnr certain what j t.i 1 : >11 a! >nt or who I urn sorry f ir Hut I a:n i >1 ry. A Ftraa-rr to I lie l.a.-it. In tin* Fpr.i.gtiliie, gentle Annie, when 1 he d )“wootl bloomH are bloontiti —when you think n 1mmit. them old tinieii, und the , Idett duysi you went A Rnd ami Funay Sl?hf. from (he wny In which Hunk Weath erford tells the news. It must of been a sad and funny alglit to see old man JeeniM W. Stnpgeni ravin hia prayers for the first time down there in Murder Creek swamp. "When I come, up to where I could see Jeems W.," says Hunk, "he wan lay- la there on the ground flat of his hack, wnvln his hands on high and gesturln nt a fast and furtotin lick. And to the best of my recollection, this is what 1 heard him sny In a loud voice: '* 'Oh Lord, I reckon you don’t know me. Hut 1 am snake bit. My name In • leems W. Staggers. I am the wild nnd wicked sou of old Parson Kbenezer 'taggers, which I reckon you knowed iiim. Me wan a preacher of the Word neeordln to the old school Haptlsta, nid a mighty good man. I am his onlyest son. and snake bit at that. Oh. Lord, have mercy on my lost and innt souI. Yours truly, Jeems W flaggers.’" ■f hat was a day of terror and of trouble, and no doubt Jeems W. thought his Cm'* had come. Hut by the Messina of Him with whom a 1I1011- ■zml years are r.« n watch in the night, he old man still Hngeta jet n little w hile In the liorder land. The dfK*tors ay he will recover anil git well, nnd I do ho|<* he will. Kometlines It takes .1 heap to liring a mr.n to his senses, but it really looks to me like Jeems W. Staggers has now come up to the forks of the road. For why? Well, the other day on 1113* leturn back home from a trip down In 1 he stump hill country I rid around by there to see how Jeems W. v. iin comiti on. In the general confabulation which followed, he went on to tell me how thankful he ought to lx*, and how he bivrd the liium* and recollections of his good, old father. "Ami 1 never will feel plntii antnrnI." he went on, lookin lovlnl;i flown tlfHm his snnkehlt leg. M I never "'ll feel plum natural nnd right, Btife, till I run git tip front here nnd slip oil • low n to the lot and sing a few stanzas from that good and familiar old song: " 'Arr.nzln Krure! how sweet the sound. Which cavod a wretch like me.* " Man. born of woman, is of few days rod sorry teeth, and full of foM notions. Hut yesterday he v\us too bi M 'for hi* :.reechos. To-day he iu kiuiiII potatoes rod few in the hill, with the rows six feet w ide. To-morrow—the g<*od Lord ’ nows what not. Some people have sense, nnd nomo jieuplc have tlta. KtrLs Haxueiib. With but little warning I bad to leave home nnd wife and two daughters und numerous grandchildren and run down to Florida on business. Here I am again at Clearwater, breathing its balmy air and feasting my vision upon the- same beautiful sunsets and dancing waters and tropical scenery that al- wn3'S charm me when I come. I am happy with three other daughters and two dear little grandchildren and with congenial friends who greeted upcom ing and gave me a glad welcome. Life is still worth living, if for nothing else but the pleasure of meeting those w ho are dear to you and receiving the cordial salutation of friends. They tell me that if I did not discover Clearwater, I uncovered it to the southern people, who had never heart] of Such a place, and now I find scores of visitors who arc looking In upon the beauties of t his place ami buying prci>erty, and pre paring to plant here their winter homm. 1 was surprised to see so matp of Atlanta’s good jieople visiting hero— the Illllyers, Ilomphiiis, Howells, In- mane, Swanns, English, Col. George W. Scott, Dr. Palmer and others—end even Mr. Plant nnd Col. Wrenn and their wives did for a time leave the Tampa Ha3' hotel and found a hapjp hiding place In Clearwater. Just think of Cap*. Evan Howell staying here a week or two without saving a won! about Cleveland or finance or conventions or nny other politics during his stay. The calm serenity of this heaven favored sjKit puts jiollties to the blush and smothers all selfish ambition and un godly thoughts. The tired mind comes here in search of rest, and finds it, Evan Howell used to smile tit my gushing letters and declare there was no such jilace this side of Heaven; but now that he has seen it with his C3*es, he can’t find adjectives enough to express his admiration, and, like u loy al husband, has gone after his wife to come down nnd make a choice of a Imy-front lot. He says lie is jirejiared to believe anything I say—y»-s, even my flsh storiixi. 1 told him about an old ltul3* who hud lived near here for Y) )‘e*rs. nml when she wanted fish for breakfast, walked down the bluff nnd waded out a few yards Into the crystal water and held out her ajiron and let tho fish jump in it. Evan smiled, but Raid nothing. Ncxtmorn- ing I met 1113 - old fiiend Turner, who publishes a jiajier nt Statesboro, Ga. I introduced him to Cnpt. Howell as a mnn who w as boro and raised here, and captain, thinking to jiutolV a good joke on me, told Mr. Turner what I said about, the old woman catching fish here in her apron before the war. Mr. Tur ner looked at him solemnly and serious ly and said: "He told 3*ou the truth, sir; (lint woman was up mother." When a man first comes here and sees extraordinary^ things, he is almost afraid to tell of them when lie goes back home, and he begins to look around for a credible witness. Col. Kcott, the quiet old gentleman who founded the Agnes Scott institute, has Ixiught a beautiful bay-front, with an orange grove attached, and asked me to walk down and see him measure a grnjie fruit tree. He did it very care- full3', and found it was inches around four feet from the ground. He said that he had measured it before, but wanted a witness. So, for fear he imp lie suspected of exaggeration, I had just ns well giro the cert'fieate. That tree is 17 Inches In diameter four feet up from Its base. The groves around here have j>rTtt3’ inueh recovered from the freeze and arc now covered with 111001 oh. Some groves sutTcred but lit tle, nnd never lost a crop. Mr. Hailey's grove, near Clearwater, gave him an average croji, and so did Mr. Mark bp's. Our home market has not been without a supply of fine, first-class fruit, as far Mijierior to the Californiaoranges as an ajijile is to a persimmon. If I had mone3\ I would invest in a grove or two on speculation, for hero lathe safety line, and Florida oranges and grape fruit will command high j.rices for some years to come. Yesterday morning our young jieople made uj> a grouper j>ariy and sailed out to the coral reefs in tin* green blue gulf. I was resjieetfully Invited to stay at home nnd l<K>k after the little girl, and they promised to ho 1 ark by four o'clock. I read and wrote and nimin- nted nnd jilayed with tin* child and heljied her make sand |>les, until the sun was nearing the horizon, but. still there was no sail In sight. Every few minutes I seamed the distant waters ami the two jiasses between the islands. The twilights are brief down here, and w hen the dark had sjimul it* lonely cur tain I began to be troubled, and walked the veranda with anxiety and Impatience. Then I walked down to the dock, and was com forted with the information that our boat could not possibly get in until the tide rose and brought them,for there was not a breath of air to move a sail. F,lowly and sadly I enrm* home, nml our little household had Ktijqier nml rheered the lingering hours w it h j.rose nnd poetry nnd conversation. Ever aad anon I came out and listened for n wing to float Its melody over the waters, for they always come buck singing; but there was no sound save the ominous notes of a screech owl and the jilaiutixe song of the whlp-jioor-u ID in the grove near by. At nine o’clock we put. the lit tle girl to lied, but f be, too, had become excited, nnd couldn't sleep. 1 sat by her and stroked her hair and her ham!* for an hour, when at last, with a sigh, she dmpjied asleep. Eleven o'clock tame aad 1? ami 12:HO o’clock, nml I reasoned that the boat was on a rand bar and could not get off ♦•IJ morning. A IkkiI jiarty from Duneden wasstrand- m! on a bur last week and hid to stay (here all night, and their families and 1 friends were greatly alarmed and sent 5ut searching jiarties for them. All Is not gold that glitters even at Clearwa ter. At half-past one o’clock, while l was nodding in my chair, 1 was sudden-, I3' aw akened by the sound of voices, and my heart bounded with gratitude and joy. The long suspense was over, for 1 had imagined many distressing things. Twice the little girl had talked in her sleejj and sighed and said: "Oh, “ECONOMICS.” Sam Jonos Writes a Chapter on tho American Working GirL inorev The Ktnblllty of Our Government and Per petuity of Our InHtltutlonit Threat ened by Our Indifference—A Plea Entered. My daughter threw chair and exclaimed: tired and so thankful;' daughter said: “Now, herself into a “Oh, 1 am so ’ and another don’t scold us one bit. but listen to our tale of woe; \Ve started back at three o’clock, but soon found our boat becalmed aw , a3*out in the gulf, and we could not move half a mile an hour. When night came we were five miles from home, and after we got into the north pass we lodged on a sand bar and had to wait for the tide to rise und float us off, and the four gentle men then got into the little boat and pulled at the oars with all their might for three hours and towed the big boat after them. Oh, it was awful, and soma of the girls got aw fully sea sick and fed the fishes and lost their dinner, and we had a new jiilot and lostour wap - ; and it was just awful, awful! If I live u thou sand years, I will never go out so fur in the gulf again.” Well, of course, 1 did not scold them; but I w ill bet two dollars they go again next week if t.lie3' are invited. Already this morning they are lioustingof what a good time tlxp had at the grouper banks, and how thC3' caught 37, und one that, Miss English caught was three feet long, and would weigh 30 jiounds. There is such a charm about t hese w aters, that they cannot keep away from them. Hut I am going home to my better and bigger half to-morrow and work in m3' garden, and in hers, too, of course, for “t he winter is over and gone. The time for the singing of birds lias come, and the voice of the turtle dove is heard in the land.” Hill Ann. 3POOKS OF LIBERTY STATUE. Striuiijn Sounds Come from tho Illjf Figure In Now York Harbor. T!m* statue of liberl3 - is tenanted by ghosts. At least, that is what the river men claim, and sa3' the statement is Kuseejitihle of proof. They sa3', and know whereof they speak, that as the witching hour of night ap- jiroaehes most unearthly noises are. heard, a.s if the wtatue was jiossessed. There Is a scientific explanation, how ever, of these ghostly disturbances, but It does not Interest the harbor men and sailors on board ships 13'ing at anchor within a stone's throw of Liberty is land, their hulls brought into strong relief by tho electric torch. Many a "fo’cVle" yarn laws been spun about tho midnight carnival of spirits within the goddess. The sailors in the creaking of joints hear the ghoulish shouts of the reveh-rn. When the night is calm and bitterly cold the mysterious din is jiiair.ly heard. The most ten Hying of these n^vstcri- ous sounds for those who are not in the secret are the sjiirit rapptngs. The goddess rivals tho most expert sjiir- itual mediums. These rappings ma}' be heard almosteve^' night in the 3 - ear. During the daytime the solemn figure is as quiet as a graveyard, but w hen darkness settles down it Is eas3’ to Imagine that several spiritualistic ; ranees are being curried on successful ly in this glooni3'interior. The expla nation is, however, exceedingly simjile. The statue, as eve^body knows, is formed of enonnous jilates of cojijier bronze, firmly riveted together. The act ion of all sorts of weather, to which this very exjioscd position renders the statue subject, tends to gnuluaii3' loosen these little bits of steel. Tho danijmess which is drawn in from the water from all sides forms n thick coat ing of cojijxt verdigris on the rivets, eating away the eopjier. This does not weaken the statue materially, but it aiTords a certain amount of piny' be tween the overlapping sect loos. The goddess under the gentle influence of old Sol exjiands throughout every part of her enormous figure. At night she in a measure draws her mix's more closely about her ns if to jirotcct her self from the cold. The contract ion of the eojijicr sheets, it may readily be. seen, causes a gentle motion which jirodtices a very faint rap. But this reverberates through the vast interior, which magnifier} It over and over again and lends to it a glooni3', hollow sound. The members of the guard of honor who attend the goddess throughout the night toll many strange stories of the. haunted statue. Several of these watch- mi n lum* jireferred to give uj> their jio- sitious rather than listen to these re markable object lessons In acoustics. They could not 1m* persuaded that the mysterious figure was not haunted, and nil said they had never in their lives heard of any haunted house which ‘■ould boast half as many* hair-raising noises a.s the dignified goddess. It somet imes hujipcim, when the contrast of temjKTftture is greatest, that the groans and rajijiings are loud enough to be heard on the boats jmssing close to tin* island. The sound of hollow groans, aeeomjianUd by weird rnttlings and other uncanny noises, has frightened more than one Rujierstitious sailor as lie floated across the dark waters.—N. Y. Journal. Tlm Tramp. Existence hns no charms for him; With It he cannot cope. For everywhere he rocs he sees That while there's life there’s soap, —N. Y. Iteeurifer. Wake up your liver but he sure you take Simmons Liver Regulator to do it with—it will dolt every time, und do it so well that you’ll feel wonderfully refreshed und strength- fried. It is Simmons Liver Regula tor that does it. There is only one Simmons Liver Regulator, and you’ll know it by the Red Z on the package. Take nothing else, und you’ll ho sure to get all the good health promised.JJ Amid the rush and roar of our busi ness life thousands meet thousands. Lusty millions pile up on one side and paupers multiply on the other. Amid the business depressions and | the wrangling of jioliticians some men aro thinking over the problem of wage earners of this country. This article is only written to touch one jihase of that subject, and that jihosc* embraces the interest of all working girls in America, and, 1 suj>- pose, their number runs into the mil lions. In the absence of the statistics on that subject, 1 cannot say their jire- cise number, but there are millions of them in the factories and stores and ofliee.s, and. in fact, in nearly all call ings, we find the working girls. 1 believe that the stability of our gov ernment and perjietuity of our Insti- tutionsw ill lie tested at this pointmorc fiercely than any other, for thousands of these girls hardly obtain enough to subsist by the honest toil of their hands. Heartless merchants, heartless wom en, heartless corporations frequently grind these girls to the dust. The manufacturers of clothing, the society women, frequently, and those for whom the girls toil, have already put them between the upper and nether most millstones. A boy or man. with the hrnwnj' mus cle and brawny frame, can stand the kicks and rebuffs and hardships of life, but frequently the frail, pale girl goes down under the strain. 1 honor the working girls of our land, and God forbid that one word in this article should reflect ujion their noble characters, but the old adage, “Hunger knows no law,” either human or divine, may cover the question we are discussing in some instances. A working girl must have clothes to wear, food to eat, and comfort 1)3' night, and a jiillow upon which to rest herhead. Aboveallthingshercharactcr must be protected. There Is a jioint with some where resistance seems to l>e imjxwsibie, and they an*engulfed by a tide of circumstances, that carries them out into the sea. w here they drift on in jjerdition and ruin. Those girls are laboring daily In the cities, In 11:111)3' instances their wages will not pay their board, where their characters are protected. In many In stance's the laboring girl, who has not the fostering care of a father or moth er over her at night, should Is* jirovided a home In every cit3', jiresided over by a governess, and the girl boarded at a minimum sum. It should be the duty of this matron to be a mother to the girl or girls, throw around them the very l>est of inlluenees, shield their characters and protect their lives. Some cities already have the working girls’ home, neatly and elegantly pro vided for their wants, and shielding their characters. Philanthropy and benevolence can find no j)laee where dollars can be so wiscl}’ used, and benevolence so amply rewarded, as in this direction. \Ye are hurrying along, every man for himself, with the understanding that everyl>ody else must look out for himself. This might do as between man and mnn, hut our noble, sweet girls, whose characters form the pil lars on which rest the j>erpetuity of our civilization itself, cannot be consid ered ns having a jduec in a fallni^’ like this. There is enough for all to have a ooinj)etenc3’. There is character enough in the manhood of America to j>roteet and jirovide for womanhood, if It 011I3’ could be made to muster and materialize. There are movements on foot in many cities, hearts and hands are read3' now. Let those who are able to furnish the means consider what this work would be for humanity, and join hands and hearts which arc now ready, and thereby furnish the means to jiro- vidc for the honest, laborious girls, whose lives are a blessing to the world, and whose characters arc as priceless as jewels. The hard worked and hard working girls only ask that we give them In re turn for their faithful labor adequate reward in the way of salaries and foes. \Ve cannot do less for them than they demand without hurrying on a state of things which we will deplore. Our resolutions and purjtoses along the lines of betterment for humanity can count nothing unless thi*3' materialize along practical lines, which give the helping hand nnd the fostering care. \Ye ma3’ run our normal schools nnd business colleges and teach both boys and girls how to work, but until wages are better and sympathies are broader between rich and jmor we cannot turn aside from the contemplation of a sub ject like this, without incurring the displeasure of God nnd an aching con science by nnd 1)3'. I have preached to thousands of these working girls over this country, and a thousand times my heart has Ik'cmi touched and dralvn out toward them, und with nil my heart 1 commend their case nnd cause to the consideration of the benevolent mnn. who ought to think und who ought to give. \Ye are too prone to think along selfish lines. Caring not that it is true, “that man’s Inuiunanity to mnn makes countless thousands mourn.” Tho working girl has coroc to sta}*; she Is an integral part of our society. The working girl hns her place; there is no shunning of this fact, nnd, above almost any other class, 1 ask for her consideration, rare und protection. A w orking girl’s home, large enough nnd nice enough, w hich she makes her home to jirotcct and care for her, when she is well, and where she may rest her aching body when it is sick, with no fear of landlord’s rent, or board bill* unpaid', You have only to know many of these girls, nnd their struggles, nnd then you will know how* wisely I have sjx>ken, and how my heart is In every word of tins article. Let us talk this thing up, nnd prac tically do for them that which we must do, or our failure to do will lie an in justice, and will react uj)on us. God bless the working girls of our land. It is well enough that we have In stitutions which i)rej)are our girls for the various callings of life, but the pro tection of our girls a.s the3' labor with their hands is all imjwrtant. \Ye sn3' l>oys can rough it, nnd per haps too jnnn3' of them do rough It. The Iw's may recover from a fall, hut a girl seareel3' ever. I am sure of this, that a girl has temjdations to fall when reduced 1)3' a meager salnr3' nnd unpro tected hy a mother’s influence. There is no deeper dyed villain than one who lies in wait to desj>oil a sweet girl who Is making an heroic effort to earn her living, or j)erchanee to sup- jx>rt a w idowed mother and orphan sis ters. Yet there are all around us vil lains like this. Sometimes it Is an emplo3'er, sometimes u dude, some times a 1>o3' w ho lalxjrs under the same roof. Thej f shall have their reward, where tlic worm dicth not and the fire* are not quenched. Sam 1*. Jones. PERMANENT CURE. Experiments In Dentistry with tb« Cathoile Rays. Dispatches received in this clt}' re cently brought the information tliutun American dentist in Haris had discov ered a cure for toothache which waa not te.mj)orar3' in its effecta, but which, onew apjdied, would permanent!3' prevent th« recurrence of the ailment. The assertion created a stir among thedentistsin New York,who have been regarded in advance of their profes sional brethren In other parts of the world. The}' discussed the announce ment from many jxdnta of view, and were particularly interested in the ad ditional statement that the medium which was to be used hy Dr. Leavitt was the X rav's.of which so many things have already l)eon written and many many more promised. The general Impression seemed to Ikj that Dr. Leavitt sjx)kc to the rej^orter of the I.c Soir, the I’arislnJi new spaper which first gave publicity to the dis covery, In parables. The supposed In fluence of the cathode rays is to di»- sijKitc certain accumulations, but whether they will have any effect on congestion of the dental nerves required in the treatment of toothache the den tists in this city are inclined to doubt. A number of dentists seen agreed that what was intended hy Dr. Leavitt in ap plying the cathode rays to dental sur gery is in producing a much Biore ef fective method of studying tho jihenomenn attending the development of local irritations of this sort than In jiossihlc now. At present the Interior of a tooth may be Illuminated by means of electric bulbs placed within tho mouth against the part of the jaw affected. The result of this illumina tion is to bring out very clearly most of the conditions of a diseased tooth, though not all. The X rays would lie of immense ad vantage. dentists say, In discovering nny accumulation of diseased mattcr- nlong the jawbone. This Is too opnquxs to j)eruiit the necessary limited illv*. mination possible at present to jvene- trate. There have been several weB-- hnovvn dentists Investigating this poo-, slbility in the use of the Roentgen! ray, and, though tlvey say that they aro not yet ready to make their deductions public, they sjieak of what they have found ns of much Interest, not alone to the jirofesslon, but also to those unfor tunates who have poor teeth. So far ae n jM*rinanent cure for tooth ache Is concerned, the dentists ray rt has Inen already found; but It Is no* on** of those things which ran be bought ut the nearest dn * store or at the nearest electrician’s, but It Is 11 matter of gradual development of tl>o jierson wIk) desires to lie without this torment. The recent statistical infor mation of the Now York college of dentistry shows that, unless persons are very careful. In the course of a number of successive generations the Caucasian race will be wlthoutany teeth at all. There is a general Inclination nmong- the more civilized jieojdo to nvoi<| foods which are hone makers. TV*- general dislike of fats nnd of fuo*H. w hich have large j>ro|>ortlons of llr»e-)m them is doing Its work very nijvldl}';; and eonijiaratlvely soon. It Is said, there- will be no toothache, because there will) be no teeth. It lias been found that among many children recently the second or |M*rmn- nent teeth arc apjienrlng w ithout tho necessary enamel to j>rotect them. T1k> result of the formation of teeth of this description Is that they are not as lasting as the first teeth, nnd oneo the nerve is reached the suffering of tlio child Is of course Intense. It lo now the practice to l>egin the treatment of children for their teeth before they are born in Instanowi where the mother Is not strong, or w Ix-rr whe hns shown nny marked fragility of the l>ones. Foods ore given her that arc hone-pro ducing, so that the child may reap tho benefit of this kind of nutriment. Where this has been b«*gun too Into tho child is put on a systematic diet of cod liver oil und jdiosjirtintes of lime nnd soda, with other natural foods which will go to the formation of enamel on the tooth nnd lK»ne. Dentist* declare that, if a system Is Insisted upon by parent*, and carried out with anti septic treatment of the early teeth, there is really no reason why men and women who have been subject to thl* early care should have toothache, or k in deed, lose their teeth nt all save by seci-* dent.—N. Y. Herald. —A sleej) without dreams, after »• rough day of toll, Is whnt we covet* most; and yet how el«y shrinks back, from mere quiescent clay.—Byron,